The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-11

| of leaving all other countries behind you-bringing what is best of their spirit. but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave in then-
 Must Be Thorough Anaeraca4as
 T certainly would not be one even to suggest that man cease to love ] of his origin-these things are very fsacred 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 1 yourself to the place to which you go. You cannot dedicate yourself to America unless you become in every respect and with every purpose of your will thorough Americana You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves Tin groups America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks him. self as belonging to a particular na- l tional group in America has not yet l become an American and the man l who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes. My urgent advice to you would be not only always to think first o1 America but always also to think first Of humanity You do not love humanity if you seek to divide hu- I naanity into jealous camps. Human ity can be welded together only b5 I love, by sympathy. by justice, not by | Jealousy and hatred
 To Unite Mankind
 l ..I am sorry for the man who seeks | to make personal capital out of tht passions Of his fellow men. He has lost the touch and ideal of America ] for America was created to unite
 
 and not by the passi ons which separ-
 ate and debase. We came to Amer ica, either ourselves or in persons o.
 our ancestors, to better the ideals oi
 mens to make them see finer thing.
 than they had seen before; to get rit
 Of things that divide and to make sure
 of the things that are right. It wal
 but a historical accident. no doubt : that this great country was oallet I the unfted States, and yet | am yer.
 than&ful that ft has the word united
 in it's title, and the man who seek I to divide man from man, group from
 group, interest from interest, in tn,
 United States is striking at it's yer.
 heart.
 ! .'r is a very interesting eircu4n stance ito me, in thinking of those o you who have Just sworn allegianc
 to this straight government; that ayol
 were drawn across the ocean by som
 beckonfpg of hope. by some belief. b, some vision of a new kind of justice , by some expectation Of a better kim
 of life. No doubt you have been dis
 appointed in some of us. Some Q us are very disappointing. No doub I you have found that justice in tn United States goes only with a pur heart and a right purpose. as it doe . everywhere else in the world. N
 doubt what you found here didn' | af ftoT. al r the complete beauty of the ideal whtc, , you had conceived beforehand- 5 Came Here With Ideals. .sBut remember this: If we ha grown at all pooF in the ideal, yo , brought some of it with you. A ma does not go out to seek the thing tha 7 is not in him A man does not hop 3 for the thing that he does not believ ' in, and if some of us have forgotte ? what America believed in, you, at an : rate, imported in your own hearts
 renewal of the belief That. is tn f reason that for one make you we f come.
 } "If I have in any degree forgotte 7 what America was intended for, : will thank God if you will remin me.
 t have dreamed dreams of what Amer f ca. was to be-, and hope you brougF
 the dreams with you. No man vii 3 does not see visions will ever Fealiz [ any high hope or undertake any hig enterprise.
 Just because you brought dream 2 with you. America is more likely | realize the dreams such as you haN : brought. You are enriching us, : : you came expecting us to be bette 2 than we are
 Does Not Need Force. q See, my friends. what that mean q It means that Americans must ave F sconsei ousness different from the co1 s sciousness of every other nation in tk