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I believe they do and will continue to do so even more intently. The preservation of this great Republic of in 1920. out of a white population of about 95.000.000. nearly our.14.000.000 were born in 45 different foreign countries and 23.000.000 One of the great things that we need is the readjustment or more were of foreign or halfforeign parentage. These 14.000.000 distributio of the common thin that we i hve. uTet ar foreign born. as part of more than 34.000.000 of aliens officially addistribution of the common labor that we have. There are mtdit h ntdSae rmalcutissne12.aesp today 150.000 more men engaged in mining than can be profit- mitted into the United States from am countries since 1820. are supably employed there at a fulltime employment. This condition porting and reading 1.052 papers in more than 30 different languages. gives rise to hardship for the miners and high prices for the varying from Arabic to Yiddish. from Albanian to Welsh. consumer. who must pay for men to lie idle six months of the Add to the number of these people. who get their news and year. even though it may be at an inadequate income. Yet the views from the foreignlanguage press. the million and three operators of the same mines would have the law weakened in quarters of illiterates among the 14.000.000 foreign born under order to secure still more cheap help. the 1920 census and you will get a glimpse of how far we have Everywhere we find that the efficiency of common labor Is up strayed from Washingtons democratic homogeneity of manners to the )rewar level. but that the efficiency of skilled labor de- and habits of life. pends entirely on the supply and demand. The whole United You will find that In a single block in New York City 18 difStates seems to be short of plasterers. for the simple reason. ferent languages are spoken and that one public school In that however. that the unions have not allowed others to join. thus city harbors children of 26 different nationalities. making it necessary. when union labor controls building enter- In social Newport. R. I.. you will find a large colony of prises. for contractors to pay exorbitant prices for laborers. Greeks. mostly from the island of Xanthes. whose local " king" Because the 3S.000 plasterers of the Nation have limited their can boast of the unchallenged allegiance also of the Xanthias number is no reason why we should let down the immigration in the large Greek colony at Tarpon Springs. Fla. bars and( flood the country with more millions of aliens in the In the progressive State of Michigan one school principal hope we might get a few plasterers. rather. let the union admit writes that In his small rural jurisdiction. of 306 children eninto their number a few of the thousands that want to join. rolled only 97 speak English at home. Another place where we have labor shortage Is on the farm. Not long ago the Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal quoted with apbut the average farmer gets little help from the present sources proval. in reference to its own State. from a leading magazine of immigration. The orlentals that would flock into our west- thatern lands would not help out American farm owners. Of al it is not hard to find communities in this country in which the English foreign born gainfully employed in the United States. only 12 language is to the inhabitants a foreign tongue. and in which habits per cent are in agriculture. and those are all practically work- f thought and conduct are widely variant from those of neighboring Ing for themselves. The National Grange has gone on record communities. mlany tines in declaring that tey are opposed to proposals These differentlating elements. moreover. through large accretions In which would bring about a general influx of immigrants of race their number tend more and mere to cohere. They not only become and traditions radically differing from American shaundards. more difficult of absorption because of their increasing bulk but they The Constitution of the United States acknowledges the right (lidiy their differences. end thereby actually obstruct and resist the of human beings to "life. liberty. and the pursuit of appi- process of absorption. ness." Unrestricted immigration. while bringing happiness to An(] w someindvidals ~ectls of he dmisionof embrs o fuini And e rost recognize the danger in the fact that we have armed some individuals because of the admission of inenbels of ftmi- these heterogeneous American stocks with a political weapon which lies--hiohose foreusuagn boe seuredy ryey- ouh n wor many of them are congenitally unfit to use. and clothed legions of them making more difficult economic rdvancement. by keeping thei by legislative fiat with an "equality" which flies in the face of nature standard of living to the present level. and because of their very numbers keeping them from becoming acquainted with Respect for and observance of law have become a byword American Institutions and ideals. and a hissing in certain sections of our land. though. and beNow. today we are thinking of the new problem that con- cause of the vast numbers of the population that neither underfronts us. not so much a problem of the past as of the future. stand nor sympathize with American ideals and institutions. The old theory of " no lars " was that in the atmosphere of Granted citizenship without qualifications and given the right. America we could make fullfledged Americans out of any and thus to sit on jury panels. they threaten the very foundation of all racial groups. our legal system.