Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-06-15
AMERICAN AND ALLIED IDEALS.
By STUART Professor of English in the University of


It is generally agree among thinkers that nation which does
not conduct prey nation Which has long followed
eab behavior at home and abroad has both na
and precrpve right live 1t coroary OF this agreement that
such nation right defend its life from foreign aggression
think am even say that defending its life its
duty responsibility imagine will also conceded that the life
nation includes merely the lives and property Of living generations
but also the principles and ideals the national culture which
these living generations have received sacred inheritance from their
forefath which they cherish pce possession be bequeahed
posy Finally suppose shall that the United States is
such nation rights such duties and such ideals and principles
ideals principles the permanent part Of the
nations They constitute the spiritual mold which our fluid thoughts
the shape American characters They establish
fellow citizenship with Franklin and Jefferson with Washington and
Lincoln They of that great instrument which
genius named the melting Till the outbreak Of
ourselves that the melting
working fairly We considerable of books describing its
operation Jacob Rss Making of American Citizen Mary
Antns Land Storms my Mother and IL Max Ravages
"An American the Making These all narratives of and
America become Americans break with their
national past fresh national tradition In
these books finds the records the amazing which transforms
the Scandinavian the Russian the Po the Roumann into loyal
and daughters of the Republic rejoicing the and strips reverng
the Pilgrim Fathers celebrating the Day Independence honOrng
heroes glorying the national principles and ideals
In ninenn out Of hundred that astounding transformation
accomplished general educational the schools the colleges
the universities And very largely accomplished by intoxicating
ideals through the language and literature America which
matter Of fact has always included the literature Of England The
teachers therefore special usodans
Of the melting pot they slumber at their the fire and
the transformation of aliens and the naveo into Americans
Since the everyone has discovered that there has been going
this country aggressive campaign crack the smash the mold
of national life Even before the war; many the
culture being less systematically attacked from certain quarters
by the process known peaceful penetration large body of mmi
grants organized operation
political and cultural environment They have America and
applied for the privilege citizenship without any intention of becoming
citizens spirit They have sought preserve mmxed this country the
uae their mother tongue the preferred language the market the
Schools the newspapers and the churches When such the alien
tongue not regarded temporary and tantO expeden has
uurped the place which belongs the American language Of America
Those who and seek maintain the preferred language
deliberate onss for foreign empire and enemies the American
Republic and their operations it is hartnng recognize been
seriously resented by honst and intelligent naturalzed citizens
than by the native-born
Along attempts cooniz there has been instituted an
anAmeOan campaign of nsdious character mainly
the English language and ostensb by American citizens Among its
leaders editors magazines poets noves critics. brewers
fessors the universities The these about follows
Attack England praise Germany everything
English influence praise everything America that
influence Accordingly they the ideals and professions of demo-
cratic government they the Pilgrim Fathers
Puans who the seventeenth century have constituted the moral
backbone the nation they themselves every
moral REFORM they at all the humanitarian associated
with Christianity they those works American ature which
recognize classical In short they keep continuous
against rveed American tradition against every established
political IDEAL against every accepted article public private
morality against everything admirable social aspirations against
everything characteristic of the of the American people
On the other hand they celebrate the ideals Pussa
satecaf the biological mmoralim Nehe and the literature of
Berlin and Vienna especially that nest which certain
will offend what they soofngly call the Puranca of
Americans
e0ur education says Prussanzng Americans art
and science neadcaby German Our soil
German The Engishman is after ALL only German with
In America the drops off By bnfbre
are more German than English second prOseng pilgrim steadily
ration with culture of her His purpose
that of third apostle who excams despagy all America
and west north and SOUTH under the relentless Puritan morality
infatuated with popular education and adores the idols democracy
The first second and the third statements
third destroys the other two by presenting substantially the
acknowledges the fact that indeed powerful national
culture while urging that ought be destroyed and uppnd The