Deseret Evening News | 1906-09-10 | Page 8 | Foreign Colonies

FOREIGN COLONIES Mr Ir H U 0 G Wells in iii an a article In Harpers Hn rs Weekly gives Ites A British view Jew of or Immigration to this country countr and expresses tears fears for tor or the future He lie says say In substance that he doubts the ability of ot this thin Republic to absorb the multitudes who arrive h lIre re every enl year and the still greater rr ater Inflow that will come com In the future J i believe bellet he says F ya that if f things s go 11 on as they are Aro going the he SToat greet mars man of them the Im Immigrants migrants will wili remain a very ref low 10 class will remain rem ln largely Illiterate Indus Industrialized 1 peasants They The ate are decent minded peasant people orderly In Industrious but Lul rather dirty dirt In their habits habit and with a II low Ion 10 standard of nr life tIC Wherever they accumulate In numbers they present to my m eye CI a 1 social fodal phase pha e etar far tar below the level leel of or Ith either r England Trance J rance north Italy or Switzerland In short Mr Ir Wells doubts the emelen efficiency cy of or American Institutions as civilizing ing educating agencies The Thc gentleman admits that he Is II no authority on the th question He only gives his hili Impressions obtained during durin durina a brief stay alay In the tha th country and nd n II casual observation of or the prevailing conditions That he hI Is II partly right will rill not nol be denied The danger daner how however ever le is not so o much In th the Inflow of oC numbers as lIS In the attitude the Immigrants grants assume after atler their arrival here hereIt If Jt they all would lay aside aslie prejudices and strive to become Ameri Arner American can citizens In n the full meaning of or that term there would not be Le any an danger In numbers as III long jong Ax JI e the country Is Ii not slot overpopulated and end that Is a 11 con contingency contingency of ot n a 1 very vet cr remote future The trouble Is that many m ny foreigners come here and submit to boss bores s of their own rationality who sell sMI their labor and even eon their votes ottS when they the have haven havea ha han n a vote ote ThIA arrangement retards their education In American merlean govern government government ment principles principle They flock nock together In colonies trade only with their own countrymen perpetuate pcr their old cus cue customs toms tome and avoid as tar far w as possible In Intimate association with Americans Oc they bring with nith them na nu national tonal lIonal animosities and transfer Old country quarrels to 10 this country where here they ought not to 10 bo be heard thus caus causIn causIn causin In divisions on lines lints entirely foreign to thi th political life of America merlea This Thin Is II I where the mischief Is II done There Is I room enough hero here for nil all who ho will 1111 come rome and labor for or the building up of ot the country There Is la not room for forAn any An whose ho e greatest Ideal Is the establishment establishment of or foreign colonies with alms aims and rivalries of ot their own one