Posts Tagged ‘boarding house’

Roosevelt’s Last Words to the Public

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Teddy

 

“We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

 The Chicago Daily Tribune. “Abolish Hyphen Roosevelt’s Last Words to Public.” 7 January 1919 (p. 4).

Abolish the Hyphen

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

 

Theodore Roosevelt and The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt and The Rough Riders

 “We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”  [Sic]

 

The Chicago Daily Tribune (January 7, 1919). “Abolish Hyphen Roosevelt’s Last Words to Public.” p. 4.
 

1905

1905

 

Has America Become a Polyglot Boarding House?

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

 

theodore-roosevelt-john-muir

“This is a nation

— not a polyglot boarding house.

There is not room in the country for any

50-50 American,

nor can there be but one loyalty

— to the Stars and Stripes.”

 

–Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

The Washington Post (May 28, 1918).

 

“Use Only English, Roosevelt Urges.” p. 2.

  

Which is just what we’ve made it:

 

 A Polyglot Boarding House

 

A MERE BOARDING HOUSE!

 

Foreigners get the best jobs

 

 

Contrary to popular belief,

most of the money sent out of the country

does not go to Mexico

but to India.

While $25 Billion is exported annually to

Mexico

 

That is, in “legally” earned money–

–not the drug tade!

$25.2 Billion is exported annually to India!