Speech #630385044

First. able. competent. intelliactually "fit" to help mold our institufions. to. assimilate our traditions. to further our ideals. to improve our Institutions. - That. is first. and second what? And upon this I. In my thought. am emphatic. - We. want a -man who. when he. took his naturalization oath. did not swear to a lie. who. when he said. as ft onditionlof naturalizhtion. that he cast off all allegiance across the water did.not keep concealed a mental reservation to kfng. kaiger. czar. emperor. what: not. who -did. not come here with the idea that it w s. permissible after he had settled here to regulate -his conduct in. America as an American citizen by something going on beyond the water. The. minute he does that he i6nfesses he committed perjury when he took out his naturalization- papers. . � If. you are going to have a foreignborn man help to mold American iiistitutions. let it be a man who is competent for .Aerican citizemiship. afiduoreover. let it be a man who is yilling. to b an Ani.mrican eitizei. who down in the bottom of his heairt means what lie says whenhe takes his naturalization oath: and who does really mean. what that oath means..-that the sole loyalty he in his heart holds to any government on the surface of this earth is loyalty to the Government of the United States. : . As far as I am concerned. and.I rather like plain speaking. I do not want anybody else of any othersort.