The Era-leader., 1920-01-15
Thrift Investment Bio,
To American BOLshepiStA
Cora Harris Declares
WOMEN MUST BECOME ECONOMISTS
Noted Southern Author and Philosopher Points
to Crisis Facing Country Through Agta-
ton of "American Alien" Class

Cora Harris, noted Southern writ
er and philosopher, fixes the respon
sibility for the social and industria
unrest in this country upon "Tht
American Alien Glass;" which hal
been made the victim Of the insiduou!
teachings of the foreign.born elemen
seeking to destroy American insitu
tions and Government.
Thrift will 60 long ways toward
relieving existing social and economic
conditions, says Mrs. Harris, In an In
terVtew discussing the present state
OF the country's unrest. American
women have a great opportunity to
teach saving, she says, but declares
they must cease to be the vampires
and become the domestic economists
Of American civilization"
I'VE have now to deal In this coun.
try with new and until recently un.
discovered class, which we may call
tue American Alien Class: born OF
good Anglo-Saxon and alien bloods,
but who has become the under.stnd.
les Of the Callahan hordes OF Europe;
who nave been shipped to this coun.
try at the rate Of 100000 and more
a year, until now there are literally
millions Of them" is the sweeping
statement of Mrs. Harris.
Before the great war We called
them immigrants. Now we know
them to be the Red Radicals, the So.
cialists, Anarchists, Annihilists, Titu-
lar Deities of the l. W. w. and many
other destructive agencies in this
country. They are the spawn Of the
mental, moral and physical degener.
acy Of foreign countries"
THE American alien to whom re.
fer for years has been the under.study
Of this Callahan. He sometimes was q
student of our universities, listening
to lectures from a scholarly Bolshe-
vtk professor, but more often a man Of
simple worth, who welcomed new
idea simply because 1t was new, not
because 1t had any worth, and be.
cause he never had studied or been
informed as to the glory and worth
Of the. ideals upon which his own civ.
llization was founded"
Not Labor Unrest
What we suppose to be labor un.
rest IN this country Is no such thing.
It is the Callahan features Of q de-
generate immigrant class, crawling |
ID out Of the mud Of horrible things,
to lay It's Shiny hands on the Govern.
ment and make Of that great class Of
American workers American aliens, 80
that now the two together are no
longer to be known as the working |
class, but as the malignant classes,
against whose efforts to destroy the
of this Government we
must keep standing army. And, IN |
short, no longer for the present are
we at war with the Huns, except as
they are represented by the Calabans
Of the country, but we are at war
with these American aliens produced
by these malignant immigrants who
are masters Of the dissemination OF
Callahan propaganda"
ut is against the genius Of our civi.
ization to keep standing armies. Our
armies are trained to make the world
,afe for democracy and this country
q the headquarters Of Democracy.
Therefore 1t is necessary to com.
Bat this propaganda with the wisdom
,f peace and by all the means In the
hands Of loyal Americans who believe
Ia this form Of Government
Lack Of Thrift an Evil
Zone Of the greatest agencies against
he very foundations of our institu-
ions Is the habit Of extravagance--
he lack Of thrift. We are bound to
ldmit that the example for these evils
was set for our people by
he capitalist class, but this class
las gone far toward redeeming itself
nd digesting It's sins by its loyalty
nd sacrifices for this country during
he great war. And, indeed, all other
ountries who suffered from the heel
{ German oppression. But the views
Z the rich now have entered the poor
/ a time when they have been emas- {
ulated and degraded by the propa.
anda Of the malignant immigrant
lass. |,
"This has gone on for years, so
hat they are not able to react against {
aess evil tendencies. They lack the ,
Ight moral discipline necessary to ,
,rrn honorable judgments; the sense t
, responsibility has been destroyed I
them and has been replaced by the d