The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-11
TO STOP IMMIGRATION FOR
FOUR YEARS AFTER WAR ENDS

IL mas Deen AHeTlcdS 5 pr1Qe CnaC
our land has been an asylum for the
poor and opprest of all nations, and
the inflow of labor at the rate of a
million a year has been thought an
important source of our wealth and
power, but now with all Europe i'm
poverished and looking expectantly
in our direction and with a labor-sur-
plus already in sight,our labor-unions
are asking Congress to put up the
bars. The suggested cure is twOfold:
to assist the assimilating process by
educational methods, and prevent
more trouble by keeping out the indi-
gestibles. And there is a third sug-
gestion, that considerable relief
would be afforded by discriminating
deportations From now on, declares
a Pennsylvania editor, we want mot
increased bulk, but improved quality
in our population, and as for the al
legged fright of all nations of the
earth to seek freedom in America"
we are told that "there is no such
right any more than there is a right
of every tramp to sleep in your bed
room" The present alarming sur
plussage of labor furnishes one of the
most solid arguments for the hackers
of the drastic immigration restriction
"a
| four-year ban on immigration is an
absolute necessity, according to Sec
retary Frank Morrison, of the Am
erican Federation of Labor. But what
seems to arouse editors to the most
vigorous demands for putting up the
bars against foreigners is the fear
that "Hunland" is before long to un-
loose ''horde" of immigrants upon
US. Speaking in support of the bill
barring practically all immigration
for four years, Congressman Royal
C. Johnson (Rep, South Dakota),
who served in the United States Army
in France, pointed out that such ap-
prehensions are far from groundless.
He said:
81 have talked with many German
prisoners and found them practically
united in purpose to come to AM
erica as soon as the war ended They
believe they will be received here with
open arms and that America is the
land of wealth and promise"
The complacent remark of an AFRO
CANT German officer to the effect that
States and settle down "as soon as the
Americans cooled off" brings the in
dignant reply from the Columbus Dis
patch that he may find that
"The cooling-off process is too
slow for such as he; he may find
that there is lingering remembrance
in this country of the misery which
his kind has caused in the world.
Some way will be found, at the prop
er time, to prevent just such charact-
ers from coming here and settling
down. We shall demand that they
stop at home and settle up"
eve have on our hands a big task
in making Americans out of the some
millions of German-Germans now in
this country" The Venango Herald
lFranklin, Pa tells Us. ''aiad need
not add to it by admitting any more
now" "Most emphatically,' says an
other Pennsylvania daily, the Altoona
Times. q
"We do not want those German sol
diers who during the four years last
past have looted homes, tortured
prisoners, raped women, and bayonet-
ed babies. In other words, we do not
want at least nine out of ten German
ex-soldiers. Further, we do not want
any one from Germany who defends
now or ever has defended the fiendish
Hun fighting men or the Kaiser's bar
oarous Government. Such people
would be dangerous citizens. Given
he opportunity, they would most GER
,ainly commit in America the crimes
hey have committed or condoned in
Europe
"Our lawmakers and immigration
should know that the Am
,rican people feel resentment to-
ward the devastating, murderous Hun
hat is implacable and will never cool.
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ountry. And if the Government fails
o keep him out there is danger that
Americas ex-veterans of the Great
Var will take the law into their own
ands"
The passage Of such an anti-immi-
ration measure as is now before Con-
'ress is demanded by such representa-
i've newspapers as the Boston Chris
ian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia
inquirer, Grand Rapids Herald, st.
.ouis Republic, and Seattle Post-In-
elligencer. The st. Louis papers
upport of a drastic limitation on i'm
ligration for the next few years is
ased upon it's firm conviction that
Bolshevik fanatics should by all
1eans be kept out" A citizens of
baltimore writes to The Sun of that
ity to say that in the first place
the total restriction of immigration
vould go long way toward settling
ne question of giving our overseas
oys employment" But, he adds,
''We could go still further and
inch the problem by deporting every
erman, pro-German, conscientious
bjector, Bolshevik, Industrial Work
: of the World, and other disturbing
ements out of our land. These ele-
tents have no use for America, ex-
spt to live off the fat of the land,
xploit themselves and their accursed
octrine, and strive to force them on
long suffering people"
The Sun says editorially that not
My should we keep out immigrants
the type just mentioned, but we