Show r GOOD MAY RESULT That was a great wrong which was perpetrated per-petrated in New Orleans last Saturday It was not a great wrong to the victims of the mob They were assassins of tho very worst type They were a law unto themselves them-selves Tho principles of right and Tramp did not actuate them The man who did not agree with them who was not in sympathy sym-pathy with their crimes was an enemy who should be put out of the way An officer Who performed his duty and sought to punish men for their misdeeds was in their opinion a dangerous person and ought totoo killed Human life was held lightly by them and to their minds there could be no crime unless tho offense was against them The murderous wretches deserved what they received and every wellwisher of socioty is glad in his heart that tho murderous follows have been put where they can work no more harm The wrong was in tho manner of their taking off the offense being against the laws and people of Louisiana More or less harm will result from the mobs act The effects of the lynching will continue along a-long time with the community and those effects will be bad But we hope and believe that good to the nation will result from the incident We believe that the affair will induce Congress to take in hand the matter of immigration and deal intelligently effectively and in a statesmanlike manner with the subject It will impress upon the minds of our public men the fact that the time has come to close the gates against the paupers and criminals of the old world For years the American people and the American press have been earnestly protesting against the admission of the revolutionists the thieves and the assassins of Europe they have asked that tho criminals be turned back and given notice that they will not bo permitted to land and make their homes on this side of tho Atlantic At-lantic But these protests have been unheeded un-heeded and the scoundrels have come by shiploads A few years ago it transpired that some European governments wore actually shipping their paupers and criminals crimi-nals to America paying their ocean fare and giving to each a sum of money sufficient suf-ficient to pay his way until ho should bo beyond the reach of the port authorities Our large cities are crowded with thieves cutthroats burglars and beggars from abroad and the dockets in the criminal courts are filled with the names of i foreigners At every session of Congress bills are introduced for preventing this undesirable immigration but they are not pressed to passage Many of these criminals can vote and thereforo they possess influence which is more powerful than the right in the control of the average demagogue who goes to Congress Eight out of the eleven men who were killed in New Orleans were naturalized citizens of tho republic and could vote In tho slums of Now York city are so many Italian voters that they can control the elections in certain districts and politicians court the filthy daggered wretches It is easy enough to onact restrictive re-strictive laws against the meek and inoffensive in-offensive Chinese because they take no interest in our politics and have no votes to sell or trade but there are mighty few Congressmen Con-gressmen who dare proclaim against any class that may be useful at the polls The New Orleans tragedy we believe will attention with such emphasis to the fact that the country is being overrun with foreign criminals that vigorous and efficient measures will be adopted to prevent the coming of the scoundrels who have found this such an inviting in-viting country for their operations Nor do we believe that so many of the criminal Italians will try to come Last Saturdays affair will strike terror into their hearts and cause them to think that while our laws are generous and their administration lax party politics havintf greater or less influence influ-ence upon tho actions of officials justice is very apt to overtake the evildoers sooner or later Thus while that prison butchery was a great wrong we believe that somo goodwill good-will result from it |