The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-02-03
THE OUrLANDERs IN AMERICA.

A writer in the Minneapolis Journal
under the nom de plume OF "Anglo-
American says that it is the outlanders
in this country who express sympathy
with the Beers against Great Britain.
He is evidently laboring under the de-
fusion that the adopted or foreign-born
citizens OF the United states are on
par with the outanders in the Trans
vaal republic before the war, and that
consequently the latter should receive
all the sympathy that foreign-born citi-
zens bestow upon the Dutch burghers.
"Anglo-American" is undoubtedly a
British subject who is ignorant of the
distinction between foreign-born citi-
zen and an alien. The only outlanders
or aliens in this country are the sub
jects Of Queen Victoria who came
from the British islands or Canadian
provinces and will not forswear their
allegiance to her majesty to become
bona fde citizens OF this republic.
Were they, relatively, as numerous in
the United States as they were in South
Africa they would now be demanding
the franchise without intending to re-
linquish their loyalty to the aged en-
press of India.
In this northwestern city there are
today large number OF British out
landers who declared their intention to
become American citizens because they
could vote on their first papers; but
when the legislature wisely passed a law
requiring all foreigners to have their
second papers before exercising the
right of franchise, these same British
outanders absolutely refused to re-
nounce their allegiance to Great Brit
ain. They are, therefore, the real out
landers, and not the foreigners who
have become Americanized by comply
ing with the naturalization law The
writer who signs himself "Anglo-Amer-
ican' must be an outlander in the true
sense or he would have appended his
name to his communication like fear
less American citizen. None but a
pscudo-Amcrican will conceal his name
from the public on any question OF I'M
portancc.
There are some Britishers who have
become full-hcdged American citizens
for one reason or another, but Judging
from their talk and action they are
more interested in the welfare of Great
Britain than Of their adopted country
These are the men referred to by John
+. Fincrty when he says:
The British who have taken out their
naturalization papers in this country
as whole, are not American citizens
for any other purpose under heaven
than to further British schemes, and aid
the British government.
II anyone will take the trouble to OK
anime the registration books OF the
latter part OF the last decade, he will
find ample evidence to prove that the
great majority of British voters in the
United States at that time only took
out their first papers about 1888, al
though most OF them had been living
in this country for years before that
date. There was a spontancity and
simultancousncss about it that leads to
the conclusion that when all these
Britisfers became citizens, they did so
in obedience to some central authority
some circular order cmanating from
the British legation, but promulgated
by the British American association.
1t is curious fact also, that whenever
the American government adopted a
line of policy, foreign or domestic, that
conhicted with British interests, the
Britishers in America manifested oppo-
sition to that particular policy. The
British-American vote opposed Blaine
and went to Cleveland, because the
great American statesman had we'll