Middletown transcript., 1920-04-24
WOODS WARNING
j ON IMMIGRATION
No Use Deporting UndesirabIes
With One Hand and Admitting
!; Them With the Other.

Leonard Wood is better fitted by ex.
perience than most Americans to dis
cuss the tremendous problem of immi
grafton, for his professional activities
have thrown him into close contact
with all varieties Of our polyglot popu-
lation. On the subject Of immigration,
Wood says:
1--WE must give more care to our
immigration. We must look into the
quality of our immigration. We have
put all the sand into our cement that
1t will stand There is no use having
the portals open on the one hand for
the deportation Of the alien red and
wide open on the other hand for the
admission Of the undesirable immi-
grant,
1--WE need certain amount Of immi-
grafton, but we have right to know
something of the quality Of the peo-
pie who come here, and we are negli-
gent in our duty If we do not ascer-
tain very carefully what the quality
of those people is. 1t is not enough
that they shall be physically sound
and of reasonable mental intelligence,
but we have right to know whether
they come from the anarchistic group,
whose religion is destruction and
whose object is the ruin Of all govern
ment. We do not want this class to
come into this country.
Il think we ought to look over the
people who are coming here, just as
we look over men and women before
we give them a passport in time OF
war; They 60 to our consular and
diplomatic agents and are examined
very carefully before passport is
issued.
Instructions for immigrants.
"You know these people are going
to live among you; their children are
going to marry your children; their
blood is going to be intermingled with
yours We are all Of us interested In
the maintenance Of the highest posi-
BILE standard in America, and we must
look much more carefully to immigra-
ton into our country than we have in
the past.
"When these people arrive think we
ought to hold them for time under
observation; not for long time but
long enough to give them course
in intensive AmericanizatiOn and
teach them what our government
stands for, the difference between
liberty and license, and impress upon
them that here true liberty is found
within the law and never outside of it.
1--WE are glad to welcome the immi-
grant who comes here to adopt our in
stitutions and live up to our standards
and ideals If he comes with the In
tentiOn of becoming part OF us and
to support our government, we are
glad to have him; but we should turn
our faces like flint against the class of
people who are coming here with
avowed dislike for our institutions and
with declared intention of pulling down
our government. We ought not. with
this condition of unrest prevailing
throughout the world, to receive this
kind Of people We have the right
and the moral obligation to our own
people Of today, and those who will
live tomorrow. to see that the people
who are coming here to be the Ameri-
cans Of tomorrow are of the right
kind.
while we are proud that America
Is called the home for the oppressed.
let us see to 1t that she does not be
come the dumping ground of the de-
generate"
Evenly Matched.
You'd better be careful how you
talk to that fellow.
"WhyT' asked the rough looking In
dividual.
Hes shardb0iled.'
Don't worry. I'm q Commute egg
myself"