Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10

AHlSIiCdH lIlOuBHJ, american Ills
tory, American ideals.
1 am not so simple as to entertain
the idea that racial habits and quail
tiles can be put aside by the will in
day, in year, in a generation;
but because that is difficult is all
the more reason why you should go
about it and quit cherishing q for
eign life. If half the effort had been
put forth in these foreign communi-
ties to. build up American life in the
hearts of these foreign-born citizens
that has been put forth to perpetuate
there a foreign life our situation
would have been entirely different
from what it is to-day You have
violated your oath of allegiance in
this, that you have cherished foreign
ideals and tried to make them ever
lasting. 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 for
eign life out of their souls and to
build up an American life in them
they have striven studiously, from
year to year, to stifle American life
and to make foreignness perpetual.
That is disloyalty; and the object,
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 an
other day 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 day
of Judgment in these United States.
Foreign-born citizens and the insti-
tutions which have cherished for
eignness are going to be brought to
the Judgment bar of this republic.
That dav of judgment looks more 10
me to-day like the great Day of
Judgment than anything that have
thought of for many years. There
is going to be a separation on shat|
day of the sheep from the goats.
Every institution that has been en-
gaged in this business of making
foreignness perpetual in the United
States will have to change or cease.
That is going to cut deep, but it is
coming. I recognize the right Of
foreign-born citizens to hear their
religion IL they cannot understand it
in English. spoken to them in the
tongue that they can understand. If
they have not yet acquired enough
English to read, they are entitled to
have a paper that shall speak tot
them the language that they can
understand. l cannot go further
than that.
And this is the capital thing that
is going to be settled on that day of
judgment, namely. that the right to
those things is temporary, and It'll
& n NA IA H1NWN1 H. u
is not willing to regard it as tenn po-
rary and to set about earnestly MAX
ing the time of that enjoyment as
short as possible. That means a.
fundamental revision of these for
efgn churches. No freedom Of the
press will protect a perpetual for
eign press in these United States
1t won't protect 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 IL, as has been true in
the past, just as near perpetual as
possible.
Men who are not willing to do
that will have to choose. If theyI
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 Govern
ment has power to deal with that
subject and it is going to deal with
1t. Nothing else than that surely can
be. possible. And the object of the
sentence which I pronounce upon
you to-day is not alone to punish
you for the disloyalty 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 cherishingi
foreignness, that the end of that
regime has come. 1t is a call to !
every one of you to set about ear
nestly the growing of an American
soul inside of you.
The court finds and adjudges chat
you are guilty under each count of
the indictment, and as punishment |
therefor it is further adjudged that
you be imprisoned in the Federal |
Penitentiary at Leavenworth for the
term of three years. The sentences
under the three counts of the in
dictment are to run concurrently |
and not successfully.