The Washington times., 1923-05-17
WARNS Of ALIEN
MENACE To
NATION
Herbert Kaufman, Times Ed
toriaI Writer, Addresses
Tobacco Delegates.

1.-THE South leads in illiteracy,
but the North leads in non-Engllsn
speaking. over II per cent OF the
persons in the east south central
States have never been to school.
Approximately 16 per cent Of the
people Of Passaic, N. j., must deal
with their fellow workers and en-
ployers through interpreters"
This was the information given
| the delegates to the Tobacco Man
ufacturers Association last night by
Herbert kaufman, whose brilliant
editorials are feature of the
Washington Times and the Sunday
| Herald. Mr.. Kaufman has had
wide experience in delving into the
problems that confront not only
| this country, but the entire world,
and his speech was listened to with
rapt attention. During the admin
| istration of President Wilson, Mr..
kaufman was Under Secretary OF
the Interior, with Secretary Lane.
"Fore-father opinion is a, fast
diminishing force in national de-
examinations" Mr.. Kaufman said.
Strange shoddy has lately crept
| into the loom on which we weave
our destiny; intermarriage is stead
| fly diluting the foundation strain,
and if we continue to hold gates.
and veins wide open, different
conscience will soon captain our
genius.
Some Omin0us Statistics.
cit would Islander a vast body Of
loyal citizens not to admit the de-
voted service Of all who fought for
us, wrought with u.s.. valiantly sup
ported the country in every crisis.
Yet, a review of the past fifty
years discloses that each success
sive tide of immigrants has dis
played less and less sympathy with
our institutions, is more confirmed
| in it's racial solidarity more re-
sistant to environment and assimila-
ton.
..Ominous statistics proclaim the
persistent development of a para
| site mass within our domain. We
| have Hessianized our essential en-
| terprises until alien workers pre-.
| dominate the basic industries of the
country and hold further progress
| at their regardless mercy.
"Provocateurs OF revenge ana
anarchy-opportun and dema
gogues-are already forging their
strength into a weapon that BODIES
democacry i'll.
Reckless State laws admit them
to local elections without process
of naturaIizat ton. and inadequate
naturalization tests put votes into
their hands before we fairly get
English into their heads.
THE Republic is crowded with
chronically alien millions. Subjects
of a half-dozen European countries
may take the oath of allegiance
here without relinquishing loyalty
to their native realms.
Prostitution Of Elections.
Elections are no longer indicative
of real American sentiment-which
must not be confused with senti-
ment in America. Europe is subtly
beginning to rule us from within.
This influence is already potent
in the Congress. It has polluted
the quality Of State legislatures.
Unless W.. are wary and wise we
shall become catspaws OF the old
world, playing its games and pay
ing it's grudges through demagogic
representatives, who loyalty obey
it's spites and tend to involve us in
worse and more dangerous muddles
than far-sighted treaties will ever
invite.
1--WE have a capitalist class and
the meanest -birthed immigrant with
in our gates is eligible to join it. OF
course there are inequalities in
America. Men who do not dare
alike can't expect to share alike.
Dreamers without tools and tool
handlers without dreams-the spawn
Of drunkards, the offspring of vice
and indiscipIine-Great White Way
farers,, wait-a-whilers, some-dayers
spendthrifts and q wantons - the
timid and the cowardly-the in
sincere, the tricky. and all the sub
normal ill-nurtured, resentful brood,
come here from lands of regnant
injustice and pitiless caste, are
| manifestly unqualified to have or
hold the higher places and the
directing influence of the country.
No Magic i'm Success
There is no magic in this afr
that changes human nature.
1.-THE raggedest and most OPP
pressed wretch. fled here from the
injustice and the scorn. of the re-
CO4HcE III iNI1 NdIA
the seats of the mighty if he shows
sufficient worth of character and
mind.
This is a peasant republic. The
quality of our first citizens is ex.
ceedingly humble; there's a bit OF
farmer and joiner and tradesman,
even peddler and servant, somewhere
in our strains of ancestry.
Have Won Our Wealth.
"If we have wealth, we won it
from the wilderness; II We have ease,
we paid for it in effort and ideas.
If we have sons and daughters who
do not in turn serve their chance.
they shall finally yield to better
thinkers and harder workers.
I'VE seek out merit--we exalt and
reward it; how else may we dis
courage Incidence, unamhiton and
cowardice? We are not of one
caliber-simply born free to elect
our own careers and born equal
only in the chance to share pre-
vailing opportunity. That is what
America means by liberty.
Kings may not be necessary, but
aces are, and we refuse to allow
the discontinued deuce spots Of the
world to eliminate them from our
deck.
Sorted Out BY Right.
81 once saw a fruit sorting ma.