People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1897 — OLNEY’S NEW TASK. [ARTICLE]

OLNEY’S NEW TASK.

’FortOg-ii Nations Con'.plsfn That Their Citi- ’ sens i’:«e Ameri.-aa .Privileges. Secretary-Olney is low -engaged-with ■' another perplexing problem which re- ! lutes to the treatmeut of naturalized ? Americans who have returned to the land of their birth and are suspected of not having the animus revertendi, which is the diplomatic phrase for an intention > of returning to the United States. This .- : has always been a vary serious matter, particularly iu Germany, Turkey and ;■ i Russia and of late with Spain, in regard ? to her Cuban subjects. I f The United Statesis one.of the easiest | . countries on ejbth iu which a foreigner j | may acquire citizenship, and a greatg many discontented persons' corue-here ■ from the monarchies of Europe simpiyj for the purpose of taking out natural!-. !j zation papers in order io claim the pro-? tecticn of our consuls abroad in case they get into trouble and to soet- an asylum iu this country if they are ban- 1 ished from their own. The Germans ; come in order to escape military service?? that is required.of every citizen df that" J empire; the Russmnt, Poles, ans, Turks, Syrians, Armenians and other subjects of Russia, Austria and ? Turkey have similar reasons, and it has been a common custom for Cubans to ‘ spend their summers in the United’..? States and their winters at homo until? ■ they have been able to take Nearly all the persons engaged prc.duinently in the Cuban revolution are citt'-? izens of the United States. Nearly allJf i the citizens of the United States who i have been arrested in Cuba for convY plicity in the revolution are citizens. N( ither class has ever had any?? • genuine residence iu this ahO the most g? them have never intended ;■ to return yere unless they were coni® polled to do so to escape the pem-.lty of L their acts.—Chicago Record. ‘ij