Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-06
That Naturalization Vote.

EHMN NATURALIZATION fbses
The Waterloo Courier las been Ia,
boring fer weeks past to make q point
against Senator Harlan on the prop
osition modifying the laws ofNatu-
raliz ltion. When we showed the
transparent motive which prompted
the Courier, the base misrepresenta
tions which it hurled against Mr..
Harlan and unjustness of the charge
of his non .Republicanism, it fioun-
ders and squirms, reiterates and re-
peats for the eight hundred and for
ty.sixth time its adherence to that
time honored principle of equality
before the law" We stated that
some OF the best men In the Senate
voted with Mr.. Harlan and, spoke
against the amendment, but the
Courier to get around Ii, says they
were scared by a lot of New England
shoe makers. kAs u contemporary
continues to misrepresent the true
question we desire again to quote
from the remarks of Senator Wilson,
of M Massachusetts, whose record as an
anti. slavery advocate Is as marked as
Lloyd Garrison's. Mr.. Wilson said
II shall vote against the amend
ment as / have against all others on
this bill, and for the same reason.-
Ia doing so. / wish 10 say that i do
not abandon any of the doctrines of
the Declaration of Independence. /
was committed TO those doctrines
publicly, and il is on record, before |
knew any member of this body, or
ever heard of any of them, or ever
read a word that they eve wrote
or uttered. / have had no reason
in all these thirty-five years that
have passed, TO change any of my
opinions, and / have striven OH all
proper aud Legitimate occasions to
carry them out. . an.m .as,a
"Fhis matter came up in the
House of Representatives it was
in a bill introduced by the Judiciary
Committee of that body, containing
this principle, making no exemp
ftions and no excursions. The bill
""S oSfIaNSo SO EoNNA~
Tlen the matter comes UP here
This naturalization bill comes up
here in another form at this late
hour of the session, when We have
all immense number of important
lills crowding for action. 1t was
clear and plain TO my mind that ii
This proposition were moved or puton
this bill, time must be taken, per-
haps the bill Itself periled, and o
humber of othcr.important bills lost.
Those bills are lost We have spen,
the time" a
Mr.. Edwards of Vermont, Mr..
Howell of Iowa. and many other
true and loyal members voted with
Mr.. Harlan and Mr.. Wilson against
the amendment and yet the Coarie,
calls 1t s~neaking out on a matter OF
fundamental principle. We are sor-
~ the Courier is SO jealous on q
matter of principle'' az to misjudge
the motives of our honored Senators.
Certainly no Allison papers In the
State have this word "white'' SO In.
curably on the brain a. the Courier,
They must dream yer the point
they expect to make against Mr..
Harlan by harping on 1t as a "mats
ter of principle" That matter OF
principle" with the Courier In con-
nection with the Senatorial cues.
ton, IL the worst species OF sarcasm
known In modern history. We fam
cy the Courier would not be half SO
jealous in the cause IL has, for the
time being, set itself up to be the
champion, did Id not believe by mis-
representing the true status of the
the question as it came up and as Ii
was reviewed by the memters of the
Senate and House, IL could just at
this time make a poiut against Mr..
Harlan. e@s.. - .
That the matter was cooked up"
for the State Convention we know to
be true. We know also that Jas. f.
Wilson of Iowa. Tugs 1t into his
speech to make a point against Har-
Ian and we also know that the Cour.
Ter editors have been busy c~irculat-
ing said speeches. after marking the
paragraph referred to, and making
comments on the margin and all
this uninterested vindication of that
principle shute" gotten upexpressly
for the occasion. We answered the
Courier and gave Enthusiastically an
Endorsement to the vote of Mr.. Har-
Ian, but the Courier finding Its CHAINS
pion SO weak, fails entirely to an
swer our question as to why MI. AL
lison did not accomplish something
toward having that obnoxious word
eApunged. The Courier editors are
SO free to ask questions W. would
have supposed they would have oc-
cupied q part of their time In an
sweriag rather than eyading our
question. .s.4 .serr Maf. .4.ras..
We repeat again, does honest
jourL alism mean such base misrep-
resentation of Mr.. Harlan's. position ?