The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-01-05
uNAssIMLABLE HORDEs.

/ do not think that 1t follows that
because America is popularity CON
sidered the Melting Pot" Of the
world that vast hordes of people of
different race. breeding and polite
al ideas can be assimilated with
out great Inconvenience and posi-
bly, serious arrangement of our
political and social machinery. The
result most desired, | take 1t, is
the wide distribution of these i'm
emigrants where their labor is most
needed, and where, with most bene-
fit to themselves and families, they
will come into least competition wit
our labor until they have had time
to absorb some of our ideas as to
standards OF living and be brought
TO the Relation OF what duties de-
yolve upon them by reason of their
new citizenship and OF what con
sideration is due to wives and chill
dren who are 10 be American citi-
zns e
Unfortunately. the result desired
is far from realization. as is shown
BY the fact that of the 9,555,673 i'm
migrants received into this country
during the last ~ years, New York
State has taken 2r99l,S5S; Pennsyl-
yanla. l,T37.O59, and Illinois, 722,-
O59 making in all 5,453,476 aliens
absorbed by three already thickly-
settled states, The effect Of hay
ing about three-fifths Of our enor-
nous immigration dumped practic-
Tally without money Into the already
congosted districts has the natural
eject OF placing in competition with
American labor In these States the
labor of these foreigners, who have
to work at any wage they can get
in order 10 live NJ al.
When We renlize that about one
in every ten Of our population has
come to this country within the last
l2 years, we sometimes doubt vine
Their the Nothing Pot" is going
to be able to do all that is expect
.rd OF il. What will the American
LOOK like and what manner OF man
win he be in 100 years when this
eonglomcrate mixture tthe influx Of
I12 years. has gone through the
Crucible?
Perhaps this mixture of the var
ious branches OF the Aryan family
may bring forth the finest race that
civilization has yet known, and who
knows but what the people we are
now wont to call the dregs Of
Europe may not add to that ciyiliza-
ton some element not to be found
in the so-called stronger nations.
So much for the nation What
OF West Virginia? West Virginia
wants the English, the Scotch and
thelrish because they first claimed
this country from the wilderness,
and she wants more of the stock
of the pioneers, she needs them
in her mines, her farms and her
orchards She wants the Germans
She needs them to cultivate these
fertile-yalleys and make gardens OF
them. She needs them to make two
blades OF grass grow where but one
grew before She needs them be-
cause they make good citizens in.
time OF peace and in war good sol
dlers We need Belglans for our
glass factories; Hebrews for our
stores, and French for our manufac-
tories But above all things, we
need good scientific farmers thous-
ands of them. The immigration for
the last 2 years into this State
from various sources has been 64,-
93S, ranging from ZAP in 1899 to
9132 in 1910, and as the numberNSi
farms has increased only 3S1l N
the last 10 years, e VIII be easily
that the number of farmer immi-
grants was much too small in pro-
portion, With the approximate
land area of the State 15,374.OS0
acres, the land of farms 0, O26.442
acres and the improved lands in
farms only 5,521,757 acres, it is
easily to be seen that this State
needs farmers thousands of them.
Coy, Glasscock
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