The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-01
RANDALL PLEADS
FOR FOREIGNERS
Congressman Wins Ova-
ton from Racine ROtar-
ians This Afternoon.
LETS AMERICANIZE"
Speaker Insists Less CIannish-
ness and More Education
viii Solve Problem.

Speaking before the Rotary Club in
Racine just after noon today, Con-
gresham C. E. Randall plead eloquent
ly for the Americanization of foreign
ers in Wisconsin and throughout the
United States. He urged education as
the roysl road to success in this
achievement and recommended public
schools, churches, lodges and other ac-
tiyities as effective agencies Of educa-
ton in citizenship.
The congressman's speech featured
very important gathering of the RAJ
cine Rotary Club at which reports
were made by delegates recently re-
turned from the national convention at
Atlantic City. These speeches with
their emphasis upon things distinctly
national provided an ideal prelude for
Mr.. RandalPs appeal for all-Ameriean-
ism.
All Americans Are Foreigners.
The congressman insisted in his adj
dress that distinctions based on race
and country had no place in real
Americanism.
Except for quarter million North
American Indians, descendants OF the
natives who the first white settlers
found hsre," he said, 1--WE are all for
eign-bafn or are the descendants of
foreig BORN stors. Ne are So
new in this country, whether our blood
be that of the Puritan or Cavalier,
that we have hardly forgotten the
traditions and home ties of the coun-
try from which our forbears came.
Notwithstanding we number more than
one hundred millions of people gath
cred between Castle Garden and the
Golden Gate, we will celebrate this
fall only the Booth anniversary of the
landing Of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
Rock.
"There are approximately eighteen
million people in the United States to-
day who cannot read our laws" he
continued, "and who must receive their
patriotic impulses from papers pub
lished in foreign languages. Probably
more than half of this number were
born in the confines of the United
States.
Work for the Common Good.
ITO teach these eighteen million
people the true understanding of the
Declaration of Independence and the
constitution which guarantees our
freedom Of rights; to inspire them
with the ideals of our democracy; to
give them a correct understanding Of
our institutions; to furnish them an
opportunity to live cleaner and better
lives and live in better houses and
have more milk for their babies; in
short, to give them a chance to obtain
more of the worlds goods, and finally
to teach them that their greatest priv
ilege is to work for the common good
and the highest welfare of our coun-
try, is the problems Of Americaniza-
ton"
Clannishness Is Un-American.
In conclusion Congressman Randall
recorded vigorous protest against the
industrial or social ostracism of for
eign-born citizens of the United States.
"In the past" he declared, eve have
neglected the alien as well as the
illiterate. We have been intolerant;
we have been clannish; we have re-
sented the moving in on our streets Of
those with foreign name; we have
compelled segregation and the estab-
lishment of Little Italy, Little Bohe-
mia and other little colonies. The
great war awakened us, In our Amer
lean way of doing things, we would
Americanize everybody over night.
But the past rises up before us. Our
long years of neglect and injustice are
barrier. The bitterness and the
heartburnings, the misunderstanding
and the resentments we have engend-
cred, must be taken into account.
"We much approach this problem
with sympathy and with understand
ing. We must cast out our feeling Of
superiority; we must get rid of our
feeling of patronage; We must meet
the alien as man to man.
'Then will the America of the fu-
ture endure, not because of our fear
of it, but because Of the belief Of our
one hundred millions of Americans in
America and its ideals and institu-