Blood thicker
than water! Why, look at our names; our blood is world's blood.
"We're a nation of all the nations. The English element is only one
element. Our ancestors were French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Norwegian,
Russian, Danish, Irish, Greek, and Italian. The modern American citizen
is no more English than the Boers of South Africa are English. And yet
in overwhelming figures the American population is on the side of the
Allies, and particularly on the side of England. Why?"
England Stands for Democracy.
"It is," he continued, "because England of all the nations on the earth
stands for the democratic ideals which are the very breath of life to
America. Modern England is for us the greatest of democracies. You lead
the way to the rest of the world, if not in science and art, at any rate
here in the great business of humanity's social existence. We see that
the old England of privilege and obstinate prerogatives and bull-headed
conservatism is dead. All your best qualities, straight dealing,
honesty, fearless justice, and faith in the goodness of human nature are
devoted now to the only ideals which can save progress from rot and
decay.
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