The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14


 assistance to those less prosper ous who remained in the better ment of the condition of their kinsmen across the sea, and 1t is known most of them are not in sympathy with certain policies of the British Government relating to Ireland But their political convictions are not to be barter ed for Republican simulated sym pathy, and the open and insult ing patronage and pretense of community feeling by hide bound prospective and narrow minded Republican leaders at this late day will be contemptuously spurned both by those who op- pose and by those who favor the League of Nations.
 The Irish as a people came to America to be Americans. No matter how deep their sympa- thies may be for their kin back in Ireland, or how deep their hostility to any other people or government, they are fun-fledg- ed, red-blooded, one hundred per cent Americans.
 They will vote upon American issues as Americans, and give no countenance to the hyphenated politics, certain Republican pou- ticians have made their stock in trade for the coming campaign. The same thing is equally true of the Germans of the Carl Schurz and the Joseph Pulitzor school, who hate autocracy, who came to this country to find lib- erty and opportunity and love it's creed and it's spirit of democ- racy. While some of them were slow to believe the Germany they and their fathers knew had been Prussianized and brutalized, every sound voter of German ex- traction came in 1918 with full Ter knowledge of the truth to hate the murderous submarine and all like inhuman warfare waged by the Imperial German Government.
 They rejoiced with other stall wart Americans in the victory for democracy and world arbitra- ton which many brave Amer ican youths of German extrao- tion helped to win. And the same II11nS IS equally true or every descendant of Italians and Greeks and Poles and Hungari- ans and English and French and Scotch and others to whom the unworthy and unpatriottc ap- peal is made to vote in Ameri- ca as they would vote if they still loved some other country better than they loved the home of their adoption.
 To be sure we do not and we dare not shut our eyes to the fact that there are voters living in America, out of all European countries, who use as place to gain a competence without loyal ty to 1t. Those unpatriotic Re- publican politicians, whose hope of success largely depends on such voters whom they have been coddling and cultivating, must view with alarm the deportation of these two-faced hyphens who are being rounded up and sent out of the land they seek to be- tray as fast as ships can carry them.
 By November 1920 their vote will not be so large as it was in November, 1918, and the almost reasonable coquetting with this disloyal element will receive the rebuke in November which full blooded Americans of all par ties feel 1t richly deserves.
 The ark that carries them away will leave a vacuum into which we may throw overheard and drown the hyphenareo un- American political manipu1ators America will breathe free when she is rid of this pestilence. And as they sink to rise no more, American politics will pur- tfy itself and no party promoter will dare again to ask for votes because of policies or aims Of peoples or governments across the seas. In truth good people of this country, who are loyal to the core, only need that the underground propaganda be ex- posed to repudiate those respon- sible for it. If we did not know it before, our experience in the World War has taught US all that there Is no difference be- tween Democrats and Republi-
  came to courage, service and Ioy. alty. And there will be no diff ference of opinion between those who put country above small pol. itics in condemnation of hyphen, ated politics.
 | America has too long tolera l ted the immigration of those wht l defy the process of our owe, l vaunted melting pot. This fail l ure in the past twenty-five year to keep out the unfit has beer due mainly to unwf11ingness 0
 Republican politicians to offen,
 two powerful political factors ! (D- Those un-American en ployers who imported cheap for
 eign labor in order to make ex cessive profits an-> deny a liv | ing wage to American workers
 and CD, those of foreign birtl 1 politically influential who CD
 posed any restrictions whic
 might close doors to their Xii
 and countrymen in Europe wh
 might wish to come to this Ian
 of opportunity. Having sown t
 the wind, we have reaped tn
 whirlwind. Never again will W
 tolerate importation of cheap Ia
 bor. It Is always dear. It
 doub1y dear when it brings int
 our country. those who seek t
 accomplish the destruction (
 American principles of goverr 5 ment. But we must not shut a
 doors to the men and women (
 other countries who have a min
 to come to o11r Shorer Inv, 1a1