The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-01-06
Rejecting The lnorates

nave Deen put aDOard-ship ana they
are now on the way back to Europe.
The entire group Is composed Of an
archists who never became citizens Of
the United States.
The United 81 ates government has
long hesitated to take the step that
has led to the deportation of these
people who are complimented when
they are referred to as poll ical pris-
oners." The melting pot had to be
skinned of its scum to protect its
contents from constant pollution; and
the "bon voyage" to these unwashed
foreigners can well be changed to
hearty wishes for good riddance to
bad rubbish"
The deportation should be constru-
ed as part OF the practical work
of Americanization. for just as the
dullard is finally rejected from the
public school grades and sent among
Ihe detectives" or consigned to an
institution for the feeble.minded, so
should the policy be continued of re-
jecting foreigners who show no indi-
cation OF adapting themselves to our
ideals and institutions.
Anarchists who talk glibly OF the
''revolrI ion." should learn the truth
Of Vice President Marshail's state.
p,out thot ss,ya hod our ra,oyut;o,, e.,
this country good many years ago,
and have passed that stage in our
history" Foreigners who find diff
ficult to assimilate American ideals
should be speedily deported. iua. as
was done with Goldman. Berkman,
and their fellow loud-voiced creatures,
who have been tolerated year after
year, while in return they fail to con.
tribute a single iota of constructive
work for the betterm:it of conditions
in free country.
Free Thought and Free Speech
Attempts to make martyrs of Cold
man, Berkman and the others by the
claim that they have been deported
because they advoca ed new doc
trine, will not go down. They have
been rejected because they were still
foreigners, pure and simple-hopeless
types that it was folly to bother
with, or tolerate any longer.
Free thought and free speech are
American heritages. The progress OF
The nation has been bufIt upon these
privileges, and under the full exer
else of this principle minorities be
come either majorities, or drop into
| the discard. 1t is all entirely separ
ate and apart from the infection o.
anarchy, which seeks to destroy q
good government which these foreign
ers have never been capable of under
aanding.
! With this distinction understood il
is clear that the "holier than thou
Americans who haven't many brain:
to think with, and who turn scorn
fully upon the men and women of J hi
country who are bringing thei
thought and their speech, oftentime!
rich with an understanding of basi,
4 principles too dep for prompt com
prehension of the masses; and bel
low "bOlshevists" at their beIters
constitute an element in society tha
should have lived in the days of tn,
early Salemites when witches" wer
tortured.
The victories of a litle over half
century with three great wars II
which the country has been engaged
are nothing compared with the vic
tories of peace in that same period
Lincoln wrote with quill and would
MT have known what telephone wa
for If he had seen one Mckinley, @
another war. never had real moto
ride in his life or saw an air shil
and the financial plans of his tim
would have precipitated a panic a
least once day if applied to pre-.
ent day problems. Even within a fe,
,, weeks a scientist has convincingl
disclosed the fad: that the rays of tn
sun start out and get so badly twis
> ed that they finally turn back, wit
the result that jhe direct rays of ou
old friend Sol never did get to cart
at all.
Ere thought and free speech are tn
parent sources which have made An
erica the greatest country in tn
world. And it is for these thing
: that we acknowledge to ourselves tha
: we are richly deserving of the Merr
I Christmas of 1919 and the Happ
5 New Year of 1920.
4 Coal and Sugar
4 Wouldn't u be splendid if the co;
: operators could only be confined [
+ the sugar rerfiners as customers, an
i vice versa? How glorious 1t would
| to have them rationing one another
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