The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-02
our Foreign. Born Citizens on Iuaation.

The tone of the journals which repre-
sent the particular interests OF our natural
lied citizens is a most healthy one on the
subject of initiation. The two great nation
alities which support papers published In
other than the English language are the
German and Scandinavian. In response
to a request for information about the po-
sition of the German press in the North
west. Mr. Hermann Raster has kindly sent
us list covering nearly the whole country.
His letter is so conclusive that we quote 1t
in full:
The position of the German press against imitation
is such that in fact, you would have to print list
of all German papers with The exception OF perhaps
one daily and couple or SO Of lit e 6x8 weeklles)
as anti ihfiationiss and supporters OF Grants veto
Republican, Democratic, and Independent, II rs all
one side. give You the list of the more important
papers, all opposed to the imitation crime:
New 1ork-Staats Zeitung (srdepend. Dem. y ualiy.
Democrat (R p, daily.
urnal Qndep J, daily.
Presse Qndep Catholicl, daily.
Abend Zeitung Qndep.), daily.
Belletristsche Zeitung CIndep), weekly.
New York Handles Zeitung Qndep)
weekly.
Newark, n. New Jersey Freie Zeitung, daily.
lphia-Demokrat, daily
Freie Presse, daily.
| Baltlmore-N ecker, daily.
Correspondent, daily.
Cincinnati-Volksb att, daily
Volksfreund. daily
| Courier, daily.
| Buffalo Telegraph, daily
| Demokrat
| indianapolis Telegraph, daily
| Chcago-Staats -Zeitung, dailv
Union, daily.
Freie Presse, daily
Norb' tie (organ of ''Laborers, Interna-
tlOnists. etc. J, week Y.
| Milwaukee, Banner und Volksfreund daily
| Seebote. daily.
i Herald dailv
IOniS he De- losI
| Anzeiger der Westerns, daily.
Courier, daily
San Francisco-Caifurnia Demokrat
| Abendpost.
Etc, etc-it is all one way. The Louisville Aazei
ger daily is for imitation. or at least opposed 4
Veto An imitation party could not safely count up
vote.
/ The attitude of the Scandinavian pres
is scarcely less encouraging. The follow
ing list comprises all the Scandinavian pa
pers published in the Northwest OF which
we have any knowledge They are all op
posed to imitation:
Chicago-Skandinaven daily.
Hemlandet. weekly.
Svenska Amerlcanaren. weekly.
Nya Verlden, weekly
Lacrosse Faederlandet og Emigration
Minneapolis -BudstIkken.
Nordisk Folkeblad.
st. Paul Nybygg;ren.
Kansas Pioneer
The editor Of the !Skundinacen, OF thi
city, thinks that the Logan, .orton doctrin
has very few supporters among the NE
who have come from the North of Europ
to our Northwest, In an editorial of Apr
10, the ,Skdndindcen said
In time Of profound peace, when crops are plel
, tiful, and but the disorder of our monetary
fai the country would be prosperous in a degrt
, almost without parallel, the insane cry CO
for more currency. and in the very teeth of the pc
tive declaration of both political IT es and II
rec mmendat ~ of the Pre- ident, Congress ahiec
~ yields to the clamor for heavy increase of II
dosc medicine from which we are already suffe
ing sew rely Their il one remedy. al
that Is by appeal TO the ballot box. The issr
must be made, and that of resumption and infiai e
is fairly befort the untry and in the election
next fall the people win be h,art,
These two sets of papers represent tw
strong armies Of voters, who will cast thou
SANDS Of ballots next fall, against what NJ
. Raster very truthtully terms the inhatiu
crime" if the issue be forced upon then
-Chtcag0 Tribune,