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SATURDAY, MARCH S, 1902. ThiB, Date In Hiotory March 8. 1703 Dr. John Cnmpbell, KnsHsh histor ical writer, born. l&U Karl Johann JJornndoUe, French sol dier and kins ot Sweden, died; born 17W. 1S62 Famous naval encounter In Hampton Roads. The Confederate Ironclad ram Merrlmnc played havoc with the wood en union fleet. JSS7 Ttenry Ward Hecher died tn Brook lyn; born In Lltchlleld. Conn., 1813. John Krlcsson, builder of the Monitor nnd noted inventor, died In New York; . born In Sweden ISM. 1597 Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher died at Stamford, Conn.; aged 85. Wh-The historic Theatre Francois in Paris destroyed by fire. 001 Hon. Christopher L. XIagee, noted politician, llnancier and philanthropist of Pittsburg, died at Harrisburej born 1S4S. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. The northwest is filling up with people from the middle states and the middle west and the east are filling xip with people from foreign lands, and the Hood tide of humanity flows ever westward, toward the star of empire! Since 1S98 the total annual immi gration into the United States has doubled. In that year it was 229,299, while last year it was 487,918. As is T'ell known, the character of the 1m migration has been changing for the worse, and we have been receiving increasingly large numbers of illite rates. In 189S the proportion of what may be termed "undesirable immi grants" was 57 per 'cent, but last year the immigration of that class ainounte.l to nearly 09 per cenc Those facts have aroused the Immi gration Restriction League to renew ed efforts to procure from Congress the enactment of a satisfactory re- otriction law. They ask for the edu cational test. Ihe bill prepared by the league and which they are now urging excludes all persons over 15 years-of age and physically capable - d reading, who connat rcad tho Kng lish language or some other lang uage; but an admissible immigrant or a person now in or hereafter ad mitted to this country may bring in or send for his wife, his children un der 18 years of age, or his parents or grandparents over 50 years of age, if they are otherwise admissible, whether they are so able to read or not. The argument in support of the bill is based upon the fact that very few immigrants from northern and west ern Europe are unable to read their own language, while those from east ern and southern Europe, whose coming is not desirable, are largely illiterate, so that the educational test .would exclude most 'of the ob jectionable immigration. During the last three ears the proportion of il literates migrating from western Europe was 3.6 per cent, 4.2 per cent and 5.6 per cent. The percentage among the immigrants from "eastern Europe, in the same three years was ST.G per cent, 36.4 'per cent and 43.2 per cent. A recent analysis of the census sta tlstics of 1900 shows the extent to which immigration from Germany, Ireland and Great Britain is falling off, while that from the far east and liouth of Europe is increasing. It ap pears that during the decade between 1890 and 1900 the number of Germans in the United States decreased from 2,784,894 to 2,666,990 and the number of Irish decreased from 1,871,509 to 1,618,567. In 1900 the population of this country included 814,967 English, 93,682 Welsh, 233,977 Scotch, 785,958 Canadians of British origin and 6851 Australians. Tho Baltimore Sun est!' mates that the total of former sub Jects of Great Britain in tho United States in 1900 was 3,876,299. Tho elements that have materially in creased in our population since 1890 are as follows: Italians, 484,207, an increase of 301,627; Swedes, 573,040, an increase of 94,999; Russians, 424,- 090, an increase of 241,452; Poles, 383,510, an Increase of 236,070; Aus trian, 276,249, an increase of 152,978; Bohemians, 156,991, an increaso of 38, 885, and Hungarians, 145,802, an in- no nnn ITTKilHU 111 o...uw. It Is noted furthermore that tho hulk of the new immigration does not go into tho west nnd tho south to build up the country, but gathors into large cities, where It produces a con gestion, of the labor market and forms an alien clemont difficult to absorb. For these and other reasons based upon- tho facts, the Immigra tion Restriction League is earnestly pressing its bill upon congress. There can be no question . of the need of some measure of restriction nnd the one proposed certainly morltB a trial. But so far the west coast country needs no restrictions to immigration. The feoling provails hereabouts, let nil come who may, there is room for countlesB thousands, even tho "miser able devils" from over-crowded Eu rope can find fobt-space in the great northwest, where plenty of room to breathe and run will soon be lift them above the level of their own degreda- tlon and make them forget the abuses of the narrow environments of the old world. However, it is well to ever keep a slight check upon immi gration, for many of any strange peo ple at one time is not good for any country, no matter how free and strong, how rich and prolific it may be. The transportation companies, in their desire to develop this section need not allow this desire to over run their judgement in this connec tion, for too many strangers at one time may give to the country a set back, rather than advance it from truly a progressive standpoint. We need more people, but we can better take them In small doses, for if they come in crowds like locusts they may not find what they come after and the re-action which may follow their coming may not be either good. for them or for us. It is better to al ways go slow, but sure! SELF-INTEREST KEEPS PEACE. Prince Henry is everywhere warm ly welcomed by the American people. His welcome is sincere; we have never had any quarrel with Germany, and there is no forecast of any antag onism for the future ;and yet all this sincere welcome would count for noth ing if tomorrow there should be a war in Europe in which the commercial interests of Germany were opposed to those of the United States. In other words, national self-interest keeps the peace or breaks it among nations. America was grateful to France for the money, ships and soldiers with out which our independence could not possibly have been achieved, and yet America declined to help the First French republic against England. AVashlngton knew that France had helped us .only because she was at war with England; he know that America could not afford, in her in fancy, to mix in the quarrels of the great powers of Europe. Russia and Great Britain were firm allies against Nepoleon; they were bound together by the cohesive power of common peril, but forty years af ter Waterloo Russia and England locked horns like mad bulls on the battlefields of the Crimea, and are en emies today In the commeracial ex ploitation of China and Asia Minor. France, whose amrles under Napol eon humbled Kussta by the occupa tion of Moscow, is today Russia's most powerful ally. These illustra tions are sufficient to set forth the fact that there is no sentlmentallsm in the so-called friendship of nations; they are allies or antagonists accord ing as ther commercial or political interests .converge or diverge. The recent death of the famous pulpit orator, Itev. Dr. Newman Hall, recalls the fact that he was one of the few conspicuous Englishmen who took the Union side during the Civil War, and defended It from the pulpit and the civil platform. There were others who were our friends, like John Bright, Richard Cobden; but dominant English feeling is cor reqtly described by Charles Francis Adams in his recent published ad dress before the New York Histori cal Socltey when he says that "tho sympathies and good will of the gov erning and influential classes throughout Europe on the west Bide of the Vistula were enlisted on the side of the Confederacy." Tho mili tary judgment of Enrope was unani mous that the attempt to restore tho Union was an impossibility. The monied, tho cdmmerclal and manufac turing classes of western Europe were a unit for tho southern Confed eracy. Tho Confederate cruiser Ala bama was cheered to the echo from the decks of the British mall steam ers. The English naval and army ftf flcors were a unit for tho south. Gladstone ropeatedly declared in par liament that the success of the south was, humanely speaking, beyond a reasonable doubt. Earl Russell de clared in the house of lords that "the subjugation of tho south by tho north would prove a calamity to tho civiliz ed world." Tho London Standard "disliked and despised tho north, but sympathized and cordially liked tho south." The London Times refer red to tho north as this ''Insensate and degenerate people:" Tho leading paper of Liverpool as early as Aug ust, 3801, said: "The defeat of the Federalists gives unmixed delight: the success of tho confederates Is confidently predicted." Goldwin Smith, an ablo English man, who like Cobden, Mill, Bright, Thomas Hughes, tho Duko of Argyll and Sir George Cornwall LowIq, up hold the cnuse of American union, writes interestingly of "England and the war of Seccesslon" In the current number of the Atlantic Monthly, and makes a plausible plea In abatement for tho attitude of Great Britain, say ing that the fact that tho south was for free trade was not without Its in fluence, even on Cobden, who on thnt account hesitated for the moment to declare for the north, though with him tho moral object soon prevailed. The London Times accepted the the ory that the issue was not between slavery and free labor, but between free trade and protection, and the Times 'carried with -it the wealthy and aristocratic classes of England, who disliked and distrusted democ racy and desired the failure of the American experiment. Gladstone said that Jefferson Davis had created an empire. Charles Kingsley and Carlylo were both hostile to the cause of tho north. This was tho mood of England's dominant public opinion during our civil war. This fact excites no resentment today among Intelligent Americans, because it was tlie prevailing sentiment of Europe, outside of Russia, that tho restoration of tho American Union was hopeless and undesirable. The public opinion rested upon the fan cied self-interest of the powers of Europe. Russia was our friend, not because Russia had any use for our republican form of government; not because Russia's autocrat had any horror of slavery, but because Rus sia bore a long and bitter memory of her humiliation by France and Eng land during the Crimean war and was erady for reprisals if France and Great Britain became embroiled with America. Great Britain could not toll who would win in the civil war, and if she had declared for the north and the pouth had won, she would have had a vrv dangerous enemy, for the fu ture. Of course, with the restoration of the union there soon came a com plete revolution o tho sentiment to ward America and this was because the self-interest of Great Britain was involved in keeping peace with the restored union. No memory of our early wars with England; no recital of England's sympathy with the southern confederacy, could possibly create hostile American sentiment, to ward England today, so long as our political and commercial interests do not so violently clash as to make it a matter of national self-interest. and self protection seriously to quarrel. Self-interest, not sentimental loves or hates, keeps of breaks the peace be tween the great nations of the earth. Portland Oregonian. Without doubt the coronation of King Edward VII. will be the most costly and elaborate "full dress" af fair that has occurred in modern times. But King Edward will not be permitted to look upon such a won derful display of costumes as greeted the eye of his distinguished -predecessor, Edward III. Tho beau of the fourteenth century was a spectacle that, must have added greatly to the gaiety of nations. He wore long pointed shoes, fastened to his knees by gold or silver chains, hose of one color on one leg and another color on the other; a coat the ono-half white and the other half black or blue; a long silk hood, buttoned under his chin embroidered with grotesque figures of animals and dancing mon. Buffalo Commercial. DECEPTION,. When the conjurer shows an empty hat, and at once begins to extract from it rab bits or cabbages, we know that we have been adroitly deceived, because we know we can.'t get out anything that isn't in it. If people would only reason in that way aooui meui cines they would be a great deal better off in health and pock et. A number of so called "blood making" and "flesh forming" "tonic" medi cines are only stimulants in dis guise. You can't get strength out of a stimulant be cause strength is not in it. All physical strength is derived from food digested and assimilated and in the forni( of blood nourishing the entire body. Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery does not make blood or make strength, no medicine can do that. But it does cure diseases of the stomach and its allied or gans, and so causing the perfect diges tion and assimilation of food, it enables the building of the body in sound and vigorous health. II can say to you oue bottle of your Oolden Medical Discovery lias cured me sound uud well, after suffering two long years 'with tom. och disease," writes W. H. Broswell, of McAucn vllle, Gaston Co., N.C iMyJiealth la worth nil the world to we. I will praise you as long as I live.'' The People's Common Sense Medical. Adviser, a book containing 1008 pages, is given away. 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