Show i t J 1 THE IMMIGRATION MENACE The immigration question has become a n most serious one to the tIle United States In the lie last fiscal year rear immigrants landed on Ol our shores That would be all right if the comers comer could readily assimilate ate with our free institutions or quickly understand understand un un- un the spirit of our oar free iree country But more than thau one fourth of all aU who came were from Austro- Austro Hungar one fifth from Russia and mal another fifth from Italy and notwithstanding all the tile clamor of possible ibl war var the immigration from Japan more than doubled rising from to Many of these ln last t came through Mexican territory in in defiance of I Ithe the la law There sailed from this country in Ih the the- steerage of outgoing ships passengers Assuming that these these were returning emigrants still tin it would leave our increase at almost one million and of or these more than three fifths were people who know nothing of our language and little of our institutions but the they number twice as many as did the army that Napoleon Napoleon Napo Napo- leon Icon led into Russia and it is hard to believe that were our country assailed b by powerful enemies many of these would be of f much help while some of them would supply aid and comfort to an enemy The blessings transmitted by the fathers arc a trust winch which the tho American people must stand surety for through all time Is not this permitting of hordes lordes of the world to come almost most without restraint tempting Providence 1 It ma may be said that the blessings blessings blessings bless bless- ings this country offers these poor comers will make ake them Americans in a little time We 1 e believe that is true of immigrants from northern Europe and the British isles but those from southern Europe settle in colonies and they are almost as foreign ten years Jears after they ther come como as fiS they were on the day dar they landed And their children hildren grow up in those colonies The only redeeming thing is the American free school The children get new ideas in those schools and yet we do not believe that it is good to fuse the German and Angl Saxon Anglo S on blood with the T We e do not believe a level level headed headed race can be expected from such stich blending But they are coming in hordes and we doubt the legality of keeping them out ont if they come ostensibly with go good d intentions for God made mad the earth tho the water and the air and gave e them to toman man Of course a nation can quarantine against contagious diseases and to nations the right of self-preservation self is as inherent inherent inherent in in- herent as the same right is to individuals Exercising Exer that right the Japanese may be kept out for his allegiance is to his native land and in case of war with his native country he I would have to be dealt with as an enemy But that does not apply appl to immigrants from southern Europe One purpose of their coming is to break the restrictions re re- re s tri that have bound them around from the cradle The trouble and the danger to be feared is s that they will misuse the privileges ext ex- ex ended to them and construe liberty to mean menn license Lt It I Ib t is a d difficult cult problem but one thing at least should b be ae e done They should be pushed out into the interior i immediately upon their coming and never be permitted permitted permitted per per- to swell the colonies that fester in or near our great seacoast cities and the young girls that come should d be bo put through training schools to fit them to earn an honest livelihood |