Show Scum of the Melting Pot American carelessness and politics are responsible for tor the internal situation that has caused so much anxiety during the past year ear c In the heat and stir of at preparation the scum has risen to the top As America has turned her face tace toward the enemy every dirty cur iri hi the country has snapped at her heels We have found that enemy in In- In trenched in America as well as 1 in France sapping France sapping our schools undetermined undetermined unde unde- in our press burrowing in our municipal and state governments govern govern- ments sniping ments-sniping sniping whenever a back has hils been turned It looks bad but it la only scum and beneath it Americanism Is comIng coming com com- ing to the boiling point We Ve are Inthe in inthe the health healthy condition of knowing what the trouble is We have been too tree free with America giving America giving everything every thing and demanding nothing We have haye had a t lucky happy dont don't care theory that nobody need worry about what the unassimilated foreigner for tor- eigner did or that that everything would come out right in the end that there was some magic in our OUI air that would transform the laz lazy the weak the vIcious vicious into hard hardworking working honest desirable American citizens We have considered the of at ever every nationality In the world except our own The immigrant who comes to America America Am Am- erica to become an American and who works at that Job should be bewelcome bewelcome welcome but of late years ears too many of at another kind have settled here Powerful have ha been work against against their Americanization in u tue e old way Free emr entry and opportunity opportunity op op- have been given not only to fe te ton honest est sturdy immigrant with Inere admiration for tor our country coun try and the will to work and become a l loyal yal American but to the fellow tellow who had ani only the will to work worle us and against us The foreign agitator has has' been Ileen welcomed and told to go ahead and agitate even when he blackguarded blackguarded black black- guarded our countr country and lied to the ignorant anti and the credulous about our government The professional trou troublemaker trou- trou has been permitted to go ahead and make trouble Almost any scoundrel In Europe who fancied tan fan a trip to our shores has had a atall tall fair fie field d and plenty of at favor over here here because because this Is a tree free country coun country try and the refuge of ot the oppressed It has bee been the refuge of at the oppressed op op- pressed but it has also been the I haven of at a lot of at rascals who have abused our hospitality and besmirched besmirched be be- smirched the institutions not only from the soap box but from the forum torum o 0 I The final blame for these conditions condi condl rests at the door of and native born American politicians and demagogues who to gain and keep office have basely appealed to sectional and race prejudice to passion passion pas pas- sion Ignorance and discontent They have made possible the perpetuation of a babel of ton es a segregation of races a growing class prejudice inthis in inthis this country They have exalted the hyphen until it has become a badge of at honor the they have groveled to every vote except the American vote It is about time to show them what the solid Americanism of at this country can do to them at the polls Added to all these forces selfish grafting sinister we have the class appeal the appeal tho easiest of all with the uneducated or educated half foreigner foreign er who has been ridden class class his life wl without hout the opportunity that ho he hohas has over here to become a member of at any class class for tor which his brains and his will wUl to work qualify him As the appeal to discontent to class is the easiest so EO it of offers tel's the bestfield best bestfield field for tor the tho demagogue the grafter graUer the cheap intellectual Its apostles men with sort soft hands and hard faces or with hard hands and soft sott faces are everywhere Just now now among among labor bidding It take advantage of at the nations nation's need among farmers telling them that they arc nrc getting a raw deal They search out a n particular sore spot a local grievance in each town and count county mal and b base se their appeal on that Last and least are those fa fatuous fa fools the fools tho sundae nu-sundae Social Social- lilts from tho ranks of or the Bolf aUst l d Intellectuals and the do well pep pcp preaching something the they dont don't quite know what and urging anything anything any any- thing the they dont don't Just care what so It keeps the spotlight on them They are self sacrificing idealists to the thelast thelast last dollar of the other fellows fellow's business business busi busi- ness but h hard rd as nails in their own affairs They look like a formidable lot but they ar are not These men are scum scum grafters llara and demagogues Insincere demagogues insincere selfish and dishonest who t-who who will wUl run run like rats once America recognizes that even rats can spread malignant dis dIs- ease We must mint start by cleaning them out of the schools the press and the government The man who plays plas partisan politics and appeals to class and race is self disposed work work against him vote voto against him throw him out Never mind what he calls himself Republican Democrat Dem Dem- Socialist 01 or Nonpartisan Le Leaguer the guer-the the label is camouflage eVe e. e We Ve need brains honesty honest and AmerIcanism Americanism Amer Amer- this year It is better to keep ten men out of at office on suspicion than to let one traitor in And not all tho traitors are Germans Germans Ger Ger- GerI I mans or pro Not all the profiteers are millionaires or em em- There Thero ia Is something p cul p cul- cul farly vile vUe about the American who tries to make money or office au out t of at this war who war who while other men die dietor for tor an ideal snouts out gold or 01 place among the graves Saturday Saturday ing Post |