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Show VOU CAN'T BE LOYAL TO TWO COUNTRIES "'. "The Good Book' .says that one cannot serve two masters. - By . the same token oho cannot hold sincere allegiance, to two .countries he cannot can-not hold aloft two flags and be loyal ; to both at the same time; one or t he other, must, ride at the top of . the' i mast. Loyalty is an attribute akin' jto godliness. Treason is the out-jward out-jward expression of ingratitude: . : . . i "President Coolhlge says that the ! greatest danger of our government today, lies among those who are here, but who are unassimilated iu, heart and spirit, and whose greater love is still for the foreign lands they have left to better' their condition condi-tion in the United States. ' "It is not : unnatural, nor ; even cause for ' criticism, that a person coming to the United States from some foreign country, should retain a certain degree of love for the land of his birth. All citizens of the United States descend from foreign lands, and there is no disrespect in this. We love to trace our ancestry back to the Pilgrim Fathers, and even beyond. But there is a limit to ancestral -. boastfi'lneb. "Martial vows remove a young man or woman from the paternal home, and a new home is chosen. This does not mean that love and ! respect for tli old heme .should be obliterated; but It does mean thai, a i.ew altar has been erected -8 new hearthstone built and dedici'.e'j to u new life, and this is thn t'Uav and this is the hearthstone that demands loyalty above all others. "So it is with the country of one's adoption. No man ever came to the United States of America except of his own violation, urged by a desire to obtain greater temporal blessings. The highways of the seas are ever closed agaisnt his return, if he finds himself unhappy under the laws and under the Constitution of this country. coun-try. "Loyalty to God,' to country, to home lo one's self commands confidence confi-dence of others and bespeaks good citizenship." |