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Thread ID: 15738 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-11-22
2004-11-22 23:30 | User Profile
"We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the US from being used as a dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe."(Mencken's Dictionary of Quotations, p. 574) Notice that no mention was made of peoples coming from Asia, Africa, or points beyond. there was no need to because anybody in favor of such a policy would be expelled from polite society or sink into political oblivion if a public figure. It seems as though the push for immigration 100 years ago was by the Republicans who were bankrolled by big business who lusted after cheap labor,but were not so crazy as to import savages who were little removed from the stone age. Now the Democrats wish to stuff the ballot box with them and use white guilt and "racism" as a ploy. The Republicans remain much the same.
2004-11-23 01:00 | User Profile
solutrian,
Sad what the marxists have done to our culture in such a few years.[QUOTE]"We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the US from being used as a dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe."(Mencken's Dictionary of Quotations, p. 574)Notice that no mention was made of peoples coming from Asia, Africa, or points beyond. there was no need to because anybody in favor of such a policy would be expelled from polite society or sink into political oblivion if a public figure.[/QUOTE]
2004-11-23 02:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=solutrian]"We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the US from being used as a dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe."(Mencken's Dictionary of Quotations, p. 574) Notice that no mention was made of peoples coming from Asia, Africa, or points beyond. there was no need to because anybody in favor of such a policy would be expelled from polite society or sink into political oblivion if a public figure. Pretty generally agreed upon at the time.
Although it appears that both the main parties were pretty well pro-immigration really (except for Asian immigration, which of course was banned after the anti-Chinese riots on the west coast). No one thought anything wrong with immigration, cause no one could conceive letting in immigrants who were not white and Christian (most people I think thought yids were just weird Christians)
It seems as though the push for immigration 100 years ago was by the Republicans who were bankrolled by big business who lusted after cheap labor,but were not so crazy as to import savages who were little removed from the stone age.[/QUOTE] Chilton Williamson discusses the history of immigration in The Immigration Mystique. The first anti-immigration party of course was the Know-Nothings. But they were vanquished by the civil war.
2004-11-23 06:04 | User Profile
Okiereddust,
In New York Tammany Hall during the 1800's the Democrats did import Irish in large numbers into the city. But yes you are right the Democrats (as well as almost everyone else)did not want non-European coming into American or Slaves to be given Citizenship.
Oddlly the Know-Nothings and GOP worked together at times before 1860 and joined the GOP. After the fall of the American Party aka Know-Nothings, more of them joined the GOP. This I think is part of the reason why the party Lincoln became the GOP of the 1920's which gave us the Immagation Act of 1924 along with support from the Democrats as well.
[QUOTE] The name Republican was adopted at a mass meeting on July 6, 1854... Made up of old-line Whigs, many of whom, such as Bates of Missouri and Browning of Illinois, preserved the Southern conservative tradition, together with radical anti-slavery men such as Sumner and Julian, Know-Nothings, and Free-Soil Democrats such as Trumbull and Chase, the new party combined many diverse ingredients; the force that cemented them (at the outset) was common opposition to the further extension of slavery in the territories.
[url]http://www.civilwarhome.com/republicans.htm[/url][/QUOTE]