| Show TO RESTRICT immigration A chicago divine recently held forth from his bis pulpit on the evils of immigration and as a result he has baa been catching it generally from a portion of the local press one of thene does not con floe its ito strictures to the particular clergyman referred to t but makes common cause against all of them so far as the subject spoken of is ie concerned saying baying also albo that ministers have very little judgment concerning the practical affairs of life while not subscribing to that state ment deot or con curri g in the feeling which pro prompted apted it we can but endorse the argame argument nt which la Is presented in op position to the reverend entlemann kent i lemans position on the immigration question he said among other things that immigration la is the father of nearly every national peril which causes his hie critic to remark that it is equally true that it la is the cause of all our national great deem it is because we have of populate population lop that we are prosperous and happy at home and respected abroad As to the vices which mr bartlett the minister says mys the immigrants bring with them the remark has no application outside of the great cities any man who should travel through the great west and wish all the immigrants he met back in europe would prove himself a monster and a fool 12 it is observed beef ved that the restrictions on immigration gratic n which the preacher sug bests are p puerile dorile inthe extreme as an he proposes to allow no immigrants to touch our shores shore u until they take the oath of allegiances allegiance and if roman boman catholics they must forswear political allegiance to the pope as a condition precedent to landing this is know revived and intensified it was that such tests might be imposed upon and such humiliating exactions had from those seeking the land of freedom from abroad that the more intolerant a and nd inconsiderate element in the country banded themselves to gether as a and appeared in the presidential race two or three consecutive times timea of course it went down and it was fondly hoped that it might never appear again in a any ny form there being not enough ca hesi venese in such plea to enable them to live as aa an organized body in a land consecrated to the protection and encouragement of the oppressed 0 of f all nations sporadic oases cases like this that t referred t to 0 break out now and thou then but the indignation which they incite does but break their force and cut off their effect at once our says bays of the proposed restrictions eions that any immigrant would obee cheerfully raully comply with the re qui rement spoken of without knowing or caring what it meant or if he wished to evade it would only have to claim that he did not know knew yet whether be would settle in this country or not iltgen then after their admission to this thi country mr bartlett would allow no one to vote who could not wake make him self understood in the english language but it would be a shame to impose on immigrants a condition which it if applied to natives would disfranchise some of our most success ful writers orators and statesmen not to say aay divines P there is the rub for the make bake of gratifying the spitefulness and vindictiveness of a few churlish political bigots we cannot afford to shut the gates upon either honest industry or native talent whether it comes in the form of a transient caller or one who intends to remain upon our soil in life and in death |
