book. Laws are made for all alike. Do not attempt to gain any advantage by mis-statements or fraud. Try your utmost to comply with the laws of our country as they are. They are made for your safety and protection. As long as you comply with and obey our laws you have nothing and no one to fear.

In the annual report of the Secretary of Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1924, the Honorable James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, makes certain assertions and statements, in his recommendation to Congress, which I cannot refrain from quoting

here:

"The Government itself should undertake the supervision of the task of educating the foreign born, and it should do so in a spirit of helpfulness and not of antagonism. From the time that the alien lands he should be made to feel at home and welcome; he should be made to understand that America wants to help him to secure a full benefit of the privileges which residence and citizenship here afford. But the Government must know its problem, just as an individual must know his job, before it can succeed. The school authorities keep records of the children they are to teach and see that education is furnished. The Government in its Americanization program should be no more lax in its work than the public schools. The alien must therefore be enrolled and a record kept of his progress. AT the time of enrolling and at subsequent annual recording a small fee for the service rendered should be collected, to be invested by the Government solely for the alien's welfare. Some objection to this program is raised because its opponents declare it would be similar to the old espionage system of the Czar, but, it must be pointed out, the czarist regime never had such a program for welfare and education. True, we would be able to locate more easily the radical leaders engaged in sinister propaganda against the Government. They ought to be discovered and returned to the countries from which they came. Such individuals, seeking to bring to America the conditions existing under the irresponsible governments of part of Europe and Asia, are no less a menace to America than to the lawloving aliens residing here. The alien who believes in our Government of law and order and our institutions of liberty, freedom, and equal opportunity to all has nothing to fear from enrollment for education, and has much to gain in happiness, contentment, and prosperity by a knowledge of our language and full participation as intelligent citizens in our national affairs."

"Many aliens come to us from nations whose systems of government and scheme of human relations are antipodal to the ideals of America. They come from an atmosphere where the pomp of kings and emperors has clashed with wild political theories that lead to anarchy and destruction, where economic and political turmoil have given birth to

vile political doctrines, fatal to human governments. These doctrines which menace the very existence of America as a nation, must be barred from our national life. We must teach the foreigner among us due reverence for those ideals of human rights, secured by representative government, of liberty under law, which our forefathers wrought into the fabric of our country when they founded the United States of America. We must make our new citizens worthy of America."

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"We need a complete revision and codification of our naturalization laws. It is of vital importance that provide the means to enable the foreigner who comes among us to gain an intelligent understanding of our language, our ideals, and our institutions. At present the Federal Governmnet makes no such provision. The alien, unfamiliar with American customs, and usually unable even to speak our language, is left wholly to his own resources immediately upon his admission to our country. It is small wonder that he may in some cases fall an easy victim to those who would exploit him, or to those who preach economic, political, and social heresies subversive of our whole system of government. Unrest and dissatisfaction are bred of ignorance, and we owe to America and to the alien the duty of eliminating that ignorance. To do this I would provide for the annual enrollment of our alien population, and through this enrollment I would provide the means of educating every alien in American customs, our language, our ideals, and our institutions. The alien who comes here seeking the best that America can give him, and seeking to give America the best that lies in him, will welcome an opportunity to learn our language and our civic methods and ideals. It is true that this enrollment plan would enable us to know the alien who is here in violation of our laws, who has been smuggled into this country and the alien who is here to preach the downfall of all law and order. We should know them. This plan is probably the only available means of putting an end to the scandalous bootlegging of aliens through our seaports and over our land borders. It will arouse no antagonism or fear among the aliens here for legitimate purposes; no others should be here."

"In making these recommendations I seek the welfare of the men and women who work in America, whether they be native or alien born. I am of alien birth myself, and for many years I lived among the aliens of our mines, mills, and factories. I put forward these proposals firm in the belief that they will make for better workers in America and a better America to work in."

I do not think there is a human being who can doubt the sincerity and interest of the Secretary of Labor in the welfare of the immigrants. Our government is certainly fortunate to have a

former immigrant and a real friend to the immigrant, who knows the needs of the immigrant, as the head of the Department of Immigration and Naturalization.

From the statement of the Secretary of Labor, an alien cannot blame our Government for this restrictive immigration law, and for excluding those who preach anarchy or advocate the destruction of our constitutional government. It does not take a great writer to describe the magnanimity of our civilization. Any one travelling from coast to coast cannot fail to notice the thousands of miles of paved highway, railroads, telephone and telegraph lines, the vast grain fields, orchards and vineyards, millions and millions of automobiles, the magnificent city sky-scrapers, the gigantic factory sites with a number of employees greater than the population of some small European countries, the sanitary sewer and water system of our cities, the beautiful and comfortable American homes. This is an unparalleled achievement, and represents great pioneering sacrifice, deprivation, human energy, toil and labor. The lands upon which these wonderful cities, highways, and grain fields were constructed and developed, were only barren wastes of land, deserts and marshes almost yesterday. Now, my friendly alien, how would you feel towards the stranger who would go to you and ask you to destroy this wonderful civilization, or listen to those ignorant and fanatic agitators who know nothing of our sacred institutions, of our system of government, of that gigantic investment of human brains, energy, toil and labor which took a century and a half to build up? I know that every man who dares to think can see that there is no limit to his achievement in the United States. We are not asking you where you come from, what God you believe or do not believe in, or who your ancestors were. All we ask of you is to be a lawabiding inhabitant, and to see a few of the wonderful opportunities here in store for you. The American people are generous, tolerable, and great believers in fair play. We are the first to recognize and idolize a genius, leader or winner, no matter who he is or where he comes from. We have great admiration for a fighter of justice, and for an ideal principle, even though we do not agree with him. We are always inviting fair criticism for the improvement of our system of government and are ready and illing to try out any progressive and efficient method in our governmentai aifairs.

In conclusion, I cannot impress too much upon the minds of the aliens, whether abroad or in the United States, that they should never attempt to smuggle themselves or their relatives into the United States, or in any way directly or indirectly be connected with any transaction which would lead to bringing any person into the United States illegally. I cannot describe the pathetic and tragic consequences which occur to the aliens and their relatives in the United States from illegal entry. I am speaking with the knowledge of personal conversations had with hundreds of aliens who were brought illegally into the United States, and later

ordered deported. I know of one instance where an alien entered from England into Mexico, and after a search of one and onehalf years by his sisters and brothers in Mexico and the United States, no trace can be found of the said alien. In the annual report of the Commissioner General of Immigration of 1924, you will find the statement that there have been reports to the effect that in some instances the smugglers murdered their victims when they had reason to believe that they were in possession of large sums of money.

I cannot repeat too often the warning to the aliens not to listen to the suggestions of steamship agents abroad that Mexico, Cuba, or Canada affords the alien an easy access to the United States. I can only quote to you again, from the above mentioned report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, of hundreds of instances where not only the aliens who entered illegally are prosecuted, convicted and deported, but also their American relatives and friends who, in any way, shape or form helped to pay for their transportation, are now serving sentences.

Remember again, that under the Immigration Act of 1924, Section 14, any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry not entitled under this Act to enter the United States, or to have remained therein for a longer time than permitted under this act, or regulations made thereunder, shall be taken into custody and deported, and there is no way that I know that can help you from being deported if you enter illegally under the present Immigration Law.