The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1900-09-08
InE ENGLISH N0TE.

citizen, but we want To say right |
here that III all this land there are
no better sscitizens than those who
come from the isles over which
Queen Victoria reigns. The Demo
-crats are doing all in their power
to awaken race prejudice III peo-
pie Of German extraction against
tile Republican party. They are try
ing to make the Germans feel that
they are more German than Atneri-
can: they are trying to coddle favor
with the. Germans III order that
there may be a distinctively Ger
man vote CASA vote that will rep
resort the hates and prejudices of
Germany, not the hopes and asp
erations of America. We do not
think the Democrats are making
much Roadway with this un.Amer-
lean scheme, but that is no fault of
theirs. The business would not be
so bad, though, if II were not sought
to win the Germans by abuse of
England. The Enterprise does not
amount to as much i'll great con-
test as bubble on the ocean, but
if there is to be fight between
England and Germany OH Amer
lean soil, we are for England. But
you never hear about the English
vote; you never hear about the
Welsh vote or the Scotch vote.
Why? Because when the people Of
those nativities renounced a1leg-
lance to every foreign prince and
potentate, and sole1nn1y vowed to
uphold the laws ana constitution
of the United States>,.an revere its
flag they became Americans. They
became citizens of the Republic in
very truth, and with a profound
understanding of the benefits and
responsibilities of citizenship. The
people of the British Isles did
not come here to escape
military service, they did not come
here 10 get away from the mailed
fist of autocratic rule. The govern
ment they left behind was as
strong and just and free as. any on
earth. Their natural and constitu-
tional rights were as sacredly pro-
tecetd in England as i'll America.
They lacked only some of the OPP
portunities and privileges which
the Reptile affords. They did not
come here to wreck ancient spites
on the political institutions of the
country of their adoption. But il
they have a warm place III their
hearts for native land, it is a beau,
tifu1 and human sentiment. What
occasion is there for the hatred and
insult heaped by cheap polite,
ians on Englishmen? What people
in this world are more in sympthy
with us than the Welsh, Scotch
and English? What people have q
higher and correcter appreciation
of our institutions? What have we
in government that was not borrow
ed from them. The Congress of the
United States is fashioned after The
British parliament; Our Constitution
is based on the Magma Charta O.
Englishmen; the common law O
England is the common law O
America. Aye, and trace the line
age of the greatest, noblest men il
our history, and from what stock
do they spring? Wipe from the an
mails of our glorious record all thu
names that were first breathed or
British soil, and what a magni6
cent blank it would be. No, yor
never hear of the Welsh vote O.
the Scotch vote or the English vote
and for the reason that all the nel
and women of these nativities whC
are entitled to vote, vote as Amer
leans, not as Welshmen, Scotch
men or Englishmen. Neither, il
fact, do we hear anything about thu
Scandinavian vote. These also
have too much good American
sense to be worked by the Demo
cratic trick of arousing race pre-
JUDGES. AS said in the beginning