The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-11-27
Let Us Give Thanks for Our
Americanism.

We-each of us-have many good
and sufficient reasons for being thank
full this Thanksgiving Day. And not
the least of these is that we are Am
orleans
The Americanism, planted on the
virgin soil Of a new land, an unbrokcn
wilderness of savages and waste, shaP-
ed and guarded by the hfeblood OF
men noble and brave, is ours by inner
itance and ours by acceptance. Through
the hands of American patriots, in days
Of peace and war, it has come to us.
II is indefinable, without limit, and
comes alike to the old and the young,
the rich and the poor, the man ana
the woman, the native and the foreign
born who will accept it.
II is this Americanism which stands
SO solidly against the enemy of civil
lization, the foe of humanity, the Red
plotter Of anarchy. 1T is this American
ism in our breasts which makes of Am
orleans people united when the time
honored principle of freedom and de-
mocracv are attacked 1t is this same
Americanism which 80 stoutly with
stands the onslaughts Of the foreign
agitator and his co-conspirator, the ma
tive born, disconnected advocate Of
minority rule.
Just as this spirit of Americanism
made it possible for the people Of the
United States to throw the weight OF
the mirhtiest nation on earth into the
scales of war when right and Justice
was sorely tried, just SO will American
ism save the land from the internal
chaos toward which the extremists on
our shoes would hurl America in their
mad endeavor to make of our govern
ment what the small handful Of citi-
gens desire and what the vast majority.
fear most earnestly and with reason.
0'When we have the rule Russia now
has. ,, exclaimed one Bolshevik sympa-
thizer recently, lyon II hear no more
VI NAANv ~ -~NNN-~
ism anyhow9'' he screamed.
Americanism, we would like TO ex-
plain to this individual, is government
by the majority, not by the minority.
It is government by ballot, not by bull
let, 1t is government by law, not by
license.
And this is why we Americans give
thanks for our Americanism.
He was right when he insisted that
Americanism would become extinct
with the advent in America Of Russian
ism. Nothing more true was ever spok-
sn. Americanism and Russianism
could not live in the same land. Be-
fore Russianism could triumph here
Americanism must die. Some there are
who believe Americanism can be killed
IN American hearts. They are those
who believe Russianism can rear its
ugly head in the new world. We don 4
believe it, Some ninety million other
Americans don t believe Americanism
will cease to exist Nothing in all the
world is more alive, nor stronger, than
his Americanism for which we Ameri-
,ans give thanks this day.
War s reaction--the period of social
arrest and economic disturbance has
rot weakened the spirit that dwells in
The hearts Of Americans, the spirit that
cook Of new world and made it the
greatest, richest, most Democratic
country on earth. A year Of peace has
made US better Americans than or,
stronger Americans, more democratic
Americans more ardcntly welded to the
American doctrine that right shall pre-
vail, that the majority shall rule and
hat common justive shall 60 alike to
Ill Americans. a
Thankful that this is 500 Most Ger.
sainlyi Truly and honestly thankful
hat we have this heritage Of Ameri-
,anism and that we may pass il on to
ur children s children.