The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-11-20
SAVING AMERICANS
Not All Is Well But Conditions Are
Not Hopeless.

Editor OF The Banner: With upris-
inss in Africa, Egypt, India and I'M
speakable atrocities being perpetrated I
in Syria and Turkey, with all these
uprisings AIMED at the white race in
general, and Christians In PARTICULAR,
Is 1t not about time for the Chri.tian
peoples to take new inventory Of
their heritage ana their destiny? In
any summary OF the white race, and
withal the nominal Christian peoples
at least, the Anglo.Saxon race stands
centrally located both as to It's history
and its genilB and any discussion of
the Anglo-Saxon race must Of neces
dty take into consideration the Anglo.
Saxon Of the New World.
We do not pretend TO hold that they
are the only races that have developed
and shaped the policies Of our Repub.
lie, yet We do say that they have been
/ the leading forces, that they have
moulded the concepts of our political
system and crystalized the central ele-
ments In our ethical idealism. When
the final analysis OF a Democracy Is
made, II Is discovered that IDEALS are
ITS very heart and soul.
/ 1t Is the contention of the writer
! that this great fact has been too large
I ~ neglected or almost wholly over
/ looked in our policy on the question of
immigration to the u s. 1t is not the
purpose to sDarage any nationality
for in all nationalites are choice souls
but that does not change the history
of immigration to our shores during
nifty years past, nor the far.reaching
results Of such immigration upon the
ideal, and institutions Of the Republ C..
Unit ] fifty years ago the tide of i'm.
migration to our shores came largely
from the countries OF Northern Eu-
rope, and from thence. too, we receive
a very large percentage OF farmers, Of
at least those who loved the soil and
located upon ii here. In the main,
these Northern European people poss-
essed certain great central concepts.
among them the idea of construction
in government. Because OF this con
structye instinct. the various c0un.
tries Of n. Europe have maintained a
reasonable history Of development, and
economic growth, so much so IN fact
that the movement from those coun-
tries to our shores decreased with rap.
i'd strides, while the tides from South
Europe set In, growing more and more
in number year by year the past four
decades. Suffice II to say that North.
ern and Southern Europeans have
never successfully mingled together as
nation builders in Europe, ard ii Is
the contention OF the writer that In the
main they are not forming cohes We
mass here. Instincts ana herltayes
covering thousands OF years are plant.
ed in the blood of the people, and it Is
to New York or Boston and residing
net possible to harmonize these strains
OF lood by imply buying ticket IL
New York or Boston and residing In
city on. our soil
Tie proof that all is MT well with
the Republic les In the increasing
population Of great cities. threatening
TO oyer-balance the polii cal desires
of whole commonwealth
.. In the eyer.increasing menace
of industrial anarchism and revolu
ton.
3. In the growing number OF ma,
contenti who openly advocate the oy
erthrow OF our government and urge
in its stead the adoption OF some rad
; ical system under the gu.se of socia
: and economic equality.
Now, why are these III nss so? The
writer does not for moment wish I,
offer 4 defensc OF any natiye.borr
e American who has contributed by
, speech or act to the weakening of oul
Government, but history declares tina
for centuries the Anglo-SaXUn has bee,
h a naticn builder All one need to d,
= is TO follow him around the world. a
< under the banner OF ST. George or III,
y Stars and Str pes, to observe he ha
been great constructive force tn
past Eve hundred yeats.
G Ii Is hardly logical the 'ofoTe 10 thin
(. in the narrow range OF forty years h
: should have h whole mental process
= es reversed SO that he becomes
: de troyer Of established law and ordel
+. How then can We account for thi
= Overwhelming tendency to dlscred
= our government and TO mllify it
. laws and institutions?
10 Since governments are built by pee
Y. pie; they are evidently destroyed b
10 people; hence II the fabric of America
. Government Is being weakened II
certainly being done by people Wh
n are they, and from whence do the
come?
~ Studying this problem for years ha
>. led the writer TO the conviction that
C. great part of those elements that [,
i'd day are lessening the security of OF
free institutions. came through the IN
IN migration gates OF this country With