The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-01-05

The anti-immgration hue and cry
about 25,0O0,00O Europeans already
swarming down and ready to swarm
down upon us in one swoop is moth
ing less than cheerful Idiocy There
is not a single bit Of solid statistics
in the United States to show we are
being overwhelmed with immigrants
or that immigrants. good, bad or in
different, are arriving in as large
numbers as they have in year after
year before the war. Thre is not
single bit OF solid statistics to show
there are 25,000,0OO or 100000. or
any given number of people in Europe
all packed up to start for these shores.
II there were 25,O0O.OOO Europeans
ready to come down upon us there
aren't available ships on the seven
seas to transport so many voyagers
to our. shores next year or for many
a year. While we were in the war we
used everything that would float
Great Britain and Canada used every
thing that would float. all the Allies
used everything that would float, and
we all bent every energy that we pos
sessed to get our soldiers across to
the fighting front in the most desper-
ate emergency the world ever has
known. With every mind and every
ship and every hand and every means
concentrated on that transportation
problem the best we could do in much
mrore then year was to get 1000. 900
American soldiers across the Allan
| tic Ocean.
If there were ships enough to Jerry
25,000,00 people from all the regions
of Europe to all the ports of the
United States there wouldn't be ready
money to pay the 25,OOO.O 900 passages
and meet the financial requirements
OF our admittance terms. A per capita
| ship cost and entrance fund of only
5000 for 25,OOO,O0O immigrants would
take five billions of dollars in real
money. cold cash All Continental
Europe raked from end to end and
scraped clean couldn't produce the
five billions of dollars in real money
and cold cash
The clamor about the immeasur'
able hordes of criminals, cripples
paupers, lunatics and degenerates a
waiting shipment to our shores is jus
as absurd. To exclude such undesir
, ables there is no need to build Z
Chinese wall around our seaboard
Under statutes and regulations nov
in existence if the Government auth
critics will get on their jobs and en-
force the laws, every one OF the Grim
inals, lunatics, paupers, etc, can b'
kept out
AS matter of fact the prohibitiv,
legislation proposed by Representa-
tive Johnson. of Washington would
let into this country by collision anC
cooperation among relatives who al
ready are here and are American cit
liens more criminals, cripples, pau
pers, lunatics and degenerates thar
this country ever ought to let in TO
a hundred years.
And the English. Irish and Scotch
who want to come here are not of tn,
undesirable class They are in tn,
main of the very desirable and yer,
essential class. SO are the Scandi
navions. SO are the Italians So ar,
the Germans. They are imperativel,
needed to do our farm work. some
thing our own wage earners will no
do. They are imperatively needed t.
do our day labor something our owl
wage earners will not do They ar
imperatively needed to put in good
> hard ticks at this. that and the othe
unpleasant, burdensome and bacl
: bending work, something our owl
wage earners will not do.
Prohibition or hard working immi
grants, when there is so much har,
work to be done in this country an,
nobody willing to do it, is disgrac
to American politics and a menace T.
nd ,aI
New York Herald.