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Show A Serious Problem. Thomas Jefferson believed in an absolute Democracy, that men should bo free to do any legitimate thing; that all should have the same privileges; that there should be absolute freedom free-dom of speech, of the press and of religion. But tho underlying thought in his mind was patriotism patriot-ism and the belief that a patriotic people could bo absolutely trusted. What would his thoughts havo been could he have looked forward to a time when In this country all these privileges should be given to hosts of men who have no patriotism, pa-triotism, who are hero without a thought of making a permanent home here; who havo no prido in this country's institutions and no grati-tudo grati-tudo for the blessings it surrounds them with? Americans returning from Europe Bay that every oast-bound steamer carries some hundred of people who havo come to the United States, spent a few years, amajiBod a little money and are returning. If they havo gathered wealth enough to buy a little homo and a few, throe or four, acres of land they never mean to coma back; If thoy have not enough for that they are going home to make a lltte visit anil then, Intend, to return and make another effort to. "mjaka a stake." Neither das lias .any, Ida, pt making this country their -p(ttmaentliomo. These $o pie are prlglnaljy front souftiem BJuropej the Italians, Ital-ians, the Slavs, the Greeks and others. For a hundred years the immigrants wore of other types, those from northern Europe; the English, Soots, the Irish, the Germans and Scandinavians. The Irish are Americans before they board the ships to come here, the Germans and Scanda-navians Scanda-navians and the men generally from the United Kingdom come with full intention to ieranin, and though the English growl and the Scotch criticize crit-icize things and the Germans for years tell how muoh better things are arranged in their own country; none have any idea of returning per- iH manently; they become naturalized and are good citizens. And they bring with them no feuds to fight out on our sido as do the men from southern fM Europe. And in the east and to Borne extent in the west the southmen are crowding out the north- men; thoy can live on less and coarser food; they have a severer thrift than any of the northern men savo the Scotch. On tho west coast another race is coming in, a race of another family of na- tions. All from Europe aro Causlans, but these are Mongolians or Mongolians and Tartars mixed. In the east tho races blend and in two or three generations all are Americans, these in the west aro distinct; distinct in type, in thought, in every way. And their allegiance is to an Em- peror beyond tho sea. And they aro all merged in the ranks of labor east and west and while among them aro thousands of worthy men, the great body aro here for what they can make and were the words of Jefferson read to them they would construe them to mean that under our flag liberty means license. Heretofore our country has been great enough, with cheap lands enough to assimilate the hosts as they have come. Now they are streaming in at the rato of a million a year and adding more than ono per cent per annum to our population. What is tho ond to be? Surely a nation like an individual has tho right of self-preservation. What can this na- ''M tion do? Of thoso who come tens of thousands 'M stop in the cities and all the city's evils and all their schools of crime are open to them, and it is easy with the Ignorant and tho poor to transform a log into a firebrand. We believe it would be but justice and self- preservation to compel thoso who come, thoso between eighteen years and thirty years of ago to serve for eighteen months or two years in the army, leaching them two or three hours a day H the branches they most need to learn. Of course H this would keep away a great many of them, but thoso who came would come with good intentions and after eighteen months of discipline they would 9 have a clear idea of the spirit of our country and their honorable discharge from tho army wou'd WM be for them a certificate of character all their jfl lives thereafter. It would tako them away from WM tho oitles; it would cause them to understand what Q free government means; with that discharge clt- H izonship would be theirs, honestly earned; in ten H years tho effect would make men wonder why the plan was not adopted long ago. H |