Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — AMERICA FOR AMERICANS. [ARTICLE]

AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

A medical expert announces that the grip is only the winter form o! hay fever. If this is true tie sneeze hereafter will be perennial in Amer, ica. “ ; Germany, it is said, has sent in. structions to its minister at Washington to find out what protection is accorded to its subjects in the United States. This does not indicate that the Kaiser is dissatisfied with the way Germans arc treated here.— lt merely shows that he wants to create the impression that they are badly used, and thus to keep more of them at home for service in his army. - L ============ It is now reported from Ottawa that the Canadian Government is Willing to co-operate with the American authorities in preventing Chinamen from violating the exclusion act in coming here by way of British Columbia. At one time the Canadian Government made an attempt to exclude Chinamen from its territory; but when a remonstrance was sent to Ottawa from London, declaring that such action would he detrimental to Brstish interests, the Dominion Parliament limited its legis' lation to a measure which requires every incoming Chinaman to pay a poll tax of SSO and procure a registration certificate. Under this act Chinamen enter British Columbia, from which a good many of them come to this country. The New Dominion, however, may yet adopt an exclusion policy like that of the United States. Its Parliament cannot hereafter be subjected to re* straints that are not to be maintained in the Australian colonies, which, by a decision of the Bi itish Privy Council, are now empowered to exclude Chinamen from their territory. The most feasible way of preventing the further growth of the Chinese element in this country is through the co-operation of the Ottawa and Washington Governments in the enforcement of an exclusion policy.—New York Sun. -

One of the Speeches in the ‘‘Commercial Congress.” In the commercial congress at Kansas City recently Mr. Wickliffe said that he would treat his subject. “Immigration and Settlement of Vacant Lands,” from the text. “America for Americans.”! We have been told.” he said, ••that-this land is broad enough for all. but I submit that the countries of the old world have made it a dumping-ground for their paupers and criminal classes, and I believe that I speak for the whole American people when I say that the time has come when that must stop. There is enough room for all who want to come here to be one of us. but not a foot of ground for one of those criminals or paupers of the old world. I mav feel deeply upon the subject, but I have lately come fresh from a imost terrible object lesson, which too clearly indicates the need of a change in our immigration laws. “I believe that the congress ought •to declare that the National Congress ■should prohibit the landing of immigrants who are not willing to become good citizens. I think this law ought to be put into such shape that no •man who has not within a given time filed his intention for citizenship which is now altogether too short, and who has not within another given time taken out what is’known as his second papers, ought to be shipped back to the country from which he came. Gentlemen, it'took twenty-one years to make a voter out of each one of you: it does not take twenty-one seconds, to make a voter out of a oreigner. “Let no man step foot upon the soil of Columbia who can not bring a true bill of moral cleanliness. “I am. as some, of you know, a State’s rights Democrat, but I believe that the power to make American citizens ought to be taken from the State courts and given to the general government. Perhaps you do not realize the need of all this, but in looking up the nationally of those criminals whom the citizens of New Orleans executed not long since we found that the naturalization •papers of one of these —his certificate of good moral character —was certified to by two of his fellow-criminals. I believe that the scenes which we have witnessedjduring the past weeks ought to be impossible. The raising of the glorious stars and stripes under that of a foreign nation, as was done in my own State, and the riddling of our flags by bullets, as in Pennsylvania, very clearly indicates the need of, a change of policy as regards our immigration laws." The resolutions were then discussed, os noted above. When they had been disposed of the usual complimentary taken, and the congress, at 9:15 p. jn., adjourned to meet at the call of the executive j committee J