Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-14

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lieve the scheme will fail. 1t certainly will
if the Democrats in Congress do their duty,
and refuse to be led by the nose.
BUBBLE EXPLODED.
Hitherto it has been generally believed by
the people of the United States, and the
world has been so informed in every m amer
apd shape of advertisement, that in this land
the oppressed of oil nations might find q
refuge, and that the benefits of our form Of
government were open to whoever would
come hither in quest of them and would rem
der obedience to the law. 1t now appears
that the American ship of state has been
sailing under false colors, and that the people
have been immersed in vast sea of de-
fusion.
The bubble of our self appreciation has
been pricked in very simple manner. The
indirect instrument by which the collapse
was brought about was California China
man, who applied to be admitted as an
American citizen, and the direct instrument
was judge Sawyer, of the United States dis
trict court. All SIMS application was denied
by the court, who, in giving the decision,
quoted the law of naturalization Revised
Statutes of 1879 as follows: "The provi-
sions of this act shall apply to aliens, being
free aoAite persons, and to aliens of african
nativity, and to personsof African descent .
Prior to 1870 only Stree white persons
could be admitted to naturalization. In
that year the benefits of the law were ex-
tended to "aliens of African nativity and to
persons. of African descent The revisers
of the statutes in 1874 made the law read
that Gan alien may be admitted to citizen.
ship" thus removing all limitations of race
or color. But in 1875 the law was agail
changed so as to read as given above.
We doubt not that most persons will b.
astonished, and perhaps disguised, at being
told that instead of inviting "the oppressed
of all nations," which is the fayorite phrase
of stump orators, to partake of the adj
vantages of American institutions, we have
by law determined that, excepting free
whites, negroes are the only foreigners whom
we are willing to admit to our fraternal en-
brace. No Asiatic person, be he never so in.
telligent, well-educated and refined, is in the
estimation of our law the peer of the most
brutalized fetich-worshiper from the interior
of Africa. For instance, no member of thai
highly civilized and progressive nation, the
Japanese, can become an American citizen
From an article by Sir David Wedderbur1
in recent Fortnightly Reoseu we quot.
tho following description of Japan:
A country where men never lose their temper
where women and children are always treated
with gentleness where common laborers bow
and beg pardon of each other if they happier
to jostle accidentally, where popular sports DE-
not infict suffering on the lower animals
where a paper screen is sufficient protection
against nll intrusion-even that of burglars
and where cleanliness takes such a high ranl
among social virtues as to be carried almost tt
q ludicrous excess
Yet representatives Of q people distinguished
for these highest marks of refined civiliza
ton are not considered good enough fol
American citizenship, while black monster
of ignorance and bestiality, fresh from pick
ing the meat from a missionary's ribs, car
walk into the full enjoyment of all the rights
of a native American.
We do not argue that the law should b,
SO extended as to embrace the people of ev
cry cline and creed. Many political as vel
as social reasons exist to forbid tho unre
stricted admission to citizenship of persons
who by hereditary instinct and by education
are incapable of understanding and living
in accordance with our system of society
The system is elastic, but its elasticity il
limited, as any system must be. What ".
do wish to expose is the arrant humbugqer,
which has been palmed off upon the peopl.
of the United States under the guise of lib
erality and deep concern for tho "rights o.
man. The naturalization law as it stands
is the work of Republican politicians, whose
mouths are ever full of canting sermons
about 'tmen and brothers, If We were t.
believe these blatant hypocrites, their heart.
are overlooking with the most tender affec
ton for humanity in all its guises. Wher
we come to examine the practical application
of their melting sentiments, we find thai
their bearing is in one direction solely-tha,
of votes. By pandering to mistaken idea Of
iberality among white Americans, the enc
and aim of the Republican law makers has
been to gain votes in the North. BY tick.
ling the vanity and encouraging the unbound.
ed hopes of the negro population
the Republican pharisees have
sought to control votes in the
South. These are the Alpha and Omega Of
Republican philanthropy. The naturaliza.
ton law of to-day is the clearest and tersost
exemplitication of the unspeakable sham
of which Republican pretensions to liberality
are composed.