The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-11
POLITICAL NOTES.
When the cost of the present strike
shall have been footed up and the
balance struck, there will be found
more Deb(s)its than credits.

SOON
shall have been footed up and the
balance struck, there will be found
more Debs)its than credits.
In refusing naturalization papers to
a number of Italians who could nellner
read nor write in any language Judge
Butler set an example that should pc
followed by all naturalization courts
without exception. Applicants for nat
uralization are required to take an oath
to support and obey the Constitution OF
the United States and no one can pc
expected to support and obey tnat
which he does not understand and can
not be taught to understand The alien
Immigrant no matter from what
country, who has not even acquired the
English language, cannot De we.
enough versed in the principles OF Am
erican government to be entitled to cit
izenship.-P Philadelphia Times Oem-).
Surely no man is fit to be citizen of
any country who has not made himself
acquainted with the language of that
country.
Speaking of Chief Justice Merritt's
recent order, the Philadelphia Ledger
Rep) says:
"The attitude of the strikers in the
Union Pacific has borne its legitimate
fruit in the final discharge Of most of
them. The United States District
court at Salt Lake issued orders that
all employees who left their posts
should report for duty at a certain
hour or consider themselves perman-
emily discharged. When the hour ar
rived not a striker reported for duty,
and thereupon, acting under the court
orders issued, the officers of the road
began hiring non-union men. Other
roads in the receivers hands, under
the authority of the federal govern
ment. are, it is said. about taking sim
liar action of the Union Pacific.
Says the Kansas City Times Oem):
Chicago now has an opportunity to
witness the soldierly qualities of the
officers and men of the Fifteenth
United States infantry, commanded by
Colonel r. E. A. Crofton. For months
the Chicago press, with one or two eX-
|ceptions, was engaged in the publica-
ton of sensational stories about the
regiment, charging that it was an i'll
disciplined body of men, with a COM
mander incapable of maintaining that
high standard of efficiency SO charac-
teristic of Uncle Sans regulars.
1t is small business for the press of
any part of the country to attempt to
belittle the army. The army has never
failed to do its duty, and if the citizens
will do their duty as well and as
promptly as the army always has per-
formed its duty, there will be much less
need to call upon the army.
Below will be found various COM
ments of the press on President Cleve-
lands action in calling out federal
troops to maintain the authority of the
United States:
Grover Cleveland's reply to Governor
Altgeld was short emphatic and de-
cisive, but perfectly temperate, digni-
fed and just. 1t was in effect that it
is no time to stop to parley and dis
cuss while murder is in the air and ri
oters are burning and pillaging. If the
governor Of Illinois had given to the Ia
Dor troubles little of the energy and
time he has devoted to foolish CORES
pondence with the president he might
have assisted materially in preserving
the law and restoring order.-Kaasas
City Star Oem).
The correspondence of Governor Alt