Evening star., 1920-02-22
WOULD BAR ALIENS
COMING FOR RICHES
Vice President Marshall
Would Receive Only Those
Who Seek Home.

| NEW YORK, February 21-AHens
| who come to America mot intending
to make permanent homes. but ex-
pecting to return, should not be re-
| jceived," Vice President Thomas r.
Marshall declared here tonight in an
| address al dinner given by the Sui
| grave Institution in celebration of the
| ltercentenary of the Pilgrim Fathers.
| Ihis country, he added, should no
| longer be loved for its opportuni-
ties alone but should be loved for
| its institutions as we'll"
| Mr. Marshall. Ronald c. Lindsay,
counselor to the British embassy and
charge daffaires, and Dr. II. de Beau
fort. counselor of the Netherlands
| legation. were guests of honor
one of the lessons of the Pilgrim
FATHERS that should he stamped upon
the heart. of every liberty loving
| American said Mr.. Marshall. is that
| they came to Plymouth Ito worship
God and to make homes. determined
never to return to Europe"
These Pilgrims were English
speaking people" he continued, and
from their forgotten graves thev
ought never to stretch forth their
dusty hands and touch the sleeve of
an american elector who does not
speak the English language.
Education is good and needful for
the American. Newcomers should be
required to learn our language that
Iney may understand our institutions
IL atheists. homeless wanderers and
1ortune-seekers had been kent with
out our doors. one of the great lessons
or the Puritan would have been
learned and American institutions
could now be backed UP by citizen
snip more cohesive than ours
Unfit to Survive.
In these troublous times. when
NJ Il,
the purpose of forcibly undermining
me government of the United States
IL is we'll to remember that the gov
eminent of the fathers is unfit to sur
VlVf II 1t is powerless to prevent nm
lawful assaults upon it's AUTHORITY"
Eulog1zIng the Pilgrim Fathers for
lReir great accomplishments. Vice
President Marshall said:
me fiigrlms are the life of the
republic, like the very air we breathe,
been.
Search the long line of illustrious
names which adorn in peace and war
the annals of human history, and tell
me If there is a single soul which
equals in majesty of purpose and
greatness of conservation the plain
and homely Abraham Lincoln. Tell
me vet again if in all the movements
which nave left their mighty impress
AOi t,COu upoi tHe country and
world there is any force comparable
with that which came from the un-
learned, untutored, unpampered. vet
devoted Pilgrim Fathers. AS was
said of the New England primer. they
taught millions how to live and NOT
one how to sin"
America is in debt to Holland "in no
small degree" for the principles Of
freedom brought to her shores by the
Dutch settlers and the Pilgrim
llr n
address.
What the Dutch settlers them
selves brought to America" he said
and what the Pilgrims had learned
| IN Holland was the principle of free
dom.
Derived From Holland
The free schools in America. the
doctrine first laid down by a legis-
! lative assembly that the people are
source of political authority, rerma-
nent religious freedom, the right to
petition, freedom of the press--all Of
these institutions which give to Amer
lea Its distinctive characters were
example of Holland. transmit ted
| through these early Americans"
The founding of the Plymouth col
ony, said DR.. de Beaufort, prepared
the way for the birth of Il new and
mighty world"
The worlds debt to tSe Pilgrims"
he added, 'fs not limited by any
denominational lines; ic<fs universal.
All the lovers of intelligence, prog
ress and civil as well as religious
liberty have the right to share in it,"
In making an appeal for stronger
Anglo American relations Mr.. Lind
say asked that the younger American
generations be taught to forget
George III and Lord North and to re-
member those Englishmen who had
"sympathized with the cause of lib
erty."
Il am always struck by the keen
interest America takes in the doings
of the British empire" he added, "and
England's critics seem to me to make
quite a considerable noise. l should
never think of quarreling with fair
criticism. and in the government Of
the British dominions and colonies
plenty of mistakes are made, just as
from reading American newspapers l
am compelled to suspect that mis-
takes are sometimes made in the gov
ernment of America.
But, criticising mistakes, please
remember that no art is as difficult
as the art of government"