New Britain herald., 1919-12-13


 know better if no one eyer told you tho truth or emphasized 1t the proper way?
 We are too busy with ''our own af- fairs and with money matters to both- CT about questions which we deem ab- stract, like for instance the immigra- tion questions. And yet it is the easi- est thing in the world to point out how our own pocketbook suffers consider ably on account of this negligence on our part.
 Take this case for instance
 Alien Derelicts.
 Years ago, in the good old days'
 before they had sieve to Slft the in coming human tide, Europe would open it's iails, asylums and almshouses, and present us with the worst derellcts of the human sea. At that time a drunken father and a feeble minded mother were landed without any cere- mony, and in due time they had ten children These did not cause them much care as long as charity and pulp lie com bile to support them.t EVery- one of these ten natiYe-born Amerl~ cans became in time @ star hoarder in
 a public institution, as the pubic
 records showed. They were epilep-
 tic. insane, idiotic, feeble-minded,
 drunkard and criminal, acording to
 the tainted strain of father or mother
 manifesting itself in one form or an
 other This mice" little family cost the state of Massachusetts alone the tritiing sum of $11,000. Who pays tiis amount? The taxpayers, of course. Suppose we admit that this happened long ago, and that IL IS one out of thousand couples-the fact Stafes us III the face that our pupnd institutions are overcroWded With allen public charges. The insane asy- 1 lums and other similar institutions 1 were so crowded that they had to put 1 the inmates into the corridors to ac- commodate all newcomers I dare say 1 that if our immigration had not stop ped during the war, if it had continued 1 at the rate of 100000 a year as it l was before the war, soon every dozen of us would have supported one Of 1 these star bearders'' in a public in~ 1 stitution at our own expense. at $5 per- 1 week With the high cost of living now this Is a, problem which deserves 1 the serious consideration of every fam~ l ily, father and taxpayer. It is re- 1 grettable that this fact can only be l pointed out now when the mischief l has been done. and it is almost impos- 1 sible to remedy this phase of the ques- l tion. v l Cause of Strikes. | What causes all these strikes? From pink eye to strikes is a long ! jump, yet all these and hundreds of 1 other social, political and induStria! l menaces came on the same ship and l slept in the same steerage bunk or 1 hobnobbed on the same deck. If you 1 have no child attending public school; 1 if you are not directly taxable to 1 maintain pauper institutions or four 1 ishing insane asylums; if you are not 1 concerned with the menace of these l strange hordes to our political insti- , tutions, perhaps these str1kes may 1 touch you more yitally.
 | Suppose you have son or a. broth l CT, healthy and honest; he wants to l become a great Am erican like Edison. ;. o" perhaps he wants to be a humble ] mechanic contented with an income 1 on which he can raise a family de- 1 gently, under American standards. LII I both cases he must start at the bot- ] tom He seeks work at the mill the l shop or the store. He has to take q. 1 job in competition with some newly 1 arrived immigrant. His compeutorf ! the newly arrived immigrant, is sure 1 to lInderleid him in the labor market. ! The American cannot dictate his price 1 for his labor, but must take what IS i offored him. He starts to work. After 1 a while he discovers that only labor l unions can promise him higher 1 wage Later on he discovers that Sif 1 to s2O a week. the average American l wage enjoyed by 75 per cent. of our l non11Iation. is not enough to assure an 1 American standard of living for man 1 who is used to living in 8 clean house, 1 sleeping in a clean bed, eating clean d q irar 1 them to clean schools; having a few l books a piano, a HiVVer-al these 1 things cost money and can not be l bought on SIS or $20 week. When ] the trade union, which stands for all l these things, asks more wages, the 1 boss refuses, and there is a strike. 1 And a strike is nothing but a struggle l between capital and labor almost as 1 fierce between Teuton, Slav and Saxon. 1 When the wheels of the machinery | stop the manager sends for strike- l breakers, to Chicago or New York, when they arrive they are mostly for eigners; poor Italians, Greeks, Syrians. l Turks Bravas Then there is blood l shed, and the strike is lost, and your 1 boy is down and out in the gutter, or I joins the army of tramps, whom we call "unemployed." He may come l home broken in health, in ambition, m l spirit he lost his faith in the land or l his birth in man and in God. He IS 1 in a strange frame of mind. You tell l him he is a Bolshevik and you w1lf hear him protest yehemently He would not style himself as such be- cause the name is a Russian name, and 1 he hates foreign terms. But the truth is that he has become a Bolshevik l more menacing than the original Rus sian .--.-. .-.... Who Is to Blame?