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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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creates false impressions.While it is difficult to understand the source of such propa-ganda, it may be that the employing class, desiring to reducethe high cost of labor, are again making a sort of patrioticappeal to the Americanism of the working-man, hoping thathe will realize, in the alleged menace of emigration, his dutyto work for less money to sustain his country. This is, ofcourse, purely conjecture. Nor is it final in my mind, be-cause it is so extravagantly conceived. And yet, what otherreason for statements which imply that emigration from thiscountry is threatening a depopulation of our labor classes, ifnot the one I have given? About the middle of September of this year I look for atremendous influx of immigrants to this country, unless somelaw is enacted to prevent it. So far we have not been notifiedthat there will be any additional restrictions upon immigra-tion at the Port of New York. I should imagine that a greatmany people of Europe would like to get here. MAZEPPA!
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Mazeppa was a Cossack chief who was given one chance of life by a rivalin love. His predicament is obvious, tied to an untamed steed he was hurledover the stones, pursued by wolves. He eventually escaped and became a ruler of the people. What the Be-taxed and Perplexed Public of today, tied to the High Cost of Living, wantsto know is, Will it, like Mazeppa, survive the ordeal? 229 HENRY FORD AT BAY (Concluded From Page 144) WEIGHING HENRY FORDS UTTERANCES r^AY after day the hearings in court bring forth that which startles and that which amuses. Colonel Reilleyof Reilleys Bucks, an artillery regiment of the RainbowDivision, thrilled the court by airing on the witness-stand thedetails of an attempt by Japanese to secure American mili-tary secrets in the Philippines. Then a big, brawny Texannamed Hines, whom Santa Maria calls the Sea Cow,ponderously got on his feet and told of a fight with the Mexi-cans. And, the attorney asked, what happened to theMexicans? In a monotonous voice, as if

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