The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-12-09
OUR NEW SLOGAN !
THROUGHOUT LAND !
Roosevelt In Typical Speech
Voices Same Sentiments In
More Vigorous Language.

the speeches of the president and one
Of his predecessors.
The cry America frst!'' is sure TO
be heard all over the republic during
the elections that are to come. Some
have gone so far as to say that 1t will
! be the Democratic slogan in the 1916
campaign. Surely 1t will be received
with great enthusiasm by all really
| patriotic citizens Of this country.
| President Wilson's speech will go
down in history as one of the most
typically American utterances that he
| has ever made.
The president spoke In a most kindly
way about foreign born citizens of the
United States. At the same time he
reminded his hearers that minority
of naturalized Americans have not
since the outbreak of the European
war been overloyal to the great Amer
lean ideals, but he declared he knew
where the vast majority of American
citizens Of foreign birth would stand
II census were taken on the issue
Of America first
III part MI. w llSOil
There is very great thrill to be
had from the memories of the Amer
lean Revolution, but the American Rev.
olution was a beginning, not con-
summation, and the duty laid upon us
by that beginning Is the duty of bring
ing the things then begun to noble
triumph of completion. For 1t seems
to me that the popularity of patriot
ism In America is that 1t Is not mere
sentiment. 1t is an active principle OF
conduct 1t Is something that was
born into the world. not to please 1t,
but to regenerate It 1t is something
that was born into the world to re-
place systems that had preceded 1t and
to bring men out upon a new plane OF
privilege.
$50 from generation to. generation
strangers have had to be indoctrinated
with the principles Of the American
family, and the wonder and the beau
ty of 1t all have been that the Infection
has been so generously easy. For the
principles of liberty are united with
the principles of hope. Every individ-
ual as well as every nation wishes to
realize the best thing that is In him,
the best thing that can be conceived
out of the materials of which his spirit
is constructed.
Drawn by American Ideals.
1T has happened in way that
think fascinates the Imagination that
we have not only been augmented by
additions from outside, but that we
have been greatly stimulated by those
additions. Living in the easy pros
perity of free people. knowing that
The sun has always been free TO shine
upon us and prosper our undertakings,
we did not realize how hard the task
of liberty Is and how rare the pr1Vi-
Ieye of liberty Is, and men were drawn
OUT of every climate and out OF every
race because of an irresistible attrac-
tion of their spirits to the American
ideal.
Every political action, every social
action. should have for its OBJECT In
America at this time to challenge the
shirt of America, to ask that every
man and woman who thinks first OF
America should rally to the standards
of our life There have been some
among. us who have not thought first |
of America, who have thought to use
the might of America In some matter
not of Americas originative ana nave
forgotten that the first duty or ma |
ton is to express its principles In the
action of the family of nations and not
TO seek to aid and abet any rival or
contrary ideal.
Neutrality Is a negative WORD. IL
r word that does not express wnat
A merica ought to feel. America mas
heart, and that heart throbs with all
sorts of intense sympathies, but Amer
ca has schooled its heart to love the
.hings that America believes In. and
I ought to devote itself only to the
hings that America believes In and.
believing that America stands apart in
Is ideals. it ought not to allow itself
o be drawn. so far as its heart Is con-
.erned. into anybody's quarrel
Knows Where They Stand.
"Some of the best stuff Of America
las come ont of foreign lands. and
ome of the best stuff in America Is
n the men who are naturalized citi-
ems of the United States. | would not
,e afraid upon the test Of America
irst' to take ) census of all the foreign
,orn citizens of the United States, for
know that the vast majority OF them
anne here because they believed in
america. and their belief in America
las made them better citizens than
ONE people who were born in Amer
ca.
Il would not feel any exhilaration in
elonging to America If ! did not feel
hat she was something more than a
ich and powerful nation. ! should not
eel proud to be. in some respects and