242 Our Poorer Brother 



whether this politician be Catholic or Protestant, 

 Jew or Gentile. At the same time the Police Depart- 

 ment promptly suppresses, not only the criminal, 

 but the rioter. In other words, we do strict justice. 

 We feel we are defrauded of help to which we are 

 entitled when men who ought to assist in any work 

 to better the condition of the people decline to aid 

 us because their brains are turned by dreams only 

 worthy of a European revolutionist. 



Many workingmen look with distrust upon laws 

 which really would help them; laws for the intelli- 

 gent restriction of immigration, for instance. I have 

 no sympathy with mere dislike for immigrants ; there 

 are classes and even nationalities of them which 

 stand at least on an equality with the citizens of 

 native birth, as the last election showed. But in the 

 interest of our workingmen we must in the end 

 keep out laborers who are ignorant, vicious, and with 

 low standards -of life and comfort, just as we have 

 shut out the Chinese. 



Often labor leaders and the like denounce the 

 present conditions of society, and especially of our 

 political life, for shortcomings which they them- 

 selves have been instrumental in causing. In our 

 cities the misgovernment is due, not to the misdeeds 

 of the rich, but to the low standard of honesty and 

 morality among the citizens generally; and nothing 

 helps the corrupt politician more than substituting 

 either wealth or poverty for honesty as the standard 

 by which to try a candidate. A few months ago a 

 socialistic reformer in New York was denouncing 



