The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-17
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plaudcd when he said LET them come
] would TO heaven II were In our pow.
er 10 take the whole three million jew.
uf Russia :" During the past year, re.
pcatcJ appeals for the admission of
about eight thousand Jews. who could
not come In under the old immigra-
tion law because OF tue exhaustion Of
the national quotas, nor under the new
because nf the drastic reduction OF
these quotas. fell upon deaf ears Not
satisfied with having reduced immigra-
tlon almost to the vanishing point. anti
alien fanatics, who would II they could
bnnish from the country all who are
not descendants OF those here in 1889.
are crying for stili more drastic re
structions. for the universal registration
of aliens, aud for abolition of any time
limitations in the matter Of deportation
of aliens. In all these directions, these
doctrinaire nativlsts have enthusiastic
allies in several Of the high officials OF
the United States Department of Labor
and in the chairman Of the committee
on immigration Of the House of Rep
resentatiyes.
Anti-Alien feeling has gone so far
that the New York City Federation Of
women's Clubs went on record last
February in favor of an amendment
to the constitution which would pro-
vide that "no person except u nat
ural-born citizen Of the United States
he eligible to the position cf justice
Of the Supreme Court, a member of the
Cabinet, or Speaker Of the House of
Representatives." forgetting that the
present Secretary Of Labor. an ardent
immigration restrctionist, is himself of
foreign birth.
The anti-alien movement is not
openly anti-Jewish, although evil
dences of suppressed anti-Jewish
animus are not rare. Who knows
how the eight thousand emigrant ref
ugees, stranded in European ports,
might have Jared at the hands of
Congress had they not all been Jews !?
Only ignorance and bigotry can ac-
count for this feeling, for the achieve
ments of Jews in the upbuilding of
America are writ so large that even
those of weakest sight can see. And
yet, Prof. Philip Marshall Brown, of
Princeton University, could find it in
his heart to revive the anti-Semitic
charge of divided allegiance, that the
Jew is wanderer who does not send
his roots deep down into the soil Of
the country in which he may settle.
And Dean Inge, of st. Paul's, Lon
don, in the course of his wab8lfnt3S
in TINS country, last spring, must
have been infected by the anti-Jewish
virus, for, otherwise how could he,
who had not hesitated to attack anti
Semitism in England, have said, even
in jest, that he would "advise the
Jews to rebuild the Temple of Solo
mon in New York, where they have
the largest number of Jews-and
plenty of Gentiles to fleece? Other
disquieting signs that there are
Americans who are backsliding were
the homage paid to the Grand Ouch
ess Victoria Feodorevna, wife of the
Grand Duke Boris, one of the Rus
sian pretendcrs. and the shabby treat
ment of Count Karolyi, champion of
Hungarian republicanism, upon their
visits to the United States.
But no aid or comfort was given to
the exponents of this nativist phi
losophy by the Chief Magistrate of
the United States. Although he was
silent on the subject during the 1924
Presidential campaign, Mr.. Coolidge
gage in agriculture, Frances man
power having been so tragically de-
pleted by the World War that she
welcomes additions to her productive
graciously accepted an invitation TO
deliver an address at the laying Of
the cornerstone Of the Jewish COM
munity center in Washington. D. c.,