The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-10
A Rebuke to the UnpatriOtiC.


been. for its perfect clarity in the dis
c9saion Of tho great matters nov in
yo-ying the country. However, twc
features Of the message are notewor
thy for the mere fact that the con
ditions exist for their appearance in
g. We refer to the reprehensible ma
Of foreigu-horn citizens
against the peace of he United States
ad against certain property rights Of
her people and to the Americans
who have been TOGO par
tisan on the question Discussing the
former question. the president says:
/ am sorry TO say that tie Rravest
threats against our national peace
and safety have been uttered within
our own borders. There are citizens
of the United States, ! blush to ad-
init. born under other flags but vel
coined under our generous natural
ization laws to The full freedom and
opportunity Of America, who have
poured the poison OF disloyalty into
the very arteries Of our natioal life;
who nave sought to bring the au-
thority and good name o. our gov
ernment into contempt; to destroy
our Industries wherever they
thought il effective for their yindic-
tive purposes to strike at them, and
TO debase our politics TO the uses
Of foreign intrigue. Their numbers
is not great compared with the whole
number of those sturdy hosts by
which our nation has been enriched
in recent generations out of virlle
foreign stocks, but 1t is great
enough TO have brought deep dis
grace upon us and 10 have made it
necessary that we should promptly
make use Of processes Of law by
which we may be purgcd Of their
corrupt distcmpers. America never
witnessed anything like this before.
1t never dreamed it possible that
men sworn to its own citizenship.
men drawn out Of great free stocks
such as supplied some Of the best
and strongest elements of that lit
tie, but now heroic, nation that in
high day of old stakcd its very life
to free itself of ENHANCEMENT that
lad darkcncd the fortunes Of the
older nations and set up a new
standard here that men of such
origins and such free choices of al
legiance would ever turn in malign
reaction against the government and
people who had welcomed and nur-
tured them and seek to make this
proud country once moro a hothed
of European passion. A little while
ago such IA thing would have seemed
incredible Because ii was incred-
ible we made no preparation for 1t.
We would have been almost asham-
ed to prepare for it, as if we were
suspicious Of ourselves, our own
comrades and ncighbors! But the
ugly and incredible thing has actual
" come about and we are without
adequate federal laws to deal with
it. | urge YOU to enact such laws
at the earliest possible moment and
Zee. that in doing So | am urging
Won to do nothing less than save the
honor and st'frespcC' of the nation,
Such creatures # passion, disloyal-
ty and anarchy must be crushed out.
They are not many, but they are in
fiu.tcIy malignant, and the hand OF
our power should close over them at
once. They rave formed plots to
tcstroy propc ~ they have entered
into ConspiraciCs against the neu-
trality of the government they have
sought to pry into every conIiden-
tinI transaction Of the government
in order to serve interests alien to
our own Ii is possible to deal
with these things ettectually !.
need not suggest the terms in which
they may he dealt with.
The president also gives those citi-
scns who have been extensively parti-
san on the war question the following
" ell-administered rap:
| wish it could be said that only
a few men, misled by mistaken sen
timonts of allegiance % the govern
ments under which obey were born,
had been guilty OF disturbing the
self possession aud MISUNDERSTANDING
the temper and principles of the
country during these days of terri
BILE war. when it would seem that
every man who was truly an Amer
lean would instiuCtively make i his
duty aud his pride to keep the scales
of Judgment even and prove himself
a PARTISAN Of no nation but his own,
But il cannot. There are some men
among us. and many resident abroad
who though born and bred in the
United States aud calling Them
selves Americans, have SO forgotten
themselves and their honor as clti
Ycns as 10 put thcir passionate sym
patty with one or the other side in
the great European conflict above
their regard for the peace and dig
nifty Of the United States. They also
preach and practice dtsloyalty No
laws. | suppose. can reach corrup
tious of the mind and heart; bur |
should not speak OF others without