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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 621, 16 June 1891, Page 2

An extract from a letter in the London Daily News will give an idea of the anxiety that is felt in America on the question of foreign population. The writer, a Mr Frederics, states :—“ The American people are perplexed and provoked and menaced, as no modern people have beep before, by the presence among them of literally hundred? of thousands of wholly illiterate and almost barbarous fieasants, drawn from the least civilised ands and lowest race types in Europe. We entered upon this experiment of sucking over this downtrodden and brutalised riff-raff of Continental-Europe, as by a gigantic forqj-pump, with a light heart. For along time, taxed though our patience and courage were, we tried to find compensation in the fact that these unhappy myriads were much better off than they had been, and that, as a whole, they seemed to settle to work and try to understand how to be good citizens. But I fear now that we are close to the point of recognition that the undertaking has been too big for jjs, The great organised emigration agencies of Austrian Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and South Italy, of late years, have overdone the thing,”