Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-16
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
abundant Reasons why They should
vote for Their Constant Friend,
James q. RIaiue.


/ critics Continue to accuse him of having
neglected our naturalized citizens who
returned to Europe and got into trouble.
! Irish mass-m Getting which was held
Aug 2S, at the Academy Of Music in
New York, passed g resolution to this
effect:
hHohed That James c. Blaine, dNrng twenty
wears of official life, never Interested himself
in The welfare Of American citizens who while
abroad were deprived Of their liberties md rights
without authority Of law, aud while secretary Of
state not only failed but refused 90 interfere and
exert the influence OF The Cuiied States Govern
msnt ia behalf of such subjects.
This resolution is absolutely false, Not
to repeat he Irish cases discussed in the
Journal of August | / and Il, IL is sudi-
cient 70 allude to the far more numer-
Gus German cases. The German gov
eminent is less disposed than the Eng
lish to cooperate with the American
government 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 aud
patch / viii also avail myself of this
opportunity to commend the zeal, dis
Cretion, ana 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 namralized Ameri-
can .iti1ens by the military authorities
of Germany"
No complaint has ever been heard
from the Germans naturalized in this
country that they were neglected by the
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 dispatch to our
Minister in Austria, remarkiug express
ly that his rulings We're to serve as q
precedent for future cases. One case
bears a striking resemblance to the Nc
Sweeney matter, on which much nom
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-
gagged in politics. Mr.. Blaine wrote to
the American Minister in Austria as fol-
lows:
''The first is that of Gustav Schwetzer
n 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
a 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
wetzer. Within the spirit of the natur-
alization treaty of September, 1870, be-
tween the United States and Austria
Hungary, no less than acco ding to the
! rec gnized general principles of public
and municipal law governing expatria-
ton, Mr. Schwetzer has in the clearest
manner renounced his American citizen
ship"
At the New York meeting Mr.. Pat
rick A. Collins propounded the amazing
doctrine that 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 a 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
az inst its laws those incidents to Il
criminal prosecution winch afford the
best safeguard to personal liberty and
The strongest protection against opptes-
sion"
If these are not brave words. Mr.. Col
Inns uses the English language as he d s.
cusse5 our constitutional law ~ FROM his
inner cons iousness, but not by the rec
ord He says that Mr. Blaine was dumb
and playing into the hands or the eue-
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 SURPRISING 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 Government and its
agents. Gentlemen like Mr.. Coll MS,
Judge Abbott, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Perry
Belmont, and Mr.. Hurbert, 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 q particular act in which Mr.
Blaine has been untrue to himself, the
Republican party, and his country. In
deed, if Mr.. Blaine's critics will but calf
specific attention to hisacts, fair-minded
men VINO appreciate evidence viii be
glad TO support him, beeause they VIII
find him more loyal and more patriotic
American than some people imagine.
And no class Of people will think bett5r
Of him in that case than will our natur-
allied citizens.
A Pert Answer.
LOUIS XT., Of France, whilst travel
iror tspon the high yVav os one oCc4S-