Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-28
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

There is no room in this country for
the man who tries to be both an Amer
lean and something else. There can be
no such thing as fiftv-fifty loyalty be-
tween America and Germany. Either a
man is wholehearted in his support of
America and her allies and in his hos
Utility to Germany and her allies. or he
is not loyal to America at all. In such
case he should be at once interned or
sent out of the country. But if he Is
twholehearted in his loyal support of
America, then no matter what his
birthplace or parentage, he is entitled
to stand on a full and exact equality
with every other American. ,
Therefore, the obligation is two-fold
and one side is just as important as
the other. Every American of German
birth or parentage must act as an
American and nothing else, and if he
does not SO act he should be treated as
an alien enemy, but If he acts exactly
as other good Americans act, then it is
a shame and q disgrace not to treat
I'm absolutely like those other good
Americans.
- Are. Stanch Americans.
The immense majority of Americans
man blood are as stanch Americans
as are to be found in the land. They
are serving In our armies precisely as
other Americans serve. They are ex-
actly as fit as any other Americans to
fill the highest positions anywhere in
our armies or in civil life. Any dis
elimination against them, active or.
passive. military or political, social or.
Industrial is an intolerahle outrage.
Moreover, such a discrimination is 1T
ca &c
effect. for it not only cruelty wounds
brave and upright and loyal Americans,
but tends to drive them back into segre-
CATION. away from the mass of Amer
lean citizenship. America is a nation
and not a mosaic of nationalities.
The various nationalities that come
here are not to remain separate. but to
blend into the one American nation
ality-the nationality of Washington
and Lincoln. Of Muhlenberg and Sher-
language, the English language. Every
immigrant who comes here should be
required within five years to learn
English or to leave the country, for
hereafter every immigrant should be
treated as a future fellow citizen and
not merely as labor unit. English
should be the only language taught or
used in the primary schools. We should
provide by law SO that after reason
able interval every newspaper in this
lish.
: Square Deal for Americans.
A square deal for all Americans means
relentless attack on all men in this
country who are not straightout Ameri-
cans and nothing else. 1t just as en-
phatically means to stand by every good
American Of German blood exactly as
much as by every other good American
In every loyalty organization q special
effort should be made to see that in the
leadership and the ranks the Americans
of German blood come in on precisely the
same basis as every one else. And the
straightout Americans. in, whole or in
part of German blood, should themselves
insist on this. mot as a favor which they
request. but "a a right which they de-
mand-a right predicated on. their fervid
and militant Americanism. I wish we
could see such an organization formed.
An uneomprornisingly straightout Amer
4can organfEa lion. including Americans
of all our INHERENT blood strains, but
wiz: as large a Proportion OF Americans,
in whole. OF In naft Of German blood as