The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-08
HOL COsgB ON AMERICANIZATION

him Amercanzaion to be principally the will to make the foreigner citizen
 Almost nobody will disagree with the governor upon his point advisable that those who intend to abide in this country should be communcans at the national altar
 condition which keeps many foreigners out of ci- zenhip is a complex up many deterrent factors Sometimes the foreigner does not wish to become czen of ten not know how and nobody tells him how The substantial difficulty the way created by the nation The laws make naturalization difficult They make 1t as hard as possible, instead of easy possible
 naturalization law made upon the theory of keeping foreigners out Aliens kept probation for long period they required to furnish witnesses who have known them through this period They subjected to tedious and harass ing examinations by which they rejected for riviaties well within the law. which yet do not touch those real things by which M OF is not in reasonable view, good citizen.
 If there is to be wholesale Amercanizaion of aliens the naturalization must be improved Is the he says he he honest industrious good citizen within the ordinary meaning of the word Does he church? Has he built himself home is he rearing children and sending them 10 school?
 It is not the amount of technical about the uton and those that ought to be the decd ing Take the foreigner in upon the terms that would be employed 10 receive him into church. raternal society P a building and loan association.
 Let the question be not how long has he been here, but what sort of is he? Lay the foundation in law that welcome aliens to czenship that says to good you wanted The Amercanzaon of aliens will be amazingly easy.
 With those policies of Arnericanfzaon that open educa- ona facilities to aliens that aid them t0 knowledge of Eng sh and other opportunities economic, educational moral political every right thinking is in sympathy Such will receive the support everybody
 much Governor HOlcomb desires to receive aliens into the fellowship of citizenship The TmesFarmer is in pIete and absolute sympathy with him,
 With respect to the method of his approach to this subject The Times Farmer is out of sympathy is not aotfu and ii is not edentay phenomenaly correct to say the Cover does that Enthusiastically this unabsorbed alien class con tutes mehaee.
 The great nH1nber aliens Connecticut are hard work ng thrifty and ra religious They largely attendants in the Catholic church. and with respect 10 economic and i dustFial questions conservative than he body of c 
 He is little familiar with of American life whe does not know that most the modern industrial disturbance has it's origin socialism and that the Catholic church pre- eminenhy t1s enemy of socialist system teaching it's people and hence the bulk of hs aliens that the socialist theory is failaey and un-Chfistan.
 It is among Ignorant and unassmiated elements that Bolshevsm makes progress n h Unted States The ultra radical clements in the United States almost entirely led by English speaking persons many them Of native stock
 The bFeest scrutiny of of local agtaors will prove them to be voters, cZens familiar with the language and frequently of old stock is to say that the absorbed alien class constitutes industrial The unabsofbed alien is patient less inclined 10 leave hi work than equally large group of citizens in similar ploymen
 the only strike of any magnitude during tn war; in Bridgeport carried by the most skilled work men in the city among which the largest percentage cizns not always of Bridgeport for many here but of the United States
 Nor is it among s ignorant unassnated class tina Boshegsm makes pFogPess which is the view of Goyerno Hocemb Tine doctrines of Boshevism rather abruse TSey familiar mainly to persons comparatively well edu cated olshevsm is not primarily the of the erat The neeR that it is grows cut the Russia zher well educated elshevists have seized the government seek to impose their doctrine upon ignorant population
 Anybody who will attend the United church forum m, note by first hand observation that the Boshevist question are couched in excellent English.
 The foreign elements in Connecticut threat to tn state, but of it's buyaT Religious, thrifty industrious determined Q educate their children the aliens of this stat good and admirable,
 Every who proposes to aid these people, by bring ing them to eitizenshp by education by opening the opportunity ta them does wise and patriotic thing
 To speak of these people is unwse, and roneous.
 Such statement proves that prejudice has usurped tn throne of thought,
 Change the naturalization law. Make the path that lead
 The citizenship broad and easy Make the the test an make the test those everyday simple rules by which eide upon the worthness of their brother There you. be need to speak en of an unabsoEbea aiaA Ga