The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-03-06
WE DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR BEING
AMERICANS

Are we coming to such state in the
United States that nationalist will be
considered an inebriate?
The Michigan state Republican conven-
ton adopted resolutions viewing with
alarm" the league of nations. The Chi
cago Daily News says that this conven-
ton must have been controlled by reac-
tianaries and bourbons.
Michigan Republicans may have used
considerable political rhetoric. A state
convention platform usually endeavors to
cut a wide swath through the dictionary.
But the germ of thought in the Michi
gan state Republican platform was sound
and if there is a moral criticism of it pre-
valent in the United States then there is
rotten spot in the core of American ma
tional spirituality.
If it be bourbonic to be intensely AM
erican then this newspaper is the all
firedest bourbon sheet in the world. Here
is new nation 1t has been taking in
the elements of other nations. 1t has been
trying to make new type out of these
elements. 1t has been trying to create
new nationality.
1t has taken It's people from all peoples
and its language from the English To all
these peoples it has given new conceptions
of the highest human ideality and of the
greatest working practically. AS ma
ton 1t is worth the worlds while that it
exists. For the nation as it does exist
1t is worth everything the nation possess
es to make the nation nation.
This United tSates of America has aid
ed human progress in the world because
1t has been an organized, nationalistic, go
ing and growing concern. The old Amer
lean with his ideas and ideals sent his
ideas and ideals east and TODAY Europe
is reacting to them.
The old American has seen his big cities
receive millions of foreign born and he
has helped to make them Americans. He
has seen colonies of foreign born upon
many square miles of cities and in MANY
square miles of rural territory. He has
seen the digestive machinery of his ma
ton overtaxed but, nevertheless, success
ful IN stupendous undertaking.
But our nationality is skin deep upon
the body OF history The spirit of rs
winch is our first national consciousness.
touches less than $50 years ago. The
French have Joan of Arc. The English
have the battlefield of Hastings. They
have Westminster abbey. They have
their long period of national conscious
ness, their traditions, their history. their
sense of the past.
English and French sense of national
being runs down great long corridor
It animates every Frenchman and every
Englishman as something which comes
spiritually out ia profundity. Ameri-
can national sense does not have this deep
root growth. We need nationalizing
We believe that nationality is a sacra-
ment; that it is important in human life;
that it is spirituality which men and wo-
men cannot do without. We know that
nationality can be abused, We know that
it can be distorted into what we have
come to recognize as junkerism. We
know that it can grow unloVely flowers
and unpalatable fruit. But it also can
grow the most beautiful flowers and the
best fruit which human beings have.
The United States, it happens at this
time needs the stimulation Of rationale
ing influences, and when people try to
bury this nation under a smear of inter-
nationalism they try to hurt the very
core of life IN the United States.
Rather than have American life as AM
erican life, distinctive, peculiar, beautiful
American life, hurt by dispersion of
thought and weakening of national i'm
pulses we as Americans would set the
whole league of nations in hades.
We have always been willing to help
other nations TO freedom and 10 sustain