Evening journal., 1919-11-26
LET Us GIvE TmlNKs ToR oun AMERIcANIsm

yxTE-each OF ushave many good and sufficient reasons
w FOR being thankful This Thanksgiving Day And not
lhe least Of these is that we are Americans
The Americanism planted the virgin soil Of a new
ana an unbroken wilderness OF savages and waste
shaped and guarded by the feblood Of men noble and
brave Is ours by Inheritance and ours by acceptance
roush the hands Of American patriots i'm days OF peace
ana war, It has come to US. It is indennabe without
Limit and comes alike TO the old and the young the rich
and the poor the and the woman the native and tn,
oreisn-born who will accept IT,
Il is this Amercansm which stands so soldlv against
lhe enemy Of civilization the foe OF humanity the Red
ploter Of anarchy 1t this Amercansm In our breasts
which makes OF Americans people united when the time
honored principles Of freedom and democracy are at
lacked It is this Amercanlsm which so stoutly
whsands the onsIaughts OF the foreign agator and his
'oconsprator the native born disconnected advocate Of
minority rule
Just as this spirit OF AmercanIsm made It possible for
he people Of the United States to throw the weight OF the
mightiest nation earth into the scales of war when
right and Justice was sorey tried just so will American
ism save the land from the internal chaos toward which
The extremists shores hur America in their
mad endeavor to make Of Government what the small
handful Of citizens desire and what the vast majority fear
most earnesty-and with reason
When we have the rule Russia now has" exclaimed
one Bosheyk sympahizer recently you'll hear no more
Of Americanism.' What is Americanism anyhow" he
screamed
-N"Niie"AisHi We Wuuu Ike 10 explain 10 this ndNiQ-
ua is government by the majority not by the minority
Il government by ballot, by bullet II is govern
ment by law, not by license.
And this is why we Americans give thanks for our
Americansm.
He was right when he insisted that Amerlcanism would
become extinct with the advent in America Of Rssansm
Nothing more true ever spoken.
Amercanism and Russanism could not live in the same
land
Before Russlanism could triumph here AmerIcanism
must die
Some there who believe Amercanism can be killed
in American hearts.
They are those who believe Russianlsm can rear its
ugly head In the world
We don't believe it.
Some ninety million other Americans don't believe
Amercanism Will to exist
Nothing in all the world is more alive nor stronger
than this Americanism for which we Americans give
thanks this day.
Wars reaction-the period OF social unrest and ecu
nomic disturbance-has weakened the spirit that
dwes in the hearts of Americans the spirit that took Of
new world and made IL the greatest richest most
democratic country on earth
year Of peace has made us better Americans than
ever, stronger Americans, more democratic Americans
more ardeny welded to the American doctrine that right
shall prevail that the majority shall rule and that com
mon justice shall go alike to al Americans.
Thankful that this is so?
Most certainly
Truly and honestly thankful that we have this heritage
Of Americansm and that may pass 1t on to our chill
dren's children