February 1927
THE UNITED AMERICAN
company, doing business under the strictest of state
laws, they would be saving much of the grief their
dependants collect, when the private individual as
serts his rights for all he can get away with and still
keep out of jail.
Here again it is on the borderland of the foreign
colony, and the America the preceptors have trained
him to distrust, that the immigrant invariably loses
his faith in the integrity of those in positions he
regards as authority.
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The very conditions that make possible such in
cidents are what make Americanization an urgent
necessity. Such happenings are seized upon by those
who are radically inclined, and used as arguments
for the contention that “there is no justice in
America.”
And the Communists are elated over the wide
scope of interest and the volume of protest, rising
among sympathetic friends and acquaintances, such
things create.
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Around the foreign colony, on the borderland of its
contact with America, there are constantly surging
currents of abuse in one form or another; yet, some
how, what rends it assunder, peculiarly enough, is
what keeps it together. It is, therefore, that the
foreign colony is an ideal base for Communism, an
ideal hatchery where most people can be led around to
a point of accord with the Communist—one cause of
dissatisfaction being as good as any other.
The apparent responsibility of the foreign colony
preceptor makes him a valuable customer especially
with those who make the handling of money their
business. His support and protection, as far as it
can be safely done, becomes the business of those
whom he does business with. Perhaps that will, in
part, explain the peculiar views and actions of some
Americans who, invariably, are classed as “leading
citizens.”
We believe, and hundreds of thousands of honest
American citizens of foreign birth believe as we do,
that inasmuch as the properly Americanized foreign
born is immune against all foreign propaganda and
the germ of Communism, that the most direct means
of eradication of all foreignism and domestic friction
is practical Americanization.
Through Americanization the Americanized Amer
ican reaches the Americanized foreign born. Through
the facilities of closer contact toleration is born, and
each finds in the other much the same hopes and
aspirations. Through the dawn of real purposeful
friendship the mist of suspicion rolls away and leaves
an -unobstructed view to the attainable state of
American unity.
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Communism cannot thrive on unity.
It is a growth of strife.
Its assets consist of jealousy.
Its stock in trade is hate, coated with friendliness.
Communism is a mental disease. If the mind
reacts to it, there is only one certain cure—depor
tation.
Communism is a blight on thrift, it withers in-
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dustry and lays waste all self-assertion. It warps
morality, paralyzes ingenuity and arrests every incen
tive to individual growth and progress.
Communism is the dreg and the dross of the
world war. It reacts in favor of strife, industrial and
political, and is the bitterest foe of peace.
Communism is a fallacy; it is a failure as a political
institution. It tramples in dust what struggling hu
manity has wrought as monuments to our civilization.
While justice has been dosing on the veranda in
the sunlight of prosperity, Communism has sneaked
in on our premises through the back gate and lost
no time in scattering its poison. Its most precious
growth is strife, racial animosity, religious intolerance,
and Contentions between foreign born and native born.
There is no field of friction in which some pet Com
munistic weed is not in evidence.
Communism never was preached publicly or in
secret anywhere in this world where the soil was so
ideally suited for a rich harvest as in America.
The rich treasures of individual fortunes in this
country—with the most highly developed arteries of
trade and raw material ever known in the world, all
within the confines of one nation—so far surpass
anything which Russia or any other place ever could
put up as desirable assets, that it would furnish our
Communistic friends nothing short of a realization
of the elusive dream—Utopia.
And the Communists are dreaming dreams. Their
dreams are the conquerors’ dreams. They are
not dreamers who dream idle day-dreams, for they are
laborers for a cause that recognizes no discouragement.
Throw one in jail today for singing his song of trea-
. son, and there will be two tomorrow in his place, sing
ing the same song, but in a manner that will not give
offense, the same way.
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Our democracy is strongly knit. It is. a master
conception in government. But its very virtues be
come vices when we become calloused and take no steps
to remedy abuses.
Dissension in our democracy constitutes hammer
blows against the governmental structure we have
built.
It is the antithesis of FAITH.
FAITH is the warp in the weave we call America.
Our democracy is a conception of human progress,
woven flexibly, in order to permit individual expansion.
FAITH is the dominant substance and security
back of every treasury note issued by the United
States government, and every national bank. Destroy
it, and the gold weight that backs up the note loses
its value.
America will be sound only as long as we keep
the FAITH which is our very foundation.
There are millions of strangers within our gates
who do not share OUR FAITH, because we have been
negligent in imparting it to them.
Americanization is the only intelligent messenger
of the American faith. Back it and you help sustain
the most effective weapon this democracy can use
to keep our mental soil immune against the poison
weed— Communism!