Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — BLAINE WILL NOT RUN. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE WILL NOT RUN.

Whether tho character of. the present immigration in the United States is equal to that of a decade ago is a matter of immense importance. In the State of New York the present proportion of nativeborn paupers cared for in alms houses is Ito every 168. Of out-door paupers the proportion of foreigners is far greater. Of the insane in asylums the ratio is 42 l H ' r sent greater of foreign Ixjrn, Of convicts committed for all grades of otlenses,then“ were in 1886 three times as many of foreign birth as there were native born. This certainly goes to show fliat in spite of all precautions a large number of criminals are crowded in upon us. It is not improbable that European governments will wink at all such transactions as far as possible. It seems to la 1 impoasibletto thoroughly sift out at this end of the route. •

Prof. Mvsroe Smith tells us, in Political Science Quarterly, some most astonishing facts. Of all the population of Massachusetts only 855,491 were l>orn of native parents, while 919,869 had foreign parents and 119,741 were Ixirn of mixed parentage. That is Massachusetts is in fact a foreign State, for 53.53 jier cent of her blocaUis foreign. “Thera eight cities and tows in the Commonwealth in which there is an excess of persons of foreign parentage. These towns have 58 per cent of the population, while the remaining 280 towns, which contain a majority of native-born parentage, represent only 41 per rent of the whole." That is, our foreign influx gravitates into towns and cities, and is largolv possessed of the herd instinct. Although in Massachusetts there is tin* additional attraction of great factories, which oi>en to vast numbers of foreign operatives, what is true of Massachusetts is equally true of one or two of the They are essentially foreign in population. ,

HE SETS ALL RUMORS FOREVER * AT REST. H« Writ** from Puri*, Declaring that He Could Net Accept the Nomination Under Any Circumstance*—A Clear Withdrawal. The New York Tribune of the 30th, publishes the following letter from Mr. Blaine: Paris, May 17, ’BB. Whitelaw Reid, Esq., Editor New York Tribune. My Dear Sir: Since my return to Paris from Southern Italv on the Bth inst., 1 have learned (what I did not believe) that my name may yet be presented to fheNational Convention as a candidate for the presidents! nomination of the Republican party. A single phrase ol my letter of January 25 from Florence (which was decisive of everything I had the personal power to decide) has been treated by many of my most valued' friends as not absolutely conclusive in ultimate and possible contingencies. On _ the other hand friends equally devoted and disinterested have construed my letter (he it should be construed ) to be an unconditional withholding of my name from the National convention. They have in consequence given their support to eminent gentlemen who are candidates so Chicago nomination, some oT whom would not, 1 am sure, have consented to assume that position if I had desired to represent the party in the presidential contest of 1888. If I should now, by speech or by silence, by commission or omission, permit my name, in any event, to come before the convention, I should incur the re-

proach of being uneandid with those who have always been candid with me. I speak, therefore, because I am not willing to remain in a doubtful attitude. I am hot willing to be the cause of misleading a single man among the millfbns who have given me their suffrages and their confidence. lam not willing that even one of my faithfuri-iipporters in the past should think me capable of paltering double sense with my words. Assuming that the Presidential nomination by any chance be offered to me, I eould not accept it without leaving in the minds of thousands of iliese men the impression that I had, not beemfree from indirection, and, therefore, I could not accept at all. The misrepresentations of malice have no weight, but the just displeasure of friends I could not patiently endure.

Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day. can be imperiled only by lack of unity in council or by acrimonious contest over men. The issue of protection is incalculably stronger and greater than any man. for it concerns the prosperity of the present , and of generations yet to come. Were it possifele-for every voter in the republic to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor in Europe, the party j of free trade in the United States wenldj not receive the support of one wage-1 worker between the two oceans. It may j not be directly in our power as! philanthropists elevate the —Em opean laborFfft)tit’itWill he a lasting stigma upon our statesmanship if we permit the American laborers to be forced __down toi the EuropeanivveL And in-the end the rewards of labor everywhere WiU be rivahced if we steadily refuse to lower the standard at home. Yours very sincerely,

JAMES G. BLAINE.