Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-06

meant that you would grow a new
soul az soon as o could and put
aside your German soul. Have you
done that? I don't think you have.
You have cherished everything Ger
man and stifled everything American.
You have prayed and preached and
sung in German, Your body has been
in. America, but your life has been in
Germany. II you were set down in
Prussia today you would be .in com
plete harmony with your environments.
American Foreigners.
"You have Influenced others under
your ministry to do the same thing.
A good many Germans have been be-
fore me during the last month. They
have lived in this country like your
self ten, twenty, thirty, forty years.
They had to give their evidence
through an interpreter, ana as you
looked at them there was written all
over every one of them: Made in
Germany. That mark stands there to-
day as bright and as fresh as the In
scription on a new coin.
Who IL to Blame7
II do not blame you," continued
the court. II blame myself. I blame
We welcomed you; we gave You OPP
portunity; we gave you, land; We SON
ferred on you the diadem Of American
| citizenship, and then we went away
and left you.
I'VE have paid almost no attention
to what you were doing, and now tho
world war has thrown a powerful
seaxchlight upon us and We find all
over tho United States Little German
les, Little Austrias. Little 1talys, Lit
tie Norways and Little Russias.
"These people have thrown q ciroie
around themselves and instead of
keeping their oath to grow American
souls they hays cherished and per-
"The figure Of my country stands
beside you TO-DAY. and 1t says to mo,
partly to blame. Punish him for his
offense, but let him know there Is a
new era coming in; punish him TO
teach him and the like of him and all
who have been misied by him and his
like that q change has como and that
there's must be an Interpretation anew
Of the oath of allegiance, 1t has been
nothing in the past but a formula Of
. living characters, incorporated In the
heart of every foreigner who> comes
to us seeking oitisenship. They must
begin at once, all over again, to cher
ish American thoughts, American his
tory and American ideals
Must 1.-Two Americans.
''That means something to be done
In your daily life, not simply that you
won't take up arms against tho United
States or that you will fight for the
United States II it goes to war. 1t
means you will live for the United
States and cherish and grow an Amer
lean soul. 1t you. will take
down from tho walls Of your home
the picture Of the kaiser and hang in
its place a picture of Washington; 1t
lures of Bismarck and put in their
places pictures of Lincoln. It means
that you will speak the American Ian
guage, sing American songs, study
American history and open your eyes
through every avenu to influences of
American life. It you will be-
gin first Of all to learn English, the
language Of your country, SO there
Will be windows and doors through
ideals may enter.
Must Get About It.
Because tho task is difficult is all
the o reason why you should get
about it. II half the efforts had been
put forth in these foreign communi-
ties to build up American life that
have been put forth to perpetuate
foreign life. the situation would have
been entirely different. You have vio-
lated your oath Of a%llegiapce in this
that you have cherished foreignness
and have tried to make 1t everlasting.
That Is the basic wrong of these thou
sands of little islands of foreignness
spread over u country, that instead
OF trying to drive u foreign life and
build up A~mericanism, they have
striden studtously for years to stifle
American life and to perpetuate for
eignness.
This. Must stop.
THE object of these proceedings In
this and other courts is to give notice
that this must stop. I see before us
another day of judgment. When we
get through with this war and ou1
civil liberties are made safe once
more on this earth this day OF, judg.
ment is coming. Foreigners and for.
eign institutions which have cherished
foreigners arc going to be brought
70 the bar. There Is going to be 9
separation OF The sheep from the
goats, Every institution that has
been engaged in this business of max.
ing fereignness perpetual will have tc
cease.
II can understand that the use Of
q foreign language may be necessary
for a time In a church attended b
foreigners. but 1t should be used as 8
temporary e%xpedlent, not as a per.
situation must be made Is temporar3
as possible, not, as in the past, as neal
perpetual as possible.
TO Revoke Rights.
1T It is necessary we will cancel ev.
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