New Britain herald., 1916-05-31
ROOSEVELT PLAY. GERMAN-AMERIC.
 HOSTILE ID Fl
Accuses Of Moral Treason Whose Hearts Are Aero,
 the Atlantic
ALLIANCE MISREPRESEN
 VAST MAJORITY, HE

Former President Delivers I'll
 Speech on America for Amcl
 at St. Louis-Not Impresda
 Descendants Of Mayfiower a
 gers Just Because They Happn
 Come Over on That Ship.
 St. Louis, Mo-, May 31--MorA son to the United States was cH by Theodore Roosevelt, in an S delivered here today, against Gs | Americans who seek to maks governmental representatives the interests of Germany rating 1 this country. He characterizH German-American Alliance anti-American alliance, but that he believed that it's na mot only do not represent butt alousIy misrepresent" the grea1 i jority of real Americans of origin.
 Urging the motto "AmerI Americans for all Americans CT they were born here or the former president declarel the salvation of our people having a nationalized and America, ready for the trena tasks of both war and peace. .f
 'I appeal to all our citizer1 Colonel said. mo matter frog land their forefathers came, 1 this ever in mind. and to sh E scorn and contempt the siniz triguers and mischief-makeEa would seek to divide them aloI of creed, of birthplace or of k origin"
 Col. Roosevelt's speech in E lows.
 Here in St. Louis I wish ta briefly on the subject of AmerH stand for straight Americana conditioned and unqualified, stand against every form of ated Americanism. I do not x the hyphen when it is empla a mere matter of convenient though personally I like to x use even in such manner. I K and condemn it's use whence represents an effort to form parties along racial lines or E pressure to bear on parties aH ticians, not for American pA but in the interest of some of voters of a certain natioa gin, or of the country fromN they or their fathers came. B
 "Americanism is not a ma@ creed, birthplace or national but of the soul and of the ss the American has the right him, I care not a snap of my@ whether he is Jew or Gentle lie or Protestant. I care notM of my fingers whether his aN came over in the MayfowM whether he was born, or his E were born, in Germany, France, England, Scandinavia sia. or Italy or any other coulH I ask of the immigrant is IA shall be physically and fntelE fit, Of sound character, and SN good faith to become an AZ citizen. IT the immigrant is M right kind I am for him, ana native American is of the wroN I am against him. But unless K migrant becomes in good faA American and loyal only to cS then he is out of place in this E and the sooner he leaves it tn k We in this country form nation. akin to, but dtffererN each of the nations of Euro K Alexander Hamilton put it, T. neither Greeks nor TrojanA Americans We are false tM country if we rauk ourselves A man. Am ericans' or English A cans sh-Americans' or
 Americans Our duty is to u @ ed States. This duty should z @ us in the first place to treat u nations primarily according M way such treatment serves A
 interests: and in the second M far as possible to treat other M in such manner as serves the M ests of mankind at large. Ev vs ton acts sometimes we'll and & times i'll. Therefore we. shout M for or against any nation acM ly as its behavior tells for
 for evil in the particular cri M which we have actually to de
 should be friendly to all natie
 in any crisis we should iudgeM nation by it's conduct in tha N We should condemn the mfsS of any nation. we should op H encroachments upon our rigI M equal, vigor. whether it be q A England. France. Russia or ar N power, according to what it E does on the given occasion wit a we have to deal.
 "So much for our treatr a other nations. Now for our ea izens. We represent many o
 race strains. Our ancestors
 from many different old Wo # tionalities remain separate
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