THE DECLINING IMMIGRANT PRESS.

Recently there have been several denouncers of the foreign language press who have pictured it as an un-American monster that is preparing to overthrow the Government. Actually the foreign languages press in the U.S. is a typical American product that is generally conservative and loyal to American institutions. There are certainly not 85 per cent or more of the foreign language newspapers that are radical as some guessing statistician announced a short time ago. At the present time there is less than 6 per cent of the foreign language press that may be called radical. These "red" papers besides represent just about the same percentage of the total circulation of the immigrant press in this country. Another thing that annoys some of the Americans is that there are more than two foreign language newspapers in the U.S., which reach a population of nearly 10,000,000. If an immigrant wanted to find out about the U.S. and its institutions, the American press would not be a good place for him to resort. What he would find there would presuppose an elementary American education to grasp, and any way many of the American newspapers would tell him almost nothing about American institutions and ideals except perhaps prohibition.