Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in
(The rest of the speach, or as Paul Harvey would say:"The rest of the story):
Providing they are [anarchists], we do not care whether they are...of Irish or German ancestry. We have no room in a healthy American community for a German-American vote or an Irish-American vote and it is contemptable demagogory to put into any party platform with the purpose of catching such a vote. We have no room for any people who do not act and vote simply as Americans, and as nothing else."...
"We believe that English and no other languages, is that in which all school excercices should be conducted." ...
"The third sense in which the word "Americanism" may be employed is with reference to the Americanizing of the newcomers to our shores. We must Americanize them in every way- in speech, in political ideas and principles, and in their way of looking at relations between church and state. We welcome the German and the Irishman who becomes an American. We have no use for the German or Irishman who remains such. We do not wish German-Americans and Irish-Americans who figure as such in our social and political life; we want only Americans...There are certain ideals he must give up...He must revere only our flag, not only must it come first, but no other flag should even come second...Above all, the immigrant must learn to talk and think and BE the United States
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.