Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-10-16
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
Abundant Reasons why They Should
Vote for Their Constant Friend,
James g. blaine.

critics continue to accuse him of having
neglected our naturalized citizens who
returned to Europe and got into trouble.
| TIE Irish mass-m Getting which was held
Aug. %, at the Academy of Music in
New York, passed & resolution to this
effect:
ResoIved, That James G. Blaine during twenty
years OF official life, interested himself
| in the welfare OF American citizens who while
abroad deprived of their liberties lad rights
| without authority of law, and while secretary of
state not only failed but refused to interfere and
exert the influence OF the Uuited States Govern
| ment in behalf Of such subjects
! This resolution is absolutely false. Not
| to repeat he Irish cases discussed in the
| Journal of August II and 10, iJ is suffi-
| cient to allude to the far more numer-
| Gus German cases. The German gov
eminent is less disposed than the Eng
fish to cooperate with the American
governme Mt in protecting the rights of
naturalized Americans "who while
abroad were deprived of their liberties
| and rights. Nevertheless, in hundreds
| OF cases the American government has
obtained relief, and Mr.. Blaine wrote to
| Mr.. Andrew ID. White, at that time our
Minister in Berlin:
While thanking you for the full and
valuable report embraced in your dis
patch, | will also avail myself of this
| opportunity to commend the zeal, dis
| cretion, and intelligence with which you
! have conducted the correspondence Of
| your Legation with the German Govern
ment in relation to the cases growing
out Of the arrest of naturaliZed Ameri-
can citizens by the military authorities
| of Germany"
| No complaint has ever been heard
| from the Germans naturalized in this
! ntry hat HOY +oI Inv
/ American Government during the few
months that Mr.. Blaine was Secretary
| of State. Besides that, as early as March
81, 1881, a few weeks after he had taken
charge of the State Department., Mr..
| Blaine sent an elaborate dis patch to our
| Minister IN Austria, remarkipg express
ly that his rulings were to serve as q
precedent for future cases. One case
bsars a striking resemblance to the Nc
Sweeney matter, on which much non
sense has been said, as insolvency was
no longer an American citizen, after
having left the Unite States and lived
for six years in Ireland, where he bought
property, took a public Office, and en-
| the American Minister in Austria as fol-
| lows:
''The first is that of Gustav Schwetzer,
a native of Austria, who came to the
| United States in 1851, became a citizen
of this republic by naturalization in
| 1856, returned TO Europe in 1859, bearing
passport from this department, has
ever since resided in Austria, has no in
tention to return to the United States,
| has since his return to Austria married
there and has three children. all born in
that country. In this case you properly
| refused to issue passport to Mr.. Sch
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alization treaty of September, 1870 be-
tween the United States and Austria
Hungary, no less than accoi ding to the
recognized general principles of public
and municipal law governing expatria-
| ton, Mr.. Schwetzer has in the clearest
manner renowned his American citizen
ship"
At the New York meeting Mr.. Pat
rick A. Collins propounded the amazing
| doctrine that 1.-The constitutional laws
of the United States put the foreign
policy of the government in the hands
of the secretary of state" and then
made the wild assertion that Mr.. Blaine
never said three manly words in be-
half of the Irish prisoners. Mr.. Collins
evidently had not read, or has forgotten,
that Mr.. Blaine wrote at very early
day to Mr.. Lowell:
IF American citizens, while within
British jurisdiction, offend against Brit
iSh laws, this government will not seek
to shield them from the legal conse-
quences of their acts, but it must insist
| upon the application to their cases of
those common principles of criminal
jurisprudence which, in the United
States. secure to every man who offends
| against its laws those incidents to a
! criminal prosecution winch afford the
best safeguard to personal liberty and
the strongest protection against Ops es-
sion.'
If these are not brave words, Mr.. Col
Inns uses the English language as he DIS
cusses our constitutional law frop his
inner consciousness. but not by the rec
ord. He says that Mr.. Blaine was dumb
and playing into the hands Of the enc
! my. Mr.. Blaine, as the official records
| show, was SO very eloquent that the
English hate him for it and dread the
day when their favorite candidate,
| Mr.. Cleveland will be defeated.
Had Mr.. Blaine joined the English
/ Government IN suppressiog Ire
land he would have friends in that
| quarter But Mr.. Blaine never forgot
that he was an American bound to serve
his country against all foreigners, in
Guiding the English Governmen and its
| agents. Gentlemen like Mr.. Collins,
Judge Abbott, Mr.. Fitzgerald Mr. Perry
| Belmont, and Mr.. Hurlbert, formerly
editor of the New York World, make
sweeping and general charges against
Mr.. Blaine for the good reason that it is
easy to refute them when they try to
name a particular act in which Mr..
Blaine has been untrue to himself, the
Republican party, and his country. In
| deed, if Mr.. Blaines critics will but call
+<zl L Il
men VINO appreciate evidence will be
glad to support him, because they will
find him more loyal and more patriotic
American than some people imagine
And no class of people will think better
of him in that case than will our natur-
| allied citizens.
A Pert Answer.
,O11S XT Of France whilst travel :