President Wilson, speaking before
the citizenship convention, urged a
"square deal" for the immigrant and
demanded that America be kept the
finest example of the objects and ideals
that go to promote the standards of the
world.
"We ought to be careful to maintain
a government at which the immigrant
can look with the closest scrutiny and
to which he should be at liberty to
address this question: 'You declare
this to be a land of liberty and of
equality and of justice have you made
it so by your law?'
"I believe America should exalt
above everything else the sover
eignty of thoughtfulness and sympathy
and vision, as against the grosser im
pulses of mankind. No nation can live
without vision, and no vision will exalt
a nation except the vision of real lib
erty and real justice and purity of
conduct."
Natural born Americans were
warned by the president to examine
themselves carefully to see whether
they have burning in them the true
light of America which they expect
to show to these foreigners.
If a "square deal" for the immigrant
why not a square deal for 10,000,000
AMERICAN BORN citizens who are
hounded and humiliated, discriminated
against and often mob-murdered be
cause more or less African blood flows
in their veins?
The president is the leader of the
Democratic party which has displayed
the greatest zeal in enacting discrim
inating legislation and the president
himself has sanctioned the most in
famous racial discriminations which
were wholly outside the law.
