New-York tribune., 1901-12-08

to endow him with the same electoral
| privileges that any Chinaman Australian
black born under the British flag would pos
sess, and that in the eyes of the law he was
| alien and would remain until he had secured
letters of English naturalization.
| 1t is not only aliens, however who dis
qualified from membership of Parliament and
| from taking part in any Parliamentary e!ec-
tions TheTe are plenty of full fiedSed English
citizens who subject to similar disabilities
Thus all peers of the realm Except those IRISH
peers who do not happen to have been elected
for life to represent their order in the House Of
Lords are barred from the exercise of fran
chise. 50 too are police officials high and low:
they neither have a vote nor they eligible.
1neligibility to Parliament extends to the AnSli-
can clergy, to Scottish Presbyterian ministers
and to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Und-s-
charged bankrupts those convicted of felony.
and those who have not completed their SEN
tences, but merely freed on tickets of leave,
are likewise disqualified from election to Iarlia-
ment. So too, under the age Of
twenty-one and persons who, having been jul
dicially declared insane, have not been legally
| restored to their civic rights and privileges. IN
sanity, however does not constitute any lis
qualification in the case of the upper house of
Parliament Lunatics are permitted to take
part in the divisions i'll the Gilded Chamber and
at the time when the Irish Home Rule bill
enacted by the House of Commons defeat
| ed by the House of Lords less than three
crazy peers brought down to Westminster
! by their keepers from the insane asylums in
which they were held under restraint and voted
| as hereditary Legislators against Home Rule be
| ing granted to Erin.
Andrew Carnegie is eligible to the British Par
Lament, having been born in Scotland, although
he is a fulIhelsed American citizen, having
taken out letters of naturalization in this coun-
try. But ii is a born Scotchman that the aU-
| thor Of "Triumphant Democracy has been
elected lord rector of the ancient University #
St Andrews i'll the Land o Cakes" Louis
Jennings. who for many years the editor
of a New-York newspaper and a conspcuou:
figure in the political life Of the Empire State
| subsequently became a member OF the House Of
Commons at W estminster for the constituency
Of Stockport. without any difficulty, owing tn
/ the fact that he cockney by origin, hay
ing been born in London, within the sound II
Bow Bells TIL fact that he had been natural
lied in the United States was held to be dis
qualification. 1t the same with Sir Henry
NJ Stanley when he was returned to the Britist
Parliament for although he went to the United
States as a mere boy. vet he was born in Wal.s
ON the other ha1d. Francis Channing, a ma
tive of Boston; SI Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, nov
forced out Of the House of Commons by bank
Iuptcy. and who was born in Brooklyn, n Y.
and William Ashm"ai Bartlett Hurdett-Coutts
who is a native OF Plymouth, Mass. We're all
obliged to secure letters Of British naturaliZ1-
tion before they could secure seats in Parlio-
m.ut. this, too. although Sir Ellis and his
+ brother Eurd,tt-Coutts, had gone to England
as mere boys a ld have lived there ever since
ON the Contireut of EuroEe citizenship 10y
birth or by naturalization is an indispensable
qualification to eligibility to the national legis-
laturr. and in England. the oath of allegiance
is required from all before they permit /
to take seats or to exercise their rights full
1lcd--d members of Parliament.
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