Editing Babel Proclamation (section)

== Legacy ==
A 2018 op-ed published in ''The Des Moines Register'' called the Babel Proclamation "perhaps the most infamous executive order" in Iowa's history.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last1=Bauer|first1=Bryce T.|last2=Manatt|first2=Dan|date=May 22, 2018|title='Babel Proclamation' targeted Iowa immigrants 100 years ago|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/05/22/iowa-governor-banned-all-foreign-languages-100-years-ago-immigration/630506002/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Des Moines Register|language=en-US}}</ref> Several articles have cited the proclamation as an early example of [[opposition to immigration|anti-immigrant sentiment]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> A hearing in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 2006 called the proclamation "the most famous" of several "English-only" restrictions passed around the same time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qq_4qy1rIbIC&q=%22babel+proclamation%22&pg=PA26|title=English as the Official Language: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education Reform of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, July 26, 2006|date=2006|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=26|isbn=978-0-16-077252-8|language=en}}</ref>