Year 1907

Who knew at the time how pertinent his speach would be today?

The year was 1907......but the speaker knew what he was talking
about.

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN
in 1907.

"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. But as 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."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907