San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-31
LOW JOURNALISM
Inhaming the Mexican Public Mind Will
Cause the Worst Influence Against
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Cause the Worst Influence Against
This Glass.
In our last Texas legislature a right
eous movement was made to curtail the
vile influences of the ignorant Mexican
vote In Western Texas. The principal
mover in this matter was Captain Tarver,
a representative from Webb county, who
is true blue democrat. The true occas-
ion Of his work was the fact that this
vicious vote at the last general election in
Webb county and Val Verde county had
been cast largely for the republican
ticket. Captain Tarver's first effort was
| to secure a constitutional amendment to
restrict the right Of suffrage to native
born and fully naturalized foreign citi-
zens.
Failing In this he modified his posi-
ton to require aliens to have taken their
| first oath at least one year before voting.
Again failing 10 this, he had TO take
the best he could get, which is an amend
ment TO the constitution of Texas re-
curing the said frat oath to be at least
six months old before voting. This last
proposition is now before the voters Of
Texas for adoption at the coming No
vember election.
During all this time we heard not a
squeak from the low down journalism
Capt. Tarver and Representative Martin
from Val Verde county, the leaders In
that move, are democrats and the MeXi-
can imported voter had voted the repub-
lcan ticket in their counties and towns.
But now, mark these low down papers!
A full blooded Mexican Indian with oae
Of Thad Smiths naturalization certih-
Gates thirteen years old comes before the
United States court In San Antonio, and
slr Ia an llu tnraliZad 'ThprnnDOn
two attorneys, employed by the Good
Government club of San Antonio,
mum boring over one thousand members,
step up before the court and object TO his
naturalization on purely legal grounds.
That legal ground is, that the said APP
plicant (Ricsrdo Rodriguez Is not a
white person" nor an african" nor oil
African descent and not entitled 70 nat
ur sliZation, and the court takes the
Quest ion under advisement.
Now comes that low down journalism
of West Texas pandering to this vile ele-
ment Of voters and fairly howlS that the
two attorneys (McMinn and Evans) are
trying to dsiranchise the Mexican voters
of the west; when each one OF these low
down journals well know that II the laws
of congress allow the said Ricardo Rodrl-
gueZ to be naturallzed, that neither NC
Mimi nor Evans nor one thousand other
not entitled to be naturalized, that
million of such "Catariuo Cara" jour
mails as they print, cannot force his
naturalization Such journals seek to
ipflame the ignorant foreign Mexican
mind on the point OF their rights in the
United States, and are near akin to the
house burner and specify paving the
way to the exclusion Of every Mexican
immigrant to this country.
III these anti-American and pro- Aztec
papers will hold their breath few hours
and listen for the passage OF the McCaIi
Immigration bill by congress, they will
have something to howl for. .
| A Mexican Qndian) family OF seven
persons, man, wife and five children, I'm,
migrating to the United States with all
| their goods on burro and for fifty or one
hundred miles on this side Of the Rio
Grande river, subsisting on dropped dead
cattle, first fighting off the buzzards, are
not the kind Of immigration this country
/ wants or needs, or the kind OF voters &c
sustain free government. NofooL'