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Show THE SACREDNESS OF CITIZENSHIP. J The Poles' are being mercilessly ex- j polled from Germany, and on this fact i the Tribune of tins morning makes the j following comment : j Maybe our Mormon friends who are cer- i tain that they are being badly persecuted in Vt&h would like to make a change and trust to the tender mercies of Bismarck or the Czar.- They are going back behind this generation gen-eration and driving out men, women and children from the homes in which they were born, because their parents or grandparents happened to belong to a nationality which the Muscovite and Teuton do not like. Certainly, Cer-tainly, if the news from Europe is true. Prince Bismarck has lived too long for his own fame. His treatment of the unfortunate unfortu-nate Poles is a disgrace to civilization, and it clouds his fame more than a war for con- I quest wonld. It shows that his heart ia as I cruel as his bram is great, and the immediate imme-diate result ought to be the hurling of him irom power. We. think with the Tribune on this matter as it expresses itself this morning, but it gives us exquisite pain to see that it has not been constant in its views on this same subject. On Thursday, September Sep-tember 3, 1885, the Tribune spoke of the expulsion of the Poles in these terms : In the decree banishing the Poles from liermany our Mormon friends may find food for reflection. The order simply means that Germany is to be at all times ready at all points for war, and that men Bhall not remain re-main upon German soil, ocennv Oom lands and recerve German protection, who cannot ba rehednpon for hefp and sympathy in the event of danger. The Poles are not SVf th.e,m German citizens. In their homes they tell their children of their ?iZia-?d'? lan4 that mustsometS Thil'W natoonality re-established. They are but a httle band and it is but petty fr a.K"t Empire like Germany to P1 f?amt them and banish them, but the act shows how sacred Bismarok holds the tJiot toansfaipand how impatient SffiffiKssr of Genmau y shau As God gives us to see these two statements, state-ments, they appear to us to be inconsistent, inconsist-ent, and through the years thev "will so appear unless they are reconciled by a song sweeter than the songs which Miriam .sang to her people. Now what does this act of expulsion show, "how sacred -Bismarck holds the covenant of citizenship," or that "his heart is as cruel as his brain is great," and that "the immediate im-mediate result ought to be the hurling of him from power?" |