Show SHOULD BE HIS OF RIGHT William Knight on board the battleship Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- has served twenty seven years in the United States navy He Ic won a medal for br gallantry gallan gallan- l' l try by order of congress His father w was s an Englishman En En- L lishman his mother was one-half one Chinese and one half Japanese He applied for citizenship papers pa pa- pers ers recently and was refused on the ground that Mongolian no-Mongolian JI can be he given citizenship v When the revolutionary war was over Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington recommended that such colored men as had hadS S in the war and been honorably discharged v should hould be permitted to vote Tote Now it seems to na ml that in all the laws forbidding foreigners of any S 0 description from becoming citizens of the United S States s there ought to be an exception that exception that any man who has served the country in the face of the theS S enemy who has proved himself to be a gallant soldier sol S o dier her or a gallant sailor should be given citizenship citizenshipS S S for the asking and not be required to present any proofs except that he offered his life over and over overS over'S i r S 'S for his country And this should apply to all races Braces whether Mongolian Malay l Ethiopian the native nath-e American Indian or the Caucasian S In fl one of Currans Curran's celebrated speeches he sai said S in effect that no matter what complexion incompatible incompatible with freedom had been burned upon him S b by r an Indian or African sun the moment he lie set setS S foot on British soil the altar and the god fell to toS S the dust the chains melted from around him and he lie stood forth redeemed regenerated and disen disen- And to paraphrase this we would say that no matter what the mother or father of a fI aman S man nu might be no matter what race he might beS belong belong belong be be- S long to hi his years rears of service behind the guns and andS S under the flag of the United States in storm and andin andS S S in in battle make all question as to who he was or orS S what he was impertinent that impertinent that he lie was entitled to the full rights of the American citizen because he f earned vearned arned them earned them in the position which S many Americans would hesitate before entering I and ancl because he had done that service it is not becoming becoming becoming be be- S coming in any man no matter what race or Coun Country countr coun- coun tr try to question his sincerity or his devotion to to the theS S flag of the United States and the institutions of this tl this countr country r. r |