The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-30
barometer Of Public Opinion


tuior World. I dos.r" spuc" for O. reply 70
!. w. simpsons article. favorfup the le,ptle or
yhuOns which appeared undsr Barometer u
i'hhhn opinion in recent l4sus Of The world. |
ihc subject Mr Lewis and M. Mckenzie
When The Pilgrim fathcra left the old world
much vehement language wa uoured ont lu
condemnation Of tbcir opprcssOrs Again IN ,
our revolutionary tIues tho people returned 10
vehement accommodation OF sny ,,,ysr sLI.b
sought TO govern or fo dictate to them from
''rusH ih" ocean And recently when German
Influence sought 90 guido the hands NJ this
nation wr found people on over This country
nrh""n'lnR That thing In violent language Now
when a4ll moro powerful yet much more 3e-
croNy do8iguiug influence is seeking to control
~" future actions ~ our country 20 is certainly
right ana proper ,or.uu rrd. .blu6drd Americans
NJ tho Mr McEruzr type to- denouuco that
ming great credit 90 our country has bcon
ih"Ho rod .bloodod Americans like Patrick Henry
who said "Give mr liberty or give me death"
and fust Irish h.u.i,d American prnduct who
std "lf ana man haul l,.r fla. American FLAG
shoot him uu fho spot" can YOU imagine any
one likely 20 say boo these times. III any man
tn1Il place an international flag above h"
Nl''I I.'n I''F. i'i uH f'F"t"hly knecI ana Hss
MS i'ot"'
When our public erhool gy,,iofp waa first adj
vocatod hy th" Dutch of Sew YORK some OF our
Row England forcftIhers ,yrro ycrv riticn ,or.
rled oyer whnt The, believed .,,otild he tho re-
suits uf nu uurratri,iDd fro, school system They
wrote. ana they talked against mat new ming
Wtich was different from the old English pri-
y,te s.tu,l ana tiff.,I,'t fr.. , ,,,,.DficL rI,b-
llc g,houI which rYu. Of th,,, h.li,ved would
boz moro suited to the nc,ds of ntr country
The arguments Ina favor of mo pubIic school
which Ifa uIgrpIIaL,' ,,,unr.ufs called IN, .pruq.
sian" school system FINALLY won ont with tho
Irish" lud the. .Dutrh' .,opIc but the same
predictions OF our New England and southern
for-futrers We find coming true AT the present
time. ult. .pugh we have seen much good do
Nrlop from tho public schools. II ls that We can
see the hand yyrItiuu ON 'bs wall for this FREQ
school system which is op,n TO ali the world 80
peculiar 10 America and TO Germany Ina slight
ly different form tx educating yrpat numbers
OF foreigners with no nroucrty not even claim
ing riftlenahIp moi beU,vlng in our Christian
senunrnfs AKA 60, cduc,ti,, tbcr, ,t tbe rx.
who In many cnses are so hard pressed by their
vocatIons that they find il extremely difficult
To rcAr large families of their own Al th. time
our English forcfathprs talked against the pub-
lie school nearly aI those who would imme-
dinicIv become benrficiarics were white people
tEngiish Irish. Dutch. or scandinavian and red
men am Of whom il was desirable To- educate
ana drvclop 10 th, highest mark OF citizenship
ana for whom there was plenty OF room in
America. However they feared a rush to our
country Of undesirable aliens who II educated 10
our standards would become a part OF our pco-
pie and eventually change the very race blood
ana character OF their descendants Now we
see on the Pacific coast many localities where
AsiHuc families crowd like sheep into stack.
20 or 80 iving In space no larger than Is re-
CURED by half a dozen Americans Look into
fhladeIphia. New York, Boston and other large
cities on the Atlantic coast. whore there for
eiguors competing the Americans. out OF bust
ness and crowding them back continually-for-
cignors with scarcely any taxes to pay and many
children to educatc'-the Americans with large
,aNcs to pay and Few children to educate We
nave our Aslatlc exclusion laws which specifi-
vsiors or student impostors. We extend "A con
tnuu invitation to students both to our edu-
cationaI and mission institutions. attempt
TO Chrstianize them and teach them not to lie.
hut after they come to our country students,
many of them never 10 back and some never
attend school. They use the studcnt and visitor
clauses in our national treaties TO get here, and
once here they are too often able to hoodwlnk
Uncle sam. Americans TAX themselves, and
some Christian enthusiasts pay one-tenth Of
their incomes to help teach foreigners who later
compete them out Of business. for the white
man has never been able to compete successfully
with AsiatiCs. We see the moral standards of
our country being lowered, with crime increasing
10 times what It was even 20 years ago The
Asiatic sentiment IN upon us: pardon
criminals and set UP free clinic that
couragcs the Asiatic standards Of morality which
exposes our people to these diseases that have
eaten the heart out of Asia for untold centuries
past Truly the prophecies Of our anxious great
graudfathcrs are coming true with destruction
10 their descendants as terrible they prophe-
sled would result from a free and unrestricted
minglinE OF tho children of all kinds and from
all races in schools, through their growing
years.
No,, Mr. sir,rson .,or advocato a Ie,p,,e Of
p,flnns IN oly1r,a tho rauso of pc,cr ana
American cor,merce FIRST II ,,i, understand
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