Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-26


true conception of our independent
system Of government. They have
been nourished on the unwholesome
food of serfdom and slavery. Yet,
we receive these persons to our bos-
oms. We give them lands and rights
equals to those zoe have obtained by
a century Of toll and deuotion. We
make them citizens. We allow them
to vote, and thus effectually do we
brow the balance of power into the
hands of a five year population Is
not this grave matter Are we
doing justice to the next generationg
Are we not by direct open legislation
devising plan for the swift destruc.
ton ofthat government which is now
our boast and joyl
No other country would regard
such graveyard important question,
Observation-Disclosures which wedisplay.
England declares to the American
citizen that he shall not engage in
business within her dominions with
out the permission Of Parliament,
and that even though he occupies
lands therein during life. he shall not
be permitted to devise it to his heir !
France, Germany,--all the nations of
Old World, shove the honest Ameri-
can citizens into the cold without the
slightest conjunction, while their
own subjects are received by us With
open arms.
We would not have the leT tdlionis
of the Roman law applied to the sub.
jects of foreign powers, who come
here to find homes and happiness, but
wewould have them the equal in intel
ligence, honesty and morality of our
own offensive would have
them realize that obedience to our
laws and devotion to our institutions
are expected, yes, demanded of them.
Why America is the grandest and
greatest republic the world ever had.
The "wise men of the East are
prophesying its destruction. The
eyes of Europe are upon us to mag
Nifty mistakes. If this republic falls,
it will! in all probability be the last.
we will ever see With the disintegra-
ting agencies already set in motion
by our foreign element, its decline is
imminently pending. We owe it to
the future, to our posterity, to our
selves, that Congress pass wise immi-
grafton and naturalization laws, for
the two are inseparable.
The bill enacted in 1887, by which
closer scrutiny is demanded of off
Gals having charge of the landing OF
immigrants, and the prohibition of
Chinese immigration were steps in
the right direction.
Let the period of residence, before
citizenship is bestowed, be twenty
five years. Let land held by those
too old to become citizens be vested.
in the government. Let the Sunday
amusement gardens in Chicago, Gin
cinnati and Philadelphia, be abolish
ed and lawlessness punished. 10. To-
Divine, moral and Statute law regu-
late and prevail. Let us protect our
home institutions and nurture the
tree of liberty, bequeathed to us by
our fathers.
And, if We do this; if we SEE to it
that the pure-bulion Of a Christian
Anglo-Saxon civilization is not de.
based by the alloy of tottering king
doms and shallow principalties. it
will be well for our society. If we
do this. coming years win bring moth
ing but progress to us. We shall
see happy homes springing up all
over our land, and cheerful iresides
everywhere, and there shall here
arise a structure giander and more
beautiful than the famed temple
which crowns the Athenian Hill. It's
foundation shall rest upon the endur-
ing rock of u peoples love. It's en-
tablature will be sustained upon the
arms of our country's manlinest sons.
It's sculptured friezes shall relate the