Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 18 | Does not Believe Aliens will Give U. S. Any Trouble

DOES NOT BELIEVE ALIENS WILL GIVE U. S. ANY TROUBLE NEW YORK, March 24 Major General Gen-eral Leonard Wood, commander of the department of the east, in an address at a luncheon of the Republican ctub here today, declared be did not believe the United States would have any trouble with the "so-called alien population" within its borders. "This country of ours is a melting pot," he said. "Unfortunately, we have not built up an individual moral obligation. For years those who come here from foreign lands are fed on a dialect press. We do not impress upon them that they are real citizens. I am one of those, however, who does not believe wo are going to have any trouble trou-ble with, this so-called alien population." popula-tion." Charles Edward Eussell, widely known as a Socialist, asserted that politics, poli-tics, creed and beliefs are- swept aside in an emergency such as the nation is facing. "Some men are afraid," he said, "that we are getting into war instead of being proud. What is there to be afraid of except that we might not do the right thing? No sacrifice can be too great for those who inherited Val-. Val-. ley Forge."