New Britain herald., 1915-09-04
TEACH FOREIGNERS
 CITIZENSHIP DUTIES
Willard Scores Propasandas Here,
 Especially German

Stockbrf fidge, Mass, Sept. 4-Oswald Garrison Willard, publisher of the New York Evening Post in an ad- dress before the Laurel Hill associa- ton heref today, declared that the movement among American citizens of foreig4, especially German descent to form [ bodies apart from the citi- zenship (presented a far-reaching do- mestic iAsue which the American peo- pie must conquer as they have con- quered other great evils.
 MT. Willard said that an important 1actor in the continuance of the 'AmericAn melting pot" lay in edu- eating Immigrants to the proper du- ties of (citizenship. He asserted that in most instances heretofore natura- ilzation} examinations had been farce, land that the award of what ought ito be the most highly prized or diplomas had occurred, in New York alt least, in dim, dingy rooms under circumstances not as dignified as attend the registering of a leu- ter."@
 Born on German Soil.
 AT V1llafd SalQ ne was porn on German soil, of German father,''
 Foreigners becoming American cit izens should be made to understand. MT. Willard said, that there a.n r3e no divided citizenship or Loyalty or allegiance under the American flag; that no one can accept political ob- llgatdons here while at heart loyal to another social system, another en- tlty or another code of laws.
 }1n opening his address MT. Willard Quoted from an address made by Carl Schurz Ut the celebration of the lat ter's seventieth birthday sixteen years ago, in which MT. Schurz said that no matter how warm the affections German-Ameri,ans had held for their native land they had never permitted their affections to interfere with their duties as American citizens, nor tn seduce them to use their power in American politics for foreign ends.
 Add Fuel to Flames.
 How amazed Carl Schurz would hc to return to us today to find that that has come to pass which he deemed inconceiva ble," said MT. Will iafd,- that German-American af- lection tor their native land has in-
 
 of the great bulk of these toward the land of their adoption. He would find to his horror that at this moment their presence on this soil does not help to preserve peace and friendship between their two parent nations, but adds fuel to the flames of bitterness.
 The very thing he inveighed against all his life-deveIopment of a political solidarity among German Amer1cans- he would today find urged by practically all who profess to De leaders among them.
 Naturally Schurz would scan the horlzon for some discriminatory act on the part Of our government, or some manifestation or racial preiu dice against German Americans But he would find nothing of the sort. So far as the Federal government and states are concerned he would dis cover nothing changed from the day he left us.
 Due to Foreign Complication
 The mighty convulsion we are witnessing he would ascertain to be due entirely to foreign complication. to determination on the part of our German-Americans to stand by their Fatherland through thick and thin, right or wrong; to sudden self revelation that unlike himself they by the ten thousand had not really transferred their allegiance to the country of their adoption; to a de- termination on their part to compel the government at Washington to adopt their point of view.
 What could amaze him more than to find unnumbered Germans who, like himself, came to this country to escape the very militaristic autocracy they now uphold, today denouncing the nation that adopted and sheltered led and clothed them'
 MT. Willard touched at some length on the writings of Professor Julius Goebel, of the University of Illinois. in which the latter contended that German-Americans are Americans only in political sense" and the writer protested against the "pre- sumption of those who would stamp out German characteristics in the American melting pot"
 German Propaganda Most Extensive.
 Other races have shown strong Vendencics to form distinct bodies MT Willard said, but the German propaganda is so far the most ex- tensive.
 He then asked that if it were true, as contended, that the German kultur and political system were superior to the scheme of life and government in America why the hordes who have hooked here did not go to Germany