This bill not only requires the democratic Representatives of the American people to sanctien this German treaty by making it the basis of legislation proposed in the bill. but goes further and extends the principle of the treaty to all our citizens. whether naaive or foreign bern. and places all alike in peril of losing their American citizenship whenever they go abroad. If they remain two years in any I foreign country without subjecting themselves to the inquisitorial registration required by the bill. they forfeit their citizenship and are thereby denationalized and cast out upon the world as unprotected aliens. to be dealt with as the countries in which they happen to be may choose. In order that a person may save himself front the forfeiture of his American citizenship lie is bound. whether native or naturalized. to register at some United States legation his name. place. and date of birth. time and place of naturalization. previous domicile in the United States and the duration of his absence from it. whether he intends to return to it. if married. the name and nationality of his wife and children. and the names and ages of his minor children. with the dates and places of their birth. If he remains out (if the jurisdiction of the United States continuously for two years. he shall be held as domiciled in the foreign country. and thus deprived of his citizenship. Such legislation finds no support in reason or necessity. and is Utterly and scornfally repudiated by every sentiment of a generous and allprotecting American nationality. and such au abasment of American spirit should find no place on our statutebook.
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