CHAPTER XIII.
THE FRANCHISE.[19] 1 .-- _Impossible Comparisons._ Dr.Kuyper favors us with a long dissertation upon the various laws of naturalisation existing throughout the world.

But he cannot compare a country such as Belgium with 226 inhabitants per square kilometre, or as France with 72 per square kilometre, with a country that has two inhabitants to the square kilometre.

Had he been logical, he would have said that the 9,712,000 square kilometres of the United States should always have been exclusively peopled by the 600,000 or 700,000 Sioux Iroquois and Apaches who used to dispute them.
Dr.Kuyper will reply that they were Redskins and so do not count.

Be it so! Though the theory of inferior races has very grave consequences from the standpoint taken up by him.
But, to be logical, he ought to regret that the Puritans of Massachusetts opened wide the doors of the frontiers of their young Republic to English, Irish, and German immigrants, and, having given them equal rights with themselves, fused and made them into citizens of the United States.

My present object however is not to discuss theories, but to state facts.
[Footnote 19: _Le Siecle_, April 9th, 1900.] 2 .-- _Policy of Reaction._ In the Conference which resulted in the Convention of 1881, Messrs.
Krueger and Jorissen stated to the English Commissioners that the Franchise would be extended to whites after one year's residence.