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FROM one end (if the country to the other the air is
burdened with cries of discontent by tho me
chanics w ho do tin manual labor of tho land,
ami tint without reason. Strike follows strike,
ami when eiich and all are settled, the great cause of
the trouble still remains. The trouble with us is that
wo protect our manufactured products but'not the men
w ho make them. Kuroean goods are kept out of our
market by a high wall of tariff they can not sur
mount, but a steady stream of cheap lalor is jK-rmit-led
to tlow into our labor markets and crowd out the
Intelligent American meehanic, the man who is the
In ad of a family, who rears his children in a spirit of
patriotic love for their country and infuses them with
the true spirit of Americanism. It in ujton these the
M-reluation .f our free, democratic government by
and for the jnvpl.. tmint drMid. Thousand! of men
are n.iuing t.. America yearly whose, only idea of lib
erty is rri.nnl limine, who have mUlie faintest con
ception of what a government by the prodc means in
its broadest and truest sense, who do not even learn to
-k or read the English language, who form a mass
of Ignorance and .liti.-al corruption that, swayed by
demagogue and bril givers, threatens to overthrow
the virtue of the ballot as a meani of ascertaining the
true will of the ..,.., j tho matters of government
and public jMlicy-nay.rven doe do it in someWali-
tie.
Why do we waul more UU-r in America? We al
ready have rnough to develop our resources as rapidly
a it ran le .lone to advantage, ,d we already have
more thin can be thoroughly Americanized and en
vrrird nt healthful and safe memWrs of the body
jK.htic during the neu generation. To l ure, r.
crive many trry durable men and women from Eu
rv. It is sible in fVrry community to H,i,,t to
some whoso coming to this country has been 1 hV
ing to it in boiuo particular, while thousands of in
dustrious immigrants can not be said to I objection,
able in any particular save their ignorance of Ameri
can institutions ; yet, if the bars could be put up for 1
generation, it would give tho heterogenous mwi n
comjwsing our population time to liccomo assimilate
infused with true Americanism and le converted into
loyal, patriotic citizens of a country they have learned
to love as their own. Then, if we need more lid to
develop our wonderful resources and there duel h
seem a possibility that we shall, for as a people ire are
increasing in numbers at a remarkable rate we can
again take down the bars with a reasonable degree i
safety.
(Jranted that to stop all immigration is an extreme
and somewhat impracticable measure though w
have done it from China and can, by tho passport in
tern, do it almost us effectually from the rest of tlx
world yet we can certainly stop the most undt-siralle
portion by proper legislation carefully carried into ef
fect. There is, however, a necessary measure that can
at once bo taken that will have a wonderful effect in
purifying tho jsilitics of this country. The natural
ization laws can bo repealed entirely, or so modiW
that a man can not Income an American citizen until
ho can read and write Englishman explain our system
of government, can tell who George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln were and what they did, and b
locn here long enough to feel that this is his coun
try and that ho has an interest in perpetuating if
free institutions unsullied. "America for Americani
should be tho motto of every loyal citizen, provided
the word "Americans" is intended to include ever
man who In lieves in true American principles, ii nx"
iotis to conserve our democratic institutions and lovn
the country in which he lives, regardless of what cor
ner of the earth may have been his birthplace. &ft
then, if you will, you discontented lone and line i
the land, but strike where your blows w ill count nut
only for yourselves but for your children jet unb"r&
Michigan university, at Ann Arbor, is rapiJl;
quiring tho reputation of being the in.t disorJ
and orly governed institution of the kind in Amer
ica. Kvery few days the telegraph is burdened titt
an account of a riot by students at a theater, pru
fight, a circus or parade of s.mo kind. A d-zen
ago the trusters dismissed an entire elae l
of its nieml.cn had leen guilty of an n t JrrffWl
dismissal and tho class declined to divu'F
names. This hemic measure had a wondt rfd
for a few years uun the discipline uf the univ'
Now, it rms, the government of the ! d
into less compvtent and weaker hands, and W us