Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14
PREPARING TO VOTE.
Aliens Applying to the United States
Courts for Their Papers.
THE GRAND RUSH IN SEPTEMBER
Italian Clubs Promoting CitiEsnship
Among That Race.
NATIONAL LAWS OF NATURALIZATION

The regular quadrennial rush of aliens to
become citizens and voters in the United
States IS already beginning. The United
States Circuit Court on Thursday admitted
16 men to citizenship, and there will be
another lot of applicants when the court sits
again next Tuesday. All who desire to be
naturalized during August must apply to
the United States Court, as there will be no
sessions of any of the county courts until
the first Monday in September. That will
leave only two months for admission to cit
izenship before the national election, and
the result will be that there will be great
rush to the Common Pleas Courts during
September and October.
Every year, for short time prior to the
fall elections, there are many persons
naturalized. Many of these are urged into
court by the party committees and ward
workers, but the number in off years Is in
significant compared with the throng which
appears in the courts prior to the national
election every fous years. Those who are
now appearing in the United States courts
are, as rule, applicants of the best class,
who are paying their own fees. When the
grand rush open. later the applicants will
be found to be heterogeneous set who are
sent in by the campaign committees Each
one will present to the Clerk of Courts or to
the Prothonotary, as the case may be, q
card giving the name of the applicant and
saying that the costs of naturalization shall
be charged to the political committee issu-
ing the card. Each committee has SUBJ
committee on naturalization, and the e1-
pense of making new voters is large item
in the cost of conducting campaign.
Naturalization OF tho Italians.
There are no organizations to promote
naturalization in this city except among
the Italians There are two Italian clubs,
head, and the other Democratic, whose
President is Joseph Cuneo. Both of these
clubs have been at work for six months in a
lively rivalry as to which can secure the
greatest number of naturalizations of their
countrymen. The result is that in that
time nearly 200 Italians have become citi-
zens of the United States, and many others
have been induced to take out their first
papers. The work is the more remarkable
because the members of that nationality are
supposed generally to be only temporary
sojourners in this land, remaining here long
enough to acquire fortune of $500 or $500,
when they return to their native sunny land
and revel in luxury. The leaders among
the Italians in this city are laboring to
make their countrymen citizens and per-
manent residents. Such a work, among
the people of that race, has been under
taken in few other cities, although it has
been success in Philadelphia
Work of this kind is not needed among
the Irish and Germans They come here to
stay, to grow up with the country, and to
be part of it. The Irishman is natural
lied and becomes politician at the earliest
moment possible. The German goes into
business, establishes a comfortable home,
and by and by, when he bas time, becomes
a citizen. About two years ago the English
born citizens of Pittsburg and Allegheny
organized club whose main object was to
induce their countrymen to become natural
lied. This club has not been heard from
for long time, but it may revive during
the approaching campaign. It is with
great reluctance that an Englishman gives
up his allegiance to his "Good Queen;" but
when he Is persuaded to do so he makes one
of the best OF American citizens
The Laws of naturalization.
The laws of naturalization are fixed by
OouSi cSS anu dTc thcIc1oIc uullOrHu through
out the United States The applicant must
have lived in the United States for five
years preceding his admission and at least
one year in the State where he applies. At
least two years before his application he
must have declared, on oath or affirmation,
before a court of record or before clerk of
court his intention to become q citizen and
to forever renounce allegiance to the for
eign power under which he was born or
lived before coming to the United States
When this declaration is made the appli-
cant receives certificate of the fact, which
is called his first paper This declaration is
not required of an alien who comes to this
country before he is 1s years old, but he can
be finally admitted as soon as he is 21 years
old and has lived five years in the country.
On application for final admission to citi-
Eenship an alien must prove his time of
residence by at least one witness, and must
also show that he is man of good character
and is attached to the principles of the Con-
stitution of the United States. The minor
children of man naturalized, if the chill
dren are then living in the United States,