New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-13

They know that it is the ambition Of our
peasant immigrants to accumulate enough
savings TO buy farm home. They know
that the immigrant considers the status OF
tho owner Of farm away above that OF
any other status They know that il ia the
cherished hope Of our peasant immigrants
to till spot Of soil owned by themselves,
to raise cattle and poultry, grow grain.
vegetables and fruit. They know that I'M
migrants disregard all present hardships
for this cause; that they expend all their
energies for this purpose, and that all their
visions Of happiness in old age arc pictures
Of the yearned for farm.
They make the most out of the fact that
the European soil tiller peasant was pre-
scented in all times and ls presented a pres
emit by poets, authors, painters, playwrights,
as a most sympathetic figure. and as being
honored and loved by all except by the
present generation in the United States
The embassies and consulates do everything
possible including eXpending for propa-
ganda unholy amounts Of money, to have
the subjects of their respective Central,
Southern and Eastern European countries
export their savings and remigrate. The
postal savings and other banks of the re-
spectve countries derive the largest part
Of their prosperity from keeping on de-
post the exported American savings OF
our immigrants
The transatlantic steamship companies
are the second factor, with their tens Of
thousands of agencies which interdeal in the
removal of our best immigrants These
steamship companies realize that if immi-
grants should become Americanized their
boats would have to return to Europe al
most empty. Their real profit is derived
from the steerage
The third potent factor in preventing the
Americanization Of immigrants is the for
eign language press. There about 500
such newspapers in the United States Most
of them un-Amercan and many of them
anti-American. The writer's of foreign
language newspapers cannot very we'll dis
seminate Amercansm because they possess
mighty little OF it themselves. The lions
share Of the income of the foreign language
newspapers is derived from those concerns
which make their living out of the exporta-
ton Of savings and the sale of transporta
ton to Europe. Many of them were sub
sidized by the respective European govern
ments. The foreign language papers real
ize that if the immigrant should become
Americanized he would read the American
papers, and thus the foreign language press
would lose its subscribers and consequently
its advertisements.
The fourth factor is large part of the
immigrant clergy. They fear that the mem
bcrs Of their congregations, if American
lied, would join American churches. They
preach Old Country traditions, maintain
Old Country customs and standards fra
tcrnal and religious organizations They
keep immigrants busy with the affairs Of
the Fatherland. A number of them draw
salaries from European governments for
combating Americanism and for maintain
ing parochn schools where only the history,
geography and traditions of the countries
of origin taught and only the European
national anthems sung. Children are
thus prevented from becoming American
ICED Immigrants are segregated. Women
especially live beyond Amercanzng in
huences.
The fifth factor consists Of those tens
Of thousands of local men and their agents
who pose bankers and come in daily
contact with the immigrants Their bust
ness conssta Of the export Of savings the