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Show DOMESTIC ISSUE A GRAVE ONE forming of Bodies Apart From American Citizenship a Far Reaching Movement. AMAZING SITUATION Tens of Thousands of Germans Ger-mans Denouncing Nation That Adopted and Sheltered Them. Stockridge, Mass., Sept 4. Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post, in an address ad-dress before the m Laurel Hill association asso-ciation here today', declared that the movement among American citizens of foreign, especially those of German descent, to form bodies apart from tho citizenship presented a far reaching domestic Issue which the American people must conquer Mr. Villard said an important factor fac-tor in the continuance of the "American "Ameri-can melting pot" lay in educating Immigrants Im-migrants to the proper duties of citizenship. citi-zenship. He said he was "born on German soil, of a German father." Foreigners Should Be Taught. Foreigners becoming American citizens citi-zens should be made to understood, Villard said, that there can be no divided di-vided citizenship or loyalty or allegiance alle-giance under the American flag. That no one can accept political obligations obliga-tions here, while at heart loyal to another social system, another entity or another code of laws. In opening his address, Mr. Villard Vil-lard quoted from an address made by Carl Schurz at the celebration of the lattor's seventieth birthday, sixteen years ago, In which Mr Schurz said that, no matter how warm the affections affec-tions Gorman Americans had held for their native land, they had never permitted per-mitted their affections to interfere with their duties as American citizens, citi-zens, nor to seduce them to use their power in American politics for foreign for-eign ends. Present Conditions Amazing. "How amazed Carl Schurz would be to return to us today and find that that has come to pass which he deemed deem-ed inconceivable," said Mr. Villard. "Pie would find, to his sorrow, that at this moment the presence on this soil of German Americans does not holp to preserve peace and friendship between their two parent nations, but adds fuel to the flames of bitterness. "Naturally Schurz would scan the horizon for some discriminatory act on the part of our government, or some manifestation of racial prejudice preju-dice against German Americans. But he would find nothing of the sort. So far as the federal government and statesureo-oorHJerued, .he, would -discover nothingMchanged fiom the day heMeft us,aK't ' "The migntyQnvulsiou we are witnessing, wit-nessing, he 'would ascertain to be duo entirely to foreign complication, to a determination on the part of our German Americans to stand by their fatherland through thick and thin, right or wrong; to a sudden self-revelation that, unlike himself, they, by the tens of thousands, had not really transferred their allegiance to the country of their adoption Would Amaze Carl Schurz. "What could amaze him more than to find unnumbered Germans who like himself came to this country to escape es-cape the very militaristic autocracy they now uphold, today denouncing the nation that adopted and sheltered, shelter-ed, fed and clothed them?" He then asked that, if it were true as contended that Kerman kultur and political system were superior to the scheme of life and government In America, why the hordes who have flocked here did not go to Germany instead9 |