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Show HARD1NC CALLS HYPHEN MENACE TO CITIZENSHIP Must Put an End to Groups, Republican Nominee Tells Foreign Born MARION, O.. Sept. IS Warning against the dangers of a hyphenated citizenship, Senator Harding told s L-jiih ring of foreign born Americans here today that he believed the United States must avoid "meddling" in the affairs of other nations if all clas - of Arfterlran cinScTrt are "to be united In loyally to the government. govern-ment. The foreign born are not to blame for conflicting sympathies during the world war, he bald asserting that the fault was with the nation itself for failure in the task of thoroughly Ar.ierirnnl7.lng those oT foreign extraction. extrac-tion. Thix work must now he talten up with new determination. "Let us all pray that America shall never becom- divided Into classes and shall nSVOr feel the menace of hyphenated hyph-enated citizenship." : ild Senator Hardlhs I Mi SPEC1 I 1 1 )TI U. "Thr way to unite and blend foreign blood In the life stream of America is to put an end to groups, an end to rlasses; n end to special app-al to any cf them; an end to particular favor for any of ihem "I do not know whether or not Washington fcresaw this menace when ho warned us against entangling entan-gling alliances and meddling abroad, but I see it, and I say to you that all America must stand firm against Ihls danKerous and destructive and un-American un-American policy. Meddling Is not only duneerous to u because It leads us Into the entanglements aK.ainst whlcii Washington warned us. but It also threatens an America divided in her own household SOI N Dfi W VRNING "For Aipericana who low America. 1 sound O warning It Is not beyond possibility that the .lay might come nnd may find forbid it wh'n an or-gatnlsed or-gatnlsed hyphenated vote in American politics mlKht hav.- the balance of voting vot-ing power to elect our government. If this were true, A r erica would be delivered out of the hands of her citizenship and her control might hn transferred to a foreign capital abroad. "Lft us all remember, however, thai 'America firf does not mean that the America which we all love and under whdsc. flap we must always remain a people united is to be an America blind to the welfare Of humanity throughout the world, or deaf to the call of w..rt.i Ivlllsatlon sot l T, ,n STTCE. , "With an Interest in a common good, I urpe now and shall with Increasing Increas-ing conviction, always iitrc. that America shall give to her eitlzenn the bentfltS of social democracy owes to cltlsenahip. i Insist that American conscience recognises the duty of protecting pro-tecting our national health I Insist thai II Will protect American motherhood mother-hood and American childhood and tho American home There can be no defense de-fense for working conditions which rob the American child of Its rights " |
