The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-26
ABOUT THE FOREIGNER.

Senator Works in his rather high minded speech on Americanism could not refrain from giving the foreigner a slap. That may be part of the later day Americanism, but it is simply unwarranted,
 Speaking of the high minded folk who are doing all the uplifting he laments that their effort to purify regenerate and elevate the citizen ship of the country has been made infinitely heavier and their object more difficult of attainment by the admission to this country of un- desirable, inefficient ignorant and criminal immigrants from foreign countries, knowing nothing and caring nothing about Americanism or our free institutions.
 So the hyphenate is the goat whether or no.
 Yet jail and court records will very easily convince Works or any one who needs convincing that the native son can easily bear the palm. It is not foreigners or for eign born citizens that inspire the lynchings in the south; the murder frolics of New York gangsters are the work of Americans and when a crooked election is pulled off no one can lay it at the door of the foreign born citizen because he is not entitled to father it.
 1t is all right to make foreigners the goat, but when it comes to plan ming and scheming crime, and in it's naturalization in the economic po- litical and social world it is the na- tive born that delivers the goods. The hyphenate is all right as a straw man to lambast when it comes to political speech making but it will be found upon investigation ot outrage or indictment thereto, the hyphenate is in no class at all. He is an alSo-ran.
 Of the eigthy-four odd thousand jail commitments for the year 1904, the figures of which we hap pen to have handy, and which will be a fair average (Reports of Gen. sus Bureau), forty-one thousand were native born white and tewnty- six thousand colored Americans. The balance were either foreigners or unclassified.
 Frederick L. Hoffman prepared some interesting homicidal tables for American cities covering per iod of eleven years, and Memphis a purely and typical American city with an American born population, leads them all with a per centage of 52.7, while Milwaukee which contains more foreign born probably in proportion to its size than any other American city is lowest with 1.9-quite difference. Nor is it all right to represent that the illiteracy of the foreign born is the cause of an illiterate menace if there is one. The native white and negro illiterates in America reach the formidable total of three mil lion and three quarters, while the foreign born illiterate of all ages hardly number a million and half. The total male illiterates of voting age of all the combined illiterates in America hardly equals two million and quarter and the corrupting influence of the illiterate foreigner in politics is therefore quite neglig- ible. Now for the foreigners sidc of it. There must be some allowance made for the ruthless destruction ot their ideals. The foreigner comes to America firm in the belief that liberty prevails. He has often enough heard of the Declaration Of Independence, and he has no way of knowing that with four fifths of the people the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is just a farce. He believes that the courts are rigidly just, that the police pow CT is honest and impartial, that a fair deal is assured him and his.
 Yet he is more often than not victimized from the very start; off cialdom becomes synonimous with graft. He is preyed upon by bunco men and employment sharks going to work, and miserably exploited by