| Show Too Many Immigrants l l for Good of America Editor Republican Allow me use to tak issue with you on a statement in oUI editorial on Foreign vs American Lubos to the he effect that Is not enough American tin rican labor to go around That Is in rican labor Including those for for- who have mado their Ionic home here and who adhere to Americas American standards Every ver prominent authority on sociology socio- socio logy logs refutes this argument It is also i by government statistics I. I The rise writers go even farther and say r that vc we havo too sunny many Immigrant of any kind Among tInOng those who mako L U is assertion ai are e 1 Hall hail and John It Commons th tho two universally accepted authorities on oil Immigration I halt Hall says Except in a fow ow lao Iso pasts parts of iso tho South and andest West est which seek farm laborers wise who have havo families and who bring money anti ami intend in- in n. n tend tenda ji permanent thieve there is no demand In this country for or Immigrant labor T- T This Thi was shown by tho report of time the immigration investigating corn com l In 1893 and by the thc replies re received re- re from ruin time tho governors and corn corn- of labor of time the various states slates In response to inquiries made b by time the Immigration RestrIction league In lii 1001 and IDO Souse Some of th the status states reported that the they had a surplus and a slUmber number of others in rarer favor of further restriction but from ruin none none- was any for tho immigrant class Nowhere except by certain railroads sand amid coal mine owners las has there beems any ally demand for tie the cheap labor of anti and view the matter solely from the standpoint of the profits prof its of if their business und ansi their importation im ins- of elton cheap labor libor lou led to tie the J passage of Ui the contract labor laws There are all kinds of American HJ as defined above laborers for tho o who will pay American wages American laborers cannot und and will not compete with European paupers A low fow years ago time the entire mining milling industry of thep the p country was carried on by British Irish anti and German labor lint but the greet greed of unpatriotic and soulless corporations only alms nave navo been to get enormous onor- onor profits at the expense of the drove the better heller element clement of the workers out They brought from tie tho worst districts of and Asia vast hordes of illiterate mini ami pauper laborers ansi and with ith these displaced sits dis placed Use the American laborer who tooti for good government high ideals and anil decent conditions Americans wore forced to accept the degrading conditions condi ansi and standards of Tao pau- or or break up UL their homes and leave 1 for oi- oi other lines of work Daze anyone say that th these se corpora corpora- thorns lions could not develop their properties without this hits labor Then answer mo inc why was It that lint th thy they y were making vast ast profits from American labor can be ea easily ily proven We have an Illustration close by hy Until about eight years ago all the coal muses mines oi oC Utah aim and Colorado were operates operated en entirely by American that IK 1 Irish ILIST and German Gernia miners They were a law abiding haid working class who Taut built their homes and i seared eared their families smear near time tho mines ashes They were American citizens with American stand stand-i ards artis and ideals Tie Colorado Fuel I ant and Iron Irol company and tIme the Utah Fuel company really one concern gras ping p- p ing for snore more caring nothing for forthe time the future of those who had worked for years ii in de developing eloping their mines nothing for or this tho lives hives families or costs com r fort tor 01 of faithful Imported from i 5 Greeks and Italians who It was thought would be servile and ana I work for less than tie the Americans and put them in lii the places of or their former high standard Upon the 4 of Salt I ike City any day cat can r be SOci dozens of those old coal simmers miners who wore wirt driven out oC of the coal mines L lute Into other occupations In Order to toI tomake I snake make room for a ti class of workers that are arc a a. curo to any ed community I Old time the get cheaper coal No Time The lower the tho wages the higher the Price of coal And Amid tIme tho sumac same rule holds L good with wit every other trust TIme The American laborer is smut nol lacking It Is limo tho desire on oil tile the part of or the corporations cor cor- to ia pay what American standards stand stand- arils ards of hIVIng lUIng require that is lacking Tho wall of the tho IB Is always I the demands of labor are aro ox- ox and unreasonable What a damning refutation of this limo nio the tho government gov go- statistics which show that 10 per cent of the population have havo 90 per lCt percent cent of thin tho wealth of if time tho country Don't Dont tell us we need morn workers under tin lU present system nor more work but snore more for tho work Tho Tiso problem of the unemployed In America Amen Ameri ca Is now ono one demanding tile the most thoughtful consideration of statesmen The Tue figures figures- of unemployment although very Imperfect slow show that the is even In lii limes of ot prosperity Time The census of shows that or 15 1 per cent of all workers over OVO ten years of if ago engaged In gainful occupations were unemployed a part of tho thi tune during that year These rca are ui-c however criticised zesT by he the cousins of us as incomplete incomplete- In Inthe the lic last census time the number found to tobe tobe be unemployed at some time during time tho persons or oi 22 u per lien vent cent of all the tho workers over ton test years of otto ago engaged In tim gainful Thirty nine per cen cent t of the male nale workers unemployed or sir IG poisons were Idle from four to six month of ut the year See See- Census ot of 1900 vol on occupations pp This is what the Massachusetts Commission Corn Com mission time the Unemployed In its report re- re port hOV of 1103 says It appears to us that time the evil of non employment is in ina a considerable measure due due- to ill re- re ill advised and amid ill iii adapted immigration Jl it Is impossible to tJ Introduce any assy plan islami of ot positive and Immediate aid for the ed of this country that shoes does not mean doing thin tho same fur for time the unemployed of Europe Under conditions the lie United Status states is attempting to solve the question ques ques- thou tion of for Europe as aswell aswell well as for or itself Tho rho country has hasan an aim abundance of unskilled labor even evenIn evenin in normal times throes Dont Don't lester foster time the lien Idea that we need the cheap labor of or on Asia No greater mistake cats can ever em be It has and amid always will bo ho a menace I. I to American institutions Greeks and Italians 01 tl lowest are aro ou land by time the thousands thousands yes millions They prevent t tic the immigration of th time foreigner tia the British Swede Irish Germans German etc those nationalities from froni which our best citizenship has come TIme Tho lilt th rate rato of our native stock decreases in proportion with the ot of undesirable immigration Time The births birth rate of time the inn- inn migrant increase Time The best of tine the race dies out to bo be supplanted by t a stuns stunted ted diseased degraded unmoral horde of human icings beings Wo Wt comm can not as assimilate as- as them theism Wo Wu can cams not educate them We e can only b be submerged With tic the increase of this timis class our standards pro go downs down our race deteriorates ates our oum ideals p parish It is o VUC suicide it I- I is national sui suicide sni- sni elsie cide to allow this unlimited ion I ILet Let otis be be- supplanted Jj by a superior people but let Jet us n naver vr r. r by bythe time the attempted absorption of tint thu scum of the tho world lower the standard of American manhood Our ur civil civilization I must go forward not backward Our nation was shaken to Its foundation by a civil was war brought about by time the I Importation Importation- of an nn aim un- un race Ll Let ua hood u I ti thorp IK is time thuc tel Self preservation Is La the lit st law of nature America for Americans must bo ho our notto If we would survive A. 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