Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States of America. In a speech he gave in 1926 he said, “When once our feet have touched this soil, when once we have made this land our home, wherever our place of birth, whatever our race, we are all blended in one common country. All artificial distinctions of lineage and rank are cast aside. We all rejoice in the title of Americans.”
Why is it our current society insists on labeling everyone by where their ancestors came from? Italian-American, African-American, Mexican-American. My ancestors immigrated here from Germany and I am thankful they did but I was born in America, therefore I am 100 percent American!
President Coolidge was a principled believer in immigration controls, as he noted in his 1923 State of the Union message: “New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration.”
In accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination on August 14, 1924 the soon to be POTUS said, “Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.”
Sound advice for a country a hundred years ago and sound advice now!