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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO.f INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: teludlng postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, brilx months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal CjiJO per year. 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay sbls to The Citizen. Address all communications to Ths Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at ths Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879. 3 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409 THE LA W AND THE ALIEN infrequently, the gesture, usually from high, places, comes down foiericans of native birth, that a special protective law for aliens is ot . dying an need of the hour. Such gestures are apparently the direct re-occasional labor disturbance, or similar catastrophe, in which an of loses his life. The request for a special law to protect the u seems to magnify the probabilities of such residents becoming of violence at the hands of native born mobs, direct actionists and resident i ims a most unthinkable premise. History records the unescapable facts that, in no other land in all the is the alien given such an opportunity to become a substantial life and progress of a great nation as in America. In no sec-this country is his citizenship questioned, and while the fact that citizenship, mitigates against him only in respect to holding yet by the influence he may exert among those of his race, who become voters, he may easily help to dictate who shall hold office in final analysis. To such an alarming extent has this foreign and ex- alien influence in politics in America been cudgled and fostered by nationally inclined Americans, that today we often witness open and rm propaganda by foreigners, both of high and low rank, in vain and tative attempts to frame our laws in behalf of foreign nations or their als resident in this country. Another lamentable phase of this gesture to enact special protective for alien residents may be emphasized by the fact that aliens are sg our most persistent and aggressive law breakers. Today our al courts of record have their calendars cluttered up with more citizens than for any other class involving aliens and foreign-bor- n Bidents. This is due, in large measure to our prohibition law, which evidently held in utter contempt by all aliens, who. have been ac- to their regulation nips since time began and to others of their "'ho sense in this unwieldy law an easy way to accumulate Amerifollars. for the higher-u- p Often they are but the ans back of the moonshine ring but the fact that they enter so usly and so wholeheartedly into the game of defeating the booze indicates, beyond peradventure of a doubt, that they would as readily any and all law if no check were placed upon them- - Coming here knds where they have been unaccustomed to equal measures of perfreedom ; often released from the surveilancc of multitudes of gov- tol satraps, tax gatherers and officials wearing all the fanciful restate police powers, with which many foreign nations are so sly inflicted, they do not, and cannot, rightly sense their duties to fend to which they come ostensibly to make a living. The great of tlu American far born, which are granted alike to all aliens, . . . ttssional man-handle- rs, fac-int- he Id, of pul-ffic- u-- e, 4 s &) 1 , ' stool-pigeo- ns 16 i bein n. KitMiii m uii'iu, iw uiuii ivatv.. n w that individual liberty, in America, is bounded only by what a . cn do, openly or surreptitiously, and get away with, that our ndicates, beyond preadventure of a doubt, that they would as readily liberie means individual personal license to do just about all the pleases regardless of either moral or legal restraint. With this concept of our form of government uppermost in the minds of a vast number of our alien residents, it is little wonder that we find them rampantant advocates and practitioners of the most advanced individual liberty methods. There is another class of aliens who gajn admission to America in ever increasing numbers. We have reference to the Bolshevistic and the Communistic inclined souls, who make America their special field of labor and come here primed and loaded with the most advanced and vicious anarchistic and revolutionary ideas. These are the class of aliens who our jails, along with misguided Americans, every time a raid is pulled off on some secret abode of the I. W. W. or kindred society. This class of aliens, now clamoring for admission louder than ever beforeh and lining the shores of nearby countries, awaiting an opportunity to steal across our borders or be smuggled in, are recognized as the most detrimental to our form of government and come in for the most exacting regulatory governmental practices of our immigration bureau. .. But they do get in and fill . spread dissention and discontent among more peacefully inclined peoples of their own and other foreign countries. Often their vicious teachings reaches the ranks of our American workers and we find them, in. increasingly large numbers, becoming inoculated with, the virus of hate and aversion for all government and most of all for the enobling civilization this land has created during the one hundred and fifty years of its existence. Viewed in the light of full knowledge of the true facts, such labor calamities and resultant death of American and alien workers (two aliens were killed), as that which occurred at Herrin, Ills., it is only fair to state residents constituted a large majority of the attacking that foreign-bor- n gunmen. It is a well known fact that the coal miners unions are compeoples and that, having posed of more than sixty per cent of foreign-bor- n sensed and visualized the great inherent power and strength of unionism, they constitute one of the strongest, if not the most powerful body of men, now engaged in making the idea of collective bargaining in America more than an idle dream of union officials. In the light of the facts as herein presented, in brief only, regarding the status of aliens in America, it appears to be an idle request for special laws to protect them further than they arc now protected. It seems a travesty on justice to seek a special law to protect a class that habitually flouts all our laws ; it seems an unwarranted procedure to ask for a national law to guard aliens when our native born men and women are left only with the basic law of the land the constitution as their ultimate guarantee of safety when we consider the extent to which the eighteenth amendment is being disregarded by aliens. There is little that appeals strongly American in this plea for a special law to guard aliens to the native-bor- n when he considers that he had to live here twenty-on- e years to become a citizen and in all that time the good old laws of the U. S. A., as devised by the fathers, sufficed for his complete protection and guided him safely and surely to manhood and to the status of a voter in a great full-fledg- ed |