The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-03
PUTTING UP THE BARS

PUTTING UP THE BARS
An Indiana congressman announces
that at the next session of congress
he will introduce bill to make oul
restrictive immigration law consider
ably more exclusive and stringent
than it is now and to make it perma-
nent. The present law, which is on q
basis of three per cent, has two years
to run.
The Indiana representative gO.s on
the theory, which is more or less cor
rect, that majority of the foreigners
now seeking admission to the United
States are undesirables, the off-scour-
ings OF Southern Europe and Russia,
coming to the United States TO es-
cape more or less intolerable condi-
lions, but at the same time with a
feeling Of hostility toward our form
of government aud our institutions.
Filled with communistic ideas and
anarchistic schemes, they assail our
too liberal laws and proceed on the
theory that they can get by with
things which bred and born Amer
leans would not ask of their govern
ment. In some cases, the immigrants
who have some ability as leaders, are
soon in open revolt against the gov
eminent, seeking to establish in its
place some such miserable make
shift as the soviet government OF
Russia.
While many of Americas besr citi-
zens have come from foreign lands
and adopted this as their nation, i'm
migration now must be confined to
people who will make good Ameri-
cans. 1t is an impossibility for Amer
lea to assimilate the great mass of
sodden humanity which would be
herded through Ellis island if no re-
strictions were imposed. After war
conditions is making the United
States the Mecca for all kinds of
Europeans, who are finding conditions
in their own lands iltolerable.
America just now has something
of a problem on her hands without
taking on all the unfortunates from
others nations who would come here.
There are several millions of persons
already on our soil wi need to be
taught the principles of true Amerl-
canism and love and respect for Am
erican institutions.
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The weather report for July shows
some records broken. While the Pal
1use country can stand the extreme
Try weather better than any O.ner
farming section of which we know,
t nevertheless takes some early sum- t
ner rains to produce bumper crop. |
4 July like that just past is not con- !
lucive to the best of conditions :
however, they come i
many years apart.
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RAIL WAGES AND LIVING COSTS b
Much has been made by the rail !.
Dad strikers charge that the rail- !
DAD labor board has been "basing the
ates of pay upon a minimum rate OIL a
3 cents and hour, $1.S4 day or 1868 l.
year. 1t is a striking argument 4
vhich pictures an American working f
ian and his family seated at table t.
nd asks, "Can these live on 1858 =
ear?" :
A striking argument but is it a fair
ne? No, and for several reasons.
he labor board did not base rates of
ay upon the 23-cent rate. The rate
pplies only to section men, the low
st paid form of railroad labor, and &c
, section men in only a very small :,
sction of the country. Section men ct
nder the recent decisions of the
BARD get from 23 to 35 cents and X
our and the fact that the average /.
lte is 1927 cents shows how few N
Guild come under the 23-cent rate
ne Nations Business. ST
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A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT q;
1t is uncomfortable that any Ameri- pr
n community should tolerate such ~
O11ibtion of free speech as the Kan