Mr. Speaker. ladies and gentlemen of the House. it was very encouraging to all true lovers of this country and its institutions to hear the remarks made by the Honorable J. Wallace Leyden. judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bergen County. N. J.. wherein he stated to a number of German applicants for naturalization: You cant be both an American and a German. You must be either one or the other. I consider membership in the GermanAmerican Bund sufficient grounds for denying citizenship. This courageous stand by a judge of the New Jersey courts is so much at variance with a number of other judicial officers in the United States that it deserves special mention and all the encomiums which may be heaped on a publicspirited American.
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