The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1920-06-10
TOO MANY ALIENS

1t was generally conceded that the
end Of the war with Germany would
bring to the United States a great
mass of immigration, undesirable, ig-
norant and viciouS-murh of it. A
great many years ago Thcmas Jetfer-
son wrote: at is time we had be-
come more AmcricaniZrd. 1t is Sc
rious problem for America when
along with some good. we'll meaning
people there shall come to our shores
the riff raft Of Europc-thc anar-
chists, the bolsheviSts, the trouble
makers.
A bill was introduced IN Congress
October pa, 1919, by Hon. Charles r.
Crisp, of Georgia, to suspend all i'm
migration to the United States until
January /, 1880. The bill was not
voted upon last year wher introduced
and the Committee on Immigration,
composed of course of a majority of
Republicans, has not yet reported the
bill from the committee where it mas
been quietly sleeping. Mr.. Crisp, who,
is the author Of The bill. is one of the
ablest and most alert members of
Congress. He is the son OF one of the
most distinguished statesmen, Hon.
Charles Frederick Crisp, who served
in Congress several years and was
chosen speaker. He was regarded as
the best pariamentarian in Congress.
His son, now in Congress, is 4 worthy
successor to his distinguished father.
Referring to the bill he had intro
duced, last year, Mr. Cr:Sp in a re-
cent speech said:
In my judgment. the immigration
question is one of the most important
problems that confront us today, and
upon its correct solution largely de-
pendS the perpcrtuity of our sacred
institutions and our American form
of government. In our early history
some Of the older States opposed ad-
hitting our western Territories into
the Sisterhood of States, fearing
these new States would exercise un-
due influence in shaping national af
fairs. How can those States rest
cOmplacent today and see aliens ad-
mitted to our shores by tre millions?
Each year the immigrants admitted
into the United States are more than
the combined population of three or
four of our western CommonWcalthS.
Today a majority Of the population of
our largest States are of alien origin.
New York, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Minnesota, Michigan,
Montana, Utah and the Dakotas are
largely populated by people of for
eign birth, more than 50 per cent.
of the inhibitants being immigrants.
The same is true of number Of our
large cities. The last official statistics
on population are from the census Of
1910. According to it New York had
"a population Of 4,766,SS, only 1913
per cent. being native-born whites;
Chicago had 2,lS5,2S4, only 20 per
cent. Of them native born; Pittsburgh
had 533,9O5 with 33 per cent. ma
tives; Milwaukee had BIB, ,867, with
Pill per ccnt.natlvcs Boston had &c.
$50, with % per cent. natives and
Fall River had 1929. With only
1873 per cent. mattress"
Mr.. Crisp closed his able and
unanswcrablc speech with this ear
nest and inspiring sentiment:
"Our forbcars, with The great
price Of untold hardShipS and sacrc-
fees, and yea, with sacred. precious
blood, established this, our ideal
Government. in the wilderness of the
New World for themselves and their
pOsterty. We owe it to them, to our
children, and desccnda 1ts. and to
ourselves, to see that America re-
mains American, and that our price
less heritage shall in no way be i'm
paired; continued immigr; ton threat
ems it; shall we continue to slumber
when the country and form Of gov
eminent we love is cndangcrcd?
pray you, sirS. that your answer will
be No."