The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-01-01
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| railroads and made a vigorous plea
without delay, but with legislation
which would make possible the grad
| ual overcoming of the handicap under
which roads would have to labor upon
their return to their owners.
Emma Goldman, Alexander Berk.
man and 247 more "revolutionists''
have been put aboard-ship and they
are now on their way back to Europe.
archists who never became citizens
Of the United States.
The United States government has
long hesitated to take the step that
has led to the deportation of these
people who are complimented when
they are referred to as political pris-
oners." The melting pot had to be
skinned of it's scum TO protect its
contents from constant pollution; and
the bon voyage" to these unwashed
foreigners can well be changed TO
hearty wishes for good rddance TO
bad rubbish"
The deportation should be construed
as part of the practical work Of
Americanization, for just as the dul-
lard is finally rejected from the public
school grades and sent among the de
tion for the feeble-minded, so should
the policy be continued Of rejecting
foreigners who show no indication of
adapting themselves to our ideals and
! institutions.
Anarchists who talk glibly of the
revolution" should learn the truth
Of Vice President Marshall's state
ment that 1--WE had our revolution in
this country good many years ago
and have passed that stage in our
/ history" Foreigners who find it diff
cult to assimilate American ideals
| should be speedily deported, just as
was done with Goldman, Berkman, and
their fellow loud-voiced creatures, who
! have been tolerated year after year
while in return they fail to contribute
! single iota OF constructive work for
the betterment Of conditions in a free
country
Attempts to make martyrs OF Gold.
man, Berkman and the others, by the
| claim that they have been deported
because they advocated a new doctrine
will not go down. They have been
rejected because they were still for
eigners, pure and simple, hopeless
types that it was a folly to bother
with, or tolerate any longer.
Free thought and free speech are
American heritages. The progress OF
the nation has been built upon these
privileges, and under the full exercise
of this principle minorities become
either majorities, or drop into the dis
card. 1t is all entirely separate and
apart from the infection of anarchy,
which seeks to destroy a good govern
ment which these foreigners have
never been capable of understanding
With this distinction understood it is
clear that the "holier than thou
| Americans who haven't many brains
to think with, and who turn scornfully
upon the men and women of the coun-
try who are bringing their thought and
their speech, oftentimes rich with an
understanding of basic principles too
deep for prompt comprehension of the
masses: and below "bolshevists" at
their betters, constitute an element in
society that should have lived in the
days Of the early Salemites when
witches" were tortured.
The victories of little over half
century with three great wars in
which the country has been engaged,
are nothing compared with the vic
tories of peace in that same period.
Lincoln wrote with a quill and would
not have known what telephone was
for if he had seen one. Mckinley, of
another war, never had real motor
ride in his life or saw an air ship,
and the financial plans Of his time
would have precipitated a panic at
least once day If applied to present
day problems. Even within a few
weeks a scientist has convincingly dis
closed the fact that the rays of the
sun start out and get so badly twisted
that they finally turn back. with the
result that the direct rays of our old
friend Sol never did get to earth at all.
Free thought and free speech are
the parent sources which have made
America the greatest country in the
world And 1t is for these things that
we acknowledge to ourselves that we
are richly deserving of the Merry
Christmas of 1919 and the Happy New
Year OF 1920.
Wouldn't 1t be splendid If the coal
operators could only be confined to the
sugar refiners as customers, and vice
versa? How glorious 1t would be to
have them :ationinp one another