The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-14
Us On Ne1U Citizens
TO March With The Old
President Makes Ringing Appeal to Recently Natural
ized UrgingsThena to Aid in Prosecuting Hunaaa'ta-
ria7a Mission of the United States,

Philadelphia, May 10.-An appeal to
new citizens to attune themselves to
the high humanitarian ideals of the
United States was the keynote Of Pres
ident Wilson's speech at the great
meeting tonight.
The stenographic copy of Mr.. Will
sons address in full follows:
"It warns my heart that you should
give me such reception, but it is
not of myself that 1 wish to think
tonight, but of those who have just
become citizens of the United States.
T3is is the only country in the world
which experiences this constant and
repeated rebirth. Other countries de-
dend upon the multiplication of their
own native people. This country is
constantly drinking strength out Of
new sources by the voluntary assocla-
ton with it of great bodies of strong
men and forward looking women. And
so, by tie gift of the free will Of in
dependent people, it is constantly be-
ing renewed from generation to ger
Grafton by the same process by which
it was originally created. 1t is as if
humanity had determined to see to
it that this great nation, founded for
the benefit of humanity, s2ould not
lack for the allegiance Of the people
of the world.
<'You have just taken an oath of
allegiance to the United States. Of al
legianceN to whom? Of allegiance to
no one, unless it be God. Certainly
not of allegiance to those who tempo
rarily represent d5is great govern
ment. You have taken an oath of al
legiance to. a great ideal; to great
body of principles, to great hope of
the human race.
To Land of Freedom.
s'You have said, eve are going to
America not only to earn living,
not only to seek the things which it is
more difficult to obtain where we were
born, but to Ioelp forward the great
enterprises of the human spirit to
let men know that everywhere in the
world there are men who will cross
strange oceans and go where speech
is spoken which is alient to them,
knowing that whatever the speech,
there is but one longing and utterance
of the human heart. and that is for
liberty and justice. And while you
bring all countries with you you come
with purpose 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 intend to leave
in them. I certainly would not be
one even to suggest that man cease
to love the tome of his birth and the
nation of mis- 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
ant it is another thing to dedicate
yourself to tie place to which you go.
You can not dedicate yourself to Amer
lea unless you become in every respect
and with every purpose of your will
thoroughly Americans. You can not
become thorough Americans if you
think of yourself in groups. America
does not consist Of groups. A man
who thinks of himself as belonging to
particular group in America has not
yet become an American, and the man
w.o goes among you to trade upon
your nationality is no worthy son to
live under the Stars and Stripes.
Brotherhood of Men.
"My urgent advice to you would be
not only always to think first of Amer
lea, but always also 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 SYM
pathy, by justice, not by jealousy and
inatred.
81 am sorry for the man who seeks
to make personal capital out of the
passions of mis- fellow men. He has
lost the touch and ideal of America,
for America was created to unite man
kind by those passions which lift and
not by the passions which separate
and debase. We came to America
either ourselves or in persons Of our
ancestors to better the ideals of men,