| Show wants the doors of united states thrown wide open to the foreign hordes an address y filled with original thought boston dec lc jn an address be forr alie economic club of boston last night president charles V eliot of harvard speaking on ion said it Is tha labor unions who teach the doctrine of labor aclus clus jlou that Is the source of all the agitation along these lines the am who have got into sool oradea irani to keep out all the new i from gaosa trail cs mr combers bic other day in new york op posed the admission of chinese stu j ducts and educated travelers on the ground that chinese coolies might smuggle into this country la ahat I 1 want to protest against that line of argument that we i should try to keep out new arrivals because our earnings will be reduced that la not th real danger have wages fallen in the last fifty icare or risen yei immigrants have been cod ing by tho millions our laboring class if I 1 may use such a term hold a very unmannerly opinion about the new comers they have not confidence enough in their own superiority from their own advantaged i we ought to hae a profound confidence from our own experience on this soil of the trustworthy effects of free dom for every man 1 I am no kind of a to anybody either in education religion or immigration we are all of us pretty content with the results of the immigration of the last eight generations it lias been the source of our civilization and of our ideals the only possible doubt about the present immigration contrasted with the former is this are the races out are coming now as bound physically morally and mentally tho races that iw e como since there is a good deal of raco and religious pio judice in the matter men say can we digest this mass of llorian catholics well wo have digested many minions of them and they have turned out humane excellent citizens what race have we digested with more difficulty than tha irish yet in Roosje velt there are two strains of blood one dutch and the kotlier irish what shall wo say of the yellow race last week in new york an attempt was made to draw a clear cut distinction the labor orators denounced the chinese and implying that these were physically mentally and morally differentiated from the united states in such a degree that they could bot be lived with all wo want to know about a race Is can we live with it A minister who had lived in china replied that that nation had a high civilization when the ancestors of every man in tho room were living in fur clothing in tho wilderness we have had aa excellent opportunity to see what the japanese dro like see what an exhibition they havo given us in physical strength end power in their mastery of the art of v ar they actually taught the english how to figal a eimil battle no fleet in the world ever made such intelligent tell igent preparation for babie as the surgeons of togo fleet and the intellectual inai ghUn the conduct of tho and jhc thc 0 oral qualities ia its conclusion yet wo have the insolence to conc civo of excluding japanese chii because of their inferiority As to labor the law cannot w enforced has been enforced and nee ought to be |
