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Show ROOSEVELT'S FINAL MESSAGE TO PUBLIC Last Public Statement Was a Pica for Loyalty to American People. New York. What was the last public pub-lic statement by Colonel Roosevelt was read Sunday night at an "Ail-Aineri-I can concert" here under the auspices of the American Defense society, of which he was honorary president. "I cannot be with you and so ail I can do is to wish you godspeed." it read. "There must be no sagging back in the fight for Americanism merely because the war is over. "There are plenty of persons who have already made the assertion that they believe the American people have a short memory and that they intend to revive all the foreign associations which most directly interfere with the complete Americanization of our people. peo-ple. Our principle in this matter should be absolutely simple "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who conies here does in good faith become an American Ameri-can and assimiliates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. Hut this i s predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an flieri-can. flieri-can. "If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, than he is not doing his part as an American. There can be no divided alliance at all. "We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns1 our people out as Americans and American nationality and not as dwellers dwel-lers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people." |