The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
A HALF MILLION
EMICRANTS SEEK
ENTER AMERICA
Some Ships Garry Fifty
Undesirables Snug
gled Aboard as
Stowaways

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| NEW YORK.-Europe is using us
as a Christmas tree.
We should run our country in our
own way not the way Europe wishes
| US TO run it. ~
would have you understand that
"A am for America first; what con-
Germs her is always paramount In
my mind and heart. s.
Having fought winning fight to
rid Seattle of an undesirable ele-
ment, Ole Hanson, known as the
fighting mayor of the Pacific coast
town, has just returned from tour
of Europe, uttering strong warning
for the erection of barriers at each
threatened overwhelming of hides
cribable immigrants from Europe.
"They are lined UP in Europe by
the hundreds of thousands" he said.
Waiting for an opportunity to get
into the United States-hordes of
undesirables who would have been
here knocking at our gates months
ago if there had been ships enough
to carry them
And hard on the heels of Ole Han
sens warning finger, Frederick A.
Wallis, United States immigration
commissioner at this point, pointed
to what he described as an organized
plot to smuggle undesirable Euro
peans into this country. He gave in
stances Of highly organized stowa-
way plots, some vessels carrying as
many as fifty stowaways who, pro-
tected by the crews and masking
as seamen, are making determined eff
forts to sail past the Statute of Lii
berty and away from the turmoil
and chaos that is Europe.
There are something like 49,
100000 aliens in Europe waiting for
a chance to come to America Mr..
Wallis declared.
'There are 81, 900 applications
for passports in Poland. In Danzig
they wait in camps like refugees for
the opportunity to come here. Ger
many has 100000 persons waiting
transportation here.
'This is the greatest gateway to
the nation. Through it can come dis
ease and disaster We must prevent
this
Mayor Hanson's tour took him
through Scandinavia, Belgium and
middle Europe to New York, aboard
the steamer Acquitania and he an
nounced his intention of making tn,
United States acquainted with the
European immigrants which he says
threaten the stability of this country.
Everybody where conditions are
bad, is trying to get to this country,
to this happy hunting grounds. But
they have no intention of going to
cur open areas, out into our country.
There their labors could ,e utilized
After Investigation, found that their
IS practical unanimity amcng them
y stay in the large centers Of ...,pu-
lation and there thev vii! Suck as
S ION as they get here.
With the present host of unem-
ptoyad lere, we are only adding to |
cur labor difficulties. Unless firm
md decisive legislation is enacted |
We are 1atrely adding fuel to the
flames Of dangerous immigration.
eve should have selective immi-
grafton laws, giving us the right to
determine what sort of immigrant
we will accept and also the right of
them in this country af-
ter they get here"
(l OF the side lights III the SIT
iatlon emphasized by both Hr. Han
zen and MIR. Wallis, is the parasite
cal organism that has fastered itself
TO the will of the European to force
! way into the United States.
EN- United States" said Hansen,
politicians have brought pressure to
bear on the State Department to pass
hordes of undesirable immigrants.
the number that can
come here is limited by the number
If available ships"
Mr.. Wallis declared investigation
lad revealed a gang of smugglers
lining the shores Of Europe all the
way from Trieste to Liverpool and
Up and along the European shores to
Holland. The trade is large and Or
sanized and assisted by police and
others. But the active element, Mr..
Wallis, were the members of the
ships crews who used every means
% protect stowaways.
In line with this, the old system
If examining first and second cabin
first, then the steerage
md then the crew, has been reversed.
The immigration authorities now