Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-06

ment. Anglo-Saxon brains have
guided the course of the republic
Our ideals are Anglo-Saxon, our So
cial traditions, our standards OF hon
or, our quality Of Imagination and our
irdomitability.
But Anglo Saxon opinion is a fast
diminishing force in national deter
limitations. Strange shoddy has late
ly crept into the loom on which we
weave our destiny; intermarriage is
steadily diluting the foundation
strain, and if we continue to hold
gates and veins wide open, Anglo
Saxon conscience will soon cease to
captain our genius.
1t would SANDER a vast body of
loyal citizens not to admit the deyot-
ed service of all who fought for us,
wrought with US. valiantly supported
the country in every crisis. Yet, a
review Of the past so years discloses
that each successive tide of immi-
grnats has displayed less and less
sympathy with out institutions, is
more confirmed in its racial solidar-
ity, more resistant to environment
and assimilation.
Ominous statistics proclaim the
persistent development of a parasite
mass within our domain-our politi-
cal system is clogged with foreign
bodies which stubbornly refuse to be
absorbed, and means must be found
to meet the menace. We have taken
unto ourselves Trojan horse crowd
ed with ignorance, illiteracy and
envy. We have Hessianized our es-
sential enterprises until alien workers
predominant the basic industries OF
the country and hold further progress
at their regardless mercy.
Provocateurs of revenge and an
archy-oppotunists and demagogues
are already forging their strength
into a weapon that bodies democracy
Ill.
Reckless state laws admit them to
Il cal elections without process of
naturalization, and inadequate nat
urallzation tests put votes into their
hands before we fairly get English
into their heads
The Republic is crowded with
chronically alien millions. The Del
bruck Law is not the only device by
which the foreign born retain dual
European countries may take the
oath of allegiance here without relin-
gushing loyalty to their native
realms.
Elections are no longer indicativ
oe real American sentiment-which
must not be confused with sentiment
in America. Europe is subtly begin
ming to rule us from within. A mill
lion votes-two millions-Who knows
how many-are about to be cast ny
folk whose hearts are abroad end
whose pockets alone are here.
This influence is already potent in
| the Congress. 1t has polluted the
quality of State legislatures. Unless
| we are wary and wise we shall be-
come catspaws of the old world, play
| ing its games and paying its gradges
through demaGogic representatives.
who Loyalty obey its spites and tend
| 10 involve US in worse and more dan
I gerous muddles than sighted
treaties viii ever invite. We are of
j many strains: our population is re-
cluited from every kingdom and re-
public earth over. but the basic breed
| is Anglo Saxon and our code is that
| CT an Anglo Saxon people. We speak
> the English language. its literature
and codes and history have nodded
eur consciousn ess. We belong in The
& .eat Anglo-S Saxon group. our ways
of living and doing are theirs.
A group of soreheads can wrest
, control Of affairs from the hard
T, heads who. generation by generation,
| brought America from wilderness to
world power, by protecting workers
from shirkers-by keeping the road
+ talent and tenacity.
| There is favoritism in these Uni
i ted States and it belongs to Compel
| ence: there is prejudice, we're against
| non producers and we despise quit
| tors
We have a capitalist class and the
mcanest- birthed immigrant within
our gates is eligible to join it. There
| are merchant princes and captains
OF industries in this country and
they and their fathers graduated into
\
and steerage-as you and your chill
| dren may do with equal judgement
and energy.
/ OF course there are inequalities in
America. Men who do not dare alike
can't expect to share alike. Dream
ers without tools and tool-handlers
without dreams-the spawn of drunk
ards, the offspring of vice and in
dlscipline-Great White WayFarers,
wait a-whilers, some dayers. spend
| thrifts and wantons-the timid and
the cowardly-the insincert, the trio
Ky, and all the subnormal, ill-nurtur-
| ca, resentful brood, come here from
lands of regnant injustice and ptiless
caste, are manifestly unqualified to
Lave or hold the higher places and
the directing influence Of the country.
| There is no magic in this air that
i changes human nature. Mere pres
ence in America does not alter per-
sonal estate: it simply warrants the
right of self alteration. Whosoever
chooses a noble pattern for his care
er is privileged without prejudice or
| hlndrance to wear such robes of DOW :
= oHu uiSiiits DIS beIll MS dInDltlOn.
The raggedest and most oppressed
wretch. fled here from the injustice
and the scorn Of the remotest cor
ner of earth, can sit in the seats Of
the mighty if he shows sufficient
f, worth Of character and mind.
| But there's just one road to pre-
ferment-and one code: the hard,
straight road of personal effort, the
clean, if harsh, code of survival by
| merit
If there is no faNoritism extended