Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1923 — Page 7

Friday, September Zlr 1SZ3

THE FIERY CROSS PAGE SEVEN

FIERY CROSS SHINES ON COURTHOUSE DOME

Is Feature of Celebration at Anderson Speeches, Parade and Fireworks Display

ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 17. The feature of the Klan celebration and parade in thia city on last Friday

night was an electric cross on the dome of the courthouse which could be set'n miles from the building. The cross was lighted by red electric bulbs and presented a novel sight. It was lighted early in the evening. A crowd estimated at more than 10,000 persons witnessed the parade

given by the organisation in which about nine hundred marchers took part. There were a number ot women in the procession. One of the features of the parade was the famous Muncie Klan band. An initiation, at which a large class of candidates became members of the Klan organization was held at Athletic park. There were also

speeches by prominent men within the Klan ranks and the affair was concluded by an elaborate display of Klan fireworks.

The Knights Templar and Royal Arch Masons of the state of Wyoming held a most successful convention at Sheridan this month. In addition to the usual business sessions, banquets and receptions pro vided delightful hospitality.

GRAND DRAGON SPEAKS BEFORE COAL MINERS (Continued from Page 3)

Many of our coal mining towns, nr textile manufacturing centers, our

steel towns, and others, are almost

entirely made up of foreigners who have little claim to Americanism beyond the fact that they walk on American soiL In almost every other way they are foreign te American principles and political and social ideals.

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Contrast Is Cited "In contrast with the newer type of foreigners in the cities I am sure your mind will flash to the thousands of farming communities of this great Mississippi valley where so many English and Germans and Scandinavians settled" in the earlier period and to which some of these nationalities still come. "Russian Mennonites have also

settled in a few farming localities of the west, and in New England

and along the middle Atlantic coast foreigners are going into farming.

There are half a million foreign-

born farm operators in the country today, but most of them are here in this Upper Mississippi valley of ours and most of them of these older races. None are harder working or better farmers. A higher proportion of them owned their farms in 1920 a higher proportion, I say, men owned their farms than In the case of our

native farmers. And their farms averaged fifteen thousand dollars in value against eleven thousand dollars for the natives. "It is the increasingly industrial character of our civilization that is congesting our cities and towns. The new type of foreigner is by no means

to be held responsible for the problem. He simply adds to its intensity. The older immigrant, on the other hand, more often tending to go on the land, was largely a "counter-balancing factor. "Where he settled in the city or town he wa3 mainly a worker in the skilled occupations and

trades rather than a common laborer or factory operative. In the twelve years from 1899 to 1910 nearly three times as high a proportion of the immigrants from northwestern Europe were men in skilled occupations than was the case among-those eomlnir from the rest of Europe. Few

of them find their way to the slums, "No, there is no doubt, my friends, that the newer stocks of immigrants contribute far more to our distinctive 'city' problems than do those other races that we have welcomed with such benefits to ourselves, to

share in our heritage. Standard of Living Is Criterion "The standard of living is perhaps the best criterion ot the civilization

of a nation, and we in America have prided ourselves on securing and maintaining a higher standard of living than any other country in the world. "The immigration commission made a very careful study of the

Lstandard of living of the different

races in this country. As measuring this standard, it made comparisons of wages, of health and sanitary conditions, of crowding in tenement houses and the number of persons occupying a single room, of child labor and numerous other factors

which serve-to indicate the standard of living conditions. In each of the above-mentioned studies the new immigrant was found to exist on a far lower plane of living than even the lowest classes of our nativeborn. The great majority of Greeks, Italians, Slavs and Poles in this

country live in a condition of poverty, congestion and dirt that is unbelievable to the average American.

"The great argument which is advanced for relaxation of our immigration bars at the present time is the economic one. It is said that, we need immigrant labor for American industry; that we must have it if American industry is to develop, for we are being held back by an -inadequate labor supply. Judge Gary of the United States Steel Corpora

tion paints a pathetic picture of

American busiaesa throttled, and held down far below ita capacity beeausa of the scarcity ot labor with which

to operate labor which would pour in from abroad without the asking, if we only gave it a chance. "Do human Wingg egt simply In order to glvoT5bor piwerlar industry? Such is the natural con-

elusion from Judge Gary's argument. Bather, my friends, let It be said that industry exists in order

that it may he the servant of humanity and that it may give organized opportunities for making a liv

ing-to those human beings already

here. "If the gates were opened wide

and all admitted, how long before

the two great activities of industry

would produce an oversnppiy with

resulting curtailment, greater un

employment than we have Known before and stagnation of Industry? Immigration Bednees- Wages

"The inevitable economio law of

diminishing returns teaches us that

after a certain point the more men there are in any country the less each one gets,' for the increase in

the product of labor is not in pro

portion to the Increase in laborers. "There is no such thing as t permanent scarcity of labor. In

dustry soon adjusts itself to the actual supply of labor on hand, with

out diminution of the per capita re- 1 turn in wages or profits, and often with an increase in such return. "Stated in plain terms, the demand of large - manufacturers for immi

grant labor at the present time is baldly a demand for cheap labor. It Is a demand for men who will accept work at wages below that which the American standard of living demands; for men who will work longer hours than American standards of health and comfort insist

should constitute a day's work; for men who will undermine the American standard of living, who will

luuu. las vi can uvim hud lauvi uuiuugi who will work for a wage so small that the employing class can tempo

rarily reap larger profits from their

labor. "But can not the employers see

that, so far as their market la the home market and in most lines this

is predominantly the case, the buy

ing power of the mass of the people

is the support of the market? An impoverished people nn ant buy what the employers produce. How

vividly we saw that in the business depression of the last half of 1920

and the year 19211 The same princi

ple is at work all the time, though

not so . clearly obvious. To the em

ploying group as a whole, too eheap labor is a liability, not an asset. The 'common welfare' Is not only an ideal, it has a practical value for our

entire industrial and commercial

life

"Let us remember this all-impor

tant fact; as our immigrants, of the present are, so shall our nation of

the future be. The standard of liv

ing of these men will of necessity

become the standard ot living of

American laborers of the future

just as we have seen that the physi

cal and mental qualities of the immigrant become those of the nation

of the next generation.

"And what kind of a political citi

zen does the new immigrant make

in our American democracy! The

chances are around three te one that

he never becomes a citizen at all, for

the percentage of southern Luro

peans who take out their narurauza-

quently given tor unrestricted immlgratioa which remain to bar con

sidered. This is the sentimental ap

peal, often advanced, that America should hold her gates always open

o the poor and oppressed of every

land. Naturally thta argument

make! a strong appeal to freedohTloving Americana whose Jiearts go outm sfmpaihy to the aspirations of the less fortunate across the

ocean.

'But it can have no place in de

termining the Immigration policy to be followed today. We can not afford to ignore the fundamental

fact that to admit the oppressed of other lands today would operate, in the not distant future, only to work

worse oppression on our own citi

zens. To the people already In Am

erica we owe a greater duty and one

which we can not ignore. Further

than this, it is extremely doubtful

whether permitting the unrestricted

flow of immigrants would be of real benefit, either to the immigrants

themselves or the countries from which they come. By allowing the discontented millions of Europe and Asia to emigrate here now are we likely to help in any way the coming of political and social reforms in Armenia, in Russia or in Turkey? The mere stating of the problem from this point of view is sufficient

to show the false basis of altruism

on which the so-called sentimental argument Is resting.

No, my friends, there is no escape

from a rigid selective restriction of Immigration at the present time. If

we are to maintain America as a

healing light to the nations of the

world.

Itlgid Restriction Necessary If a way can be found to admit

Immigrants of the higher types, while the others are excluded, Am

erica may be benefited and not

harmed; but the great army of unfit must be excluded at any cost. Rigid

selection of the fit, rigid restriction

of the unfit. This is the only immigration policy which can save Am

erica today. Any other policy will work inevitable destruction to what may be ealled the "American race,"

cue American laeai or social, eco

nomic and political life.

"The problem confronts us now as

never "before. The next Congress must adopt a permanent immigration law to take the place of the so-called three per cent law, which auto

matically expires next June, and

this legislation will have to run the

gauntlet of a powerful and organ

ized lobby, headed by the largest manufacturing interests of the coun

try.

"It is a grave responsibility which

Is faced today by these representa

tives and senators who are soon to

decide on a permanent immigration

policy for the United States. The

effect of their decision Is not for the next few months or years, but for

the future generations. It was the thoughtless importation of African

slaves in the early days of the republic that later brought on a Civil War which all but rent this nation in twain, and which leaves a heritage

in the form of a negro problem today that is a constant stumbling- block in national progress. So the unchecked Importation now of hordes of southern Europeans will bring its inevitable harvest in fearfully deteriorating the character of the American nation of the future. The immigra

tion policy which we adopt today

tion papers Is much smaller than that will not produce Its vital effects at

anions' the northern Europeans. Of once; tnese win come a generation

Germans. Irish. Scandinavians. Brit- or two later, and the American cltl-

Ish, among us, from.60 to 75 per cent zensnip, American standards or nv-

become eitizens. Of Italians and mg ana American qualities or manPoles, less than SO per cent. The hood and womanhood of that time

immigration commission reported will be largely dependent upon the

that only a little more than half of cnaracter or tne racial stock tnat

the newer Immigrants ever learn today we permit to become tne per-

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even to speak the English language.

How can they n-ineie in the discus

sions of American politics without It?

Bead Foreign Language Papers

"No, if they read at all, they read America a struggle perhaps even a naoer from our ever-growing for- more serious than that between the

eign-language press; and for social states in the Civil War, because its fellowship they join some racial im- insldlousness and concealed nature migrant organization. Such condl- make the danger less apparent. The

tions do not make the right kind of fate of the American nation today

citizens of the United States. hangs In the balance Just as truly

"Suppose the Latin or Slavic lm- as during the great battle of Gettys

migrant does taae out his naturaliza- burg sixty years ago."

tion papers and become an Ameri

can citizen. In rare cases he may turn out to be one ot the best we

have. Imbibing the true American

snirtt of idepenrtence, ot freedom

from enslaving traditions, of oon-

scious participation in the great objects of citizenship. But much more often he becomes an American only in name. His political Interests and

Ideals are still those of the country from which he came; his views are

molded, by those of his fellow-immigrants and by the nationalistic and often anti-Ameriean foreign-lan-

enia.ere naDer which he reads.

"In national affairs he is a men.

twn to free America; In state or civic

affairs he tends te become the tool

of the bosses. This Is no fanciful pic

ture, my friends, but a grave reality,

whleh is evident in every eiecuon.

"It was the understanding on the Dart of the revolutionary patriots of

1776 that public anairs were paramountly important, that govern

ment was the all-important element

in human life that made them ready

to Rive everything, even their lives,

to the enterprise of creating a new thing upon the earth a government of, by and for the people, resting

on their consent and organized to

secure the common welfare. That

is the kind of Americans we should

be. Too far, God knows and you all know have American citizens

fallen below that high ideal of patriotism. Ours is 8 movement to re-e-aln those heights of understanding

and devotion. Will a continued flood

tide of these newer Immigrants help

nsf

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