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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1923)
MM THE WESTERN AMERICAN MAY, 1923 businessmen on these questions can satisfy his desire these hostile sources. Briefly it tells just exactly for information by securing copies of such publica how this little band of mountebanks regard the for tions, of which there are a number published right eign born and how they plan to dispose of them: here in this city and state. We don’t believe in the Americanization of the Those who appeal to prejudices, in business and foreigners, and we are going to fight this Ameri politics more or less under cover, have a perfect right canization movement. Why should we Americans to do so, but the citizens who are opposed to all ap appropriate money for schooling and educating peals to prejudice have an equally undisputable right ignorant, illiterate foreigners who have come to eliminate from their patronage and political consid over here?” eration those who are so inclined and they can not be “But they are here, and they are becoming called unfair if they do. There is an ancient code citizens. Is it not better to try to educate them of justice expressed in the simple saying “give a and give them the schooling here that they should man a dose of his own medicine”, and as no one has have recived in the old countries, in order to assi disputed the fairness of that principle, those who milate them as intelligent units? Don’t you be sustain and build by commercial patronage the pub lieve that if they are educated to a certain stand lications gendering group and class prejudice, should ard of intelligence in their citizenship, that they have no cause to complain if in lieu of getting the will be better citizens? Don’t you believe that a patronage of a prejudiced group contingent they should measure of education would make of these people lose the patronage of those who are opposed to intol an asset in our citizenship, where, if we leave erant groups and intolerant propaganda. them alone to seek the intelligence required of The clean citizenship appeal of this magazine is them as citizens in their new homeland, as we catching. It stimulates mutuality and good will. In have invariably done in the past, they will con its appeal there are no abysmal depths of hate and tinue to measure up with a considerable percent no towering mountains of fancied advantages by age in the liability column?” preference. “That’s it. We don’t want to educate them. Let us spend our money instead for the education ONE HUNDRED PER CENT, MORE OR LESS of our own people. Leave these foreigners alone. 'T'HE REGARD in which some native Americans If left alone, they will soon commit enough crimes hold the foreign born who are doing “their bit” to give us a chance to deport them—put them on to make America a bigger and better country to live a ship and send them back to the countries they in, may weigh very little in the scales of sound public came from.” opinion, but as there is a certain development of an The foregoing conversation, in substance, took place anti-foreign bom feeling noticeable, in some places recently between an Americanization worker in this more than in others, in America, it may prove inter city and two prominent representatives of a certain esting to our readers to become familiar with the so-called patriotic fraternal organization, who, to all views shared in common by these super percentage intents and purposes, spoke with some authority in rated Americans. behalf of the group they represented. At least they The following is an unadulterated expression from represented the sentiment of the group from which iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Ask Your Dealer American Citizenship for the following brands Manufactured in Portland ; Mt. Hood Overalls Mt. Hood Shirts University Overcoats University Mackinaws Jenny & Joe Playsuits Columbi-Ann House Dresses Columbi-Ann Ladies’ Night Gowns A Warranty Bond with Every Garment ï A MERICAN citizenship, when it must be earned, be comes a medal of honor to be worn on—and in—the breasts of those who look to America for their all. An appreciation of this citizenship is an appreciation of the permanence and establishment of our life, business and ideals. It is a pleasure for us, here at the United States Na tional Bank, to observe the progress of our foreign-born patrons in gaining that perma nence and establishment through substantial bank accounts. “One of the Northwest’s Great Banks Wie UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Place Your Orders With The Western American Advertisers—and Tell Them Why
