The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1915-12-04
AMERICA WANTS AMERICANS
FIRST AND ALL THE time
Thinking Americans are Demanding
Lineup of u. 5. Citizens With
out Regard to Race.

out Regard TO Race.
More than a year ago President
Wilson called upon us, one and all,
TO observe personal neutrality
How certain hyphenated Americans
have taken this appeal TO heart may
be observed from the fact that the
president was forced more recently
TO demand line-up-a separation,
so to speak, of the sheep and goats.
A miniature judgment day was sug-
gested with the American Ameri-
cans standing on one side, and the
hyphenated Americans-thOse who
set the interests of their home land
country above those of their adop-
tiOn-on the other.
Speaking before the Daughters of
the American Revolution at Wash
ington, the chief executive said:
Il am not deceived as TO the bal
ance of opinion among the foreign
born citizens of the United States,
but am in a hurry TO have an
opportunity TO have lineup and
let the men who are thinking first
of other countries stand on one side
--biblically it should be the left
and all those that are for America
first, last and all the time on the
other side"
Quite as forcibly expressed was
Colonel Roosevelts utterance before
the knights of Columbus, when the
former president took occasion to
declare:
For an American citizen to vote as
a German-American, an lrish-Amer-
lean or an English-American is to be
a traitor to American institutions
and those hyphenated Americans
who terrOriZe American politicians
by threats of the foreign vote are
engaged in treason to the American
republic"
Thus, a national slOgan-it will be
more than a democratic campaign
slOgan-has been given to the coun-
try. America first, last and for all
timer The time Has arrived, in the
opinion of most editors, TO determine
whether the big melting pot is really
the caldrOn it is represented to be,
or if it is a mere soup tureen filled
up with particles of all nations. The
newspapers are unanimous in their
demand that the hyhen must go if
we are to continue as a people.
"A splendid lesson in patriotism" !"
the Philadelphia Enquirer charac-
terizes MIR Wilson's speech. His
knife is merciless," observes the
New York Evening World; "the hy-
phen at last comes clean away"
President Wilson gave voice" the
Atlanta Journal tells us, ito the
weightiest principle that now rests
on the country's conscience and
thought" Those who are not think
ing of America first suggests the
Duluth News-Tribune, should be
made to feel the discipline of Ostra-
cism."
Says the Chicago Journal:
For fourteen months well-paid,
well-organized crew of hyphenated
hcwlers has been trying TO put
America last, TO subordinate Ameri-
can interests and American princi-
pies TO the wishes and needs of cer-
Tain foreign powers. That treason
able attempt has not succeeded, hut
it has not been crushed. IL can
not be crushed unless loyal citizens
are rs alert and as resolved in pat
eiutiSm as these subsidized schrm-
go ere in seditiOn.
"The seditiOn mOngers who are
trying TO turn this country into a
colony and an ally of despOtism
must find no society TO cOuntenance
them, no party to treat with them
no candidate who will ask for their
favOrs, no newspaper 10 plead their
cause. We must create in this coun-
try an atmosphere in which treason
cannot breathe-or we shall have the
consequences of treason brought
home TO us in the years which lie
close ahead"
I'VE cannot have this line-up toe
soon," declares the New York World