Morris tribune., 1918-10-04

ture of Lincoln. It means that you
will begin to sing American songs;
that you will earnestly begin to
study American history; that you
will begin to open your lives through
every avenue to the influence of
American life; it means that you be-
gin first of all to learn English, the
language of this country, SO that
there may be a door into your souls
through which American life may
F, enter.
| 'I am not so simple as to enter
tain the idea that racial habits and
Qualities can be put aside by the
will in a day, in year, in a gen
Grafton; but because that is difficult
is all the more reason why you
should go about it, and quit cherish
ing a foreign life. If half the effort
had been put forth in these foreign
communities to build up an Ameri-
can life in the hearts of these for
eign-born citizens that has been put
forth to perpetuate there foreign
life, our situation would have been
lentirely different from what it is to-
day. You have violated your oath of
allegiance in this, that you have
cherished foreign ideals and tried to
make them everlasting. That is the
basic wrong of these thousands of
little islands of foreigners that have
been formed through our whole
limits that instead Of trying to re-
move the foreign life out of their
souls, and to build up an American
life in them, they have striven stud
iously, from year to year, to stif1e
American life, and to make foreign
ness perpetual. That is disloyalty,
and the object, one of the big OBJ
jects of this serious proceeding in
this court, and other like proceedings
in other courts, is to give notice that
that must be stopped.
"I 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 day
of Judgment in these United States.
lForeign-born citizens and the insti-
tutions which have cherished for
Ieigners, 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 I 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 of cease
That is going to cut deep, but it is
coming. I recognize the right of the
foreign-born citizens to hear their
religion, if they cannot understand il
in English, spoken to them in the
tongue that they can understand. II
they have not yet acquired enough
English to read, they are entitled to
have a paper that shall speak tc
them the language that they car
understand. I cannot go further
than that.
"And this is the capital thing thai
, is going to be settled on that day oil
judgment, namely, that the right te
those things is temporary, and II
cannot be enjoyed by anybody who
is not willing to regard it as temper
airy, and to set about earnestly max.
ing the time of that enjoyment as
short as possible. That means g
fundamental revision Of these for
eign churches. No freedom of the
press will protect perpetual for
eign press in these United States Il
won't protect any press or any
2 church who, while it is trying tt
, meet temporary need, does not SCI
itself earnestly about the business Of
making that temporary situation
= just as temporary as possible, ant
not making it, as has been true ii
2 the past, just as near perpetual a:
possible.
+, "Men who are not willing to dt
3 that will have to choose. If they
= prefer to cherish foreign ideals they
I will have to go to their own. If i
' Is necessary we will cancel every
$ certificate of citizenship in thes'
United OCdLeS. L uo AcuS1dA SONOA IL
4. ment has power to deal with tina
: subject, and it is going to deal will
3 it. Nothing else than that surel!
i can be possible. And the object O.
4 the sentence which pronounce upo1
t you today is not alone to punish yol
for the disloyalty Of which you hav
t been guilty, but to serve notice upol
4 you, and the like of you, and all o
: within a few days he had secured
a publication to his intentions. Blu
v secrecy as possible He did not Civ
}. the groups Of people in this distric
e who have been cherishing foreign
e ness, that the end of that regime 11a
t come. It is a call to every one o
It you to set about earnestly the grow
e ing of an American soul inside o
you"