The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-14
LOYALTY SUBJECT OF
 PRESIDENT SPEECH
Foreigners Should Prove
 Their Faith in Land
NATIVE SONS WARNED
They Are Told to Search Their Hearts for True Light of America Before Trying to Teach Good Citi-
 zenship to Others

Washington, July 13.-President Will son in an address here today again de- nounced as disloyal those foreign born citizens who draw apart in spirit object of their own" and added warning to native Americans that they cannot teach good citizenship unless they themselves are imbued with the principles of Americanism.
 The President spoke before a meet ing of those interested in the educa- tion of aliens, being held under aus pices of the naturalization bureau. He dwelt at length on the problem of in- structing new citizens but declared that after all the prime necessity in such instruction was a realization of the significance of American traditions on the part of the instructors.
 Unless we are true Americans,' he said. i've cannot infect them with the spirit of Americansm. Unless we our selves Illustrate the ideals of justice and freedom we can teach nothing to those who come to us"
 No foreign nation was mentioned specifically by the President but some of his hearers saw possible echo oi the country's recent complications in his delineation of the ideals which he said must be followed if true Ameri- canism were to be achieved. He de- clared the process of Americanization must be such a process as well in still steadfastness to principle and willingness to represent ideal things rather than material things.
 "It takes great deal more stead- fastness to represent ideal things than to represent anything else.", he con- tinued. Tt is easy to lose your tenn per and hard to keep it. It is easy to strike and sometimes vary difficult to refrain from striking
 The government. particularly, the President said. should be so maintained that the immigrant could look at it with closest scrutiny" and not find it wanting in any particular as the representative of a free people. He reiterated his belief that the number of foreign born citizens who have been disloyal make up only small part of the whole number of those who had adopted the United States as their country.
 The President said in part:
 We ought to be careful to maintain government at which the immigrant can look with with the closest scrutiny and to which he should be at liberty to ad- dress this question: You declare this to be a land of liberty and of 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 that has been our en- deavor. We cannot conceal from them long the fact that we are just as human as any other nation. that we are just as selfish, that there are just as many peo- pie here who want to take advantage of other people as you can find in other countries, just as many cruel people just as many people heartless when it
 
 own interests; but that our object Is to get these people in harness and see to it that they do not do any damage and are not allowed to indulge the passions which would bring injustice and calamity at last upon a nation whose object is spiritual and not material
 AMERICA IS POWERFUL
 America has built up great body of wealth, America has become. from the physical point of view. one of the most powerful nations in the world, nation 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
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