The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-26
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 191.
COURAGE AND COMMON SENSE.

NOOhA1E ANU SOmm mON oENoE.
 The bill recently introduced in con- gress providing for the deportation of interned alien enemies is a good be- ginning. It is a bill with incisors, but it lacks molars. A dainty little peck at this alien enemy business is not enough Deportation of small and relatively insignificant group of Ger mans who were caught with the goods is not enough. Like much American Legislation this bill does not go to the root of the trouble. A group of even more dangerous alien enemies, made in Germany and finished in Russia, is operating in America today. They are conspiring against our institutions and hoping to loot our country. We are not so short of tonnage that we cannot spare some for them. One shipload of Bolshevik agitators start ed home for Russia via Siberit and a second shipload started home for Ger many would end the whole business.
 Has congress the courage and the common sense to act? In the past it has usually been more given to catch ing snake alive and counting it's rattles and trying to tame it, than to stamping on it's head. This is not however, a domestic snake, but one of the well-known German viper family We should have learned by this time not to play with that breed.
 Courage and common sense would have prevented almost every evil with which we are contending today. A little simple root legislation passed when the problems were young would have done what aHmultitude of repres. sive laws have since been powerless to effect. These measures were so obvious that they were not statesman. ship-only common sense.
 The need for drastic legislation to restrict immigration has been appar ent for some time. Congress finally passed law that requires the would be immigrant to tell how far he has progressed in the Second Reader or something equally searching. If il had decided to be real nasty it would doubtless have prescribed an examin ation in the new dance steps,
 The real trouble with Americans is that there arc not enough of them and that the rank end file do not make themselves decisively heard Ill mat ters of Legislation. They believe in their country and their institutions with all their hearts, and are inclined to let it go at that. Of late years, too, they have been in danger of being overwhelmed by mass of undigested aliens. True, large number of these foreigners are good material for citi zenship, but they have poured 1t too fast for proper assimilation. And while they are in a transition state from the customs, methods and insti tutions of the Old World to those oi the New, speaking English imperfect ly or not at all, they are easily misled and preyed on by dishonest dema gogues and agitators. One of the great tasks ahead of our generation is the teaching of our ideals and oul language to tEese men. If we let ir new flood of foreigners before we do this the melting pot will end up as garbage pail.
 Among Americans there Is no req Bolshevik sentiment. The stuff Is al made in Germany and exported to us via Russia. The newspapers play III every happening that can possibly b, given a Bolshevik head, exactly a, they would mysterious murder or , hot-story divorce, and for the sam reason. It is abnormal, un-Americal and sensational But 1t is the new fad of the hour, like a Thaw trial, t which the papers send sob-sisteri specialists in emotion and ''bi . names" For a certain part of tn public are morbidly interested in Bo shevikism, as they are in the latea murderer and his crime. Man , ,psychopathic women affect g mil form of 1t as they would any strang