The record-union., 1899-07-15
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Marysvifle Appeal: It is said that
Aguinaldo will not be permitted to use
the ransom money put up by Spain
for the release of the Spanish prisoners,
held captive since American occupa-
ton OF the islands, but it remains to
be seen how that willy chief let's go
OF good thing until he has something
better in sight.
THE "FOREIGN VOTE"
Oakland Tribune: The question rs
there any. danger from the foreign
vote" that came up for discussion at
the Good Citizenship meeting at the
Baptist Church, Thursday night,ois one
to which the most meager consideration
Will prompt negative reply. Under
our conditions of citizenship there can,
in the first place, be no such thing as
a foreign vote for residence of
five years in the country is one of the
prime essentials of naturalization, un-
less the applicant arrived before the
age of eighteen, in which event he is
qualified to become a citizen after
reaching his majority
Our system Of government, too, abso-
ger from excessive foreign immigra-
ton, as everything is decided by the
| majority vote of the citizens of the ma
ton, and at the Presidential election in
1896 14,073, ,2S5 ballots were registered
at the polls. The proportion of voters
to population is, threfore, about one
to five, so it can be seen that no matter
how great the influx might be from
afh ,%,,;or
must always necessarily remain in
typical American hands. We are grow
ing up, too, as people. Four and five
generations of American-bo citizens
are by no means infrequent nowadays,
and this percentage is, of course, being
continually increased as the years roll
by. A century from now there will be
so many native Americans in the coun-
try that those born in other lands will
scarcely enter into the calculations at
all, as is apparent must be the case
| in the natural order of things.
A PARALLEL.
Stockton Independent: 1t is over
half century since the conquest of Cali
| fornia by Americans under a Demo-
cratic administration, and more than
| fifty years since its formal purchase by
| a Democratic administration and yet
the original natives, who had the first
! right to possession as well as liberty
| have not only been denied voice in
| local government but have never been
| made citizens of the United States.
New Mexico has been domain Of the
| United States for more than fifty years
| but has never had a voice in the Fed
eral Government. The Philippines have
belonged to the United States only a
| few months, yet Democrats are asking
greater privileges for the men there in
| open rebellion than have ever been
granted to the people of New Mexico.
TRAITOROUS.
| Alameda Encinal: That is not
pretty story that comes from Wash
| ington about the vilely traitorous con-
| duct of those Americans who have been
supplying the Filipinos with arms
land ammunition for the purpose of kill
ing our brave boys in blue AT the
same time it is only carrying out the
nefarious doctrine taught by Atkinson,
Irish & Co., and voiced at a recent
meeting in New York when promi-
nent man prayed that some overwhelm-
ing disaster might visit our army in
the far east. A fitting punishment for
these traitors would be to stand them
up in front of some of the machine
guns that they have been selling to the
| Filipinos and let some of our boys pump
| them full of cold lead. Certainly no
punishment can be too severe for those
who for the sake of little blood
stained coin will provide the means for
Staying American soldiers. Shooting is
| too good for them.
| THE ADMINISTRATION SIDE.
! Tulare Register: The Administration
side of the army question seems to be
| the strong side when the truth is
known. The War Department has re-
cruited right along about 1000 men per
week since Congress adjourned and a
force of nearly 10000 has been raised
drilled and equipped since that time,
and yet the new army bill compelling
the reorganization of the army, was
| only passed by Congress on the I'd IF
March. OF the nearly 10000 enlisted
men 20 per cent. were in the war with
! Spain, showing that the alleged bal
| treatment of the soldiers was not bad
enough to deter them from re-enlisting.
No married man is taken as recruit
and only those are taken who can pass
1
the men sent to the front will be fine
physical types and just the material
| out Of which to make efficient sol
diers There has been no tardiness in
the matter of preparation and when the
rainy season is over in the Philippines
Aguinaldo will hear something drop.
PERSISTENT LYING.
Riverside Press: Some anti-Admin-
istration, anti-expansion papers in the
East have been doing some reckless ly-
ing about affairs in the Philippines that
put them on a par with the most ire
pressible yellow journals in the coun-
try. The Springfield Republican" and
New York Evening Post" usually ul-
a-conseryative, have been especially
| rank in this regard. They have on sew
eraI occasions published statements to
the effect that the American troops
in the Philippines are accustomed to
shoot down the natives as they would
chickens, not sparing women and chill
dren. Every once in a while some
boasting volunteer writes home cock
and bull story of how he has been fill
ing Filipinos with cold lead, or SOL
dier mustered out because of sickness
seeks to astonish his friends by wild
and woolly yarns about what great
slaughter he caused In that far off
country, and then these organs of
Grandma Atkinson publish these fairy
| tales as straight goods and write fiery
editorials denouncing the inhumanity
and oppression of our Government.
THE WHIPPING POST.