Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Making Good Citizns of Aliens

MT. Editor: If MT. Anderson intend ed his letter as an answer to mine in your issue of the 18th l fail to see wherein he has done so. Instead he has dealt ln generalties and given us a ser mon in place of answers. He has also implied that l had answered them my self. MT. Reader of Windham has set him right on the status of the convicts sent here from England, but he failed to inform him that instead of being dumped or brought for purposes of CO., lonization, they were sold for a term of years to the planters of Virginia and Maryland at a sum per head or to the highest bidder. Very few found their way north of these points. Some of them may have become fathers of de- generates, instead of the founders of this republic and it's cherished institu- tions. Descendants of that class are still 'to be found in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia where moOnshine whskey was first as 1t is now. distilled and consumed in large quantities. The convcts were not the forefathers of Hancock, Warren and the Adamses of Mass. Oh no, l still hold to my first question, which no one seems to answer. That is, is indscri- minate immigration to this country a $. mas furnished us with anarchists, mobs who wave the red flag on the slightest prov ! ocation, promoters of strikes, black | hands also Emma Goldman and others i whom our government has been oblfg- 1 ed to deport in self defense
 The primal causes of emigration to i these shores were various Some come i from motives of avarice, others to ac- quire homes denied them in their own l country. large number to escape re- 1 ligious intolerance After the American revolution they still came to enjoy the l benefits offered in this land of freedom, Later on, some of our large employers of labor, threw out inducements or sent | agents to make contracts for cheap for eign labor. Passage money was fur nished also employment found for then on their arrival. Later on cong e ass put a ban on such proceedings. Even that did not entirely put a stop to it for 1 other methods were founa '1ich en- 1 abled them to evade the law. Now that our steamers need patronage, they are throwing out glittering bait, whicl in the end proves delusive. With quar. antine. places of detention, paid off cials. etc. we are saddled with another burden of taxation, all of which i' borne by the working class of the na
 
 ducer of same.
 The task of making citizens of tn, aliens devolves upon the class I hav' above mentioned and as MT. Reader hal
 said. will be a slow process. The only method I have in view, Is to give ou'
 brother the right hand of fellowship set him a good example. get In contact ) and try to make him understand wha
 Is required to get results, educate hi
 children in the schools for which W are taxed, and they In their turn ma, } help complete the process This is in
 tended for the worthy. not the undesir
 ables. They, as now, must be handle by the constituted authorities.
 As to construction or destruction le
 me say this. Given the task to build U or formulate a government. I woul
 demand the best material obtainabIe
 not the refuse or scrapings of some tot tering foreign institution. Kaiser VII f liam thought he could build up worl Y dominance. He failed for want of goo
 moral material, his foundations wer
 not secure. The violators of the Vol
 stead act are too well known to call fo e further consideration.
 a One more word about those Englis o convicts. Did not England have a rigt
 to dump on her own possessions? Tn l coIonleS were heTS by rlghu or dlScoN
 cry or it's equivalent conquest, It wa not exactly dump but rather a bu; : mess transaction to relieve her ovel f flowing prisons and become a sourc t of profit. To be a convict in Englan
 in those days was no great disgrace fC
 men were not only imprisoned but hun
 for the most trifing offenses. The COT : victs brought over became virtual e slaves. r E. D. BALLROOM. t Norwich Feb. 25- 1922