The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
THE COMMON SENSE OF IMMIGRATION

"Cvilization does not always fall before the attack
of invading armies; sometimes they fall before the
peaceful penetration of alien peoples coming
through the nations gates as workers or as slaves.
Thus remarked James j. Davis, Secretary of
Labor, to Oswald Ryan, of Anderson, Indiana, on
recent evening as they sat in the banquet hall OF
one of the oldest palaces in Vienna They had been
listening to their host as he told how in the very
room in which they were sitting King John SObiesM
in the 10th century had banqueted his generals
after his great victory the Turkish hordes
that had been stopped that day on the very thresh
hold of Europe
The truth uttered by the American Secretary of
is just beginning to sink into the minds of the
people of the United States. We just awakening
to the fact that for generation, result of our
foolish policy of indscrimnate welcome to all sorts
and conditions of alien people regardless of their
fitness for American citizenship, we have set in
motion forces that threatens to destroy Ameri-
can civilization.
True, these modern invaders of America do not
come, like the alien hordes of DID,, on horseback,
fantasticaly clad and brandishing gittering
swords. But they come with their minds filled with
all sorts Of strange social and political ideas, with
their bodies infested with vermn, their blood often
tainted by racial instincts that bear an unaterable
enmlty to the spirit and purposes of American life
Anyone who doubts the truth Of this statement
need only examine the membership roles of our
communist and anarchist groups in the United
States and the registered of our public penal charit
able and insane institutions. The disproportionatey
high percentum of alien stock members and inmates
in these quarters will settle the doubts of the most
skeptical on this point
The plain truth is that certain European govern
ments for generation have practiced the official
policy of unloading their degenerates and undesir-
abes upon the United States emibrants The
leaders of the old world privately admit the fact.
Said the President OF one republic OF central Europe
to Secretary Davis and Mr.. Ryan on their recent
European tour of investigation: eve willing
to let you have our immigrants old, the lnflrm
and the rubbish" Said the ex-prime Minister of
another great state of Southern Europe: "Remem-
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any of our good peasants You may have our politi-
cal malcontents, but not our good people"
1t is amazingly true that American sentmentalists
still demand liberal immigration as means Of help
ing relieve human congestion in European countries
eve have got to take care OF Europe they say.
They close their eyes to the bigger fact; that the
time is here when have got to take care OF the
United States, its ideals, it's institutions and its Di-
vine destiny.
We have right and duty to bar any group of
aliens who do not fit in with scheme of life. 1t
is not suestion of racial superiority The American
people may not be superior to every other people on
this earth, but thing we may be sure; that the
Americans are better fitted than any other people
for the particular job of preserving this country and
preserving her ideals and institutions unto the last
generation
We are told that the immigration gates should be
thrown open to the Impoverished labor of southern
and eastern Europe in the interests of American in
dustrial needs. Those who talk about cheap labor
should remember that the most expensive labor on
earth is slave labor.
And if there is any industry in the United States
that cannot get along without the cheap labor Of
southern and eastern Europe then the American
people will find it profitable to get along without
that industry.
Let's have immigration policy that will be fair
to the American people instead of policy that
seeks to be fair to every alien people at the expense
of the American people; immigration policy that
will insure the trustees of American institutions in
the future shall be children not of those toiing
in the Mediterranean, the Balkan and the Eastern
European world, but the children of the Americans
who at the present trustees of America.
WHERE is THE ELUSIVE WASHINGTON
BOOTLEG BOOK OF NAMES?