We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here
does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be
treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very
fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated
with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he
isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. .
. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for
we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of
American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we
have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
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