The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-25

accumulated enough money to aid them
TO live in afiuence. That is a menace
to American labor and should be over
come. Formerly when you went into
the mills and furnaces any man you
might meet could answer any question
you could ask. To-day you have to
hunt the manager, for nobody else
understands English. This shows that
hundreds of our laborers are made idle
by low wage earners-in other words,
foreigners. The majority of these Euro
peans should go TO the country instead
of the city, but they prefer towns and
cities to a place where they would fare
better. We have room for the better
sort of immigrants, but we are positively
against those who wish to tear down
our Government. If the flood is not
stayed, we will soon be threatened with
violation of the Monroe Doctrine, and
be called upon to prove its validity.
These foreigners have tendency to
settle in colonies, as was the habit in
the days of American colonization. The
Orientals are already forming secret
organizations and rings, and we seem to
be even threatened with Germanic
control of the Government of our United
States. Our American ideas of morality
cannot possibly be maintained in the
face of all this. There seems to be an
inclination of the average recent iEami-
grant to shift every charge he can upon
the community in which he lives, or even
upon private citizens. Too, there is a
great equality distinction. 1t is even
likened to the North and the South. We
cannot step down to the level OF negro,
neither can we place ourselves with
Orientals. These Asiatics are impos-
siblc of assimilation and cannot become
citizens. If we would keep our country
in the place it has fully earned, that OF
the foremost nation of the earth, we
must shield it from those haleful influ-
ences growing out of unrestricted immi-
grafton that soon or later will bring dis
aster to US. If we would have the
mighty current of our national power
move onward unchecked in the fulfill
ment of its great mission we must pre-
serve our institutions, our people and
our citizenship from the corrupting and
baleful influences of undesirable aliens,
pouring in upon US at the rate of mil
lion year.
At the close of the world conflict now
pending it is likely that our returning
vessels will undoubtedly be filled to over
flowing with foreigners of every class
moneyless titles, middle-class, paupers,
criminals, peasants, bankrupt business
men and mutilated soldiers-feeing from
a continent of devastation and ruin.
What can we do with them? What place
have we for them? Our nation will be
flooded with immigrants of such charac-
ter as to demoralize our Government.
We will have crossed the Rubicon. I'M
mediate action to restrict immigration is
necessary in order to protect our wage
earners against the vicious, criminal,
pauper labor that is being permitted to
enter our ports. We should stand for a
safe and sane policy of restriction. Let
the world call this sel6shness if it will,
but after all "National selfishness is the
highest type of PATRIOTISM" as declared
on one occasion by member OF our
Congress.
"Wide open and unguarded stand our
gates, and through them pass wild, a
molly throng men from the Volga
and the Tartar steppes, featureless fig-
ures from the Hoaug- Ho, Malayan,
Sythian, Teuton, Kelt and Slav, flying
the old worlds poverty and scorn. O
Liberty, white goddess, is it well to leave
thy gates unguarded ?''
ANNIE-LEE ALLEN.