The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-19
TRUE TO ITS IDEALS
NATIONS MUST MAKE ITS FU=
TURE DREAMS COME TRUE
wilson HAS FAITH

In Speaking to Immigrants in Phila-
delphia, Who Are Now Citizens of
the United States, President VIII
SON Outlines to Them the Future
Aspirations of This Republic.
At Philadelphia Monday night
President Wilson was constantly in
terrupted by spontaneous outbursts
Of applause. Introduced by Mayor
Blankenburg, who spoke in distinctly
German accent, a welcome and an
appeal for single allegiance to the
United States, the president carried
forward the idea Of the welding Of
foreign blood in the makeup Of
America by pointing out the true
goal Of right American citizenship to
BE- loyalty not to the country of
ones birth but to the land Of ones
adoption.
Mayor Blankenburg called atten-
ton to the fact that like the others
he had come to foreign shores to
find in the United States a home"
''Let me beseech you," he said,
"that. Americans are first, last and
all the time, no matter what may
happen in the world at large"
''No matter what our personal
feelings for the country we left be-
hind, our first allegiance is to the
country Of our adoption. l can not
| impress this too strongly on account
| of the occurrences Of the last eight
| months Thank God we have a man
| in the White House who knows, who
| is just a man who knows what to
| do"
The crowd interrupted with tu-
| multi Of cheers, arose enmasse and
| waved the stars and stripes: It was
a remarkable sight
The stenographic copy of Mr.. Will
sons address in full follows:
''It warns my heart that you
should give me such a reception, but
it is not of myself that I wish to
think tonight, but of thoserwho have
just become citizens of the United
States. This is the only country In
the world which experiences this con.
slant and repeated rebirth. Other
countries depend upon the multipli-
cation OF their own native people.
This country is constantly drinking
strength out Of new sources by the
voluntary association with it of great
bodies o. strong men and forward
looking women. And so, by the gift
Of the free Of Independent people, it
! is constantly being renewed from
generation to generation by the same
process by which it was originally
created. It is as if humanity had de-
termined to see to it that this great
| nation, founded for the benefit of hu-
manity, should not lack for the allie
glance of the people Of the world.
Allegiance Here is Allegiance to God
"You have just taken an oath OF
allegiance to the United States. OF
allegiance to whom? OF allegiance
to no one, unless it be God. Certain
!y not of allegiance. to those who tenn
porarily represent this great govern
ment. You have taken an oath to a
great ideal, to a great body of prin-
ciples, to a great hope Of the human
race. You have said: we 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 help forward the
great enterprises Of the human spirit
Ito let men know that everywhere
in the world there are men who will
cross strange oceans and go where a
speech is spoken which is alien 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 a 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 intended to leave in them.
Thorough Americans"
81 carefully would not be one even
to suggest that a man cease 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 can not dedicate yourself to
America unless you become in every
respect 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.
4 man who thinks Of himself as be-
longing to a particular group in
America has not yet become an Amer
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 Of
America, but always, also, to think
first of humanity. You do not love
humanity if you seek to divide hui
lltcu1lS Ill W JSdlOUS SdUlpS- I1uAldulIs
can be welded together only by love,
by sympathy, by justice; not by jeal-
ousy and hatred.
THE United States"
Il am sorry for the man who seeks
to make personal capital out of the
passions of his fellow men. He has
not the touch and ideal of America,
for America was created to unite
mankind by those passions which lift.
and not by the passions which sepa-
rate and debase. We came to Ameri-
ca. either ourselves or in persons Of
cur ancestors, to better the ideals Of
men. to make them seek finer things
than they had seen before. to get rid
Of things that divide and to make
sure Of the things that unite. It was
but historical accident, no doubt,
that this great country was called
The United States and yet am very
thankful that it has the word united
in its title. and the man who seeks to-