Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-07
REUNION iOF HUNTINGTON FAMILY
Knsmen from Far and Near for Third Meeting of the Clan Exercises in Historic Spots at Norwich Town-Banquet at Wauregan House Inspiring Addresses by Men Prom inent in the Huntington Line.

| the over emphasis of mere good line age.
 The ancestors of the old families of America settled the wilderness and made the constitution.
 The spirits of our ancestors, the fruits of whose labors we enjoy in our glorious old form of government and Fin the formation of our national ideals, |, will be grieved if America becomes 1.-the land of materialism, forgetting it's basic ideals In combating such ten dencies and in helping to hold the balance of truth and righteousness, let us draw inspiration from the re- membrance of our forbears.
 We have had centuries to absorb into our very blood what is good in the spirit of our country. Through leading respectable lives of usefulness our forefathers have bestowed upcn most of us the advantages of educa- tion and. what is infinitely more irn- portant, the advantages of homes with the tradition of honorable up- rfghtness and service. Hence say that the use of old families in the re : public is that each household can and should be a focus of the good old American spirit of courage, justice, loyalty, kindliness and truth
 
 influence and for standing fast by the old ideals are much needed nowadays throughout our land Our splendid system of representative government was formed by the forbears of the old American families. Abuses have sprung up because their descendants and the newcomers are so eager to enjoy .theif material inheritance that they forget the obligations and privi- leges of their political inheritance. Can we not see the spirits of our an- cestors frown upon us that we should sit idly by and see attempts to dis credit the fine constitutional nachin- cry of representative government and independent judiciary which they built because we and the newer Americans who are morally their offspring are too selfish or too lazy to discharge our politicaf duties?
 Foreign immigration to the United States has come at an enormous pace. We have thus gained legions of splen- did citizens. 1t is wonderful to see how foreigners of diverse races after a few years gain even the appearance of Americans and seem transigured to radiate the very spirit of America. Alas, we have acquired at the same time in revenge many criminals and undesirables. We are too careless of | the evolution of the newcomers. Tn our riot of materialism we are also depriving large numbers of our native !, born citizens of good start in life in the full equipment of those homely virtues like filial piety, sense of duty to others, insistence on truth and sin l cerity. We do not sufficiently inculcate in our schools that moral trainine and spirit of discipline which are so in l finitely more important than book I learning. So all who have special req | son to love America must work har5 l to help leayen the lump. If we leave l this work to the yellow type of news 1 paper and to the too "practicals poli- 1 tician, God help the nationi
 l The newly arrived must be assim- I Hated to the best and not to the worst 1 type of citizenship. In the hearts oi l those of the native born who in the i heat of material development, whether I capitalists or laborers, have forgotten | the forefathers, the real soul of Amer I ica must be made to live again. This is no country for class feeling; nc country for the capitalistic bully nol for the lahoring bully; no country above all. for the political bully wh' I preys upon both for his own advan. i tage It Is a country for good old fashioned Americans to join with goot men from other countries if only they be good men and worthy of the higl privilege of citizenship, to put shoul. l der to shoulder and make the United ' States of America. under the constltu I ton of the forefathers, the land of tn,
 most virtuous and happy citizenship. I In the worlxaday life. in- the zealou'