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AMERICA M AMERICANS ,
But Theodore Boosovolt Tolls How
to Become Amorlcanlzod.
LOYAL TO HIS ADOPTED LAND
Socially nnd I'olltlcnlljr , tlio
Mny Rise to Distinction mill
Fatno ns Hnvo Others
IJoforo Him.
Thcodoro Roosevelt In America ;
There have recently boon many signs
of a popular awakening to the fact , that
much of the foreign immigration to our
shores is of n highly undesirable kind ;
mid , together with tills , there have also
appeared , here and there , symptoms of
the revival of the old fooling of disllko
nnd distrust of nil immigrants , good or
bad a fooling whoso fltful slumbers ,
during the past sixty years , has been
varied oiico nnd ngain by spasms of
erratic activity , whoso outcome has
often boon ludicrous , sometimes harm
ful nnd occasionally both.
Although these two phases of senti
ment so often appear sldo by side , yet
there is properly nothing whatever in
common between them ,
It goes without saying , that Itisvi-
tnlly important for all decent American
citizens , no matter where they were
born or what creed they profess , to join
hands in keeping out mon whoso admis
sion into our commonwealth can result
only in harm to the body politic. .
* * * V * *
Cut all this has nothing whatever to
do with a fooling of hostility for foreign
ers simply as such a fooling com
pounded of fear. , contempt and jealousy
which even when it does not manifest
itself openly In political agitation , is yet
always latent in the breasts of no incon
siderable portion of our citizens , It is a
discreditable prejudice , as any man can
satisfy himself by a brief examination
of the facts. Of course , it must bo ad
mitted that the behavior of some of the
present immigrants indeed of some
whole classes of immigrants affords a
partial justification for this prejudice ;
yet oven a slight study of our past his
tory is enough to show us that both the
fear of , and hostility toward , our follow
eitiyons of foreign birth or parentage ,
are , if not wholly baseless , yet based on
very insulllcient grounds.
The people who feel this fear and hos
tility seem to forgot that our whole his
tory is made up of wavesof immigration ;
anu that this immigration was formerly ,
as now , drawn from the ranks of many
widely-different nations. A common
mistake is to talk of our revolutionary
ancestors ns forming a "hoihogoneous"
body , ono in speech and blood , whereas ,
in reality , the Americans of Jthat day
wore of quito as heterogeneous composi
tion ns are wo ourselves at present.
Americans of 1776 were so far from
being ono in race tlmt it may even bo
doubted whether half of them were of
pure , o > ' nearly pure , English blood. In
Now England the English blood was
purest ; but even in Now England there
was an Irish admixture much larger
than eomo Now England historians are
willing to admit dating from as far
back as the time of Cromwell , by whom
the Irish were iir&t shipped over. There
wore also many French Huguenots.
Ono of the great Now England revolu
tionary families was that of the Sulli-
vaus ; one of the very few revolutionary
battles fought on Now England soil was
won by the Irishman Stark ; and the
most formidable rebellion that overtook
place in a Now England state was chris
tened by the name of its loader , Shea
( or Shay , in its Anglicised form ) . This
same rebellion was put down by a gov
ernor with the French nanio of Bow-
doin ; and the similarily Hugue
not names of Revere and Fanuoil are
among the best remembered of Massa
chusetts. Virginia , then the leading
state , and the only one outside of Now
England where the people of English
stock were largely predominant , con
tained albp many Huguenots , and Gor-
maiis , besides the Scotch-Irish along its
western border. In the middle btatos
that is , in Now York , Pennsylvania.
Now Jersey , and Delaware , the people
of English blood wore certainly in the
minority , and those of French , Dutch ,
German , Swiss and Swedish descent
were , taken together , moro numerous ,
in proportion to the whole population ,
than is now the case in any group of
American Htatesovcn including Minnesota
seta and Wisconsin. Similarly , the
Carolinas and Georgia contained com
munities speaking French , Dutch ,
Gorman and Gaelic , while the
mountaineers , as in ronnhylvnnSa
and Virginia , were mainly Scotoh-
Irish , so that in the southern colonies
albo , the people of pure English stock
were greatly in the minority.
Certainly such a showing as this
ought to remove from tlio mind of the
moot apprehensive all fear arising
merely from the variety and extent of
the present immigration. The "Ger
man boors and Irish cotters , " who have
como over during this century , form a
relatively smaller part of our population
than did the Dutch and Gorman boors
and Scotch and Irish cotters a century
back. In no ono of our states at the
present day are the foreign , and non-
English elements BO plentiful as they
were in New York and Pennsylvania at
the time when the first continental con
gress was assembled.
The next assertion to bo considered ,
is the one to the olToct that the people
who como over here to-day compare
unfavorably with the people who came
over here prior to 1770 ; or , in other
other words , that the immigrants of the
seventeenth nnd eighteenth centuries
were of a better class than these of the
nineteenth.
Beyond question , ono of the most fcorl-
ous evils from which , as a nation , wo
now sulTcr , is to be found in the char
acter of part of the immigration to our
aliorcH. The question ns to how this
immigration can be bout checked , is of
the greatest importance to the fu.turo
well being of our people ; to solve it
would bo : t feat of practical statesman
ship , beside which the solution of the
sliver djllleultjvor of the reform of the
tariff , or of the quontion of the reduc
tion of the surplus itDolf , would sink
into absolute insignificance. Wo lira
made the hnrbonng-placo for shoals of
criminals ; and bo it remembered
that the criminality of many so-called
"political" offenders of the present day
is quito us murkddly noxious as tlmt of
any other class. Moreover , much of
the "clioap labor" that comes here from1
certain European states is of a kind not
calculated to produce good citizenship.
Yet , granting all this , there still
Booms good ground for the question that
now , as formerly in splto of a multi
tude of individual , and , possibly , ono or
two race exceptions the immigration
hither is made up of , on the whole , the
beiit , hardiest and most adventurous in
habitants of the European countries.
From Germany , Scandinavia nnd the
British islands we got far moro mon of
the btnmp of Andrew Curncgio , Judge
Barrett , Carl Schur < s , John Royle
O'Reilly and Hjnlmar Ujorth Boyesen ,
than we do of additions to the criminal
clnss , such men us Most nnd O'Donovan
Itossn. Thei o are , probably few Amor-
can btudouts of contemporary history ,
capable of forming < * Intelligent judg
ment , who do not honestly believe that
Americans are , taking thorn altogether ,
and , notwithstandingsomovory marked
and disngrcoablo faults and failings ,
superior to any other people , in Europe
or elsewhere , in the traits and capaci
ties that fit them for solf-govornmont
nnd for performing the Quties Incident
to citizenship ; but far-seeing students
must nlso admit that most of
the foreigners who cotno here will very
Boon at the slowest , in the course of a
couple of generations make Ameri
cans , not only as rfood as , butmoreovor ,
absolutely indistinguishable from , the
rcstot us. '
Besides , it is well to remember that ,
from the outset , from the days of the
lirst white settlers on this continent , wo
have had to contend with the dangers
arising from certain kinds of unwholo-
pomo immigration. Before the Now
Englnndcrs had boon domiciled in tbo
home of thuir choice for two genera
tions , the moro serious of them became
greatly alarmed on account of the rapid
deterioration in morals consequent ,
among other things , upon the importa
tion of "redomptionors" and the like.
Condemned English criminalscaptured
Irish rebels , aim sodden , starving Ger
man labormon wore imuorted wholesale
to Now York , Pennsylvania , Virginia
and tbo Carolinas , as apprentices nnd
bond-servants , to give rise to n pecu
liarly vicious and shiftless race of
social outlaws. It is very , doubtful if
we now receive , relative to our popula
tion , as great a number of immigrants
of bad character as were sent to the
colonies prior to the revolution. But ,
of cour.se , the founders of our peonlo ,
the exiles for the sake of political or
religious freedom , were superior to any
of their successors of to-day.
The enormous bulk of tbo immigrants
of tbo present time como from tbo Brit
ish Isles , from the Germanic lands , and
from Scandinavia , the exact countries
thutj though in varying proportions ,
furnished the great bulk of the first
settlers of the various colonies. There
are very few Gorman , Gaelic or French
names , and , probably , not very many
Scandinavians , borne by immigrants
of the present day , which were not also
to bo found here in the last century.
With greater or less rapidity , all those
peoples have boon fused together in
the past , and the fusing will go on just
us steadily in the future.
At the time of our birth ns a nation ,
wo already differed in blood , as well as
in manners from the British ; the word
American already had moro than a mere
geographical significance , and the
streams of humanity that have since
flowed to our shores have , after all , but
slightly altered the proportions in which
our elemental raco-strnms were already
combined.
Tlio Americans who first gave us a
name and a nation the descendants of
the early English , Dutch and Swedish
adventurers , nnd of the Puritdn , Hugue
not and Scotch-Irish exiles for con
science sake also made the mold into
which the nation was to bo cast.
All subsequent immigration to our
shores , of whatever race , have perforce
been run through it. Formerly , as well
as now , there were some base alloys in
the metal lilting this mold ; but then , as
now , the good outweighed the bad ; and
good and bad alike came out indelibly
stamped as American. The influence
of foreigners within our borders upon
us , is sometimes serious , but it is
nothing compared to our influence upon
them. The change in our national
character during the past century has
boon duo to our own growth , and but
little to the character of the accession
to our population from the outside. The
grandson of the immigrant who came
here at the beginning of the present
century has become exactly like the
great-grandson of the American who
fought in the revolution , ami differs
from the man of 1770 no moro than
docs the lattor's own descendant.
As regards the more question of race ,
our whole past history shows that nearly
all the people represented among the
present immigrants wore also repre
sented among our forefathers who
fought for independence , in much the
same pronortion as at present ; and as
Gorman , Dutchman , Swede , Frenchman
and Irishman have always boon turned
Into American citizens absolutely indis
tinguishable from their fellow citizens
in the past , wo have excellent reason
for believing that such will bo the case
in the future. In glancing at the nar
rative of the last party contest carried
on in colonial New York in 1708 ,
it seems amusingly like modern
times to road of the fears
felt about the "solid" Gorman vote
and of the hostility with which the con-
soi'vatiyo or Episcopalia party regarded
the "Irish beggars. " Probably a good
half of the descendants of those Irish and
German voters of 17G8 were ardent
knownothings in the middle of the pres
ent century.
Nor does our past history show any
reason for foarinf ? lost the increase in
certain beets will work any radical
change in our body politic. Since tbo
revolution the Mothodibt nnd Baptist
churches the former especially have
grown enormously nnd have
become the most important in the
land , but as far as this has
had any effect , it has boon for good.
The Reformed church , to which most
of the French nnd Dutch and many of
the Germans belonged has become com
pletely Americanized , the Lutheran , of
which moro horcaftor , Is rapidly bo-
coining so. The Catholics , who were
so jumiurous and influential in Mary
land in 177G , divided on the question of
independence , precisely as did the vari
ous Protestant soots and except on one
point to bo discussed later the same
holds true now , for there is not a state
in the union whcro. tljo members of
every religious body are not to bo found
on each bide of every question of public
policy from tbo tariff to prohibition.
It is , of cours > o , true that the ruto of
Epecu at which Americanization pro
ceeds differs widely among different
groups of foreigners , and even among
different groups of the same raco. By
the beginning of the present century
the Dutch were almost completely amal
gamated with their Englisu. neighbors
in Now York ; yet it ia a curious lact
that there are still to bo found families
and one or two instances could
bo pointed out not a score
ot miles from Now York City
Hull whore the household speech ia
Btill that of Holland. Most of the de
scendants of our pro-revolutionary Gor
man population have blended indissolubly -
bly with our other race elements ; but In
parts of Pennsylvania the Germans , or ,
as they ura called , "Pennsylvania
Dueth'still form a partially undigested
lump in the state's stomach. In the
country districts the Irish are rapidly
absorbed ; but in portions of tlio great
cltlos they congregate by themselves ,
forming separate eddies in the great
current of American national life.
Yet in no case can any group of immi
grants avoid its fate. The most it can
do is to rotnrd it. The movement Is
alow at ono point and fast at another ;
but it goes steadily on the whole time ,
and usually at a constantly accelerating
rate of speed.
The ono overshadowing fact in this
process of complete Americanization ,
the one side , of the question that should
bo always borne in mind , is tlio enor
mous benefit it confers upon tha parson
who is Americanized. The gain to .the
country is real , but the gain to the indi
vidual hluidoll $ a everything. Immi
grants who remain aliens , whether In
language or In political thought , are ot
little benefit to the country ;
but they themselves are the
individuals most damaged. The
man who bqtnjics completely American
ized who o § ) rates our constitutional
centennial Jiilcad of the queen's JutoU
lee , or the Soqrth of July , rather than
Saint Patrick's day , anil who "talks
United Stales" instead of the dialect of
the country which ho has of his own
frco will abandoned is not only doing
his plain duty by his adopted land , but
is alsrt rendering to himself a service of
immcasurcablfi value.
This last point is ono that can not be
too often insisted on. The chief Inter
est served by Americanization is thatof
the individual himself. A man who
speaks only Gorman or Swedish may
nevertheless bo a mo3t useful American
citizen ; but it Is Impossibles for him to
derive the full bonolit ho should from
American citizenship. And , on the
other hand , it is impossible for him ,
under any circumstances , to retain the
benefits incident to being a member of
the nation of which ho has loft. It
would bo hard to imagine another alter
native where the advantage was so
wholly on ono side. The case stands
thus : By becoming completely Ameri
canized the immigrant gains every
right conferred upon citizen
ship in the country to which
ho baa como ; but , if ho fails to bocomq
Americanized , ho nevertheless loses nil
share and part in the nation which ho
has loft , and gains nothing in return.
Ho cannot p'ossibly remain an English
man , a Gorman , or a Scandinavian ; all
ho can do is to refuse to become an
American , and thereby make himself a
kind of mongrel waif , of no importance
anywhoro. Under no circumstances
can ho longer have a part in the history
of his former country ; indeed , it is a
curious fact that his former countrymen
will probably fool a certain disllko or
contempt for him until ha ranks us.
wholly an American and then ho occu
pies a position such as wo rightly bo-
llovo is hold by the citizen of no other
land.
The nation from which ho sprang can
hnvo no part or parcel in his career.
Gallatin became one of the foremost
statesmen of America ; but had ho re
fused to assimilate himself to his follow
Pennsylvnniaus , and thus nover-havo
appeared in American history , ho would
nevertheless have lost all bold on Switz
erland , quito as much as was actually
the case , and would merely have debarred -
barred himself from making an honor
able mark anywhoro.
If the immigrant heartily adapts him
self to his now surroundings , ho may
reach the highest position in the land ,
save the presidency , lie may servo in
the cabinet or senate , llko the Scotch
man , Beck , the Irishman , Shields , or
the Gorman , Schurz. To his son the
presidency itself is open as it was to
the descendant of the Dutchman , Van
Buron. If , on the other hand , ho re
tains tbo speech and feelings of his for
mer country , ho'can play no prominent
part hero , whether as lawyer , legislator ,
soldier or author , and ho bolf-ovidontly
fails to return-the power to play any
such part "abroad. In any event ho
wholly loses .Ills''former citizenship ; the
atttompt tojlioe it merely results in the
additional ( loss of some of his chief
privileges a4 an American.
Our annals are filled with illustrious
names , namps dear to every American
heart , which would never have been
heard of had their fathers not been wise
enough andhpatriotic enough to cast in
their lots | lri every way with , that of
their adoptqti country. Had the Spanish-
spoakittg Farjjagut , who came here in
the lust.cqpbiry , . educated hi.s son
among his folldy Miiiorcan immigrants ,
and taught him Spanish as his mother
tongue , the United States would have
been deprived of thoirgreatost admiral ,
history would have boon by so much
the poorer , and the loyal cause in the
great civil war by so much the weaker ,
but who can measure the iinmcasureublo
los.3 to Furragut himself' {
Had Ouster's people remained as un
affected by their surroundings , as has
been the case with some Pennsylvania
communities , then ho would have boon
through life merely an insignificant
individual in an unimportant body of
mon , who spoke a bastard Gorman dia
lect , and were looked upon by Ameri
cans with a tolerant good humor closely
akin to contempt , and by such Germans
as know of their existence with oven
moro pronounced distaste ; whereas ho
has now won deathless fame , as the
American arch-typo of a skillful , dash
ing and absolutely fearless cavalry com
mander.
If tbo French Loulsianian , Boauro-
gard , hod boon sent to Paris to bo edu
cated , if his tongun and interests had
remained French , then ho might possi
bly have ribon to the command of some
Ci'eolo contingent in a Louisiana bri
gade , but ho would never have taken
his place in history as ono of the most
prominent confederate chiefs.
Sheridan's name is a talisman where
with to open every American heart , nnd
it will shine ; undimmcd by time , us
long us lasts the memory of the civil
war itsolf. There Is no school boy but
knows him ; no historian who does not
pay him reverence. There is no other
living American , save grand TeCumseh
Sherman , who has such a hold on the
passionate loyalty of our people. Ho
already has the highest military posi
tion in our gift , there are many among
his follow citizens who are only with
hold by his own wish from endeavoring
to put him in the highest civil position
as well. W ° Cla5m him with jealous
pride as being utterly and exclusively
our own. Whether his parents were
born in Ireland , or came over in the
Mayflower , is a point of interest only to
the genealogists ; it is quito enough for
us to know that ho himself is an Ameri
can. Is not his a position that any man
on earth might fool the keenest pride
in iillingV And does any believe that
he would now fill It if his people had
persisted in ' identifying themselves
with some body of Irishmen who re
mained foreigners , and not Americans ,
and who busied themselves exclusively
with the politics of a foreign power'/
So it was in Uiotlmo of the re volution.
Among ourifouamost generals at that
time were Sullivan , Schuylor and
Mublonberg1. The first was a Massa
chusetts man , the second a Now Yorker ,
the third a Pennsylvania ! ! . Nobody
thought of caljing them , respectively ,
on Irishman , a Dutchman , mid a Gor
man , any more than of calling Wash
ington an 'Englishman , They were
Americana , ono and all , whether their
blood was Eijgllsh , Irish. Dutch or
German. Hud they not boon genuinely
American hud they still felt a longing
to bo something else in addition they
could never hiWe taken among us the
commanding rank they did.
It was for this reason that , relatively ,
so many of our leading mon have boon
of French Huguenot blood ; as witness
Marion , Sovier , Jay , Laurons , Revere ,
Bowdoin , and a host of others. The
Huguenots assimilated themselves to
their surroundings , and became Ameri
canized moro quickly than did any
other people ; In consequence , they re-
oolvod even moro than their slmro'of
the benefits of American citizenship.
Moreover , the harm organizations do
themselves by refusing to become Amer
icanized is quito as pronounced as with
individuals. This has boon strikingly
shown by the history of the Dutch Re
formed Church. During , the last cen
tury , the Dutch church in Now York
dwindled steadilv , beoatmo.it rotu'sod to
abandon the Dutch language , and. as a
jonsoquonco , all the young men of abil
ity and enterprise , who wished to make
Lholr mark in the world , were forced to
leave it. Finally , at the close of the
conturyEnglish was definitely Installed
In the services , nnd the process of decay
was stopped ; but it had boon permitted
to go on BO long as to prevent the church
aver taking a loading position in the
land. The French Huguenot churches
were abandoned by tnoir supporters
even moro quickly , the Huguenots , as
already said , throwing thomsolvoa from
the outset heart and soul into American
lifo. The Swedish Lutnorn churches
on the Delaware suffered almost total
extinction in consequence of the folly
of the ministers in standing by the old
language ; the congregations finally
abandoned thom ontlrcly.nnd soon after
the revolution the minister sent out
here by the king of Sweden returned
because there was no ono who could un
derstand his preaching.
Before closing , one word to those who
cither fear , orprofoss to fear , the effect
of the Roman Catholic church upon our
institutions. To quiet such fours , it
would certainly seem only necessary
for those people to call to mind Carroll ,
who signed the Declaration of Indepen
dence , and the part played by his follow
Catholics of Maryland In the revolution ;
or lot them analyze- out the legislative
bodies of to-day not confining thom-
solvcs to the representatives of the
lower wards of the great cities. I can
speak feelingly on this point , for among
the score or two of mon of really
exceptionally honor and integrity whom
I mot during a thrco years' legislative
experience , a full proportion bore such
distinctively Irish-Catholic names ns
O'Noil ' , Kelly , Costello , Welsh and
Shohy. It is perfectly true that now
and then priests say foolish things-
like the silly remark recently made by
ono in Now York , to the effect that
good Catholics must tuko their politics
trom Peter ; to which the answer is that
Americans would no more tolerate n
theocracy than an oligarchy era
a monarchy ; but do not
some protestant preachers at times
show quito as little wisdom ? The sim
ple truth is that in our systems of re
ligion all have to become moro or loss
republican and American , and1 there
fore all have to change somewhat from
Lho old-world form ; the Presbyterianism -
ism of to-day differs widely from the
Galvanism of the seventeenth century
in Scotland and Geneva , and would bo
un-American if such were not the case ;
and similarly the practical workings of
the creed of American Catholics will bo
very difficult in the outcome from the
effect of that creed among Italian or
Spanish ultramontancs.
There is but ono point in reference to
which anv feelings of alarm are in the
smallest degree justifiable ; this is this
public school system. Wo could suffer
no national calamity moro far-roaching
in its effects than would bo implied in
the abandonment of non-sectarian com
mon schools : and it is a very unfortu
nate thing for any man , or body of mon ,
to bo identified with opposition thereto.
But it must bo berne in mind that hos
tility to the public schools is not really
a question of sects at all ; it is merely
an illustration of the survival or impor
tation here of the utterly un-Amer
ican and thoroughly old world
idea of the subordination of the
layman to the priest , Not a few
Protestant clergymen oppose our public
schools on the ono hand , and an over-
increasing number of Catholic laymen
support them on the other. At my own
homo on Long Island , for instance , the
chief opponent of the public schools is ,
not the Catholic priest , but the Episco
palian clergymen , and ho reinforces his
slender slock of tritely foolish argu
ments by liberal quotations from the
work of a Presbyterian theologian. The
fight is not one between creeds ; it is an
issue between intelligent American
laymen of ovofy faith on tlio ono hand
aiid ambitious , foolish or misguided sup
porters of a worn-out system of clerical
government on the other , these sup
porters including Episcopalians and
Presbyterians as .well as Catholics. Our
public-school system is here to stay ; it
cannot bo overturned ; wherever hurt ,
oven , it is only at the much greater cost
of the person hurting it. The boy
brought up in the parochial school is
not only less qualified to bo a good
American citizen , but he is also at a
distant disadvantage in the race of life ,
compared to the boy brought up in the
public schools.
To sum up , then , it is well for an
American citizen , wherever born , to
keep those things in mind. In the first
place , "American , " as a political term ,
has to do with what a man is , not with
what his birthplace was ; for many of
the most honorable names in our history
are those of mon born outside of our
limits. The fool who votes against an
Irishman or Gorman simply because ho
is an Irishman or Gorman , is in reality
quite ns hurtfully un-Amoriean us is
tbo demugoguo who , in Booking to influ
ence our follow citizens of foreign ori
gin , appeals not to their interests as
patriotic residents of the commonwealth ,
but to pashionHund prejudices associated
with the nationality they have thrown
off.
Secondly , the process of American
ization is inevitable , and cannot bo
stopped , though it may bo retarded even
for generations. Finally , while it is an
advantage to the nation to have every
immigrant become rapidly American
ized , yet the vital and essential benefit
is that done to the individual himself ;
and thin benefit is without any corresponding
spending drawback , for while It is in
tno immigrant's power to fail to become
an American , it is entirely out of his
power to remain what ho formerly was.
In any cnso ho must lose his birthright ;
nil ho can do is merely to commit the
suicidal folly of falling to claim in ox-
clmngo bin complete portion in the land
ho bus adopted.
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