ld be denied citizenship--that is to say, the six greatest men
produced by the human race in the nineteenth century, were and are
unfit to be citizens of the United States. Those who have placed
the human race in debt cannot be citizens of the Republic. On the
other hand, the ignorant wife beater, the criminal, the pauper
raised in the workhouse, could take the necessary oath and would
be welcomed by New York "with arms outstretched as she would fly."

_Question_. You have quoted one statute. Is there no other
applicable to this case?

_Answer_. I am coming to that. If Mr. Jarvis will take the pains
to read not only the law of naturalization in section 2,165 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States, but the very first chapter
in the book, "Title I.," he will find in the very first section
this sentence: "The requirements of any 'oath' shall be deemed
complied with by making affirmation in official form." This applies
to section 2,165. Of course an Atheist can affirm, and the statute
provides that wherever an oath is required affirmation may be made.

_Question_. Did you read the recent action of Judge O'Gorman, of
the Superior Court, in refusing naturalization papers to an applicant
because he had not read the Constitution of the United States?

_Answer_. I did. The United States Constitution is a very important
document, a good, sound document, but it is talked about a great
deal more than it is read. I'll venture that you may commence at
the Battery to interview merchants and other business men about
the Constitution and you will talk with a hundred before you will
find one who has ever read it.

--_New York Herald_, August 8, 1886.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

_Question_. What is your remedy, Colonel, for the labor troubles
of the day?

_Answer_. One remedy is this: I should like to see the laboring
men succeed. I should like to see them have a majority in Congress
and with a President of their own. I should like to see this so
that they could satisfy themselves how little, after all, can be
accomplished by legislation. The moment responsibility should
touch their shoulders they would become conservative. They would
find that making a living in this world is an individual affair,
and that each man must look out for himself. They would soon find
that the Government cannot take care of the people. The people
must support the Government. Everything cannot be regulated by
law. The factor