The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
AMERICANISM WHAT IS IT.?

WhAl Is III?
zenship; that upholds the highest
ideals and is in accord with the teach
ings Of Christ. But Americanism is
not the directing influence in the lives
of men who deny God and disavow
His Word; who have no respect for
their government, its flag, its consti-
tutions and its laws. While we are
learning what Americanism is it is
we'll also, to remember what is not
For, "By their fruits We shall know
them," and, this is most especially
true at this time when there are so
many who have only contempt for our
Constitution and our laws, our flag,
and our ideals mean nothing to them.
Their only thought is that they may
break our American laws with i'm
punity; that they may continue to
enjoy the blessings of citizenehip,
while they, themselves, are enemies
of clean government.
Americanism. Yes, give us a good
old-fashioned baptism of American
ism; not that mushroom variety
that spontaneously springs up over
night and is withered in a day; but
give US the genuine sort, the kind
that will stand in peace and in con-
flict, in prosperity and in adversely,
Amercianism that is 100 per cent al
ways, and always 100 per cent. We
need it, America must have it if she
is to continue to be the home of free
dom and liberty.
God grant US wisdom that we may
discern the genuine from the coun-
terfeit and the spurious. God give us
charity that we may not misjudge our
brother and the motives of true
Americanism.
Americanism, what is it? It is a
life-a clean life, a life that is in
accord with the highest American
principles and ideals. A life that is
both an honor to it's country and its
God.
Americanism, the life. It is up to
each and every one of us to live it.
Upon how we'll we live it depends
how well, we as nation, measure up
to the standards of Americanism, and
how well we are fulfilling our part in
the divine plan in which America has
an important place. Americanism
what is it? The answer rests, dear
reader, with you.
There are un-American influences
let loose in America today that would
destroy the entire moral of this coun-
try i'm less than "a hours if righteous
Americans were not always alert and
ever on the job.
Yes, you feel that your native land
is being made the dumping ground
for peoples of the earth who cannot
have the best interests of that coun-
try at heart, and you are doing all
in your power to help make laws.
even getting behind your senators
and representatives in Congress, and
urging them to put up the bars of
this country to forbid the entrance
of undesirables within her boundaries
who can have little at heart in ou1
great American plan of civilization
And you believe that as a native-born
resident of this country, your rights
are superior to the rights Of the for
eign-born, and that you shall stand
until the day Of your death to that
sacred pledge, that by all things
within your power, so be it, you will
never consent to any foreign-born
autocrat of European nation becom-
ing the ruler of these great United
States of America.
If you can subscribe to all Of the
above tenets of the all-American plan
then you are 100 per cent American
Perhaps a great deal of strife in
the industrial, in the moral, and in
the social life is due to the fact that
you have been a Stacker in the great
religion of Jesus Christ in the days
that are past.-The Kluxer.