The Donaldsonville chief., 1919-12-13
Thrift Investment BIOzO
To OAn1ericnn BOISheviSfS
Cora Harris Declares
WOMEN MUST BECOME &c
Noted Southern Author and Philosopher Points
to Crisis Facing Country Through Agita-
ton of ssAmerican Alien Class

Cora Harris, noted Southern writ
er and philosopher, fixes the respon
sibility for the social and industria
unrest In this country upon 1.-THE
American Alien Glass;" which has
been made the victim Of the insiduous
teachings of the foreign-born elemen
seeking to destroy American insitu
tions and Government.
Thrift will go long ways toward
relieving existing social and economic
conditions, says Mrs. Harris, in an in
tervieW discussing the present state
I of the country's unrest. American
women have great opportunity tc
teach saving, she says, but declares
they must cease to be the vampires
and become the domestic economists
OF American civilization"
we have now to deal in this coun.
try with a new and until recently un-
discovered class, which we may caH
the American Alien Class: born Of
good Ang1o-Saxon and alien bloods,
but who has become the under-st'ld-
les of the Callahan hordes of Europe;
who have been shipped to this coun-
try at the rate of 100000 and more
year, until now there are literally
millions Of them," is the sweeping
statement of Mrs. Harris
Before the great war we called
them immigrants Now we know
them to be the Red Radicals, the So
cialists, Anarchists, Annihilists, Titu-
lar Deities of the l. w. w. and many
other destructive agencies in this
country. They are the spawn Of the
mental, moral and physical degener-
acy of foreign countries"
"The American alien to whom 1 re-
fer for years has been the understudy
Of this Callahan. He sometimes was a
student Of our universities, listening
to lectures from scholarly Bolshe-
vik professor, but more often man of
simple worth, who welcomed new
idea simply because it was new, not
because it had any worth, and be-
cause he never had studied or been
Informed as to the glory and worth
Of the ideals upon which his own civ
iiization was founded"
Not Labor Unrest
What we suppose to he labor un
rest in this country is no sHca thing,
1t is the Callahan features Of de-
generate imrnigraat class, crawling
TN out Of the mud cf horrible things
to lay its Shiny hands on the Govern
l"cat and make CT that great class of
american workers american aliens, so
t.lat now the two together are no
longer to be known as the working
c.ass, hut as the malignant classes,
against whose eff9Tts to destroy the
institutions of this Government we
must keep a standing army. And, in
short. no longer sos the present are
we at war with the Huns, except as
they are represented by the Calabans
Of the country, but we are at war
with these American aliens produced
by these malignant immigrants who
are masters of the dissemination Of
Callahan propaganda.
5 'It is against the genius of our civil
liZation to keep standing armies. Our
armies are trained to make the world
safe for democracy and this country
is the headquarters of Democracy.
Therefore it Is necessary to COM
bat this propaganda with the wisdom
of peace and by all the means in the
hands Of loyal Americans who believe
In this form Of Government.
Lack of Thrift an EVIL
"One of the greatest agencies against
the very foundations Of our institu-
tions is the habit of extravaganza
the lack of thrift. We are bound to
admit that the example for these evils
was set for our people by
the capitalist class, but this class
has gone far toward redeening itself
and digesting its sins by its loyalty
and sacrifices for this country during
the great war. And, indeed, all other
countries who suffered from the heel
Of German oppression. But the views
of the rich now have entered the poor
at time when they have been emas-
culated and degraded by the propa-
ganda OF the malignant immigrant
class.
This has gone on for years, SO
that they are not able to react against
these evil tendencies. They lack the
right moral discipline necessary to |
form honorable judgments; the sense
Of responsibility has been destroyed
In them and has been replaced by the