The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-12-11


out the hand Of welcome to Just those
menace and denouncing those races that
were our allies III the late war and that,
on the whole, have caused us the least
trouble.
The proposed literacy test to exclude
"men Of the meaner sort out Of Italy as
the then Professor Wilson phrased it, and
to let in the literate Teutons Ia fact
they were fond Of contrasting the Latsn
and the Ieuton To The distinct advantage
Of the later The German to their way
OF thinking, was the most substantial,
moral honest, intelligent. energetic and
progressive Type Of immigrant. And in-
deed he was all oil these delectable things
and made goodicitizen. Wewere proud
OF him until the European war began and
we were by way Of being drawn into It.
The Latins were on our side and the
Germans were against us and many q Ger
Imam immigrant put Germany above his
adopted country and did what he could to
help the kaiser. But, OF course, that is
all ended now and the Germans are GO
ing to be just the substantial, progressive
and enlightened citizen that the prophets
pictured them.
Nor were the prophets any nearer the
mark when they welcomed the political
fugitivesv ont Of Russia. Every nihilist
and bomb-thrower, to their minds, was Z
hero. If he had killed the governor o. .
province, perfect Of police or grand
duke so much the better
just now The most dangerous type Of
immigrant is the Russian revolutionist.
Tie is, ii anything, less friendly to us than
he was to the czar.
Attorney General Palmer tells us tlaas
the society whose anarrhistic members
are about to be deportad was founded in
TINS country In 1901, many years before
the WEI. From that day TO this the pro-
paganda has been much che same. 1t has
been directed against all governments, ali
rulers. In secret III has had no more re
spect for the government OF Washington
Lincoln and Mckinley tnan for the g6Y-
eminent that preserved the tyrannies
the insane cars of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. And now to Drc
serve our own institutionssw are under
the necessity Of packing these wretches
OFF home.
Foreunataly.we have The required iisw
Those who preach Oh plot the overthrow
of our government BY force 81 vioicnca
may be deported. And when they leave
us they Will rid our land OF germeaten
braf2s Of rotten souls
Nest Of the races that have come to lis
have been elevated by contact with free
institutions. Toiling honestly and indus
tliouEly at the hardest tasks they ceased
in tinle, to be mere hewers of wood and
drawers Of water. Amid the rich oppor-
tunities of land which strove bragely
TO give everyone an equal opportunity the
leaders Of thes races prospered and their.
progeny took to the ways Of culture and
Enlightenment In the magic crucible Of
liberty the great qualities Of each race
Z were welded together and the dross was
east aside.
Bit we took no care about those we III
nlittcd, They filed our schools, orr mines
and our factories, but they also filled otlr
prisons and kept our gallows and electric,
chairs working overtime.
We have leaned c0~ laesnn. We know
that no li5eracy test will find these men
out They are the accursed Of every
country. Their minds are warped their
souls are envenomed, but many Of them
can write books and pamphlets and make
soap box speeches thet rnislead the simple
minded and sincere an transform them
into firebrands. Not few of them have
Stleen unlnasked preaching violence and
lpgoIItion in the shaitered halls Of or
universities