The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-13

sometimes wonder, can it be true?
Are we, indeed. yielding our Ameri-
canism before the onrushing tide OF
revolutionary internationalism? Did
the death of the undaunted advocate
of American nationalism mark an
epoch in the fearful, damnable, down.
ward trend?
Roosevelt Americanism.
Yes, Mr.. President, this many sided
man touched life at every point, and
sometimes seemed inconsistent; but
there was one supreme passion which
gave simplicity and singleness of pur-
pose to all he said or did--his abound
| ing Americanism. In this era of ma
tlonal infdelity let us be deeply CRATE
full for this. Though he had erred a
thousand times, and grievotssly erred,
we would still pay sincere tribute to
his memory for holding aloft at all
greatest turmoil, the banner of the
true faith. Huntsman, plainsman, au-
thor, political leader, governor. vice
president, president and ex-president
this was always the directing and the
dominating theme. Ever in his JUL,
rich life, replete with noble deeds and
brilliant achievements, it runs like
golden thread through all of the be-
wildering activities of his widerang-
ing genius. 1t gave consistency to
every change of view and justified
what sometimes seemed his merciless
intolerance. When the final estimate
is placed upon his career and all his
services to his fellows are weighed and
Judged, his embodiment of. the ma
tional spirit, his vigilant defense or
our national ideals will distinguish
him, as says in effect this information
alist, from all the men of his day and
generation.
It was not, one likes to believe
mere incident, but significant though
strangely arranged fact that the last
message to the American people from
the illustrious dead who the interna-
tionalists tell us, was the last OF the
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great Americans, should have been up
on this particular subject. | believe
it was the night of his death that this
message which ! shall now read to
YOU was read at a public meeting to
which he had been invited but was
unable to attend:
ANY man who says he is an Ameri-
can but something else also isn't an
| American at all. We have room for
! but one flag, the American flag,
| We have room but for one
language, and that is the English Ian
guage; for we intend to see that the
crucible turns our people out as Am
orleans, of American nationality, and
not as jewellers in a polyglot board
ing house; and we have room for but
one soul loyalty to the American peo-
ple."
Let us inscribe this upon our ban
ner and hang 1t upon the outer wall.
| In all the Vicissitudes of our national
life, in all the duties which may come
to us as a people, in all the future,
filled, as it win be, with profound and
perplexing problems, let us cling un-
Iccmpromisingly to this holy creed.
In these times when ancient faiths
are disappearing and governments are
erumbling, when institutions are
yielding to the trend of the mad hosts
of disorder, let us take our stand on
the side of orderly liberty on the side
of constitutional government. Let us
range ourselves along with Washing
ton and Jefferson and Jackson and
Lincoln and Roosevelt. Let us be true
to ourselves; and, whatever the obli-
cations of the future, we can not then
be false to others