Can any American citizen. of whatever race or nationality. take offense at such a plea for national unity and undivided loyalty? Now. let me quote to you from the Presidents message in December. 1915: There are citizens of the United States. I blush to admit. born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America. who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the ver y arteries of our national life. who have sought to bring the authority and good name of oar Government Into contempt. to destroy our industries wherever they thought It effective for their yindictive purposes to strike at them. and to debase our politics to the uses of foreign intrigue. Their number Is not great as compared with the whole number of those sturdy hosts by which our Nation has been enriched in recent generations out of virile foreign stocks. but it is great enough to have brought deep disgrace upon us. And further. he said: There are some men among us and many resident abroad who. though born and bred in the United States and calling themselves Americans. have so forgotten themselves and their honor as citizens as to put their passionate sympathy with one or the other side in the great European conflict above their regard for the peace and dignity of the United States.
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Some naturalized citizens pour the poison of disloyalty into the arteries of our national life.