Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-30

there a 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 make them everlasting.
That is the basic wrong of these thousands
of little islands of foreigners that have been
formed through our whole limits. that in
stead of trying TO remove the foreign life
out Of their souls and to build up an Amer
lean life in them they have striven studi-
ously, from year to year, TO stife American
life and to make foreignness perpetual. That
Is disloyalty 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.
HAVE seen before my eyes another day
i of judgment. When we get through with
this war and civil liberty is made safe
once more upon this earth there is going
to be a daT of Judgment in these United
states. Foreign-born citizens and the insti-
tutions 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 anything that ] have
thought of for many years. There is going
TO be a separation on that day OF the sheep
from the goats. Every institution that has
been engaged IN this business of making
forelGnncss perpetual in the United States
will have to change or cease. That is going
10 cut deep. but it is coming. | recognize
the right of foreign-born citizens TO hear
their religion, If they cannot understand II
In English. spoken TO them in the tongue that
they can understand. II they have not yet
acquired enough English to read. they are
entitled TO have a paper that shall speak
to them the language that they can under
stand. | cannot GO further than that.
A ND this is the capital thing that is
"A going to be settled on that day of judg-
ment, namely, that the right TO those things
is temporary. and it cannot be enjoyed by
anybody who is not willing to regard it as
temporary and to set about earnestly making
the time of that enjoyment as short as
possible. That means a fundamental revi-
sion of these foreign churches. No freedom
of the press VIII protect q perpetual foreign
press in these United States. 1t won't pro-
tect any press or any church who, while
it is trying to meet a temporary need, does
not set itself earnestly about the business
OF making that temporary situation Just as
temporary as possible, and not making ii, as
has been true in the past, just as near per-
petual as possible.
Men who are not willing to do that will
have to choose. IL they prefer to cherish
foreign ideals they will have to go to their
own. If It is necessary we will cancel every
certificate of citizenship in these United
States. The Federal Government has power
to deal with that subject and ii is going
to deal with IL. Nothing else than that
surely can be possible. And the object of
the sentence which | pronounce upon you to-
day is not alone to punish you for the dis
loyalty of which YOU have been guilty. but
to serve notice upon you, and the like of
YOU. and all of the groups of people in this
district who have been cherishing foreign
ness. hat the end Of that regime has come,
IT Is a call to every one Of you to set about
earnestly the growing of an American soul
inside of YOU.
The Court finds and adjudges that you
,altNy Vpdar each count of the indicf-