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Show A CLASS NOT WANTED. A dispatch tells us thu foreign workmen work-men will not h. permitted to Ire Imported to till the positions vacated bj strikers ?,hil. wl"h' 'xnillj right The I iw for-bidding for-bidding the entry Into this country of foreign rontrnt t liborers was passed for the , xpress purpose nf protecting our own lalnrtrs and It. prevent the further Im-poitationt Im-poitationt of rorelsn marlilnes In Ihe form of men There Is n titer er reason likewise Tin any one think nf any strike that lias Uen orgnnlied In this toiinlry in the list rort, ),.Uis that was not plnnnod nnt carried nut bv forelgn-Imrii forelgn-Imrii nun or tho Immediate offspring of foreign born parents' If such n ease can not lie eltetl then It Is reasountilv rertaln Ihit the unlive workmen of this country "lit their rights nre nml h.lleve mat inev can cure nn wrongs that may bo rorced upon th. m by legitimate Amci. Ii.in methods Iho first contract lilirers I rought lo this country , Hint Is the first hat came In large numliers were brought ti I.astern in inufseturers who, though prnteete, I In their business by a surriclpnt tnrlrf still In their avarice, while Plaining Plaini-ng evervihlng rnr themselves, could not but begrudge ia Ing skilled laborers the wrigrs they earned It was n most serious mistake fnr the scum Imported under the fofeacts illrectlv elr graded labor, nud llllel tin. factories with Inrendliry ele-ni ele-ni ills, rend) to strike nnd bum the works just so scon ns their long cniptv stomal stom-al lis were, tilled and Hit) had In their po ke-ts the unlooked-for sum of n month-B American wages That element .'."." '.'!r.mn"v.lu.r. " h" rn"t the conn-tr) conn-tr) millions nf dollars tn run down nr-rest, nr-rest, try and convict Ihn miscreants of those sinister bands and It Is good to read that no more will be permitted to Hv tho nbove no Intimation Is meant that any well-disposed foreigner has not a, perfect right to cnm to this eotintr) to better his fortun.s We hold thit no nation has n right to prevent any decent citizen from coining nnd going as he may lease to. the only exception helng Hut the comer has no right to land If his landing land-ing would Iki a meince to the health nr morals of ponrlo whom ho might mix Hvcry nation has n right to self-pres-ervntlon, nnd It Is the dut or cverv nation na-tion to protect itself ngnlnst poisoned rags ami against Ihe men that come In thosp rates Kor this reason the Chln.Ko hordes with their Immemorl il tnlnt, are exrliiled but the Chinese aie more welcome lhan tho cnnalllo of l.urnpenu slums Our nation ins been treated IhtoiiBh the Intermingling Interming-ling of the blood of strong foreign races Hut lint Is no reason why the as)liims and prisons of the Old World should bo emptied nnd their contents Hung upon our sht res under the name ..r eontinct 1 ibor-srs ibor-srs -Ooodwln's Weckl) |