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A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
SOUND AMERICANISM REPUDIATES
ACTS OF INJUSTICE AND RETALIATION
I>THEN THE American people, a few years ago, faced an emer-
’ * gency which called for unity, the country was startled and
shocked by the reactions emanating from alien sources. The
realization that, beyond an outward appearance, the people of
this country were composed of a conglomerate of nationalities
incapable of thought, speech or action in common—making it
necessary to set forth the country’s cause in more than fifty lan
guages, through foreign minded interpreters and foreign language
writers—caused a nation wide concern which gave the impetus to
the Americanization movement that has swept through our coun
try and touched every stratum of society, as deeply as any civic
cause has ever done before. Erratic and fanatical minds have
considerably damaged the movement by unwise agitation, causing
deplorable persecution of friendly, law-abiding immigrant people
who have been made targets of attack because of their racial
origin and the faith handed down to them from their fathers.
Legislative barriers, restrictions, limitations and eliminations,
originating from the same sources, have done no good. These
measures of hostility are tantamount to reprisals without suf
ficient ground; and, by depriving aliens eligible to citizenship of
their means of livelihood, a more unfortunate effect has been that
thousands of native born children have been robbed of the sup
port and care their alie;n parents had so willingly given, thus
placing them in jeopardy because their parents, through inad
vertence, neglected to become naturalized.
Sound Americanism does not approve of any retaliatory order
of expression. Its working principles are based on the American
creed of charity and good will, and in the Americanization cause
it represents a declaration against visiting the sins of some aliens
upon all of the immigrant people in America.
NOVEMBER 1925
PORTLAND, OREGON