The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-24

made, and that the hearing will be
had before court Of record at a time
specified. Now, what In 10 be done
in court when that proceeding is taken
up? Let me read TO yea the section
OF the law. "That every Flnal hearing
Hpon such petition shall be had in
open court before a Judge or Judges
thereof, and every anal order which
may be made upon such petition shall
be under the hand OF the court, ami
entered in fun upoh record kept for
that purpose,
ana dpon such anal hearing of
such petition the applicant and
bis witnesses shall be examined
under oath before the court and
i'm the presence OF the court"
Under the regulations made pur-
suent 80 this statute, SIS well as un-
der that statute itself, the law requires
that each applicant shall be sep
crately and individually examined an
der oath like witness in the trial
OF a case, and that he, and each or
BIS witnesses, shah be individually ami
separately Intercepted SO as TO dis
close whether or not he in fact ana
m truth lis entitled to citizenship
There can be no longer admission of
Foreigners to citizenship in the United
States In blocks OF Ave or ten or
twenty or a hundred. n IA as much
an individual proceeding as the trial
OF any law suit is an individual PRO-
ceeding. The witnesses and the ap.
plicants ought each one of them TO
have the oath administered to them
that they VIII testify in the cause
pending before the court to the truth.
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, the same as in any judicial pro-
eeeding, and then it is made the d9ity
of the presiding Judge or OF some per.
son acting in furtheranee OF the law,
to interrosate each Of these witnesses
and the applicant so as to disclose
whether the law has in fact been com
Piled with SO that the APPLICANT is en-
titled to admission TO citizenship.
Every Feature Of Law Outraged.
Now, this case discloses that every
Feature Of the law intended to safe
guard the citizenship OF this republic
was outraged in the district court OF
Logan county in the proceeding that
we have under investigation, 1T was
outraged by The violation of their d{lty
by the clerk OF that court ana bv the
Judge who presided at the hearing
Inc practice was the same here in
substance as ii was in the st. Louis
cases. The fors ishers were brought
efore the court in droves, and stnplv
passed into citizenship without eny
knowledge on their part OF the re-
duirennents for admission to citizen
ship. or on the part OF the coua as
70 whether those requirements hsa
been complied with. The foreltsna,.s
could not speak English ana ala pnf
understand @ word Of the proceeding
No Interpreter was employed. Va
Questions were asked No examgpA
tfon was HAD Simply the oath of al
legiance wes administered 10 the whole
band OF applicants IN q body.
To the aliens the eeremons- #.ss nm
empty form; and to anyone having >
proper regard for law Il was a legal
LOOK at The result. TIerA rs
person who had been dead Tor FOUR
Years admitted TO citizenship OF the
United States And What was the OBJ
tect OF this outrage upon federal Isy
ana American ,citizanshipe To enablA
person who was not entitled to 1e0
acres Of land TO get title 20 ii.
AS / said M the begfhnfne ssaptlA.
men, this Is an impressive illusfratfon
OF how Impossible II IL TO obtain good
government. regardless OF how ntisa
cur laws mav be. II public officials Mtll
not be faithful to the performancA ~
their duty under those laws. what
then are we 20 do with these defend 1
ants2 1t Is nude O. crime Tor any nar- 4
son knowingly" 20 make false an
aavits In any OF these citizenship pro
ceediffga
I think the evidence seoncItfsfssely
shows that owing to the lax and
fE1faerabie way In which The law was
In Logan county. these
witnesses, being foreigners lsnnyg nnf1,-
Ing about what they were doing. a,hay
made 'this affidavit and Fave color ia
thia JAdieial proceeding through a
nlistaiSe, Tl1ey acted under the aHVgeel
Ct The clerk of court Re prepared al
series 81 affidatiits ana they simply
signed where ne told them to siFn. il
younger brother at the dead woman ~
hts dfNecfion signed her fianae to 4lel
petition Tor lser aslnlissiah to agsize4a-
ship nhe clerk falsely certIhed that