In regard to these there are _certainly two sides to the question, and and when the "Daily Mail" this morning prints in bold letters surrounded by a black border the the words: "The Naturalization form is just a scrap of paper: Once a German always a German," it is on dangerous ground. The paper is justifying itself by the very argument which we are all denouncing the Germans for using. Mr. W. Harris, the chairman of the Carlton Hotel, Ld., announced yesterday at a meeting of the company that in the interest of the shareholders they had been compelled by the pressure put on them to dismiss all Germans and Austrians whether naturalized or not; but he admitted that thit tion had been taken with great luctance, as they had found these servants absolutely loyal.
"Indeed," he continued, "the length to which the persecution of Germans and Austrians, perfectly loyal to this country, is going, is in my opinion not only monstrous but highly impolitic. It should be stopped, The agitation has been taken up by the rabble press' in a manner which had led to a great deal of injustice to people who hold this country's scrap of paper' in the shape of naturalization papers."
That injustice is done in some cases the "Daily Mail" does not deny, merely excusing it on the same ground as the Germans have for the invasion of Belgium, that it is evitable."
As for the claim of these papers to have influenced Mr. McKenna, there is much less ground for it. There has, it is true, been much more activity of late in the arrest of Germans; but this, as Mr. Me-Kenna has explained, is largely due to the fact that the influx of Belgian refugees has made the task of spy-hunting much more difficult, and has therefore necessitated more stringent precautions,
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