Territory. District. or subdivision. either as members o? the Regular Army or the National Guard. Under this section of the bill unnaturalized residents of the United States are exempt from the selective draft. and while the quota of the number of soldiers to be furnished is based on the population. which includes aliens. yet when it comes to furnishing the actual soldiers. these aliens escape responsibility and the burden falls upon the native and naturalized Americans. That this process of selection and this method of assigning quotas to the several States and subdivisions thereof is unfair is apparent from an examination of the law. but a concrete statement from my own district. composed of the counties of Westmoreland and Butler. Pa.. will demonstrate the unfairness of the application of the selectivedraft law. In the county of Westmoreland. Pa.. there were registered on .une 5. 1917. 26.940 men within the military age eligible to the selective draft. made up as follows: White male citizens ---------------------------------------16. 789 Black male citizens ---------------------------------------- 485 Total ---------------------------------------------17. 274 White male aliens ---------------------------------------- 9.570 Alien enemies ------------------------------------------- 96 Total ---------------------------------------------9. 666 Of these aliens 40 per cent are subjects of Austria. with whom we are not at war. Thus in my native county more than 35 per cent of the registered male citizens subject to military duty under the selectivedraft law are exempt and the quota must be filled. not from 26.940. but from 17.274 men. which imposes a great burden on the native and naturalized Americans. In Butler County there were 1.626 aliens within the military age not subject to draft. These aliens. most of them having resided in the United States the required length of time to become citizens. had they taken out their papers when they were first eligible to do so. would have been citizens of the United States. but the majority of them do not intend to take out naturalization papers. They believe by not becoming citizens. and not voting. that they escape the burdens of taxation. which they do. and they prefer that situation to the duties. obligations. and pleasures of citizenship. That such conditions can not be tolerated and allowed to exist is very plain to every patriotic American citizen. and it is the duty of this Congress to remedy this unbearable situation.
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They believe by not becoming citizens, and not voting, that they escape the burdens of taxation, which they do, and they prefer that situation to the duties, obligations, and pleasures of citizenship.