The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-16

Q one soul Loyalty, and that is 10y Q
70 atty to the American people. 9
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o @ q o o o 90 % o o o o
I'VE shall never be successful over
the dangers that confront us; we shall
never achieve true greatness nor
reach the lofty ideal which the found
ers and preservers of u mighty
Federal Republic have set before us,
unless we are Americans in heart and
soul, in spirit and purpose. keenly
alive to the responsibility implied in
the very name of American, and
proud beyond measure of the glorious
privilege of bearing it."
"If a man in good faith, in soul and
in body, becomes an American, he
stands on a full and entire equality
with everybody else, and must be so
treated, without any mental reserva-
ton, without any regard to his creed,
or birthplace or decent. One obliga-
ton is just as binding as the other
1t is both weak and wicked to permit
any of our citizens to hold a dual or
divided allegiance; and it is just as
mischievous, just as un-American, to
discriminate against any good Ameri-
can, because of his birthplace. creed
or parentage."
I'VE cannot have too many (immi-
grants) of the right type-the type
that is right morally. physically and
economically-and we should have
none at all of the wrong type. We
should never admit any merely be-
cause there is need of labor; better
run short of labor than foul or dilute
the body of citizenship into which our
children are to enter. In practice 1t
is not easy to apply exactly the proper
tests; but fundamentally our aim
should be to admit only immigrants
whose grandchildren will be fit to
intermarry with u grandchildren,
with the grandchildren of the Ameri-
cans of today"
This is a new nation, based on a
mighty continent of boundless pos
sibilities. No other nation in the
world has such No other
nation has ever been so favored. If
we dare to rise level to the oppor-
tunities offered us, our destiny will
be vast beyond tie power of magma
ton. We must master this destiny,
and make 1t u own; and we can
thus develop a great and wonderful
nationality, distinctively different
from any other nationality, of either
the present or the past. For such a
nation all of us can well afford to
give up all other allegiances, and
high of heart to stand, a mighty and
united people, facing a future of
glorious promise"
Patriotism, so far from being in
compatible with performance of duty
to other nations, is an indispensable
prerequisite to doing ones duty
toward other nations. Fear God; and
take your W part! True patriotism
carries with it not hostility to other
nations but a quickened sense of re-
sponsible goodwill towards other ma
tons, a goodwill of acts and not
merely of words. / stand for a ma
tionalism of duty, to ones self and to
others; and. therefore, for a nation
alism which is a means of interna-
tionalism."
I'm my judgment, no man is a good
American who is not, of course, an
American Tristan American before
he is a member Of any section of the
American people such as a party or
a class. 1 hold that the only real
service which a party mar can render
his party is to make that party more
responsive to the needs of the Ameri-
can people"
Patriotism Is as much a duty in
time of war as in time of peace, and,
it is most OF all a duty in any and
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