The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-08-28
TRUE AMERICANISM.

One hears so much about true Amercanism well for
go great what he has the subject
There probably no ruer President Roosevelt and
ten he gave his ideas The Forum under the title OF
the that there plenty OF oundrels
always ready bolster up existing nquie in the of American
that of New York when he wrote it equally true OF the
Territory of Hawaii the present day Scoundrels they in New
York scound they here As the future president wrote: The
men who do nq the name OF Ameransm are merely one small
division Of the class which has always existed and will always exist
the class of ypoce and demagogue the class that always prompt
OF evl-dong."
True Americans pointed have the least
sympathy with the people who invoke the spirit OF Amercanm to aid
what is vicious system OF government Because
has been successful elsewhere why should be talked OF
unAmecan Thus is foolish and really unAmercan ignore
the terrible bots system of municipal and
fuse consider the examples OF Manchester and Berlin because their
has been Europe Mr. Roosevelt says that the
who faulty mis-
viii the heart sontern TIE esSavist bos no
sympathy for this type and handles them without
ese contempuou paragraphs upon political and social coundre
he calls hem followed by fine picture of what Ameri
canim 1t the antess of all that uwhoesome and undesa
BILE True Amercansm national opposed being sectional and
local the true American there must be patriotism true patriotism
and devotion to the birth adoption The American who
acquires that fad habit mind which style
lanisn not traitor but he very undesirable citizen 1t not
by servy but by wisely pro6ng by foreign experience that the
greatest OF country have succeeded They and have drawn
experience from every nation and from every age but they have
thought worked conquered lived and died purely Americans These
are true Americans They neither windy demagogues half
baked imitation Of second Europeans but they ve
fu men, full of national spirit and national love,
Then there to be considered the American who has been born
pon other than American soil but who have come to throw
These Amecanzed become the
best of citizens and thoroughly patriotic But to do this they have to
remaining what Roosevelt has for German
and who figure such the political and
social life of the nation He 1--WE only Americans and pro-
vded they are SUCH we do not whether
Irish of German ancestry We have in healthy American
community for German American hAmeran ="
We have for people who do simply
Americans, and as nothing else.
This Amercansm should be understood by the Hawaians.
There have been people striving teach them that they be Amer
and retain the Hawaiian ideals This Roosevelt empacay
denies The under American law and American traditions
possibly he neither American Hawaii
he becomes nothing all To succeed he throw himself heart
and soul into American life His flag lie the Stars and Stripes it
be other His holidays be American holidays
"reminiscences of Roya holidays If he falls behind in the
and the where he dwel will him
gained by assimilation Bastard Americansm
isolation and following the cries of demagogues.