The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-21

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his opinions as l am and those who
would attempt the forcible repression
of free speech even upon these sub
American.
THE place to draw the line is this;
whatsoever opposes the constitution
and laws of his country by violence
and unlawful acts or who by mouth or
pen seeks to investigate and en-
courage such violations of the law,
that man the law can reach and his i
unlawful act should be prevented or
punished These are the real enc |
mics to American liberty; ours is a
government of laws made by our
selves and the law breaker is the
enemy of the republic.
But some who cTa1m to have mo-
| nopoly of Americanism want to limit |
lit to certain classes of Americans. |
/ That is a most un-American thing to |
I do. One set of men, for instance, be- |
| lieve that Americanism must be con-
! fided TO the care of Professionals alone, |
| that no Catholic, no Jew, no agnoStic, |
shall have any hand in it. Others in
sist that none should be trusted ex-
cept our native born citizens; that no
man born in foreign parts should ever
/ be relied upon to preserve our institu- |
tons no matter how loyal citizen he !
may have been nor for how long a |
time.
! Leads to War
Others say that none but the white
race shall have any part or parcel in
our heritage and others go so far as
to demand exclusion from their com
partnership in efforts to purify Amer
lea, of all except those of Anglo-Saxon
blood 1t is just this kind of division
into various sects, races and classes
which is sure to lead to the ruin OF
liberty and of all genuine democracy.
1T was just this sort of bigotry
which led to the terrible religious wars
which have everywhere stained the
pages of history. 1t was just this
claim of the superiority of one particu-
lar strain of blood that led to the OPP
preston of subject nations all over the
world and in every age. 1t is just this
one thing from which we must be free
, if we would preserve the real glory
of the American people.
And it is only by knowing other
: kinds of people better that we can
, acquire a liberation of those whose
blood, antecedents and methods of
| thought are different from our own. /
! am not a Catholic, but l know of no
examples of more perfect devotion and
= higher Christianity than that church
, can show, and how dare we say that
: those of other communions and peoples
who laid down their lives for us on
the fields of France are not as patriotic
| as ourselves? | am not a Jew, but l
| H., sa1, 1n
preserved through long persecution,
t the faith handed to their fathers on
: Sinai, of the smallest right or privilege
t of American citizenship. l am certain
) ly not a negro, yet am sorry to hear
: that some of our people are so jealous
r of white supremacy that they are ask
5 ing for the dismissal of all negroes
r from the city service.
l Mayors Stand Praised
: 81 congratulate our mayor upon his
! refusal. | am not foreign born nor
the son of an alien parent, yet I re-
ject the imputation that those who
2 have sought America as a land of
promise, as refuge for the oppressed
? in every cline, may not have just as
: good a title to the heritage of our in
: situations as l, whose forbears came
Y with William Penn. Every last one of
S US is descended from alien ancestors
: and it does not lie in our mouths to
upbraid with the title of Dagoes,' men
b whose conduct may be as praiseworthy
S as our own. / have lived with some of
e these 'Dagoes' in Italy and know them
l. intimately and those l know are just
S as good men, as honest, as industrious
o and as kindly as any of us here in
It America.
d Even the Redskins, whom many re-
n gard as treacherous savages, are bet
# ter than we think. Away back in 1870
O I spent a summer with the Pawnees in
Il Nebraska, and Superintendent Janney
r who knew them very we'll, told me he
If would trust the chiefs of that nation
as implicitly as any white men he ever
r? saw. Many years afterwards l was al
If Muskogee, then in Indian Territory
e and the judge of the federal court tolG
If me after long experiences with wit
II nesses, that while among the white
al men some were truthful and some
IS were not, that a full blooded Indian
n would never lie.
e Reason for Hate
,r "These inferior races as we cal
ct them, are better than we think. Tht
al reasons we despise them is because We
v do not know them. The thing is tt
ct know them better. That man is no
re the best friend who insists that havt
it all the virtues and that others have al
n the vices, and he is not the best friend
st of America who declares that ou
IN country has monopoly of all the ex
! cellencies in the world. Our viev