Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-09

Two days of a naturalization session late Wednesday afternoon, 1Ss new citi- zens in all having been admitted. Thirty five of these were on Tuesday and s7 on Wednesday. Judge Greene Addresses New Citizens.
 Judge Gardiner Greene who is pre- siding at this session of the court, made a brief address each day to those who had been naturalized, speaking to each group, morning and afternoon. inst after they had taken the oath of allegiance to the United States
 Judge Greene spoke as follows:
 Gentlemen: You have just been admit ted as citizens of the United States, and, in 50 being admitted. you gain a great prH.eGe, and assume 8 Gerfe1S respon-- sibii:ty.
 You are becoming citizens of the most powerful and influential country in the world.
 As citizens. you are in the way to be- come voters, and to take part h the government of the country, and, in talk 1 ing such part, you undertake your part of the responsibility for good govern ment.
 You have sworn to protect and defend the United States against all enemies, 1 foreign and domestic.
 | Enemies may be foreign or domestic, and the domestic enemies may be no less dangerous than the foreign.
 Those in this country who oppose the essential principles of our government are as bad as foreigners who openly make war on us.
 President Lincoln long ago spoke of our government as government of the people by the people and for the people The people who govern are all the citi- zens who have been admitted as voters ard they govern, as President Lincoln said. for the people" that is, for the good of all the citizens equally, without distinction or privilege for any individual or any class.
 Any one who attempts to create hos tility between different classes of citi- zens or to prevent the equal enjoyment of their rights by every class, is unfaith. full to the principles of this government Our democratic ideal of government is one which, while denying special lega- privileges to any one, gives every citi zen the fullest opportunity to improve himself and to rise in the world, and while so bettering himself, requires hin to respect the equal rights of every othel citizen.
 {; For this reason anarchists, bolsheviks T. w. W's and all others who are op lposed, either to organized government, oi
 to the equal rights of all citizens t'
 make the best of their opportunities, ana to be protected in the enjoyment of wha
 they have gained. are unfit for citizen
 ship, Or for residence in this country and it will be a part of your duty, a 5 good citizens, to oppose such persons fl l their efforts to promote their wrong an 7 un-American ideas. In closing, gentlemen, I wish that vol 3 all may become, and long remain, good l useful and prosperous citizens. . Flags Are Presented. , Mrs. Louis A. Wheeler and Mrs. Jan - Cassidy were present in court as rep
 resentatives of Faith Trumbull chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and presented each new citizen sna = American flag and a printed copy of Tn a Americans Creed.
 Among the new citizens admitted wer i three women, two of them natives ( o Great Britain and one native of Gel e many A number of those admitted 0 Wednesday were natives of German
 and Austria, who have been classed 8 d tenemy aliens ineligible to citizenship UT ', til now. A government report froI a Washington '1ade upon each name an
 if there is ! N ng adverse against til lperson he can LOW be admitted.
 One colored man, native of Gres