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Show WALTER WINCH ELL Land of the Melting Pot This underlines America's reputation reputa-tion as a melting pot: We have 256 dilferent religious denominations. ... A democratic form of government govern-ment In America had its origin in Virginia under Governor Yeaniley two years before the Pilgrims landed land-ed at Plymouth. . . . Polish. German Ger-man and Irish workers began to battle their oppressors in Virginia long before the Revolutionary war exploded. . . . During nine of the last ten years America's annual immigration im-migration quota was not tilled. Those who say the Indians are a vanishing race are spreading spread-ing a myth. Their population has doubled during the past decade. dec-ade. . . . Many American Indian reservations have modern homes. They look like any other oth-er small town. Historians have said that the American Revolution was the achievement of an "aggressive minority." The colonies consisted of men and women who came from Ireland, England. Scotland, France, Germany. Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland and Italy. And every ev-ery religion also was represented among the soldiers who formed Washington's army. AMERICA IS A NATION composed of minorities. And when compared with the rest of the world's population popula-tion Americans as a whole also are a minority. . . . Bigots who hlame all our troubles on foreigners should be reminded that only 10 per cent of America's population is foreign-horn. . . . Atul we must not forget America's most beloved immigrant the Statue of Liberty. |
