The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
URGES CAUTION IN ADMITTING
 OF IMMIGRANTS
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so out each day and come nome at night without jobs Fof eyery-ten men and women in Great Britain 1 there are only seven jobs, and the { pity is there Is no relief in sight. Italy annually seeks to place hun 1 dreds of thousands of surplus citi- zens for whom she has no work. Ev 1 cry year most of the foreign lands are faced with population congestion 1 and all of them are watching cur inn migration laws and the pills we pre- l pare and pass. Next door to us, ! Mexico has similar troubles. Fifty thousand of them came in this year. 1 For the year ending last August, 1 United States, and l have told you of ! what China, Japan and the old em- pires have to send.
 Pictures Threat Of HOrdes.
 Our Sunday newspapers and many of the big dailies carry 50 and more pages Why? To carry the adver- tising great manufacturing concerns put out through the national agen- cies. the advertisements of the bis local stores, because of the business made possible by the sort of wages paid in this country. Let in the 1 hordes that would come here and who would have the money to b<J them? Reduce wages to the Euro pean levels. to say nothing of Ori- ental levels, and the buyers would be decimated.
 "We must have and continue to have protection for the American toiler. You would not last long none of us would--if men working for s2 day and s2 a week were making goods in competition with you when you were getting $5 or SC day, for, naturally, buying would be done where the cost of labor was low. These things we must consider as a question of the standard of citl- zenship.
 Advocates Strict Sitting.
 There should be some immigra- tion of the right kind, but we, not Europe, will say who shall come, or we will not let any come.
 There are seven c1asslfic2tions of limmigrants-very superior, superior, high average, average. low average, inferior and very inferior. In a check on 14,O0O,0 ,000 immigrants that came in it was found that S,000,00 were of the last three Classifications.
 T am foreign born myself, bu' I'm an American now, and n going to help keep the undesirableS out so l can stay.
 Tn New York 47 per cent of the
 
 foreign born. Twenty per cent are 1 not citizens New York leads the states in taxes on property. or al taxes collected in the state of New York, 30 per cent goes to keep the mental institutions going, and with l our immigration problem as many sneak in as come in. There is only one way to stop it, enroll every foreign born man and woman in the country in the effort to keep up the standard of the population here.
 Complaint has been made of our plan to charge $1o for the upkeep of l immigration measures 1t was said the charge was too high. It would | not cost an immigrant or an Amer ican a dollar. The adult immigrant shouldo be taught Amercan history and ideals before he comes, their children can learn in the schools. Do | you know that there are today In Europe a million immigrants to America who have carted back te Europe from this country $500, 900, ,000 | since the World war. Officials of one of these Europedn countries told me that they only sent to the United | States their old men and rubbish.
 Crowds of them come here, make | money, try to upset things, curse our | institutions when they go home and l say the United States is no good. Wt should take such people. while they are here. by. the nape of the meek and sling them back to the land' they call good.
 Tribute To Late Leader.
 We are gathered here this Labor Day in peace and prosperity. witf but one great loss to shadow ouI happiness. the loss of our great friend. Warren c. Harding. It was one of the saddest hour of my life when he asked me to come with him to Birmingham and I found l could not do it. It was his hand that shaped the way to the ending of the 12-hour day. He was the only Presi- dent In American history who had l the courage to stand up against the great interests. He signed the bill that has kept the countless hordes from your jobs.
 | "I wish to invite your attention to one or two things more before close. The thousands from among us that are turning from white col lar jobs to mechanical employmen l because of higher pay. The workers wage must be kept high enough fo, comfort, for schooling of children and the needs of home. What Is life for any of us if the income Is insuf- ficient for necessities and some time spend with the family.
 "You men have gotten your eight hour day, now give some attention tC getting an eight hour day for your wives. You make your wives get ur at o'clock in the morning to cook for you, an hour or so f-ter she cooks for the children to get them off tC school. Then her households other duties begin, then they come homo and demand more food from her cooking. then you come for the same and at 9 o'clock at night you want her to cook again. Your wives work as hard as you do. many or most of them harder, 16 hours a day. Or ganize for her and give her what you got.
 Another thing I want to see is all high schools teaching trades What gain Is there to send a young mar or young woman out into the world for not all go on college unfitted tc make a living. A good trade should should be part of every high schoo education, or little is gained iron the high schools. Educate the head the heart, the hand. for our highest duty to God is our duty to childhood {, Birmingham Citizens Talk.
 Before the, introduction of Secre- tary Davis, several of Birmingham honored sons made short talks to the throng.
 Dr. II. A. Elkorrie master of cere- monies for the Secretary's day ir Birmingham. and head of the deiega, tion Of Moose. which order was host for the day to the famous visitor handled the introduction of speakers the meeting of the Secretary at the train. the trip through the city and industrial district in a way that wor him warm appreciation from al members of the party. He held al speakers to a close limit in time. in- troduced each in a way that made all anxious to hear what was tC be T T to say that no throng ever gave any gz-----..-------------- ljDo YOyyr Feet Hurt?