Those Undesirable Aliens From Germany, Russia, Feb. 7, 1920

From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, February 7, 1920

Those alien radicals who have been making much noise in this country are merely guests of the United States, please remember. They may be compared to guests you invite into your hospitable home. You would use the boot if they began planting cynmite or pouring oil on the kitchen floor, as the Saturday Evening Post puts it, and you would not forget them soon. Our Russian and German and other aliens are not trying to become Americans at all; their object is not to understand our government, fall in line with people who have lived and worked here and make it a better country but to tear it from its hinges.