The daily Alaskan., 1915-11-02
OUR NEW SL0GANG
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Roosevelt In Typical Speech Voices Same Sentiments In
 More Vigorous Language.
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the speeches of the president and one of his predecessors.
 The cry America ArstW is sure tc
 be heard all over the republic during the elections that are to come. Some | have gone so fur as to say that 1t will be the Democratic slogan in the 1916 campaign. Surely it 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 a 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 if q census were taken on the issue of America first
 In part MT. Wilson said:
 There Is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the Amer ican Revolution, but the American Rev olution was q beginning, not con- summation, and the duty laid upon Us by that beginning Is the duty of bring ing the things then begun to q noble triumph of completion. For 1t seems to me that the pecullarity of patriot Ism in America is that 1t Is not mere sentiment. It is an active principle of conduct It Is something that was born into the world, not to please it. but to regenerate it. It is something that was born into the world to re- place systems that had preceded it and to bring men out upon q new plane of privilege.
 "So 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- uaI as yell 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.
 Tt has happened in q way that l 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 a 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 priyi- Icge of liberty Is, and men were drawn out of every climate and out of every race because of an irresistible attrac- ton 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 spirit 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 America's origInatiye and have forgotten that the first duty of a na- tion 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. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies, but Amer lea has scbOoled Its heart to love the things that America believes in, and 1t ought to devote itself only to the things that America believes in and, believing that America stands apart in its ideals, it ought not to allow itself to be drawn, so far as Its heart is con cerned, into anybOdy's quarrel
 Knows Where They Stand.
 Some of the best stuff of America has come out of foreign lands, and some of the best stuff in America Is In the men who are naturalized cid- zens of the United States. would not be afraid upon the test of America first to take q census of all the foreign born citizens of the United States, for know that the vast majority of them came here because they believed in America, and their belief in America has made them better citizens than some people who were born in Amer lea.
 q would not feel any exhilaration in belonging to America if did not feel that she was something more than rich and powerful nation. should not feel proud to be, in some respects and for a little while, her spokesman If ] did not believe that there was some