The Coconino sun., 1915-10-15
STATE GOOD ROADS MEETING

igners we have justly welcomed what ever their previous nationality, but dual allegiance will not do. Whoever comes must come to be an American only. We have just been furnished startling object lesson of the effect of our lack of foresight and consequent cohesion due to our own fatuity and -going-ness. For years we have opened wide our doors to the ruck and rabble of the old world All those whom Europe wished to get rid of, or who wished to be rid of Europe, have been dumped at our Ellis Island gates. With simple hospitality we have well comed this most undesirable element and with fatuous faith in our prin- ciples have even admitted it to our national councils. We have warmed this import into action and at the first opportunity he viper has turned and stung. For years we have admitted hords from their "Fatherland," whose sole object in leaving it was to escape military duty or to wax opulent at our expense. Not all Germans are such, but a portion of them are. This class have come to us for what they can get out of us and for nothing else. They care naught for our institutions, for our freedom, for all for which the United States stands. Their recent behavior here has shown this with a luridness almost inconceivable. That the murder of Americans on the Lusi- tania has been upheld by German newspapers in the United States pro fessing to be American is scandalous, and in any other country would have been swiftly dealth with as treason. That our laborers have been melted to riot by bribe-money paid by Germany and handled by German-American in termediaries is felony. Had this element been little more powerful they had handed over this country to the Hohenzollern ambition.
 It is time, more than time, this spoliation, leading to the eventual de- struction of our country, were stop ped. Our immigration laws must be changed, and the hostile portion of our alien contingent must be prevent ed from ruling our property and per sons. Unless this be done and done quickly America will no longer be ours.
 Soon it will be too late. For the worst is yet to come. The instant the world war is over, our land will be flooded win the dregs of Europe. Every class in our community will be swamped under this deluge, the work ing man, if possible, worst of all. Labor leaders are beginning to appre- ciate this. Down will go wages, up will go taxes, and our present advant- age over the old world will vanish never to return.
 To save our country from the fate that already stares us in the face, we Americans must be one. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Maine to the borders of Mexico we must be single, solid homogeneous whole. And one of the ways to ac- complish this result is to build good roads. If railways be the arteries of material commerce roads are the cap diaries of commerce of the mind. Both serve to bind communities together. For intercourse leads to understand ing to mutual confidence and regard. But the feeling begotten by roads IS the more intimate and deeper of the two. By rail we travel so feetingly and so far that we have neither time nor taste to appreciate through what we pass. How much, ask you, of Arizona, knows the railway passen- ger? What different land it seems to one with a motor car. His object is not to condense his journey as one takes a pill, but to relish every mile of it as one does a good repast. Though he travel solely for pleasure the possibilities of the country unfold to his mind as his eye roams the land scape. He is so near to it, it can never again seem far.
 But if he thus learn of the land no less is he placed to advantage to read it's people. He must perforce tarry with them while, even when all goes well, and still more when in spite of agents assurances in seductive pros pectuses, his machine necessarily breaks down. His very misfortunes thus turn to good, though he be not always at the moment-especially when under the car-quite so appre-