The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-02

while we seek to Americanize our
Immigrants, may 1t not be We'll 10 guard
apGe c-as.es ol Americans irom nC rs
iorciSni2ed? American citizenship inn
plies L sincere love Cor America, q
%iuns devotion to political democracy,
IN cGrNestn2ss In advancing the inter-
cStS OF the country. These vital fen
lures OF American citizenship we ca
not d.aGern IN the thousands Of Am nj
cans, WHO, processing that there Ia in
theii country no salublity of air, no
suoAmity OF mountain scenery, no
nedu;y of landscape, roam annually
from one end OF Europe 10 the other
scattering broadcast on that continent
sixty million or more of our American
dollars. They Gre not Americans, eX-
cept inasmuch as they draw their gold
from America, who colOn!zc perIna-
nentIy certain quarters, so-calied
american, Ia the several capitals OF
Europe! They are not American patriots
VINO glory IN tranSpiant!rG to America
fashions of language ana dress flom
EuiCp2, ana who are willing TO pay
treble prices FOR oynan-nts for home
or person, merely because these are
or foreign fabrication, Ana are they
Americans VINO covet above all that
is American foreign titles for their
''' bh'it9 anu N.i y! u AtI IS. Itlt is some
room for the work of Am merlcanization
among Americans.
Demo.r3cy'S rinai Danger
"'The final danger of democracy, some
assert, is state socialism, for politi-
cal equality suGg a3ts social and econ
omlcal equality, and the people being
the makers of the law, and understand
ing its nowor will be tempted to seek
| through it remedies for all actual and
| fancied grievances 7 shall say in an
SWer that we can rely on the good sense
and the spirit Of individualis,n OF the
American DoOple-qualitcs which come
to them both from traditions Of long
years and from democracy itself. 1t
is plain truth, which Americans do
not fail to grasp, that, as Burke said,
men have equal rights, but not to equal
things The latter come from talent
ana energy, which nature has made diff
| ferent in different men. Nor would
Americans be willing, in the hope of
Interior results, to become parts of a
vast machine, in which each one Is but
n LINK in chain. or a cog in a wheel,
without self-assertOn or self-control
state socialism by whatever name of
liberty it may cloak itself, is the We
ricst despotism, ana Is radically oD-
posed to the American mind and heart
1T is not state socialism to secure by
law the protection of natural rights in
the weak, and TO prevent unjust op-
preston of others by the strong-and
government acts to those ends serve to
| remove the peril of state tyranny.
Poverty unsought for by will or act
is no crime and no shame, and does not
take from the dignity of man. Wealth,
thr fruit Of thought and labor, is hon
CRADLE. Capital and labor are neces-
| Sary one to the other, and the one
should respect the other and guard for
/ its own sake the rights of the other.
| There must necessarily be aggregation
of capital. once we suppose in men Ii
Vcrsity of natural resources, and the
| right to the results of their planning
and work; and without such aggrega-
tion, large enterprises are impossible
and labor is without employment. The
poor man knows that he lives in u land
of opportunities, where he may to-
morrow be rich, and he is glad to de-
fend his right to future possible posses
sions. Americans. poor and rich, un-
derstand those primary truths. | have
/ fullest confidence that in America there
will be no social warfare, no state So
| cialism. But temporary ills may oc-
| cur, and to prevent them | appeal to the
/ patriotism and Christian sentiments Of
all Americans. There are duties for all
BE the employer just and kind to the
/ employe; be the employe just and faith
| full to the employer. BE the rich mind
| full that wealth is n great social trust;
/ let the poor remember that liberty and
social order are conditions of their
own peace and social elevation let none
| forget that country is paramount to all
/ private interests and that God is the
/ master and Judge of all men.
No backward Movement.
Yes, fellow citizens of America. the
republic will endure. Humanity, in it's
evolution, has reached the eve Of
| democracy, from which there will be no
backward movement. Peoples of en-
/ lightened countries will not again sub
NIT to a government of which they are
not integral parts and where complaint
may be made that the masses are not
fitted for the rights and duties of a dem
ocratic regime There remains but one
thing to be dOne-to lift them up to
the plane of their new destiny. Ameri-
ca was the first large country to make
the experiment of true democracy, and
she has made it in conditions and with
results which do not permit us to doubt
of her future success. | have unre-
served confidence in the great national
heart of America. | repeat Lincoln's
! creed that the whole people will not he
wrong the whole time. Temporary alb
creations are possible But the gov
ernment of the republic is so we'll con-
structed, and its several parts so well
adjusted that while essentially popular
in its whole framework, it does not yield
to passing passions of its masters, and
by the time such passions might harm
il time will have Gained them, and the
good judgment and the sound patriot
ism of the people will have prevailed.
To guard even against temporary aber-
ration is in our poverty the sedulous
cultivation in ourselves and in our fell
low Americans of the spirit of Ameri-
can citizenship. Americans, God has
given you great country; guard her
we'll He. has made you spectacle
to all nations, confiding to you humani-
tvs highest destiny; be not unworthy
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