Show druc crue americanism meri canis we may just as well definitely face the fact that no man can avei be a good american no man can ever be a really first class citizen of the united states unless he is an american and nothing else recent events have shown us that the effort to combine loyalty t this land with loyalty to any other can only result in weakening the loyalty to this country washington and lincoln were of english descent but they were not english americans their loyalty was undividedly and wholeheartedly to the united states and to all of the people of the united states in every part thereof in futer international national re relations lations they judged england ragland precisely as they judged all othor other nations that is a in any given crisis crims they judged every foreign nation exactly in accordance witla wit its conduct in that crisis they were as incapable of the meanness of unreasoning mal ice and hatred toward any particular nation as of meanness of truckling to it and making malang its interests superior to their own they set the standard of americanism which of our citizens should follow in their relations with one another in their attitude toward their own country and in their attitude toward rach each and all foreign nations THEODORE ROOSEVELT |