The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-10-29
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than the President in scoring the
hyphenated Americans who placed
The interests of other countries be-
fore the interests of the United
States. In fact, some who heard the
Colonel the night of the day after
Mr.. Wilson had delivered himself OF
his address on America First" and
his clarion call to Americans
to "lihe-up" and show where they
stood, were of opinion the Colonels
speech was a pretty close echo OF the
speech, only expressed in
more vigorous and direct vernacular
than Mr.. Wilson permitted himself
to employ.
"There is no room in this
country for the hyphenated
American" almost shouted the
Colonel. 'You can't hoist two
flags on the same fagpole and
not have one underneath"
And by the hyphenated Americans,
the Colonel explained, as Mr.. wilson
had explained, he did not mean for
eign-born American citizens, but he
meant those citizens, whether native
or foreign born, who place hyphen
and some other word before "Ameri-
can"
when I refer to hyphenated
Americans I do not refer to nat
uralized Americans. Some OF
the very best Americans | have
ever known were naturalized
Americans = Americans born
abroad. But hyphenated
American is not an American at
all. This is just as true of the
man who puts native before
the hyphen as of the man who
puts German, or Irish, or Eng
lish before the hyphen."
"Americanism is a matter of the
spirit and of the SOUL" said the
Colonel.
The President had defined Ameri-
canism as principle" and "spir,
| it,"
For an American citizen to
vote as a German-American, an
| Irish-American or an English
| American is to be traitor to
American institutions; and
those hyphenated Americans
who terrorize American politi-
clans by threats of the foreign
vote are engaged in treason to
the American republic"
Thus the Colonel vigorously de
clared.
And the President had said:
"There is too general an i'm
preston, fear, that very large
numbers of our fellow citizens
born in other lands have not
entertained with sufficient in
tensity and affection the Aeri-
can ideal; but their numbers are
not large. Those who would
seek to represent them are very
vocal but they are not very in
fuential."
The Colonel said:
"The one absolutely certain
, way of bringing this nation to
ruin, of preventing all possibili
ty of it's continuing to be a ma
ton at all, would be to permit
it to become a tangle of squab-
bling nationalities, an intricate
knot of German-Americans,
Irish-Americans, English-Ameri-
cans, French-Americans Scan
: dinavian-American or Italian
i Americans, each preserving its
: separate nationality, each at
! heart feeling more sympathy
with Europeans of that nation
7 atty than with the other citi-
zens of the American republic"
4 The President had said:
t 1--WE stand apart uncontrolled,
e conscious of our own principles,
Il conscious of what we hope and
purpose so far as our powers
! permit for the world at large,
y and it is necessary that we
y should consolidate the American
principle. Every political ac-
ton, every social action, should
b have for its object in America
at this time to challenge the
II spirit of America; to ask that
n every man and woman who
p thinks first of America should
S rally to the standards of our
e life"
y. The Colonel said:
e 1.-The man who calls himself
: an American citizen and who
yet shows by his actions that
he is primarily the citizen of