El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-06

drinks made in his highlands, kept
advertisements of them In his news
papers at home such part OF amer
lea as may stand in need of the anti
saloon campaign on which Christian
Endeavor and other are launched can
not lay blame for their plight at Scotch
doors
Scandinavians coming here brought
also their contributions. One is a love
for the land. Another is loyalty to
their church. A third is piety- Amer
leans learned to appreciate French
character through Lafayette In the
war of the Revolution. They got &C
quainted with Germans when so many
of them entered our Civil war They
began to appreciate Dutchmen, Danes
and SWedeS when they Warred upon
raw elements found in fields of Mich
igan and the northwest, and brought
forth victory in the shape of the pest
celery. the best wheat, that ever went
into a Christmas feast Truly, what
a composite thing this American make
up is Not all it might be- II Is true,
and therein lies one incentive to the
present Christian conservation crusade.
Three Great Types.
Today three great types OF peoples
arriving at immigrant stations OF Amer
lean ports, bringing with them young
blood and strong character, are Jews,
Slavs and Latins. They prepare their
baggage for their passages hither, and
they provide money to pay their fares
but they give no thought to the char
acter contribution they are to make to
America. This last they bring along,
little considering its value, and willing
to drOp it for the American kind In
past times Americans have also little
valued these character contributions,
and have done nothing to conserve
their peculiar traits, which these i'm
migrants bring with them through our
Castle Gardens The new campaign of
conservation has as one Of its aims
the keeping of characters until they
can become a part of the American
product.
The Jews Great Contribution.
The Jew is bringing with him to
America. an intensely earnest and val
liable family life. He is loyal to his
blood relatives. He guards the home.
Fairly free from crime, he is temper
ate, and ne has a passion for righteous
ness. Truly, in this conservation cru
sade, seeing what American character
is and what it needs, the Jew ought
in these respects to stay a Jew a long
time. Americans ought to treat him
well, both for his sake and their own
We ought not to encourage MIN 10
adopt American vices under the mis-
taken notion that they are American
styles
Italians a Moral Race.
Italians are moral While fond Of
dancing, there is only one dance hall
in New York that is kept by an Italian.
And into that hall no italian girl
goes. Mothers Of Italian girls have
the conscientious cooperation of the
proprietor of this hall to see that
Italian girls do not 60 there; Italians
are bringing over their artistic tenn
peramentS, and are teaching Americans
rich and poor, how to get enjoyment
out of the simple life II the Jew is
may copy his good traits, surely the
Italians ought to stay Italians long
enough to teach Americans that a race
for excitement, passion for big things
a display of wealth that stuns, are
not the ways to have good time, to
get real pleasure from existence.
Slavs and Italians are teaching de-
mOcracy. Coming from lands Of class,
both are free from class distinctions
as Americans are not We dearly love
a lord-anything with a title. Self
respect patriotism, social equality
without regard to birth, wealth or Oc-
cupatiOn, these things American char
acter stands in need of. From immi-
grants they can be got They are
more valuable to US, by far, than the
money the immigrants bring in the
bags that they string about their
necks even than the muscle and am
bition with which they expect to make
their ways.
So this new Christian conservation,
this character making for new Amer
lea, are what churches have entered
neglect of past immigrant years are
not to be repeated The immigrants
are not to be exploited. They are not
to be urged to drop their Individual
isms. They are to be encouraged to
make their largest contributions to
American character, and in turn Amer
lea is to give them Of its best. No risks
are to be taken. It is to be a cOnser-
walton that cOnserves, and that event
ually will make American character
worthy and lasting; one that the rest
of the world will admit to be in keep
ing with our position as an information
al power.
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