The Mena weekly star., 1922-02-23
GUARpING OUR OWN

How many Americans, and we mean more particularly Americans of the old stock that have impressed the Anglo-Saxon civilization on our coun- tsv. realize that after June 90 next the United States is threatened with a real invasion of the worst elements of Europe if Congress does not pass a law or laws to prevent it? The pres ent emergency law limiting immigra- tipn to three per cent of the popula- tion in our country as shGwn by the Hast census, expires by limitation on that date, so there are only a little over four months in which Congress can do something to stop this invas- ion, for it is nothing less, which 1t is admitted is ready to ovcrwhelm us, Have we Americans forgotten so quickly the terrible lesson learned too late when the war came on: that q big percentage of our foreign popu- iation, Germans, for example, had not fused in that melting pot" for eign propagandists among us, as our own fool sentimentalists had pro claimed so loudly for years previous /?
 The whole problem boiIs itself down to this: do we want to preserve our country with it's Anglo Saxon civili- zation for ourselves, our children and our children's children, or have we be- so bloodIess thru this melting Do. rot that we care only for the mo. ent and the paltry dollars we can make? To tco great an extent it looks as tho we care little for the fu ture of our country.
 However, there are some hopeful signs now in Congress that something may be done Some bills with more or less merit have been introduced in both branches of our national legis- lature. But all such measures will have to run the gauntlet of powerful, well-organized opposition both in Congress and without. In Congress there are many members afraid of the foreign vote or powerful financial in rerests desiring cheap labor even from the slunss of Europe. Outside of Congress are already too numerous racial groups who are working to get all their European or semi-Asiatic kith and kin within our borders. the powerful shipping interests seeking to bring them over, the financial in- ferests just mentioned who desire cheap labor, and our own fool Ameri- can sentimentalists preaching the melting pot" rot, this is the home of the oppressed" etc. It is too bad posterity has no vote
 It is undoubtedly true that there is an insistent nationwide demand for immigration legislation that will meet existing conditions squarely and adequately and this is what is waking congressman up to ''get a move on" themselves. It also appears that there is organized body of lead- ing American citizens with national committee for constructive immigra- tion legislation. This organization is just now sending out literature with of population we have been getting from Europe and Asia. This commit tee recommends the careful study of what is known as the Sterling Bill tScnate Bill 1253), and says fit ap- pears the most carefully thought-out concrete proposal for regulating im- migration that has thus far been prepared. In section 2 of this bill is the following declaration: Ut is here by declared to be the policy of the Umfed State to admit annually only so many law-abiding immigrants of any national or racial group as may De capable of being so employed as not to endanger the normal American standard of living. labor and wages, and as may be capable of becoming assimilated by communities of En. giish-speaking type, and wholesomeiy | incorporated into the body polite l within a reasonable time, such capsc- 1 lty of employment and assimilation to be determined by the Immigration Board in the light of experience with other immigrants of the same or re- lated national and racial group"
 Here in the Southern States we should feel special pride in the old American stock that settled and founded our country for that blood has been less contaminated by the melt ing pot" rot than in most other states.
 No American need doubt the facts m this matter. There is no mystery to It No less an authority than Prof. Robert DeQ. Ward of Harvard Uni versity, said on this threatened flood immigration in recent number of the Journal of Heredity: Such a situa- tion has never before confronted us. This is not normal immigration 1t IS a frenzy, a panic. stampede, mob. without calculation, without sound judgment; a seothing mass of humanity with but one idea--'Ameri- ca'H
 Here is something for those same believers in the melting pot" rot to take home; Dr. Henry Fairfield Os- born, the great authority on evolution, in an address before the recent Inter- national Eugenics Congress, said:
 are slowly awakening to the con ousness that education and environ 1t do not fundamentally alter ra- al values. We are engaged in krious struggle to maintain our his- toric republican institutions thru bar ring the entrance of those who are unfit to share the duties and responsi- bilities of our well-fcunded govern n1ent, The true spirit of American democracy that all men are born with equal rights and duties, has been confused with the political sophistry that I'll men are born with equal char aeter and ability to govern themselves H-a ets:r-@. ard with the educational sophIstry that education and environ ment will ofset the handicap of an- cestry.H
 L. e. Taylor.
 kERer Route. hsnz. Ark.
 Mr. Taylor recently called attention te the eon1ition he kss. on renrses rf