http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373907
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-07-24
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note: The Week fl British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange 76L XIII, No. 9-13th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, July 24,1915 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year The Soul of a Nation THE BRITISH Press has lately devoted much space to n discussion of the position in the community of naturalized subjects of alien birth. The subject is more intricate than is generally supposed, for the highest legal authorities maintain that a naturalized subject does not enjoy all the rights and privileges of the British-born. That is a matter which is not, so germane to present conditions in Canada as in England, where the number of Germans who have been naturalized is very large, and their presence in the community u conspicuous danger. The exact status of the naturalized citizen is to be investigated by the Courts in the action brought against. Sir Edgar Speyer. .Meanwhile one of the most forceful of London journalists, John Briton, has published a comprehensive article on the subject. In establishing a distinction between the British born and the naturalized citizen he goes for a precedent to that noble passage in which the Apostle Paul laid down n principle which has never been questioned. The context reads ns follows:— And ns they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the Centurion Hint slood hy, Is it lawful I'm' you lo scourge n niiin that is a Roman, and uncondemned ? When the Centurion beard that he went and I old the Chief Captain, saying, Tube heed what thou does! for lliis man is n Roman. Then I he Chief Captain came, nnd saiil unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said. Yen. And the Chief Captain answered. AVith a great sum obtained I lhis freedom. And Paul said, But 1 was free horn. Viewed in this light, John Briton thinks that the status of naturalized subjects is one that requires strict investigation. This is the view that, The AVeek has always taken, nnd it is the view wliich was pressed upon the notice of the Government by a meetin…

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