46 True Americanism 



introducing among us Old- World quarrels and prej- 

 udices. There are certain ideas which he must give 

 up. For instance, he must learn that American life 

 is incompatible with the existence of any form of 

 anarchy, or of any secret society having murder for 

 its aim, whether at home or abroad; and he must 

 learn that we exact full religious toleration and the 

 complete separation of Church and State. More- 

 over, he must not bring in his Old- World religious 

 race and national antipathies, but must merge them 

 into love for our common country, and must take 

 pride in the things which we can all take pride in. 

 He must revere only our flag ; not only must it come 

 first, but no other flag should even come second. He 

 must learn to celebrate Washington's birthday rather 

 than that of the Queen or Kaiser, and the Fourth 

 of July instead of St. Patrick's Day. Our political 

 and social questions must be settled on their own 

 merits, and not complicated by quarrels between 

 England and Ireland, or France and Germany, with 

 which we have nothing to do; it is an outrage to 

 fight an American political campaign with reference 

 to questions of European politics. Above all, the im- 

 migrant must learn to talk and think and be United 

 States. 



The immigrant of to-day can learn much from 

 the experience of the immigrants of the past, who 

 came to America prior to the Revolutionary War. 

 We were then already, what we are now, a people of 

 mixed blood. Many of our most illustrious Revo- 

 lutionary names were borne by men of Huguenot 



