New Britain herald., 1915-10-13
AMERICA FIRST.

silver jubilee of their organization Monday and declared that the time | had arrived for a lineup" that all
 men in politics must declare whether they were for America first, last and all the time, or whether their sym pathies were with lands across the sea, he sounded a clarion note that has been awaited for To these many 1 months. If he unburdened himself of campaign speech, he delivered masterpiece; if it was intended solely as a patriotic address it could not have been improved upon. Nor could the time and place have been bettered. Talking before body of women who are descendants from the very blood that was shed so this nation might live, the President found listeners he could not hope for in any other circle. And the doctrine l he preached was we'll received There fore, it has not been cast on barren soil. It will be carried still further
  who believe as these Daughters of the American Revolution. It will be
 carried on down the ages, to be read and re-read at future gatherings of those who call themselves Americans. For, this speech of President Wilson
 is a classic. It will live. It tells the very essentials of Americanism as it should be known. It is strong, substantial, true and wholly American.
 The nation has waited anxiously for this speech. And it waited not in vain. For, when Woodrow Wilson undertook to deliver himself of his sentiments of America and things American he measured up to his full height. He proved himself big. From now on he need utter no other word The people know him now better than they ever did. They know he is first, last, and all the time a President who has the in terests of the United States before his mind. Tracing the touch of Americanism back to the American Revolution, the President pointed out | that from that period to this, men | have come to this land with the one 1 purpose in view,-to escape the op | pression of other lands But, he 1 points, the revolution was only a be- 1 ginning, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is that we bring | things then begun to noble triumph | of completion. To that end then, | 1t is the duty of every map who claims himself an American citizen to uphold the ideals of Americanism, to fight, if needs be, that these ideals i, may be kept ever alive. And, as no l man can serve two masters, the only | way in which the Liberty which was | established by the patriots of 1776 1 can be maintained is for the men l of 1915 to look neither to the left nor 1 the right, but to stand their ground | and unf1inchingly support the true 1 doctrines of Independence. We of | the present day sometimes forget the
  sonal liberty and all the other won derful attributes that go hand in hand with freedom as we know it under the Stars and Stripes of Amer ica. We would keep on forgetting these things if it were not for the endless procession of immigrants ever knocking at our gates ask ing for admission to a land that will shelter them from the things they have grown to abhor. And it is this endless tide of incoming human be- ings that always keeps the spirit of America young President Wilson, in as many words, hinted at this phase of the foreign situation. And he even went further. He said, i've have not only been augmented by ad- ditons from outside, but we have been greatly stimulated by those addi-
 tions." And that is true. Were it
 not for the constant influx of imnni-
 grants to these shores those of us
 who have been enjoying the advan- tages of a free country would long l ago have ceased to appreciate them,
 would have leaned back satiated or
 perhaps disgruntled; would have for gotten all about the nations of the globe wherein personal liberty, even at this late day, is not such we'll known quantity. We would not
 take long to forget what a blessing liberty really is if the phalanx of hungry souls was not ever passing be- | fore our gaze.