In an 1894 article on immigration, Roosevelt said, "We mustAmericanize in every way, in speech, in political ideas and principles,and in their way of looking at relations between church and state. Wewelcome the German and the Irishman who becomes an American. We have nouse for the German or Irishman who remains such... He must revere onlyour flag, not only must it come first, but no other flag should evencome second.

That's what he said on immigration...super-conservative according to today's standards :-)...today he would be called a radical...(tr)