The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-05
YAKIMA" J0NESSAYS
STOP IMMIGRATION
Yakima Politician Sees Menace to Country
in Over Immigration-Pays Tribute
tn Wenatchee Valley

the wealth of Great Britain, the larg-
est country on earth, is 54 billion
dollars; our wealth is estimated at
over 100 billion dollars! And it's
still growing.
Should Look to Future.
With all our greatness and won
derful growth, we should look to the
future. We desire that our children
and our children's children shall be
happy, great and prosperous. We
should observe the signs of the times
and shape our course in their behalf.
AS nations live our life is brief
We have been and are living exceed
ingly fast. In national achievements
and high civilization we lead the ma
tions of the earth. Proud of our
history however brief, confident in
our strength and power, and almost
intoxicated with the almost universal
prosperity and stupendous CONNER
cial activity now abounding every
where we are prone to believe that
nothing can interfere with our con-
tinued development. Our form of
government was the dream and hope
of the ancients. It is the acme Of
the present and, while not in form
that of the other great nations of
the earth, its spirit does permeate
almost all of them. France is re-
public in fact and in name. The king
of England is king in name only and
the English people have really as
much liberty as We, in fact even
more and their king has not a tithe
of the power and influence of LIE
president of the United States. So
it is in almost all the other nations
of Europe with the exception of NUS
sia and the day is not far distant
when her oppressed people will
throw off the shackles of despotism
and take their position among the
liberated peoples of the world either
as a republic or with a monarch
shorn of his power.
The Menace of Ovcr-lmmigratiOn.
If this is true why is it TINT a
mighty torrent of immigrants is COM
ing to our shores from these lands?
They are coming not SO much for lib
erty, not so much on account of ou-
form of government although it may
be true, that many have an exagger-
ated idea of the liberties which we
enjoy, but in the hopes of bettering
their financial condition. These ma
tiOns have greae surplus of popula-
tion. Labor does not receive a full
reward for its toll because there is
too much production and the con-
sumers have not wherewith to buy.
These nations are too thickly popu-
lated. The more densely populated
a nation is the more poverty, suffering
and distress. When this nation is
populated as England, or Germany
or any other of the great nations OF
Europe what will then be the condi-
tion of our labor, of our farmers
and of our people generally? We
are fast coming to this situation. Do
We not owe it to posterity to put off
that evil day as long as possible. 1t
seems so to me.
Pioneers Did Great Things.
We are today almost 100000, 200
people. Our nation was born of de-
sire and hope. The adventurous
spirits who pushed their way to the
westward across the trackless sea
were impelled by the desire for
wealth or the hope of liberty. In the
short span of an hundred years a
continent has been conquered and
peopled. Plains have been crossed.
rivers have been spanned, forests
have been felled and mountains have
been climbed and in the trail of it
all homes, villages. towns and cities
builded. A strong and virile race has
sprung from the best blood of every
cline. The traditions and glories Of
all history are ours to inspire and
stimulate us to greater and nobler
deeds. -
The tide of hardy pioneers has
turned back upon itself. however.
The mighty Pacific bars the way.
There are no more forests to subdue,
no more savage tribes to overcome.
no more territory to explore. The
old pioneer who has been kept NOV