Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1920 — Both the Native-Born and Immigrant Have Their Duties to America. [ARTICLE]

Both the Native-Born and Immigrant Have Their Duties to America.

By SENATOR W. S.

KENYON of lowa

The alien cannot Americanize himself. He can never become assimilated if he is shunted off into a shanty town. He cannot be Americanized with a dub. There is more hope in a handshake than in profit-sharing. There is a growing need for America to Americanize itself; for each individual to stop shifting the blame onto others and depending on some one else to put our house in order-. The immigrant has his duty to Amer--ica and he must be made to discharge it The native-born has his duty and he must search his own heart to see if there are any roots of the trouble -there. If we could only control our greed, our avarice, our quick prejudice nnd passion and pull together for the general welfare of our country, what a nation this would be! America means more than stocks and bonds, and *nd schools and farms and stores. It means a great ideal of justice for all men. A man who cannot be just whether with his employee or with his employer is not a true American. The ship of stale is sailing through pretty troublesome seas, but it is a mighty sturdy old ship. It will weather the storms. It will pull through every crisis. It is a time for aroused conscience and determination of all our people to enthrone justice in their own hearts and then do what they •an to swist others. We are engaged now in much talk of helping the world. We can help it by giving to the world a high example of justice and fraternity, and in so doing many of our industrial problems will be solved.