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s 9 -A Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun04unse INBE3L M Page M P&8® M Page NOP trained in the British armiwanfiTboast- ing of being an Englishman land allow¬ ing no one to dictate to nun. a mere adventurer, a pauper aristocrat who professed that while in the British ser¬ vice he could not make his income covet bis expenses, be preferred and paid S2,0 0 0 per annum under the United States Government to do a worlc of THE ENGLISH ALIEN AGAIN vast importance that our own compe¬ tent loyal citizens could do far better 9 Why should this alien, who in his An Infamous Wrong—A Paspp official capacity kept a number of spies lish 4 rtstoprnt SfHrto “A Royal bounding his subordinates, and boast¬ Represen«atlve of the Census ing his ill will would follow them into Bureau”—For Shame! , every avenue and by-path, be retained Editor “Government Official m a conspicuous position in a govern¬ ment in which he has only a mercenary When the census work was distrib¬ interest ? ‘ uted the Division of Wealth; Debt. This alien, chosen to expound Amer¬ Taxation and Local Government was ican systems of local government to j ^signed to the charge of an unnatur- the world, in bis sole literary produc¬ tion, “ The Ladder of Journalism,” | alized Englishman, an ex-Lieutenant thus enunciates the sentiment that of the British Army. Tor this prefer¬ g(M erns his life : “ The less the citv ment no intelligent person has been editor has to do with his reporters able to find a just reason. His man¬ outside of the office the better he nnds it to he for himself and the agement of the division was a failure, better for the paper. * * * ]jfi and his displacement a matter of ab- j should make it clear at all times that ! solute necessity. But his removal was he is the city editor, and that if he | unbends socially it is for the occasion not effected until he had been the only.” means of doing much harm to the If this lieutenant of the British public service. He is ignorant of army is afraid of contamination by American people and customs, as he unhanding socially in this country, naturally would be; haughty and in¬ why not return to his former service m the land of the Zulus and Hotten¬ solent in his treatment of ladies and tots, where he can probably exercise gentlemen; visionary and impractical the tyrannical spirit he exhibited in in his schemes, and extravagant and U'R® Census Bureau? Why should wasteful m his expenditures of public this scion of English nobility, selected j funds. Choas and ruin marked his to expound a theory of government of | official career in the office.. a country of which he does not ap- When no longer chief of a division. 1 arently intend to beco'me a citizen, | he was sent into the lield as a special he allowed to humiliate and disgrace agent and consulting statistical expert, Union soldiers and the wives, widows iius tact being self-announced in a and daughters of their comrades by A ery lork paper, together with a large a continuance in any branch of the portrait of himself and his family nub lie service in this country? Is it pedigree, this alien went forth as a not an insult to the American flag and royal representative of the Census the genius of our institutions ? Bureau to consult various state offi¬ The Hon. Secretary of the Interior cials as to the true theory of the Ameri¬ "Til save his department merited dis¬ can Republic, of which he is not a grace by summarily dismissing this citizen. alien from his branch of the Govern¬ „ -Returning, he is now engaged in un- ment service. Outraged justice, the lOlaiiig bis conception of local govern- rights of our epople. and especially of meat in the United States. Claiming the Union soldiers, demand that aliens p i\e-of better blood than the citizens «hall neither hold office under our of this republic, either native or nat¬ Government or take up public lands uralized, this imported bit of the Eng¬ in this country. lish _ aristocracy has been assigned Let it be a statute law, if not so special quarters in the Pension build- already, that only honest, competent ;!ei'e b6 may not come in contact Americans shall occupy places in the with the common herd, while other departmental service of the United officials of the Census Bureau are States. England does not take citi¬ thrust into densely packed offices, cor¬ zens of other countries into her ser¬ ridors, back rooms, private dwellings vice. Must we in self-defence raise and even mills. ’ the old familiar battle cry, “America Sensible people are inquiring : Whv for Americans!” should such prominence be given this PEEftABOO. alien ^Vby should a young man The old and reliable Public Opinion; published at Chambersburg. Pa-, takes up the popular demand tha. all foreign¬ ers must vacate public offices in the United States, and in a strong edi¬ torial of May 8th ii says "Put him our.” We reproduce the' article in full: ! PUT HIM OUT! Only last week the Opinion had 'something to say upon the vicious system of admitting foreign contract labor in competition with the hard- handed and brawny-armed tiller of feimetican soil, American mines and American manufactories. In another column will be found an article from the Government Official of the 3 Oth ult.. published at Washington, D. C., which speaks of the preference given to a pauper English aristocrat in the Census Bureau. This English snob found totally unfit at the head .of^n important Division, instead of being summarily dismissed, Avas transferred to another department and gi\'en special quaters where he AA'ould “not come*in contact Avith the common herd.55 F The question arises by AAhat right! is such an insult to Americans counte¬ nanced? No doubt obnoxious to the Secretary of the Interior, this Eng-, lish snob is retained through the in¬ fluence of some Senator or Congress¬ man in violation of decency and re¬ spect for true American manhood. It is none the less an infamous wro'ng and outrage. An alien has no busi¬ ness aauth writing up our local gov¬ ernment. This one particularly ought friever to have been given such a place, and should be made to step ? doAvn and out. Let the a ugean stables be cleansed. No appointment under the American government should be, filled by aliens Avho are working under a foreign flag. Above all, the cen¬ sus should be conducted under the American flag, and fits appointments should be filled by American veterans giul citizens. Put hifn out! AT MOUNT GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF TH'cl HOME OF WASHINGTON. Pictures of Pen and Brush—The Good Work of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association—Departed Scenes and Char¬ acters in the Mirror of the Present, Written for Tlie Republican, "" f At' - lishment, which seems evenndw the home Iso spot in all America can command the of somebody, that one forgets for the mo¬ universal veneration that is accorded to ment the flight of years and actually ex¬ Mt. Vernon, the former home of 'Wash¬ pects the appearance of the owner in per¬ ington. That the general appearance #f son and to he charged with intrusion. The the grounds and the mansion, and all im¬ scene of the mansion and its surroundings mediate environments, is a fac simile of at the present time is as if the father-of- the Mt. Vernon of ante-Revolutionary his-country, and his queenly Martha, and times is due to the public spirit and energy the rest of the always numerous family, of the ladies constituting the Ladies’ Mount were only in hiding, and many a visitor— * Vernon Association, who have not only not a dolt either—actually expects to see restored the entire homestead to its orig¬ inal condition, hut have succeeded iu them. “This is the tomb of Washington,” bringing together the larger portion of the said the guide on one occasion. “Is he original furniture, with many historical dead?” ejaculated one of the visitors. Ten keep-sakes, making forever fresh the per¬ thousand who have been there wouldn t sonality of Washington. know any better. I did. To visit Mt. Vernon to-day, and it is A RETROSPECTION. Mecca of a marvelous procession of visit¬ The Washington estate was originally a ors from all parts of the world, is to step princely domain of 8,000 acres. It is situ¬ upon soil, and breathe atmosphere, and ated on the wrest bank of the Potomac, J pass into hall-ways and rooms, up and sixteen miles south of the now beautiful i down stairways, to look in upon priyate city of Washington and the capitol of the | boudoirs, with all their furnishings of Republic of the United States. It came chairs, stands, bureaus, beds and bedding, into possession of George Washington by and jpauy personal effects, and to lookout 'nheritance, and was bequeathed by him at windows, through the same narrow Bushrod Washington, at whose death panes, down upon walks and drives and it descended to his nephew, John A. Wash¬ i lawns and outbuildings that are full of ington, who, in 1858, sold it, including the touch and spirit of Washington, which 200 acres, to the Ladies’ Mount Vernon As¬ have a freshness and an air of boundless sociation for the sum of $200,000, of which hospitality, as if the retinue of old-time $78,494.59 was the contribution of Ed¬ ' servants and attendants were still serving, ward Everett.
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