The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-22
EXPLOITING OUR ALIENS

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The steel strike was AIMED to control industry by organ
lied masses of laborers, under the system that has destroyed
industry in Russia. More than one-half the employees IN that
Industry east of the Mississippi are aliens.
The strike Of the biuminous coal miners was another
attempt to control a basic industry in like manner and one
closely. related to the steel industry. Sixty-one per cent OF
these miners are aliens.
MANY large schools spend more money-or have been
snending more money-for teaching the German language to
American children than in teaching the American language
and American citizenship to foreign born residents Of America
If the public schools are to teach immigrants to speak our
common language and to desire a common citizenship under
our flag, they must reach more than the meager one per cent
il our evening schools. This problem ought 10 De TIT innnlou -,
ate concern of congress. The bureau OF immigration shoulu|
he enlarged and a federal agency backed by adequate appfo-
rriations should perfect a series of lessons III AmeiicaAhsii
A centralized federal agency-such as a burea" d ulens
and Americanization for the allen 40 oPor"" "
once be authorized.
The bolshevist alien is a painter of rainbows-an assassin
of government. In his heart he is an ideaist, in ms acts a
terrorist. He should be taught to take pride In our ideais
customs and laws and in our industrial life. He must Dc
educated to comprehend that i'll America 1t is ue peopie VINO
rule. This education should emanate from the press 'e
church. our libraries and primarily from our public schools.
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The menace Of mob rule and of industrial paralysis from
strikes clearly indicates that there should be no tOieraton OF
alien radicals and revolutionists. We cannot afford to accept
Old World hatreds and inferior standards brought here by
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, "here all
government was regarded by them as oppressive. treason, We
can not and will not permit. If the immigrant has preJudged|
our democracy, if he is unwilling to accept its opportunity
Iet him return whence he came, and If necessary let us hasten
his departure. Public opinion must range itself solidly against
labor leaders who seek to mobilize and to exploit industrial
alienism.
Most serious of all, many of these newcomers have no
desire to become Americans. Among the Bethlehem steel
company employees $500 have said they are not interested IN
Americanization. If the influences of education and SELF
government are not effective as a preventive for req radi-
calism, there remains only one course for America TO pursue
and that is to stamp it out. These aliens are at the parting OF
the ways-deportation or Americanlsm
When rightly approached most OF our Immigrants are
open to reason. Yet 400 different foreign languages ana dla-
lects are spoken here. Most of our foreign-born are colonlzeol
in solid districts and this compactness is increased i'm
mensely by their racial and fraternal organizations, of which
it now appears there are more than $4,000 local and 4OSl
national.
These are the organizations that the Lenines and Irotzkysl
in America are using to exploit these aliens, otherwise al
valuable national asset, for the overthrow of this republic
and the turning over to them of the power and wealth that
represent the toll and sacrifice and thrift of the millions who
came before them.