A few particular facts concerning propagandistic activities among our
immigrant population may be illuminating if set down together. During
the war the pro-Germans organized and conducted a most elaborate and
expensive propaganda among our Ukrainian immigrants. This was done in
order to weaken Russia at home, both before and after the revolution.
Sinn-Fein Irish, because of their inveterate hatred of the British,
were in many cases used to spread pro-German propaganda. This was
effectual both before and after we went into the war.
A very large percentage of the Russian Jews in New York City and
elsewhere were, at the beginning of the war, pro-German because
they were anti-Russian. After we entered the war they were bitterly
anti-American because they were pro-Bolshevist. No possible turn of
events could make them take a pro-American position upon any issue
under the sun. This is the element, by the way, which used funds from
Russia to carry on its pro-Bolshevistic propaganda among our Negroes.
In certain places, including New York City, it urged the Negroes to
arm themselves and fight the whites.
The French-Canadian immigrants among us number, with their children,
nearly half a million. During the war they were, strange as it may
seem, anti-French. The French-Canadian population is completely
dominated, politically, socially and intellectually, by their clergy.
These clericals still hate France and the French Government because the
French Revolution overthrew the power of the Roman Church in France.
They still belong to the ancient regime. So they naturally took the
side of the ancient regime, the German side. Among us, they were
largely passive. In Canada they actively opposed every war activity of
their government from start to finish of the war.
Of the Asiatics there are two main elements--the Japanese and the East
Indians. Of the East Indians there are not many, but their number is
steadily increasing. They are being widely used to stir up an Indian
revolution against the British Empire. Whether this is or is not
justified we are not discussing here. The point is that this foreign
element is using America as a vantage-point from which to make war upon
another country.
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