Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-22
MENACE
FULFILLS FEAR
OF WASHINGTON
Beveridge, in n. Y. Address,
Points to Warming of For
eign Propaganda.
SCHOOLS NOW AT STAKE

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-washin ston's
immortal Farewell Address was declared
the most practical and prophetic chart
Of national conduct ever drawn by the
sagacity and provisions of man by Albert
J. Beveridge IN his address at Carnegie
Hall here today at a meeting under
auspices of the Sons Of the Revolution,
in celebration Of Washington's birthday.
The Mayfower compact, the Declare
ton, the Constitution. the Farewell Ad-
dress-these are the massive and solid
corner stones of the enduring foundation
on which the American people have
builded their national well-being and Sc
curity," Mr.. Beveridge said.
THE Farewell Address states not only
the final judgment of Washington, but
also the settled opinion of every one OF
that company of statesmen who, by his
side, strove to establish our republic and
to make 1t imperishable-a group of
statesmen the like of which the world
never before saw or since has seen in a
single country at a single time Wash
ington's final advice to America was the
only policy on which all these unrivaled
masters of statecraft ever agreed; on
other questions they sharply divided;
on this, and on this alone, all of them
were in complete and militant accord.
No such unanimity of judgment ever be-
fore OF since, in any country or at any
time. concluded the prolonged deliber-
atoms of the councils of the wise, for
the Farewell Address was the result o.
almost continuous consultation for nearly
four years and at a period not entirely
unlike phases of that from which the
world is now emerging.
ALLIANCE WITH
NONE, GREAT PLEA.
1.-The heart of this decalogue of Amer
icai ism is friendship for all nations, ALI
ance with none.
Every word Of the farewell address
might have been written in 1921, SO pc
culiarly applicable Is that great state
paper to conditions that affict the
American people today. The gravest
Gnti-American influence in Washington's
time was foreign propaganda; it was in
1886 that he declared that foreign infu
ence is one of the most baneful foes Of
republican government. From the very
beginning America has been the most
Experimentation country in the world.
From the very beginning every foreign
government, to the exact extent that its
interests were affected, and only as its
interests were affected, has sought to use
the United States for its own advantage.
1t is vital that Americans bear in. mind
that foreign propagandists, no matter
from what nation they come, always
strive to advance foreign interests only.
and never to promote American interests.
within recent years that ancient
process, which so alarmed and angered
the poised, fearless and steady Washing
ton, has been renewed with increased
power. Presuming on the circumstance
that millions of American citizens are OF
German blood, the German government,
before and during the war, spread its
evil propaganda through every channel
Of American life. When, at last, We re-
allied that deadly peril to our national
security, We crushed it beneath the heel
Of mighty and righteous wrath.
JUSTIFIED BY
EVENTS TODAY.
AT no time since Yorktown has Wash
ington's provision been more justified by
events than it is today At no time have
we more needed to heed his warning
against what he termed passionate at
tachments' for some nations and invet-
crate antipathies' to others
AT no time have Americans had
= e.
maxim that the nation which INDUCES
toward another an habitual hatred or an
habitual fondness is IN some degree a
slave-a slave to its animosity or to its
affection, either of which is sufficient to
lead it astray from its true interests
AT no time has his statement been
more fully verified that real patriots.
who may resist foreign intrigue are liable
to become suspected and odious. while its
tools and dupes usurp the applause and
confidence Of the people to surrender their
interests
AT L time have the we'll being and
security of the United States more thor
oughly required that every citizen of
the Republic shall be American, wholly
American and nothing but American
exclusively American IN thought. ex-
clusively American in sympathy, ex-
clusively American in body, mind and
soul, heart so overlooking with patriotic
devotion that 1t can hold no other love
CREEPING INTO
ALL CLASSES.
'Swarms Of foreign propagandists are
creeping all over America delivering lee
lures, preaching sermons, giving inter
views, writing articles, cajoIing those
deemed influential with American pub-
III sentiment lutE lulesL American
journalism, are invading American uni
versities, have captured a section of that
small but potent group called American
society Worst Of ALL our common
schools are being made culture beds of
nonAmerican ideas.
school histories have been written for
our children which not only suppress or
misstate vital facts, but actually set
forth as historical truths recent European
views Of the origin, nature and mission
of the United States. Most Of our school
histories are stin fairly accurate, still
predominantly American, but some new
Ones-and an increasing number-might
well have been written at the direction of
foreign governments"
The suggestion that Great Britain
transfer to this country her possessions
in the West Indies and British Honduras
in payment of her Indebtedness to the
United States of about $4,000, 00O, 900 was