The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-17
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(St. Louis Republic)
 st. Louis today speaks welcome to its ne" AnelF cans-men who have just dissolved the bonds or tner aegence to the Kings and Emperors of the old World and taken themselves the duties Of American ci'i zcnshp.
 We are glad that your stay in America has had this result When you came you brought GO us your strength and slSi-your power to work and to think Since your arrival you have by your labor of hand and brain been making this wealther and stronger Na- ton But by the act which celebrate today you have shown that you are not sitsted with this s has not been enough that you should do m America the work that is paid for in moneyy, that represents mans worth to the world ot toL You desire to do also the work of a citizen-work that never be paid for in money that done not only with hand and brain but with heart and will as well
 There are men who come Go America simply for what they eau get out of new and rich land. You have not stopped with this By becoming citizens you show that you have also for what you can give to the life of this new land America Is now not simply your workshop and dwelling place It is your country to be loved be cherished to be defended to be car red in your hearts borne upward by you in prayer
 You the new citizens of st. Louis and the United States are of different races different degrees and kinds of education different experiences of lie There are among you those who have been righly traineO in the universities of the old World and men of hum be life who have lived quiet lives Of toll m the fields of the villages where they were born We welcome a For have found here in this newest among the great nations of the world that the thing that determines the worth of a mans citizenship is not much what he knows and has, but rather the spirit with which he takes up the duties of a citizen. We have room here for the man the highest European culture who brings us the inheritance of the wisdom of the wise and the scholarship of the schools And have room no less for the man who to his land. was not even per mtted to learn to read but who knows the lesson of gratitude or patriotic love and loyalty and is prepared to do his duty all to bow to just laws and to honor his countrys flag.
 In this hour rejoice in the fact that you came from many lands With Europe cashing with arms from the shores of the North Sea to the Dardaneles with Alps and Vosges and Carpathans and Caucasus border ed with deadly fire with the press of warning Con- tnent proclaming the deadly and necessary hate of German for Englishman Of Austrian for Russian, of Italian for Turk and German and Serbian We are glad to furnish the world this spectacle of Angosaxon and German and Serbian aAd Turk Hungarian and Rus sian Italian Austrian meeting together with cheers and tears under the folds of flag where an men are ree where each speak the tongue hc pleases may train bis children he will may worship God accord ing to the voice of his own conscience
 On this 1Ssth anniversary of the Independence of the United States the children of an immigration little further back than yours, welcome you for what you are and for what you n this our country that makes you take it's name upon yourselves and pledge it your lives yoor fortunes and your sacred honor.