The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-12-20
ARE WE FACING MORAL BANKRUPTCY.

! ARE WE FACING MORAL BANKRUPTCY.
great has left muttudes Of our Reopf s @
never be the again. The old leisure practically
In the rush pleasure and money old gd INT heees
custom and tradition buded by fathers for the
81 cha nave with their fes os
bomb throwing, flames kndIed by 'ncendares ana 'he
Our census indicates that terate population
ing rapidly than building schools and asd %
wr and yet about school and about
minister's about 10000 have within brief tune peen
foreignborn workers. speaking Polish Italian Spanish
Finnish French Dutch Serbian Japanese and Chinese
in their own language But to these
terate there must be added thet e
In an auocracy easy task to educate the ruler edu
cate the car or the kaiser the task fulfilled In rel
public the task Of educating the rulers means the sner
does promise we'll for the next generation that TO-
20ooooo Of youth under eighteen years OF
Catholic Gentle or Jew Yet the Ten Commandments
unsecarian the laws of gravity or the multiple
If boy is allowed grow up without knowledge Of the
OF ana
nuts rope his neck and chokes him to death?
nine as1S w
lao had 1o Chicago and London had had the popu
g. New York with approximately population equal to Lon
dons had six times homee and has aGger
1918 Glasgow 80 homcdes; Philadelphia 281 Los An
geles only ewentheth the size of London and yet has
more homicides than the English capital.
immigration from Europe threatens to become an nundat
ing The commissioner of immigration tells that 1OOo
900 100000 Polish Jews have applied for permits
sion the United States The of Italy is
encouraging seek country and 1t be-
ieved four millions of Italians WILL during this year
seek Once peace has been made with Russia and
the gates exit have been thrown open it absolutely GER
tain the very first movement among millions
will be permission leave Russia and enter the United
States One Of our great experts estimates prob
able immigrants within the next fifteen months at million and
half with millions seeking entrance. Left to them
this would nundation of mud But If Intelligent
patriotic Americans bestr themselves and put nsu
full these millions of be Amerl
canzed assmated and brought into full touch with free
institutions
Immediately after armsce thousand Ameri-
business hurried to Great Britain and entered into
contracts for cotton and wooden goods Some of
contracts formal documents and represented
informal letters Having full confidence in the word and bond
of Americans English manufacturers produced the goods IN
accordance with the specifications But during the past
the goods dropped value and the Americans found
price agreed Many cabd that they must withdraw from
their contracts Meanwhile British have COM
peted the goods according specifications The British Board
of Trade has to the American Chamber Of Commerce
twenty millions of dollars of contracts with Americans that
have been repudated The bitterness of the British financial
journals and trade papers is beyond all words.
These Americans, who repudiated their contracts are
breaking down the morals of the business world and illustrate
low standard which, before the did not exist IN
business circles The result condition approaching chaos
1t is quite possible for Americans short time to throw away
reputation for fair play and honest dealing that achieved
by long time and the highest standards honor business