Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-04-29
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WOODS WARNING
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No Use Deporting Undesirables
With One Hand and Admitting
Them With the Other.

Leonard Wood is better fitted by ex-
perience than most Americans to dis
.uss the tremendous problem Of immi-
ration. for his professional activities
have thrown him into close contact
with all varieties of our pOlygot pDpu-
iation. On the subject of Immigration,
Wood says:
1--WE must give more care to our
immigration. We must look into the
Iuality of our immigration We have
put all the sand into our cement that
1t will stand. There is no use having
the portals open on the one hand for
the deportation Of the alien red and
wide open on the other hand for the
admission of the undesirable inmi-
grant.
1--WE need certain amount of immi-
grafton. hut we have a right to know
something of the quality of the PEG.
pie who come here, and we are neEli
gent in our duty if we do not nscer-
tain very carefully what the qunily
If Those people Is. II is not enough
that they shall be physically sound
and of reasonable mental intelligence,
but we have right to know whether
they come from the anarchiStic group,
whose religion is destruction AMI
whose object is the ruin Of all govern
nenl. We do not want this class to
come into this country.
Il think we ought to took over the
people who are coming here, just as
we look over men and women before
; we give them u passport in time Of
war. They go to our consular and
diplomatic agents and are examined
very carefully before passport is
issued.
instructions for immigrants.
"You know these people are going
to live among you; their children are
going to marry your children; their
blood Is going to be intermingIed with
yours. We are all of us interested In
the maintenance of the highest posi-
bic standard in America, and we must
look much more carefully to immigra
ton into our country than we have in
the past.
"Wlpn these people arrive think we
ought to hold them for Il time under
observation: not for long time but
long enough to give them IA course
in intensive AmericaniZatlon and
teach them what our government
stands for. the difference between
liberty and license, AID Impress upon
!heln lllat here true liberty is found
within the law and never nnl side of IL.
Eve are glad to welcome the imm!-
grant who comes here I" adopt our in
SiitutionS and live up 10 our standards
and ideals. If he comes with the in
leutlon Of becoming Il part Of us and
70 support our government, we are
glad to have him; but we should turn
our faces ike flint against the class Of
peuple who are coming here with
avOwed dislike for our institutions and
with declared intention of pulling down
our government. We ought not. with
this condition OF unrest prevailing
throughout the world. to receive this
kind Of people We have the right
and the moral obligation to our own
people of today, and those who Will
live tomorrow. To see that the people
who are coming here 10 he the Ameri-
cans of tomorrow are of the right
kind.
while we are proud that America
~ called the home for the oppressed.
let rs see To ii that she does not be.
come The Jumping ground of the de
generate