As the President of the United States said at one time before we declared war. the world is on fire and the cinders and sparks are falling all around. That is peculiarly true of the conditions existing in this country. We can not disguise from ourselves the fact that we are not a homogeneous people. that there are 30.000.000 people of foreign l)irth of the first generation or naturalized citizens among us. and that a large number of them. at least 10.000.000 of that 30.000.000. if not in sympathy with our opponents yet must necessarily be to some extent affected by tile fact that they are of the blood of the central powers. Now. those are the conditions existing. In every State in the Union practically we have to meet those conditions.
Identified stereotypes
Implies that naturalized citizens of German/Austrian descent are inherently disloyal or sympathetic to the enemy.