Mr. President. no matter from what country our ancestors. immediate or r:emote. came. we ought never to forget. that we are American citizens with but a single fealty. and as representatives of our country in its foreign as well as its domestic relations our course should be unswerved by sympathy for one andunswayed byprejudice against another nation. This duty becomes more apparent and the dangers ofa different course more manifest when we recall the millions of people who have emigrated to this land from the several countries now engaged in warfare. and whose sympathies naturally. turn toward the. land of their own or their ancestors nativity. . We can not allow our views concerning the responsibility for this conflict or the sympathy or hostility of the press. or of any portion of our own citizenship. to ripen into any act on our part which should have eventhe semblance of assistance to either belligerent. If we fail to do this we wrong the sensibilities of the children of ofieland to pleasethose of another. and. worse yet. we weaken our own independent national character and compromise our national integrity.
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