The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-16
DEPORT THESE ALIENS
Seattle Times)


 Tn tbis renubic during time of war, there IS no room for the alien breaches sabotage and seal
 Immense as is the Territory of the nation, the United States is small contain at the same tune the patriotic citizen working for Americas Vlctols and inc foreigner working for Germanys victory.
 The Federal Department of Labor yesterday or dered roundup of all alien preachers of anarchy in the Pacific Northwest. The scope of it's campaign must be enlarged to the entire country.
 It matters not with what organization these Ill dyiduals are associated It matters not whether they associated with any orsanzaon at a m hs ever preach sabotage and resistance to the war time purposes of the nation, they must be appre hended Interned if alien enemies deported if aliens other than enemy countries ana deal Wth to the full limit of the law if citizens
 Unionism not involved in this new government campaign Unonsm won it's fight when the eight hour daS was instituted in the Pacific Northwest lumber industry. The issue now is loyalty or dls loyalty. Americanism or pro-Germanism
 The Unted States today is the hope of the hbera world If doubts, let him read the startlngly frank resume cf prevailing conditions in Russia Iron the pen of William T. Ellis, appearing in the current number of the Saturday Evening Post The write after exposing the ineffciences and the bunders of Roshevikism, says:
 I personally have been asked by literally
 hundreds of Russians, from princes to peasants,
 help them get to America.
 The prevalence of this desire to seek in
 America the realization of lifes best, humbles
 American who, perchance has not fully
 prized his privileges.
 Our country is regarded as the Promised
 Land. t- -''t
 The depth of the desire to go to America
 
 deemed the American standard revela-
 tion to the traveller"
 Bolshevikism has nothing to offer that America to accept We want it not; more, we will have it not
 Any alien who is not satisfied with the govern mental system developed by the genius of American people need not here. If he does and then conspres against institutions in time of war prompt deportation is necessary in the public in terest
 The Labor Department has taken the right-the only-course in dealing with these foreign trouble makers. 5.-
 Success for it's efforts not only increased national efficiency, but continued domestic peace, failure to accomplish the ends it has in view will expose this nation to the gravest danger of wide spread disorder.
 The patience of the people has reached the break ing point. The break may at any moment perhaps when the government makes public the first big casualty list among troops in France.
 This thing must be avoided, if humanly possible We do not desire repetitions in the United States perhaps bigger scale, of the Johannesburg Van couver and Victoria incidents.
 Yet, only deliberately selfblinded will ignore the warning conveyed ito America by the recent dis turbances in the Middle West where whole communi ties joined in rebuking dsloyaty, pacifism and pro Germanism.
 The law must and will prevail, but the only way to render certain that it shall not be violated is tc enforce the law vigorously and effectively agans disoyalty wherever it appears in whatever guise