The Imperial Night-Hawk, 29 August 1923, page 2: 'Poorly Restricted Immigration is One of The Greatest Perils Confronting America'

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The Imperial Night-Hawk
Page Two — August 29, 1923

Poorly Restricted Immigration is One of The Greatest Perils Confronting America
(By the Grand Dragon of the Realm of South Carolina.)

I REGARD the regulation of immigration as one of the most perplexing and important questions confronting the American people today. And there are few questions that deserve the attention of this great organization, more than the immigration problem.

The time has now come when the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan should take the leadership in this great fight, to prevent America from becoming the melting pot or dumping ground of the world for the heterogeneous element seeking admission to our shores.

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Eliminate Foreign Press
We must insist that a law be enacted prohibiting the printing of any newspaper or magazine not printed in the English language; and to require all aliens within our borders to speak English within a limited period of time.

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An Italian journal published in New York City recently said editorially: "We not only need organization, but also a rapid increase in births among Italians here." A Jersey City Polish newspaper exclaims: "We pride ourselves on having a Polish judge here and there." The son of a naturalized Jew at a recent congressional hearing on immigration made an appeal against the use of English as the official language of the United States, and urged that Yiddish should be placed on an equal footing.

Keep Customs Intact
Of the 805,000 admitted to the United States in 1921 more than half—432,000—were Jews, Italians, Armenians, Greeks, Japanese, Chinese, and Finns—races which generation after generation maintain their own churches, customs, languages, schools, and social affiliations almost as intact as if they had remained in their native countries.

I am afraid that we fail to realize how stupendous, though noiseless, is the pressure of this immigration avalanche. We have heard of the great noise made about the Zionist movement, and might be led to think that a large Jewish migration to Palestine was in progress. But the records show that last year 53,524 Hebrew aliens came to the United States, while 18 left this country for Palestine, where there are only 50,000 Jews all told.

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America is saturated with aliens, and some of our great States will soon be populated entirely by aliens, unless a law is enacted restricting immigration to the United States for a period of years. There are today 13 States with a majority of the population of alien origin. Thirteen other States have more than 35 per cent. of their population foreign born. And some of our great cities are even in a worse condition than those States.

The Japanese Menace
The Japanese question is another great menace that confronts the American people today. And the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan can do no greater service than to take up the fight with those loyal citizens of California, in their effort to prevent their State from becoming a little Japan.

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Read from the committed page image, which is the second page of the issue (printed 'Page Two'); the text breaks off at the foot of the third column and continues on the next page. Passages omitted are marked [...] (the transcription field is length-limited); paragraph and subheading breaks follow the page; line-end hyphens removed. Figure '53,524' is as printed (OCR gives a different number).