The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
The Day of Judgement

OIdIeS. IL SOeS OSSper Iudu ludl. II means that you will live for the United States, and that you will cherish and grow American souls in side of you. It means that you will take down the picture of the kaiser, and put up the picture of Washing ton; that you will take down the picture of Bismarck and hang up the picture of Lincoln. 1t means that you will begin to sing American songs; that you will begin earnestly to study American history; that you will begin to open your lives thru every avenue to the influence Ot American life; it means that you begin first of all to learn English, the language of this country, so that there may be door into your souls through which American life may enter.
 Il am not so simple as to enter tain the idea that racial habits ana qualities can be put aside by the will in a day. in year, in generation, the more reason why you should go about it. and quit cherishing for eign life. If half the effort had been put forth in these foreign communi- ties to build up an American life in the hearts of these foreign born citizens that has been put forth to perpetuate there foreign life, our situation would have been entire ly diffrent from what it is today. You have violated your oath of al legiance in this, that you have cher ished foreign ideals and tried to make them everlasting. That is the basic wrongs of these thousands ot little islands of foreigners that have been formed through our whole linn it's; that instead of trying to remove the foreign life out of their souls, and to build up an American life in them, they have Striven StudiouSly, from year to year, to stife American life, and to make foreignness per petual. That is disloyalty; and the object, one of the big objects of this serious proceeding in this court, and other like proceeding courts is to give notice that that must be stop ped.
 Il 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 a day of judgment in these United States. Foreign born citizens and the institutions 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 Judg- ment 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 en- gagged in this business of making for eignness perpetual in the United States will have to change or cease. That is going to cut deep, but it is coming. recognize the right of foreign-born citizens to hear their religion, if 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 to 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 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 fundamen- tai revision of these foreign churches. No freedom of the press will protect a perpetual foreign press in these United States. It 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 tempo rary situation just as temporary as possible, and not making it, 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 they pre- fer to cherish foreign ideals they will have to choose 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 it. Nothing else than that surely can be possible. And the object of the sentence which I pronounce up