The Northman., May 27, 1920, Image 1

The ‘Tacific Skandinaven” from Vol. XVII, No. 14.
“The American Scandinavian” from Vol. V, No. 2.
A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PROGRESS AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP
Portland, Oregon, Thursday, May 27,1920
Volume I.
Number 5.
LET NO PEOPLE ENTER THIS COUNTRY
WHO CANNOT BE ASSIMILATED
'JpHE PRINCIPLE, or policy, or lack of it, the condition which
brought the Negro race to this country was a high crime against
Democracy for which the nation has paid the penalty in blood, in
tears and in treasure immeasurable, and it is not yet all paid. The
principle, or policy, or lack of it, the condition which permits Jap­
anese, Hindus and other non-assimilable races to enter this country
at this time, is equally criminal, and leads as directly to disaster as
did the importation of Negroes for slave labor. The Japanese who
who does not agitate, or threaten or destroy directly, is more dan­
gerous than the plotting Bolshevist, the shrieking Socialist, the
clamouring Communist or the raving disciple of I. W. W.-ism.
It is as certain as night succeeds day that if this nation is to en­
dure as a Democracy, as planned by its founders and maintained to
this time, only such peoples can be permitted to enter and become
a component part as can be assimilated, socially as well as politically,
and which will emerge from the process of amalgamation as Am­
ericans with the stamina to maintain and the spirit to pass on to
succeeding generations the principles which we have adopted, as a
nation and as a people, as being humanity’s best interpretation of
freedom and liberty.
This is a time for taking observations and fixing the true course
along which we shall advance toward the hope of the ages and it
lies not hand in hand with the Mongol race of Dai Nipon.
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