The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01

Italians, Germans who have waxed
prosperous on the goodwill of the
United States, crippled many
branch Of business by dropping their
tools of trade and focking home"
at the first bugle-blasts.
We have been assured time and
again of the elaborate precautions
taken by the immigration authorities
at Ellis Island, and of the physical
examinations made to keep out the
undesirable" aliens, and yet the
hotels, restaurants and other New
York business concerns, have to de-
pend on "naturalized" citizens who
will desert their posts and go to the
homes they came from, which they
left because of the lack of opportu-
nifty.
Judging from the printed statistics
of the free clinics, the medical ex-
aminations do not seem to solve
much in the way of physical stand
ing, the very great percentage of the
patients being the children, (the
first generation) of the immigrants
who themselves were supposed to be
physically perfect.
That Congress is waking slowly to
at least an inkling of the effects of
America being made the melting pot
of Ignorance, immortality and de-
generacy, is evidenced by the revival
Of many Of the statements made in
the Republican Congress Of 1912.
Below are two extracts which will
bear reprinting, and careful con-
sideratiOn:
Mr.. Austin: (Tennessee.) The
Republican Party, 16 years ago, in
national convention, when it nomi-
mated William Mckinley for Presi-
dent, declared as follows
For the protection of the quality
of American citizenship and the
wages of our Workingmen against
the fatal competition of low-priced
labor we demand that the immigra-
ton laws be thoroughly enforced and
so extended as to exclude from en-
trance to the United States those
who can neither read nor write.
Mckinley afterWard sent this mes
sage to Congress:
Our naturalization and immigra-
ton laws should be further improved
to the constant promotion Of a safe,
a better, and a higher citizenship. A
grave peril to the Republic would
be a citizenship too ignorant to un-
derstand or too vicious to appreciate
the great value and benefcence Of
our institutions and laws, and
against all who come here to war
upon them our gates must be
promptly and tightly closed. Hi
teracy must be banished from the
land if we shall attain that high
destiny as the foremost OF the en-
Hghtened nations of the world under
Providence we ought to achieve.
Freshest Roosevelt, in his mes
sage to Congress, said:
The second object of a proper i'm
migration law ought to be to secure
by careful and not merely perfume
tory educational test some intelligent
capacity to appreciate American in
stitutiOns and act sanely as American
citizens.
In his speech of April 10, 1912,
Hon. Lee S. Overman Of South Caro-
lima said:
The term american wage Garner
is rapidly becoming a misnomer. AL
most three-fifths of the employees of
the principal branches of mining and
manufacturing in the United States
at the present time are Of foreign
birth, and about One-fOurth are of
races from Southern and Eastern
Europe. About One-fifth Of the total
number Of WACO earners were born
in this country, but their fathers
were born abroad. Less than 20
per cent of the entire opnratin0