Show Justice to Aliens T THERE are arc not nul and there cannot be he statistics compiled corn com piled showing showing- what hat number of foreign residents of the thc United States are law abiding and industrious had and what number nuber are nrc and murderous It is fair to to a assume however howe that the preponderance of aliens who reside our D are well wel behaved orderly and willing t to OU work ork and only a small minority are of the radical or revolutionary sort The recent efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts of or the department of or justice to apprehend the dangerous dan dan- an- an type type plotters plotters 1 the peace nn and security of our government go seem to have been well directed and anda a large number o of them are arc understood to be awaiting trial for deportation Other raids are arc understood to be bein bein bein in contemplation and ere tl is a sense nse of security in the public mind that the thc government is aroused and fully j v i fi to tK n fl w rind menace of h ng- ng armand OJ and sedition or anarchism n nith a str strong arm an un un- gloved band hand All of is very cry commendable and very cry timely But in the meantime it is probable these sun summary mary proceedings proceeding may be having a a. aery very ery disturbing disturbing disturb disturb- law ali aliens who their in ing effect upon the law abiding ns see brothers taken into durance and wonder if a a. similar fate awaits them simply because they are arc of or foreign birth To fo what extent the nerves neres of f the tho good foreigners arc are unstrung by government activities against the bad bo boys s 's there is also no way of finding out yet efforts ought to be e and aud perhaps are arc a. a valuable part of the government gov gov- work to reassure tho the conscientious ious workers in inthe in inthe the country that the bo bogey cj man is not after them at nt all Immigrants of the the- thrifty honest intentioned class should be given gi to understand that they are welcome as plainly as the red revolutionists should d be notified that they thc are aro not wanted The law now pending in ilL Congress ought to remove remore the impression that there is an any intention to persecute a law abiding man simply because he be Is a n foreigner or that there is an any intention to discriminate between alien aHen reds and American reds except t that the latter ought to receive the greater punishment because having Laying had hac the opportunity to know better their sinning sinning sinning sin sin- ning against the government go is more sinister and wicked It must be borne in mind that honest aliens have come here and performed a vcr very great deal of hard work in the of tho the nation But little has been attempted to make them fed feel at home to educate them in the tenets of our institutions to assimilate them Americanize or naturalize them Heretofore the they have c been allowed to shift for themselves without any guide ide or friendly interposition and to their credit be beit beit beit it it said many of them have ha overcome the difficult difficulty of language resisted the overtures of radicals both hot foreign for for- eign and aud native and become excellent sturdy citizens Large I. numbers of them enlisted and fought as American American Amer Amer- ican ican soI soldiers There is a a. duty we owe the tho loyal Joyal plodding wage wage- earning foreigner which prejudice against the unclean marauding conspiring dynamiting type must not pro pre vent us from froIn performing manfully and justly |