Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-13 | Page 4 | Hoover Warns of Foreign Agitator

HOOVER VARNS OF FOREIGN AGITATOR BUFFALO. M. Y., Nov. 12. The American Ameri-can people are growing impatient with foreign agitators, and unless their attitude atti-tude changes the door that has always been open to Europe may be shut, Herbert Her-bert Hoover declared here today in an address at the convention of Americans of Polish ancestry. "Many foolish ideas are being circulated among the foreign-born population of the l United States." Mr. Hoover said. "Many of these foreign -born are interesting themselves in the destruction of our primary pri-mary institutions and defiance of our laws. Thf American people are fast losing patience with this attitude. H may develop out of this that the 'open door' towards Europe will be. In a large measure, closed. But, worse than this, 'there may develop out of it a prejudice against every speaker of a foreign language lan-guage in the United States. It creates prejudice against extending aid to those countries In Europe from which our foreign-born populations spring. Any needed reforms In the United States, he asserted would be "carried out by those whose parents have grown up amid our institutions and those who have become In sentiment and spirit a part of our people."