Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-07-10

LETTER FROM JUDGE ROSE.
Among the bsst-known summer coionis,s
at Parker Point, Biuehili, is the Hon.
John {. Rose, judge OF the U. s. District
court for the district of Maryland. Judge
Rose is president of the golf club, and has
always been foremost In the colony's at
fairs; bat last year he had TO remain in
Baltimore to look after slEckers and other
offenders against the federal laws, and
whether or not he will be able to take any
rest in Maine this summer depends on cir
cumstances.
He has largely been busy trying cases
against "oootleggers," but some weeks
ago performed big function much more
to his taste. He turned hundreds of aliens
into American citizens. How this was
done and the seasonabie thoughts which
the occasion awakened in bis mind are
thus set forth in letter received by II. Z.
Krehbiel on Bluehiil's Liberty Ship
Day"
In our army there are thousands Of men
still unnatu rallied. A couple of months ago
Congress made IL easy for them TO obtain
citizenship. At Camp Meade alone some 1890
sought the boon thus Offered them. II was
obviously easier for the judge and three or
I foar eourt officials 70 go TO the 1850 than for
the 1890 to come 70 the judge. A statute
( passed l95 years ago was put TO OF which
4 its trainers probably never dreAmt- Tordered
special term Of the u S. district
court for the district OF Maryland 10
{ be held ina Y. NJ. G. A. bungalow st
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added to the roll of American citizens.
! This work was ia some aspects rhontonous.
I The same questions had to be asked hundreds
I and hundreds OF times What the answer
would be was usually known before the query
was made. But for ali that there much
interest in what was being done. wish you
had the time TO hear something about it. 1t
( was o roii-eall Of the DatioDs of the earth.
There were men Of every race and from every
cline under heaven. Every historic back
ground OF which ii is possible to think was
there represented. Each and every one OF
these hundreds was anxious TO become an
American citizen. In spite Of an their diff
I ference Of birthplace, language and training,
they were all eager TO merge their varying
and often hostile national prejudice and as
+. pirAtionS in one common citiEe nship. After
while may not the people Of the more civil
lied and advanced races find 1t possible so TO
unite that the international anarchy Of these
last days shall never returns
In the eagerness of these hundreds TO be
admitted to our ranks is there not much to
make an American of the elder stock at once
proud and seriouss The anniversary OF the
day OF oar national independence Is ct oc-
casion 20 think a little of the tribute which
this craving OF many men Of divers tongues
for American citizenship is 70 the worth and
lasting qualities Of the work which the
fathers did. But even on the Fourth Of July
we can spend but a moment on that reflection,
or on anything else except the one thing now
to be done. All else must give place to the
task OF teaching the German state and the
German people that there is such a thing as
international morality. There is one school,
and one school only. in which that lesson can
be had. We must beat Germany and its In
habitants before they will be 1T TO live with.
Doubtless in the ordinary relations of life the
average German thinks and acts like the rest
of us. He is too nearly blood kin to the other
people of western Europe and America to
make ii possible TO suppose that he is in ss-
senfisls different from them. II is his educx-
tion which has made the German Of the early
decades Of the twentieth century menace to
everything civilized man has, through the
centuries, come to hold sacred. 1t would al
most seem that Frederick the Great, nearly
$50 years ago, had made Fanst's bargain with
the devil. From him, shameless robber OF
silesis as he was, 10 William II. the still more
brutal and insolent invader OF Belgium, the
leaders, first of Prussia and Afterwards Of
Germany, have stopped at nothing which
promised to increase the might and power Of