The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-04
A DAY OF JUDGMENT Address of Judge Anidon, DeiiUered to Conuicted Pro-Gern,an Citizen the Passing Of
 Sentence, at Bismark, 5. Dakota

would try to grow American souls inside of them, they have studiously striven to exclude everything Ameri- can, and to cherish everything for eign.
 "A clever gentleman wrote a TO- nance called America, the Melting Pot It appealed to our vanity, and through all these years we have been seeing romance instead of fact. That is the awful truth. The figure of my country stands beside you today. It says to me: Do not blame this man alone. I am partly to blame. Punish him for his offense, but let him know that I see things in a new light; that a 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. It has been in the past nothing but formula of words From this time on it must be trans lated into living characters incarnate in the life of every foreigner who has his dwelling place within our midst. If they have been cherishing foreign history, foreign ideals, for eign loyalty, it must be stopped, and they must begin at once all over again, to cherish American thought American history, American i'd, ls.
 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 will live for the United States, and that you will cherish and grow American souls in- side of you. It means that you will take down the picture of the kaiser and put up the picture of Washlng- ton; that !bu will take down the picture of Bismark and hang up the picture of Lincoln. 1t means that you will begin to siay, American songs; that Vou will begin earnestly to study American history; that you will begin to open your lives thru every avenue to the influences of American life; it means that you be gin at first of all to learn English 1 the language of this country, SC that there may be a door into youl souls through which American life may enter. ..-
 ''1 am not so simple as to enter tain the idea that racial habits anc qualities can be put aside by the vii Tn day, in year, in a generation
 but because that is difficult is al the more reason why you should 7, about it, and quit cherishing a for eign life If half the effort had beer put forth in these foreign communi ties to build up an American lift in the hearts of these foreign borr citizens that has been put fortl to perpetuate there foreign life our situation would have been en tirely different from what it is to day. You have violated your oatl of allegiance in this, that you hay, cherished foreign ideals and triec to make them everlasting. That i
 the basic wrongs of these thousand
 of little islands of foreigners tha
 have been formed through our whol, limits, that instead of trying to re move the foreign life out of thei
 souls, and to build up an American life in them, they have striven stud iously, from year to year, to stiff, American life, and to make foreign ness perpetual. That is disloyalty and the object, one of the big ob jects of this serious proceeding il this court, and other like proceedin. courts is to give notice that tha
 must be stopped.
 | T have seen before my eyes an other day of judgment. When W, get through with this war, and civi liberty is made safe once more upol