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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
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