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Show to msTitiiT niMKii;nio. Ourstatosmtnatid our rcsa are occasionally oc-casionally In sore straits as to how to maintain the national character of being tho land ol tha free, the home of the travo and the asylum of tbo op I rested of all nations, aud. yet restrict Immigration so that wo c in i radically select those whom wo propoto to nd mil Into tho national family circle. When Senator I-varls was secretary ot state ho proposed to undo the 0 llan knot by culling It there should bo no futile dalliance In tho mailer, nnd taking counsel of Horace Uretley's method ol resumj tlon which was to resume ho stsrted In t) restrict by restricting. Ills rchenie wt not a success, and showed that he vtas more ciimblnol dealing with thu subject of law nilxod with pilltlcs than of man Ipulallng the ruJJer of the ship of state, and but little of comfort hat conio from the efforts In that direction of any one else. Now comes tho New York Herald with n plan whloh In uno oue Is itrlclly Amir'cin even If It be absurd. It suggests thst every Incoming Immigrant Immi-grant be required to I ay au admission ru of onu liutijrflil ilnllirif llv tnrlt means we wculd also have a few mole ulllco hofders perhaps national door keeper and assistants, lor Inttancel Huch a suggestion brings tha nations! character down Instead of keeping It up. Itlsmgriunaryexclutlveneas, not statesmanship In any sense. It Is, ns Ito Chicago -faff says, ludicrous, almost criminal. It la not the abienco of money on the partnf thu Immigrant that makes him a poselbly dangerous cltlieu. It Is the absence of character, ol Intelligence, of adaptability to Amer lean Institutions. "Ami rlca Is too much ourted with pi itooracy alrealy," siys our coteiu-porarj. coteiu-porarj. "It is mind, not money, that makes the man nud Ilia desirable American citizen. It Is easy enough for n criminal to steal a hundred dollars to Imuro him sale paissgo patt tno Immigration Scylla, or even for a l.uropemi committed to furnlih a me ndltnut with that amouut If auru by so doing that they aro thus forever rid of a super. New York hasfrequently been spoken of asan un American illy. This suggestion uf the JTcrakl Is certainly cer-tainly n meal un-Amurlcan Idea " It Is the ssmu with this as It has Wen with tome other national sul Jects It Is notirrasjicdln a broad and com. pruhel slve rplrlt, In consonance with UioUhh'o uf our structure and Its Institutions, In-stitutions, It Is tinkered with and ulbllelat,and the whole builaeis Is uudlgutlled and uuworlh). |