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Show Tiir. iM)iii;iinui i'iiiiiim.", Tuk question of ImmlRMtlon Is of national lni oMance. A few weik ago It formed n auljict for deliste between be-tween representatives of Iho two great New llngland universities, Vale and llarvarJ. There Is a measure pending In Congress relating to II. The (lear bill, which recently passed the House ot ltertsentatlve,atWaihlugton, refers re-fers eicluilvily to Chinese. Last sum-9ter sum-9ter a s(tclal coinniUnlon from this ciintry vlillcd thu various nations of lluropu to atuJy and luveatlgnte the problem at Its source. This was done with a vluwotamondlnir.eilatlugh.gls-IjIIou vluwotamondlnir.eilatlugh.gls-IjIIou on tho matter, tf needed. One of the rororolRsloners, Ihe Hon. John II. Weber, who vltlud Kurojs-, bat an aitlcloon this question In llifc-Vor-A-lHiericrin A'sneic for April. That gsutknian a prebends none of the serious trouble anllclpsled by others from Immigration. He rajs that neither In Krsucc, Ilelglum, llollind, (Urmaay uor Austria do the governments or societies help to transport trans-port taupers, crlmlnala, or other defectives de-fectives to tbia couutry. Tho vagabond of Kure does not emigrate as a rule. There aro Individual In. lance", but the aluuu are aluggleh and sildom look beyond the rt as. It Is admitted that large numbers of Idloorunemplojed ptrsoua are found lu all our Urge clllee, varloualy esll-mated esll-mated at an aggregato of from oho to too million-.. Mr. Weber says that Idle men hare existed III large cities since the esrly days of the republic. Hut Iho ruth to the clllee at present Is from our own rural districts. Tho svne csudltlou revalla In I'.uroi In regard to urban emigration. In fact the rush from country to city has teen so alarming In Oermany that Isglalsllon to protect It ll already coutimplateJ. The cry that a large percentage of crltnlntls and pajpira are of the foreign for-eign element may have considerable tiutlilnll.butltlanolbecau.e ol foreign for-eign blrlll or parentage that suth Is the cue. It Is simply Iwause Ihe foreigners foreign-ers represent tho "poorer section" of society, an J In eur forma of civilisation and sociology there roust be a (-sorer section, nd from thla will come tho crlmlnala and paupert.no matter where born. The "Know-nothing" party of fifty years ago cuutalned mtny men who hoaeatly believed that American In-teretts In-teretts were being Jeopardlled by the Increasing arrival of foretgnera. "The party did not succeed, huwever, but the republic still exlits, and next year we exct to show to the wurlJ Ihe marvellous progress of our country at an oxiosltlon held In a city, which at the time the ICnow-uolhlng party existed was but little more than a barren l ralrle, but now has a iopua lion of over a million jeople, while the parly has (lerltlitd, leaving nothing as n monument save Iho lesion of warning warn-ing to posterity to avoid racial aud rellglaua bigotry lu tho formation aud conductor political parlies." Mr. Wtber dots not approve Ihe sou-templiited sou-templiited consular Intpecllou s)alem at foreign otl-, became ho thluks It would not beaSLlleitlveaa thu present method rigorously enforced, and with some email amendments to meet weak or de rrctlre links In tho existing laws pertaining to Immigration. |
