The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-07-18
lust BE LOYAL
TO NEW COUNTRY
Citizens Must Prove Themselves
Faithful Whether They Like
Policies or Not.

Washington, July $.-Presijens
,.i,soa to.d citizenship convention
..o-e : lay that the American govern
24an. must insist that foreigners be-
.r. ~ citizens remain loyal even il
hey are not pleased with tAe va
affairs are conducted.
Loyalty means nothing, he dec.ar-
cd, unless it is coupled with self-sac-
.ifce. He held that Americans can
not teach loyalty unless they practice
It
The president discussed the prob
lem of Americanizing foreign born
citizens. His words were enthusias-
.ically applauded by a large gather
ing of educators interested in the in
struction of new citizens, meeting
here under the auspices of the natur-
alization bureau of the labor depart
ment.
Native born Americans were warn
ed by the president to examine them
selves carefully to see whether they
have burning in them the true light
Of America which they expect to
show to these foreigners.
"My interest in this movement" he
said, sis as much an interest in our
selves as in the people whom we wish
20 Americanize Unless we are true
Americans we can not infect them
with the spirit of Americanism. I'm
less we ourselves illustrate the ideas
Of justice and freedom we can teach
nothing to those who come to u.s.
There are just as many cruel and
heartless mer. here as in other lands,
ne continued, but~the object of Amer
ica should be to put such men in
harness and control them.
Some Bad Signs.
eve have been disturbed recently
by symptoms in the body polite, he
added, which are not healthy. Ger
.ain men, not many in number, have
thought more of the lands of their
birth than of America. They have
even gone so far as to draw apart in
spirit and organization to seek some
special object of their own. Such a
thing as that is absolutely incom-
patible with the ideas of loyalty
Foreign travel was suggested as
best cure for those inclined to boast
too much of the superiority of
America.
We ought to be careful to main
tain a government at which the immi
grant can look with the closest scru-
tiny and to which he should be at
liberty to address this question:
You declare this to be a land of lib
erty and equality and Of 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 instructing these people to
show them that has been our endeav-
or. we can not conceal from them
long the fact that we are just as
human as any other nation, that we
are just as seI1sl, that there are
just as many mean people amongst
us as anywhere else, that there are
just as many people here who want
10 take advantage Of other people as
you can find, in other countries, just
as many people heartless when it
comes to maintaining and promoting
their own interest; but that our OBJ
ject is to get these people in harness
and see to it that they do not do any
damage and are not allowed to in
dulge the passions which would
bring injustice and calamity at last
upon a nation whose object is spirit
ual and not material.
A Great Nation.
America has built up a great body
of wealth, America has become from
the physical point of view one of the
most powerful nations in the world;
a nation which if it took the pains
to do so could build that power up
into one of the most formidable in
struments in the world, one of the
most formidable instruments Of
force, but which has no other idea
than to use its force for ideal objects
and not for self aggrandizement.
E"This process of AmericaniZatiOn