Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-13

persons like ruler or a party set II
authority over him. but that is not the
American idea. Our idea is that he is tt
be loyal to certain objects in life. ant
the only reason he has President
Congress legislature and a judiciary /:
that the community shall have instru-
mentalities by which to promote those
objects.
TT is a cooperative organization, ex-
pressing itself in this Constitution. ex-
pressing itself in these laws, intending tc
express itself in the exposition OF these
laws by the courts, and the idea OF Amer
lea is not so much that some one shall
be restrained and punished by the law
as TO be instructed and guided by the law
That is the reason why SO many hopefu
reforms come to grief law cannot work
until it expresses the spirit of the com
munity for which it is enacted. and II
you try to enact into law what eX-
presses only the spirit of small coterie
or small minority you know. or, at any
rate. you ought to know, beforehand that
it isn't going to work and that the object
of the law is that there written upon
those pages the citizen should read the
record Of the experiences of that state
and nation, what they have concluded it
is necessary for them to do because OF
the life they have lived and the elements
in that life, SO that we ought to be careful
to maintain a government at which the
immigrant can look with the closest
scrutiny. and to which he should be at
liberty to address this question.
People Here Human as Elsewhere.
You declare this to be a land of lib
erty and equality and justice. Have
you made it so by your law? We ought
to be able in our schools, in our night
schools. and in every other method of
nstructinG these people to show them
that tnat has been our endeayor. We
can't conceal from him long that we
are Just as human as any other ma
ton: that we are just as selfish; that
there are just as many mean people
here as anywhere else; that there are
just as many people here that will take
advantage of other people as you can
find in other countries: there are just
,as many cruel people. just as many
people heartless when it comes to main
tanning and promoting their own inter-
est, but that our object is to get these
they do no damage, and not be allowed
to bring calamity upon nation whose
object is spiritual and not material
America has built up great body of
wealth. America has become, from a
physical point of view. one of the most
powerful nations in the world, which if it
took the pains to do SO could build that
power up into one of the most formidable
instruments in the world, one of the most
formidable instruments Of force, but
force for ideal objects, and not for self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. We have been disturbed
recently. my fellow citizens, by certain
symptoms which have shown themselves
in our body polite. Certain men, 1 have
never believed a great number, who, born
in other lands, have in recent months
thought more of those lands than they
have of the honor and interest of the
government under which they are now
living. They have even gone so far as to
RI ,t~f% IN
from the rest of us to accomplish some
special object Of their own. l am not
here going to enter any criticism of these
people, but I want to say this-that such
things as that is absolutely incompatible
with the fundamental idea Of loyalty, and
that loyalty is not self pleasing virtue.
am not bound to be loyal to the United
States to please myself am bound to be
loyal to the United States because l live
under it's laws and am its citizen, and
whether it hurts me or whether it benefits
me ! am obliged to be loyal.
Loyalty Means self-sacrifice.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has
in heart the absolute principle of self