The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-02-06


this morning when an effort was
made to close the saw mills and log
ging camps of western Washington
and there is little doubt but that the
northwest will go through another
bitter struggle this spring. The no.
torious "Bill' Haywood is now up in
that country preaching sabotage.
strike and destruction, and his lieu
tenants are organizing the woodmen
wherever possible
TN their national convention at
indianapolis last May the Socialist
party adopted a plank against vio-
lence and voted to eXpel all persons
who preached against law and order
but if the Socialist party has taken
a single step against Haywood. I
have failed to observe it, As mat
ter of fact Haywood hopes to build
up his own game by a break with
the Socialists, just as he has broken
with the Federation Of Labor.
IF the l. w. w. leaders start
another strike in the northwest this
spring they will get short shrift.
Their rule Is not to compromise or
accept arbitration or agreement so
nothing Is gained by temporizing
with them. Their attitude is post
lively destructive of the real inter.
ests of labor, and all % their battles
have been failures with the single
exception of Lawrence, Mass, where
they seized upon a strike which had
already begun, and which resulted
from conditions brought about by
cut throat struggle for existence by
wretched immigrants from southern
Europe who had been inveigled into
this country through the false state
ments of money lenders and steam
ship agents.
THE lesson of Lawrence was
lesson as to the perils of undesirable
immigration and | fear that the mis-
cries of Lawrence will come to many
a Pacific coast city unless our immi-
grafton laws are materially remedied
The Panama canal will bring 100
immigrants to the coast cities for
every 10 it brings to the farms and
ranches, unless some way is provid-
ed to assist the foreigners to the
farms. And it strikes me that we
have an ever increasing number of
American born citizens who would
like, themselves, to be assisted on to
farms now that our homesteads are
gone.
in my opinion the remedy is
severe restriction of immigration.
We have in 1877 years used up all
that the United States had to give
away, and have commenced to con-
serve-at great distress to the west
our coal, our forests and our remain
ing public lands. Why not let this
conservation be for the children OF
those now in the United States rath-
er than for the children yet to be
born to the great incoming hordes
from wide southern European ter
ritory Of which Constantinople is the
| center? Why not limit immigration
to the blood relatives of these for
eigners now in the United States?
Why shut out man because he is
unable to spell cat, cat, or dog,
dog and let in the educated foreign
socialist agitator to become q preach
er of red flag principles and de-
stroyer of this government? l con-
tend that if the man who can not
spell or read has "a brother or sis
ter, or other relatives here, let him
come in and get him out of the big
cities before either the 'padrones' or
the 'revolutionists' ruin him, and you
have got a man who will make a
good citizen of the United States
in fact, a citizen of the very kind
that have been the bone and sinew
Of this great country ever since it
was founded"