Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-05-14

llCemen q DeeH octdAieu Aoi thio
| duty. .
Seven detectives acted as a personal
| bodyguard for President Wilson and
rode directly behind him through the
| streets. In addition hundreds Of pa
trolmen led the procession and
brought up in the rear. The city troop
| acted as guard of honor.
when l was asked, therefore, by
| the mayor and The committee that &C
companied him, to come up from
Washington to meet his great COM
pany of newly admitted citizens, l
could not decline the invitation. I
ought not be away from Washington,
and yet l feel that it has renewed my
spirit as an American. In Washing
ton men tell you so many things every
day that are not 80, n / like to
come and stand in the presence of a
great body of my fellow citizens,
whether they have been my fellow
citizens a long time or a short time,
and drink, as 1t were, out OF the COM
mon fountain with them, n &c back
feeling that o have so generously
given me the sense Of your generous
ly given me the sense Of your sup
port and Of the living vitality in your
hearts. Of it's great ideals which made
America the hope of the world
In introducing the president, Mayor
Blankenburg said:
81 present to you-God bless him
the president"
The stenographic copy of Mr.. Will
sons address in full follows:
Emphasizes Need Of Loyalty.
1T warns my heart that you should
give me such a reception; but it is
not of myself thai / wish to speak
tonight, but of those who nave just
become citizens Of the United States.
This is the only country in the world
which experiences this constant and
repeated rebirth. Other countries de-
pend upon the multiplications Of their
own native people. This country is
constantly drinking strength out of
new sources by the voluntary associa-
ton with it of great bodies of strong
mel and forward looking And
so by the gifts of the free will Of in
dependent people it is constantly be-
ing renewed from generation to gen.
GRAFTON by the same process by which
it was originally created. 1t is as if
humanity had determined to see to
it that this great nation founded for
the benefit Of humanity 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 allie
glance to whom? OF allegiance to no
one, unless it be God. Certainly not
of allegiance to those who temporarily
represent this great government. You
have taken an oath of allegiance to
a great ideal, to a great body of prin-
ciples, 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
you 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 m longing and
utterance Of the human heart and that
Is for liberty and Justice
Must Leave FatherIand Behind.
And while you bring all countries
with you. you come with a purpose
of leaving ali other countries behind
y0u-bringing what is best Of their
spirit. but not looking over your
shoulders and seeking to perpetuate
what you intend to leave in them. I
certainly would not be one even to
suggest that a man to love the
home Of his birth and the nation of
his origin-these things are very sac
red and ought not to be put out of
u hearts-but it is n thing t o love
the place where you were born and
it is another thing to dedicate your
self to the place to which you go.
You cannot dedicate yourself to Amer
lea unless you become in every re-
spect and with every purpose of your
will thoroughly Americans. You can
not become thorough Americans if you
think of yourselves in groups. Amer
lea does not consist of groups. A man
who thinks of himself as belonging
to a particular national group in
America has not yet become an Amer
lean; and the man who goes among.
you to trade Upon your nationality is
not worthy to live under the stars
and stripes. tS'sflt
MY urgent advice to you would be
not only always to think of America,
but always to think first of humanity.
You do not love humanity if you seek
to divide humanity into jealous camps.
Humanity can be welded together only
by love, by sympathy, by justice, not
jealousy and hatred. ! am sorry for
the nan who seeks to make personal
capital al passions Of his feiicM men.
He has lost the touch and ideal of
America. for America was created to
unite mankind by those passions
which lift and not by the passions
which separate and debase.
I'VE came to America either our
selves or in persons of our ancestors,
to better the ideals of men, to make
them see finer things than they had
seen before, to get rid of things that
divide and to make sure of things that
unite.
Not a Nation Of Groups.