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Show Public Opinion and the Laws. The increase of crime and lawlessness in this f fl country is causing much apprehension, and throat- ; H ens to increase until the people of all sections c - H decide that the only basis of safety must come through respect for and obedience to the laws. ; fli The governor of Kentucky declaims that he is go- H ing to have order in that state even If he has to , meet violence by wholesale killing. He seems to i( H bo of the same mind that was tho keeper of a shady ' B don in the west when arraigned for keeping a dis- J fl orderly house. Ho plead his own case and his H argument was as follows: "Your Honor, when 1 H opened my house, I told the best men in the town ' JH that I was going to have a .quiet, peaceable and jJH orderly place, and by -, your Honor, I am go- ; ,H ing to keep my word if I have, to have a fight ffl every short quarter of an hour," and yet the Ken- j 'JH tucky governor admits that all he can do will be iH of no permanent good, unless he can be backed H by the public opinion of the decent people of the H state. H The Ital'on government complains that it has H found many Italian laborers in a state of peon- 'fl ae, "worse than slavery, "In the south. That Is jJH a state reproach that extends to the nation. An ;H eastern paper calls it the same as the abuse of 'H Chinese in the west. It is of the same nature, but H H t mm '""" ' ' 1 "" 1 ' 1 mmmmmmmmmi mmum m " 'rim---tlUii ' there is a difference. In the west, the race question ques-tion enters into the matter, but not in the case of the Italians. flTho Caucasian has made this country and the American race has been made up by the fusion of the different families .of that race. While the Mongolian when by his immemorial immem-orial and terrible thrift crowds out the American Ameri-can worlunaii, there is awakened an antagonism which is simply implacable. It is awakened as quickly in Massachusetts as in California. Of course it is all wrong. We believe that is j the sentiment of the American race. We believe j no cruelty of that kind was over started by a j native American; it is simply the white foreigner ! who does not yet appreciate the genius of our in- ! stitutions, preying upon the yellow race. But i that is no excuse, it is contrary to justice ana ! 'good morals and a violation of the laws and no i state is anywhere near perfect until all that is ! outgrown. . j We cling to the belief that every state should ,!; make one year's schooling of its young men a j! quasi-military service, and the studies of that i year, outside of the military training, should be 1 of the nature of our institutions, a comparison of them with other countries, and a severe training ; Of the duties of the citizen. And every foreigner who comas to our country under the age of 25 should be subjected to the same training; that 1 Should be a badge of honor to native and for- ; oigner alike. The faithful service ought to give the foreign-born naturalization, and for all other foreigners that boon should be put off for a longer ; term of years. War is an imperial machine ! and it should be impressed upon the young that it ; is a necessary machine to protect a free people. |