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Show ANOTHER WAR . FOR IL S. WITHIN THIRTY YEARS NEW YORK. Dec. 21 What shall the Irnlted States do after tho war? Here is Emerson Hough's answer: Fourteen reconstruction necessities: 1 Restrict and select immigration. Forget the foolish "Melting Pot" idea. Cease to believe that America is the haven for every man looking for li-conse li-conse and easy work. Cut out the maudlin idea that wo must harbor the earth's scum in the name of "Democracy." "Democ-racy." Make every immigrant take out first papers as soon as he lands. If he doesn't take out the rest, send him back. Let's have a flag and a country of our own. 2 Don't waste too much sympathy and too much food feeding Germany. That's her peace propaganda. Germany Ger-many is not contrite. Show her mercy mer-cy now, feed her and console her with a lot of subjective rot about human democracy, and in fortv years she'll be biting the hand that fed her. She has earned nothing but contempt and destruction. Why should she have more? Would she give us much? And look out for .the "German -American. ' He is as disloyal as ever, and only scared just now. 3 Secretary Lane's "Free Land," or I rather cheap lr.nd. scheme for the sol-tdiers sol-tdiers is broad and good. Extremely expensive, extremely complicated, extremely ex-tremely prolific In bureau activities; from more of which God deliver us Americans. I No demobilization of all the army. Some think war is done with. I don't by any means. I think we'll be at war again inside of thirty years. 5 Make Mexico salute our flag at Vera Cruz now, since once wc said she must. Clean up Mexico., Get that question settled Gel Into' good and final relations with Mexico and Canada. Can-ada. 6 Don't plan to set this country right by talking and theorizing beautifully. beau-tifully. The farmer and the laboring man have come to stay, but they should not be permitted to oppress the rest of America. Bolshevism is afoot all over the world. We must not let it start here. 7 Got as many men on the land as nossihlo Amnr!fnn; nnt now frrm- ble-making foreigners. S Good roads are good assets. Build many new and good roads, in our national na-tional parks, in our farming regions, if it seems the government must do something for the unemployed. 9 Spread the. doctrine that we ought not to lapse back into our old crazy dollar chasing as the one aim and end of man. Do what can be done for leisure, content, art, literature above all. work toward as many contented con-tented homes as possible, not city flats inhabited by unhappy workmen. 10. Work, think and vote Americanism. Ameri-canism. Cut the hyphen out absolutely. absolute-ly. Kill all foreign language societies. Make the Lutheran preachers talk English, not German. Forbid use of German in schools or textbooks or public assemblages for a time, even on the telephone. Germany in America Ameri-ca is not dead. She ought to be. The hyphen is outlived In our schome now. We should be manly enough to make that known and to- damn politically any man who ever again acters to the foreign vote. Dignify America. 11. Let the doors open and the i wheels move and the payrolls begin as fast as passible for the soldiers who I come back. They'll have to work. Laurels won't last long as food. Com petition ought not to bo allowed to run into sweat shop prices. Hold off any panic in labor. 12. Tho people of America have been robbed by food dealers. They are going to be restive over any more monkeying with their private "breakfast "break-fast tabl now. We should put In power a party of men big enough to kill the quibbles of food monopolists and to force them to lower the prices that are I kept up through combine. "Down with aristocracy of monopoly." not a bad cry if we are really to bo tho democracy democ-racy of which wo hear so much lofty prating. While a lot of high idealism has Been spilled In Washington and elsewhere, tho American family has been pinched, all at once, as it never could havo been thought would be the case. That pinch has got to ease up, o rthere will bo serious trouble Our with autocratic methods all too soon and fully. The war Is over now. 13. Abolish censorship, but enforce the law against treasonable talk. 14. A stern and merciless peace with Germany; a practical view as to our own needs at home; a fostering of the old Individual unherded American way of thought; a stiff selection of any new-comers -who now aspire to bo citizens; cit-izens; and a general stiffening of our social attitude, ought to bo all in line. Let us bo Americans. I don't think wo should allow any hyphenatos any chance or any recognition. Why shake hands with the spies and cut -throats who infested this country just because i they are for the time being too scared to talk? Let them be Americans or get out. - The stiffening up of admission and recognition of Germans alone would make more room for the American soldiers in our business world. America Ameri-ca for Americans only! It is not a bad war cry for the day. Feed our hun- gry first! ' oo |