Personal memoirs of the home life of the late Theodore Roosevelt as soldier, governor, vice president, and president, in relation to Oyster Bay .. . ich mostdirectly interfere with the complete organization of ourpeople. Our principle in this matter should be absolutely the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant whocomes here in good faith becomes an American and assimi-lates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equalitywith everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminateagainst any such man because of creed, or birthplace ororigin. But this is predicated u
Personal memoirs of the home life of the late Theodore Roosevelt as soldier, governor, vice president, and president, in relation to Oyster Bay .. . ich mostdirectly interfere with the complete organization of ourpeople. Our principle in this matter should be absolutely the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant whocomes here in good faith becomes an American and assimi-lates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equalitywith everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminateagainst any such man because of creed, or birthplace ororigin. But this is predicated upon the mans becoming in fact anAmerican and nothing but an American. If he tries to keepsegregated with men of hi?; own origin and separated fromthe rest of America, then he isnt doing his part as anAmerican. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man whosays he is an American, but something else also, isnt anAmerican at all. We have room for but one flag, the Amerlican flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizesall wars against liberty and civilization just as much as itexcludes any flag of a nation to which we are PUT OUT THE LIGHT, PLEASE (Last Words of Theodore Roosevelt) Put out the light, please. These were thelast words he said ou whom now light eternalshines. For him no burden of the slow andfading years, with consciousness of an impend-ing blow; the sword of Damocles above his;head about to fall and bring oblivion. No. itwere best to go while still the strength of hisgreat manhood unabated stood and matched liismighty spirit, which untamed by strain andtravel of the passing days still sprang towardlonged for action When it seemed the time wasripe to serve his country best; now he rests. Hiswork on earth was done, else he had stayed totlnish it. No life goes back to its Maker incom-plete, though our earthly eyes not always readthe story to its end. The end for him is butthe beginning of a sure presage of souls were never made
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