The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-02-19


citizens, and which has resulted in Ih,
deportation of a large number o
aliens and the attempt to tie up III,
industries Of the country through
strikes called by the radical and revo.
iuuonary element, have SO stirred tn,
Indignation of loyal citizens that muci
Incorporate talk and publicity is be-
ing INDUCED in directed against the
foreign born in general. For this
reason the speech delivered at the re-
publican Lincoln day banquet in this
city last Thursday evening by Stanly
A. Easton, general manager of the
Bunker Hill q Sullivan Mining < Con-
centrating company, the largest EN-
ployer Of labor in the state, was es-
pecially timely as representing the
sane. practical and patriotic attitude
that should be maintained toward our
foreign born citizens and those who
come here with proper motives to be-
come citizens Mr.. Easton's subject
was The Melting Pot" and his
speech, which is here reproduced in
full, is deserving of careful reading
by both native and foreign born:
Mr.. Easton's Speech.
"A Yankee on returning from his
travels in Europe reported to his in
curing friends that the country he
had been visiting was wonderfully at
tractive in every way. The only
complaint he had to make was there
we're too many foreigners over there
The same sort of logic blames all our
present domestic troubles to foreign
agitators and to a poorly working
melting pot. Let US examine the facts
as far as we can, and the facts as we
ourselves know them. We in the west
do not have conditions such as are
found in the slums of great cities, nor
can any general conclusion be drawn
from conditions found anywhere that
are purely local in character Because
rotten conditions are found in the
East Side Of New York City does not
prove that among the foreign born Of
Shoshone county. Idaho, are not to be
found citizens embodying our best
ideals. Our foreign born are largely
like our native born citizens some
are excellent, some Indifferent and
some actually bad; some are misfits,
some the unfortunate results of bad
environment and associates, and some
wholly vicious by nature and prefer
ence. But through a great group of
our foreign born population there truly
runs a real vein of appreciation of the
opportunities they have found and the
liberties they enjoy in this, the land
Of their adoption, and their desire to
aid in staunchly upholding the ideals
ard principles of our common country
is real and sincere and in every one of
our national crises it has been trans
lated into acts of sacrifice and ser
vice.
Work of Melting Pot.
The only genuine simon pure
American we have is the Red Man, the
North American Indian. and to him,
poor fellow, for some inscrutable rea-
son, citizenship is denied and not even
a chance at the melting pot is given
him, it being reserved solely for u.s.
for you and for me and the other for
aigners. From the time of Columbus
right down to today the little old
hard working melting pot has been the
source of all of American greatness
md it will continue to be the hope of
5ur future My American ancestors 4
anne from the other side in 1882, and
admit there have been some very =
good men come over since and many Y
II them very recently. Doubtless the c
nest able leader in the administration {
1t washington is Mr.. Lane, born IN a
canada. Whether this fact is a dem ?
,rstration Of the efficiency of the ID
netting pot. or a demonstration Of the O
uality Of leadership among the demo- q
rats which requires them to draw on n
,anada for help in running their bust s
less, I viii leave with you to judge. e
Every portion Of our country has its b
netting pot problem The black belt O
f the southeast and the lower Missis- T
ippi valley, the Mexican on our o
outhern border ana IN the southwest, @
he cosmopolitan medley in every sea- !,
ort and congested about every large q
ldustrial and trade certer are all d
oints and foci of fusion in this great d
netting pot of ours that must and will f,
lake the future of our country as it @
as made our wonderful past. n
The Square Deal.
"The Anglo-Saxon American ideal of
n equal opportunity to all within the
wv, with justice and a fair deal to
Il, no matter who, is reaching and e
generating this mass. I believe this h
nd firmly so. Our machinery for this a
lay be hating and imperfect and we Il
lay fall very short Of our proposed B
nd hoped for accomplishment, but as ts
/ the past for over 300 years these h.
rown and spread and they will con- 2
rown and spread and the ywln con- OIL
nue. to do so because America and m
s melting pot is now truly the hope "