Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-03

North America was not se1.,-u :
the F,nslish-neither the fhsi me
nor the Puritans could attribute tnen
virtue to their English Origins; uu.
,,,,,st credit the same to their oelhs
20 ,aars i'm the wilderness. IKE .he
chi,dran of Israel. only their wiiue,
ness" WAS Holland and ersIwnne De'
giur, whore as prosecuted EngilSn ~
oitives they came under the lniIue,e. :. y.
German 'kultur." and so tnes hiuS'
ascrihe the foundations or tne noIn.
NJ the brave and the lana Oh the
o,,,te tn the kultur of Deutscnlahu'
"a not at all to England. for those
ane,o.Sa Ron pioneers were not
,ell instructed people. nor very CON
canal nor did they add such a FAVOR
able contribution to American cl'nhza
ton as the story writer's OF tnat tiihe
and race would have us believe.
This amazing disclosure comes not
from, the men of a Herr Seeger. edltor
nj the Progressive. the official organ
Of the Steuben Society, political Ge.
man.American organization. inns
society IL actively fighting the pro
vision in the immigration restrlctlon
law nassed in 1924, with the amend
ment clause. inserted IN tne .s'a
tive lam of the closing hours or CON
Cross making national origins the
basis of the quotas. beginning July l.
1927. I'll,
This basis of national origins viii
cut down the quota allowed to Ger
MANY, for the past two years from
s1227 to only 23,42S. At the same
time it will increase the quota al
lotted to Great Britain and nortnern
Ireland from 34.O07 to 1909. A thlrd
of the immigrants admitted. IN the
fiscal wears July /. 1924. TO June oV
next are of the race called our enc
mies'' in the World War, while only
one in Ave immigran ts could come
from our British and Irish allies IN
battle.
The United States has been led
to be primarily English. The language
here spoken is English. The courts
and public schools are conducted IN
English. The proudest America ms are
the descendants of English Pilgrims
Puritans and Cavaliers. Yet OF the
total number of immigrants admitted
each year under the existing law OIL
1924--165 ,OOO-only 34.O07 could un-
derstand and speak our English ian.
guage when we received tnem anu
began the work of assimilation and
Americanization. All the rest are
"furriners." speaking some three score
other languages. and led by racial ira
Gitions quite different from our own.
This statement is modified only IA to
the Irish Free state. where. or course,
the natives speak English. while now
in their independence they are re-
acquired their native Irish language.
The outstanding fact is that under
existing law since 1924. UP to next
June 80, a third of our received i'm
migrants are German. And the ratio
OF one in FIVE permitted to Great Brit
ain has not meant to the English
alone, but the 1907 covered some
5000 who came from Scotland, north
ern Ireland. Wales and the British
West Indies.
Editor Seeger boasts:
"The Yankees in the Yankee States.
the descendants of the Puritans, are
fast losing ground. Only about one
third. Of the inhabitants of Boston,
New Haven, Providence. Hartford,
New Bedford, Fall River. Lowell and
other cities are Of native American
ancestry" And even so. why did he
overlook "lil ole New York? Are
there no Americans left in that
foreign metropolis?
4 Commenting upon the strange ailot-
ments, the immigration RESTRICTION
League, Inc, says:
I'm practice, therefore, we have the
grotesoue situation of allotting to
Germany an immigration about 60
per cent larger than to great Britain
and northern Ireland. although. &C
cording to the committee of six ex
perts who have made their prelim-
mary report of the national origins
quotas, the people of German descent
in the United States are less than
one.third of those whose forbears
came from England or Scotland
~ r X
Furthermore, Editor Seeger explains
the wrong of adjusting a more equi
table ratio as between England and
Germany by calling attention to this
argument:
Psychological atavism, the hered-
ity of mental qualities, through the
Infinitely fine brain-cells, is just as
potent as physiologic atavism, the
heredity Of corporal qualities, and
often becomes fixed racial char
acteristic."
Get that clearly. Atavism-psycho-
logical or physiological! Contrast the
,wo--the beefiness Cd OF the English
and the infinitely fine brain cells" of
the. former subjects Of the Kaiser!
ThAt rneans- phNsiaLe versus kultur.
The Pilgrims cd their physique TO
fhA En9ffeh ua>nh because az their