The Bourbon news., 1918-10-11
REMARKABLE DEIIvERANCE OF
JUDGE MAKES CLEAR MEAN
ING OF LOYALTY
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self whole group of feelings for
the United States the same as you
felt towards the Fatherland when
you left Germany. There have been
a good many Germans before me in
the last month. 1t has been an i'm
pressive trial. They have lived in
this country, like yourself, ten, twen-
ty, thirty, forty years; and they had
| to give their evidence through an in
terpreter. And as 1 looked at them
and tried as best l could to under
stand them, there was written all
over every one of them, made in
Germany" American life had not
dimmed that mark in the least. 1t
stood there as bright and fresh as
the inscription upon a new coin. I
do not blame you and these men
alone. 1 blame myself. I blame my
country. We urged you to come.
We welcomed you; we gave you op-
portunity; we gave you land; we con-
ferred upon you the diadem of
American citizenship then we
! left you. We paid no attention to
what you have been doing.
And now the world war has thrown
a searchlight upon our national life,
and what have we discovered? We
find all over these United States, in
groups, little Germanies, little TIA
lies, little AuStralias, little NOrways,
little Russias. These foreign people
have thrown circle about them
selves, and, instead of keeping the
oath they took that they would try
to grow American souls inside of
them, they have studiously striven to
exclude everything American and to
cherish everything foreign. A clever
gentleman wrote romance called
America, the Melting Pot" 1t ap-
pealed to our vanity, and through all
these years we have been seeing
romance instead of fact. That is
the awful truth. The figure of my
country stands beside you to-day. 1t
says to me: Do not blame this man
alone. I am partly to blame. Pun
f, ish him for his offense, but let him
know that 1 see things in new light,
that a new era has come. Punish
him to teach him, and the like of
him, and all those who have been
misled by him and his like, that a
change has come; that there must
be an Interpretation anew of the
oath of allegiance. 1t has been in
the past nothing but formula of
words. From this time on it must
be translated into living characters
incarnate in the life of every foreign
er who has his dwelling place in our
midst. If they have been cherish
ing foreign history, foreign ideals,
foreign loyalty, it must be stopped,
and they must begin at once, all over
again, to cherish American thought,
American history, American ideals.
That means something that is to be
done in your daily life. 1t does not
mean simply that you will not take
up arms against the United States.
1t goes deeper far than that. 1t
means that you will live for the
United States, and that you will
cherish and grow American souls in
side of you. 1t means that you will
take down from the walls of your
homes the picture of the Kaiser and
put up the picture of Washington;
that you will take down the picture
of Bismarck and hang up the pic
ture of Lincoln. 1t means that you
will begin to sing American songs;
that you will begin earnestly to study
American history; that you will be-
gin to open your lives through every
avenue to the influence of American
life. 1t means that you will begin
first of all to learn English, the Ian
guage of this country, so that there
lmay be door into your souls through
which American life may enter.
| I am not so simple as to entertain
the idea that racial habits and quail
ties can be put aside by the will in
| a day, in a year, in generation; but
because that is difficult is all the more
reason why you should get about 1T
and Quit cherishing a foreign life.
If half the effort had been put forth
in these foreign communities to build
In an American life in the hearts OF
these foreign-born citizens that has
been put forth to perpetuate a for
eign life, our situation would have
been entirely different from what it
is to-day. You have violated your
oath of allegiance in this: You have
cherished foreign ideals and tried to
make them everlasting. That is the
lbasic wrong of these thousands of lit
tie islands of foreigners that have
been formed through our whole lin
Its, that, instead of trying to build up
an American life in them, they have
lstriven studiously from year to year
to stifle American life and to make
foreigness perpetual. That is dis
loyalty. And the object, one of the
big objects, of this serious proceed
ling in this court, and other like pro-
ceedings in other courts, is to give
notice that they must be stopped.
have seen before my eyes another
day of judgment. When we get
through with this war, and civil lib
erty is made safe once more upon
this earth, there is going to be a day
lof Judgment in these United States.
IForeign-born citizens and the institu-
tions which have cherished foreign
mess are going to be brought to the
Judgment bar of this Republic. That
day of Judgment looks more to me
to-day like the great Day Of Judg-
ment than anything that I have
thought of for many years. There is
going to be separation on that day
of the sheep from the goats. Every