White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-25
youId not Justify throwing down the

oars and casting them into the sea.
Congress has been conservative in
this matter. It never saw fit to act
in the many years that ii should have
acted. but when the after-war situa-
ton came about the facts themselves
were so impressive that action could
not be postponed. The country was
being overrun with foreigners at a
rate of more than a million a year,
and these of the least desirable sort
possible to gather were the world
| searched with a fine tooth comb. An
American could not hear his lam
guage spoken in eastern states and
cities for days at a time and the ma
tional life was all but submerged by
these missing links that Darwin had
imagined he could not find.
1t is not, as Mr.. Haskin and his
bank proponents OF no immigration
laws urge, that the nation restricted
immigration hastily because of the
fear that it would admit enemies as
immigrants. There were some boil
sheviks admitted, It Is true, and sew
eral were deported. II also is a fact
that on a larger scale the hyphenates
in war days made trouble and DEM
onstrated the colossal proportions of
the blunder that had been made for
years in permitting unrestricted I'M
migration, but such was not the
cause of the passage of the present
law. 1t was passed TO prevent the
labor surplus, to save the country
from being submerged in a motley
of European ignorance and filth. 1t
was passed to save western eiviiiza-
ton.
What the people are demanding is
further restriction. They are de-
handing it on the lines of the pend
ing house immigration committee
bill, which provides first Of all for
setting back the ems year on which
percentages are to be based from
1910 to 1890. They wish to stop i'm
migration from eastern and southern
Europe and to limit it from northern
and western. In addition to this
change they are in harmony with the
committee in its demand for a re-
duction of the percentage from 3 TO
2 per cent.
Until they reach the point where
they must cut off immigration en-
tirely they are determined to i'm
prove it's character. This they have
set their minds to and they have not
changed, as alleged by the syndicate
propaganda. They will continue tC
welcome the Briton. the Frenchman
the Teuton and the Scandinavian tC
the extent Of 2 per cent of the mum.
Der that were here in 1890, but there
they will stop. the passage OF the bill
amounting to that.
Neither banks. large employers oil
labor nor large capital in any form
hold the proxies of the American peo'
pie. They will continue to act upor
and to enforce the policy which they
adopted in their last restrictive meas
use, p~erfecting IL and further restrict.
ing immigration as time goes on
For such financial interests to puI
forth propaganda saying hat such
and such is the ease does not make
it so. for the people have not abdi'
Gated the right to speak for them
selves to any set OF men other than
those they have SEN to congress to
speak on this matter in the manner
they have spoken during the last
three years. What banks and big
business may publish as paid matter
paid for directly or indirectly-is
not the voice of the American people
and does not represent their views, In
this case their views being the exact
opposite.