i The Dalles Daily Chronicle. The only Republican Daily Neutpapei on Watco County. EASTERN OFFICE 2S0 to 234 Temple Court, N. 1. City. E. KATX, Agent Till) USD AY JANUARY 27. 189S Weekly Clubbing Kates. Chronicle and Oregonian $2 25 Chronicle ami Examiner 2 25 Chronicle unit Inter Ocean 1.85 Chronicle and Tribune 1 "5 Chronicle and N. Y. World 2 00 THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION. Much lias been written and said of late, both in ami out of congress, re garding the restriction of immigra tion. The question is one of vital concern to the commercial and po litical life of the nation. It has lcen seriously urged that the United States could not assimilate properly the mass of immigrants who were flocking hither from foreign shores. The congestion of population in large cities and the poverty and distress consequent upon it, has made the fact obvious that the nation has reached a point wiiere the supply of labor is exceeding the demand. To tbe laboring class belong most of the people who como seeking homes iu America. As a nation we owe much to the sturdy home-seekers who have cast their fortunes with the American people and sworn allegiance to our laws and institutions. "Without the influx of people from other countries the United Suites could uot have at tained the wonderful greatness at which the whole world now is mar Telling. Whatever legislation shall be passed regarding foreign immi gration will be (lone in kindness, and not with malice. A recent study of immigration sta tistics shows that if further foreign immigration is undesirable, the fall ing off in the number of immigration makes anv very drastic regulations unnecessary. As a matter of fact, since the en forcement of the law of March 3 loiiJ, immigration has come to a standstill. In the fiscal year 1894 the total of arrived aliens amounted to 2o,031; in lb'Jo, to 2ao,u30: in 189C, to 3-13,2Q7, and in 1897 to but 230,833, an annual average for the four years under the present law of only 279,5GC against an average cf 52G,450 from the years from lSa) to 1892. Besides, a veiy large percen tage of those recent arrivals (much above 40 per cent) are the parents or children, brothers or sisters of former immigrants, the exclusion of whom is impossible without the most reckless and cruel separation of fami lies, parts of which are American residents. Another very large per centage (about 20 per cent) of these so-called immigrants are but return wg to the United Slates after a visit abroad. Deducting these two clashes of very much qualified immigrants, all that is left as immigrants proper amounted in 1891 to 98,377 ; in 1895 70,011; in 189C to 119.C3G, and in 1897 to 88.GGG, an average of 95,072 per year. As a further matter of fact, a very much larger number of "foreigners" have in every one of these four years left this country and returned to their fatherland. So the "immigration question" is not the bugbear some alarmists would have us believe. Club, wc arc informed, has the sub ject under investigation and will make a report shortly. There can be no question but that such a scheme would mure to the great ben efit of The Dalles, ami give this place such advantages as would force it to the front as a manufacturing center. The cost need not be great, and anything which would tend tow ards attracting outside capital should be heartily encouraged. Regulator Line The Dalies. Portland anil Astoria Navigation Co.' , The appearance of the big battle ship Maine in Havana harbor will not strike the Spaniards as being strong evidence of the love of the American nation towards Spain. Events have so shaped themselves that Cuban success remains no longer doubtful, and if the presence of the White Squadron in Cuban waters will hasten the end of n miserable war fare, "tho American people will not complain. The project is being discussed of some means being devised for the transmission of electrical power from the Deschutes river to Tho Dalles. A committee of the Commercial More than the usual amount of general interest has been taken in the Maryland senatorial contest be cause the election of a Republican meant the retirement of Gorman, one of the most unsavory of Ameii can politicians. Gorman has long been an unattractive figure in public life, and all lovers of high statesman ship will pray that he may never secure domination enough to allow him a return to the senate. There arc others who could be spared from congress with nearly as stood grace as Gorman. The highest claim for other i tobaccos is "Just as good ns Durham." 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