...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...

...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,...

...peace and safety have been uttered within our own borders. There are citizens of the United States ... born under other flags but welcomed under our generous...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life; who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our Government into contempt, to destroy 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...

...President and National Security Surveillance There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous...passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. — Woodrow Wilson, State of the Union Address, 1915 Writs of assistance and general warrants are but...

...Old 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...disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life; who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our government into contempt. . . . It is necessary...

...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...

...Wilson furiously replied that "there are citizens of the United States. born under other flags. . . . who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life." Such "disloyalty." he added. "must be crushed" out of existence.5 Internationalists and pacifists also opposed...

...president in 1916, for example, he openly attacked the Poles, Italians, and Hungarians for infusing "the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life," promising to overcome "such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy."54 Despite his domestic...