The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-16

New York, June t6. - Today the
foreign born agitator" has taken
the place of the pro-German' as the
object of attack by all the individuals
md interests who are frantcally
seeking to protect their privileges
from the rising tide of popular un-
rest.
The humble immigrant is no long
er merely the subject of jest and rid
icule, the plaything of rich women al
Lady Bountiful, the victim of indus
trial exploitation. He has suddenly
become sinister figure whose dis
ased mind and brutal instincts
hreaten the destruction of our insti-
utions. And the men who pound
mahogany desks and shove push-but
ons VOW that he must be put doWr
with a firm hand.
Characterization" by agencies OF
wealth that will do everything for tn;
immigrant but get off his back and
give him a chance to live is to be sup
)lemented by a campaign of suppress
sion that will keep alive the terror
SIN practised during the war against
I'll who offended chambers of com
nerce and their defense societies
rhis campaign has long been planned
md the recent bomb outrages have
layed into the hands of its promot
RS.
The Carnegie Foundation has set
,side a large fund for a study o.
Methods of Americanization 1t be
gan by voting S150,000 to agitate fol
Universal military service and for tho
establishment in every state of !;
mounted constabulaly after the
Pennsylvania model. And tha'
model, as Colonel Groomc has tcstl
led, was patterned exactly after the
'onstabulary of Ireland. ireland to-
lay bears testimony to its "effici-
,ncy" In Pennsylvania the constabu
airy is occupied with keeping the lid
)ver situation that holds moro dam
,erous social dynamite than any in
America.
The slightest knowledge of indus
rial facts in America disclOscs our
immigrant population as our poor
eSt-paid and WOrst-eXploitcd popula-
ion, as the victims of our worst fail
Tres in democracy and justice and
common decency. Hence the folly OF
ssnming that because the patience
of these people is not quite endless,
We must look for the cause of their
iisaffection and resentment to some
mister philosophy or doctrine which
they have brought with them from
oreen lands. The truth is that if d
crowd of college boys had to suffer a
mall fraction of the injustices and
lardships and atrocities which our
Industrial system has imposed on our
immigrant worllmen, the college boys
would wreck the town and throw the
gents of oppression into the nearest
Mill pond.
One of the most surprising feat
lres of the situation is the attitude
md conduct of the one department OF
he federal government from which
We could expect an intelligent under,
standing and handling of the immi-
grant problem. Secretary Wilson ap-
oarently has given the same sanction
% the hysterical hue and cry against
foreign agitators' that Messrs
3urleson and Gregory have given tc
| like demonstrations of mob senti
nent among our upper classes. 1le
| denounced the strikes at Seattle and
| Lawrence as violently revolutionary
When they were nothing of the sort
And he apparently stood behind Com
| missioner General Caminetti of the
immigration bureau in carrying out
Expectations under methods that arc
| disgrace to civilized country.
| Under the laws of congress and the
| 'ules of the department of labor, ii
| possible fer an obscure local i'm
| migration inspector to railroad a for
| eign-born radical or striker from hi:
I home in western state to Ellis Is
| land and thence to the heart of Eu
| rope before the victims friends are
| even aware Of his absence
| Local inspectors can be set in mo
| ion by letter or telegram from {
| thief of police or sheriff, who on his
| own account, or on the complaint, o
| IN employer, wishes to get rid o
| some undesirable" alien. The in
| spector arrests the alien, commit.
| lin to the most convenient JAIL ant
| then holds an examination in which
he inspector is prosecuting attorney
Judge. jury and eXecutiOner. II,
makes his own record and forwards i
@ Washington. with a recommcnda
ion that the secretary of labor Issue
warrant Of deportation. 1t is no
the habit of administrative depart
nents to rule against their own au
horizcd agents in the field. The war
'ant is issued, and the alien is put OF
train for New York, taken to E1li
'sland. and then placed on the frs
5oat sailing for his native land. TIL.
law provides for the deportation o
any alien who is an anarchist, or who
believes in the overthrow of govern
ment bv force, and under it a MAJ
may be deported for believing in the
doctrines of Tolstoy or Thoreau. Tht
immigration inspector by cleye
uestining can make a record agains
men who abhor violence as hearth!
rs any Quaker, and whose real crime
s that they have been too assertivt
IN advancing the rights and interest.
of their class. In the Seattle cases, al
bu, II of the defendants were savet
at the last moment by habeas corpu:
nr0cee dings and exceptional zeal ant