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THE UNITED AMERICAN
EDITORIAL
NOVEMBER, 1924
citizens of foreign birth who are banded together in
the defence of their American equality rights and to
help the newly naturalized citizens acquire an Ameri­
can civic intelligence rather than a foreign concept,
accomplished the defeat of the plan to deliver en masse
the votes of the foreign bom citizens as a repudiation
of tangible party politics in America.
American political chaos may be to the liking of
some people who happen to have the franchise in
America by the grace of Uncle Sam, but the vast
majority of his adopted children will play the game
on the level when they are properly informed.
The traducers and falsifiers, even in the sacred
princincts of well fortified social, professional and
political positions, will hereafter have less security
from exposure when caught at spreading un-American
propaganda in foreign languages, if the United
American and a few other true blue publications,
issued by foreign bom citizens, can keep the vigil and
lead the host of the foreign bom to that higher plane
in citizenship where there is a truer appreciation of
the political freedom in American citizenship than the
foreign language preceptor® have ever been able to
visualize.
The recent election proved beyond a doubt that
the Americanizing agencies, publications and organi­
zations, if maintained and advanced, will foreveir
make it impossible for the legion of foreign interests
in America to wield an influence for united action of
foreign bom citizens for such political issues as they
advance.
Americanization as a movement is here to stay.
Its influence is felt in every sphere of American
activities, in social and political as well as in economic
channels. If it is desirable to have fundamental
knowledge of American institutions to back up citizen­
ship with, then the Americanization work that is
carried on stands approved and the United American,
doing pioneer work in a new field of thought, stands
vindicated.
THE NATIONAL ELECTION AND THE FOREIGN
BORN VOTER
THE RECENT National Election showed plainly
1 that the majority of the American people are
unwilling to introduce novel and untried ideas in
matters of government in America and that the
greater portion of the voting citizens of the country
are opposed to government ownership of the great
American railroads and utilities equally as much as
they are opposed to the proposed changes in the
American Constitution — abridging the powers of the
Supreme Court — which was proposed in the formula
of the Independent partisans.
The people of America in the recent election
also made it plain that they believe in government
by party rather than government by individual poli­
ticians. The vote may not necessarily mean a re­
pudiation of the man or men who were seeking the
election as “Independent” Americans, who proclaimed,
themselves free of party control and promised the
American people any and everything if they elected
them to office and by their election proved to the
world that the American people had repudiated party
principles in government, but it does mean that the
American voter believes in the party as an instru­
ment to government and is not willing to take chances
with the proposed substitution.
The expose of the attempted political organiza­
tion of the un-Americanized foreign born citizens,
whose voting strength, if united, was considered
sufficient to throw the election into congress (if not
sufficient to elect a non-partisan president) had a
telling effect upon the great American electorate
during the last few weeks before the election. The
United American took a prominent part in this
expose. The realization that such a move was on
foot, aroused a tremendous interest in the election
BRINGING AMERICANIZATION INTO THE
among all Americans by birth and adoption. The
HOMES OF THE FOREIGN BORN
result was that concerted action to defeet this plan
'T'HE
SNARES
and pitfalls that serve the purpose
became almost general all over the country.
1 of entraping the unsophisticated and inex­
The foreign language press, wittingly or un­
wittingly followed the leadership of those foreign perienced youth of America today are by no means
interests who had organized for definite action to easy to discern even by those of broader experience in
avenge this or that lost cause for the native land the every day phases of life. So clever are the forms
which America supposedly had neglected to sponsor of disguise that an entrapment may have been ac­
in the past. Through this form of campaigning the complished before the victims are conscious of their
foreign language press will only accomplish one entanglement or worse still, their addiction, with its
thing — the crystalization of public sentiment fearful consequences — a craving for thrills, stimu-
lance and excitement.
against it.
In the natural tendency of the American youth
With a lost cause these interpreters of America
and American issues to American voters who are lies a craving for “kick” action, speed, thrills and
unable to draw their political convictions fiom an more thrills. This condition contributes materially
American language source, have only added one more in making it easy for the vice elements to operate
definite reason why public opinion refuses to re­ with a minimum of risk for its field operatives.
The American boys and girls may not necessarily
cognize a plea for their general usefulness as an
be incorrigible or beyond parental control when they
agency to Americanization of the foreign born.
A few publications in the language of America, at an early age show an ungovernable disposition or
published by foreign born Americans in the interest open disregard for parental discipline, indicating their
of the adopted citizens, and a few organizations of disposition to go and come at will and to seek such