White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-13
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Congress is awakening to the nee
essities of the nation in a half-heart-
ed There is nothing decided
nothing that has the appearance of
business from a business standpoint.
The senate has passed a bill pro-
viding for the limitation of immigra.
ton for a period of m year to $780,
90, and il the house concurs it will
become a law.
That is not the kind of legislation
this country needs. Ii it Is proper
to admit $4,000 aliens to this
country il is proper to admit ten
times that number, and the pro-
posed method opens the door to
questionable discrimination and in.
Justice.
We have now within The limits of
u jurisdiction more aliens than
this country car assimilate in the
next thirty years We have an edu-
cational problem upon our hands
that is really serious. We are in
creasing our school appropriations
from year TO year, and still they are
inadequate to meet the requirements,
and principally because we are edu-
eating the children of the foreign
born. These children we are teach.
Hi W Dd iotH1 hOl thg hOiiit
influence often more than Offsets the
effort, and the child grows up under
the American flag a semi-American,
having eve greater respect for the
land of his parents than for the
land OF their adoption and OF bis
birth. The fact is the result of an
oversupply of aliens and their segre-
cation into colonies speaking their
own language, reading their
language papers. attending their own
language churches, and talking. liy-
ing and acting the lives they lived
in the countries from whence they
came.
Were ii possible to distribute these
people among Americans the results
would be different. bot living as
they do u efforts are hopeless, sc
far as the immediate amalgamatiot
Of the foreigner is concerned
Europe has been pouring her mill
lions or surp,ts human energy into
America every year as fast as The
great steamship lines eouiI bring
them over, until tie old ty3e of an
american has been swept from his
fUme and Preside and his place taken
by colonies Il a,ieEs. WIN bring
with them another spirit an . anotb-
or mode of life. and the American
type is being submerged by the tide -,
that menaces our national life, our
sacred institutions and our hopes
for the future. '
Good government demands that
there be a closing of the door against :
immigrants from all countries. We
have toe long permitted and " in
vjted the great influx that all now
recognize as a menace, and instead
of the present action of congress In
allowing the admission OF $4,000
there should he q positive refusal to
admit even one more foreigner for
q period of Mt least twenty-five years,
and by that time we will have no
for them.
OF what is the American nation toi
day? Go onto the streets any eve
ming and you will find out. You
will pass group after group who arc
speaking a language you cannot un.
6erstand. Are they Americans? No.
Not IN any sense Of the word. The
language of America Is English.
English is the language taught in
our public schools. II Is the legal
language OF the nation, the language
that every American speaks, and the
language in which every good
American thinks, and until every
American citizen speaks and thinks
in the language of America there
should not lie admitted to our shores
another alien regardless Of his
social. political. racial or religious
standing
Europeans may be having their
troubles; hut we are having ours.
They NAV be having a food short.
age and Ligh taxation; but We are
passing through the same crisis.
They may be having serious labor
troubles, but we are not immune.
Their coming to this country is a
menace that we as a nation should
strive to avoid.
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