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Gent peoples--that, Is we would escape
their fate, we must avoid their errors
Let us ponder well the lessons Of our
own experience, that the mistakes Of
the past may not be repeated. Let lis
remember that man constitutes the
state, and that, if we would improve
the state, We must raise the standards
of individual life. Let us remember
that reform cannot be made to order,
even by legislative enactment, and
thrust suddenly upon a people whether
they will or no, but that reform is
an evolution, slow
growth, and that the only wise course
for us to pursue is to plant the germs
of it in human Ife to surround them
with favorable conditions, and to
await with patience the fruition of our
hopes, and the unfolding of the pur-
poses ef God.
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foreign parentage, and that half of the
residents of the five boroughs do not
tirelvi OTHDaoaattt kris
speak the English language, ii is strict
ly logical condition that eighty-five
per cent. of its criminals are of exc
tie origin. Saualor. filth, disease,
characterize their tenements Whence
the yellow plague that today jeopardiz-
es both the life and property of our
beloved Southland2 Was it not born
in one of these colonies, in one of their
miserable huts, where reeking filth sent
it forth to menace and to slay? To
crown the pageant and make the hor
rible panorama complete, these aliens
have intfoluced ia this beloved land
the unspeakahle white slave traffic. >
which IS the most eitiable, the most re-
voting phase of the immigration ques-
ton. This nefarious business has as
sumed such proportions that the I'm
nj grafton Commission has felt compeli-
ed to make it the subject of a thor
ough investigation. When around the
paternal hearthstone are gathered the
mothers and wives and daughters of our
people. both Jew and Caristian, about
whose brows halo of virtue ever
gathers, must the father tell them that
we live IN a republic where members of
their sex may be transported and sold
into slavery worse than death itself7
God forbid.
Immigration. however. is more than
a city problem; it is an impending
danger 70 our homes, to rural life, yea,
to the nation itself. We wake aud
sleep, day succeeds night, and the sea-
sons roll, but the mvriads of strangers
move Increasingly to our shores. In
the years 1907 'os aud '0s, an agRve-
gate Of four million foreigners landed
an fair Columbia They belong to 4
yellow race, profess heathen religion,
and are breeders of diseerd and ms
s,leity. We may well ask, then, WHIST
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the light rise higher, and the columns
But. my countrymen, I would rather
see her fields blasted, her fires banked.
and her smoke dissipated to the four
winds than to see that prosperity erect
civilization.
1t is not from the homes of the rich
that the cry viii come, for they can
protect their children from contact or
association with the undesirable But
it viii come from the rank and file of
the poor. asking that their families be
protected against amalgamation and
destruction, for amaigamation means
destruction. Through the veins of the
poor white man flows the same Cauca-
sian blood that flows through yours.
The blue eyes anu fair skin Of his
eaiIdren are Just as beautiful to him
as Yours are to vou. White he does
not. perhaps, expect for them that
wealth or position that YOU may ex-
pect for Yours. vet, he does desire that
cleanliness and respectabiIty and vir-
tue and honor may be their heritage.
1t was but natural that the Japanese
IN San Francisco should send IN their
protest against the efforts of the white
men to keep their children out OF the
white schools Tais viii always be
done by the offended party. No one
expects them to admit their inferiori-
tv. The Italian consul appeals to
Congress, and Congress will threaten
to lay its heavy hand on the rights of
the states to govern their own internal
affairs, and thus we have No end of
trouble.
Ny csHntrymen. the natton's great
est battle is yet to be fought Al
ready ] can see an ahen army fifty
Thousand strong, drawn up in line of
battle / see than N their darkened
uniforns, croHehing like maddened
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have completely changed. Great
steamship lines have made easy and
cheap what was once dangerous and
expensive journey. They actually
eenspire with European nations to
auAp upon us their criminals and con-
victs, while we heedlessly pass the mat
ter by failing to realize the evils that
are sure to follow.
Scattered throughout the cities of
Europe are hundreds of steamship
agents, whose business it is to induce
the ignorant peasants TO emi CRATE TO
America. As a result, she vast maJori-
Of our immi grants are from the
weak and ignorant races of Southern
ana Eastern Europe.
Now, il is the segregating tendency
of the immigrants in our great cities
which presents the most serious dan
ger Four fifths of eur twenty five
millions of foreign people abide in the
twelve principal cities of the United
States. Here they form colonies and
for wears to CONS shall remain a bur
den to these cities, hindering in mark
ed degree their social, political, intel
leetual and religious advancement.
They overcrowd the city with a base
foreign element, too low in the stages
of civilization to comprehend our so
cial system or respect our free insti-
tutions. They dwell IN the slusns and
are laying broad and deep the founda-
tion of the citadel Of anarchy and
American socialism, which in time to
come will produce more sin and wrong
than all the charity of the world can
conceal from the public gaze.
From the view point of crinri nalo
gist, this question is appalling. When
the fact is considered that eighty five
per cent. of the population of New
York City is either foreign born or Of
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dreamed, but had done little more than
dream, of an ideal government wffh
"cqua rights to all and special privi-
lcccs TO none" When, however, amid
tho throes of nation Is travail the
p1ipciple that call men are free and
equal was brought forth, a new era
dawned in the history of man. The
aristocracy of birth, which had for
centuries ruled supreme in matters Of
state, was hurled from its eminenee and
in its stead was enthroned an aristo-
eracy of mind. Mere parent age had
lost its patrinony and the highest gov
ernmental stations passed a natural
heritage to the most capable citizens,
irrespective of rank.
This new era of universal equality
brought with it As consequence ths
right of universal suffrage. The ball
lot was extended 70 the poor as well ss
TO the rich, to the ignorant as well ss
10 the learned, and the destiny of the
nation was entrusted to the care and
protection Of its citizens. IF theN
were loyal to their trust he seate
moved grandIy on; if they neglected
or betrayed this trust its course was
uncertain. 1t was the duty of the
citizen 10 perpetuate the existence OF
the state; il was She duty Of the stats
-
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The WORLDS DUMPING GROUND
BY Lester c. Franklin

The success Of the American republic
has been due to the character of its
people So great is It's history that
all the world has marveled at its won
derful strength. and watched with bat
q breath its crises come and go. But
+. r3 onc vainly imagine that our gov
egRment has wholly passed the expert
aeu1a. stage and that permanent sue
cess IS assured One of the gravest
nfahle1s that has ever confronted this
country is now demanding solution.
The immigration policy which found
place II the patriotic hearts of Ameri-
es.a freerueo. extending cordial wei
eo4ne to that type Of people whose
spiri were IN harmony with humanity,
mas no application TO the conditions>of
the present In the dawn of our his
torv. the advocates of this policy had
Ia mind only those whose race, nation
aIitv, manners and customs were slrni-
lar 10 our own II was net then CON
femplated that we should ever become
endangered by the mighty influx of
strangers whe arc TO-DAY crowding
through our gates and threatening TO
thwart the very purpose fer which our
government was ordained and estab-
lisaed
In the early days of the nation. it was
well to invite the foreigner to our
shores. Men were needed to conquer
fhe bonndless forests and swrest from
the wilderness natures vast recources.
Accordingly. america offered an asy-
lum to the oppressed. But note the
character Of our early immigrants.
They were brave and stalwart men.
In those days northern Europe sent
her mos sturdy stock, Anglo Saxon
nredommant Such we're the pioneers
who, because of religious and political
oppression, were forced to flee from
their European homes and seek refuge
amid the Wild scenes of this unkempt
continent.
But yesterday is not today. Within
the last quarter of a century conditions
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THE SAVING PRINCIPLE OF
DEMOCRACY.

vbe IDEAL Of Democracy was eonsum-
mated in the birth of the American re
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P's*@e q si.s2as the ieasa''s r.t
~ s.
45e ~ a. s4ahieFlean ct6zens love
fe't-e's l'e you gtofy IA her
2feaS~ssss sN5tneats! Do you desire
- S''ale sl'er magnificent instita-
sioas? Then, IN the name of future
generations, I adjure You tast You CON
sider well yoor course today Reform
W reed, reform we must h&ve, bat les
ae rsforna sought wish dehberation
aud EiJh the use of rational means.
Less as tfeeoea5se The tact THAT the IN
@fsfsi1.as fta2 = not oaly he unit. but
re Pi#ot Of society, and that, there
ieFes every reform mesf begin with
- our faces resolutelv
raising the stan
daFa 9f citizenship. aBd we may be sure
slii.tiaas win also rise 10
1Aaa .szes..sas Lee she advocate of
rsea9sp seek the reformation of men.
Les As 8anize ta eforus Is i moral
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A HOT ONE.

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shall be the condition of our country
tionosocpfkwnwd

shall be the condition of our country
tionosocpfkwnwd
a generation hences As the largest
cities are already congestc | and satura-
ted with sin and crime, surely soon
our fair Southern country will be con
taminated Yea, the blighting infu-
ence Of their presence has already pene-
trated every precinct of human habita-
ton in the North, and when the Pana-
ma Canal has been completed Latin
and Slavonic criminals will pour in up
on US by the hundreds of thousands.
The South needs no such!
1t was never intended for the Slav
and Latin TO mingle with the Anglo
Saxon. The spirit Of freedom which
burns in our breasts was born far back
in the forests OF Germany, and he who
for generations has lived in land
where the purple robes of power have
taken the place of the plain garments
of authority thinks Of liberty in a far
different sense from tae way in which
we view 1t Having suffered oppres-
sion so long, such a man, when liberas
ted. goes to the other extreme and mis-
takes liberty for license. The entrance
into our political, social and industrial
life of such masses of peasantry is a
matter upon which no Intelligent pat
riot can lock without the gravest ap-
prehension and alarm. Nothing can
sooner crush the spirit and destroy the
independence OF our laboring classes
than to be driven into the exacting and
cruel competition with foreign pauper
labor. I know the land agents and
those who want TO employ cheaper Ia
Dor are demanding immigration. They
are willing TO see the rich revel in lux
ury beyond the dreams of avarice.
while the poor grovel IN pitiful poverty
often finding their only relief from
starvation within prison walls and sill
ent graves To promote the interests
of an inflated, swindling trust, the
masked hand of its manipulation seeks
to gather great crowds from the cess
pools of Southern Europe. These peo-
pIe. unable to read or write, and know
ing nothing of the only remedy for tv-
ranpv that mankind has ever devised,
implied in the maxim 'sEternal vigi-
lance is the price of liberty are
thrust upon American society with a
design that they take part in arbitrat-
ing the destiny of the only remaining
Republic on the face of Gods earth.
/ now come te the aspect of this
question which is graver than all others
the danger with which immi grafton
threatens the quality of our citizen
ship That which it concerns us to
know, and that which is more vital to
us as people than all possible ques-
fions of tariff er railroad regulation, is
whether the qualitv of our citizenship
is endangered by the present course
and character of inmigration to the
United States. Let us deal with this
question fairly. I rejoice in the pros
peritv of our country I an glad that
live In a State where the cup Of
plenty is running over, and I WOULD
not erect one barrier to her legitimate
progress / view with pleasure her
broad and fruitful acres. I delight
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lions, ready to spring upon an ansus-
pecting victim. What will be the re-
suite Shall proud America, freed by
Washington, strengthened by Jeffer-
son. and defended by Jackson, reel,
totter, faN? Ne~efi By the inher-
ent right of seIf-proteetion We must
shut eat from our beloved country
those degraded and degrading elements
of transient mongreLs which our in
sufficient immigration laws are per-
mitting to come to the land once SO
magnificently graeed by the purest
type of Anglo-Saxon manhood the
world has ever known. The dav is
not far distant when we shall behold
the war clouds of an impending storm
lowering upon our horizon. Then
the manrood of america will be forcej
to her ports in defense Of our country
and it will become necessary to leave
unguarded that most hallowed Of all
earthly habitations-the American
home-to leave unprotected the fair
woman hO0N. the DfiSdtFch hoNfi u
American ehivalry, from the biightng
presencs of these Inferior races. Ny
fellow citizens. we welcome the stall
wart Englishman, for to him we owe
two great types of American manhood,
the Puritan and the Cavalier; we well
come the warm hearted Irishman and
the cannv Scot. for they have given us
tbe love1;t lines of Tom Moore and the
6lt;se notes Of Robert Barns; we open
our arms to the blue-eved German ana
the dark haired Frenchman, for they
have brought us the sturdy faith OF
Martin luther and the chivalrous
sword of LAFAYETTE But the low
broyed siav, the treacherous Schian,
tho slsn+eved Nongolian. and all 9th
ers who bring us naught but filth, dis
ease infdelitv, atheism, socialism and
ANARCHY. lot rs turn away from Ameri-
e.,s Golden Gate. even If by doing we
loose the dogs of war, open wide the
trrn,e Of .Janas, and plunge our proud
n;t;zo,stin into a strife such as the
world has never known.
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IN watching the lurid glare of her fur
nances as 1T lightens the very heavens.
l am glad to watch the dark pillows
of smoke tnat hide the face of the sun,
and | hope to see the fields yet fairer,
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shaIlowpate- Why, I'd marry Miss
BilSans In minute.
Miss Cutting-That would be SouE
only chance. If you ever gave her a
eouple of minutes to think it ever
she ID turn You. down.
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public. For centuries before th@C
event a reaction had been gradually
settling IN against the old tyranny of
aristocraey which was everywhere pre-
vaIent. Enthusiastic statesmen had
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8. Imaginative poet, isn't heR''
. He sure is. Calls himself a poet y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-01
AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
Two Records Broken Monday Night
At Madison Square Garden.

New York, oct. 3l.--I'our thousand
athletic enthusiasts went to Madison
Square Garden tonight to witness set
Element of the 81 track and field events
on the two-nights program of the Ma
tional indoor championships of the
Amateur Athletic Union. Two records
were broken. The first was in the So
poupd weight for height In this event.
in which there were only two compe-
titors. Con Walsh of the New York
a. c.. established new American
record of Is feet. 23-5 inches. The
old figures were l6 feet. 3-S inches.
The second record to go was in the
final event of the evening-the pole
vault for distancc-in which Pat
Adams of the New York \. C.. broke
the old record of 2S feet. made by Mar
tin Sheridan in 1907. by . is inches.
The Irish American A. C. failed to
score in the Junior events and were
IA points behind their rivals-thc New
York a. Gin the senior events.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-01
SUIT IN LOBBY CASE.
Court Awards Legislative Agent - tor
Serx;ees at Massachusetts, State House.

Boston, Oct. 31.-An award OF 81
vas given today to Benjamin +. Hipps'
2 legislative agent. In his suit against
Richard II. Long. birmingham shoe
manufacturer, in which Gibby sought
TO recover $4,000 for services at the
state House three years ago IN as
sisting in the passage of a bill alneo
at the United Shoe Machinery 90.
Long stated on the stand that he had
paid Gibby $500 for services which ne
said, were valuable. and claimed the
amount covered all his obligations
Gibby, on the other hand, claimed that
he received only $1,000 which he I'M
mediately handed to an assistant ana
that he received nothing for his efforts
Gibby has been legislative agent or
lobbyist at the State House for 10
years, as representative of several
corporations and individuals and in
addition was manager of two political
campaigns for Eugene \. FDss. the
present Democratic candidate for gov
crnor. when the latter was running
for Congress as a Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-01
A New Record
In Bicycle Race.

Boston. Oct. 3l.-A new record had been
made when the six-days bicycle riders at
the Boston arena completed the first 70
hours Of their race tonight. the distance
covered by the eight leading teams being
then 2a3 miles and lap, the previous rec
ord being 81 miles. 3 laps. made in 1908 at
Park Square arena. The new mark is ac-
counted for by the fact that the arena
track is steel and prevents loafing. the
men falling off If they ease up.
Within the first three hours of the race
the number of teams had been reduced
from II to 10 owing to bad spills in which
Iver Lawson of Salt Lake City received
a broken collar bone and NJ. NJ. Anderson
of Denmark had dislocated shoulder
and badly lacerated face and Fred West
of San Francisco was bruised They re-
tired from the race and Floyd krebs or
Newark, n. j., Anderson's partner, was
forced out for lack of a partner. worth
Mitten of Davenport and Gordon Waller
of Australia formed new team. being
given a handicap OF one lap. however.
The eight teams tying at 229 miles lap
we're: Dramer and Moran, Goulette ana
Hehir, Fogler and Collins. Wiley ana
Lawrence. Wright anti Palmer. THOMAS
and Mccarthy, Bedell brothers and VIII
liams and Demars.
Mitten and Walker had made ~ mi'es
Nat and Jokis and Schiller 22S miles,
laps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-01
LODGE TACKLES TARIFF.
Shows Some Increased Prices u
Couldn't Have Caused.

Melrose Mass, Oct. Ex-senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, besides declaring
prepostcrous Congressman Eugene
Foss' claim that if elected Governor
he would control the congressman of
the state and so indirectly would have
much to say with tariff legislation. at
tempted to show in his speech at Re-
publican rally here tonight that the
tariff was not to blame for the high
cost of living.
Cotton" he said. 'has been on the
free list for so years and yet the price
has advanced from s to is cents per
pound. Under the recently adopted tar
if bill the duty has been taken off oil.
yet there has been no decline in the
price. The 15-per-cent. duty on hides
has been taken off. yet in the past six
months prices have gone higher than
ever before.
"Thirty-five per cent. duty has been
taken off lumber but lumber has adj
vanced in price.
If the American tariff has been re-
sponsible for this advance we should
find prices lower in other cities. But
this is not SO. Careful investigation
shows that the advance is world wide.
The reason is general upward
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-01
GARMENT WORKERS. STRIKE.
Women Take Part In Investigation
Looking Toward Settlement.

Chicago. Oct. DEMONSTRATION into the
cause of the strike of 30 garment workers
which has paralyzed the clothing indus
try of the city. with Il view to bringing
about an early settlement of the difficult
~. was undertaken at a meeting of cti-
zens held yesterday in the residence oc
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen. Resolutions pro-
viding for the organization of a citizens
committee and for the appointment of a
subcommittee of five to begin an investi-
CATION into conditions In the clothing
shops and to interpret the strike to the
public were adopted. Mrs. Charles Hen
rotin presided at the conference in the
absence Of Dr. Emil :. Hirsch. who is
chairman of the citizens committee, but
who was unable to attend the meeting.
No demands are to be made for In
creased wages at this time. and though
the strikers will insist that the employ
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ings, but as watchful as possible over
the acts of his associates. Farwell
v Boston and Worcester r.. r. Co.,
4 met 40.
''The business of this reasoning has
been questioned by high judicial au-
thority. Little Miami r. r. Co. v
Stevens. 20 Ohio, 4a5. However
plausible may be theory, it is very
doubtful whether, in fact spinner in
factory or fireman in railroad
ever made an examination into the
mode of conducting the business or
the character and habits of the opera
tlves, for the purpose Of ascertaining
OF extent of his risk, as an element in
calculating the proper amount of his
wages. A passenger in a railroad car
may we'll be presumed to have vivid
consciousness of his risk. but it has
never been understood that he con-
tracts with reference to it when he
buys MS ticket, so as to be his own
insurer. Again if a principal is re-
sponslbie to an employee for his own
negligence, why should he not be liable
FOR that of his agent. over whom tho
empioye has no control and of whom
49, w io HoNleuSe.
with respect to considerations Of mol.
ics' IL Is by no means certain that the
puoic interest would not be best subsery-
ed by holding the superior, with his high
er intelligence. his surer means of in
formation and his power of selecting. di-
rectlng and discharging subordinates n
the strictest accountability for their mis-.
cohduct in this service, whoever NAV he
the sufferer from it,
onorty after I came upon the courts
there arose Nolan VS.. Railroad, 70 Conn
reports, 1870 in which this same fellow
servant rule was relied upon. We an
pied 1t, as we were bound to do. but with
the observation that 1t was too firmly
estabhshed as law. by multitude of de-
cislons' to be now reversed or seriously
modified by any exercise of the power
vested in courts
In order to emphasize this fntimatior
that the rule was followed because It
was settled law, a note was appended to
our opinion containing these statements
among others:
The evil (of the rule of co-employe) is
too deep seated to be remedied by Judi
clan action; it needs radical treatment
through wise legislation.
NO change having been made since
then by the legislation of Connecticut
the rule was necessarily applied in the
Hoxie case. Subsequently and on account
of that decision. the federal law was al
tered 30 as to make it. in terms, appli-
cable to actions in the state courts.
Hoping that this letter may remove
any misunderstanding of my request,
and that you will conclude that, under
the circumstances, it is not an unreason-
able one, ! am. yours truly,
(Sipnpdl .sCIMEON nIEIN