The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-23
NATURALIZATION LAWS.
When One Comes TO Look at Them
They Are Very Queer.

A New York Politician says the Laws
Strictly Enforced Would Shut Out
Jews, Irishmen, Russians, Tartars,
Japanese and Everybody Else Except
Cauoasians and Negroes.
Kate Field in New York Advertiser.
when ! want facts about blessed uatur-
alizatoln laws 1 appeal 70 an able New
York politician and get enough stats
tics in one sitting 10 set me thinking for a
year At our last symposium my mentor
fairly appalled, me with Information that
should be heralded from the house tops.
Here is the gist OF it:
Il am glad you are interested in our
naturalization laws, you can do "a great
deal Of good by calling attention to as
founding and generally unknown facts.
up 10 1868 or 1863 the Inform law,
which the constitution instructed the con-
eress to pass. had at the end of it the
words: The provisions of this title shall
apply only to aliens, being free white
persons In 1868 or 1869 the question came
before congress to so amend this law
that a negro could be naturalized a ciu-
zen The democrats in the Senate moved
TO amend the section by striking out the
word white Charles Summer united with
the Devll-on-two-sticks from Indiana to
defeat this motion. and succeeded. 1 think
It was through Morton, but it does not
matter. that it was made to read as fol-
lows. The provisions of this title shall
apply to aliens, being free white persons,
and TO aliens Of African nativity, and to
persons Of African descent
Standardization is therefore forbidden
to any white person escaping from Moor
ish captivity or Turkish slavery, and nat
uralization is forbidden to any person ex-
| cept whites and negroes.
In a decision, which 1 have no record
somewhere, but not at hand, 1t was decided
| that by African nativity and African de
scent was meant the wooly-haired black
race of Africa, and not the Moor or Der
Der and naturalization was refused the
I Moor on the ground that he was not
/ white person within the meaning of the
/ statute
In another case the statute was CON
/ sIucd, in the case OF a man not white,
| that the meaning Of the word white was
/ Caucasian. ana by white was meant
member of the Caucasian race. In the
/ celebrated case of An Nup, before the
circuit court of California. Judge Saw
yer decided that a native of China is not
a white person within the meaning of
the statute. If YOU will get the report
OF that case, and that of Charles Miller
/ in the United States circuit court of
/ New York you win see that the highest
/ courts have decided that none but eau
casions. Europeans white persons and
+ negroes are eligible to naturalization.
state courts go through the form of
| Daturalizing Cinnamon, but the naturali-
| zatiou has no more validity than their
( baptism. 1t no more makes them a cit
I iZcn Of the United States than a citizen
! of New Jerusalem. The Indian cannot
/ become citizen, and the judge who acts
! carefully will exclude every Russian Of
/ Tartar origin, equally with the Mongo-
liam. Malay, Polynesian. Australian, Hy-
erborean, Arab, Jew, Irish and Biscayan.
/ None Of these races belong to the Euro
| can races The Irish race is the rem
nant of the original aborigines whom the
Arvans drove westward. The Irish Ian
| guage is Aryan, but that was because
they learned it exactly as the descendants
of the Chaldean. Abraham gave up the
speaking of the Chaldean or Egyptian Ian
guage. and adopted the Phoeni-
clan dialect of Palestine when
Israel took possession of the
promised land They seized the country
and the language both. Yet he would
/ he a bold man who would refuse an
| Irishman naturalization.
LAS this question of who may be nat
/ uralized is interesting to you mark the
/ exact wording of the law Aliens, being
free white persons, and to aliens of Afri-
can nativity, and to persons Of African
descent.
"Kindlv note one fact that while the
/ strongest republican states of the west
and northwest admit the alien to suf-
I frage. permitting the immigrant TO vote
before he becomes citizen, the state
/ of New York grants the suffrage only
to citizens of the United States. There
/ is a great howl, and has been ever since
there has been a Republican party,
/ over the neglect of the democratic city
/ of New York in the careless admission
of foreigners to naturalization, but not
one word has ever been said about the
western states, which admit the alien
to full political rights with the native
born American, without asking him to go
through any form of naturalization be-
vona a mere declaration of intention
which requires no oaths and no wit
nesses and which he can make the day
he lands The very republicans who have
howled the loudest about the fraudulent
naturalization in the city of New York,
have been the men. who. in their own
states would have gone TO any length
10 defeat the law limiting the suffrage
i'm their own state to citizens only, and
excluding aliens.
Pardon me for thinking it possible
that YOU may not know that the genius
of this government forbids any federal
/ or national officer from being voted for
( Every person in the United States elected
by popular suffrage is a state officer
The conditions upon which every per-
son votes are matters entirely within
the legislation of the state legislature
1t is none of our business in New York
how the presidential electors of New
Jersey are chosen. That is New Jerseys
( business. If the New Jersey legislature
ehooSs 70 select its presidential electors
by ballot. or by lot. or by throwing dice
or if il limits them to red-headed men
/ or to croSs-eved ba bies il is absolutely