| Show of the melting pot ot Ani american erian carelessness cire cussedness and politics ire are responsible for the internal intern nl situation tint thit th it has c aused so much anxiety during the p year in the heat and stir oi of 1 preparation the slum has arisen to the top As america liis has turned her face toward he the enemy every dirty cur in the country has snapped at her heels we have found that eni ent my in trenched in america as is well as is in france shipping sapping in our schools school undermining und ermininA our press burrowing in our municipal and state governments govern sniping whenever a back has been turned it looks bad but it is only scum and beneath it americanism is coming to the boiling point we are in the healthy condition of knowing what the trouble is is we WC luve have been too free with ith america giving everything and demanding nothing no thin we have had a happy go o lucky dont care theory that nobody need worry about what the lie unassimilated foreigner didor thought that everything would come out right in the end that thare wis was some magic in our air that would transform the lazy the weak the vicious into hardworking honest honc st desirable american citizens we have hae considered the tile rights of every nationality in the world except our own the rhe immigrant who comes to america a to become an tin american mid and who works ut nt a the tile job should bt welcome but of late years too many of another kind have settled here Po powerful erful have been jt it aock against their americanization caniza tion in the old way free entry and opportunity have hae been gien iven not only to the honest sturdy immigrant with a cincere admiration mi ration for our country countr and the will to work and become a 1 lovi Anit american rican hut but to the tile fellow who had only the tile will to work us and u u tib hie rhe foreign agitator has been welcomed and told to go and anti agitate even cen he lie blackguarded our country and lied to the tile itinerant ignorant and the tile sedulous red ulous about our government ilie pro troublemaker has been permitted to go iliad and make trouble almost t any scoundrel in E drope who fancied a trip to our short shorts s lias has had a I 1 fair field and plenty of dav fa or over here becart this tills is a free country and 1 of the oppressed it has been the refuge ot of the oppi emed but it has also teen the haven haen of a lot of rascals who have hae abused our hospitality and besmirched our institutions not only pom P om the soap box bo but from the forum 1 1 I he lie anal bhawe for thebe these conditions rests at the door of natural iced and native natie born american politicians Lians and demagogues who to gain ain and keep office have ha e basely appealed td to sectional and race L 7 prejudice to passion ignorance iu norance and discontent they rhey have unde iii ide possible the tile perpetuation of a babble of tongues es a d segregation of aces uces a growing class prejudice in in this country they have the hyphen until it hab become a I 1 badue badge ot of honor they have grovel ed to e every cry vote except to the american vote it is about time to show them what the solid americanism 0 of this country can do to them at the polls added to all these forces bel selfish fiSh sinister we have hac the class appeal the easiest of all ith ill the uneducated or half educated for eigner 1 who has been class ridden riddell all hie his life without A the opportunity that he lie has over oer here to become a member of any cliss for which his brains and his will to work qualify him As the appeal to discontent to class is the easiest so it offers the best field held for the demagogue the grafter the cheap intellectual 1 its apostles men with soft hands and hard faces or with hard h ands and soft faces are everywhere just now among labor bidding it take advantage van of the nation s need adiong farmers telling them that they are getting a raw deal they search out a particular sore spot I 1 a local grievance in each town and county and base their appeal on that last and least are those fatuous fools tho nut sundae socialist from the ranks of the self styled intellectuals and the well to do lemon pup Bols heiki up lifters preaching something they don ot t quite know what and urging anything thing they don t just care what bo 0 o in ill keeps the spotlight on them they are sacrificing self idealists to the last dollar of the other fellow s business but hard as nails nail in their own aft af lairs airs they rhey look like a formidable crowd but they are not these men are simply scum bikers graft er liars and demagogues insincere selfish and dishonest who ho will run like rits once america that e even cn rats can call spread malignant malign ant diseases we must start by cleana clea ide aning nm them out of the schools the tile press and the ahe 1 he man who pla partisan politics and appeals to class and race is self exposed work against st him vote ote ennst him throw him out jut never mind w N hat he lie calls hini himself self republican democrat socialist or non partisan leaguer the label is camou flage we need brains holi honesty ety and americanism thit year it is better to keep ten men out of office on oil suspicion than to let one traitor in and not nil all the tile traitors are germans or pro germans not all the profiteers are millionaires or employers emp loye there is Som something ethino peculiarly vile ile about the american who N ho tries to make money or office out of this war ar who while other men die for an ideal knuts out bold old or place among the t h e gracs arav e saturday beening post |
