Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — Excess Invites Repression. [ARTICLE]

Excess Invites Repression.

A democracy has difficulties enough of its own to contend with, without wantonly imperiling its existence by importing problems of alien origin. We; cannot, without detriment to ourselves and our institutions, adopt Bismarckian methods of repression; and the anarchical tendencies, which are the result of these methods, require more heroic remedies than our laws at present provide. One ounce of prevention, as the saying is, is worth a pound of cure. A law to prevent the importation of undesirable immigrants would, if passed in time, avert future dangers, not by solving the labor problem, but by making it easier of solution.—Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.