Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
EMIGRATION

~ study has been
given 10 the subject of IMMI-
y GRAFTON, but it is high time
that of EMIGRATION We're engaging
public attention. Americans are not
yet conscious of emigration. They
know all about the European hordes
that are pouring into the country.
They know little or nothing about the
| constant stream of white men and
women from the United States to Brit
ish territory. In the last ten years
! the emigration of Americans to Can
! ada reached a total of more than 500-
00O This means that in due course of
| time there will be millions of Cana
dams Of American descent.
As most of the emigrants are Amer
an-Americans," people representing
the old stock which gave our modern
| nation its language aud many of its
| best traditions, the reputation of mod
| ern American conditions by the de
| scendants of the founders of the coun-
! try is not a trivial matter. It is the
most serious and significant social phe-
nomenon in all the history of the Unit
| ed States.
Some citizens refuse to listen to any
statements regarding modern condi-
| tions which are not phrased in spell
binding style. But the day Of grandiose
oratory is over, and it behooves all
| who are interested intelligently in
Americanism to do some plain talking.
| Why should the United States run any
risk of being degraded to the level of
a country of mongrel blood inhabited
by vast population cheerfully willing
to be exploited and leeched for the
! benefit of a small class?
We do not believe in new fads or un-
| tried theories, and theoretical social
ism has produced no practical results
worth Dragging about, while the ex-
| ponents of anarchy have erratic no.
tions on the subject Of government
But what can be done to prevent the
emigration of GOOD AMERICANS,
thousands of whom are Of the stock
of the Pilgrim Fathers and the swords
men of Bunker Hill?
lis it possible THAT old song has
| been forgotten? We have not heard
it sung in many years. Have you?
And yankee Doodle" DO you know
the words? How much of the "Star
Spangled Banner" can you reclte at
short notice?l
In order TO stop the emigration of
Americans of colonial or English
| speaking descent, we must restore in
the United States the conditions for
which the forefathers of the modern
emigrants to Canada, British Colum-
bia, South Africa and the United
Kingdom fought BY the encourage
ment of the growth of a crop of tariff
millionaires instead of patriots, con
ditions of intense discontend have been
produced among American working
men who have been forced to compete
with Czechs, Poles Walloons, Lithua-
mans, Greeks, Italians, MeXicans,
Chinese, japanese, Hungarians, Croat-
ians, Servians and every other type of
dirt-cheap and unspeakably ignorant
labor that can be cajoled to these
shores by glib steamship men and i'm
migration dfummerS, the ADVANCE
agents of Steel Trust prosperity.
Industrial magnates and industrial
conditions are making of the United
States a dumping ground for the scum
Of the earth of all nations.
Let us return to the First Principles
Of Americanism before the Sword of
Bunker Hill is carried to British Co
lumbia and the subscribers to the New
York harbor statue of Liberty fund
send a request to forward Bartholdi's
grand old girl up north, where all the
real Americans have gone!!!