Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-11
Expression of Chief Executive
DispeLs Fear of German War

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raised his hat and bowed. Automo-
bile horns sounded a steady chorus.
In the Broad street station of the
/ Pennsylvania railroad seven thousand
/ people cheered as the president
stepped aboard his private car. He
smiled and waved his hat TO them.
Soon afterward the president retired.
In introducing the president, MIR.
Blankenburg said
] II present to you--God bless him
! the president
The stenographic copy of Mr.. VIII
sons address In fun follows:
Address In Full.
ut warns my heart that you
should give me such a reception, but
II is not of myself that | wish TO think
tonight. but of those who have Just
become citizens of the United States.
This is the only country in the world
which experiences this constant and
repeated re-birth. Other countries
depend upon the multiplication of
their own native people. This coun-
try is constantly drinking strength
out of new sources by the voluntary
association with il OF great bodies OF
strong men and forward looking
women. And so by the gift of the
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constantly being renewed from gen
GRAFTON to generation by the same
process by which ii was originally
created II is as IL humanity had
determined to see to it that this great
nation, founded for the benefit of
humanity. should not lack for the al
lcgiance of the peoples of the world.
What Citizenship Means.
You have just taken an oath OF
allegiance to the United States. OF
allegiance to whom? OF allegiance
to no one, unless It be God. Certain
~ not of allegiance TO those who tenn
porariIy represent this great govern
ment. You have taken an oath OF
allegiance to great ideal, to a great
body of principles, to great hope of
the human race You have said we
are going 20 America, not only to
earn living. not only TO seek the
things which ii was more difficult to
obtain where we were born, but to
help forward the great issues of hui
manity.' To let men know that ev-
erywhere i'm the world there are men
who will cross strange oceans and go
where Il speech is spoken which IL
alien to them. knowing that whatever
the speecl, there is but one longing
and utteranee Of the human heart.
and that Is for liberty and justice.
And while YOU hiring all countries
with YOU, Won cong with u purpose
of leaving all other countries behind
you---brinaing what il best of their
spirit. but not looking over your
shoulders and seeking To perpetuate
what you intended 10 leave In them.
Hight to Have Birthplace.
MI xxnuEI moi bSt one even
TO suggest that "a man ceases TO love
tie home of his birth and the nation
of his origin---these things are very
sacred and ought not to be put out
of our hearts-but IL IL one thing To
love the place where YOU were born
and IL Is another thing to dedicate
yourself to the place to which YOU
20. You can not dedicate yourself TO
America unless you become In every
respect and with every purpose OF
y0tir will thorough Americans. You
can not become thorough Americans
IL you think of yourselves In groups.
America does not CONSIST of groups.
A man who thinks of himself as be-
longing to particular national
group In America has not yet become
am American; and the man who goes
among you TO trade upon YOUR ma
tionality is no worthy son 10 live UNI
der the Stars and Stripes.
Think First of America.
"My urgent advice to You would be-
not only always to think first Of Am
erica. but always also to think first
of humanity. You do not love hut
manity if YOU seek to divide human
ity into jealous camps. Humanity
can be welded together only by love,
by sympathy, by justice, not by jeal-
ousy and hatred ] am sorry for the
man who seeks to make personal
capital out of the passions of hisI
fellow man.
"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 passlonsl
which separate and debase. Wei
came to America, either ourselves orl
in persons of our ancestors, TO betterl
the ideals of men, to make them see
finer things than they had seen be-
fore, to get rid of things that divide
and to make sure of the things that
unite 1t was but an historical ac-
cident no doubt that this great coun
try was called THE United states,
and yet ! am very thankful that ~
has the word United in its title; and
the man who seeks to divide, man
from man. group from group, inter-
est 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 of
you who have Just sworn allegiance
to thisi government that you were I
drawn across the ocean by some beck |
onng finger of hope. by some belief. |
by some vision OF a new kino Of JUS |
tice. by some expectation Of better
kind OF life No doubt you have been
In some of u.s. Some Of
us are very disappointing No doubt |
you have found that justice in the /
United States goes only with d pure
heart and right purpose as 1t does
everywhere else. No doubt what you'll
found here did not seem to touch You.
after ALL with the complete beauty OF
The ideal which you had conceived be-
fore hand. But remember this, If you
had grown at all poor in the ideal,
YOU brought some of Ii with you A
man does not GO out TO seek the thing
that Is not in him A man does not
hope for the thing that he does not
believe in, and If some of US have
forgotten what American believed In.
you, at any rate imported In yourt
avn hearts a renewal of the belief.
That is the reason that /, for one.
make you welcome. If ! have In any
degree forgotten what America is in
tended for | will thank God If you
will remind me. | was born in Amer
Ca.
You dreamed dreams Of what Amer
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