THE HYPHENATED PRESS.

Governor Bamberger of Utah has proposed in a letter to the New York Times that foreign language newspapers in America be gradually required to print their reading matter in English. This, Mr. Bamberger suggests as part of an extensive program of education in Americanization to be taken up in the future.

Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during the war.

Our nation stands for liberty, indeed, and is only too glad to harbor the distressed peoples that have flocked to her shores. But it is our right when we extend them the privileges of our democracy to ask that they become in return true and loyal Americans. We are not willing to make the United States a hot-house for all the seeds of foreign discontent, as it has occasionally seemed in danger of becoming.

And so, in spite of the undoubted honesty of many of the foreign journals, we would follow some plan of anglicizing them. Such a change may lead their readers as far toward the ideals of our republic as almost anything else.