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Show WDUU PUT CHUB BSIOKS Leaders of Americanization Movement Say Journals ! Are Menace. i i Ey JUSTIN McGRATH, fCorrespondent of Cniversal Service.) ! WASHINGTON. Jne S. Leaders of the An eri.-unization movement are understood under-stood to have reached an interesting and .mportant conclusion. , Their conclusion Ls that the foreign press in the United States should be abolished, abol-ished, or at least greatly curtait-d. A great mass of proof that this for-I for-I eign press, in its efforts to strengthen . itself among the element to which it ap-! ap-! peals, has preached treason agattut the government of the L'nited States has been I fuinish.ed by government agents. I This proof, which is said to he startling ! m character, will be submitted to congress con-gress for its consideration. The baneful influence of t he .'oreign press in the United States on American Inc. it is asserted, has not stopned at un-American preach in There is ?aid lo be proof available that many of thpss I foreicn newspapers have been ar active influence in corrupting American politico. ! Revenue From Politics. : A great pa rt of the foreign press, il I is claimed, practically has lived of? reve-i reve-i nue derived from pontics. ! Its activity is alleged to have been douhly sinister. I First, it is charged tt exercised its in-I in-I flu ence to keep foreigners who were loca ted in the United States wedded to their native languages and customs and to create in the minds of their children a divided allegiance. Then, having prevented assimilation of these foreign units into the citizenship of the United States and promoted their segregation in spirit, the foreign editor in many instances, it is asserted, became a medium of control between his particular particu-lar foreign unit and the political parties of the country, and bargained for the delivery de-livery of bis unit at election time. The fan t hat there are many honorable exceptions, ex-ceptions, it is su id. doe.s not lessen the gravity of the situation or abate the necessity of curbing the evil. Before the war, it was a favorite tribute trib-ute to the quality of American institutions institu-tions to boast of the quirk political absorption ab-sorption in this country of foreigners of whatever nationality. A National Delusion. But the eperienee of the draft proved that our much lauded "melting pot" was largely a national delusion. Instead of America it insti tut ions oper-aiing oper-aiing to bring a tout the quick assimilation assimila-tion of American citizenship, the fart was that the foreign press of the. United S'tates was successfully operating to keeo them, in spirit and purpose, alienated from American institutions. It took the experience of the war to reveal how great was our failure in assimilation. as-similation. At Camp "Upton. N. Y.. it was necessary neces-sary to tra nslate laws into forty ian-guages. ian-guages. Officers in the camp had to I teach foreign dra ftmen to read and I write English. This condition, it is said. , was fostered largely by the foreign press. I If these foreigners had not been able to get papers in their language, they would l have been compelled to acquire the i English language. Of course, great political pressure will be exercised on congress to prevent any , extensive and deen inquiry into the in-1 in-1 fluence of the foreign press in the United States on American life, but I understand under-stand the subject will be presented in such a way, and with such an array of facts, that congress will not be able to evade full consideration. |