The Washington times., 1920-09-18
PUT i. S. FIRST,
.HARD|NGURCES
Foreign-Born Delegation Gets
Porch Sermon on Citizenship
From Candidate.

MARION, Ohio, Sept. Ex-senator
Warren G. Harding welcomed dele
cations of several hundred foreign
born citizens around his front porch
today, and to them he addressed a
sermon on citizenship and the duties
they owe the America Of their adop-
ton. His visitors were mainly from
New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and
other Ohio cities and were Of various
nationalities.
WOULD ERASE LINES.
Senator Harding made a plea for
the elimination o: race and class
lines in the United States. In i'm
pressing this point on his callers, the
Senator declared that meddling in the
affairs OF Europe for the last four
years had accomplished little but
"spilling bad manners and bad coun-
sci all over the world" and promot-
ing racial and class feeling here in
America.
Let us all pray" he said, that
America never shall become divided
into classes and never feel the menace
OF hyphenated citizenship.
America does not want and does
not ask that her foreign-born citi-
zens forget the countries of their ma =
tivity, but we do ask all TO think
OF America first. serve America first.
defend America first, and plight an
unalterable faith in America first.
AGAINST THE HYPHEN.
I'VE are unalterably against any
hyphenated Annericanism. We have put
an end to prenxes. The way to unite
and blend foreign blood into the life
stream or America Is to put an end to
groups. 10 classes, An end to special
appeal 10 any of them. AN end to par
ticuiar favor to any OF them Let's
fix our gaze on the Constitution, with
equal rights for ali.
How can we have American con-
cord; how can We expect American
unity: how can we escape strife. II
We in America attempt TO meddle in
the Affairs of Europe. Asia. and Africa
If We assume to settle boundaries and
attempt to end the rivalries and jeal-
ousies of old world strife?
This Is the objection to the for
eign policy attempted.
Nothing helpful has come from the
willful assumption to direct affairs in
Europe.
from such meddIing In Russia, nome
in Poland; none In the case Of Ffume.
and none from the Balkan states. On
the contrary, the mistaken policy Of
Interference has broken the draw
strinGs Of good sense and spilled bnd
counsel and bad advice all over the
world.
WORSE At HOME.
That policy IL a bad policy. That
policy is bad enough abroad. 1t is
even more menacing at home.
"McdaIing abroad tends TO make
A usericnns forget they nre Americans.
IL tends to arouse the old and bitter
feelings Of race and foreign ancestry
in the hearts of those who ought new
er he forced to turn their hearts away
from undivided loyalty to America
Arst.'
at is not beyond possibility that
the day might come-and may God
forbid it-when an organized hyphen-
ated vote in American politics might
have the balance of voting power to
elect our Government America would
be delivered out OF the hands of her
and her control might be
transferred to foreign capital
abroad.
"This is of greater concern to you
than to anyone else in the world, for
this America is peculiarly your Amer
lea. America is yours to preserve, not
as a land of classes, races, and crceds,
but the United States everlasting"