Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-01-28
VOL. XII

DSraeli and said (lt was before his
Bcaconslicldian dayS), MIR. Disracli. l.
II true that ihc tarifr bill Is dcady' lie
answcred, No. II is not only true that
II Is dead. buI il Is damned Congress.
man perlmnn says that the Alien Reg.
istralion I,ill Is dead. | say it is a
damnablc hill II is n bill that strikes
NJ the heart of America. II is bill
hat wills Ia set up an anti-American
system of esponiage Against whom
Against Aliens
Abolish the Word Alien
want that word aliens to be-
abolished from the American vocabu-
larry The very use Of the term aliens
is symptom Of our postwar hysteria
and our postwar vocabulary. There
are foreigners in America. nine hun
dred and niucty-nine out of n thousand
of whom are waiting and eager 10 be
admitted into the citizenship of Amer
lea. Bnt let Ms get rid of our wretched
postwar manners. Let us abolish the
use Of the term alien"
No man Is alien who comes to Amer
lea here to live, here to toll, here. If
may he, To serve. If we have got To
speak Of aliens. let us reserve the term
for the use of them that dwell in other
lands-though /. for my part, think of
no man as alien. He may he stranger
10 me. but he need not be alien to my
soul
Comradship Key TO AmerieanizatiOn
1t is "A mart Of n miserable narrow
ness of spirit engendered by the Ku
Klnx Illan and organizations like It,.
And when Klanism is dcad-as. thank
God, II Is dying will have an end
Of the term allen" and Registration OF
aliens" When n man comes to Amer
lea in the hope of becoming an Ameri-
can citizen, he is not to be regarded
ms a suspect, but ms a comrade, as n
brother
| lcll you, we would have had much
less of the so-callcd DIFFERENTIATION
problem in America il We had shown
comradeship and fraternalism to the
immigrants. IL we had not treated them
as If they were aliens. Now, registra-
iion means that every alien is TO he
subject 10 suspicion. And after n
while, some generous soul in the lmmi-
grafton Department will propose finger
prints and every manner of identiiica-
tion that is associated with criminal
annals and the manners of them that
deal with criminals,
Nativist BugabOOs
Last year it was Nordics. The year
before it was quotas. This year it Is
registration. What will it be neNtf The
time TO fight this rotten business is now,
and to fight il with courage and with
resolution and with fcarlcssnesS.
90 back not only to the fine word
of the president of the United States,
that Message of the president which
recommended that if the present Immi-
grafton Law deprives inhabitants of the
United States "of the comfort and so
ciety of those bound to them by close
family ties. such modification should he
adopted as win afford relief"
That is enough. That ought to be
decisive. seeing that the president is
master of the administration, seeing
that he is the master if he chose 10
he. of the Republican household. But
I appeal To something still more sig
nficant and pregnant than the Presi-
dents message to Congress. ! appeal
to the Presidents speech at Omaha
one of the great utterances of an
American President-in which the
President protested. AS an American
President ought to protest. against
every manner of bigotry and intoler'
ance that has been rife in American
life.
The President on Intolerance
And | think You will find that the
decline of the spirit of enmity to the
aliens will date from that Omaha
speech. For, there, the President found
his voice. And when the President
spoke In the name of tolerance, and
more than tolerance, then Re was The
voice of America; not because of The
office which he holds, but because OF
the spirit which inspired his utteranc'
to the American people.
Now, remember, our President turn
to his Congress and, with fine solici
tude for the damage, the mortal hur
done to families by breakup and sep
aration. he asks that If it be neces
sary to create special legislation
America ought to have it, Congress
ought to provide remedial legislation
in order to end the evil Of disruptins
and breaking up family life.