Show ABUSE OF NATURALIZATION One of the surest signs igni of the near approach ol of a political contest at the p polls ii is the great draft of voting recruits who are herded and aDd hastened and aDd hustled through the process ot of otI I naturalization The United States State courts in this thil and adjacent districts have had bad an unusual amount of ot this business badnell on OD band hand during the past few day days and while the rush ruah for the season on may now be over there Is II i per per- perhaps per per-hapa haps bap enough still till to be done to warrant a few words of comment ent The manufacture of alien American citizens on the wholesale plan and under the auspices D et of politics politic is a practice which patriotism cannot too strongly deprecate and condemn We will not say aay the courts or their officers Den generally lend themselves with readi- readi readiness read read-n ness to the railroading process but that they might throw greater safeguards than han they do around the boon of ot citi- citi citi I will wUI hardly f need argument enof In ID n the appearance of ot o a large batch ot the monotony of the ques ques- questioning questioning questioning and the formality Is i apt to prove wearisome and by c common consent under such circumstance plan too frequently fly is la to cut it short Moreover the applicants applicant on OD such occasions are afe usually u u lly accompanied accompanied at least into the lobby by persons per on whom every every body knows and it U Is ii pre pre- presumed umed that such parties would not upon any ny consideration Introduce and render aid id to an unworthy person per ci I 1 Alas Alaa herein lies Hei the very evil and danger we complain of The natural manage manages are but human after all II and as aa this part of their game Is they are in io it tl for r a winning V by should they concern themselves therefore about the would-be would voters voter's morals morale honesty patriotism and regard for tor American institutions If It accepted he be will be allowed to vote if It be he votes b he will vote aa as they want him to I and aDd nd bil his ballot will be aa so big bigand and nd will count for tor as a much as that of the oldest and noblest and best American in the district Cannot any anyone anyone one ODe lee see that the temptation of ot the practical politicians D is is great real that the abuse abu e of a high privilege e is 18 i easy eallY and that the need for lor reform is cry crying i ng It If the matter of ot naturalization cannot can oot be beat be at once divorced and rescued from its It unholy alliance with politics why cannot the respective managers prote prole as closely ly the character and fitness of the applicants applicant for tor citizenship brought forward by their opponents aa as they do dothe dothe the Ibe identity and qualifications qualification of those opponents on election da day daj An illegal vote 08 isa la 18 a fraud and a wrong but it is il Infinitely less lew blighting than the placing placing ing in unworthy and unclean bangs lb the precious gift of American citizen citizen- citizenship ship hip Jut Just what wha party managers are aregood aregood loud good for lor has baa DO not yet been beeD d made clear olar to e every ry citizen who bas haa room for tor other than p political and partisan thoughts In ID the direction we h have e Indicated they could win WiD for tor them them- themselves them them-Belvea Iv selves much credit and aDd what is ia more to 0 the purpose e do the country real service The fact tact that there are scandals candall and disgraces of the sort referred to 0 ia Is lt Itself elt elta a proof that the boon sought ought Is valuable valuable able Men do not covet or useless things American citizenship is II priceless and precious And while it is II 1 made easy and given freely to each one who Is li desirous and deserving of ot it it should bould be reserved r for tor that kind only We cannot tob toe strongly urge that every born foreign foreign resident whose hopes hopel and home and true affections affection are with this thil broad broadland broadland land of liberty and the Institutions of the free tree should bould avail aTaU himself of the leniency of ot the naturalization laws lawand and speedily become one of ot us u At the same ame time lime we cannot but d deplore the fact that when men or parties have bave undertaken to throw the privilege a Jd Ad the honor heedlessly before unworthy creatures in the pool of ot politics politic dig dig- dignity dignity purity and decency have been made to blush at the farce faroe and redden indignantly atthe the infamy |