| Show SEES PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS New York Publisher of German Origin Talks on Duties of f Citizens of U. U S. S I e. Mass lass Sept Oswald t. 4 Oswald Garrison lIlard of ot tho New e York Voik Evening B Pot Post in an address before be be- fore forc the laurel Hill 1111 J association here jl ere today toda declared that tho the movement mO among American n cItizens of oC n especially descent to foi form in bodies bodles apart art from tho citizenry presented pre pre- rented a reaching far domestic It Issue luo which the American people must coni con con- i Quel quer p. p i Mr S Illard J old hold an Important factor in Iii the tho continuance of ot the tho American melting pot lay In educating Immigrants grants rants to tho proper duties dutle of or citizen citizen- ship phlp Ho lie said ld he lie wn nos born horn on German German German Ger Ger- man soil Of or a n. German Gennan father Foreigners becoming American citizens citi I zens should i 10 o made to understand Mr lr said bald that there can be bo no divided d citizenship or loyalty Jo ty or al allegiance al- al under tinder the American flag InK that no one can n accept political obligations IJ here bore re while at heart loyal to another social s system tem another entity or 01 another code of ot law laws In opening his address Mr Villard i quoted from an au a audress dr s L by Carl Call at t the celebration of ot tho tio late latter's latter's lat- lat e ter's seventieth Sc birthday sl sixteen teen years cars L ago In which Mr r Schurz chur said aM that no 1 matter how warm the tho affections Ger Ger- Americans man oa had held for their na- na tiro o land thc they had lead never ne permitted their affections to Interfere with their thell duties as ns American citizens nor to se seduce se- se duco duce them to UR use their power pow In hr American Ameri Ameri- I can politics for foreign ends How lIow amazed Carl Schurz would beto bo be to return to u us today to find rind that that f f has lias como come to pass past which ho lie deemed Inconceivable Inconceivable In- In conceivable said Mr Willard lie Ho would find to hl lily his horror that ut ILL this moment tho the presence on this soil Boll of or German Americans d does es not nut help to peach and friendship between cn their two parent nations but a adds ds fuel ruel to tho the flames lames of oC bitterness s. s Naturally Schurz would scan the tho horizon for Cor some discriminatory act acton J I on the J part art of or our OUI government o or some someI I manifestation of oC racial prejudice I against t German Americans But Hut he lIe would find nothing of pt the sort So far fares fares I es cu tho the federal government Jo and states i rare are concerned he would discover or nothIng noth- noth f t Ing changed from tho the day he ho left leCt us f Tho The mighty convulsion we arc are wit win r. r he lie would ascertain to be due entirely to foreign forel complication to a f determination on the tho part pirt of or our Geri Gert Ger- Ger i t man-Americans man to stand b by their theirL t L fatherland through h thick and thin rl right right ht or wrong to a sudden self self-reve- l that unlike himself they by hy the ther theten theten r ten thousands had not really transferred trans- trans r erred their allegiance to the the country 1 of or their adoption What t could amaze him more than to find unnumbered r tl Germans who I I like himself c r. r came ct to tills country countr to escape the tho very en militaristic autocracy the they now uphold 10 today a denouncing the tho nation that ad adopted and sheltered fed and clothed them I f f- fHe He then n asked that If It It were nere true I as contended that German l and political sy system teni cro superior to the thc scheme of or life and government o In America is why by the hordes who ho have o flocked here did ld not go to Germany Instead |
