El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 175, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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El Paso Daily Times, ■J'hniaday, JulU
1895.
THE STARVING NEGROES
ATTENTION OF THE DEPARTMENT
CALLED TO THE COLONY-
One Hundred end Vtitf of tbnCnfortnnatt*
•tTorreon lu a Destitute OordttloD, and
Ilflnn Omm of Cont»|loM DU*«*
Among Them—The Department Unable
to Aid Them, and Prliite Aid Mail bo
Bx tended.
AN OLD TIME REPUBLICAN.
Washington, July 24—Bad news has
been received at the state department
frem the ooloDy of American negroes
who went into Mexico some time ego
and settled near Tiahualib. A telegram
was received at Piedras Negras, stating
that the negroes are in a deplorable
condition. These emigrants went from
southern stater, mostly from Alabama
and the Carolines, under the most al-
luring promises from immigration
agents of comfortable homss in Mexioo,
but from all aooounts bava been Ill-
treated and suffered great hardships
from the time of their arrival In that
oouutry.
Consul Sparks say6 the negroes are
scattered for miles along the railroad
without friends, homes or food, living
on mesqulte beans and branch water.
The consul says that he oan do nothing
toward their relief, and he fears trou -
bis beoanse the negroes are starving.
The railroads offer to make liberal
rates to take them ont of the oountry.
Later the consul reports he has re-
oetvsd a telegram from Dr. L H
Barron at Torreon, Mexioo, dated July
23, to the effect that 150 of the negroes
from the oolony were there In a desti
tute condition with fifteen cases of
contagious disease among them. The
Mexican police have prevented them
from entering the town.
A letter on the subject has also been
received at the state department from
Bepre entatlve Bankhead of Alabama
Inquiring whether the government
could assist In bringing back to thalr
homes these members of this oolony of
coloiai citizens who are destitute and
dissatisfied.
The department ha3 tried every way
to afford relief In this oase, but are
well nigh powerless and it is probable
If the unfortunate negroes are to be
saved from starvation private aid mast
be extended to them immediately.
Harvey’* K*ply to Sherman.
Chicago, July 24—Speaking today of
Senator John Sherman’s Interview tel-
egraphed from Mam field, Ohio, In re-
gard to striking out of the aot of 1873
the provision for the 384 grain dollar,
W. H. Harvey (“ooln") said:
"I want every man and women In
Amerioa who wishes to preserve a free
government to this republic to read
the Oongreisional Record giving the
words uttered in the senate on July 17,
1873. It shows that the silver dollar
was In the bill that oame from the
house that was to put it on the French
ratio and that the senate agreed to It.
Sherman himself extolled it and said it
was a dollar that would float arouud
the world. This dollar was agreed to
by both houses and was In the bill
when it went to the oonferenoe com-
mittee. '
“The doty of the conferenceoommit
tee was to settle the disputed questions
on which both honses bad disagreed,
The sliver dollar was not one of the
questions on which (he two houses had
disagreed and yet the bill turns up en
rolled with the silver dollar erased
from the bill by the oonferenoe com-
mittee. ueDator Sherman and Hooper
of the house handled the bill and
either of these two men or a corrupt
olerk made the omission.
“The significance of this oan be best
understood when I say that these men
represented that tuey were re enacting
the law of 1853,exoepting changing the
siza of the silver dollar and nnder the
law of 1853 the silver dollar only had
free access to the mints ”
A ChrUtl*aSotent'.*t Dying;.
Oakland, Oal., J uly 24—Oapt. John
W. Smith, a millionaire railroad build-
er and mine owner, Is dangerously ill
at his home in Oakland He is suffer-
ing from kidney trouble and will not
allow himself to be treated by a physl
clan. He is under tie oare of Chris
tian Scientists. His condition Is so
critical that hls son is on his way to
him from Denver. Capt. Smith is
over 80 years old. He is well known
in Denver where he made a fortune In
the railroad baelness. He has been
experimenting with himself and de-
clares he oan live on eight oent6 a day.
He eats only a bowl of mush and one
egg every twenty-four hours.
Denver, July 24—Oaptaln Smith
threw the first Bhovelful of dirt for
the Denver Pacific Railroad. He was
associated with Governor Evans and
others In many of the early enterprises
and wae one of Denver’s most promi-
nent ottizsns. He built the Amerioan
House, still a leading hotel.
Mard*r*ii Saved from a Hob.
Louisville, Ky., July 24—A 6peoial
to the Times from Barboursvllle, Ky.,
says: Last night Riea Gordon, a
woman of bad oharaoUr, living near
Corbin, stabbed Mary Sullivan and
Lizzie Brown with a two edged dagger.
Both died immediately. The murder
ess surrendered to the authorities just
in time to save herself from a tremen-
dous mob whioh was in dose pursuit
with tbe Intention of lynohing.
Died.
Minneapolis, July 24—Bobert Bruce
Langdon, a railway contractor, died
today, aged 68. He has built 7000 miles
of railway. At tbe time of hls death
he was engaged on a $2,01)0,000 irriga-
tion oanal contract in Arizona.
Loo don price of Silver.
London, July 24—Bar silver dosed
at 30>4d per ounce.
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Career of General Drake, Candidate For
Governor of Iowa.
After 89 years) of hard work as a Re-
publican, covering the entire life of the
party, General
Francis Marion
Drake has been
rewarded by Io-
wa Republicans
with his first
nomination for a
political office—
that of governor.
In early man-
hood Drake was a
Whig, but when
the first Repr.br
lie an national
feancis si. drake, convention met
in Philadelphia Jnno 17, 1856, and nom-
inated John G. Fremont as an antislav-
ery candidate for the presidency, Drake
joined the new party and cast his vote
for Fremont. He has since been a con-
sistent Republican, and has Jong been
one of the most prominent and influen-
tial members of his party in the state.
He has frequently been a delegate to
state conventions, and on four different
occasions has been honored by being sent
as a delegate to national Republican
conventions.
Drake was bom in Rushvi lie, Ills.,
59 years ago, but when he was 7 years
old his parents removed to Fort Madi-
son, la., and he has since been a resi-
dent of that state. Ho received a good
business education and had many excit-
ing adventures while crossing the plains
to Sacramento on business trips before
the days of the iron horse. When the
war began his sympathies lay with the
federal government, and he promptly
raised a regiment in the three counties
of Appanoose, Wapello and Monroe, was
commissioned its colonel and went to
the front, where he speedily made a
reputation as a brave and brainy soldier.
He served with distinction throughout
the rebellion, was particularly conspicu-
ous at Elkins’ Ford and Mark’s Mills,
and was dangerously wounded in the
latter engagement. For his gallantry in
this action he received the brevet of
brigadier general of volunteers.
After the war General Drake prac-
ticed law for about six years, and then
turned to banking and the work of
building railroads. He has built five
and is prominent in local railroad af-
fairs. He has also been a bank president
and is considered a wealthy man. A
number of years ago he founded Drake
university in Des Moines and has been
a liberal contributor toward its support
and toward the sugport of various
churches and educational institutions.
WASHINGTON’S SOCIAL NAPOLEON.
Beatty Get* a Big Salary For Conducting
the Brice Campaign.
The social campaign of the family of
United States Senator Calvin S. Brice
of Ohio is said to be conducted under
the exclusive management of L. San-
ford Beatty, a gentleman of position,
who, it is alleged, receives for his val-
uable services a salary of $10,000 a
year. A6 a result of Beatty’s talent as a
social Napoleon and Brice’s long purso
and liberality the Brice social regime in
Washington is an unqualified success.
During the gay season the Brice mu-
sicales are the talk of the country and
the Brice receptions, dinners and danc-
ing parties are the most brilliant in
Washington. This may be readily
imagined when it is understood that
last season the Ohio senator through his
social lieutenant expended $50 " 0 on
entertainments alone and that ho thinks
nothing of dazzling Washington with
an annual expenditure of about $250,-
000.
Beatty is said to be a cousin or a hear
relative of Mrs. Brice and has the en
tree to the most exclusive social circles
THEY W ANT NO MONEY
A SOCIETY WHICH CLAIMS TO HAVE
SOLVED THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
L. SANFOKD BEATTY.
at the capital He is a tall, well form-
ed, comely man of commanding phy-
sique and is the pink of perfection in
dress. He is as much of an expert in the
conduct of social functions as the late
Ward McAllister of New York, and he
devotes his entire time to the manage-
ment of the Brioe entertainments.
Backed as he is by carte blanche in
the matter of expenditure, Beatty has
been able to turn green with envy many
of the ambitious social rivals of the
Brice family in Washington. Not long
ago he planned a series of musicalee anc
bad the best talent that money could
buy. Melba, the Australian nightin
gale, was tnduoed to warble twice at
the Brice mansion at $759 per warble
and one of the De Reezkes was paid
$1,000 for exercising his vocal chords
for about ten minutes.
Store* For Barter and Exchange—Outline*
of a System by Which a Band of Re-
formers Believe They Will Improve the
Workingman.
There is a quiet organization in San
Francisco whose leaders say they have
solved tbe financial problem by invent-
ing a fractional system of exchanges
which does away with both gold and
silver as money.
The new society is known as the La-
bor Exchange ami is based on the idea
that the people seldom want what they
themselves produce. Therefore they say
that the way to solve the labor problem
is to put the products of iudustry in the
market for exchange for other commodi-
ties.
Carl Glosser is one of tb® leaders of
the now society, but the Labor Exchange
also conducts a general store which is
managed by Henry Warfield. To his
store the idle shoemaker or other mau-
nal worker brings the products ho has
manufactured at home or in his shop
during a lull in business. He is paid
nothing in money for the goods he de-
posits, but is given a certificate which
entitles him to any goods in the store as
pay for his wares. Mr. Glesser says that
by the aid of this system during the past
year goods valued at many thousands of
dollars have been exchanged among the
members of the society.
The certificate reads that it is not re-
deemable in legal tender, but is receiv-
able by tbe association as payment for
merchandise for all services. The cer-
tificate is secured by the real and per-
sonal property of the association.
The officers of the local branch of the
organization have lately received reports
which indicate that its plans are being
adopted throughout the state and nation,
and that stores are in successful opera-
tion in many cities and towns. There
are 150 members in San Francisco and
about 800 in the state. Plans tiro under
consideration by tbe San Francisco
branch by which shoemakers, glove-
makers, knitters and other artisans
will be kept employed to keep up the
stock of the various stores in tho state.
They will bo paid wholly by checks or
certificates, which entitle them to draw
out goods to the value of their earnings.
The Labor Exchange is based largely
on the idea expressed by various polit-
ical economists that goods are often ex-
changed practically without the use of
money. The founders believe that in a
more advanced civilization their ex-
change checks will take the place of
money, which will then be abandoned
as a useless medium of commerce.
The founder of the system is G. R.
de Bernardi of Independence, Mo., an
old organizer of Granges and other
farmers’ societies. His plans are said to
have been recently indorsed by the em
inent Michael Flurseheim of Switzer
land, and by prominent political econo-
mists of Germany, who have organized
exchanges on the same basis that finds
practical illustration in the little store
on Valencia street. In one of his articles
on the principle of the exchange the
J’ounder says that he plainly saw, in
studying the question of wealth and
poverty, “that if a person was not per-
mitted to pay his debts with the prod
nets of his craft, but must procure an
article he did not produce—gold or sil-
ver—ho would be at the mercy of the
owner of the legal tender commodity
and thus would be ruined or enslaved. ”
The reformer next sought to set in
motion an interchange of services be-
tween men and women out of employ-
ment and therefore helpless for lack of
money. The employment of idle labor
is thus the prime object of the associa-
tion.
The following sentences from the
prospectus of the organizer of the ex-
change show the general purposes of the
reform. He says:
“Behold the fundamental principle
and aim of the true Labor Exchange
which is not visible in any other sim-
ilar movement of onr day. True, most
of them use the labor check as a substi-
tute for legal tender money, but ready
to return to legal tender money as soon
as able to do so; some are even basing
the check on legal tender money, while
we use the labor check first to keep la-
bor employed and the industries in mo-
tion, and, second, to demonstrate by ob-
ject lessons that legal tender money is
useless—nay, a robber, and therefore
should be abolished altogether.
“Our modus operandi in this greatest
of all reforms is to set in motion at
first an interchange of services between
men and women out of employment
and paralyzed for lack of money. To do
this requires no capital, and there is no
possibility of a failure. Pass from this
'mutual aid department’ to the produc-
tion and interchange of articles of com-
mon use among the associates, and grad-
ually rise from these simple operations
to larger enterprises, and finally bring
onr co-operative forces to the construc-
tion of unconsumable or permanent
wealth, which lessens toil and increases
the comforts of man.
* ‘ By such progressive methods we ex-
pect to bo able not only to liberate the
industries from the obstructions and ex-
actions of the money power, but also to
clear the mind of man of money hypno-
tism. ’ ’—San Francisco Examiner.
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Always in the Lead.
Has Been the Record of
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* RICHARD A. McOURDY, President.
Assets, - $204,638,78396
Surplus, - $22,529,327.82
INCREASE FOR 1894:
Increase of Income . . . ..............$ 6,067,724.26
Increase of Assets.....* * *......... 17,931,103.82
Increase of Surplus................. 4,576,718.81
Increase of Insurance............... 51,923,039.96
•REMEMBER THAT-
A Good Record is tie Best Guarantee for the Futurfe.
AGENTS WANTED. Address
EDWIN CHAMBERLAIN & CO.,
Qenerai Agents for Texas,
H. GODWIN MITCHELL*
District Agent, SAN ANTONIO.
116 El Paso St , El Paso.
Only House in El Paso that has American Cooking.
Best Family Hotel in
El Paso. Texas
On parle Franoatse.
American or European Plan,
Has Electric Lights, rooms
single or en 6alte, wltn Private
Bath and modern conveniences.
Rates: Table board — Single
meal, 50o; by the week, $7; by tbe
month, $25. R iom and board $2
to 93 per day. Special rates to
parties Bpending the winter.
Se habla Espegnol. Man spricht Deotoh.
R. CABLES.
L. HAMMEtt
(JAPLE3 & HAMMEB
Contractors and Builders,
EL PASO, TEXAS.
Dieter & Sauer.
C. JUAREZ, MEXICO.
—Importers and) Jobbers In Fine—
Groceries, Wines, Liquors, Havana
And Mexican Cigars,_
THOMAS A. DWYER, JR.,
Commission Merchant
ANY
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INDS
A/TOUNT
1VX ON ARC H d.
Easy to Buy,
Easy to Bide.
Th.Claik-Whitson-Leitch
MUSIC COMPANY.
119 San Franoltoo Street.
-AND-
Receiving & Forwarding
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AGENT
JIMENEZ,
State of Chihuahua, Mexioo.
Buys and sells native and foreign
prod note on commission, and receives
and dispatohes freights by rail, txprsas
and wagons.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 175, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1895, newspaper, July 25, 1895; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth540511/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.