The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-08-13
The eS-MOuntaineer
,ATuRDAY. AUGUST ls, 1892
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blame the foreign element in our coun-
try for the crimes committed, and we
consider this "a great injustice to
very many estimable naturallzed cid
zens. We are Convinced that the ma
tiyes of the, United States, under the
same conditions, are as lawless as Ger
mans, Irish, Scotch or Swedes, and,
because in some instances the discon-
tented classes have sought to perpetu-
ate anarchy and communism-brought
to life and nurtured in them by the
despotism Of tyrants-in the United
States, it is gross injustice to classify
all foreigners as such. In almost every
community in this country. there are
leading men not "to the manner bern, :"
and very many Americans are only
one generation removed from the ele-
ment which occupy the same place in
the minds of some as the Helots did
to the Spartans. This pride of nation
allty is the emptiest of all human vani-
ties, and a Mongelian, Hottentot,
Hindoo or Tartar. if the accident of
birth-over which he had no control
placed him in this country, is as
much entitled to the name of Ameri-
can as the descendant of the Purltans
in New England or the Cavaliers in
Virginia. There Is more merit IN
being allied to the race division of the
human family, because ancestry is
more productive of characteristics in
the individual than birth in any privi
legged nation.
1t may be true that the majority Of
the union men in the Ceur d'Alene
mines and of the strikers at Home
stead were foreigners; but the mere
fact of their being Irish, Scotch or
French by birth should have no infu-
ence in determining the degree of the
crime. A negro was burned to death
in Arkansas, Cinnamon were butch
cred in Wyoming, White Gaps have
committed brutal outrages in Indiana
and other states, and those who have
been guilty of these acts, which make
modern civilization blush, were
Americans. We should be just
in all our criticisms, and not carry
our nstionalism so far as to imagine
that the people who are born in the
United States have higher concep-
tion of the re6nements of life and a
greater respect for law and order than
those whose mothers resided abroad at
the time of their birth. It is not in
accordance with the intellectual ad-
vancement of the age, Or the spirit of
free institutions to divide the world
into Americans and foreigners, the
former consisting of the cream and the
latter of the dregs of creation.
There are Russian nihilists, but
they believe in constitutional govern
ment and only aim at the destruction
of absolute despotism. Americans,
with the same environment, would
have as intense hatred of the czar.
Socialism is prevalent in Germany;
but It's aim is more. reformatory of the
conditions of existing social relations
than destructive of established forms
of government. The anarchist and
communist have wild, unstable notions
of what should be. or, rather, what
should not be, and are political out
casts in Germany and France. But
Europe is not the only place where
strange ideas take root and bear un-
seemly fruit. The Oneida community
in New York, the Mormons of Salt
Lake and other societies" IN this
country snow that the American was
created out of the same imperfect ma
terial as his neighbor and brother on
the other side of the Atlantic.
Education is very generally diffused
In the United States; but it is not
universal as it is in Germany. The
great German, French and English
universities lead in all branches of
technical knowledge, and, while we
take pride in Harvard, Yale, Cornell
and Princeton, foreigners can boast of
Berlin, Heidelberg, Academy of Paria,
Oxford and Trinity. Won Holtz, a
German, is authority on our constltu-
ton, and De Tocqueville, French,
man, has written the mcst elaborate
treatise on the American republic.
As Americans we should be liberal
and just, and give honor to whom it is
due The home-builders of Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Iowa, even if they
were born in Sweden, Norway and
Germany, should receive credit for
hewing down forests and blowing the
boundless prairie, thus making re-
gion naturally forbidding the sites of
populous cities and attractive to fami-
lies. Before the Christian era the
world may have been divided between
Greeks and barbarians; but in this
epoch, the latter part of the nineteenth
the American is equal TO the
German, the Englishman to the Rus
sian, the Sxede to the Italian, etc, il
hey possess the same intelligence, and
are governed in their social relations
by the same cultured refinement.
The discussion regarding the death
If Mrs. Rogers has created great inter
,st in the matter all over the state.
Before the crime can be proved, death
must be proved by poison BY a person