The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-06
THEuRY AND PRACTICE.

The question of former subjects of Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey being conscripted to fight ahose samo nations now agitating some circl $. And in the discussion one discovers nicely the difference between theory and actual fact.
 In the first pl2ce there can be no qrcstion but th&t all who become ,.lfjzens of the United States east off, thereby, theoretically all bonds that hold them to the old countries where they were born
 Now this war has shown that it has done no such thing, and even in quarters which assumed to be completely denationalized, we find zhcm at an effort to conceal the old tim, allegiance under all kinds Of spacious pratences. if so it be that they can support their native land
 This is astonishing to the Amer ican born. But the American born himself. the foreign bern knows very well who has adopted the country where he pursued his living, always maintained America in his heart as 1he place of places, and first in peace and first in war
 over and over again evidence of ehis truth was shown even in the -Transvaal republic where quite number of Americans became na sJonalized Transvaalers, there was d whole colony of them ill Barber tun district There were numbers rho became British subjects in Kimberly Gncluding the General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mining Co.-the trust Gardner Williams, himselD yet all of these celebrated religiously July and were proud to wear the Am crican flag in their coat. even in the piping times of peace.
 Moreover. numerous Americans found it advantageous to become British subjects in Dawson as well as other sections of Canada, but they were to all intents and pur- poses such nOminally, and they al ways retained the primal devotion intact to the country of their birth.
 Apparently there are no eXcep- gions To this rule as far as the gen rrailtv of the nations ie concerned; 3hcrc are individual exceptions. there arc Americans who become subjects or citizens of foreign powers and vemain loyal thereto. There have been some such cited even recently in Mexico; there have been English men who positively disliked the land of their birth, Germans who repu- diated with all their hearts Germany and all it's ways-but these have been the executions.
 Among all of these, the workers who come from these countries manifest less allegiance than any
 
 snat their life of toll and little plea sure has not contributed to the erec- tion of a devotion to any particular spot.
 Where a man is successful, 1t was a SGving of the anc!ents, there is his native land But we see that this ronuirac cOnSidpra hlp uualificat ion In the light of modern events.
 Furthermore the status of ci- tizen who was born in one of the Central Powers is facing totally different situation than the native born American. The latter surely IiHl ts or believes he fights for the ashes of his fathers and the Temp les of his gods" The foreign born of the Central Powers is doing no -snch thing. He is taking up arms against his blood kin, against his Mome folk, against the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods. yt requires for him much finer ssense of duty and much more strained conception of loyalty to do as the American born is doing, That much will of course be grant ed
 Moreover, this condition is not overcome when citizenship is given. | II is in theory, but very seldom In joct Altboupb thpra may ha no |