Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-12
PRESIDENT IN SPEECH ASSERTS
NONE CAN SERVE UNITED
STATES AND ANOTHER,
DECLARES HIS FAITH IN
THOSE OF FOREIGN BIRTH
Wilson Delivers Patriotic Address at
Celebration Of Founding Of Daueh-
tiers Of American Revolution-Serves
Notice That No Hyphenated Citizens
Are Wanted.

| Washington. Oct. ia demand
j upon all Americans. on pain OF ostra-
/ cism, to be more than neutral in regard
TO the European war-to take their
stand for America first, last. and all
the ume-was voiced by President Will
son today in speech at the celebration
OF the twenty fifth anniversary of the
rounding OF the Daughters of the Amer
/ lean Revolution
Inc United States. the president said,
was not merely trying to keep out of
trouble, but was trying TO preserve the
foundations upon which peace could be
rebuilt
Peace can be rebuilt" he added
only upon the ancient and accepted
principles of international law: only
upon those things which remind ma
tons of their duties TO each other and,
deeper than that. OF their duties to
mankind and humanity America has
a great cause. which is not confined TO
the American continent 1t is the
cause OF humanity itself
Demands Decision by Ali.
Declaring his faith in the loyalty of
the great body of naturalized citizens
or foreign birth. the president said he
be ieved the impression was TOO general
that large number of these citizens
were without q sufficient affection for
the American ideal
'But | am in a hurry TO have a line
up he explained. and let the men who
are thinking first of other countries
stand on one side and those who are
for America first, last and all the time
on the other side"
Every political action and every So
cial action in America at this time"
said Mr.. Wilson. should have for its
object to challenge the spirit of Amer
icanism.
Patriotism 10 Principle.
There is great thrill to be had
from the memories OF the American
revolution" the president said. but the
American revolution was a beginning.
not a consumuation; and the duty laid
upon us by that beginning is the duty
o. unSeq ueul s5ulua qua SulsuIIq 10
q noble triumph OF completion.
For it seems to me that the pecul-
iarity OF patriotism in America is that
tive principle OF conduct It is an ac-
tive principle OF conduct. II is some
thing that was born into the world
not to please 1t but 10 regenerate it.
1t is something that was born into the
world to replace systems that had pre-
coded it and to bring men out upon
new plane OF privilege
The American revolution was the
birth OF nation; it was the creation of
great free republic based upon ira
.1,,
tofore had been confined to a single
little island but which il was purposed
should spread to all mankind. And the
singular fascination OF American his
tory is that it has been a process of
constant recreation. of making over
again in each generation the thing
which was conceived at first.
Must Take in Now Blood.
You know how peculiarly necessary
that has been in our case. because
America has not grown by the mere
multiplication of the original stock
with continuity of blood: 1t is easy in
a single family to remember the origin
OF the race and the purposes of its or
ganizatfon: but It is not so easy when
that race is constantly being renewed
and augmented from other sources from
stocks that did not carry or originate
the same principles.
$50 from generation to generation
strangers have had to be indoctrinated
wi IN the principles of the American
family, and the wonder and the beauty
of it all has been that the infection has
been so generously easy. For the prin-
ciples Of liberty are united with the
principles Of hope. Every individual as
we'll as every nation wishes ia realize
the best thing that is iii him, the best
thing that can be conceived out of the
materials Of which his spirit is con-
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