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Show "MUST GO." That some one " must go " is heard every ev-ery little while. Of late this ' must go." . sentiment has been pronounced chiefly against the Chinese, but it is one of those loose, elastic sentences which are made to fit any class that is not popular in a community." A good many of those who say "must go" so glibly have themselves, them-selves, in many cases, but just came. The Nalion of the 22d makes the following fol-lowing very sensible remarks upon the " must go " question : The same rule holds good as to all movements move-ments directed against equal rights. The Pacific Pa-cific Coast agitation against the Chinese had its origin in San Francisco, which has the smallest proportion of native-born residents among all our cities, and its fit leader was an Irish immigrant. The recent massaore oi uninamen at Kock bpnngs, Wyoming, was entirely the work of foreigners, and i foreigners who have so little in common with this country that they had not even been naturalized, so that it is a fact, of which we may well feel proud, that no single American Ameri-can citizen was implicated in the outrage. There, was a time, a generation ago, when the catchword "America for Americans" Ameri-cans" found a good deal of acceptance among the descendants of the original settlers, set-tlers, but things have changed since then. Nowadays it is the people who represent the original stock that insist most strenuously upon fair play for newcomers, while the man who is loudest in crying that somebody "must go" from this country is pretty sure to be a man who has only recently come to it himself. There is a good deal of sense in the above, and something to be pondered by those who would settle much vexed questions ques-tions by means of the simple fiat that so-and-so, or such and such "must go." "Must go" was the method of the vigilantes vigi-lantes in the old days of border ruffianism; ruffian-ism; and in some cases its effect was salutary, although the method may have been doubtful. In the days of the Kansas Kan-sas struggle the proslavery men said the free soilers"must go," and the free soilers frequently employed the same method. The trouble with this method is, first, that it is illegal, and, second, that the command is unreasoning and allows of no defense; and it can be, and usually is employed by the most unscrupulous. There has been altogether too much "must go" of late, .and the "must go" itself will have to "go" eventually." |