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on the matter for me, which was/impressed the more when I heard Theodore Roosevelt express almost exactly the same sentiments, in his speech at Des Moines the other evening. He stated that purely for their own sake foreign language churches should adopt English, and illustrated the good effect it would have by saying that his own church (the Dutch Reformed) would today have been the largest and most powerful denomination in New York if it had,not clung so tenaciously and so long to foreign language services.I think that this problem will gradually solve itself and the present agitation die down. Those of us who may not have regarded the matter with the importance which the governor and others evidently attached to it, can do best by complying with tfeB spirit of the proclamation, even if at some personal sacrifice, for this war is a war of sacrifices. Just for the sake of our own comfort and internal peace we cannot afford to prolong a controversy that offers so little likelihood of effecting a change. I do not speaKfor Governor Harding, but I feel sure that if the people will respect the intent and spirits of the proclamation and let the letter of it go, the authorities will do the same. After all, it is ‘the letter of the law which killeth, while the spirit giveth life.”
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Des Moines Iowa Homestead
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 13, 1918
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