Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-15
SCORES CITIZENS
D|SLOYAL TO j. S.
President Declares Activity of
Foreign Born Must Be Alb
soIutely Crushed.
KEYNOTE OF CAMPAIGN
SOUNDED At MONUMENT
Denounces Attempt to Levy Politi-
cal Blackmail in Flag Day Ad-
dress to Thousands.

Foreign-bern citizens Of the United
States now are working to undermine
| tho influence Of the national govern
mont: they are trying to levy . sort Of
| political blaekmail. President Wilson
yesterday afternoon told the thousands
| of government employees and others
who gathered at the base Of tho WASH
ington Monument to participate in the
interdepartmental Flag day celebra-
ton. The President had Just finished
reviewing the precarsdness parade.
The Presidents assertion sounded
the keynote Of one Of the foremost is
sues on which he will 20 before the
| country for reelection. and touched
upon a platform declaration which will
be submitted BY tho administration to
| the st. Louis convention.
He declared that not since the civil
war had it been tested as 1t now is be-
ing tested whether the Stars and
Stripes stood for any one united pur-
pose.
Must Crush Disloyalty.
There is disloyalty active in the
United States and 1t must be absolutely
crushed" declared the President, speak
ing emphatically. 1T proceeds from a
minority. a very small minority. but a
| very active and subtle minority.
| 1t works underground, but it also
shows its ugly head where we can see
| It; and there are those at this moment
| who are trying to levy a species OF
political blackmail. saying Do what we
wish in the interest Of foreign senti-
ment, or we will wreak our vengeance
at tho polls. That Is the sort Of thing
against which the American nation viii
turn with a might and triumph of SEN
timent which will teach these gentle
men once for all that loyalty to this
nag 10 the first test Of tolerance in the
| United States"
| The Presidents words were taken as
an open challenge to foreign-borr
Americans. who he has learned from
| sources are opposing him for reelection
officials close to him said he was out
lining his stand on what he had deter.
mined to make predominant issue In
| his campaign.
| Almost every man and woman In the
Presidents audience carried an Amer
| lean flag. Before he began speaking q
platoon from Battery A. Field Artillery
twenty-one guns. and the Marine Band
played the Star Spangled Banner
| while a huge flag was drawn slowly tc
the top of the white monument. 55s
|
sing presided and in introducing the
President emphasized the duty OF pres
ent-day Americans to preserve unsu!
| lied ideals handed down by the found
| ers Of the republic.
Text Of the Address.
The text of the Presidents address
follows:
"Mr. Secretary. Ladies' and Gentlemen;
| II have not come here this afternoon
with the purpose of delivering to you
an elaborate address. 1t seems to me
that the day is sufficiently eloquent
already with the meaning which II
should convey to US. The spectacle OF
the morning has been q very movins
spectacle indeed, an almost unprece.
denied outpouring Of thousands OF
sober citizens to manifest their inter.
est in the safety of the country and
| the sacredness OF the flag which II its
emblem.
sentiment has been poured out IN hon
or of the flag Of the United states
Sometimes we have been charged WITH
being a very sentimental people. IonG
phrases principles not sufficiently, de-
fned in action, and dare say there have
been times Of happy and careless ease ~
this country when all that 1t mas peer
necessary to do for the honor OF the
nag was to put our sentiments into po-
etc expressions, into the words that
for the time being satisfied our hearts
But this Is not a day OF sentiment
Sentiment Is a propuis 81. w po~e That Us Il
serviceable to the nation. unless ~
have a definite purpose before IT, ms
is not merely a day of sentiment. II
is a day of purpose.
pen. Trihute to WashinHton.