In an address delivered during the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Daughters of the American Revolution, President Wilson stated that all citizens of the United States must be Americans only; that they should forget their mother countries and love only the United States. In other words, there must not be any German-Americans, Irish-Americans, Lithuanian-Americans, Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc. Instead, all American citizens should call themselves Americans only.

From the standpoint of an American citizen, that idea is very good and desirable. However, it is not being practiced. For example, the Irish and Germans have become organized in this country on a nationality basis. Their organized power is felt not only in politics but also in all other channels of American life. This organization of the Irish and Germans on 2a nationality basis forces all other nationalities to do the same in order to avoid becoming isolated from the stream of American life.