The Congress of the United States is considering the bill to restrict immigration into the United States. The House of Representatives passed the bill almost unanimously. Now it is ready to go to the Senate for approval. After the signature of the president is affixed, the bill one a law.

A similar bill, a little more liberal, was passed by the House during Taft's administration, when Republicans were in the majority, but President Taft vetoed this bill, and finally it was rejected.

The bill against immigration which was passed by the House recently, we believe, will meet with the same fate as the bill which president Taft vetoed. While the Senate will very likely approve the bill, President Wilson has indicated a desire to study it thoroughly before signing it. 2 It appears to us that President Wilson is not very much interested in Burnette's bill against immigration. It is a strange thing that Mr. Wilson did not take immediate steps to approve Burnette's bill, especially when President Wilson, himself, was a strong advocate of restricted immigration. His attitude is now different toward such restriction. It is obvious that President Wilson has no desire to make Burnette's bill a law now, when he has a chance to fulfill his wishes and carry out his policies advocated for so many years. If Mr. Wilson is not planning to kill this bill, it is clear to us that he will delay it for the time being.

The majority of the American people are for restricted immigration. Their strength is proved by the fact that the majority of the Republican mmigra/ and Democratic congressmen are in favor of restricted imigration only for political reasons, but they are not against immigration in principle.

The immigration bill was rejected before, and it may be rejected again for 3 some particular reason, but not on account of general immigration principles. The general opinion now is to stop immigration to the United States for the following reasons:

That the people who live in America are a better physically built human species than those human beings that come from other countries; that the American people are more enlightened than the average immigrants; and that we have a better cultural condition and better living standard than those countries from where the immigrants come.

We must protect our race, our standards of living, and our cultural life.

The argument is how to restrict immigration, and what methods or means it would be necessary to use in order to accomplish this purpose.

Those advocating the restricted immigration bill are puzzled trying to find a good reason for demanding such restriction. They even bring into the argument the difference between certain human species, of which some have achieved a better physical development than others who are physically weaker.

The theory about improving the human species is strongly emphasized in the discussion of restricted immigration. This theory is wrong in the first place, because there is no definite boundary line set among races, especially white races. Such proposed theories have no logical bases on which to support their argument consuming the immigration question. The very same human species will change physically under different climatic, social, and economic conditions; but the species, as such, will remain the name. It was observed long ago that man; white immigrants who came here the third generation had acquired the same physical characteristics as the old settlers who had been living here for centuries. In addition, they assimilated rapidly and and made one large nation which is known today as America.

Therefore there is no danger to America from that standpoint. So far this argument has not proved why they want to restrict immigration and what are the real reasons. We believe that those who want to restrict immigration object to the illiterate and unskilled laborer who comes here from Europe where the standard of living is low as compared with the standard of living in America. The foregoing arguments are weak and have no value. Politicians are using this argument as a political issue and are gathering material for their future campaign. It is obvious that American education will not be decreased by adding two million more illiterate to three million whites who are also illiterate in the United States. Of course, a great number of illiterates is a bad thing, but this situation can be remedied by using rational means, that is, by giving the people the opportunity to educate themselves, instead of closing the door of immigration to them. The educational opportunities in the United States are much better and the schools are more accessible to the working class than in any other country in the world.

It is not true that educating these people would overburden the United States 6 and the tax-payers of this country. Those who say so forget the fact that the foreign people are the heaviest tax-payers in this country. They work hardest and under the worst conditions, and at the same time are exploited more by the politicians than any other group of people in this country, because they are foreigners. However, they pay all the taxes to the government with a smile and take all the insults from dirty local politicians and the police force. This is the reward for their loyalty to the government. Why are these deplorable conditions existing in the foreign colonies? The answer is just because they are foreigners. Who has the greatest number of property owners and home builders? Who are the hardest-working people? Who slaves for a small salary, saves his money to build a home for his family and pays his taxes? Almost every family has its own home and pays taxes to support the government and political parasites who do not pay taxes to the government. Every city in America is built mostly by foreign people, but not by political parasites who get their pay for doing nothing from tax-payers' funds. The foreign people have done much more by helping 7 to build this country, by paying all taxes to support the government and by giving life and energy. In return for their great sacrifice they received very little as compared to what is given Americans. For their sacrifice they receive a small percentage for education and enlightenment, which is considered by the politicians as a great reward for helping to build this great nation. But let us analyze the situation, then we will have a better picture of foreign labor in this country, especially in Chicago. If any body wants to have real facts about the exploitation of foreigners, we recommend them to read the book entitled The Jungles, by Upton Sinclair, who describes conditions in Chicago stockyards, where foreign people work under the worst conditions in the world. A real American is too proud to work under such conditions. He would feel hurt to be a slave and work long hours for a small salary but foreigners have to work under such conditions and keep quiet and be satisfied with that they got for their work. Yet they accumulate a little money to buy property and pay taxes to the government, as does any other citizen of the community.

This propaganda is spread against foreign labor in order to restrict immigration to this country. The argument is brought forward that foreigners 8 lower the standard of living and the wages Americans (should receive). Any intelligent American will understand that foreigners do not lower the standard of American labor. In the first place foreigners do not take jobs away from Americans. Besides, the American people do not like these jobs because these jobs are too hard and too dirty. Most of the Americans are tradesmen and specialists, while foreigners are unskilled laborers. For that reason they cannot take the place of American tradesmen. They do not compete with American skilled labor. Most of the foreigners have no education or technical training. They have no trades of any kind. From the foregoing statement we know that foreigners cannot lower the American labor standards. The only thing that lowers the standard or living in industrial progress, technical development, the machine age, the efficiency of newly invented machines which take the place of skilled labor and specialists in various industries throughout the nation.

We may discuss immigration problems from another angle by asking ourselves the question: Who discovered America? What type of people were they who 9 made the United States of America? We know this as a fact that this country was made by plain people, the pioneers of America, who were foreigners from other countries. Those who first came here were not scholars or educators, or scientists. They were ordinary people with no special training who came here to make their new home in this country. They were not selected people from t special species of the human race; they were of different nationalities of white races of Europe.

There os no difference between immigrants who come now and those who came before. There is no difference between the two groups, those who came earlier and those who came later. The American people have not changed as a race and their build and general appearance are the same as those of any European people. It is obvious that European people cannot spoil the American race, because they are the very same human species as the American people. So far we cannot see the reason for restricting immigration, and there is no real motive for closing the door of immigration to white race.

Maybe some politicians know the secret motives, but we cannot see their side and they don't come out openly and tell why they want to restrict immigration. We are still in the dark on that subject. We would like to have a little more light on it.

The real motives for restricted immigration is concealed in the bill proposed by Burnette to the Congress. This bill contains a clause which forbids all revolutionists to come to this country, i. e., those who are the most energetic and most able people. This proves that the restricted immigration is for political reasons only and not cultural.

American capital has outlived its days, has reached its age of maturity and its downfall in the future is inevitable. In politics the time for downfall has already started.

American capitalists are making every effort to destroy all the new measures which are introduced into the houses of Congress; they are strongly 11 opposing progressive movements, especially the labor movement at the present time. They only defend those measures which are to their advantage and which enable them to exploit labor and thwart its progressive movement in the United States.

The labor movement in recent years instilled a great fear in all ruling classes and put them in a peculiar predicament. Now they are wondering what to do with this situation.

Immigration restriction appears to the capitalists as one of the best means of fighting the labor movement. Socialism and the revolution are in their opinion, strange ideas to Americans, because socialism and revolution are brought from some other country and have not originated in the United States. Some people who belong to the working class and are paid better than others are also supporting the bill to restrict immigration, proposed by Burnette. 12 Those people are ignorant of the situation and don't understand it at all. They are making conditions worse for themselves by supporting this Burnette's bill in Congress. Among the political organizations there are some that oppose the restriction of immigration. The most important role is played by class-conscious workers of this country and also by workers who have not been Americanized, yet are supporting the labor movement and opposing the restriction of immigration. Some organizations forced President Wilson to doubt the theory of Professor Wilson. They forced President Wilson to appeal to various public leaders and ask them for advice on the immigration problems. Among various public leaders there will be one representative from the Socialist Party, by name, Charles Edward Russell, who will help President Wilson to solve the immigration problem, which has become so complicated at the present time.

Scientific arguments cannot decide a political question, only the power 13 of public opinion can do that.

In order to reject this backward, uncultural and undemocratic bill proposed by Burnette against immigration, we must vote against this bill unanimously.