Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-10-13

Within the next few months the
long promised immigration from
Europe will be pouring in in steady
flow. This will have the result of
furnishing more raw labor and may
affect the skilled labor as the imfni-
grants graduate from the crude into
more finished industries. The history
| OF the average immigrant is that he
dosen't stay on the bottom rung long
although he is glad to get there in the
start
Along with general reductions let
US say that newspaper prices will not
be lower. Newspapers did not partake
/ o fthe general wave of profteering
and the advances have been slight.
Then too skilled labor and paper are
scarce and not likely to be any more
plentiful. Newspapers will not be
cheaper
Demand seems to have caught up
with and passed supply in a good
many lines and prices have dropped
| somewhat in consequence. Where
gross profiteering has existed the bal
loon has probably bursted and the
/ high peak of inflated values is not
| likely to come again. On the other
hand the average price level is not
| likly to be back on the 1914 basis for
a long time if ever A busy and peace
full Europe is the only true solution
for low prices in America and as
! check on our robber industries who
have not hesitated to plumber their
fellows while the getting was good.
| The bomb Outrages no doubt had
their inception in foreign anarchistic
ideas. No red-blooded American
could or would blow into eternity lot
OF innocent people. No matter how
much we might disagree with the
! government or hate the money power
we don't fight that way The direct
action man comes from across and our
loose immigration laws let him in. 1t
! seems that the old Know-Nothing party
away back 80 years ago, perhaps knew
more than they were credited with
knowing. AT least we have seen that
North Europeans have quietly settled
down here, become assimilate1 and
done we'll for themselves and every
| body else. On the other hand the
! Semitic, Latin and Slav types have not
! ONNA 81 Ott~1ly uISSSIGu. lAGIG are,
perhaps, number of reasons for this.
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AT the rate things are going it will
| be but few generations when the tail
will wag the dog. In other words
when the foreign born will exceed the
American born and the domestic type
of citizen give way to the foreign type
of non-citizen The result will be
4 hp9VV- hOHinH -cly xryi+I,
ideals considerably different from what
the dominant Nord types of present
day America hold essential for dem
ocracy.
The Americans are poor breeders
as comparison with thirty years ago
and today easily makes manifest.
Americans like children but they don't
like trouble and responsibility that
comes with raising a family A false
standard of values has been set up
and pleasure and ease are made house
hold Gods in place of divine or
dinance. However things seem to be
changing and this important matter
OF race suicide, called attention to
| by Roosevelt, is at least considered
more seriously. There is of course,
voluntary inhibition, and in other
cases deliberate abortion In the
large centers this last has become a
/ fine art. No more crude bungling
with steel instruments is considered.
Instead electricity is used to stifle
| life and it is clevcrly though diaboli-
cally done. The professional numbers
his successful cases by thousands
and points with pride to the fact that
! he never lost" patient He counts
his wealth by the thousands but his
face is always a sad and serious one.
Perhaps at night visions of child-like
faces float past his pillow and little
hands reach toward his heart. "You
deprived us of life" they murmur. Yes
his face is sad and serious and his
money does him no good.
Dob
The last sort of thing makes real
people sick and weary and ashamed of
the human race. Then they see tac
good side of the medical profession
and they are glad and proud of their
fellows again. They see worthy doc
tors extending every scientific means
to prolong life and bring it back to
worn bodies. They see life saved
where apparently it is not worth saw
ing. They see doctors and nurses go
through storm and cold to save life
and they read of the heroisms of the
battlefield. There the Red Cross and
the medical men endeavor to restore
what human devilishness has torn
down.
The measure of a man is not
written in the perfection of his body
but in the greatness of his mind and
soul. Hopeless cripples have been
the worlds greatest men and women.
That is why it is worth while to save
every life no matter how forlorn the
human tenement may be.