Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-19
HARDING WARNS AGAINST
!HYPHENATED CITIZENSHIP
Tells Forcign-Born Delegation All
80. Must Unite in Love for
Country.
MUST PUT END TO pREFIxES
Declares There Must BE No More
Groups or Glasses or Appeal to
or Favor for Any Particular
!. Foreign Blood.
tBy Associated Press.l


MARION. OHIO. Sept. 1S.-Warn-
ing against the dangers OF hyphen-
atcd citizenship. Senator Harding
told gathering OF forcign-born
Americans hero today that he be-
iieved that the United States must
AVOID "neddling" in the affairs OF
other matters IL all classes o. Amcri-
uan citizens are TO be united in
LOYALTY 10 the government.
The delegations. comprising several
hundred. came from New York state.
Chicago and cities further northwest,
and Cleveland. The New York dele
cation was headed by Senator Will
liam NJ. Calder, j. J. Lyons. candi-
dare for observation-disclosures and
John 4. Stewart. president OF the New
York Republican League OF Clubs.
The Chicago delegation was headed
by Senator Mcdill Mccormick, who
presented tho forciEn-horn citizens to
the candidate. DIR. ~ Chcrna and DR.
Il. 4. Barricell headed the Cleveland
continScnts.
While declaring that sit is not pos
sble, and ought not 20 be expected.
that Americans OF foreign birth shall
stinc love for kinstolk in the lands
from which they came" the Senator
asserted that we are unalterably
against any present or future hyphe-
mated Americanism."
Touching upon foreign relations.
tho Senator declared nothing helpful
has come from the willful assumption
10 direct the affairs OF Europe. but
chat ION the contrary. the mistaken
policy OF interference has broken the
drawstrings OF good sense and spilled
bad counsel and bad manners all over
the world"
The Republican nominee dcclaced
he did not blame the foreign born
for conflicting sympathics during the
world va. and asserted tina, the fault
belonged 10 the nation itself. The
task OF thoroughly Amcricanizin,;
those OF foreign extraction. he said,
had been neglected and must be re-
newed with new determination.
Let us all pray that America shall
never become divided into classes and
shall never feel the menace of ny
uhena,cd sympathies" said Senator
Harding.
Il speak for the fullest American
devotion, not III putting aside all the
J=ndercr and dearer attributes OF the
human heart. but in the consecra-
lions OF citizenship We arc unal-
terably against any present or flu
iurc hyphenatcd Amcricanism. We
have put an end TO prenXes. The
way 10 unite and blend foreign blood
Ia The life stream OF America Is To
tut an end TO groups; an end to
classes: AN end To spiritual appeal
10 amy OF them: an end TO particular
favor for any OF hem.
Let us all remember, however,
that America first does not mean
;hat the America which we all love
ana under whose flag We mus; always
rcpiajn a people united is TO be an
America blind TO the welfare Of hu-
mahiiy throughout the world. or
dsu 10 the call OF world ciyili-
%stjon. But our ability to he help
i1t 70 mankind and our preparation
fJbt leadership lies in first being Sc
pte AT home and mighty in our citi-
zsnship. Therein lies strength;
herein is the source of helpful ex
,lhiple."