Show if I 1 TRUE americanism we may just as well definitely face afi lie fact I 1 that no man c can in ever be a good american lean no man can ever be a really first birst class citizen of the united states unless he is an american and not nothing hinc 0 else recent events have shown us that the effort to combine loyalty loyally to this land with loyalty to any other can only result in weakening the loyalty to lo this country washington and lincoln were of english descent but they were not E eng ng lish americans their loyalty was undividedly and wholeheartedly whole heartedly to the united states and to all of the people of the united stales in every part thereof in in international relations they judged england precisely as they judged all other nations that is in any given crisis they judged every foreign nation exactly in accordance with its conduct in that cris crisis is they were as incapable of the die meanness of unreasoning malice and hatred toward any particular par nation as of meanness of truckling to it and making its interests superior to our own they set uie the standard of americanism which all of our citizens should follow in their relations with one another in their attitude toward their own country and in their attitude toward bac eacel and all foreign nations THEODORE |