The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-07-12

or free government that anarchy Is
seeking to destroy. win we tolerate
it? Dare we tolerate II and hope to
abide as a nation?
| There is another thing, If this
country is to be perpetuated and
stand, that must be guarded against.
am going to speak now concerning
the American language. Some people
say we speak the English language.
We don't do 1t. We speak the Amer
lean language. 1t Is composite Ian
guage. 1t is made up Of the English
Language, and the French language,
and the German language, and the
Italian language, and of every other
language almost on the face of the
earth. One can hardly talk an hour
| In this country without using words
that have been brought from the diff
ferent nations of the earth. 1T has
been put into the melting pot, and it
has come out the American language,
and one Of the greatest dangers that
we have in this country today Is the
fostering Of the different languages OF
the different nations of the earth, and
a democracy can not stand that will
long tolerate such proposition. The
fostering of these languages provides
a nesting place of dissatisfaction, and
disagreement with the rules and laws
that govern the people; a hiding place
where men can plan and carry on, If
they so desire, the things that are
un- American. We have in our own
language words that express Ameri-
canism. Words which have no real
equivalent in the French language nor
In the German language, nor in the
Russian language. In fact you can't
find 1t in any single language on the
face of the earth. We have had to
coin language for Americanism, or
borrow 1t here and there from other
languages, so that there is no Ian
guage outside the American language
that can express the full meaning of
American thought and there are no
people on the face Of the earth whose
language differs from the American
language that can grasp the meaning
of Americanisms. You take a Ger
man colony and permit it by the gov
eminent processes to foster their own
language to the exclusion of the Am
erican language, and you foster a
nesting place for the fatherland. That
is all; they can not appreciate the
things that are American. The same
may be said of the British or the
French or the Italian, or that of any
other country, and wherever you find
that thing tolerated and fostered, you
find a nesting place for disaffection
for the rules and habits and customs
of the people l know what am
talking about, because l have lived in
those sections, and the whole propo-
sition is a serious one and hope be-
fore long the American government
will put it's stamp of disapproval up
on all matters concerning any Ian
guage outside of that which is adopt
want their children to learn some
other language, let them pay tutors
to teach them that language. But
first last and all the time, let the
children be raised up to understand,
and to understand without any inter-
mixture of other language, the AM
erican language.
Free Speech and Free Press.
There is another thing want to
speak right here l wish to refer now
to the matter of free speech and free
press. l never have been, / am not
now, and l never expect to be in ac-
cord with the doctrine of unlimited
free speech and free press in America
And | want to say further to you,
ladies and gentlemen, that no democ-
racy can stand throughout the ages
with an unlimited free press and free
speech. 1t is absolutely incompati-
bic with the rights of government. DO
you know that by the speech men are
appealed to. that passions are appear.
ed to, and that you can incite mep
by speech to every act of violence
known in the catalogue Of crime? The
same is true of the press. BY an I'M
limited free press, You can incite to
deeds of lawlessness that which you
can not incite in any other way. /
know some people are not going to
agree with me upon this, but hear
me! You tell me that we have re-
course to law II man says the things
that he ought not to and thereby |
causes disturbance or incites to in
or violence or anything |
to the general good. Oh,
yes, l know this just as well as you
10. And you have the same old story
about locking the stable after the colt
$ stolen. What good is the enforce
nent of a law against mob violence
melted by free press or free speech
ifter half score or a hundred of
'our fellow citizens have been
slaughtered because of free press or
rec speech? Why don't you applaud
hat? Some of you perhaps agree
With it, and some of you do not; but
say here, fearlessly, that il we con-
niue to have free speech and free
'ress in America, we will have the
,reatest internal war that ever a ma