Show NOt WANTED The theory of the American government is that this country is free to the oppressed and downtrodden down-trodden of all nations It is a very pretty theory but after all it is only a sentiment VVe say that we open oar arms to the poor and oppressed of all the world and welcome them to this land of the free and home of the bravebut we dont The Chinamen are poor and oppressed but they are not welcomed The communists are poor ana oppressed yet who wants tnem to come here The truth is America doesnt welcome wel-come anybody and doesnt want anybody to come to her shores who will not become a good citizen and earn his own living The United States is not a poorhouse for the world nor is it an asylum for the I cranks and criminals of other nations na-tions that is to say it should not be a poorhouse or an asylum whatever what-ever may be asserted to the contrary con-trary by sentimentalists and too generous patriots England just now taking us at our word and sending hosts of paupers pau-pers to this country The British government pays their passage across the water and is glad to < get rid of them the cost being less to her than taking care of them at home Some of these assisted immigrants are welldisposed and will go to work in earnest to better their condition and make a success of life which has always been a failure at home while others are criminal in their instincts and dangerous dan-gerous to the communities where they may locate if not to the country coun-try at large England is well rid of themand the United States would make money if it could only keep them moving on paying their passage to the North Pole where their laziness would mean starvation starva-tion and their plotting against governments and laws would have little effect upon icebergs and polar bears There is room in America for millions of immigrants but the country is not large enough for the shiftless loafing discontented mobs that England is sending over hereto here-to continue their lives of slothfulness sloth-fulness and penury The thrifty ambitious immigrant who is ready and willing to add to the material wealth of the country while he increases his own prosperity is welcome but the drones and paupers are not The British government in sending send-ing its paupers to this country is only doing what other nati ons have done foi many years although England Eng-land has not heretofore been guilty of the ungenerous if not disreputable disreputa-ble course Some of her subjects however have not been above imposing im-posing upon America in this manner man-ner Some years ago the Marquis of Landsdowne found his Irish estates es-tates crowded with paupers for whom he was bound to provide in some way He had an agent W Stewart French who undertook to get rid of cheincumbrance and thus increase the profits from the estate French gives the following account of hisoperations The remedy I proposed was as follows fol-lows That the marquis should forthwith forth-with offer free emigration to every man woman and child in the poorhouse or receiving re-ceiving relief and chargeable to his estate That I had been in communication communica-tion with an emigration agent who bad offered to contract to take them to whatever what-ever part of America each pleased at a reasonable rata per head That even supposing they all accepted this offer the total together with a small sum per head for outfit and a few shillings on landing would not exceed from 14000 to 15000 a sum less than it would cost to support them in the workhouse for a single year That in the one case he would not only free his estate of this mass of pauperism which his late agent had allowed to accumulate upon itbut would put the people themselves in a far better way of earning their bread hereafter whereas by feeding and retaining them where they were they must remain as a millstone around the neck of his estate and prevent its rise for many years to come and I plainly proved that it would be cheaper to him and far better for them to pay for their emigration at once than to continua to support them at home shall not readily forget the scenes that occurred in Kenmare when I returned and announced that I wasp I was-p epared at Lord Lansdownes expense ex-pense to rend to America every one now in the poorhouse who was chargeable charge-able to his lordships estate and who desired to go leaving to each to select awhat port in America he pleased whether Boston New York New Orleans or Quebec The mode adopted was as follows fol-lows Two hundred each week were selected I se-lected of those apparently most suited for emigration and having arranged their slender outfit a steady man on ewhom I I could depend Mr Jeremiah OShea was employed to take charge of them on their journey to Cork and not to leave them nor allow them to scatter until he saw them safely on board the emigrnt ship This plan succeeeded admirably ad-mirably and week after week to the astonishment of the good people of Cork and sometimes not a little to their dismay dis-may a batch of two hundred paupers appeared ap-peared on the quays of Cork bound for the Far West So great was the rush from the poorhouse poor-house to emigrate and so great was the influx into the house to qualify as I generally required the application of that sure test of abject poverty before I gave an order for emigration that the guardians guardi-ans became uneasy and said the poorhouse poor-house would ba filled with those seeking emigration even faster than it could be emptied But I told them not to be alarmedthat all demands should be met And thus two hundred after two hundred week after week departed for Cork until the poorhouse was nearly emptied of paupers ohargeable to the Lansdowne estate and in little more than year 3500 paupers had left Kenmore Ken-more for America all free emigrants without any ejectments having been brought against them to enforce it or the slightest pressure put upon them to go Mr French continues that the paupers dispatched to America on such sudden pressure as this were of a very motley type and a strange figure these wild batches of two hundred eachmany of them speaking only the Irish language made in the streets of Cork as well as on the quays of Liverpool and America There was great difficulty in keeping them from breaking loose from the ship not only in Cork but in Liverpool where the ships touched before they left for the West Their chief desire was to escape out of theships almost naked to hide all their good clothes which had been furnished them as an outfit and to appear only in their worst rage In this costume they took delight in rushing through the streets of Cork and Liverpool Liver-pool in large bodies to the real terror of the inhabitants In short I do believe that EO strange unmanageable and wild a crew had never left the shores of Ireland Ire-land But notwithstanding their apparent ap-parent poverty they were all in the most uproarious spirits j there was no crying Lor lamentation as is usual on such occasions all was delight at having escaped es-caped the deadly workhouse |