Show MINE OWN PEOPLE Americans have cause of that only million out of or the possible hundred million mUtton people in inthe Inthe Inthe the United States are of foreign fore birth It 11 was as supposed the number must be much touch larger That means that this is an American nation that th t the tM great preponderance of the citizens are born under the stars and stripes that the principles of or the republic are the natural birthright of the individual Big as is the immigration element it must realise realize the same 8 le fate of or the smaller body everywhere and always alway j The force of gravity will always alwa s go with the larger body The immigrant will catch step with the th native Ameri American Amerian American can an because the force of his stronger environment will compel It It He can no nomore nomore nomore more remain a 8 German or a Rus Russian lan or ora orn orn n a Frenchman here retaining the sen sentiments sentIments sentiments and ideals of othis his fatherland than a drop of ot ink could maintain its identity in a stream of clear water His birthright traditions fall tall away from him He partakes of the loves and the aspirations and the prejudices of or his neighbors And because of ot that trans transforming transforming forming force he becomes a good American citizen The millions of the Unit United United I ed d States can fervently clasp hands with the honest hone t immigrant who comes comee to make part in the life Ufe of the republic because as certainly as progress prograM of the thep ther p r ms ens they are all of ot our own people |