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Show MAKE IT FORFVER "The American Legion asks congress to put a three-year stop to immigration", observes the Minneapolis Min-neapolis Journal, "If three years why not thirty-three years? A three year's Htop will postpone invasion JiiKt three years, whereas a generation's genera-tion's respite will save the republic and keep us American. A shorter period will help hut of itself will not suffice to save. "Three years' complete shut-down aB the legion proposes, Is better than the 3 per cent seepage allowed under tin' present act. Hut it is a piece of hand-to-mouth legislation. It allows I lie European hordes to hope that finally thoy can bring themselves, I hair near-Bolshevism, their lower standard of living, their different psychos ovor here to work our deterioration, de-terioration, to make our political functioning more difficult, lo compromise com-promise our national loyalty, to augment aug-ment our racial and group disinter-gratlon, disinter-gratlon, perhaps to encourage insurrection insur-rection or to achieve revolution. "If Immigration is bad for the next three years, It will be bad for thirty-three. thirty-three. Let the legion go the length of their patriotic impulse and demand de-mand that America he kept American for a full generation. We hope the labor unions will join the legion In the- demand. We hope all patriots will now give full tongue to raise such a clamor as congress must heed. "Not indifference, but negligence, is the defect of our Americanism. When roused to national peril, we are not Indifferent at all. but so many demands are made upon attention atten-tion that wo fail to perceive a peril until the eleventh hour. "The evil is not a transient one to be altered or revoked by changing chang-ing circumstances. Three years from today there may be a demand for unskilled un-skilled labor in this country that would absorb all the immigration that could come. But such a demand would not be a good reason for allowing al-lowing immigration. Nor is the reason rea-son for barring immigration now the temporary unemployment. The true reason is a permanent one, which will last a generation anyhow. The true reason cannot be affected by change of circumstance. It is not a matter of employment or unemployment. unem-ployment. It is not a question of a year or three or five. "Do we want America here, or a social Balkanization in its stead? that is the question. Shut the gates for three and thirty years! Shut them now!" Sasper Tribune. |