Publication information |
Source: Kansas Staats-Zeitung Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Kansas City, Kansas Date of publication: 4 October 1901 Volume number: 7 Issue number: 46 Pagination: 1 |
Citation |
[untitled]. Kansas Staats-Zeitung 4 Oct. 1901 v7n46: p. 1. |
Transcription |
full text |
Keywords |
McKinley assassination (public response: criticism); Leon Czolgosz (family background). |
Named persons |
William McKinley. |
Document |
[untitled]
Since it has been shown that the assassin of
President McKinley was born and reared on American soil, and the efforts of
the Know-Nothings to lay the crime at the door of the foreigners so signally
failed, we often meet with the term “American citizen of foreign extraction”
as applied to the assassin. As far as we know all American citizens without
exception are of foreign extraction; why than [sic] make this distinction?
Wonder where the line is being drawn, and how
many generations must be passed in the genealogy of an individual before he
is considered a real American in the minds of some people. If the fact of a
man’s birth in this country does not make him an American then there are no
real Americans except the Indians, for we are all the offspring of foreign peoples.