Aliens or Americans?

A million immigrants! A million opportunities! A million obligations! This in brief is the message of Aliens or Americans? A young man who came to this country young enough to get the benefit of our public schools, and who then took a course in Columbia University, writes: "Now, at twenty-one, I am a free American, with only one strong desire; and that is to do something for my fellow-men, so that when my time comes to leave the world, I may leave it a bit the better." These are the words of a Russian Jew; and that Russian is a better American, that Jew is a better Christian, than many a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers. In this country every man is an American who has American ideals, the American spirit, American conceptions of life, American habits. A man is foreign not because he was born in a foreign land, but because he clings to foreign customs and ideas. I do not fear foreigners half so much as I fear Americans who impose on them and brutally abuse them. Such Americans are the most dan[Pg 14]gerous enemies to our institutions, utterly foreign to their true spirit. Such Americans are the real foreigners. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 19198
Author: Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin)
Release Date: Sep 7, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English