Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-11

Ipeople 1t is being constantly renewed
/ from generation to generation by the
same process by which il was original
| ly created.
| 1T is as if humanity had determined
| TO see TO it that this great nation,
should not lack for the allegiance of
the people of the world
You have Just taken an oath of al
| legiance to the United States OF al
leglance to whom? OF allegiance to no
one unless it be God, certainly not al
leslance TO those who temporarily rep
resent this great government
You have taken an oath of allie
glance to great ideal. to a great
! body of principles, to a great hope of
| the human race.
! You have said: We are going to
America, not only TO earn a living, not
only TO seek the things which it was
more difficult to obtain where we were
born, but to help forward the great
enterprises of the human spirit. to let
] men know that everywhere in the
world there are men who will cross
strange oceans and go where a speech
/ is spoken which is alien to them,
knowing that whatever the speech
there is but one longing of the human
heart, and that is liberty and Justice
and while YOU bring all countries with
You, you come with a purpose OF leav-
ling all other countries behind YOU:
bringing what is best of their spirit.
but not looking over your shoulders
and seeking to perpetuate what YOU
intended to leave in them. I certainly
would not be one even to suggest that
man cease to love the home of his
olrth and the nation OF his origin.
These things are very sacred and ought
not TO be put out of our hearts, but
II Is one thing to love the place where
you were born and it is another thing
to dedicate yourself TO the place to
which YOU so.
Dedication to America
You cannot dedicate yourselves to
America unless you become in every
respect and with every purpose of
your will thorough Americans
| You cannot become thorough Am
| erlcans II you think of yourselves in
groups. America does not consist of
groups \ man who thinks of himself
as belonging to a particular national
group in America has not yet become
an American. And the man who goes
among you to trade upon your nation
ality is no worthy son to live under the
Stars and Stripes. For my urgent ad-
vice to you would be not only always
| TO think first of America, but always.
also, to think first of humanity. And
to divide humanity into jealous camps.
Humanity can be welded together only
| by love, by sympathy, by Justice and
not by jealousy and hatred
Il am sorry for the man who seeks
to make personal capital out of the
passions OF his fellow men. He has
| lost the touch and ideal of America.
for America was created to unite man
kind by those passions which lift and
not by the passions which separate and
debase. We come to America either
ourselves. or in the persons of our an
cestors, to better the ideals of men. to
make them see finer things than they
have seen before, to get rid of the
things that divide and to make sure
of the things that unite.
| 1t was by an historical accident to
better the ideals of men, to make them
see finer things than they have seen
before, to get rid of the things that
divide and to make sure of the things
that unite.
| 1T was by an historical accident. no
doubt, that this country was called the
United States and yet 1 am very
thankful that it has that word united
in its title.
~The man who seeks to divide man
from man, group from group and in
terest from interest in the United
states is striking at its very heart
1T is a very interesting circum-
stance to me in thinking of those who
| have Just sworn allegiance to this
great government that you were drawn
across the ocean by some beckoning
finger. by some belief. by some vision
of new kind of justice. by some ex-
pectation of a better kind of life. No
doubt you have been disappointed in
some of us, and some of us are very
disappointing. No doubt you have
found that justice in the United States
goes only with pure heart and right
purpose, as 1t does everywhere else in
the world. No doubt what YOU found
here did not seem touched for you.
after all. with the complete beauty of
the ideal which you had conceived be-
Iforehand; but remember this, if we