Evening star., 1921-05-03
Editorial Digest
Three Per Cent Immigration.

three Per Cent Immigration.
Prohibition of anything stronger
than ) per cent immigration-3 per
cent Of the number of each race resi-
dent at the time Of the 1910 census
meets with the approval Of a large
number Of newspapers, though some
OF those who support the Dillingham;
Dill regard 1t as only a stop-gap with
out accepting its principle. There are
number Of writer's who object to
limiting the number Of our new citi
zens on the basis of race, and others
consider the whole idea mischievous
ana useless as a solution for the prob
lem that must be met by organized
assimilation rather than numerical
restriction
individual fitness" is "the only test
tnat harmonizes with the American
tradition" says the New York Globe
independently. and is a criterion which
must stand If our old conceptions OF
uelnocracy are to be maintained" In
oouction or the race question" at
az, the San Francisco Chronicle Gn-
uepe ehueht) considers unnecessary and
unfortunate" for mo race is free
from undesirables, even the American
race. AS to orientals, however. the
coast paper explains that there ut is
not a question of races. but of in
aiViduals The Minneapolis Journal
independent republican,, calling the
olii a confessedly stop-gap measure"
describes 1T as restriction by arith-
metic. not by selection"
The Philadelphia Bulletin Gndepend-
ent republican, points out that the
Mexican population in 1.-The last decade"
has increased 100 per cent and adds:
if the future immigration is to be reg
uiateu on 4 percentage of present repre-
hn nv-ti ,s-,
whether better citizenship is expected
from a Mexican than from an alien from
Europe"
The rush to get under the wire before
.he nmit IS reached will produce a
hurried influx" the quality of which
will be far more doubtful than it's
quantity" the Syracuse Herald Gnde-
pendenD believes, and "yet quality is
precisely the thing which it should be
the aim of Congress to insure The st.
Louis Star independently considers that
the bill has an unfortunate tendency
tions as undesirables."
The Florida Times Union demo
cratic) disposes of the red menace by
saying that "if We would enact laws
dealing properly with anarchy we might
admit all the anarchists in the world;
as it is. there never was poorer time
to restrict immigration than now
"A chance to get our breath Is the
chief value in this Temporary meas
ure," says the Grand Rapids Press Gn-
dependenD. and agreeing the Pitts
burgh Sun (democratic) sounds the
warning that: "It will avail US little to
shut out immigrants for time. if we do
not use that time to thoroughly assim-
late the millions of foregn-born persons
now living here. When all aliens have
been made part and parcel of America,
perhaps there will be no need for re-
stricting immigration at all. except for
nh nj oil to1 Il
cheney in the individual But that time
is not yet"
The st. Louis Globe Democrat IRE
publican) believes that "this provisional
levee should be erected in urgent haste.
to be replaced in future months by
more substantial restraining structure"
- There are. however. large number Of
writer's who seem to feel. with the Chris
tian Science Monitor Boston. independ-
enD, that "the bars must go up all
and in that spirit they accept the Dill
lingham bill as "a step in the right di-
rection." The New York Tribune (re-
publican) comments sympathetically,
declaring that the measure zap
proaches'' the problem from "the polti-
cal as well as th. economic angle" and
feels that it ''is better than exclusion
and better than simple percentage
Americans will find general satisfac-
tioh IL tne biiiinSnam ltSlSlatlOn Is
passed. says the Louisville Post (inde-
pendenD. for the asylum theory"
which has been traditional with the
United States must, like other tradi-
tions. change with conditions" Ac-
cording to the Reno Gazette (republi-
cam, this is no time for Congress to
make display of sickly sentimentality
about the oppressed of Europe or play
into the hands of the organized racial
groups that are already becoming too
offensive I'm this country
The Cincinnati rcial-Tribune
(republican) rejoices in the prospective
wholesale stoppage of the great inflow
of riffraff and offscouring from Europe"
which will result. Indeed. the Buffalo
Commercial Independently finds dis
tirct merit in the measure, since it is a
"far wiser plan to put an educational
test in force" as education is mot a
measure of good citizenship
Americas duty to Americans is
factor that must be considered. the
Lexington Leader (republican) shows
when it says we cannot afford to make
the new world a "bedIam as we'll as a
Babel. a 'polyglot boarding house. with
out even hash to go round"