Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-18 | Page 4 | Strangers at Our Doors

STRANGERS AT OUR DOORS and still the in pouring flood of for is growing at the rate of immigration for the first two weeks in slay the influx in a year will aggregate over persons for the seventeen days in slay ending with yesterday aliens aai ived at new york as against last year and in the samo period in 1001 an average of strangers reached new york each day last week it is predicted that fully will pabs through 1 illas island during thia month if the immigration continued for a number of years it will be equivalent transplanting one third of population of trance or england or italy from europe to america tea million are a nation in themselves and the promise L that this country is to receive that number the next decade where will homes bo made for theat will they lower the standard of our civilization will they take from us or add to our social and commercial elifet if the nation continues prosperous they can be assimilated and cared for without dis arranging either our social or commercial affairs but a dull period uch as wag experienced between 1893 and 1897 the burden will be a heavy ono for the american people the foreigners are at present attracted by the prosperous condition of all parts of tho united slates but such an i cd inrush threatens to overstock the labor market and add to the struggle of the common toiler while this country should be a haven of refuge for the oppressed of the world and should hold open a chopo of betterment to all people that hope and hospitality must be first given to those who are with us and then if there is room to the heavily of other lands the welfare of our own people mutt mu tt be consulted first after that our charity may be extended to The United states does not need a greater population than it now possesses por defensive and aggressive purposes of world affairs this country is powerful enough in men and resources the only motive that coald prompt the if inviting of more strangers to our shores would bo that of recognized duty in j the condition of humanity the i world over in the spirit of universal brotherhood but prudence most be displayed we attempt more than we are capable of performing and instead of rabing up the standard of life our own ewton become less exalted