The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-02-15

eclared that those who are unwill-
to seek redress for grievances in
fderly and constitutional way
Should be taught. peaceably if we
n and forcibly if we must, that our
buntry is not an international board
g house or an anarchistic cafe"
his weeks Saturday Evening Post
as the following editorial regarding
pe cause Of the present unrest in this
buntry and a cartoon showing a
rove of foreign Bolshevik and l. w.
rs being herded up the gang
ank of an Atlantic liner bound for
urope:
ID The bill recently introduced in
bngress providing for the deporta-
pn of interned alien enemies is a
bod beginning. 1t is a bill with in
11sors, but it lacks molars. A dainty
lttle peck at this alien-enemy busi-
ess is not enough. Deportation of
1 small and relatively insignificant
roup of Germans who were caught
tith the goods is not enough. Like
huch American legislation this bill
oes not go to the root of the trouble.
! group of even more dangerous
(lien enemies, made in Germany and
(nished in Russia, is operating in
lmerica to-day. They are conspir-
|bg against our institutions and hop
|hg to loot our country. We are not
b short of tonnage that we cannot
pare some for them. One shipload
IF Bolshevik agitators started home
(or Russia via Siberia and a second
|hipload started home for Germany
would end the whole business.
Has Congress the courage and the
tommon sense to act? In the past
t has usually been more given to
eatching a snake alive and counting
It's rattles and trying to tame it, than
10 stamping on its head. This is not,
however, a domestic snake, but one
bf the welI-known German viper fam
Ply. We should have learned by this
lime no to play with that breed.
Courage and common sense would
have prevented almost every evil
with which we are contending to-
lay. A little simple root legislation
passed when the problems were young
would have done what a multitude
Df repressive laws have since been
powerless to effect. These measures
were so obvious that they were not
statesmanship-only common sense.
The need for drastic legislation to
restrict immigration has been ap-
parent for some time. Congress
inally passed law that requires the
immigrant to tell how far
lie has progressed in the Second Read
II or something equally searching.
f it had decided to be real nasty it
would doubtless have prescribed an
in the new dance steps.
The real trouble with Americans is
hat there are not enough of them
md that the rank and file do not
make themselves decisively heard in
matters of legislation. They believe
n their country and their institutions
With all their hearts. and are inclined
o let it go at that. Of late years,
90, they have been in danger Of be-
ng overwhelmed by a mass of un-
ligested aliens. True, a large mum
Der of these foreigners are good ma
.erial for citizenship, but they have
in too fast for proper assimi-
alton. And while they are in transi-
ion state from the customs, methods
and institutions of the Old World to
hose of the New, speaking English
mperfectly or not at all, they are
EASILY misled and preyed on by dis
honest demagogues and agitators.
)ne of the great tasks ahead of our
is the teaching of our
deals and our language to these men.
# we let in new flood of foreigners
before we do this the melting pot
Will end up as a garbage pail.