Speech #670273463

It requires a little more care and consideration to keep the standard up equally on both sides and give them both the same education. which means opportunity. It will make our Government stronger. it will make our city and State and National Government stronger by saying and requiring of them that they both shall receive equal and coordinate education. What I wanted to say. and what I wanted to impress upon these men with relation to this bill is. to my mind. one of the best things in it. that an alien woman. who is married to an alien who can be naturalized but does not. may enter the courthouse upon her petition. that she may have the opportunityand may compel her employer to yield a sufficient time from her work without taking it from her pay. if she is workingto go to the courthouse where the opportunity is presented to her to become an American citizen. that she may for a few moments forget what my friend from Wisconsin says. that she is so overburdened with her duties with her family that she does not even have time to be naturalized. That idea of Anlerican womanhood In this country ought to be forgotten. namely. that because she is a mother she should be so bound down to her duties on the farm or at her home in the city that she can not even have an opportunity to go to the courthouse to become naturalized. that you want to make her a beast of burden all the tine. without any opportunity to see Gods sunlight. or to get some of the benefits of civilization and an opportunity to better herself and better her children. so that she may go home and give them some of the inspiration that she herself Is trying to drink In and obtain by virtue of that association. So I think the committee on that point alone. saying nothing else. will have accomplished a wonderful move forward when they will be able to say to over a million alien women that can not be naturalized now. that they will be given an opportunity to be naturalized under this law and to go to the courthouse with their witnesses and become naturalized and become American citizens. irrespective of the sluggish. unAmerican. lazy husbands. who dc not want to take the time I and opportunity to give their wives American citizenship. We will eliminate that class. and they will wake up when mother begins to take an active part. and they will wake up further when daughter and sons will begin to realize that mother has an interest in citizenship and has the right to vote. Father will wake up and take a bath and put on decent clothes ond go with mother and become naturalized and become an asset instead of a liability in this country. There is only one danger in this country now. and that is the Bolshevists within the confines of the United States that are ready and willing to tear down the country. We want to eliminate them as fast as we can.