San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-26
SHORT STOPS.
What the people are Saying.

What the People are Saying.
The U. S. court has been going through
| the farce of trying a lot of ignorant bor-
der Mexicans for violating the neutrality
| laws.
| Judge Evans in his speech alluded to
/ Pablo MunoS, who was on trial as the
second in command under Cara, as being
evidently of Spanish blood, and a man of
| more than ordinary intelligence for a
Mexican. But arraigned on the other
side OF the room were dozen of the most
abject specimens of the Mexican Indian.
|
Pablo Munos, has the marks of being a
| remnant of that band of seven hundred
| Spanish bandits, led by Cortez, that con-
Quered and ravaged the empire of Mexico,
| but IL put on trial for naturalization as
an American citizen he could not prove
himself white, man, or an African, but
only mixed blood.
While his unfortunate compatriots are
only the descendants of the original tribes
of North American Indians that occupied
the country when Cortez conquered it.
MunoS is an old revolutionist, he comes
honestly by his revolutionary Instincts:
he was eompatriot of Diaz when he too
was revolutionist. These men of Span
ish extract have all the instincts and
characteristics of the original Spaniards
that robbed and mastered the innocent
and docile subjects of Montezuma, and
made them slaves.
But the CARA revolution is very tri- |
q y w nn ann rad 70 hn fa OF
that all along the border the Mexican |
Indians vote and elect congressman and |
local officials.
They are not citizens of the United |
States and are not eligible to citizenship, |
any more the Comanches. or Kickapoos. |
Judge Boarman in passing sentence on |
these Indians should treat them as In |
dams and citizens of Mexico, if citizens of |
any country.
But our U. 5. authorities who have |
been so active in prosecuting violations |
of the neutrality laws, should examine |
into the violation of our naturalization |
laws, and do something to protect our
border from the invasion OF hun
dreds and thousands OF the |
pauper and INDECENT peone population
from Mexico. Castle Garden is guarded
against the invasion of this class of white
emigration, but the Mexican border is |
open to the entire pauper population of
Mexico.
Our ballot boxes are stuffed with ballots
cast by ignorant Mexican indians-just
such fellows as followed that old revou-
zionist mixed breed Pablo Nunos, whose
trials are given the dignity of U. s. citi-
Zenship by the federal court.
Just what was meant by that article of
the treaty of Guadaloupe HiGalgo, which
provides that those MeXicans who chose
of the U. s. under such law as congress
might enact, has never been tested. Con-
gress has never passed an act admitting
the Indian population of Mexico to cit
izenship.
In replying to the appeal made by the
lawyers for the defence that their clients
were poor, ignorant Mexicans, Judge
Evans said he was tired of this sort of
talk, that they might be poor and ig
norant, but when it came to the perpetra-
tion OF crime they were the equals, il not
the superiors, of any race on earth.
Now is it time the U. S. govern
ment turned its attention to this popula-
tion as well as to the Chinaman and indi-
gent white pauper trash from Europe?
Is ii not high time our ballot box was
purged of this illegal suffrage?