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Show j oo UNDESIRABLES IN AMERICA Undesirables to the number of sixty- h land. They included what are known H as "desperate radicals" and are anar chists or I. W W. or Bolshevik H While at large, they have been a fl source of endless trouble and the Unit ' ed States is getting rid of them by H shipping the entire group to ihe coun H tries from which (hey came H This reminds us that something should be done to check the foreign i H influx. At present strangers to this H land are pouring in at the rate of over j H one million a year, .md, if further rc- station may reach two million in I I America ha? been a land of opportu- , 1 1 1 1 and a haen of refuge for the op ! p eased of all nations, but the foreign H ers are landing at a rate which makes I H - ii Impossible for us 10 assimilate i hem The census taken by tho gov H ernment during the war showed 3. 1 oS9.00o residents of this country could not speak the English language. Une writer has enld there can be neither national unity in ideals ncr in purpose unless there is some common method of communication through which we may convey the thought of B the nation With millions unable to speak English, and hundreds of thou I sands living in districts and working i ,n factories where English is never heard, how is America to remain in -pint and purpose wholly American'' In New York state 30 per cent of the people are foreign born, In Illmoie, 21 H per cent, In Massachusetts. 31 per cent; In Rhode Island. 33 per cent, j In 1910 there were 17.710 000 males H' 21 years of age or over, who were na-i na-i me; there were 6,646,000 foreigners tnd 2,641,000 colored. More than one half of the man pow-H pow-H ei of the country was foreign or col- jl Thirty years ago there cre very I few Russians in the United States I Now there are over two million. Thiny vears ago Austnans wore BBBBll iHB nrafSriSprsKS VStvn .;L.fo strangers to us. Now there are close to two million. j In Greater New York, in 1915, there Iwas a population of 5 047,000, with 1.-204,000 1.-204,000 aliens While this condition exists, America should begin to cut down the inllov of foreigners until the process of Americanizing has drawn the great mass of aliens into the current of our thought and has amalgamated the col onies in whlcn English is not spoken |