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Show A CLASS NOT WANTED. !H A dispatch tells us that foreign workmen will 1 Infl not be permitted to be imported to fill the positions ; ' fjf H vacated by strikers. That will be exactly right. tlH The law forbidding the entry Into this country of- '119 foreign contract laborers was passed for the ex- PfB press purpose of protecting our own laborers and j'lfiH to prevent the further importations of foreign ma- ffljll chines in the form of men. There is a deeper fUlM reason likewise. Can any one think of any strike IfffH that has boon organized in this country in the last iJgnl forty years that was not planned and carried out IBH by foreign-born men or the immediate offspring of iaH foreign-born parents? If such a case cannot' be ' . JHH cited, then it is reasonably certain that the native 39 workmen of this country know what their rights fH are and believo that they can cure any wrongs flfl that may be forced upon them by legitimate Amer- ! IBS ican methods. The first contract laboreis brought SIH to this country; that is, the first that came In' hfi large numbers, were brought by Eastern manufac- 1 SH turers who, though protected in their business by '99 a sufficient tariff, still, in their avarice, while i lujB claiming everything for themselves, could not but' IBB begrudge paying skilled laborers the wages they I'M earned. It was a most serious mistake, for the j'99 scum imported under the contracts directly de- i'sH graded labor, and filled the factories with incen-' fifilfl diary elements, ready to strike and burn the works' filial just so soon as their long empty stomachs were ll filled and they had in their pockets the unlool&d- ijBfl for sum of a month's American wages. That ele- Wmm ment has cost many lives; it has cost the country 7 MwM millions of dollars to run down, arrest, try and UlnKl convict the miscreants of those sinister bands, and lBI it is gocd to read that no more will be permitted 1J9H to come. fiQfl By the above no intimation is meant that any llfl well-disposed foreigner has not a perfect right to 9H come to this country to better his fortunes. We j fH hold that no nation has a right to prevent any de- ffl cent citizen from coming and going as he may 191 please to, the only exception being that the comer HH has no right to land if his landing would be a men- 99 ace to the health or morals of people whom he 99 might mix with. 19 Every nation has a right to self-preserva- 99 tion, and it is the duty of every nation to protect lH itself against poisoned rags, and against the men JH that come in those rags. If ifjfl For this reason the Chinese hords, with their liJi9I immemorial taint, are excluded, but the Chinese ifJlH are more welcome than the canaille of European; iifll slums. Our Nation lias been created through the wSI intermingling of the blood of strong foreign races. IhI But that is no reason why the asylums and prisons il&iH of the Old World should be emptied and their con- wfH tents flung upon our shores under the name 'of 9ffi contract laborers. ffis9B |