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Show THE IMMIGRATION INUNDATION. In the fiscal year which ended lasjt July the foreigners who came to this country numbered 1,026,499. Of these, 237,985 came from northern Europe and the British Isles; 184,897 from Russia and 526,337 from southern Europe. The rest were from Asia, Australia and Spanish America. It will be seen that only about one fourth of all are what may be called desirable acquisitions to our people, The first thought is the menace which this host, coming annually, is to the working men of the United States who have homes or who want to make homes. We can see the effect even as far inland as Salt Lake. A majority of the men that the great corporations employ are not Americans, more, still, they never expect to have any special interest in our country or Government. Govern-ment. It is unfair to bring these men in competition compe-tition with real American workingmen. That is an abstract fact, but what can be done? The whole American people is the result of immigra- tion; we cannot now declare that it shall cease. I Indeed we doubt about the right to stop any hon- I est man from going to any place he may please 1 to go in order to better his condition. We can I keep out the Chinese only on the ground that we have a right to protect society against ele- J ments that are a menace to our homes and our 1 free institutions. But of this host that comes 1 from southern Europe, with no idea of what free HB government mean, with no desire to learn, with Bel no intention of making this country their per- 'HI manent home, surely all the equities demand that I such people should be forced to give a good ac- jH count of themselves before they are permitted to ''; land, because for one generation at least they are ' no better men and their intentions are no better than as though they had come from the west in- il stead of the east. They would be worthless as i jH soldiers, they are worthless as citizens, for if they become naturalized it is cither to make money out of their votes, or on their return to their early homes, to escape, through that citizenship, the duties of citizenship in their own country. There is another feature. They herd by them" selves in our cities by tens of thousands. There they merely keep up the customs, the loves and hates of th;ir native countries, they are no more Americans ten years after landing than they were . on their arrival, and in times of depression, or when strikes arc on, are a perpetual menace. The 'H Government is spending millions and tens of mill- i Hi ions to redeem Hawaii and the Philippines; we i Hi believe it would be economy to establish Govern- ' mental training schools outside our great sea- j I ports to teach the young men and women who land, how to do the work which they are to per-sue per-sue here; to teach the young women cooking and '. j housekeeping and a dozen other useful employ- ments; the men farm and other work. Three i months of this training would half Americanize them, it would fit them to be useful, and with such training they would never cut wages for there would be employment for all. It is a thought worth considering. |