The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-03-18


20 read will not Keep out the wors,
criminals, and will furnish no safe
with the execution OF the existing ~
>tIirii,c laws.
aud honest immigrants are urunsistani
with the rIghiful generosity ~ free
men toward people who wish to lee
nee, aud ui working people whose con
iltIunS Of labor ~" favorable toward
people ~ other lands whose conditions
ni laboor are lrs, favorable AMI who
~" ambition, Ia improve their cnvir
uumcut 10y going :. free America. The
present people of the Tinted states
daNc themselves been immigrants into
generations still recent. aud the,
ought to Shriuk aud be- shrink, from
Imposing hard condition, ui admission
{" the country un the newer immigrants
ample. II - the mission 81 the Unit
eel states to spread Freedom aud demo
cracy throughout the world by teach
lug as many men and women a. pos
>ibic ia freedom : largest home how
10 use freedom rightly through rtuc
tee IA Liberty under Jaw
. some American pulbiyists have
been di,puletrd about immigration. be-
cause the new immigration d, to SOM"
extent different from Tia" old "a, regard,
rae" aud religion. They apprchrnd thar
these immigrants will not ,cttlr
~ the land, ~ the older did, and viii
not lee scattered among the people who
have been longer IA the United States.
but, rather, will live hy themselves iu
separate quarters of towns and citir,.
sud ih"I" maintain social Iud rel
gIouS Pcrui %aritirS THIS ar~pr"hcn>iDl
j. based uu d belief wh!ch has no found
atom IA Tact, namely, that the numerous,
races whirh came 10 tins country dur
my the nineteenth century have form
eel, OF may hr expected to form, u 10
cIal nnalglm or blend. II ~ obvious
that very little blending has thus TAI
taken place. The different races r.
main essentially distinct, not grugra
phicallS hut socially, aud IN nany
cases iudu,trially, The process OF a,
-lmllatIou nrgius with children born
IA this country aud sent to America
schools. tub d, even then ScTy slow
particularly ~ regards I"ntcrmarfiagr
Experience during the nineteenth cen
tuty show that real assimilation viii
take centuries, and that m~malgama,,or or.
VI blending Of races through lntermar
image, IN not only extraordinary slow
but VI douh'ful issue ~ 10 the strength
and Visibility al IA" offspring Ia short
the different races already IN this rouu
tN lIN" beside each other, aud all pro
iurr "a time good citizens ui the Re-
public, bu' they io not blend The
probability ~ that the twentieth cen
fury viii exhibit the same mcrhuds aud
results 10 d population hccum" ,umc
What MOI" Various Tariualiy.
4" som" religious pcori" fear that
IA" IatHuilc church wall brrumr un
duly powerful IA the United States II
race, which have png been Catholic
continue To- pour into the country im
migrants ht the hundred thousand who
tIH kFa4t.F..t.H tv.I...fV.L.- t...l uL-t
prolific. Whatever gains the tathouc
Church may make ~ this way under a
regime pi religious federation, that
church IL fairly entitled to. Even the
eItrem" lrotcstants who feel this ap
pfchcnslon shrink from declaring that
their motive IN advocating restrictions
VI immigration is fear Of the Roman
church and, indeed, Tor the United
states 10 ny 10 shut 0ut Roman Cathu
lice Icy restrictions not aSOWrdly Tor
mat purpose would be an extraOTdinaI
ny inNinrrr" aud cOwardly performance,
AT III" very moment when m Europe
he 'athoiIIc Church IL being steadily
disPoss"SScd IN Catholic countries OF
HE control u once exercised and when
IN III" United States the efforts Of
democracy On the Catholic Church are
PLAINLY much wider and deeper han
the effects ~ the catholic Church on
"lth"i American governments ~ Amer
lean sor,ciy, 10 restrict immigration
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