Willmar tribune., 1915-05-12


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with you, you come with a purpose OF
leaving all other countries behind you
what is best of their spir-
it, but not looking over your shoul.
ders, and seeking to perpetuate what
you intended to leave in them. I GER
tainly would not be one even to sug.
gest that man ceases to love the
home of his birth and the nation OF
his origin-these things are very
sacred and ought not to be put out
of our hearts-but it is one thing to
love the place where you were born
and it is another thing to dedicate
yourself to the place to which you 60
You cannot dedicate yourself to Amer,
ica unless you become in every re.
spect and with every purpose of your
will thorough Americans. You can.
not become thorough Americans if
you think of yourselves in groups
America does not consist of groups
A man who thinks of himself as be-
longing to particular group in Amer.
ica has not yet become an American
and the man who goes among you to
trade upon your nationality is no wor.
thy son to live under the stars and
stripes.
Love Humanity.
my urgent advice to you would b.,
not only always to think of America
but always to think first of humanity
You do not love humanity if you seek
to divide humanity into jealous camps,
Humanity can be welded together only
by love, by sympathy, by justice, not
by jealousy and hatred. am sorry fol-
the man who seeks to make personal
capital out Of the passions of his fel
low men. He has lost the touch and
ideal of America, for America was ere
ated to unite mankind by those pas
sions which lift and not by those pas
sions which separate and debase.
I'VE came to America ourselves or
in the persons Of our ancestors to
better the ideals Of men, to make
them see finer things than they has
seen before, to get rid of things that
divide, and make sure of things that
unite. 1t was but an historical acct
dent, no doubt, that this great coun
try was called the United States,' and
vet / am very thankful that it has the
word united in it's title, and the man
who seeks to divide, man from man
group from group, interest from in
terest, in the United States is strik
ing at it's very heart.
Beckoned by Hope.
1T is a very interesting circum
stance to me in thinking of those OF
you who have just sworn allegiance
to this great government that you
were drawn across the ocean by some
beckoning finger of hope; by some
belief by some vision of new kind
of justice, by some expectation of a
better kind of life. No doubt you have
been disappointed in some of US. Some
Of us are very disappointing. Nc
doubt, you have found that justice in
the United States goes only with a
pure heart and a right purpose, as il
does everywhere else in the world
No doubt what you found here did no,
seem touched for you, after all, with
the complete beauty of the ideal
which you had conceived beforehand
But remember this, if you had grown
at all poor in the ideal, you brought
some of it with you. A man does not
go out to seek the thing that is not
in him. A man does not hope for the
thing that he does not believe in and
If some of us have forgotten what
America believed in, you at any rate
imported in your own heart renew
al of the belief. That is the reason
that I, for one make you welcome. II
have in any degree forgotten what
America is intended for l will thank
God if you will remind me that was
born in America. You dreamed
dreams of what America was to be-
and I hope you brought the dreams
with you. No man who does not see
visions will ever realize any high
hope or undertake any high enter
prise. Just because you brought
dreams with you, America is more
likely to realize the dreams, such as
you brought. You are enriching us
if you came expecting us to be better
than we are. }s~
: All Nations Reached.
"See, my friends, what that means
it means that Americans must have
consciousness different from the
consciousness of any other nation in
the world. l am not saying that with
even the slightest thought of criti.
cism of other nations. You know how
it is with family. A family gets
centered in itself, If it is not careful,
and is less interested in the neighbors
than It is in its own members. So q
nation that is not constantly renewed
out Of new sources is apt to have the
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