Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-10-29
WAR WILL HARM
AMERICAN TYPE
Will Mean a Less Desirable
Class Of Aliens.
BASIS FOR THIS CONTENTION
Commissioner Howe Points to Demon
aIizing Effect of Previous Armed
Conflicts-Domestic Life and Civilian
Routine Pail Upon Men Accustomed
to Excitement of Soldering.

Conflicts-Domestic Life and Civilian
Routine Pail Upon Men Accustomed
to Excitement of Soldering.
The effect of the European war upon
America will be felt beyond the bound
aries of trade and commerce. Even
though we are not numbered among
the combatants the war will involve
cost to us in its effect upon the brain
and Drawn of the future, just as it will
produce many puzzling social and in
dustrial problems. Thus writes Ed
ward Marshall in the New York Times.
These conclusions and the detailed
theories upon which they find their
basis We're the subject matter of a talk
Mr.. Marshall had with Dr. Frederic
(. c. Howe, late of the Peoples institute
and now United States commissioner
of immigration in New York.
War WI Bring UndesirabIes.
will the war affect us by general
ly lowering the average of the Euro
pean aliens coming to us as immi-
grants? DR.. Howe was asked.
st seems to me that that is inevita-
ble." he replied. Let us consider the
two essentials of desirable immi-
grant The first is moral quality and
the second physical fitness.
History shows that every war which
has continued for any length of time
has had IL more or less demoraliZing
effect on its participants. Men who go
to the front are unsettled in all the
relationships of life. 1t is the claim
of militarists that army training pro
notes discipline The social records
show that actual war training makes
men subsequently chafe at routine and
infects them with moral laXity which
must permanently deterorate them.
after the American civil war the
country suffered for years from the
consequent moral disturbance Mill
tary service divorced men from their
homes. their families and their employ
ments. and when military service end
ed they did not invariably return to
them
MANY of those who did return found
themselves afflicted by unease and
could not settle down to a life which
seemed humdrum to them
This sequel to our civil war con
tinued for years and might have had a
seriously injurious effect upon the ma
tional psychology if it's manifestation
had not been coincident with the need
for many men land women. too) to en-
gage in the development Of new west
ern country.
Even after our Spanish war men
who had served as soldiers found it
difficult to settle down, and the effect
on industry and society in general was
appreciable.
Dire Consequences.
III we admit these facts then what
must we expect in the way OF social
and psychological disturbance as the
result of this present war?
1T will disrupt or seriously disturb
millions upon millions of homes and
domestic groups. 1t has interrupted
the education of countless youths and
thereby will render them less efficient
industrially and more likely to lead
unsettled. unsuccessful lives
lis " lCN h'l sc VI 'All I4uIOIJc ldIu-
lily life will be Il serious matter for the
whole world. 1t is possible that the
gains of fifty years, due to social leg
islation ana the betterment of the hui
man stock of Europe. through medical
and other scientific advance, will be
more than offset by the war"
How will this affect American"
obviously this will directly hurt
America. 1t will react upon future
American generations.
I'VE have been resolving approx
mately Il million aliens into this coun-
try every year. For the most part
these have been of good physical type
and, of course, they have been marked
by high average of initiative and the
spirit Of adventure, which is the spirit
of progress Without these two i'm
pulses they would not take the plunge
of emigration"
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