anaheim-gazette 1913-05-22

Page Six A $3 Trip for 75 Cts. SUNDAY, MAY SUNDAY, MAY Arriving at Long Beach at 10:45. You will be taken for a 20 past the great Craig Shipyards. INDUSTRIAL WHITE CITY We have 320 acres in the Industrial White City tract, which we subdivided and laid out for a townsite. The restrictions are such that for the next five years all improvements must be painted white. We guarantee all street improvements, sidewalks, curbing, gas, water, electricity, etc. As an investment there is nothing near so good to be found on the coast. Those who buy harbor Be our guest for that day Get your tickets at Heying’s Drug Store. : M. N. Matthews and Wm. Holz, charge of excursion IMMIGRATION TO THIS COUNTRY WELCOMED VERY ROCK OF OUR ADVANCEMENT FOUNDED UPON OPEN DOOR POLICY TO FOREIGNERS IT IS THE IMMIGRANT WHO HAS MADE POSSIBLE THE PRESENT SPLENDID DEVELOPMENT Following is the debate of Howard Krause, which won for him second place in the Southern California championship debate in Los Angeles Friday night: We, the people of the United States, are proud to think that no other nation in the whole world exceeds us in education, form of government, freedom in religion, prowess in war, scientific activities, and in our national policies. And most justly are we proud of our attainments along these lines. And the one policy of which we are proud of foreign born people decent. According to years ago, Massachusetts foreign born or age, Maine 70 per cent to each 100 native ineign born or of foreign Wisconsin the proportion to 200 foreign. Is the government of the general management that the foreigner will easily assimilated. Ex-Ambassador Jaime that the thing which the traveler in this city of the American incoming streams of matter of fact we have to assimilate in propagation. According to port of the commission for the year 1911 secured, less than 86 came over to this country or about 17-20th our entire population did not gain number for to offset grants the population States was only 401 1 per cent of our Think for a moment of this immigration. Leave out of consider births and to depend on migration to double or would take with the cent of our opponent journey through Italy is that the Italians are good farmers, steady, sober, and industrious. The sense of art which is powerful in the Italian race crops out even in their agriculture, their cottages are tastily treated, their interiors are attractive, their agricultural utensils are primitive but they move forward on touching land in the new world." As a class they are gentle, industrious, frugal, and temperate. Pauperism is a rare instance, even the poorest Italian family manages to make some provision for a rainy day. It has also been said that Italians are found in great numbers among our criminal class. Let me give some statistics from a recent criminal report by William S. Bennet, member of the Congress for New York and member of the Immigration Commission, taken in the state of New York, a state that receives the greatest number of immigrants. Twenty-eight per cent of the population of the whole state is foreign, 30 per cent of the convicted criminals are foreign only—2 per cent above their proportion of the population. If, with the history of the centuries of education and opportunities behind us, we have not gained something over the Italian, then our attempt to improve civilization has been a failure. Prejudice again declares the Jew an undesirable, but let me quote a paragraph from the Forum: "Jewish immigration is free from the objection so commonly urged against immigration in general that it in- Following is the debate of Howard Krause, which won for him second place in the Southern California championship debate in Los Angeles Friday night: We, the people of the United States, are proud to think that no other nation in the whole world exceeds us in education, form of government, freedom in religion, prowess in war, scientific activities, and in our national policies. And most justly are we proud of our attainments along these lines. And the one policy of which we are proudest—the one policy that has gained for us a world-wide reputation, is the policy of liberality and fair-mindedness we have up to this date pursued regarding the immigrants who come to our doors begging for admittance. Most justly are we proud of this particular policy for it is based on sound principles. You need but turn to history to find that the nations that were most exclusive were the nations that were either least progressive or eventually blotted out. The Athenians in the golden days of Greece became mental giants but physical dwarfs because they did not mingle with other races. Ancient China which has existed so long that it puzzles the historian to even comprehend its beginning, built a wall of stone around its borders and by that means built a barrier to its progress which has never been fully broken down. But now that she has thrown open her doors she bids fair to become one of the leading nations of the world. Our nation has always had an advantage because from the very first we recognized that freedom to all is a wise policy. The German with his economy and thrift, the Englishman with his commercial enterprise, the Frenchman with his alertness, and the Italian with his art and music, all have contributed to the making of the American. Prejudice, declares the Italian an undesirable, but common sense and a careful study of existing records brings one to the conclusion that they are a much misunderstood people. A prominent student of Italian life, Hon. F. Landis; after an extensive trip through Italy said, "The lesson of my Twenty-eight per cent of the population of the whole state is foreign, 30 per cent of the convicted criminals are foreign only—2 per cent above their proportion of the population. If, with the history of the centuries of education and opportunities behind us, we have not gained something over the Italian, then our attempt to improve civilization has been a failure. Prejudice again declares the Jew an undesirable, but let me quote a paragraph from the Forum: "Jewish immigration is free from the objection so commonly urged against immigration in general that it increases crime and pauperism. The Jewish quarters in New York, although more densely populated than any other tenement house district, is rarely the scene of serious brawls or disturbances. Policemen are rarely seen there and they find but little need for their services. The records of police courts are remarkably free from Jewish names. This is principally owing to their temperate habits while their strong domestic virtues, their love for their wives and children prevent family disturbances whose settlements form so large a part of the work of police courts and civil justices." Can we learn nothing from the Jew? Our divorce courts were never so much in demand as they are today, and who are using them, not the Italian, not the Jew, not the Slav, not the immigrant in general, but the American, the idle rich and those who copy after them. Dr. A. J. McLaughlin, of the United States public health and marine service, after a careful study of immigration from a standpoint of a man who knows, says, "time and again we read protests against 'the horde of illiterates' or 'the scum of Europe' or 'the pauper invasion' which is 'swarming into our country,'" he goes on to say: "These articles are usually the feverish output of some enthusiastic patriot who has not come in close contact with the immigrant for any extended length of time, and whose remarks are misleading though eloquent and readable." Again we hear that the problem of assimilating the foreigners is an excessively hard one, now if this were true it would certainly be shown in the states where there are a majority Following is the Storm delivered in the debate in Los Angeles Immigration may be history of the New War and woof of our composed of men and come here from foreign order that those enter the best, should make and strength of our passed laws in 1885, in 1907, to regulate their country. Those at present, as stated in the immigration condiots, imbiciles, feeble those likely to become those afflicted with eases, consumptives, finals, immicules, and contract laborers. Thus immigrants can way, socially, economically undesirable, included by law. The affirmative no ANAHEIM GAZETTE YOUNG'S HARBOR EXCURSION SOUTHERN OF PALATI Big Special Anaheim Excursion LONG BEACH AN 50 mile by rail and 20 mile by boat SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVES THE MAY 25th, AT 9 50 mile by rail and 20 mile by boat SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVES THE MAY 25th, AT 9 will be taken for a 20 mile ride in the harbor, out past the Government Breakwater and Lighthouse, past Deer at the great Craig Shipbuilding plant, landing at the Long Beach Municipal Dock, where you will be transferred CITY For Luncheon. Here you will be shown the Company's NEW HARBOR TRAC City tract, site. The ars all imgrantee all water, elecg near so my harbor property now are laying the foundation for enormous profits. When you see the millions of dollars' worth of improvements going on in the harbor, preparatory to the opening of the Panama Canal, you will understand. Industrial White City tract was placed on the market less than two months ago. We have sold already over three hundred lots—a record for lot selling not equalled by . Young & Co., Real Estate--Investr of foreign born people or of foreign decent. According to statistics a few years ago, Massachusetts had 50 per cent foreign born or of foreign parentage, Maine 70 per cent, Minnesota has to each 100 native inhabitants 239 foreign born or of foreign parentage; in Wisconsin the proportion is 100 native to 200 foreign. Is there anything in the government of these states or in the general management indicating that the foreigner was not successfully assimilated. Ex-Ambassador James Bryce says that the thing which most impresses the traveler in this country is the ability of the American to assimilate the incoming streams of humanity. As a matter of fact we have but a very few to assimilate in proportion to our population. According to the official report of the commissioner of immigration for the year 1912, the latest to be secured, less than 840,000 immigrants came over to this country during that year or about 17-20th of 1 per cent of our entire population. But our population did not gain even this minute number for to offset this 438,137 emigrants the population of the United States was only 401,863, four-fifths of 1 per cent of our entire population. Think for a moment of the minuteness of this immigration. If we were to leave out of consideration deaths and births and to depend entirely on immigration to double our population it would take with the restricted 40 per cent of our opponents 375 years. we should add further laws which would restrict immigration from Europe and western Asia to so great an extent as to exclude 40 per cent of those who would normally come to our shores under the present laws. We of the negative, in order to prove our side of the question, merely have to show that further restriction to the extent that our opponents propose is unnecessary. But we will do more than that, and show that the immigrant is a positive social and economic benefit to our country. I shall present to you the economic phase of the matter, and my colleague will deal with the social and ethical side. America is largely an undeveloped country. The 11 states west of the Rockies have a population of approximately ten million people. Over in Europe you will find in about the same area 11 nations, world powers, all of them, and their combined population reaches the staggering sum of 330 millions. So you see that in order to reach the density of population that exists in Europe, Western America would have to increase 33 times in population. In a greater or less degree this is true of the entire United States. Even in all but the most densely populated states of the Atlantic coast, the density of population is less than the average of all Europe. Nature has left vast wealth in store for us. What we need is men who will go into our vast untenanted areas, who will develop the ground upon which is men who can work with their two hands. Immigration and emigration furnish an inexhaustible and elastic supply of common labor. Thus in 1905 and 1906, years of prosperity when labor was in great demand, the total immigration was more than a million, and the emigration only 500,000. In 1908, on the other hand, when the panic began to be felt in the labor market, the immigration decreased to 800,000, and the emigration reached 870,000; more aliens departing in that year than arriving. This elastic supply of foreign laborers, who are willing to return to their native country when conditions are unfavorable for them, is an untold advantage to the American laborer, because they adjust the supply to the demand, and prevents, to a certain extent, lack of employment in years of depression. A few of the great enterprises carried out in this country may well be taken as examples of the value of the immigrant. It was the labor of the industrious Greek and Italian that built the Los Angeles aqueduct. The immigrants from Europe and western Asia, the Slavs, the Poles and the Hungarians, were the men who put the New York siphon under the Hudson. In fact, you can investigate the construction of almost any great engineering enterprise in America, and you will find that at the bottom of the great work, the great foundation upon which PRESENT LAWS SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED Great Engineering Projects Carried Out With Foreign Labor Following is the speech of Hans Storm delivered in the championship debate in Los Angeles Friday night: Immigration may be called the life-history of the New World. The entire warp and woof of our social system is composed of men and women who have come here from foreign countries. In order that those entering should be of the best, should maintain the virility and strength of our republic, congress passed laws in 1885, in 1903, and again in 1907, to regulate the immigration to our country. Those excluded by law at present, as stated by the report of the immigration commission, include idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded, insane, those likely to become public charges, those afflicted with contagious diseases, consumptives, defectives, criminals, immoral persons, poligamists, and contract laborers. Thus immigrants who are in any way, socially, economically, or industrially undesirable, are already excluded by law. The affirmative now contends that area 11 nations, world powers, all of them, and their combined population reaches the staggering sum of 330 millions. So you see that in order to reach the density of population that exists in Europe, Western America would have to increase 33 times in population. In a greater or less degree this is true of the entire United States. Even in all but the most densely populated states of the Atlantic coast, the density of population is less than the average of all Europe. Nature has left vast wealth in store for us. What we need is men who will go into our vast untenanted areas, who will develop the country, and who will perform the work that has to be done to make natural resources available. The immigrant will supply this labor. Coming in through the Panama Canal, immigration from Europe and western Asia will be able to come into direct touch with our vast undeveloped West. We are rich in resources, and it is the influx of workers, coming fresh from the over-crowded European countries, and willing to do the hard manual labor which is necessary to develop them, that will make those resources valuable. The educated American worker shows an increasing tendency to advance himself into the field of skilled labor. This is a tendency which is laudable and indicative of an elevation of the plane of society. But the fact remains, that for every American who becomes a skilled laborer, we need a proportional number of men who will perform the common labor. For a concrete example consider the case of the structural iron worker. Working on the frame of a steel building, he is able by his skill and daring to earn from $5 to $8 a day. But would be he able to earn this if he were forced to work upon all the tasks involved in the construction of the building? No. Some one less skilled must dig the foundations, must pour the concrete, and make the iron ready to be put in place by the man on top. For this army of common laborers we must look to the Old World. We do not want more lawyers or more business men or more politicians in this country; we have too many of them now. We do not even need more skilled mechanics. What we do need A few of the great enterprises carried out in this country may well be taken as examples of the value of the immigrant. It was the labor of the industrious Greek and Italian that built the Los Angeles aqueduct. The immigrants from Europe and western Asia, the Slavs, the Poles and the Hungarians, were the men who put the New York siphon under the Hudson. In fact, you can investigate the construction of almost any great engineering enterprise in America, and you will find that at the bottom of the great work, the great foundation upon which the industrial pyramid rests, is composed largely of immigrant labor. The report of the immigration commission states that among the immigrants in the year 1911 there came 175,000 farm laborers, 155,000 laborers, and 107,000 servants. Of no other occupation were there more than 30,000. These three occupations alone, called more than three times as many immigrants as all skilled labor combined. Do we need these 176,000 farmers? Analyze the economic conditions of our country, and you will find, perhaps to your surprise, that the one industry in the country which needs stimulating is agriculture. This condition does not exist because we lack land to till. It is purely because there are not enough men who are willing to labor in the fields for a living. The statistics which I have already read to you prove that these can certainly be supplied through immigration. Here, again is a field which is awaiting the immigrant. Experience shows that the average immigrant makes a capable, industrious and successful farmer. The Germans, Russians, Finns, Norweigans, and Swedes are developing our northern wheat fields. In the south the Italian, the Hungarian, the Greek, are doing service of inestimable value in developing our agricultural resources. Our opponents object to the numbers, rather than to the quality of immigration. Their restrictions are restriction of number, rather than selection of quality. Now we have nothing to fear from the numbers of our immigration. Those who advance such ideas are alarmists, pure and simple. Now immigration to the United Thursday, May 22 EXCURSION SPECIAL SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN PALATIAL COACHES A $3 Trip for 75 Cts. FREE excursion to LUNCH H AND HARBOR mile by boat including lunch, 75c VES THE S. P. DEPOT NEXT T 9:15 A, M, mile by boat including lunch, 75c VES THE S. P. DEPOT NEXT AT 9:15 A, M, Lighthouse, past Dead Man's Island, under the Bascule Bridge, you will be transferred to R TRACT The cheapest priced and fastest selling property that has ever been placed on the market in this district any other company selling harbor property. There must be a reason, and there is—our property is much cheaper; within walking distance from the Craig Ship Yards and other big factories and mills; we guarantee all improvements and sell on terms of 10 per cent down and $10 a month. This property will advance in value from 100 to 500 per cent just as soon as the Panama Canal is completed. -Investments Long Beach office— 33 Pine Street Los Angeles office— 314 Central Bldg. States reached its climax six years ago, in the year 1907. The total immigration for that year was in rough numbers, 1,285,000. Since then it has undergone various fluctuations, the general tendency, however, being downward. The figures for the last fiscal year are only 838,000. This is 40,000 less than it was in the preceding year, and 447,000 less than in the year 1907. A movement which has extended through six years cannot be called a fluctuation. It is evident from these statistic that immigration in America is not increasing. That is judging by mere numbers. Considered in the far truer light of percentages, the theory of a dangerous increase is more plainly showed to be fallacious. In 1912 the population of our country was 90,000,000. The 800,000 immigration for that year was therefore less than 1 per cent of our entire population. But the report of the United States industrial commission states that as far back as the year 1850 the proportion was 134 immigrants per 10,000 people, or more than 1.3 per cent. We did not fear immigration in 1850. On the contrary, we had practically no restriction laws, and a far lower class of aliens was admitted then than now; and now with the restrictive laws already in force, we see that we have no reason to fear the results of the immigration of today. I have shown that immigration from Europe and western Asia is economically If rough strong whiskey burns your mouth, gags you when you swallow it what will it do to the delicate lining of your stomach Cyrus Noble—mild and pure Orange County Wine Company, Distributors