Evening star., 1936-08-04
American Democracy Not
Doomed to Destruction

To the Editor OF The Star:
According to Mr. Lanier in his letter
to The Star on August /, this country
is doomed because the founders of the
Republic made the mistake in holding
out our country as the refuge of the
politically oppressed, resulting in the
admission of inferior breeds, croWding
out the Anglo-SaXonS. and the multiple
cation Of those degenerateS and interiors
comprise the majority of our population
today. Since no people give up with
out a struggle. least of all free Americans
Of Anglo-SaXon stock, the inference to be
drawn is that unless the remnant of
Anglo-Saxons get busy. root out the
undesirables and establish a homoge-
nous people of Anglo -Saxons, the end
of the American experiment is in sight
Even then he goes on to say we shall
perish just the same. To support his
thesis of anthropology. he calls atten-
ton to rhythms. curves even at periods
in history before these mathematical
symbols were known. He passes over
completely some characteristics which
give birth to free institutions, such as
popular education. inventions-such as
the press communications, wireless, ra-
ulO Trains pOI CdLlOllS' 6lC.-WIllCn all WILL
admit do make a dent in those stubborn
curves.
Conceding that these United States
were settled primarily by people of
Anglo-Saxon origin, he will not deny that
in building up this great country to what
it is today. peoples of different origin
had a hand in its making.
When he says that we made a mis-
take in holding out our country to the
politically oppressed who helped to build
up America he does not mean our gen.
Grafton. He goes back at least 70 years,
when the great blunder was made. He
attacks the generations of Washington.
Franklin. Jefferson, Cleveland and other
patriots who risked their lives, their for
tune, to build a democracy of free citi-
zens from scratch, so to speak, to the
glory it is today, and with whose aspira-
tionS Mr.. Lanier does not agree.
He bemoans the probability that our
Government will be so changed that not
one vestige of Anglo-Saxon origin will
remain. Should this come to pass it
will but further attest the great wisdom
of our fathers, that this country was to
be not land of classes for classes,
preaching hate to other classes, but that
it was to be place for people politically
oppressed and racially Disseminated who
were willing to assume obligations of
free men, obey its laws, help in its up
building, establish home, raise fam
lily and fuse into the American citizen
ship. Our fathers had no preferences;
the Constitution makes no mention of
Determinations, such as Anglo-Saxons
or others.
One wonders who is the greater enemy
of America today, whether it is the
deluded Communist, or brand of pa
triots who say that Washington, Frank
lin, jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland
and others were wrong and that they
are right. Fortunately, we have in
Washington excellent AmericaniZation
schools. Considering the various forces
threatening our institutions, an emer-
gency law would be justif1able placing
these so-called patriots who blaspheme
the founders of the Republic in class
of juveniles, making their attendance to
these Americanization schools compul-
sorry. ISAAC TEPPER.