The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-30
.jaIl America Remain Americana
o. fss~aos Sos ohseny An Armed 70.
w. W. McKERsJ

80 60 =. press feesnsis carried A.
~ Y,ssr1srlw a prura7nent minister, y
The So tcsicwsn8 auotation 90
1870 nspaenr schools are shut o.
s~-@ a,rA wffniesogne volume Of 70
49, 80. fatnfn@ they rad IN the days
-..> !, ehxferss D4etioNMrY Of 1875
- ! lnrfpxiIy from tho Bible. and
ss.a 1snx~bcok started with
h,,fiaas IN Adams fali
80 49,, We ahmed all
49, - by UNCONVENTIONAL E0uahbles'
f1sss......-sl on by cur cosmopolitan char
~ ~ population.
X%H& address was n discussion OF the
1n at John Charles DeIiran's
&tnk. IAN 1 NY Brothers Keep
and the sentence quoted sug-
- the following remarks on the
Let how far America ~ her sister
1100a' keeper. Perhaps the Issue
M ~ more aptly put in the form
S 10 fncMmbe upon America by any
~ nltruistsc code cf ethics TO risk de-
81 11eicanisation for the aecommods-
- Or Intended betterment Of the
I'D Shall American standards Of
l<h and custom be ri AIDE 10 bend and
SIl1k to NJ the imported ideals from
s ~ fpur corners of the EARTH Or. 10
IA 1fe the proposition Nth possibly yet
EuE4 precision, shall America remain
k11<6r4ra or t,a Tho alf-worid asylum
1ha oppressed, the obessed the dis
I'D. the unfortunate. the iIliterate.
~ oorrsction, fnstructiou and training
1Aooi for the ffofsant and tetsun Of
~ world at the risk of the sacrihce
4 xhoee ideris peeuIiariy American?
NH America remain America or be-
W4Me CoMmopoiiana
ss 4hta may be considered harsh. but
a not tina reader Imagine that tho
41tsr IL unsyTnpathetic with the view
- this God-favored land has high
M holy mission 70 perform IN The
tn, and that from her sacred affairs
Nth ard broad patriotism shall
- light which viii guide the be
nhfed 10 the highway OF true liberty
- - much more the reason for
n30naiy guarding those affairs and
UDptn9 that fame pure and undtm
046! To he SIRE we should not as ~
g0ee, build a selfish wall around Our
&eunfry and placard II mo foreigner
admitted" Among our best citizens
4ko many OF adoption who are Loyalty
pontrfbutinE to the progress and worth
zpf America, ana such we class ~
Axnertcans when he lift the slogan,
America for Americans and Amer
SGuns for America But we are not
E4l1ed on to obey the behests of
capitalists 10 the too unrestrsined in
4ueare OF cheap labor to food the land
Nth q heterogeneous cosmopolitan
horde. regardless nf whether they are
American OF antt.American sympa-
timers. nor yet to mopolitsnize
peculiar American customs TO square
with the religeo-poiitical ideals or
want OF themof this influx. The
ewide-open" Sunday In not of Ameri-
can genesis To what Is attributable
nearly oil OF our great public dis
0rders1 And the perverted spirit Of
liberty would have the Bible excluded .
from the unblic schoofs--the Book Of
shooke- pon the preceptS Of which .
MI trus civilization In based!
vIrefniAsa noted orator. Patrick
Henry. voiced an electric sentence that .
yet tingIeW the veins of mankind
ssfs&ve ms liberty or give me death
ma II means more than absolution
from the dictAtorial power Of kingly
rr0Wni And s'etsrnal neniigencs is the
price Of this liberty'-not simply nor
34<fy the provision of the great forts
11Anned with hish-calibre guns nor
kkt proud navies of powerful arma
isxsaf* riding the seaa--hut the sacred /
Preservation of the high ideals which