The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-08-16

cepted, New York Is the largest Italian
city In the world. Stockholm excepted,
Chicago is the capital of Sweden.
There never was an hour when JCrI-
salem held as many Hebrews as does
New York If you are New England
er go up Broadway and read the names
on the stores, and you will find your
self n stranger I'm Il strange land. And
when you consider that most of our
criminal class can neither read nor
write. that the bomb crimes and assas-
snationS are committed by members
OF the Black Hand society and anarch-
I iStic clubs and that the hired nsSaSSins
! Of New York. four OF whom were clcc.
l trOcutcd awhile ago i'm n single day
| are almost invariably of foreign birth
| The problem becomes very grave and
| the Outlook fOrbidding.
| How Some Immigrants Hate tho Re-
public.
We must all confess that some immI-
| Grants hate the republic with deadly
| hatred. Their malignity is almost be
| yOnd words. Witness that meeting
| some months ngo when n group Of men
| assembled. put IN iron pot on the plat
Il
| iicn each man and woman marched
| by. dropped II little American flag into
| he flames and took from the hand of
| The leader the rcd flag. while some
| stopped to curse the Stars and Stripes
| aS the banner of our flag burned All
| these men and women were free to go
| 10 other cOuntricS--to Canada or Mex
| leo or back To Europe Had they com
| mitt"h Il crime like this i'm Germany or
| Austria they would have been stood up
against brick wall and shot at day
| break. What wrong has the republic
| 'onmiticd against them? Have they
| h"cn drui"l freedom of speech? Have
the doors of the SChoolhouSc been
| closed against their childrcnl Has the
! average wage paid them as working
| men ever been less than what they
| were paid In any other country in the
world: Has the republic ever forced
J them to give three years to military
| S"rvicct Have they been Threatened
| with cNil" To some Siberia? Strange
that som" p""pl" will burn tn" ilag of
| th"ir country ut the mere sight Of dol
| lars that another workiugman has first
| earned and then saved,
| Tho English Language Versus the For
| cign Press.
| Labor LEADERS are promising the pro-
| hihitiun OF all Immigration at the end
| OF tn" war. They tell uS that Il mil
| lion Immigrants mean II river oe mud
| Just nS IL We were not all immigrants
| of Il greater or less remove. other pX-
| lrcinStS wish To postpone citizenship
| tor twenty years. Others think that
aS II means of compelling foreigners
to understand our free institutions
TIA" newspapers published in foreign
| tongues and sermons and schools using
| foreign lnn-rln""S should lie prohibited: :
that the Amr rriCaniIation of foreign
| born children and youth should bc
| strengthened nS rapidly aS possible
! All men who are widely Travelled will
, understand that after the war will
come the food OF immigrants ut the
! rate of millions. Make the net and
sieve Mt Ellis island rs small rs you
mny and mdcSirablrs will Still get
through. The dragnrt should not hc
at Ellis island. but in the various in
terror cities Of Europe. Our republic
could afford to support Immigration
bureaus in countries like Austria, Scr
VIA ana bulgaria and Sift out those
who ar" weak and diseased. incompc.
tent mentally and morally.
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