The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-07

records prove that the vast majority
of crime. against the law and order
of the country are committed by our
unassimi,ated foreign born population.
tuir bospitals are filled with them.
prostra,e with disease that are the di-
rect results Of negligence and filth.
These people form one Of our great
est nroblems. not because they are not
good citizens now: not because they
win no, 6gh, for MS.
but because, lacking national spirit,
those people will. in time NJ war or
crisis. he the people on whom we must
depend TO keep coins the vast machin-
cry OF the Government. They must la
bor that others may ight.
England has suffered from strikes.
Her native born lahorers have taken
advantage Of her situation to strike.
TRANSPORTS have been held IN while
dock laborers refused 10 work, Coal
has lain die in the mines, mills have
been closed. Labor. realizing that 1t
held the whip hand. has forced extraor-
dinary concessions. And these men
ara native born.
What Of labor here? Labor, which
TODAY maintains that every mans
hand In aRainst IL. and 80 its hand
mus, he against avery man. What OF
our foreign abor on which we RELY
almos, entirely7
will il he jealous for the welfare Of
ia adopted land, Will these Croats
and Huns do better nv us than tie
Rritish miners or dock laborers? vii,
the American ideal. which has failed
n rouse Won and me and tho res,
NJ us pene,ra,e IN tho hevildered
brains of thesa newcomers. and rouse
,hem 10 labor for tho land. ~ thew
do no, fight for IL? Have We given
them any EXAMPLE IN foIlowc We
have rowdcd them in eme on
tho edpes ~ d,mns and slap niles We
have with our usual Incidence. nor
mi,ted them 10 no un,idv and disor-
derly citizens. We hay. tolerated their
tin cans and their rba ge and their
porues
Ru, the time will come when We viii
he on our knees TO them. We. who
have shown no love OF country our
selves. will ask these aliens for love
~ country. IN labor that some ~ lie
may night. 20 make munitions. IN mir.
coal. to keen our factories omen And
they will str,ke-s,rike AT rs and at
the country which We have not laugh
them to love.
Prosperity Is more diNicul' 20 SUI
vlve than adversely. A grea, wave Of
threatens to-day 10 engulC
us. The wretchedness of E,urope has
been our opportunity. The sins =.
labor-forelgn born-are mostly IN the
future. But the sins of csnl,al are
with us.
Already we have taken advantag. OF
he harassed nations A, war To raise
II prices to them I, * hood ,pon,,
hut IL Is coming here. Labor has is
dinner pail well Allied. hu, capi,,l =
gorged. Fortunes are centrallZ.ns.
The wealthy are becoming more
wealthy. The result OF the civil war
was no, dissimilar. only then n favorpd
few capitalized the misery Of their
own land.
What is capital doing for its COIN
try? Nothing. What is CAPITA, doing
for Europe" II is doing Europe. That
- all. Helping Belgium Absurd.
uch assistance as America is giving
belgium. and II is p.tifully small COM
pared Ia what even war ridden Eng
land il doing. and nothing n, all to
what We are making out of the war
the assistance we are sending to Bel
GUM comes almost entirely from the
people who make nothing from the
prosperity war has brought us, from
clerks and small t~radespeople. from
men on salaries and from women who
give out of the housekeeping allow
ance. Approach a man who is max