Arizona republican., 1921-07-11
MONDAY MORNING. JULY II, 1921.
The thirst after fame is greater than thdt after Uirtue-for soho em- braces virtue if you take asUay its re1U1rds! -JMUendl.
Shall This ss : Sink HoIef


 There is danger that the southwestern part of the United States will become the sink hole southern and eastern Europe notwithstanding the three per cent immigration law. In that very law which increases that danger.
 Under that law, designed to restrict immigration, only three cent of any of the nationals in the United States disclosed by census 1910 may be admitted in any year. the face of 1t that to be sufficiently restrictive and it to the Pacific. Atlantic and Gulf and also to the Canadian border. but is not to the Mexican border.
 The ocean and coast ports are carefully guarded Canadian ports. But the Mexican ports open and, thanks to the reduction of the American immigration along the Mexican border there Is long stretch of 2ooo miles through which immigrants may smuggle themselves with only accidental inter- ruption.
 A few days ago six foreigners picked up by the authorities at Nogales. Germans Austrjans and Poles. None of them entitled to enter the country under the immigration law. They said that the boat which brought them to Mexican port carried more than 500 of their countrymen who were trying to evade the immigration law
 It is presumed that the countries whence immi- grants come: out of courtesy the United States will limit the number of passports issued to the per- cenfage under the law That though. is only a presumption But if it true 1t would not prevent for there is such wholesale forgery of passports Europe that it Is impossible to distinguish between the false and the genuine. Shipowners moreover whose most profitable business is the carrying of immigrants attempt nice dis tinctions and as to Mexican and other open ports would no doubt waive formality of the passport
 The Mexican border fairly well guarded be- fore the war but after 1t apparently to fa cilitate the Of slackers this country. and later apparently to encourage liquor smuggling, the guard was reduced under the pretext of economy. There has since been a reduction by $125000 of the appropriation for the immigration service in the southwestern district, 50 less than dozen men are employed to watch the border between the Colorado and the New Mexican line
 There was in Europe such a strong ncen- tive for emigration to America there is now. It has been only short time since the law became effective and itis effective to the ports where immigrants formerly landed. The tide is only now beginning to pass through the Mexican ports. Unless it is arrested it will higher and higher sweeping over the border of Texas New Mexico and Arizona
 Once inside the line these immigrants will scatter to all parts the country where their detection will be difficult and accidental. But they will leave a detritus here-n larger towns along the border Phoenix Tucson. cities and in all the towns and cities there would be dirty sediment
 We think that this is a matter which should engage the attention chambers of in the southwest that through representatives in Eress protection may be secured for this region