...his annual message to Congress of that year, President Wilson lashed out against naturalized citizens who "have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." To combat the alleged threat, the president requested that Congress enact appropriate legislation "at...

...the President to advise to whom he referred when he said certain citizens born under other flags "had poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life" and had been guilty of attempts to destroy American industry. (Page 8114.) The President's reply, made...

...Princeton history professor declared in his 1915 State of the Union message that recent immigrants had "poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life," and he urged Congress to "save the honor and self respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion,...

...War I when he said in an address to Congress: There are citizens of the US, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. . . . The hand of our...

...his statements in its support became ever more stentorian. That year he struck out against immigrants "who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. ... America never witnessed anything like this before Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy...

...hyphenated Americans," President Wilson went a step further in a speech stating, "Hyphenated Americans . . . have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." In a highly charged atmosphere of nativism on the local and national level, the Italians, whose strong...

...West. CHAPTER 20 HYPHENATED AMERICANS "There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags, but welcomed under our generous...authority and good name of our government into contempt. . . . It is necessary that we should promptly make use of processes of law by which we may be purged...

...and National Security Surveillance There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. — Woodrow Wilson, State...

...borders. There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed by our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. The next day, the members of Wilson's cabinet agreed to cooperate more closely in their investigations...

...States, I blush to admit, under our generous naturalization laws born under other flags but welcome to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. . . . Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. . . . The hand of our...