AMALGAMATING OUR FOREIGN BORN 



might and main to strengthen the fences 

 separating it from the surrounding public. 



It is mostly within these invisibly walled 

 fastnesses of un-American life that an- 

 archy's theories are elaborated and its 

 schemes of violence hatched. The trouble 

 with most anarchists is not that they have 

 formed acquaintance with our institutions 

 and hate them, but that they have no insight 

 whatever into real Americanism. The 

 snobbishness of the idle rich, our greed, the 

 injustice sometimes meted out to laborers, 

 bad laws, partial courts, and so on, they de- 

 nounce as the essence of our government, 

 being unaware that the overwhelming bulk 

 of Americans deplore those evils as heartily 

 as anarchists can, and that many are pa- 

 tiently toiling to correct them. 



There is no summary way of abolishing 

 these foreign imperia in our imperial Their 

 dissolution must be gradual. It will be 

 helped by whatever neutralizes any of the 

 bad influences named. Immigrants, how- 

 ever ignorant, should be shown a sympa- 



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