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Show THE CITIZEN 4 as necessary for the adequate protection of all American industry, and the senate finance committee will utterly fail in its duty to America and American workers, if it strikes this house proviso from the pending tariff bill. RACIAL CONTAMINATION. . ; , COLOSSAL EGOTISM. The pendulum of control may swing from democracy to factions may fall and others replace them, but the age-ol- d strife 't dissociated interests goes on forever. ... j;; both pulij Each new generation of men in control of affairs, vate, easily acquires the colossal egotism of its predecessor ndp win all or wreck all, according to the slogan of the hour. Just now Salt Lake is suffering from a form of egotism tb 4 " . M' , I ' . i - advocates of the beauties and beatitudes of internationalism and a wider, opportunity for Asiatic n races to swamp our civilization than is at and European present afforded by the three per cent immigration restriction law to learn that this ratio still leaves us open to wholesale pollution and subject grave damage. to its present and future industrial' status. The; diseases these infectious all the effects of to the evil immigrants invariably the hour seems to be pan the other guy. There is apparently them. with bring of understanding and no sincere efforts being made to get top It is a fact not generally known to the American public that encephalitis, typhus, tuberculosis and all the fouler infection man is heir to, run work together for the common good. There is an aboslute lad riot in those European and Asiatic countries from which we are now demunity interest being manifested in industrial affairs of the riving the bulk of our present immigrants. may be said to extend to the county and very likely to the entire Medical men are opposed to this sort of immigration because of the business or financial faction seems fully unwilling to Bination. the health of the which to it extent general subjects alarming with the other, and apparently assumes that the best interests and laws of the understand because it to breeding are they opposed ologists monwealth is bound up in its own particular activity. heredity and because they have realized in this flood of infected humanity And there is a sinister bank control of business in Salt Lakei the beginning of a racial degeneration which they aver is directly traceable to our compulsory association with inferior foreign people our lax tends throughout the state and, perhaps, the entire nation. Their laws admit. really in control of all business activities owing to prevailing ecoej It is a tragic picture they present of an equally tragic mixture of dition, which is directly traceable to the inflation and miasma tainted blood and a diseased breed that will multiply like rank weeds in a vailed immediately following the close of the war. No business fertile soil, as time speeds on. do business at the old stand without the aid of his banker, The United States imposes rigorous laws to govern the importation long he been placed completely in the of shrubs, plants and trees that might harbor the germs of any parasitic more than ever before has diseases. The government takes extraordinary pains to protect plant life money power. for foreign pollution, but leaves its humanity open to all the vile infection Expansion, which may not be desired at this time, is an that can possibly be heaped upon it. Whenever a legislative committee quantity and even a sane system of credits appears to be submits a report covering immigration hazards and recommends effective .Prices in many instances are too high and especially is this tnx American stock and few have the temerity protection for pure-bre- d modities that, are still controlled by factions that still cling to .there is instantly raised a cacophonous howl from racial groups, employ- profiteering delirium. d sentamentalists, that ers. 4of cheap and inefficient labor and There is a real remedy for all this. It resides within the clean-cut, 'usually serves to effectualy stifle the protects of better public and private understanding. It is bound up in the Americans. It would perhaps be better for America if there were fewer our leaders in finance, business, industry and labor toward a skilled physicians lawyers in the congress and more of that class who are Where there is friction there will be dissent and chaos. What is and biologists. Understanding the situation, as they do, it quite possible mutual good will and mutual understanding of those things bts that they would pass immigration laws so drastic that only those able to community as a whole, there will be found the right spirit toot furnish a clean bill of health for several generations back would be able forward movement. to enter our gates. The future is rosy with prospect for good if mutual helpH is that one and may be made to scourge Sleeping sickness is a recent importation supplant the trend toward suspicions and petty j of men checked our by spread to an alarming extent if not successsfully seems to dominate many. effecscience. It is becoming more and more apparent that we have no Lets bury the hatchet. Lets forsake this all too prevalent f tive means of keeping out these foreign enemies of our national health policy and make a real effort to get together for the under our present immigration laws. It is perhaps true that American good of our common city and our state. Let's look the other fefo soap and water and delousing methods will take the outside scurf off of in the eye and strive to believe that he is worthy of our utmost these infected immigrants, but their inherent tendencies to disease remains and help. with them to the bitter end and their habits of a life time usually return soon after the initial ablutionary seance is over, and they soon again bePUBLIC OF PRIVATE WHICH? come walking pests, dangerous to the health and progress of any AmeriIn this issue of The Citizen appears a timely article on fl can community where they elect to burrow in cheap and filthy tenement homes and hovels. status of Strawberry valley, with its great camping and fishing? Thus is America exposing the health of its American bred children ties brought to the fore. This Isaac Walton pleads for public c to the contaminating effect of a foreign flood of diseased humanity that this natural playground for all the people as against private conN promises to swamp them in the not distant future. In order to check this will cut off all those privileges that so many of our citizens flood we must battle powerful clannish agencies whose chief business is enjoyed at the Strawberry dam, if it become a fact. the easy entry of these tainted and disease incumbered members of deA perusal of this article signed Fisherman will soincwW cadent foreign races. And it is known and appreciated by many thoughtthe reader with the facts in the case and call attention to the C ful Americans that our three per cent restrictive entrance law has but now before the congress, which, if it becomes a law, will insure? served to swell the tide of undesirable humanity that has ever sought adof the Strawberry valley for all time to come. The Citizen $ mission at our back-doroutes. Today they are coming in virtual streams Ojpen Forum on this question and invites all, either propo from darkest European countries and darker Asia, by way of Canada and pending bill, or opponents, to send in short articles for public Mexico. . And the shame of it all is that American citizens are sequent issues. interests! Let s fight it out now and not wait until aiding and abetting these hordes of diseased and predatory peoples to private sneak across the border lines and derive handsome profit in this wholesale whole business at an average price of $1.25 an acre. If yon violation of the law. may we not hear from you ? It may startle some of Americas worldly-wis- e down-trodde- ci co-oper- ate o( . half-bake- si right-thinki- ng si ; self-center- ed fl . or so-call- ed |