The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-08
Restricted lmmigration
By Ethel Sorenson

foreign ports few were returned. For
the many accepted our government
must care. They have become our
responsibility, our problem.
Some of them tonight are in COM
Portable homes adjusted to the life of
this free country; many are crowded
into tenements in foreign districts of
the city; a portion are at work in the
mines and factories while others sulk in
cells of our institutions for the punish
ment of crime.
Of those who have migrated hither.
perhaps I representing such countries
as Germsny. Scandinavia, Denmark
and Great Britain aid us socially and
materially. OF immigrants from
Russia, Poland, Italy and the Orient
few are helpful or helped even at the
great expense of our money and effort
Because of the detrimental effect up
OH industrial and financial advancement
of the U. S; and because harmful in
fuence upon her morals immigration
should be restricted.
The presence of so many foreigners
from other countries, and their accept
ance of lower wages, deprives our lab
Orers of the opportunity to earn their
livelihood, for even in vast America
work enough for all is not yet possible.
Unskilled labor is especially crowded.
AS large per cent of the foreign
workmen are unframed, they accept
the work of railroad construction, road
building, mining, subway and canal
building at lower pay than our work.
men command. Expert labor also
brings competition.
The skilled and the unskilled Chinese
and Japanese pouring into our west
ern states have usurped opportunities
in agricultural and domestic lines.
If competition were lessoned by the
presence of fewer foreigners. prepara-
tion for skilled workmanship and in
dustrial progress would result.
Low wages and the high cost of
living binG the foreign employer to ig-
norance and often squalor- To him
who counts Americas remuneration as
great, after the poverty and iron heel
of his own country rapid development
is impossible. These ambitionless
thousands block our country's pro-
gress. lncompetency results in child
labor with all its attending evils. The
parents are encouraged in Incidence,
greed. or inhumanity. The manufac-
turing and mining companies, who Sc
cure services of many children for a
few cents each per day, are enriched.
By such criminal action the state is
demoralized The child dwarfed in
mind and body, is denied his god-given
right to develop to maturity for useful
citizenship. Senator Beveridge an
orator of the U. S. senate has worked
diligently against this evil, raising his
voice for its eradication. State laws
have passed, and violated. This evil is
largely result of unrestricted i'm
migration, and its blotting out depends
upon the honor of the American citi-
zens.
Another fact to be considered as de-
trimental is that of the immigrants
temporary residence here, and the re-
mittance of his salary to his native
land. Our toiler uses his wages for
his family here. The alien sends most
of his to his family across the sea-
The American buys a home; the other
exists in miserable lodging house or
rents room in rickety tenement.
The American workmans dwelling is
often cozy cottage, among trees and
flowers the place wherein develop noble
citizens, an American stronghold
home. Upon this institution our future
depends. If the stranger of our land
takes from it his income never estab-
fishing home it weakens the struc-
ture materially and socially. To him
who uses America as means for per-
sonal benefit alone, her privilege should
be denied.
Here the immigrants interest is in
juriously used in class strife encourag-
ee by trace unions, and in strikes.
Many of the laborers, pessimistic be-
cause of years of poverty at home,
lead fellow workman to strike,
to obtain demands for higher
wages, and shorter hours. Intelligent
workman lead the forces. The poverty,
the restraint of trade, the bloodshed,
which often follow are results of the
presence of immigration to whom con-
troll of self is unknown. The more in
telllgent and grateful workmen are
rational, demanding rights, and making
for them an honest struggle. The un-
principIed, irrational immigrant finds
his fullest development in class strife,
and the strike.
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