Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-23
To LET IN
ONLY The SOUND
GOVERNMENT ARRANGING FOR
EXAMINATION or INTENDING
IMMIGRANTS ABROAD.
OTHER NATIONS ARE WILLING
Because of Ignorance of Our ReguIa-
tons, Thousands of Morons From
Certain Countries Annually Seek
Admission to the United States.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK

WaShlngtOn.-It is the intention, II
the object can be compassed, to pro-
vide means through arrangements
with other governments so that in,
tending immigrants to this country
can be looked over carefully hereafter
in the lands from which it is their in
tention to depart.
One of the policies of the present
administration, and it is said to have
| the support of men of both political
| parties, has been to establish some
plan by which foreigners who want to
come here can be Inspected ION the
other side" 1t has been hoped from
the first that any international law
troubles in the way might be over
come. It seems now that the other
countries are willing to cooperate
with this country in securing the de-
sired end.
The assistant secretary of labor is
E. J. Henning. He has been giving
! personal service to the immigration
matter. He has witnessed the scenes
at Ellis island where families have
been separated, some members of
them to be returned to the other side,
while other members were given per-
mission to land The situation has
been tragic and it has been due large
ly to several circumstances, one of
which markedly has been the lack of
knowledge on the other side of just
what the rules Of admission on this
side are.
Certain statistics which are in the
possession of the assistant secretary
of labor show, it is said, that nearly
three-fourths of the immigrants who
! come to the United States from one
foreign country are, so far as their
minds are concerned, in the condition
of the ordinary American boy of
eleven years of age. It is said that
another country from which good
many immigrants come supplies Uncle
Sam with a large number of morons
who, speaking from the mind point of
view, are only about nine years old
Restriction Extended Two Years.
The immigration restriction laws
have been extended for two years
Nothing like as many immigrants are
coming into the United States under
the present laws as formerly was the
case, but this country is receiving,
nevertheless, a considerable number
of undesirables month by month. With
the restriction laws in force for an
other two years the tide, it is said, can
be checked while arrangements are
being made through American agen-
cies abroad working with the officials
of foreign countries to see to it that
in the future none but decent citizen
material shall reach these shores.
There is some opposition to any
thing which looks to the protection of
this country from Immigration ca
lamities" Leaders of certain race
groups in this country are perfectly
willing apparently that immigrants
from all other countries except that
from which they sprang shall be kept
out of this country, but they insist
that their own people shall be allowed
to come in. The result is that every
nationality has it's speaking and writ
ing representatives to do what they
can to prevent congress from passing
laws to keep American citizenship
sound
The assistant secretary of labor has
paid considerable attention to immi-
grants who come for the purpose of
making money, with no intention to
become citizens and who return after
having saved the largest percentage
of their earnings"
Many Never Are Anaericanized.
A reading of some of the statistical
records of the United States govern
nent would disclose material which
would surprise a good many Ameri-
cans. There are hundreds of thou
sands of foreign-born people in the
United States who have been here
for years and who cannot speak a
word of English and who still live lin
terms of the old country"
In the past efforts to, restrict immi-
grafton have been fought not only by
leaders Of foreign groups in this coun-
try, but by men and women whose
ancestors came to the United States
centuries ago. Some of the ablest as
sistants of the foreign advocates of
unrestricted immigration have been
Americans of long descent who have
urged that no one should be kept out
of the land of opportunity.
In the last two or three years the
attitude of congress toward the immi-
grafton matter has undergone a
change, largely, perhaps, because
American labor has urged restriction
Gin self-defense." 1t is not intended
to say that members of congress have
not realized from other than labor
causes" that unrestricted immigration
was injuring our institutions and i'm
periling real Americanism. All that
it is intended to say is that when it
was good politics as well as good
sense to restrict immigration, the
members of congress went more heart
fly to the job.
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