Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-04
The United States After War
Emerson Hough in Brooklyn Eagle.
Fourteen reconstruction necessities:


/. Restrict and select immigration. Forget
the foolish Melting Pot" idea. Cease to believe
that America is the haven for every man looking
tor license and easy work. Cut out the maudlin
idea that we must harbor the earth's scum in the
name of democracy" Make every immigrant
take out first papers as soon as he lands. If he
doesn't take out the rest send him back. Let's
have flag and country of our own.
2. Don't waste too much sympathy and too
much food feeding Germany. That's her peace
propaganda. Germany is not contrite Show
her mercy now, feed her, pet her and console her
with lot OF subjective rot about human democ-
racy, and in 40 years she'll be biting the hand
that fed her; She has earned nothing but con-
tempt and destruction. Why should she have
more? Would she give as much? And look out
tor the German-American." He is as disloyal
as ever, and only scared just now.
3. Secretary Lanes free land" or rather
cheap land, scheme for the soldiers is broad and
good, Extremely expensive, extremely compli-
Gated extremely prolific in bureau activities;
from more of which God deliver US Americans
4. No Rehabilitation of all the army Some
| think we'll be at war again inside of 80 years.
5. Make Mexico salute our flag at Vera
Cruz now, since once we said she must. Clean
up M :x'co. Get that question ended. Get into
good and final relations with Mexico and
Canada.
talking and theorizing beautifully. The farmer
and the laboring man have come to stay, but
they should not be permitted to Cypress the rest
of America. Bolshevism is afoot all over the
world. We must not let it start here.
7. Get as many men on the land as possible
Americans, not new, trouble making for
eigners.
8. Good roads are good assets. Build many
new ard good roads, in our national parks, i'll
our farming regions, if it seems the government
must do something for the unemployed.
9. Spread the doctrine that we ought not to
lapse back into our old crazy dollar chasing as
the one aim and end of man. Do what can be
done for leisure. content, art lterature-above
all, work toward as many contented homes as
possible, not city fats inhabited by unhappy
workmen.
TO- Work, think and vote Americansm, Cut
the hyphen out absolutely. Kill all foreign
language societies. Make the Lutheran preach
German in schools or textbooks or public as
semb,ages-for time, even on the telephone.
Germany in America is not dead. She ought to
be. The hyphen is outlived in our scheme now.
We should be manly enough to make that
known and to damn politically any man who
ever again caters to the foreign vote. Dignity
America.
II: Let the doors open and the wheels move
and the payrolls begin as fast as possible for the
soldiers who came back. They'll have to work
Laurels won't last long as food. Competition
ought not to be allowed to run into sweat shop
prices. Hold off any panic in labor
IL. The people of America have been
robbed by food dealers They are going to be
FESTIVE over any more monkeving with their
private breakfast table now We should put in
power party of men big enough to kill the
bubbles of food monopolists and to force them
to lower prices that are kept up through COM
bne. Down with aristocracy OF monopoly
not bad cry if we are really to be the democ-
racy Of which we hear so much lofty pratng.
While lot OF high idealism has been spilled in
Washington and elsewhere, the American family
has been pinehed. all at once as it never could
have been thought would he the case. That
pinch has got to ease up or there will be serious
with autocratic methods all too soon and fully.
The war is over now.
IS. Abolish censorship, but enforce the law
against reasonable talk
Ia. A stern and merciless peace with Ger
many; practical view as to our own needs at
home; fostering of the old individual unherded
American way of thought; stiff selection Of
any newcomers who now aspire to be citizens.
and general stiffening of our social attitude.
ought TO be all in line. Let us be Americans.
don't think we should allow any hyphenates any
chance or any recognition. Why sake hands
with the spies and cut-throats who infested this
country just because they are for the time being
too scared to talk? Let them be Americans or
get out.
The stffening up of admission and recogni-
ton OF Germans alone would make more room
for the American soldiers in our business world
America for Americans only* 1t is not bad
war cray for the day Feed our hungry first!