The New York herald., 1922-04-02

peppie WHOSE UdchSTOuilu TcdcneS
through many centuries of self-gov-
ernment, OF ideals of liberty under
the law, OF self-respect, indepen-
| dence, and OF fair play. With this
basic strain the smaller stream Of
| ScandinavianS was readily assimila-
BILE: it qartook. in some measure, OF
the racial tradition. and was apt to
learn. So. too. was the early Ger
man eiement-that is. the pre-Prus-
| sian German. before 1870. and 'espe-
cially those Of the Acht-gnd- Vicrsi-
gers who fed after the revolutionary
| attempt of 1S4s.
But the wave Of immigration that
set in about 1880, as Mr.. Roberts
| points out, was wholly. irreconcil-
| ably and probably forever foreign to
that great rradition--a tradition that
may be called Angio-S Saxon. for lack
of q better term. tOpen as it IS to
| obvious objection. every one knows
what we mean by Anglo-Saxon.l
Americas chance. says he, OF as
similating this mass rs even less
than humming birds chances. Of
assimiliating a box Of carpet tacks"
These things need saying: the
more picturesauely the better. For
it is fact. as MIR. Roberts puts it.
that already the alien and alien de-
scendant groups in America have
reached a point where they consider
themselves entitled to put out anti
American propaganda. but question
the right Of native stock Americans
to put out protective information OF
their own" Very much of the re-
cent literature dealing with immi-
grafton, with characterization"
with the assimilation" OF the alien
has calmly taken the position that
the aim should be not to assimilate
the newcomers to tho ancient Anglo
Saxon ideals, but to make out Of
them a new conglomerate. q neo-
American, who. in effect. tends to
become about a 70 per cent. Hebrew
American.
| Mr.. Roberts put his finger pre-
cisely on the root OF the trouble when
he says, speaking OF the slominantly
Semitic conglomerate Of southeast
ern and south-central Europe:
"These people have dis
played one marked characteristic
throughout the centuries. Never
have they been successful at gov
eFning themselves or at governing
any one else. They have rushed to
the spot where a stronger and har-
der people have established success
full enterprises; and by their low
standards of living and their willing
ness to subordinate everything to
immediate gain. they have forced
out the people who preceded them.
/. To these people. who for
centuries have demonstrated their
lincapacity to govern themselves.
America is blindly and fatuously Of
fering the keys OF her cities and her
reins OF government, and that is
/ why Americans all over Europe.
after watching and studying the type
of immigrant that is rushing to
America, are writing and cabling to
their people that immigra-
ton is. a matter of life and death to
the American people,, death. il il con-
tinue unrestricted. and life H it is
stopped" ss4 .s..l #.tFi
The protective information" which
Mr.. Roberts provides Is the result
of several years OF travel and observa-
J ton in Poland. Germany. czech0-
Slovakia, Italy, Turkey. Greece, Bel
gium and France. He sat with the
J consular officers and emigration off,
! cials-at Danzig, for example-as
they inspected the vast. stream OF
would be enigrants. and he also went
. among the people themselves, in
their villages and in the city ghet-
J toes. Tho result is q series OF ex-
traordinarily vivid pictures. some
with the sharpness and hardness of
J fiashlight photographs others more
carefully drawn with adequate light
and shade, but all OF them inn
menseiy Illuminating.