It is not improbable that a new party will soon
be formed in t he United States pledged to prohibit immigration. The workmen 'already say that they will vote for any politicians who promise to Iceep out the Chinese, who threaten in California to supersede all - other labourers, in Massachusetts to compete with the shoemakers, -and in New York to rival the Irish, doing more work for less pay. If this agitation is successful, the workmen will by and by see -that every immigrant who arrives will lower wages, and will de- mand that in the name of consistency all shall be excluded, as the " Knownothings " were once inclined to do. At present, there is -considerable resistance to the cry, chiefly on the sentimental ground that America ought to be the home of distressed humanity ; but the new party appeals directly to human selfishness, and may succeed for a time, though the treaties with China, which the Supreme -Court must enforce, stand straight across the path.
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