Evening star., 1918-07-16
LAUDS.
LOYAL ALIEN BLOOD
Men Who Claim Allegiance to
Two Countries Traitors
to United States.
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Every man ought to love his country.
II he does not love his country and is
not eager to serve her he is worth
loss creature and should be contemp-
tutously thrown out of the country
barred from all rights OF citizenship
in the country. He is only entitled
to one country. II he claims loyalty
to two countries he Is necessarily q
traitor to at least one country. II he
claims to be loyal to both Germany
and America he Is necessarily q
traitor to America. No man can be q
enemy of Germany and Germany's
allies and a staunch supporter Of
Americas allies.
But 1t is Just as wicked and Just
as un-American to deny the loyal
American, of whatever origin, the full
benefit of his allegiance to one coun-
! try RS 1t is to permit the disloyal
! formative allegiance to two countries
| Every man has a right to one coun-
| try. He has right to love and serve
that country and to feel that 1t is
absolutely his country and that he has
In 1t every right possessed by any one
| else.
Our Duty Toward German-Blooded.
It 10 our duty to require the man Of
German blood who 10 an American
citisen to give up all allegiance to
Germany wholeheartedly and without
| on his part any mental reservation
whatever. II he does this it becomes
| no less our duty to give him the full
rights Of an American, including our
loyal respect and friendship, without
on our part any mental reservation
whatever. The duties are reciprocal,
and from the standpoint of American
patriotism one Is as important as the
other.
There has been nothing finer in this
war. nothing Of better augury for the
| future OF America than the high cour-
age and splendid loyalty shown by the
American soldiers and sailors who are
jof German blood. Relatively to the
number they have come forward as
freely into the ranks OF our fighting men
as the Americans of any other stock,
and all alike have shown the same SOL
dterly efficiency, the same devoted pa
triotism. and when the need arose, the
same heroism.
The crew Of the torpedo destroyer
who face the submarine and the airmen
OF the battle planes whose lives are in
peril every hour. and the infantry ..stos-
gers" and 'doughboys,> and marines
who stand the killing and suffer the
grueling hardship and misery of the
nne nghung. all alike number in their
ranks relatively Just as many Ameri-
cans Of German as Of any other blood
Any one can see this who will look over
the lists Of casualties and the lists Of
men cited for deeds Of high gailantry.
sneers for "Half-Americans."
The official reports Of the German on
GERS bear unintenGed testimony to the
intense and patriotic Americanism Of
these men whom the Hohenzollern ofi-
cials sneer at as 'half Americans" and
who. even when taken prisoners, are ad-
nnitted by the German army officers to
express without hesitation purely
American sentimehts.'
In other words the pan-German
tur has broken down in America, and
as consequence there are no peo-
pie In this country SO hated in the
PruBsianized Germany Of the Hohen-
xollerns as the Americans of German
blood.
The very worst enemies of these
Americans have been the traitors and
dupes Of traitors who have been dur
ing the last few years the leaders of
the German n-American Alliance and Of
the newspapers in German or English
who have backed up the alliance and
similar organizations. The dissolu-
tion by law of the alliance and the
gradual change Of German newspapers
Into newspapers published in English
will be. of benefit to true Americans
of German blood more than any other
Of our citizens.
Advice for "other Bloods.,
But the Americans OF other blood
must remember that the man who in
good faith and without reservations
gives up another country for this
must in return receive exactly the
Same rights, not merely legal but
social and spiritual, that other Amer
leans proudly possess.
We OF the United States belong to
a new and separate nationality, we
are all Americans and nothing else.
and each, Without regard to his birth.
place, creed or national origin. is en-
titled to exactly the same rights as ali
other Americans.
Copyright, 1913, the Kansas City star.)