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Show CLOSE THE DOORS. When the governors meet today, amid the scenes of Ogden Canyon, the place should prove an inspiration for the patriotism which forbids a marring intrusion. Beautiful pines and great cliffs breathe a spirit of liberty, free from foreign touch. In this great country of ours today, there is a problem of how to i keep our institutions thoroughly American. As one writer puts it: ' Our immigration policy has always been based on the supposition that the immigrant would use our language, adopt our customs and remain re-main here as a loyal citizen. But when the test came one language group alone furnished us with 300,000 spies and countless cases of disloyalty. dis-loyalty. Any wide awake nation would have slammed its doors tightly closed thereafter and barred out all immigration for ten or twenty years. But, as Buchanan said years ago, the American people seem unable un-able to learn by experience. For many decades we have had ampl pi oof that the so called melting pot was not fusing the newcomers with the old population. Even in the early days of the republic Washington Washing-ton and Jeffeison condemned the small patches of alienism that then existed. The evil is a hundred times worse now. Tin's country is a mere land of jabbering foreign colonies. Even in the farming districts whole sections aie foreigners. Nations without racial unity always tend to fall apart. In the case of Austria-Hungary several new republics have been formed. This will not happen here, but the un-Americanized aliens are a constant dilution of American patriotism. Even those who become citizens are often ignorant of our national ideals. We are now threatened with a vast flood of immigrants." Our governors can play an important part in creating sentiment against the policy of the past which has allowed an almost unobstructed unobstruct-ed flow of immigration. When they go home, in public utterances they i should do much to create sentiment in favor of shutting the door of immigration im-migration long enough to allow this country to assimilate the foreign element which, in our large cities, is but slowly accepting Americanism. |