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“ A man need not be a Christian to regret that a large body of men are so paid, housed, and fed, that fever is with them endemic, and that every man among them who can think becomes a socialist, anarchist, or other deadly enemy of modern society. ”

“ The condition of the tailors, always bad, as the condition of any class with whose labor women compete usually tends to be, is now made worse by the influx of Polish Jews, and is, we should suppose, distinctly less supportable than that of any other sedentary occupation.
Still, what remedy is there except a combination in the trade itself, made difficult, if not impossible, by female competition? It is quite impossible to prohibit foreign immigration. ”

“ Hardly any work is as bad as a baker’s, owing both to the heat and the loads to be lifted; and we are not surprised to hear that half the four thousand master bakers of London are Germans, or that they prefer to employ their countrymen. The pressure, again, from the Russians is upon one trade most severe. They are Polish Jews ”

“ Certain trades in east London and two or three other great cities are said to be overrun with foreign immigrants; who work harder, live worse, and take lower wages than their English rivals. The latter feel themselves handicapped, and being voters, put such pressure on their members that the House of Commons ordered the Board of Trade to make a special report. ”

“ The question of restricting pauper immigration is a little more difficult. We suppose a nation has a right to refuse to receive paupers, though it is not a Christian proceeding, bearing much too close an analogy to the practice of drowning the shipwrecked, and the right belongs especially to a nation with a poor-law; but how are we to distinguish between paupers and workmen? A man is not a pauper if he has an engagement to work ”

“ A Frenchman has some sort of an excuse for making a China of his country; but for Englishmen, who go stumbling all over the world in quest of work, and thrust themselves habitually into all the warmest nests, to expel foreigners from England because they are foreign would be rather too cynical a defiance of common equity. ”

“ Our readers will remember many reports within the last thirty years upon the really terrible condition of this industry, which, though one of the most useful, is pursued under conditions fatal alike to health and to that decent measure of happiness which all men, if only from selfish motives, desire their neighbors to possess. ”

“ Burnett, its labor correspondent, from which it appears that the real grievance is a growing immigration into London of Polish Jews The total number of foreigners resident in England is extraordinarily, indeed, to us almost incredibly small. It is nothing like 1⁄2 per cent. on the population of the United Kingdom. Indeed, if we deduct the Americans, who are not foreigners at all, and are never considered such, it is not 1⁄8 per cent., and would not, if it were equally distributed, be either noticeable or noticed. ”

“ The very names of the papers are unknown to the majority of citizens, and even at election-time their support remains unsought. Of the other countries, a large proportion are, we imagine, Italians, who in London are numerous enough to be visible, keeping hundreds of small restaurants and confectioners’ shops ”

“ They obey all laws, they pay all taxes, and they either as workmen add to the sum produced, or as peddlers of all kinds aid in its facile distribution. There is no national or economic reason for forbidding them to come, and no kind of justice in attempting to do it. ”