The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., August 01, 1923, Page 9, Image 9

AUGUST, 1923
THE UNITED AMERICAN
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Insidious Propaganda and a Confusing Americanism
'THE INSIDIOUS propaganda now scattered broad­ embraces the common faith in citizenship without
cast among the American people, chiefly through malice toward any other. Should an American citi­
a number of publications essaying to espouse the zen, elevated to the high office of president, fail to
cause of the Ku Klux Klan, that President Calvin embrace this broad principle, then America shall have
Coolidge in effect is playing into the hands of foreign ceased to be the home of the free and the land where
interests, particularly the pope of Rome, and of hav­ men may, without the interference of others, wor­
ing made the presidency of our great country an ship God according to the dictates of their conscience.
agency to promote the interest of the Catholic church,
Not alone has the president, a Presbyterian by
has a poisonous effect, far more dangerous than any faith, been maligned by the anti-Catholic, anti-Jew
current of malediction set in motion by any element of and anti-foreign born elements, but the wife of the
malefactors in America since the revolutionary days president, an equally faithful Congregationalist of
up to the present time, not exempting those other known standing among her New England neighbors
enemies within who have given first allegiance to such and friends, was no sooner acclaimed the first lady of
unsavory organizations as the I. W. W. and the Com­ the land before she also became the target of the
munistic alliance.
maligners who broadcasted the untruth that she was
It is perhaps nothing else than what might be ex­ a member of the Roman Catholic church holding her
pected that those who are fighting the cause of this membership as such up to scorn before the woman­
new Americanism having for their slogan this terse hood of America.
phrase of an unmistakable meaning: “America for
How far have we already sunk in the mire of re­
Americans of native birth,” should be willing to sac­ ligious and racial bigotry that Americans can with
rifice principles to the extent that they would not immunity throw aspersions upon a clean and chaste
hesitate to malign their own constituted authorities American woman in high or lowly station, impugning
in high and low places, who in spite of their American her virtues in character and citizenship, because of
nativity are unwilling to administer the laws of our her faith and religious belief?
land solely in the interest of this new group, but these
Are there Americans who are actually willing to
brazen attacks upon our president, quote in the lan­
guage style of the I. W. W., is something so provok­ believe that membership in the Roman Catholic
church of America, adherence to the orthodox faith
ing that the entire nation has been stirred.
Jewish synagogue, or birth in a
No one American by birth or adoption is more of the American (Continued
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despicable than he who in the name of American
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patriotism applies the cunning art of perversion to
undermine the American morale and to destroy the
confidence and respect of the Americans for the men
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whom they have elected as their representatives to
guard the interests of ALL Americans; whether it
1 be in the town hall or in the White House, in the
community council or in Congress, in the village court
room or in the supreme court of our country.
Those who are responsible for having unleashed
the monsters of religious and racial hate in America
i may prosper for a time by their villany, but their
prosperity is but temporary and as uncertain as their
eventual banishment from common American fellow­
ship is a certainty.
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I The malicious intent in the propaganda against
President Coolidge is obvious.
The unfortunate events which placed the vice-
president in the White House upset certain political
plans of the poison ink squad, who direct their energy
to stir up the baser emotions among the unthinking
elements of our people and who are actuated by no
higher desire than to place in political power those
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