Evening star., 1925-04-21
PEOPLE HOLD KEY TO SELF-RULE,
SAYS COOLIDGE IN ID. A. r. SPEECH
Government Interference in Al Their Afairs Can BE
PreUented by High Standards of Private Lining,
He Adds-Detends immigration Ban.

you nave performed lne highest WOTh
of civic usefulness.
You have raised q voice of welcome
to the immigrant landing on our
shores. You have helped him to find
place, occupation and opportunity in
those most trying days of his eXpe-
rience here, Immediately following h@
arrival. The Daughters OF the Amer
| lean Revolution have maintained a.
organization, working in cooperation
with the authorities at Ellis Island,
aiming to supplement in the most
human and practical ways the efforts
of the Government authorities there.
They have met the newcomer with
aids in learning a new language In
understanding our manners, in ac-
quiring our customs, in appreciating
and adapting himself to our institu-
tions.
There is a deeper significance to
this kind Of effort than at first thought
may be apparent. In the last few
years we have entered on new pol
icy toward immigration. 1t is still
| rather experimental, but with >Sery
appearance of being likely to secure
permanent acceptance. Restriction OF
immigration is nothing less than a
revolutionary change from the older
DAYS when we boasted that this coun'
try offered refuge and opportunity
liberty and security TO all who desired
them.
1.-The policy of resNiction seemed
necessary, in view of the certainty
that unprecedented numbers would
flow to us from Europe following the
war; more than we could be sure OF
assimilating. more than the European
countries could well spare. Had there
been no limitations, the number OF
newcomers among us in the last four
years would probably have been sew
eral million greater. If we had been
called upon to receive and place such
a number. it may well be doubted
whether they would have found their
condition here much better than il
was in Europe. Certainly our prob
lem of helping adjust them to the new
conditions and the hard competition
of such a situation would have been
far more difficult.
May Have Received 100000
1T is manifestly impossible to know
how many immigrants would have
| come in the last four years if nc
restrictions had been imposed. But
competent official authorities have
estimated that 2,000.0 would have
come in each of these four years, or
over three times as many as did
whether that would have been to the
advantage of either them or the
country.
1.-The welfare of all the people will
be promoted by a truly national life
In those last few years we have all
realized as never before the need to
bring about the spiritual unification
of this great people. A hundred and
ten million people, living together
may or may not constitute I'm the full
sense a nation of 110,00O,000. The
war brought appreciation of this
truth. We achieved our independence
century and half ago. We con
| firmed our political union so years
ago We have all the time beer
struggling toward spiritual and moral
| unity.
ITO gain and perfect it we neeo
| just such interests and activities as
these to which the Daughters of the
American Revolution are SO sincerely
devoted. We need not only to draw
| the newcomers into our social struc
lures, but we need also to make them
contribute to its strength and beauty
We may gain much from them. Ir
the diversif1cation of our culture, the
| broadening of our interests, the de
velopment of our literature and arts
| the formation of rounded, symmet
rical national character, they can helr
us vastly. We shall best serve botf
| them and ourselves If we shall fully
| recognize this mutually of interest
Helped Backward Areas.
| your organization of the Daugh
| ters of the Revolution has done mucl
| to achieve such aims. But you hav,
done vet more. You have sough
means to help our native communit.
| improve its condition. You have gon,
into backward and wellnight forgot