The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-17
EXCLUDE rHE uNpEsIRARLEs.

EXCLUDE THE UNDESlRABLES.
By organized governmental effort and by individual
choice the Germans working out the most effective
methods of evadng the terms of the peace treaty From
high to low the Huns nstncvey resort to perfdy They
have not the slightest intention of fulfilling their duty
according to their treaty pledge Their hatred of the
nations that defeated them is stronger than ever and
German individuals are instructed that it is religious
duty to thwart the purposes of the peace treaty
The strategems adopted by the German government
to cheat the allies may be left to the attention of the
PREPARATION commission and the allied governments. If
they permit Germany hoodwink defy them they will
have themselves largely to blame for they can compel
absolute obedience from the Hun government. When
the treaty is applied to individuals, however, the case
assumes different aspect. There is little hold
upon German individuals
Consequently these individuals beginning to adopt
the best available methods for defeating the treaty With
out discussing the obvious frauds such as conceament
of property false personation perjury etc. which are
rapidly increasing the single question of emigration calls
for allied attention Plans foot for the wholesale
transportation of Germans to other countries principally
Russia and South America but also the United States
The German American league, which hid its head during
the war; is organizing to facilitate large migration
of Germans to the United States.
1t already estimated that the exodus from Germany
will aggregate 100000 or 100000 persons. The
majority of these will to Russia, which is nearby oper
to German exploitation and rich in of men ant
materials BY bribery and other means the Germans
Iaro bla hole
officers have gone in large numbers into Russia since the
signing of the peace treaty where they have
command of boshevik forces fighting Admiral Kolchal
and General Denikine. The Germans have reasoned
that if they cannot the allies in any other way the!
make trouble for them in Russia thus increasing thu
ton of the treaty terms against Germany. German
furnished to the Chinese who form large part of thu
boshevik forces of murder.
The steps necessary to prevent the exploitation of Rus
STA by Germany must be taken by the allied governments
Congress can do little than call attention to thu
dangers and insist upon prompt and adequate action Blu
congress take other effective measures to checEma
the German plans. 1t can prevent the proposed mmi
grafton of Germans and the present influx of bolshevk
communists, anarchists and revoutonsts All of thes
human vermin are public enemies. They are directly o
indirectly the agencies by which Germany seeks to de
fraud the world of just etrbuton Every creed of ever
branch of these agators is attack upon the founda
ton of the United States and blow at the liberty o
every American
The educational test for the exclusion of undesirable
aliens is of the most absurd laws drafted 1t
absurdity is abundantly proved now, when highly edu
Gated assassns and unverstybred boshev freely ente
the United States, while honest ierate men who Tough
for liberty turned back dangerous foes of liberty
The really dangerous aliens are invariably literate
Their magn activity is based upon their boasted acquire
ments. They have always absorbed "a little learning
which becomes as dangerous dynamite when not &C
companed by an honest heart. Their learning is in tn
Internal philosophy" of socialism, revolution by VIC
ence and anarchy They read write and meet ever,
test of the American immigration law; and yet they arr
the ngeaders of the midnight assassins who hurI bomb
in the of liberty
Germans are able to read and write almost withou
exception They pass the American test, but the,
are as undesirable anarchists for they are deadly
mics of the United States and its allies and are here fol-
mischief. They must be excluded The duty of ex
Guiding them lies in congress. The government, acting
in accord with other allied governments must make
impossible for individual Germans to shirk the conse
quences of their and their countrys crimes by snug
Cling themselves into allied countries An out-and-ou
exclusion act will have to be enacted sooner or later
unless the United States wishes to assist Germany in de
feating the Versailles treaty.-Washington Post