The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-05

is no American of German descent who considers himself anything but an American at this time, and the people of the United States have no right to consider anything but that
 In the colony of free humanity, whose mother country is the world, they established the Republic of the United States, the Republic of equal rights, where the title of man. hood is the title to citizenship. My friends, to speak in the words of Carl Schurz:
 of 1 had a thousand tongues and voice strong as the thunder of heaven, they would not be suffi- cient to impress upon your minds forcibly enough the greatness of this idea, the overshadowing glory of this result. This was the dream of the truest friend of man from the beginning; for this the noblest blood of martyrdom has been shed; for this has mankind waded through seas of blood and tears. There 1t is now; there it stands, the noble fabric in all the splendor of real ity."
 America is more than conti- ncnt-it is great spiritual ideal not to be alluded to in terms of the material. Many men speak or America in terms of acreage. miles. coastlines, physical probabilities and waterways. America Is none of these things; these things mere- ly represent a higher grade of nat ural physical conditions in propor- tion to other countries. America is a world ideal. There is but one America among the nations Of the world. We know the geographies of many countries, we know their people, customs, commercial activi- ties and their history, but what are all these things when we take into consideration what that coun- try stands for as an ideal.
 We look upon ancient Greece as the ideal of beauty and perfection; upon Rome as the ideal of law and order; upon France as the ideal or nulture and breadth of thought; upon England as the ideal of lib- erty; and upon America as the ideal of democracy; Dempcracy has many interpretations; the most common of all, however, being EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL. America is just coming into the ideal for which she is to stand here after among the nations of the world. With the culmination or this war many nations will have as stunned democracy, but America Is to be ever predominantly the democrat- ic leader of the universe. It is hard thing to be real American. If is easy enough to give verbal service to the flag. but to be a real American is to have passed through a deep spiritual experience. The great prophets of America, Whitman Whittier, Charming, Elm erson, Brooks and Lincoln, have al- ways spelled out our country m spiritual terms.
 Today this ideal has become 8 great world ideal-the right of Tree people to govern themselves. It has taken some degree of reality here in America and thus it has become a message to all the world because we have come to the reaii- xation of what internationalism and the brotherhood of nations means.
 1- Zangwill has called Amer ica the melting pot" others nave called America the "varnishing pot" It is neither of these-it Is more or less of a refining Ire.
 Foreigners come to this country from the Fatherland or the Mother land. They land in America and find what they are seeking-tne Brotherland. We need a new de- claration mot of independence. but of interdependence." As Pres ident Wilson says "We need . part nership of nations"
 The men of America who have gone out to fight are the valiants who are to establish a new Magma Charta in this world of ours. The vision of America is democ- racy. its message is brotherhood. it's obligation Is to make these ideals real for the whole world.