Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-02-14


Dukes and Lords and Counts over
on the continent have been reduced
to the necessity OF matrimonial al
liances with unseasoned timber and
coal and iron barons of the new
world because their tenant slaves OF
their worn out acres have migrated
to America, | am not prepared to
say. In one thing it occurs to me
Canada is kinder than the United
States to those paupcr descendants OF
the taskmasters of dccayed feudal
slavery. She got Victoria and now
King Edward to confer titles OH her
new world monopolists OF natural re-
sources; and in a generation or two
shabby gcnteel duke will be able
| to find in the new world truly blue
blooded lady OF inherited millions on
whom to confer the dubious prestige
OF his illustrious lineage.
On the Pacific shore OF the Canad-
ian Dominion an aggressive labor ell
emcnt is fighting an immi-
grafton OF people whose provocative
instincts and not the color of their
skin have taught them the art OF liv-
ing chcaply and so making them
kecner competitors for employment,
than the European immigrant. Or
iental population has become so
dense and the concentration OF natur-
al resources in the hands of rem,
and royalty-taking class so complete
| that living is but subsisting for the
masses. Yet the ruling class want
no emigration of their people. Ev-
cry departure of a Jap laborer for a
| foreign shore relieves the rack-reni-
| ing pressure on those left behind.
Theirs is an Emigration not an Inn
migration problem.
But this is depression. only
used Japan and Canada to point my
argument because when il comes to
criticism. distance. ] find. lends en-
cnantmcnt TO the view. One mustn't
he personal The point ! want to
make with the ladies who are going
to debate this immigration question
] is that the migration OF peoples
wrongs no one when every man is
free to use whatever portion of the
earth is not being used by any 9th
o. man: when no man or nation OF
men can put foot down, and says ]
hold this by right OF conquest. or by
right Of priority, aud while cauno,
Use II myself | am going TO exact
I tribute oi the man who does use II.
/ The primal right OF an American
to go to- China to get his subsistence,
or OF \ Chiulman TO come To- Amer
/ lea To- earn his living. Is that every
child born on to this earth, brings
with him the equal aud iualicnablc
right L. get his subsistence ont OF
tie earth; so long ls he iniringcs on
I the right oi any other. No man has
! been assigned hy his creator 10 any
particular section OF land or to any
particular quarter Of the globe. These
arc things OF mans invention and Ta-
pari,y. aud oui OF them have grown
al the envy. all tho hatred and mai,
ice that comes Of wide diversity oi
wealth and poverty. all that makes
our boastrd civilization n more hTu'
tai scramble for subsistence than was
that Mature red in tooth and claw
that "ravcncd III primal slime.
The right Of a man to tho peace.
able occupation and control Of 80
much Of the earth rs he thinks he
can pToftahly utilize is = prerequisite
Of comfortable and intelligent prog
rcss Of the human race This must
he guaranteed by policy. standing ar.
mics and runbnatS until il j. conceded
bv the growing wisdom and con.
science oi mankind: until We apprc.
hcnd and apply iha; fundamental
principle OF Jcffcrsonian democracy
that: The earth belongs in uSufrue'
to the living" and so give to every
man equal opportunity to apply his
labor or his capital. by himself. OF
with or through another. or a dozen
others. in whatsoever manner seems
to him mos, profitable. Then. being
let co." each man "yill. go into his
own. and Indian and Negro and Cau.
casion and Asiaiic. and Bap;is; and
Methodist and Presbyterian. and
learned savani and simple rustic. will
each find his affinity" in the social
world. and no more be compelled to
obirudc himself where he finds no
congcniaiiiy. or to take his moral
caste from prSsumpiious peoples
who obirudc themselves upon him
and delight to sing:
Shall NC whose souls arc lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall We to men bcnightcd
The lamp OF life deny.
But who knows? Perhaps the
Womaus Club and the w. c. T. L.
will count nc ono OF those same pre-.
sumpiious people.
Sugar Campaign Closed