How true the prophecy ED. N. A.

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georgetown, O1. 10, 1898.


MEssRs EDIToRs--Permit friend to hint to
the Citizens Of Georgetown the necessity of form
ing Society, auxiliary to the one now in Wash
lngton, tor the purpose of keeping our citizens
from being tramped upon by certain foreigners.
holding Offices here. We have been subjected TO
great Inconvenience by the foreign insoence of an
lrlshman named O'Reilly, collector on the canal
who cannot give civil answer to Natives calling
on business with the office. Our spirited paper
lately dared to repudiate the practice of foreigners
voting at the ballot-box who were not naturalized
and what was the result? why, sirs, several of our
foreign citizens Immediately attempted to rob the
press OF its legitimate rights by Withdrawing their
names as see, by an article published by the edi-
tors, lew days since. 1t would be well, sirs. to
notice more minutely these aristocratc "genfle-
men," One, a Dutchman is clerk in one of the
public Offices, who when he came to this country.
was purchased and fosered by Native American.
placed on an equality with his family, and raised
to the standing he now occupies by the generosity
of this Native. Now that he has acquired some
Of this worlds goods, he sneers at the rights and
privileges of Natives. The other two, Irshmen.
owe all they have to the Natives Of Georgetown.
VINO have patronized them, and placed them on
an equality with themselves; but how lily they re-
pay tins kindness. They have got above them
selves and their benefactors.


