illegals - 1907: Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration [redux]

From: baja Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010

The year is 1907, over one hundred years ago... READ THE PRINT UNDER THE PICTURE!

US President Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN.

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Theodore Roosevelt - 1919 

   Every citizen needs to read this!

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of  creed, or birthplace, or origin.  But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." 

related:

http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2010/05/illegals-theodore-roosevelts-1919-ideas.html

http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2009/10/year-is-1907-one-hundred-two-years-ago.html

http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2009/07/theodore-roosevelt-on-immigrants.html

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_roosevelt_on_immigrants.htm

Comments: Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words.  It has been attributed incorrectly to 1907.   The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.

In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born.  In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us"

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