Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-30

land the 18th OF July. He goes to
San Francisco, returning east over the
Union Pacific. It depends upon how
much time he spends at the E1posi-
ton.
People would go along way to hear
Col. Roosevelt make Fourth Of July
address. Twice president Of the Uni
ted States, It was he who made pos
sible the election of Woodrow Wilson
whose wise counsel is now safely pilot
European conflict.
And Col. Roosevelt's written word
is just as valuable as his speech. He
has specially prepared an address,
called characterization Day" for the
coming Fourth of July. 1t is in a diff
ferent style from the old grafton that
pulled out all the tail feathers OF the
American eagle and stuck them in the
redman's headgear. This article by
Col. Roosevelt is herewith reprinted
by permission of the Metropolitan
Magazine for July:
INSTRUMENTATION DAY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
1t is proposed to turn the Fourth Of
July celebration this year into some
thing Of practical betterment for the
country by making it the occasion of
a resolute and intelligent effort to
bring into contact with one another
masses Of our native-born citizens and
masses of those who have come to
us from abroad intending to become
citizents.
The proposal is to make the Fourth
of July this year an Americanization
Day, when racial barriers and pre-
judices are swept aside, when differ
ences Of education, language, ancestry,
occupation are forgotten, and the
American citizen who is born such
celebrates the day in honor of the
naturalized ctizen-primarily with a
view to making him absolutely and
without reservation an American. The
committees that have had this matter
in charge have been working through
THE Immigrants in America Review"
In its poster it sets out that Uncle
Sans problem is to take the thir-
teen million immigrants in the United
States and offer them real and not
nominal citizenship, to teach them to
become Americans and nothing else
but Americans, and to make them feel
at home here in the United States and
able to profit in full from the advant.
ages our country offers-in sum to
make them feel that they are self.
respecting citizens of our nation, with
their interest and their affections
deeply noted in our soil. To do this 1t
is necessary to give them national
consciousness. They must feel that
they are Americans among Ameri
cans; that they are part of America
and have a share in and a duty to.
ward American institutions.
The cities of Philadelphia, Cleve.
land, Baltimore and Los Angeles, orig.
inally under the leadership of Cleve.
land, have organized Citizens Recep.
ton or New Voters Days as final steps
In the naturalization of foreign-born
aliens. 1t has been found that pc,
culiar significance can be given these
Citizenship Receptions, which are pri
marily designed to give dignity to the
ceremony Of admission to citizenship
If they take place on the fourth OF
July. 1t is earnestly to be desired
that. they shall become national in
scope. A committee under the name
Of National Americanization Day
Committee has already been formed
with this purpose In view. The old
type Of fiamboyant Fourth of July
speech gradually grew to imply some
thing really discreditable in the way
Of insincerity and buncombe. This is
inevitable where words are freely used
without any real purpose and ability
to relate them to facts (whether in
speeches arbitration treaties or peace
conventions. by the way). The pro
posal now is to substitute, for speech,
es which mean nothing, action toward
a definite end, action which shall rep.
resent practical effort toward the
achievement Of realizable ideals.
The dreadful world.war now wag
ing, with It's threat Of involving us,
and with the very unhealthy upgrowth
during the past ten months of an ag
gressive hyphenated Americanism
(hand in hand with an ignoble peace.
atany.price-ism) in our own country
has emphasized the need that we owe
OF this nation shall become wholly
united. There should be no more by.
phenated Americans; neither native
Americans nor foreign-American
Each AmerCan of foreign birth or or.
igin who sincerely desires to become
a good citizen should show his good
citizenship by being wholly and with.
out reserve, and without divided al
legiance, and with emphatic repudi
alton Of the entire principle Of dual
nationality" an American citizen and
nothing else. II in good faith and with
a single heart he becomes such an
American citizen, It should be clear.
ly Understood fhot q io Infamous tbat