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THE UNITED AMERICAN
DECEMBER, 1924
Some Present Day Needs for Americanization Among Americans
By J. J. DONOVAN
TT IS LITTLE more than four hundred years since asking no favors but doing our share of the world’s
1 the flickering light on San Salvador, seen by Co­ work at home and abroad. We seek equal opportunity
lumbus through the gloom, signalled the fall of old for our people in the development and trade of the
America and the rise of the new.
world. We stand for the equal rights and protection
Another hundred years passed before the northern of all citizens under the Constitution at home, and
nations of Europe challenged Spain’s claim to the also the protection of all aliens legally here. There is
Americas and we come to 1776 and the Declaration of much clamor and confusion in these matters but our
Independence before we find a starting point for dis­ government will insist on the principles I have stated.
cussion of the problems of today. There had been
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a
nearly three hundred years of slow development of more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tran­
the white man’s America, yet in all the area we know quility, provide fcr the common defense, promote the general
as the United States barely three millions fought the welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
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gling with their overlords in Europe for the right to
trade and to think. The three millions were white,
mostly from the British Isles, but they had black
Serve them at home
slaves. The red aborigines held sway over a much
larger area than that held by the whites huddled
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along the Atlantic Coast. Such was the America of
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one hundred and fifty years ago—people in the main
of the same ideals but with the cancer of slavery at
work only to be removed by the bloody effort of the
Civil War.
What have we now ? One hundred five and one-half
millions of people were living in the continental United
States in 1920. Of these eighty-nine and seven-tenths
percent were white and slightly more than one-third
foreign born or of foreign parentage on one or both
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sides. There were 10,463,000 negroes and 426,000
Indians, Chinese, Japanese and other colored races of
“RED RIBBON”
whom more than 300,000 are the original Americans
—Indians. From this it will appear that our major
Oregon and Washington
ethnological problem is that of the negro, and that
the number of Asiatics is negligible except where con­
centrated in a few localities.
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We were a scant three millions one hundred and
Importérs
fifty years ago, scattered in thirteen weak, independ­
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ent colonies, divergent in thought and ambitions but
united in a common love of liberty. We are now one
hundred and ten millions, standing in the front rank
of the great nations of the earth, seeking no conquest,
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