Arizona republican., 1916-06-01

was closest to me, was a man whose father and mother were born in Ger many-and his father served ill the Civil War, by the way. He and Il looked at all problems, national and | from the standpoint. and | orly from the standpoint. of our com mon Amerlcanism. The man who, | when was police commissioner in ! New York. was closest to me was born i in Denmark. He is dead now. His l name was Jacob Riis. He was one of the best Americans I have ever known Again and again l have held up his career as model for our American boys to follow One of the best Americans I know, man who has done better work for the navy than any one else during the last two years, is by birth Swede During my scientific work in Africa and South America, at the head of American scientific expeditions. the American members of my party in- cluded the man with whom I have been most closely associated in zoo logical work, and who was joint author with me of the geological book of which l am most proud. His par ents were born in Germany; his kin folk fought in the Union army. An other of my American companions, an Iowa man, was born of an Irish father who fought in the Civil War. Another's father was born in Bohe- mia, being Czech, and also fought in the Civil War. Yet another an h. diana boy had a German father and French mother. But we were all of us Americans, and nothing but Amer | jeans.
 In my cabinet a descendant of one of Butchers colonels sat side by side with a descendant of one of Napol-,
 cons brothers. Another member os the cabinet had been born. in Ger many. and yet another member in 1 Scotland. The parents of another
 member were born in Ireland They were all of them Americans and noth- ! ing else If they had severally des- | ignated themselves and had acted as, one German American another a l French American" another an Irish -American.' another a British 1 American" each conditioning his loy-
 atty to the United States by a hyphen,
 not one of them would have remained
 an hour in my cabinet. The greatest l work done by any American in recent years was the work done by General Goethals in the Panama Canal Zone. His parents were born in Holland.
 But he is no more Dutch -Ameri-
 can" than I am. He is an American. .l | \ n nf
 been closely associated with me- Ma jor General Barry is of Irish parent age, whereas Major General Leonard
 Woods forebears came over in the
 Mayflower three centuries ago. But
 General Barry is not an Irish Amer
 ican." Nor is General Wood an
 "English-American." They are Ameri-
 cans. When the battle fleet went
 around the world, two of the bes,
 men aboard it were Admiral Vain
 right and Schroeder. Wainright wa.
 of old Colonial English descent, an(
 Schroeder's parents were born ir
 Germany But the one was not al
 English American or the other : , German American" They wer' . Americans-and incidentally both O
 them were as gallant and accomplish
 ed officers and as thorough seamen al E ever commanded a squadron of war
 ships under the American flag.
 As another example I take an en listed man. Throughout my term a! , president the doorkeeper in the execu i, tive office, the man to whom the safe a | ty of the president and the intimat
 workings of the government were in , peculiar sense trustes, was an ex soldier of the regular army. He wa
 by birth a German. At the outbreal
 of the Civil war his regiment was sta
 toned in Texas. Some of the officer
 imprisoned. The enlisted men wer - left alone. A body of them. includin z my friend, marched north through tn , Indian country, without any officers / reached the Union lines, rejoined tn army, and fought through the wal > How would it be possible to find bet ter Americans? My old friends chil s dren and grandchildren live in thi country beside my children and grand n children. It is their country; and the
 all have an equal claim on it. and ow s to it an equal duty. He and I tough = for and under the .ume flag. Tha . flag floats over our children's chi n dren. It is their flag and the onl it flag. It would be wicked and cru : thing to try to sunder them from or S another and to make any of thei Y divide their allegiance by a -loyalt
 to any other flag
 1t It would be possible to man our CT |. tire administration from presidel l. down with men of German blood ar = of such uDcompromising Americanis ,s that every good American could folio o them with whole hearted loyalty.
 would vote to seat in the president chair any American of German, Iris :, whatever creed as against any ma :. whose ancestors came over in u
 Mayflower, or settled on the banks
 the James three centuries ago, if
 thought the first man was better fitt O' for the position than the second ma ,e I hold it an outrage and a violation iu every principle of true Americanis d to discriminate against such a man b eu cause of the land from which he 'e his parents came, or because of I re creed. But I hold it no less an ou ch rage for him to act in our domes le, politics not as an American but as Tt American with qualification; as D. American who has some unAmeric a. interest to serve, some foreign count mt to serve, because of his ancestry. T ~ man who thus acts is the hyphenat h. American.