Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-04-18
IMMIGRATION.

congress must grapple with. That many
undesirables are coming to our shores
is not disputed and ways and means
to remedy the evil are not fOrthcOm-
ing.
There is no danger to our institu-
| tons or our prosperity or to our vel
| fare lin admitting the right sort OF
| foreigners to American citizenship We
are all foreigners or descendants OF
foreigners and it is comparatively only
a few years since the first settlements
of civilization were made in the Unit
ed States.
The Freeman-J Journal is not pre-
JUDGED against any nationality or race.
Every law-abiding, useful citizen looks
alike to it. But it realizes, as every
one who is interested in the future
welfare Of the country must realize,
that many people are now seeking a
residence in the United States who are
wholly unfit to become citizens and
who are menace to the perpetuity Of
our cherished institutions.
An educational qualification is en-
tirely inadequate. In fact, the most
dangerous immigrants are we'll edu-
Gated. They come saturated with the
ideas of the commune and Of anarchy
and their intelligence and education
make them more dangerous. They be-
come leaders in the propagation of I'M
wise theories and misuse the freedom
of this country to SOW the seed of dis
trust and dissatisfaction establishing
breeding places for dangerous doc
trines.
Out here in the great west we do not
come in personal contact with the vic
ious immigrant and do not sense the
danger as keenly as the east does,
where visible evidence is daily in
sight and is becoming more and more
|menacing.
In writing on "The immigration
Problem of Today" Robert De c. Ward,
Of Harvard University, says among
other things:
1.-THE most recent, unprecedented and
Authoritative reports on the general
conditions of aliens who are planning
+! to come to this country are those re-
ceived by the consular service of the
department Of state, from officers Of
this government who have visited the
various countries abroad. The evil
dence is embodied in condensed form
in report No. 100, Goth congress, Bird
session, (Dec. 6, 1920, submitted by
the committee on immigration and
naturalization. 1t is clear that maj
Ority of these prospective immigrants
are physically deficient mentally de-
ficient,' economically undesirable
Socially undesirable of low standard
of living, not of the most desirable
class
"In the light Of these reports by
United States consular officers the
house immigration committee is GER
tainly stating the case very mildly
when it says in its report: "The COM
mittee is confirmed in the belief that
the major portion of recent arrivals
come without funds. 1t was apparent
| to the committee that large percent
age of those arriving were incapable
of earning livelihood. .
A study Of the new immigration from
central EurOpd convinced many men,
bers of the committee that the arriving
Immigrants are not those who might
go to farms; that they are not agricul-
turists, but mainly additional pOpula-
ton for our principal cities and con-
gested industrial districts
"On the same point the following
statement from the foreign cores
pondent of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, in telegram from Warsaw,
Dec. II, 1920, may be quoted:
The most extraordinary, hopeless,
destitute and pathetic emigration
which the world has known now is
making its way to America, the prom
Used land, through Poland from as far
east as Kief, and from Russian terri
tory north and east of the Black sea.
Even from Georgia masses Of poor,
disease-laden people are making their
way to America
Within three weeks 10000 have
reached the Warsaw territory. This
is only a beginning. Unfortunately, boil
lsheyist agitatOrs and communists are
with the majority OF the hOrdes and
are confident that in the general con-
illusion they will be able to get into
America, where they propose to spread
propaganda
American citizens in Warsaw are
distressed and alarmed over the char
acter of this immigration
Seeing Is Relieving.
London Answers: Mrs. Swanke-We
need some now rigs dear