Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — Put His Americanism First. [ARTICLE]

Put His Americanism First.

“You must remember,” said he who first came to us as Marquis de la Fayette when he was asked by what title he preferred to be addressed when he was last on these shores, “that I am an American general.” He had renounced meanwhile one of the proudest patents of nobility In France that he might feel stronger Within him the call of freedom. The reply is characteristic of his whole outlook of life.