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Show INSISTS THAT FOREIGNERS BE L01T0 CORE President Wilson Addresses Citizenship Convention, Held Under Auspices of Labor Department. PRAISES OBJECTS TO BE ATTAINED Warns Native-born Americans Ameri-cans They Cannot Teach Loyalty to Others Unless Un-less They Practice It. WASIUMiTON", July in. President Wilson in an a'Wrras here today aain denonnred as disloyal llioso foreign-horn foreign-horn citizens who "draw apart in drit and organization to seek sonic s.ei ial objeet of their own," and added a warniui' to native Anierii-ans that liny eannot tcu-li good eitizenship .in-less .in-less thny I heinscdves are imbued with the principles of Americanism. The president spoko before a meeting meet-ing of those interested in the education of aliens, being held under the auspices of the naturalization bureau. He dwelt at length on the problem of instructing new citizens, but declared that nt'ler all the prime necessity in such instruction was a realization of the significance of American traditions on tho part of the instructors. " Unless we am truo Americans," he said, "wo cannot infect t.lieni with tho spirit of Americanism. Unless we ourselves our-selves illustrate tho ideas of .justice and freedom wo can teach, nothing to those who come to us." No Nation Mentioned. No foreign nation was mentioned spe-cilvcallv. spe-cilvcallv. .by tho president, but some of liis honriu's saw a possible echo of the country's recent foreign complications in his'delineatien of the ideals winch, he said, must be followed if true Americanism were to be nehieved. lie doclnied the process of Americanization must bo such a process as will instill n steadfastness to principle, and a willingness will-ingness to represent ideal things rather than material things. "It takes a great deal more steadfastness stead-fastness to represent ideal things than to represent anything olso," ho continued con-tinued "It is easv to loso your temper tem-per and hard to keep it. It is easy to strike and sometimes very dilhcult to refrain from striking." Tho government particularly, the president said, should bo so maintained that tho immigrant could look at it with closest scrutiny and not ilnd it wanting want-ing in unv particular as the representative representa-tive of a free people. Ho reiterated his belief that the number of ioreign-bom ioreign-bom citizens who have been disloyal i II n whrtlp 11U1K0 up omv a siiium number of tliose who have adopted the United States as their country. Cine for Boasters. Foreign travel was suggested as the best cure for those inclined to boast too much of the superiority of America. The president said in part: Wo om:ht to be careful to maintain d government at which the immigrant can look with the closest scrutiny anil tn which he should he at liberty lib-erty to address thlB (Hiestioiv. lou declare this to be a land of liberty and of equality and justice; have von made It so by your law?' We oustht to be aide in our schools. In our nlsht schools and In every other method of lnstructlns these people to show them that that has been our endeavor. We cannot conceal from them Ions the fact that we are Just as human as any other nation. na-tion. Hint we are Just as seltlsh, that there are Just as many mean people anioimst us as anywhere else, that there are Just as many people here who want to take advantage of other people as you can find in other countries. But our object ts lo set these people in harness and see to It that they do not do any damage. America Powerful. America has built up a great body of wealth. America tias become, from the physical point of view, one of the most powerful nations in t lie world, a nation which. If it took the pains to do so. could build up that power into oo of tlte most formidable instruments in the world, one of tho most formidable Instruments of force, nut which lias no other Idea than to use that force lor ideal objects and not lor self-agsrandlzement. Tills process of Americanization is solng to he a process ot self-examlna-i;on. a process of purification, a process pro-cess of reoedieation to the things which America represents and is proud to represent. And it takes a great deai more courage and steadfastness, stead-fastness, my fellow citizens, to represent rep-resent idcitl tilings than to represent repre-sent anything else. It is easy to lose your temper and hard lo keep it. Easy to Strike. Tt is easy to strike and sometimes very difficult to refrain from striking:, ami I think you will agree with me that wo are most Justified in being, proud of doing the things that are hard to do and not the things that ate easy. Ynu do Tiot settle things quickly by taking what seems to be the quickest quick-est way to sortie them. You may make the complication just that much the more profound and inextrlcah'e and, therefore, what I believe America Amer-ica should exalt above every thine else ts the sovereignty of thouchlful-ness thouchlful-ness and sympathy and vision us against tho gro.-sest Impulses of mankind. man-kind. No nation can live without vision and no vision will exalt a na-; na-; except the vision of real liberty lib-erty and real justice and purity of conduct. |