The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-06-09
Hawks Memorial Address.
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races, Magyars, Syrians Armenians
by the tens of thousands, Turks, AS
syrians, and all the motley variety of
central, eastern mad southeastern Eu
rope and western Asia. In one of
the large manufacturing cities 80
per cent of the population was of
these comparatively recent emigrants;
mad over half of the population of
staid old New England is now of
these recent Corners. Some of them
are noble people, and will at once
add much to our civilization; most
of them are Industrious and frugal
The British, German and Scandina-
Wan haveadded to what we may call
the substantial qualities of our cit
izenship; love of law and order, in
dividual liberty and learning; some
of our Caldwell citizens being speci-
mems. Besides other things the
French stock teach us frugality, and
how we can be happy with little or
much. The Italian and Greek will
add to our art in music, painting and
sculpture. The Armenian has been
the keen trader of all eastern Europe
mad western Asia for 1850 years,
mad may be able to, give us lessons:
while the Armenian, theJew the Bo-
hemian, the Magyar mad the Greek
have struggled for centuries for
either civil or religious liberty or
both of them, and to preserve nation
ality, and their children will make
good citizens when they have learned
our language and have sufficiently
breathed the American social atmos-
phere. We have also millions of ne
groes, native born, in our hand for
a numeber OF generations, and they
are to stay here and must be reckon
ed with in this problem of citizen
ship. Most of the thousands of for
eigners who are coming to us have
no usch antipithy to the negro that
many Americans have; mad these
new citizens may help solve that
race problem which is now vcxing
our nation. But among so many
ignorant immigrants there are OF
course many utterly undesirable;
mad our danger comes when the heat
of, party strife they apply for citizen
ship. The French Canadians are
clapnish and desire to bring up their
children as French Canadians, not
as Americans; numbers of their
teachers in their parochial schools
being unable to speak English and
knowing nothingof American history
or free institutions. That is not
the proper training to make good
American citizens. Ihonor the for
eigner who desires children to learn
English that they may be fully equip
ed for American responsibilities,
and at the same time, for love of
fatherland and mother tongue, teach
es his children his native speech
and fills their minds with the heroic
deeds TO hrs ancestors; for thus will
Americans come to inherit all the
heroic past of the old world.
We old coldiers fought har bat
tie to preserve the Union, mad some
times when look at this motley
mass of newcomers l wonder II our
children will have a harder task to
make them into real Americans.
The English acuse the American of
trifiing with the English language
because he is trying tosimplify it's
spelling and to enrich 1t with new
and expressive words and phrases
from the many foreign tongues
among us, mad from other sources.
The Italian ecclesiastic coplains bit
terly that what he calls American
ism is creeping into and controlling
the Catholic church in America, aim
ing often at Archbishop Ireland, that
good American citizen. 1t Is we'll;
the American is right in both these
things. The American is making
both his language and his church
take the color of his Surroundings,
andy it is permeating 1t with the
American spirit, that it may better
serve Americans.
Some years ago two noted En-
glishmen, Herbert Spencer, great
philosopher, and Edward Freeman,
great historian visited America;
mad after travelling all over our
country and seeing how the immi-
grants from all the European races
We're adapting themselves to Ameri-
can ways, and how we older Ameri-
cans were receiving them, and how
the older and newer residents were
being fused Together, both said in
about the same terms that, America
was. giving all those races of the old
world an opportunity to drop the
animosities which had been fostered
between them for centuries, and here
all We're being made into one new
people; and it was their opinion that