The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-15
''Disloyalty of Minority Must Be Crushed" Presi- dent Tells Thousands at Foot of Washington Mon .ument - Challenge To Threat of Vengeance at Polls.
World Will Learn America s Power When It Learns That the Nation is In divisible, President De claresA Words To Be In corporated in Platform.

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 washington, June -15.-'There is dis loyalty active in the United States and it must be absolutely crushed. It proceeds from a, minority, a. very small minority, but a very active and subtle minority. It works under ground, but it also shows it ugly head where we can see it, and there are those who at this moment are trying to levy a species of political black mail, saying, Do what we wish in the interest of foreign sentiment or we will wreak our vengeance at the polls That is the sort of thing against which the American Nation will turn with a might and triumph of Senti- ment which will teach these gentle men, once for all, that loyalty to this flag is the, first test of tolerance in the United States
 To Be Plank In Platform. With these words President Wilson yesterday challenged those ehyphen- ated Americans who threaten to use their organized influence against him and in favor of Charles Evans Hughes. the Republican candidate, in the cam paign and at the polls.
 The words were uttered in the pres2 ence of a vast aggregation of men
 
 flags, gathered at the base of the Washington Monument following a sF1ag Day and preparedness parade Of more than 65,GO0 persons, led by the President and afterward reviewed by him frpms a stand in front of the At the ceremony. at the monument the President stood under a gigantic American flag, flung to the breeze from the top of the great obelisk, $50 feet overhead. In none of the Presi- dents speeches has he been so en- Enthusiastically appIauded as in this. He followed sup his chaIIenege by. this declaration: ,.-1.s> z When the world finally learns that America is. indivisible. then the world VIII learn how truly great and power ful America is.''
 After the ceremonies it was an nounced officially that the President authorized the Hse of his words against the hyphenates as plank in the Democratic platform now being drafted at the national convention in St Louis
 While condemning the small mi nority of persons of foreign birth or extraction who persist in their dis loyal activities, President Wilson paid tribute to the vast majority of those whose lineage is directly derived from the nations now at war, and who he
 
 of the United States as any native citizen of this beloved 1and.'
 Officials who heard the Presidents ;. speech said he sounded the keynote of one of the foremost issues of the campaign.
 What the President Said.
 The text of the Presidents address follows:
 MT. Secretary. Ladies and Gentle T Il, ternoon with the purpose of deliver ing to you an elaborate address. It seems to me that the day is sufficiently 2 eloquent already with the meaning which it should convey to us. The speetacIe6 of the morning has been very moving spectacle indeed-an almost unpremedftated outpouring of thousands of sober citizens to mani fest their interest in the safety of the country and the sacredpess of the flag which is it's emblem.
 sfI need not remind you how much sentiment has been poured out in honor of the flag of the United States Sometimes we have been charged with being a very sentimental people, fond of expressing in general rhetor- ica1s phrases principles not sufficiently defined in action, and dare say there have been times of happy and care less ease in this country when all that It mas been necessary to do for the honor of the flag was to put our senti- 1nents into poetic expressions into the words that for the time being satisfied our hearts.
 'sBut this is not day of sentiment. Sentiment is a propuIsive power, but it does not propeI in the way that is serviceab1e to the nation, unless it have a definite purpose before it. This is not merely a day of sentimenment. It is a day of purpose.
 Washington For Action.
 s'It as an eloquent symbol of the unity of our history that upon this monument which commentaries the k1nan who did most to establish the American Union we should have Ehoisted those stars that have so null Efip1ied since his time, associated with sthose lines of red and white which Enean all that is pure in our purpose land all that is red in our blood in the kservice of a Nation whose history has FDeen full of Inspiration because of his Iexample. But Washington was one Iof the least sentimental men thai America has ever produced.
 "The thing that thrills me about Washington is that he was impatient lof any sentiment that had not definite Epurpose in it.. His letters run along 1.-the lines of action, not merely along ffhe mere lines of sentiment and the most inspiring times that this Nation shas ever seen have been the times when sentiment had to be translated Into action.
 and again, and again. to be tested and always tested in the same way EThe last supreme test that this Nation went through was the test of the Cfvi War You know how deep that cut Kou know what ex1gelt issues of life