The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-04

or litle Swedens, or little Italics, be- lieves the Mason City Gazette. Here in America there ought to be movement to teach Greeks and other foreigners the American language and as soon as war conditions per init those who employ these for eigners should make it part of their contract that they go to night school and learn the language, or some other means should be devised.
 In North Dakota, recently Judge Amidon passed sentence on a preach CT. In passing sentence he made a declaration which ought to be print ed in every newspaper in the United States and especially those printed in any foreign language.
 Rev. J. Fontana, pastor of the German Evangical church, New Salem, N. D., had been on trial at Bismark. He was charged with hav- ing uttered from time to time sedi- tious language for the purpose of i interfering with the military activi, ties of the government. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against him. In passing sentence, Judge 1 Amidon said:
 "You received your final papers as citizen in 1898. By the oath which you then took you renounced and abjured all allegiance to Ger many and swore that you would i bear true faith and allegiance to the United States. What did that mean? That you would set about earnestly growing an American soul, and put away your German soul. That is what your oath of allegiance meant.
 Have you done that? I do not think you have. You have cherished everything German, and stifled every thing American. You have preached
 German, prayed German, read Ger
 man, sung German. Every thought
 of your mind and every emotion
 of your heart through all these years
 has been German. Your body has
 been in America, but your life has
 been in Germany. If you were set
 down in Prussia today you would
 be in harmony with your environ
 ment. It would fit you just as a
 flower fits the leaf and stem of
 the plant on which it grows.
 "You have influenced others who have been under your ministry to dc
 the same thing. You said you would cease to cherish your German soul
 and that you would begin to builC up inside of you an American soul That meant that you would begir } the study of American life and his tory; that you would open youl mind and heart to all of it's in
 fluences; that you would try to un
 derstand its ideals and purposes, ant love them; that you would try tt build up inside of yourself a whol, group of feelings for the United States, the same as you felt to
 wards the Fatherland when you lief Germany. .-....-. ... =:... There have been a good man, Germans before me in the last sum mer. They have lived in this coun try, like yourself, ten, twenty, thirt, and forty years, and they had tt give their evidence through an in terpreter. It has been an impressiv, part of the trial As I looked a them and tried as best I could, t, understand them, there was writer all over every one of them, Mad, In Germany American life had no dimmed that mark in the least. | stood there as bright and fresh a
 the inscription upon a new coin. q do not blame you and thes,
 men alone. I blame myself. blame my country. We urged yo, to come; we welcomed you; we gay, you opportunity; we gave you land we conferred upon you the diaden
 of American citizenship-and thel
 we left you. We paid no attention | tO what yor boyo h.o~