Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1919 — Be Americans First, Last and Always [ARTICLE]

Be Americans First, Last and Always

Advice of Senator Lodge to American People

Do not forgot that having visions is one thing, while being a visionary, especially a visionary whoseideals and visions are stage properties, is quite another. What troubles me most, writes Senator laalge In Leslie’s, about the books and articles and speeches by our* most advanced thinkers setting forth new panaceas and sy stems for all the evils is that they are generally so very old. a fact apparently disregarded by their authors, who very properly despise a past which only rises up to be troublesome. Russian bolshevism presents a warning to America in its awful results of a scheme which its authors pretended and their dupes believed would make all men happy in a moment. In letters of fire this Russian acene says to us: “This way lies ruin. Be Americans first, Americans last and Americans always.