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KOHLBERG BROS.
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No. 218 San Antonio 8t.
Eighth Year, No. 255.
El Paso, Texas, Friday Morning, October 26, 1888.
Price Five Cents
THURMAN 4 CARLISLE
ADDRESS AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE AT CIN-
CINNATI.
English Interference-Yellow Fever- A Strike
Threatened—Other Interesting News
From Various Sources.
Democratic Day.
Cincinnati, Oct. ^.-Democratic day
at the exposition here was a success and
the crowd large,. A great many ▼iaitois
called during the day and were received
in Judge Thurman's parlors. At 2
o'clock the party waa driven about town
and to the reviewing stand. The streets
were filled with people and about the
Htandthe streets were packed. There
were eight divisions, composed of ladies
and visiting democratic clubs, all of
whom shouted vigorously as they passed
the stand. It took exactly one hour for
the procession to pass the stand. The
exposition buildings were crowded and
the music hall was filled with upwards of
8000 people. When Judge Thurtnan was
introduced he wa9 enthusiastically cheer-
ed. He said:
Gkntlkmen—We are in the midst of
an extraordinary campaign, the most ex-
traordinary campaign 1 have ever gone
through, many as I have taken part in
during my life. We are in a campaign
in which our adversaries have the bold-
ness and audacity to tell the people that
the way to make people rich is to make
them pay more taxes than their govern
ment wants. [4pplause.] That way to
benefit the condition of man is to tax him
and everything that is necessary to his
existence and comfort as American citi-
zens, and that is called protection of the
laboring man. As if you could protect a
laboring man by robbing him of hisearn-
;ngs, and verifying the old saying of
•'Robbing Peter to pay Paul." |Ap-
plause. ] This is deception and a delusion.
Here followed a lengthy analysis of
the relation of labor to capital and the
relation of both to the country, in which
the speaker said there could not be a
single dollar added to the wealth of labor
exocpt by labor. (Judge Thurm in was
then interrupted by applause when he
produced his bandana). You cheer that
old bandana said he, but I would like to
know how in the world I would ever
have got that bandana to cheer if it nad
not been for labor. (Prolonged applause).
Labor made it, my labor enabled me to
obtain money enough to buy it, and your
labor will make you wealth enough to
live ia peace and in comfort if you will
only understand what is your owu best
interests. He then said the annual
production of this world is di
vided into two or four parti, one
part coes to the capitalists who
furnish money, lends his money out at
interest, and nobody begrudged him his
interest if be oply charges a reasonable
interest. Another part goes to the man*
ufacturer, the man who carries on the
business, and he makes bis profit, a rec-
ompense for his labor and his work and
his skill, aud nobody objects to his hav-
ing a reasonable compensation. The
remaining part goes to labor, to pay his
wages and if he gets fair wages, honest
wages, then he does not complain; hut if
he does not get his share, if he is op-
pressed, if he is trampled down under
foot, if his labor is exacted from him
without due compensation, then he is the
defrauded maD and ought to complain.
[Some German in the audience handed
the speaker an old horse shoe. "I picked
it up while the procession was moving.
That means victory. It is a horse shoe."
Judge Tburman-—" I thank you, sir ; I
will take it home with mo and nail it on
fflv door and keep these republican
witches that preach protection to ruin
the poor man from entering my house-
hold." [Great applause.) A voice—
'•Nail it on the White House door."
| Laughter.]
Judge Thurman then said the republi;
ean orators had asserted that the demo-
crats were enemies of the laboring man,
and in this connection reiterated the
statement frequently made by him, that
out of every thousand voters in the dem-
ocratic party nine hundred and uincty
are laboring men. Noarly all the happi-
ness they have on earth, said lie, is de-
rived from democratic principles, which
have shielded them in their troubles iu
life and made them coutented aud
happy and prosperous men. [Continued
applause.] Democratic principles gave
them the right to vote, democracy sprang
from the sentiment written by Thomas
Jefferson, "All men are created free and
eqnal." The speaker defied any human
being to point out any one single ameli-
oration of the condition of the human
race, one single improvement of the con-
dition of the laboring men that had not
been the result of democratic principles,
Why, so, one may say, were the south-
ern states democratic and they had
negro slaves. Yes, but that sentence of
Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created
free and equal" sprouted up and grew
up, and in the end made slavery impossi-
ble in any part of the territory of the
United States. (Mare applause). < Our
republican friends say they set him free.
They would have been in slavery for
ten centuries to come if they depended
on the republicans to set them free.
(Great cheers.] These words from
Thomas Jefferson's mouth and from his
pen are the words that set them free in
the end. It took time to do it, hut in the
end it did It, and therefore I say it Igain,
and I say it without the fear of success
fnl contradiction, that no improvements
or change in the condition of the laboring I
men in Christendom has ever been pro- j
duced except by the influence of demo j
cratic principles. [Prolonged applause.]
The democratic party contains a majority
of the people of the United States. It
contains a majority of the voters of the
United States. If these men are opposed
to the interests of the laboring man, if
thev are elements of labor, then they are
their own enemies, iheir own worst ene-
mies, and to Bay of the democratic party
that it is an enemy of the laboring man
is to say to that party, vou are a set of
idiots. The party that produced Jeffer- j
son, and Madison, and Monroe,and Jack-
son, and Cleveland. [Great cheering.]
and voices, " and Thurman and Thur-
man," to say nothing of other men is by
no means an idiotic party. In conclusion
he said : ' I think that on the sixth day
of next month, God willing, we will
teach them a lesson that will make them
cease to talk about the democratic party
being its own worst enemy." [Great
cheering.]
At the conclusion of Judge Thurman's
speech President James Allison read the
following message from Washington:
" I very much regiet that Mrs. Cleveland
and myself must deny ourselves the
pleasure of being present at the exposi-
tion on democratic day, and we can only
say our disappointment is greater than
that of those who have kindly invited
us. | Signed]
Grovek Cleveland."
Speaker Carlisle followed Thurman.
He agreed with Judgo Thurman in his
remarks concerning the connection of
the laboring man to the democratic party^
saying there is no part of the people of
tbe United States who are so much in-
debted to the democratic party and dem-
ocratic principles for their pros[crity and
growth as the people of the great north-
west. To it you owe the vast territory
which you inherit; you owe the religious
liberty which was established for all
time in the northwest.
Passing to the matter of the tariff, the
speaker said: The republican argument
is if the products of foreign labor are
admitted in this country free of duty, or
with a low rate of duty, the wages of the
laboring man must be equalized. I be-
lieve a reduction of taxes upon the
necessaries of life would be of
infinite advantage, not only to the labor-
ing man, but to all the people of this
country,thus enabling our manufacturers
to enter all the great markets of '.he
world, but I do not believe that by so
doing it will reduce the wages paid to
the laboring men in this couLtry. If
this is done the United States will have
access to all the best markets of the
world and England will cease to be pro-
tected by the laws of the United States.
I am in favor of * reduction of taxes not
ouly to relieve the laboring man, but
also because it is necessary to reduce the
surplus revenues of the government.
Carlisle read from Blaine's Chicago
speech in relation to the surplus,
claiming that Blaine had misstated
facts in relation to tbe action of
A CHINESE WALL.
JOHN TRIES TO EVADE THE NEW EXCLU-
SION ACT.
Collector Magoffin Rigidly Enforces It-No Chi-
naman Allowed to Come Across the
River—The Provisions of the
Acts Covering
the Case.
this present congress iu reference the/eto.
He concluded with a highly eulogistic
reference to President Cleveland and
Judge Thurman. To General Harrison
he referred as a very respectable lawyer
out here at Indianapolis, and to Hon. L.
P. Morton as a very rich banker of Wall
street. Children who had represented
different states presented Judge Thur-
man with a beautiful floral tribute.
The Dayton man who said he voted
for Blaine four years ago but would this
year vote for Cleveland, presented a
steel horse-shoe as an emblem of good
luck.
St. Louis Defeated,
St. Louis, Oct. 25.—New York won
the sixth game and decided the world
championship series to-day. They out
played the Browns at all points. Score —
St. Louis 8, New York 11. Pitchers-
Chamberlain and Keefe.
Kaglitth Interference.
Washington, Oct. 25.—Secretary Bay-
ard, who returned to Washington last
night, made the following statement to-
day t:> a representative of the Associated
Press iu regard to the letter of Murchi-
soa, of California, to the British minister
on the subject of the ponding presiden-
tial election and the British minister's
reply: "Yes, I have read both letters.
1 have not seen the British minister since
he went to Europe last spring until
he called on me this morning at
the department of state. )>ord
Sackville has not other or
better means of knowledge of the inten
tions of the president than any one of the
sixty-five millions of American people.
His personal opinion is worth no more
than that of any one of them on the
ground of knowledge, and much less on
the ground of interest in the subject.
Wbilo there must be concessions of opin-
ion tiS to the impropriety of expression
of individual views by any one holding
the position of foreign envoy, it is still to
be hoped we will be able to sittle the
issues which are involvod in the pending
canvass without the importation of for-
eign interference or intermeddling in our
domestic affairs' The American people
will be prompt to resent and repel as
Impertinent any such attempt, l>ut this
will be easily recognized as a political
pitfall arranged by California. The let-
ter, with its objects so plainly stamped
upon its face, and addressed to the Brit-
ish minister, into which he has so sur-
prisioglv tumbled. Such petty schemes
to break the fall of uur despairing politi-
cal opponents will be held in the proper
estimation by popular intelligence."
John is iu trouble. He has been in the
habit of going back and forth between
El Paso and Juarez freely, as business or
inclination called him. He has lived first
in one city and then in the other, accord-
ing as he found the one or the other best
suited to his purpose. But now all is
changed. The recent Chinese exclusion
act has got its grip on him. He finds
that this is a rule that will not work both
ways. Like one variety of mouse trap,
the law lets him go in one direction with
freedom, but if he turns and tries to go
back he finds his way barred,. He is at
perfect liberty to go over to Mexico, but
on no condition is he allowed to return.
True, he may perhaps evade the officers
and get back, just as his Caucasian
neighbor may smuggle if he will take the
risk of getting caught.
The recent act which builds a wall
around the United States to exclude the
Chinese is quoted in the following circu-
lar of instructions to collectors of cus-
toms:
To collectors and other officers uf the
customs:
Your attention is called to the follow-
ing act. approved October 1, prohibiting
the return to the United States of Chi
nese laborers, in order that its provisions
may be strictly enforced and carried into
effect:
' An act to supplement to an act en-
titled An act to execute certain treaty
stipulations relating to Chinese,' ap-
proved the sixth day of May eighteen
hundred and eighty-two."
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled. That
from and after the passage of this act, it
shall be unlawful for any Chinese laborer
who shall at any time heretofore have
been, or wbo may now or hereafter be,
a resident within the United States, and
who shall have departed, or shall depart,
therefrom, and shall not have returned
before Lhe passage of this act, to return
to, or remain in, the United States.
Sec. 2. That no certificates of identity
provided for in the fourth and fifth sec-
tions of the act to which this is a supple-
ment shall hereafter be issued; and every
certifioate heretofore issued in pursuauce
thereof, is hereby declared void and of
no effect, and the Chinese laborer claiml
ing admission by virtue thereof shall not
be permijted to enter the Unjted States.
Sec. 3. That all the duties prescribed,
liabilities, penalties and forfeitures im-
posed, and the powers conferred by the
second, tenth, eleventh and twelfth sec-
tious of the act to which this is a supple-
ment are hereby extended and made ap-
plicabla to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. That all such part or parts of
the act to Which this is a supplement as
are inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed. Hugh S. Thompson,
Acting Secretary.
The sections of the act of 1882 which
are applicable at this point are sections
11 to 15, inclusive. Section 11 is of in-
terest to street car drivers, railway em-
ployes, teamsters and any others who
might be inclined to help John get back
to the United States. It reads as follows:
That any person who shall knowingly
bring into or cause to be brought into
the United States by land, or who shall
knowingly aid or abet the same, —any
Chinese not lawfully entitled to enter the
Unitecyjtates, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined in a sum not. exceeding
one thousand dollars, and imprisoned for
a term not exceeding one year.
8ection 12 provides the remedy in case
a Chinaman is believed to have violated
the law A portion of the section is re-
pealed by the new act, and the rest reads
as follows.
And any Chinese person found unlaw-
fully within the United States shall be
caused to be removed therefrom to the
country from whence he came, by direc-
tion of the President of the United States,
and at the cost of the United States,
after being brought before some justice,
judge or commissioner of a court of the
United States and found to be one not
lawfully entitled to be or remain in the
United States.
Section 18 provides that the act "shall
not apply to diplomatic and otheroftlcers
of the Chinese government traveling
upon the business of the government."
Section 14 provides "that hereafter no
state court or court of the United States
shall admit Chinese to citizenship."
Section 15 reads as follows:
That the words "Chinese laborers,"
wherever used in this act, shall be con-
strued to mean both skilled tn J unskilled
laborers Hnd Chinese employed in min
ing.
No sooner had Collector Magoffin pub-
lished the above circular in the Times,
October 9, than the Celestials proceeded
to hunt for ways and means to escape its
provisions. The collector was besought
to allow Chipamen doing business on the
other side to come over here to buy goods
or transact other temporary business,
but he has ruled that the exclusion act
strictly prohibits anything of the sort.
The inspectors of customs have strict
orders to permit no Chinaman to enter
the United States under any circumstan-
ces. Some of the Chinamen thought to
circumvent the law by filing declarations
of their intention to becofce Ameri-
can citizens, but this does
them no good. It will be
observed that the laws provides for no
penalty to be inflicted uy on the China-
man for violating it. The only thing
that can be done with him is to send him
back to the country from which he en-
tered the United States. At El Paso
this would simply mean sending him
across tbe river, and if he returned to
the United States nothing more could be
done than to send him out again. Nor
is it likely that he would have to He in
jail while awaiting a disposal of his case,
because be could undoubtedly always
find plenty of his countrymen ready to
go on his bond.
It is going to be no easy matter, how-
ever, to prevent Chinese from entering
the United States along the Mexican
frontier. There are now, it is estimated,
about 200 Chinamen in El Paso. To one
who is not accustomed to dealing with
them and observing them closely they
look enough alike so that the presence of
a few new faces would not
commonly be noticed. Thus
they might enter, a few at a time, re-
main here awhile and go on to other
localities. An increase in the force of
customs inspectors will do something to
prevent this, but that will not be. enough.
Judge Magoffin thinks the only sure plan
is to register and photograph every Chi
naman and furnish him with a certificate
which he must produce whenever called
upon by the proper authorities to do so.
A Chinaman found without such a cer
tiflcate would be presumed to have ent-
ered the country in violation of the law
unless he could prove the contrary.
SHOT TWICE.
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
COMPRISING THE LATEST EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD,
Suspended Payment- A Defaulting Treasurer
A Big Bequest- A Nice Reward—
London Gossip—Mail Rob-
bery—Bishops Dis-
missed.
Suspended Payment
St. Pktkrsbuuo, Oct. 25.—Walheiman
& Son have suspended payment.
Yellow Fever.
Fernandina, Fla., Oct. 25.—New
cases of yellow fever 16 and no deaths.
A Defaulting Treasurer.
Knoxviixe, Tenn., Oct. 25.—J. A.
Swan, late treasurer of Knoxville coun-
ty, is short twenty-five thousand dollars.
He is somewhere in the east.
Arthur Leitz Attempt! to Kill Emma Gar-
rett- Jealousy the Cause.
At 8 o'clock last night two pistol shots
were heard on lower El Paso street. Ar-
thar Leitz, an ex-waiter at the Grand
Central hotel, tall, fair complexion, black
hair and moustache, with light sideburns,
shot Emma Garrett, alias Tricksy Wil-
liams, twice. The first ball passed
through the left arm, the second entered
the left breast. Dr. W. T. Baird the at-
tending physician, says there is no dan-
ger. The woman had come here from
Dallas, and had occupied her present
quarters in the French dye house, oopo-
site the Windsor hotel, about four days.
Leitz bad been frequenting there for two
days. Last night he tore a silk dress be-
longing to the woman he shot. The
woman says that he threatened to shoot
her at -1 p. m., but she thought he was
joking. She says he told her that he bor-
rowed a 38-calibre pistol from a man
named Rush to kill her. She says the
affair was all caused through his jealousy
of one Harry Anderson.
Leitz escaped through a back alley to
Mexico, but being hotly pursued by the
El Paso police force, assisted by tne po-
lice of Paso del Norte, returned and
was arrested by Officer Cartwright and
lodged in the county jail. Leitz is a white
man,while his victim isacolored woman.
The Parnell Cane.
Dublin,Oct. 25.—The Freeman's Jour-
nal asserts that over 200 civic policemen
are placed at the disposal of the London
Times as witnesses who may be useful in
proving its charges against the Parnell
ites, and it also declare that copies of
letters belonging to Mathew Harris and
seized when the police searched his
house, have been given to the Times.
London, Oct. 25.—At the reassembling
of the Parnell commission to-day Attor-
ney-General Webster resumed his address
in behalf of the Times. He dilated on
the relations between the Parnellites and
members of the American league, and
contended that the league originated in
America and declared that it was a con-
spiracy hatched in America and effected
by American money. The members of
the league in America were dynamiters
and advocntes of murder, and they had
the Parnellites as accomplices. He de-
nounced Finerty, liedpath and Rossa as
dynamiters, who had plotted tbe most
vlllanous forms of outrage. He said it
was absurd to say that Parnell had no
relations with Patrick Ford, and a host
of facts proved an intimate connection
between the two.
A Strike Threatened.
New York, Oct. 25.— At midnight last
night the statement was made that the
conductors and drivers on the Brooklyn
cross town lines would strike this morn-
ing. No strike has occurred, however.
Bishop* Dismissed.
Belgrade, Oct. 25.—Bishops Derne-
tius, of Nissh, and Nicannor, of Cacak,
have been dismissed because they op-
posed the metropolitan's action in dis-
solving the marriage of King Milan and
Queen Natalie.
A Nice Reward.
New Yokk, Oct, 25.—The national re-
publican committee to-day paid John
Broderick $2000 for causing the arrest
and conviction of George Gordon, who
falsely registered. Twenty-three thou-
sand dollars still remain of the sum set
apart for the prevention of illegal voting.
Ten Drowned.
New Yokk, Oct. 25.—Captain Covert,
of the bark Sillsfish, arrived from Turk'a
island yesterday. His vessel was wreck-
ed off Grand Turk, September 2, and a
crew of seven and three passengers were
drowned. Only Covert and a sailor
named Quinton Paul were saved.
It Must be Stein.
Baltimore, Oct. 25.—A man giving
the name of Walter A. McNulty, an un-
usually competent journalist, arrived
here some time ago and made influential
friends, secured money on a worthless
draft and skipped. It is now said that
he is a fugitive from justice from many
cities, including San Francisco.
A Bis Bequest.
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 25.—Daniel
Hand, an aged and wealthy resident of
Guilford, has given the American Mis-
sionary association of New York 81.000,-
000 to be held in trust, and the interest
to be devoted to the education of the
colored people in the old slave states. He
was in business in Charleston when the
war broke out and was obliged to fly,
leaving his business in the hands of a
southerner named George W. Williams,
who developed the original investment
of a hundred and thirty thousand dollars
to-the present sum and paid it over to
Hand since the war. Qand returns it in
the shape of this bequest.
London Gossip.
IjONDOs, Oct. 25.—Jem Smith, pugilist,
was arraigned in the police court this
morning charged with drunken rowdyism
and using obscene language while' re
turning from Newmarket yesterday. He
was fined.
The St. James Gazette, referring to
the letter writteu by Sackville, British
minister at Washington, to an Anglo-
American resident of California, s;iy>:
In the present position of American poli-
tics Sackville should not have written
such a letter evqn under the seal of pri-
vacy, but the fact that he acted in per
feet innocence is clear. The idea which
certain Americau politicians appear to
hold that England is induced to help re-
elect Cleveland is a thorough mistake.
The personality of the future president is
purely a domestic question.
The Globe says that Sackville fell into
a trap readily. Happily he did not com-
mit himself by giving testimony which .
would be valuable to the republican
wire-pullers. The trick is too obvious
and discreditable to have much effect.
Mail Robbery.
Chicago,Oct. 25.—A mail pouch which
left Boston Tuesday arrived at Chicago
last evening over the Michigan Southern
road, robbed of all the registered matter,
and the supposition is that a large
amount of money was obtained by the
thief. The bag had been cut open, the
thief tfking the package contaiaing first
claBS matter only. This leads to the be-
lief that the perpetiator was some one
connected with the postal service. The
robbery is supposed to have been com-
mitted between Boston and Cleveland.
Boston, Oct. 25. -News of the robbery
of a Boston mail pouch in tbe Chicago
dispatches was received this morning at
the registered letter division of the post
office. The pouch left Boston at 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning. It contained 85 pack-
ages of first-class matter, much of this
going beyond Chicago, some of the letters
being addressed to San Francisco, only
11 packages going to Chicago, all the
others further west. Each package con-
tained 1 to 12 letters, all of which must
either haye contained money or checks.
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