The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-10-01
Domestic Politics
InternatiOnaliZed
Especial Correspondence

soAA1 oSUCs OVs- Wu0U you
have that situation in the United Sta
ties you will have poisoned the polit-
zeal life Of this people," declared Sem
ator James w. Wadsworth, Jr., Of
New York, calling attention to the ac-
tivities of the foreign populations of
this country, in using their political
infiuence-and in an entirely legitim-
ate way, mind you-in the body pol
itic of America to have the Govern
ment of the United States settle a
dispute in Europe in a certain way"
Senator Wadsworth in his recent dis
cussion of the peace treaty, with par
ticular reference to Article Ten, dwelt
at length on.sa phase of the subject
which has been all too little considered
in the great.debate, and which is
fraught with evil potentialities, so far
as we are concerned. He pointed out
that when we won our independence
as a result of the War of the Revolu-
ton our people were made up largely
OF immigrants, or their descendants,
from England, Scotland, Ireland, Hol-
land, Germany, and France, the first
group coming here to seek religious
liberty later, larger groups came to
seek political liberty, and, still later,
those seeking economic opportunity.
Since the Revolution we have had in
crements to otr population of a great
many other racial stocks. Now we find
these races which in Europe are anita
gonistic, living in America, mot hav-
ing forgotten the affection which they
would naturally owe to their mother
countries, but conscious of the fact
that they had reached a country where
they were free from those prejudices,
those intrigues and those turmoils,
and where men, no matter what their
national or racial origin, could start
out free and endowed with the oppor-
tunity of working out their own saliva
ton as American citizens, and Ameri-
can citizens first. So they have for
gotten the politics, the intrigues, an!
the frictions Of the Old World; and
by reason of their being able to forget
them, this American people is uniateL
people today"
And along comes President Wilson
with his visionary scheme of inter-
nationalism and starts the melting-pot
to boiling in a name to separate it's
constituent elements and to create in
terminable discord in this nation Of
composite elements. = Every race is
again reminded Of the quarrels of it's
mother country and is bringing pres
sure to bear on the United States Gov
eminent to espouse it's cause in Eu-
rope. Wadsworth asserted that with
in eight days, after The Presidents
statement that .Fiume should be award
ed to the Jugo-Slavs his mail was fill
led with letters and petitions and cir
culars from Italian-born citizens Of
the. United States urging him, as q
Member Of the Senate, to use what in
fuence he had to see that this Gov
eminent took sides with Italy as a.
gainst Jugo-Slavia, and he has exper-
fenced the same thing with respect to
the demand Of the LithuaRians for
recognition of their independence.
!. At the time Senator Wadsworth was
making his speech there was in pro-
cess Of formation -or consolidation, ra
Their, for it has already been formed
a huge organization to be known as
the Mid European Union, which inclu-
des representatives in this country Of
the tier of small nations stretching
from the Baltic to the Black Sea,At0