The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-04-08
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Addressing a patriotic mass meeting
at Madison Square Garden, New YORK,
last week, Martin W. Littleton said:
"In our efforts to be loyal to our w
blood, whatever that blood may be, we
must not make America a distant duel
ing ground for foreign feudists who
come here to settle the legendary
grudges of the old world"
There is a thoroughly patriotic de-
claration. 1t applies to the partisans
not of some. but of all European ma
tionalities in this country, whether
, they be of foreign or domestic birth or
ancestry.
1t goes for Germans, French, Irish,
English, Italians, Austrians, Greeks,
Poles, Russians and American resi-
dents of every other nationality.
Propaganda of one nationality, or
group of nationalities, should not be
cloaked in opposition to the propagan-
da of other n~ationalities.
The American who seeks to foster
special attachment to or hatred for
any European nation or group OF ma
lions as against his own country, who
seeks to sacrifice the rights and inter-
ests of his own country, who insists
that his own country should continu-
ally be given the gaff by and on behalf
of other nations, lacks a good deal of
being a patriot.
We owe no nation but America any
thing. Many nations are our debtors,
both in money and service, beyond
their power to repay. That it is our
duty to sacrifice this republic in behalf
of other powers, without regard to the
interests of the American people, is
an unpatriotic doctrine.
1t was Washington who declared
that special friendship for one Europ-
can nation, particular ~antagonism for
another, was contrary to true Amerl-
canism. He unsheathed his sword
against England when the interests of
his country demanded it. He was ready
to unsheath his sword against our re-
cent ally, France, a few years later
when that nation infringed upon Amer
lean rights.
There are people and groups of peo-
pie in this country who d%enounce GER
tain v~arities of alien propaganda and
actively carry on other kinds them
selves. Americans should be loyal to
one flag only, and that the flag of
their country; a flag that has never
been lifted in the cause Of injustice at
home or abroad.
We need mass meetings all over this
country in behalf of the Washington
doctrine of single allegiance, and at
such meetings every sort of "pro' ma
tionalism but plain, unauthorized pro-
Americanism should be denounced.
It is not enough for a good Ameri-
can to hate some particular European
,ot,n, orl ho tho norticap Of anOfhor
to demonstrate his freedom from the
being the partisan of any brand OF
phenated American. He must cease
, the advocacy of %entangling his country
: in the feuds and broils of Europe.
r We have our European hyphenates
r in this country, and we have what is
even more undesirable, u European
p%rovincials of American ancestry who
I cannot think of this country except as
t a European colony. They ought to be
"a distant dueling ground for foreign
y feudists who come here to settle the
: legendary grudges of the old world
If they want to fight, let them &c
. where the fighting is, and try not t(
uIdS luClI SoulIlIy III WIN eLCAi.
| 1t is not pro-Germanism only tina
we need to fear. 1t is pro- European
ism of all kinds. Let those who wan
: to think in terms of Europe go tt
{ Europe and stay there. Let those wht
| remain in America think in terms o.
Americanism. We have job enough tt
straight in the U. S. A. We have mo-
poolo c,,oh N In1ulinr c,,ooncc nf cn1u
| ing our domestic problems during the
ourselves to the task of settling
!" Europe's problems. Yet the very PEG.
e pie who have wrecked things here
: seem to think they have a divine cal
to rebuild Europe.
Every nation must settle its owl
problems by coming down to tn,
e ground, dropping the war psycholog.
and getting to work and to production
of something beside political and eco
e nomic schemes whereby they can keeI
n on loafing and talking interminablly a
Q the expense of somebody else, prefer
ably in most cases, Uncle Sam. w
= can't save the world for democracy b,
building up new aristocracies and mill
If tarisms in the place of those we de
l. Stroyed.
:, And while this country asked moth
ing as the result of the war, and go
y just what it asked for, we should sto
by general protest the mouths of thos
who think we should continue for a
time of come to be the general a
round goat of the universe, and fec
10 finance and fight the world perpetual
- just because we saved civilization once
If these more or less benevolent inter
" n~ationalists want to bankrupt and criE
e Pile themselves in order to serve tn
ends of aliens, let them do it. But lie
x them cease insisting that their ow
~ republic should underwrite other ma
10 tons gains, perpetuate other nation
Vi power, and let things go to the dogs d
3" home while chasing other peoples rair
H. bows in Mesopotamia, Macedonia, Bes
~ sarabia and Observation-Disclosures;
Republican.
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No Buck Passing Now.
We have come to think of Congress