Over 100 Years Ago?

Question

I was forwarded this awhile back and thought I'd share it with all of you. Theodore Roosevelt was one of our President's the following was his 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, and nothing but an American. There should 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..we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people".

*Curious to know what you think about it.

Answer 1

I might be wrong as you can find anything on the internet if you search long enough.
"Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he was still President of the United States. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died." Link 1
On the second link you can read his qoutes on 'Ideals Immigrants", covering subjects such as aid to, discrimination against, obligations of and many more if your up to reading.
I found that he was very aware that the ideas of the times were not working and as now need to be reworked asap.

Answer 2

Wise man........I am constantly amazed at how brilliant our founding fathers were. So much of what we are going through isn't new. Been there done that and they found a working solution that made this country great. Now here we are having people tear apart the very fabric of what made this country great and they wonder why people are upset. If the other way worked.....they wouldn't be here and still trying to get here today. If the other way worked.....this country may never have come to pass. Instead of tearing it apart.....people should start looking at why it was such a success......seems once people worked things to get to the best possible point....they start tearing it apart.

Answer 3

The idea is absolutely wonderful. Teddy remains America's greatest hero. One Flag, One Nation, One Loyalty. I agree with all of that except the part about the language. If we could assimilate that into our immigration system this would definitely be a better country.

Answer 4

For those of us who don't have the Exact wording to our reasons for being against illegal immigration. This certainly helps!!!!!!!!!

Along with the laws being broke, the shape the welfare system is in, etc. This!!!! is what is meant when we are against Illegal immigration. and it is also what we mean when we say that we are Americans, not African Americans, Mexican Americans, Russian Americans, what ever.

This says it perfectly!!!!!

It is why men and women become soldiers...They have total Allegiance to the country they are fighting for!!!! regardless of who is president. The soldiers believe in this country and everything it stands for...

Maybe those who are calling us racist pigs will get it after reading this. But I seriously doubt it.

Answer 5

first of all i might % to premise what i'm approximately to assert, that I evaluate myself to be an exceedingly skeptical and extremely rational minded guy or woman. And if i'm no longer wrong, the different super philosophers had a magical bent to a pair of their writings. i think of the essence of philosophy is somebody who loves understanding and seeks for it everywhere it must be chanced on. At one time in my existence i became into searching for for understanding in the classic Mystical Order of the Rosicrucian's. there became right into a preliminary provider that one is going by way of at the same time as sitting in a dimly lit room till now a mirror. at the same time as I did that I permit myself waft off right into a trance at the same time as staring into the mirror. Being caught up in the 2nd with the candles and incense alongside with some gentle Tibetan bells music, I felt myself traveling into the mirror and observed a lifeless ringer for myself changing. It regarded as though my image became into traveling back in time with the clothing appearing to be of later and later time sessions and the face grew to strengthen into different and the pictures have been unrecognizable to me. besides the undeniable fact that it persisted to a era the place the guy in the mirror gave the impact of an Egyptian and it stopped. Then out of the nook of my eye I observed a black shadowy determine step outdoors of my physique and stroll in the back of me and it left the room. This gave me an exceedingly worried feeling and that i questioned what the black shadow must be. Now the rational skeptical fringe of me will consistently say it became into in basic terms an phantasm from watching the mirror or in basic terms fanciful wishful questioning. yet there is something else that i can't permit bypass of that in basic terms perchance there is greater to this international and existence than meets the attention.

Answer 6

Teddy Roosevelt was a smart man. Had people listened to him, we would have a three party system right now.

Answer 7

Obviously he didn't bank on the 3rd world. We didn't have to then. If our gov had stuck to this philosophy, we wouldn't be in the predicament we are in now.

Answer 8

I think it is brilliant and I agree whole heartedly.

Answer 9

GOOD POINT i hate everyone who is different from me. and i'm glad you do too!



(sarcasm of course)