Dec 7, 2019
Dec 7 1915 in WWI
The Seattle Star December 7 1915
President Wilson: Hyphenated Americans are "creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy." He counselled laws to deal with their machinations. Their activities, their speech, he said, had poured the "poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." They have intruded into the secret places of the government: they have constituted in this time of the world peril, the "gravest threat against our national peace and harmony," he said. Their purposes have been "vindictive," they have sought to bring the authority and good name of our government into contempt" and "to destroy our industries wherever they thought it effective for their vindictive purposes to strike at them"