White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-19
TERMS OF
THE SCUM OF THE MELTING POT

The following is reproduced from
q recent issue of the Saturday Even.
ing Post. Its sentiment was so ap.
pealing, that II has been printed a
an advertisement, the cost of which
was paid by "A citizen of the United
States of America"
American -carelessness, cussedness
and politics are responsible for the
internal situation that has caused sc
much anxiety during the past year.
In the heat and stir of preparation
the scum has risen to the top.
AS America has turned her face
toward the enemy every dirty cur in
the country has snapped at her heels.
We have found that enemy intrench-
ed in America as well as in France
-sapping In our schools. undermin-
ing In our press. burrowing In our
municipal and state governments
shipping whenever a back has been
turned.
1t looks bad, but IL Is only scum,
and beneath II Americanism is COM
ing to the boiling point. We are In
the healthy condition of knowing
what the trouble is. We have been
too free with America-giving ey-
erything and demanding nothing. We
have had a happy-go-lueky. don't
care theory that nobody need worry
about what the unassimilated for
eigner did or thought: that every
thing would come out right in the
end; that there was some magic In
our air that would transform the
lazy. the weak. the vicious. into hard
working. honest, desirable American
citizens. We have considered the
rights of every nationality In the
world except our own.
The immigrant who m TO Am
erica to become an American and
who works at that Job should be
welcome, but of late years o. many
Of another kind have settled here.
Powerful influences have been at
xprk against their Americanization
In the old way. Free entry and OPP
portunity have been given not only
TO the honest. sturdy immigrant With
. sincere admiration for our coun-
try and the will to work and become
A.~ .aoaa Ant 80 ha NnI1n~U
who had only the will to work Us
and agains. MS. The foreign agitator
has been welcomed and told to go
ahead and agitate. even when he
blaekguarded our country and lied
&c the ignorant and the credulous
about our government. The profess
sionai troublemaker has been per-
mitted to GO ahead and make trou-
BILE. Almost any scoundrel in Europe
who fancied a trip TO our shores has
had a fair field and plenty of favor
over here-because this is a free
country and the refuge of the OPP
pressed" II has been the refuge OF
the oppressed. but it has also been
the haven of a lot of rascals who
have abused u hospitality. and be-
smirched our institutions. not only
from the soap box. but from the for
um.
The final blame for these condi-
tions rests at the door of naturalised
and natiye-born American politicians
and demagogues, who. to gain and
Keep office, have basely appealed to
sectional and race prejudice. to pas
sion, ignorance and discomfort. They
have made possible the perpetuation
of a babel OF tongues, a segregation
of races, a growing class prejudice
in this country. They have exalted
the hyphen until II has become a
badge OF honor; they have ~groveled
to every vote except the American
vote. 1t is about time to show them
at the polls.
Added to all these forces, selfish,
grating, sinister. VI have the class
aRHCaA1h GdcAC6t Va al Win tnt
uneducated or half-educated foreign
er. who has been class-ridden all his
life. without the opportunity that lie
has over here to become a member
of any class for which his brains aud
his will to work qualify him. AS the
appeal TO discomfort. to class. Is the
easiest, so II offers the best field for
the demagouge. the CRATER. the
cheap intellectual" limelighter. Its
apostles, "men with soft hands and
hard faces" or with hard hands and
soft faces, are everywhere just now
among labor. bidding II take ad-
vantage of the nations need; amone
farmers, telling them that they are
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