Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-08-16
CRESCO, HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA. FRIDAY, AUGUST l6 1918

that see things in new light; that q
new era has come here. Punish him to
teach him and the like of him. and all
those who have been misled By him and
his life, that a change has come; that
there must be an Interpretation anew
of the oath of allegiance. 1t has been
in the past nothing but formula of
words. From this time on it must be
translated into living characters incsr-
nate in the life of every foreigner who
has his dwelling place within our midst.
If they have been cherishing foreign
history, foreign ideals. foreign loyalty.
it must be stopped, and they must
begin at once. oil over sgsin, to cherish
American thought, American history,
American ideals. ,-:& .'- Z
THE PICTURE OF THE KAISER.
THAT means something that is to be
done in your daily life. It does not
mean simply that you will not take up
arms against the United States. It
goes deeper than that. It means that
you viii live for the United States, and
that you will cherish and grow Amer
lean souls inside Of you. It means that
you will take down from the walls Of
your homes the picture Of the kaiser,
and put up the picture Of Washington; i;
! that you will take down the picture Of
Bismarck, and hang up the picture of
Lincoln. It means that yon will begin
to sing American songs; that you will
begin earnestly to study American
history; that you will begin to open
your lives through every avenue to the
influence of American life; it means
that you begin first of all to Learn
English, the language of this country.
50 that there may be door into your
souls through which American life may
enter. -.
II am not 30 simple as to entertain
the idea that racial habits and qualities
can be put aside by the will in day.
in year. in q generation; but because
that is difficult is oil the more reason
why you should 60 about it, and quit
cherishing q foreign life. If half the
effort had been put forth in these
foreign communities to build. up an
American life in the hearts Of these
foreign born citizens that has been put
forth to perpetuate there q foreign life,
our situation would have been entirely
different from what it is today. You
have violated your oath Of allegiance in
this, that you have cherished foreign
ideals and tried to raske them ever
lasting. That is the basic wrongs. Of
these thousands of little islands of
foreigners that have been formed
through our whole limits, that instead
of trying to remove the foreign life out
of their souls, and to build up sn
American life in them. they have
striven studio usly, from year to year,
to stifle American life, and to make
foreignness perpetual. That is disloy-
atty; and the object, one of the big
objects of this serious proceeding in
this court. and other like proceedings
in other courts. Is to give notice that
that must be stopped. -
ADAY OF JUDGMENT. J.
II have seen before my eyes another
day of judgment. When We get
through with this war. and civil liberty
is made safe once more upon this earth,
there 10 going to be . day of judgment
in these United States. Foreign-born
citizens and the institutions which have
cherished foreignness are going to be
brought to the judgment bar Of this
republic. That day of judgment looks
more to me today like the great Day of
Judgment than any thing that have
thought of for many years. There is
going to be separation on that day Of
the sheep from the goats. Every insti-
tuition that has been engaged in this
business of making foreignness per-
petual in the United States will have
to change or cease. That is going to
cut deep, but it is coming. recognize
the right of foreign-born citizens to
hear their religion. y If they cannot
understand it in English, spoken to
them in the tongue that they can
understand. II trey have not yet
acquired enough English to read, they
are entitled to have . paper that shall
speak to them the language that they