New Britain herald., 1920-07-03

To the Observers way of thinking the root of the Bolshevism problem has been dug up by a writer in a magazine published by a New York business house. Expressed tersely, the cause, in the final analysis, is the unjust attitude of Americans toward immigrants with their queer dress, their queer customs and their out landish" languages.
 'Ninety-nine out of every hundred aliens who come to our shores come here with the best of spirits" the ar ticle says. They have come to the land of opportunity. where every man has his chance, where freedom reigns where liberty is.
 Most of them are adults with the mind of a child. Most uf them come by nvitation-extended by steamship companies or by the employment de- partments of great industries
 Arriving here they receive wages many fold greater than those re- ceived in the old country
 ITO that extent the promise is per- formed.
 But there are other factors.
 They are a class apart-Ameri- cans treat them as an inferior order.
 The landlord gouges them.
 
 charge them top prices.
 ''The aliens are ignorant: they are bewildered; they are afraid. Wrongs many real, some imaginary-mul- tiply.
 Then comes the agitator, they listen-and. they see red.
 He tells them many facts that they know or believe to be true, and he sets forth as a remedy his pro- gram. They, lacking in experience and wisdom, fail to see that his plan won't work.
 They swallow it whole and some become our Bolsheviki.
 Tt is the duty of every man who loves America to fight passionately for justice-parttcularly for justice to the foreign born.
 ''If we do away with the injustice which the poor now experience, and if we send a few more Berkmans and Goldmans back where they came from, given time and given education, the unhealthy unrest and agitation which now pervade America will eventually disappear
 Most of the foregoing is true. We are unjust toward the alien. Per haps it is because we are too busy working or playinE, but the fact re- mains that we take little interest in the welfare of the newcomers to this land other than to see that they live in sanitary quarters and that their children attend school. With that duty performed our interest wanes. But, don't we pay professional di- rectors of AmericaniZation to carry on .shat work?" someone might ask. Yes, wo do. We compromise with our conscience in this way, proving, if proof were needed, that We have a superficial rather than profound in- terest in tho foreigner. Amcricani zation directors are needed in order that maximum benefits may accrue. They are experts in this field of en- deavor and it is right that they should guide. But how many people have a genuine desire to promote the wei fare of the immigra nt? How many care-really care-whether he be- comes AmericaniZed or not?
 America has the distinction of be- ing a profiigate nation. The war did much to reduce our individual waste fulrtass Now the nation is over looking one of our richest sources of wealth that is placed within our reach when it fails to develop in the fullest measure the brawn and red blood of other lands that pour through our gatewayc.
 Reports from New York are to the effect that the tide of immigration has