These foreign-language journals are not all or many of them devoted to "stirring up strife" and do not prevent absorption of the foreign-born in the body politic.

They are, on the contrary, necessary means of making those who speak foreign tongues acquainted with facts and conditions which newcomers need to know and understand.

During the Great War our government used these foreign-language publications to spread broadcast appeals for financial and personal support.

The excellent "Foreign Language Information Service," still existing and having Federal backing, has in hand the introduction into the principal foreign-language publications of information and appeal calculated to make good American citizens.
The demand that has been made in moments of excitement for the abolition of the foreign-language press is therefore as stupid as it is unfriendly.

Only by the use of his native tongue can a man who does not yet understand English be made to feel and act as a genuine part of the citizenship of his adopted country.