The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-12
Mrs. John A. Logan Declares
UnWhoIesome Foreign Pop
uIation Is Injurious.
FORMERLY HOMESEEKERS.
EARLIER WANDERERS FROM THE
OLD WORLD CAME TO AMERICA
TO BUY FARMS AND SETTLE
UPON THEIR OWN LAND.
BY Mrs. jain A. Logan.

proves that criminality has steadily
increased in the United States since
1880 and that a large per cent. of this
increase may be attributed to the as
tonishing increase in immigration.
In the old days when the immigra-
ton to the United States was from the
industrial and simple peasantry Of the
Old World, no such unfavorable con-
dftions was the result of the multipli-
cation Of our population. probably be-
cause the majority of them were seek
ing lands upon which to establish
homes for their families.
They applied themselves assiduous-
ly to the cultivation of the soil, the
abundant returns rewarding them for
their faithfulness. They were salts
fed, thrifty, and useful citizens of the
New World.
But with the development of the
great resources of the country and
the rapid multiplicity OF railroads and
other means of transportation, to-
gether with the frequent communica-
ton with the Old World, has brought
in their train hordes of idle, vicious,
revolutionary and shiftless people
who do not come to the United States
to make permanent homes, but to en-
gage in the labor necessary to the
carrying out of some great enterprise
from which they derive high wages.
On the completion Of the work they
return to the Old World to be revolu-
tionists in their own lands as they
have been in the United States.
Many of them have not taken any
advantage of the privileges that are
extended to all men through the gen
crosby of the government or the lib
crafty of their employees, but have
been dissatisfied, ripe for every con-
spiracy and active in the most law
full proceedings against capital and
the government.
To expect to reform these people is
almost a hopeless task, and yet, a
majority of the citizens of this Repub-
lie believe that in the future they
will be brought to respect law and
order and conform to the manners and
customs of the Republic.
While the country is making mar
velous progress in it's extension of
civilization and Christianity, it has
much yet to do to change the condi-
tons of the ignorant and INDECENT.
Perhaps one of the most effective
measures to accomplish this would be
to organize and carry out some plan
by which the idle, vicious class could
be induced to adopt agricultural en-
ployment.
If the millionaires of the country
would put as much money into a col
onization scheme that would enable
these people to establish homes on
the land as they do for homes for the
homeless, hospitals, asylums, poor
houses, and places that house pau
,pers and criminals, we should find
that much more could be accom-
saved for usefulness and good citi'
zenship.
In a way, the Salvation Army and
some enterprising individuals have
done much, but the necessity for mon
ey with which to carry this out has
prevented this remedy from being
adopted to as large an extent as it
should be.
The aggregating of great numbers
of persons in the cities who speak
foreign languages and expecting them
to live together in peace and harmony
is a great mistake. They are con
stantly misunderstanding rules and
regulations of municipal, state, and
United States authority.
They become jealous Of each other
and are so addicted to dissipation
conflicts that terminate in tragedies
Any attempt to force them to obey
the laws is resented and consequently
they bring upon themselves the Sc
verest penalties of the law.
Revenge seizes them as being their
only resort for securing what they
deem their rights or being satisfied
for the wrongs which they think have
been inflicted upon them.
Isolation from temptation, fresh air
healthful occupations, proper food
and a conservative government would
do more for the ignorant emigrants
and natives thai anything else thai
could possibly be done. Little can ev
er be accomplished in the great cities
where vice is always before them and
where immortality and dissipation run
riot in persons. 1t may be long
time before anything of this kind is
done. but If we examine closely the
cause of our greatness, we will find
that it originated with the tillers OF
the soil