Show I AN ANNOYING PROBLEM NE E of ot tho the American questions Europe's Europe's Eu Eu- U O ONE ropes rope's war inspires inspires Is whether the tho Immediate material advantages of ot practically unrestricted emigration counterbalance o tho the sentimental I that mo may In future futuro become material disadvantages The efficacy of ot our national melting pot is under suspicion suS Conversion V ot of a fled alien into a satisfied loyal 1001 Amerlean Amer- Amer American lean ican can citizen is is' a process less simple th than n has as been ordinarily supposed I I It In calling Germany to 10 account for tor forthe tho the murder of at the Lusitania victims i President Wilson but responded to a majority public sentiment which won Yon him aim wide nation approval al His attitude atti attl- tude was so thoroughly American hi his words so 0 accurately those a self self- respecting nation must speak at such sucha a a. time lime his so heartily In sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with traditional American courage courage cour cour- age it is difficult to comprehend how any American however adverse to the horrors of ot war and however dull patriotism through self centered ab nb absorption absorption ab- ab sorption In his own affairs could fail faU to follow o low him loyally To the surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise of ot the nation disc cries o of disapproval were we're- were heard on every hand from tram citizens of foreign birth or extraction whose sympathies with one or the other of ot the allen alien nations overrode overrode overrode over over- rode t their discretion and th their lr Judg judg- m ment ent protesting citizens aro arc such In Innamo name namo only They cannot be he properly I classed as Americans They have havo tailed failed utterly to comprehend the tho spirit I of ot American Institutions and the fundamental principles of ot the republic which the they have prot professed to understand understand under under- stand it Is clear they thoy havo have never studied The They enjoy a all l tho the rights and privileges of cit Am American rIcan citizenship but they arc are no more one with us than the alien abroad to whom America Is b. only a name Though they have fore fore- sworn allegiance Jo 1 o every even foreign potentate potentate po po- po- po and especially to that sovereign In whoso dominions they first saw the I light their hearth and land eyes ees turn to their native land at the m moment ment when all their energies and all their loyalty should be in the service of ot their adopted country Proper restriction of ot emigration to tho the United States has never been Instituted Instituted instituted in In- be because ause the tho people could not agree upon a 0 pr practical method The literacy test would not meet present conditions In in tho the United States be because because be- be cause ca' the m most st disloyal among our ourI I citizens are found among th the most InI in In- In I Physical tests are aro helpful Jut not wholly corr because disloyalty disloyalty disloyalty dis dis- loyalty la is a a. a condition of ot mind and not of ot body Requirement that the alien shall prove sufficient patrimony to preclude hi his becoming a public charge Is la equally f futile to correct the abuse In question because tho the wealthiest wealth wealth- lest iest of ot our adopted citizens have ha proven en themselves s the most treacherous Congress must roust soon decide whether America shall shan not abandon Its function as asa a haven for the oppressed One Ono of ot ur a-ur our dangerous us American evils Us is b becoming becoming be be- coming tho the absence of ot a prevailing national spirit to which overy every citizen responds s. s Loyalty to the flag and to the tha government still obtains with th tha thO great grent m mass mass' but we welcome each year I Ian an Increasing number of or n new V e Amer Ather- leans whose patriotism in time of stress Is under suspicion or at nt len least t thas has neier never b been cn satisfactorily tested This problem will dally daily press for so solution solution solution so- so lution until solution comos |