The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-07

| theSC years, WhGn we are OFFICIALLY
informed that we have been at peace
with them, than were killed by the
Spaniards during entire war with
Spain. Moreover, when the war with
Spain was through it was through
But peace still contiues to rage as
furiously as ever in Mexico"
Text of Speech
Col. Ro5seyelt's speech in part fol-
| lows:
Il come here to Maine to advocat e
the election of Charles S. Hughes as
president Of the United States, and
the election of senate and house Of
representatives to support him, and
to give some of the reasons why in
my judgment it would be a grave mis-
fortune for the people of the United
States to re-elect Mr.. Wilson.
Il make no merely partisa nappeal.
ask the support of all good citizens
for our cause. l ask the support of
all good Americans. And | not mere
ly ask, but demand as a matter Of
right that every citizen voting this
year shall consider the question at
issue from the standpoint of America.
and not from the standpoint of any
other nation.
"The root idea Of. American citi-
zonship, the necessary prerequisite
for patl iotic service at home, and for
service to mankind at large, is that
there shall be in our citizenship no
dual allegiance. There must be no
divided loyalty between this country
and the country which any of our
citizens or the ancestors of any OF
our citizens have come.
The policy of the United States
must be shaped with a view of two
conditions only: first, with a view to
the honor and interest of the United
States, and second, with a view to its
interest of the world as a whole. 1t
is therefore our high and solemn duty
both to prepare our own strength 50
as to guarantee our own safety. and
also to treat every foreign nation. in
any given crisis, as its conduct in
that crisis demands. The citizen who
does not so act, and who endeavors
to shape American policy in the in-
terest of the country from which he
or she or his ancestors have sprung.
is no true American and has no NOR
al right to citizenship in this country.
Any attempt to organize line is a foul
and evil thing. Any organization in
the inerest of a foreign power is gull
ty of moral treason to the republic.
1t is because of such action that
condemn those professional German
Americans who in our, politics act as
servants and allies of Germany, not
as Americans interested solely in the
honor and welfare of America: and
| would condemn just as quickly Eng
ilsh Americans or French Americans
or Irish Americans who acted in such
manner.
Americanism is matter of the spir
it, of the soul, of the mind; not OF
birthplace or creed. We care nothing
as to where any man was born, or
as to the land from whic hhis fore
fathers came, SO long as he is whole
heartedly and in good faith an Ameri-
can and nothing else. If the man is
a good American we care nothing as
to his creed, whether he be Protest
ant, Ctaholic or jew; we care nothing
whether his ancestors came over in
tn eMayflower, or whether he himself
! was born in England or Ireland, in
France or Germany, in Scandinavia
or Russia. Some of the very best
/ Americans | have ever known were
men who were born abroad; and in
every great period of American his
tory, the American who deserved best
of their country have included men
of different creeds; men whose an
cestors had for generations lived on
this SOIL and other men who them
selves, or whose parents, had come
from some of the lands of the Old
World. But all these men alike acted
as Americans and nothing else. and
with an undivided loyalty to this ma.
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