Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-12
BACK OF LABOR RIOTS AND MURDERS.

If there is doubt in the mind OF anyone the result OF he
unrestricted immigration policy OF the United States which peV"
ing until little year ago he has only to watch the names As
they appear in the accounts the and murders which have
companed the strikes particularly that Of the MINERS and
study the conditions prevail in localities like Hen and other
coal mining The riots America has to deal with are
those which those trades in which employed to uneca
ed foreign woren of them from central southern and eastern
Europerade which but step removed from common labor
The unrestricted immigration the last half century has filled these
Jobs almost entirely with the ra OF the countries OF these por
tons of Europe immigrants who have learned and Will
learn the difference liberty and license who have not the
mental capacity understand and respect laws and institutions
and who can by any chance be assated and made into
American citensexcpt by the politicians and for political pu
poses They become puppets the labor deagogue and recognize
no law as superior that OF the union they conceive it To
them the inherent right American citizen labor dead
accordance with the tene of organized labor and
anyone who accepts job thus approved becomes legitimate
subject for violence and murder The classes the
horie have TO deal with those composed
presses it, floods of the undesirable aliens who have already
made so sections OF the country into mixture which
blended the of America and the OF Europe and who
have confronted america with perpetual emergency since
$780, This tn. condition which exists in southern Illinois, West
Virginia and other OF riot and bloodshed
The United States has been waking during the past few years
to danger present and future that conron her and ns
tons and has begun to pay some attention to immigration The
Three Per Cent law has been operation for little and
has just been given additional lease of life for
The restrictions health mentality and financial ability avoid
becoming public charges have been strengthened but still
fully deficient These improvements the that they
proportion of the ndesabes but faulty long
of this class permitted to the United States If it
found necessary limit the admission OF underabes three
the law is defective that remaining three
Until the time when the w-makng bodies of the United
States have the courage meet the immigration problem
basis and prescribe for qualifications that will shut
all underabes and limit immigrants to those who irrespective
of nationality fully demonstrate that they and intend be
real Americans leaving behind when they this country
all Old World customs theories and habits and pass reasonable
mental and physical look for epetitons of the
RACES of the past few months
Kenneth L. Roberts writing in the Saturday E5cnng Post an
immigration subject calling attention the failure of the House
immigration Connmtee to the problem, world of
ground when he says:
"The House immigration Committee complains that there are
many angles the situation that is almost impossible work
out satisfactory law in short time. But Canada did
short time And the committee knows and everyone else
that if all the immigration data in the committees possession were
turned energetic bunesslke like
Gen Charles Dawes Herbert Hoover either Of those
turn out alright copperrveted AL ring edsnorting mi
grafton law in two weeks time and would be law that would
work with complete satisfaction this concerned
until Mars codes with the earth and pushes Boston Haror
middle of the Sahara Desert