The Maccabaean

of liberty seeking refuge here. It involved bearing burdens, meeting problems, but America was prepared to bear the burdens and solve the problems. If now America wishes to be untrue to its lofty traditions, no economic argument can convince it that there is an economic advantage in allowing others to share the bounty of the earth here with the older settlers. Of course, monopoly does not like freedom. Of course, it is to the advantage of those who are here to keep others out, for this is a country rich in material resources. You cannot convince anyone that for the monopolist profitsharing is advantageous. So the only argument that can hold water is the argumentmade by Miss Antin with such moving eloquence. Be true to your traditions and you are a good American, and America is destined to be the refuge for all the oppressed. As good Americans, all ports of entry must be free ports, excluding only those who are a menace to health. America with a closed door is not America, but a backsliding republic, untrue to its professions, to its ideals. As a Jew, the writer would prefer to be excluded from America with the argument of Miss Antin, than to be admitted in the partisan arguments of the friends of Jews who base their pleas on economic considerations. To our way of thinking, Miss Antin makes the better Jewish argument.