Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-05-12

of preacher. The Illinois Hurlbut
received his appointment to Peru for
having been one of the parties to head
OH the 3O6 movement in Chicago. Both
Hurlbuts are natives of Charleston, S.
G. Fitzpatrick had also been sent by
Gartleld's Administration to Chill. He
was demi-scrupulous military and
political character, and, on his return
to Chill, offered his sword to the Chill
ians IN burst of uxorious zeal. Hurl-
but was sticking to his instructions, and
Fitzpatrick was disobeying his. Both
Ministers died soon after they took
their posts. When Blaine resigned the
State Department, the foreign coterie
in New York again closed the doors to
American influence, and resumed the
hunkYism which signalized the Depart
partment under the two Administrat-
ions. Bancroft Davis was taken from
the Court of Claims and called in to
the support of the nearly inbecile Ere
linghuysen?"
"Who is Bancroft Davis?"
Davis is the son of an old Massachu-
sets senator, named Honest John
Davis on account of his great assump-
ton of honesty. Massachusetts people
say he was fine old hypocrite. His
son went into the diplomatic service
very young, and married the daughter
of banker named King, in New York,
who brought him fortune. He is a
snob, who regards one Englishman
equal to two or three Americans. He
has been one of the principal instru-
ments to break up the American poll
! Of RlaIT ri SA,,tb
and second the New York lawyers who
are working out British interests in
those Dung republics that it was our
duty as Christian neighbors and repub-
| licans to sustain. The firm of August
Belmont has been for some time jeal-
Gus Of the rising firm Of Morton, Bliss
4 Co., another clearinghouse, which,
with its headquarters in New York,
has branches in London and Paris.
Morton, as minister to France, has
been solicited by French banking in
terests to cooperate with them, and
Belmont has probably inspired his
son to break down Blaine in any in
terest which would Cypress the Roth
schids.
"The Rothschilds are celebrated for
their monopolies. About fourteen
years ago they made large loan to
Spain, and took in pledge for it the
Almaden Quicksilver Mines, the great
source of supply of quicksilver. They
then by similar means got possession
of the Idria Quicksilver Mines of Aus
tria. The only competitors of these
two mines were two concerns called
the New Almaden and the New
Idria in California. The Roth
schilds advanced the money to
the Barrors, bankers, who owned
one of these mines, to control the
other, and suddenly quicksilver, which
is necessary to so many purposes III
mining and the arts, went up to 81 a
| pound-a rise of 100 per cent. The
Rothschilds were dispensing it to the
world at their own rates. They also
have intentions on guano and inter, to
corner and sell them to the world, and
are bound to interfere with any bank
ing concern which stands in their way.
Young Belmont has been the conscious
instrument to intimidate the American
state department from having any
original policy. In short, Great Brit
ain, France and even Spain are coop
Grating at this moment to keep the
Americans from having an influence
south of the United States, and are
using the state department, under Ban
croft Davis and portion of congress,
to help them"
"Not long ago syndicate of Paris
bankers assumed the entire control oil
the Spanish debt on account of the Gu
ban Instruction, amounting to $780,
100000, conditional upon the whole
revenues of Cuba being put at their
dis posal. Consequently the profits oil
Cuban commerce, which have been inn
portant to the United States, are to be
turned into European channels, and
those nations are determined that the
American people shall have no rights
IN their own state department. The
American state department at this mo-
ment is disgrace to the western
hemisphere. Ii is run wholly in the
interest of a clique Of bankers, adven
turers, lawyers and jobbers in New
York, who have studied all The pro
cesses to make convenient scandal anC
embarrass any secretary who will not
dicker with them. They receive Incl
dental assistance from certain newspa.
pers, which desire to antagonize Mr.
Blaine. Tue Americans, under Weel
wright and others, almost created the
maritime interest, railroads, etc., O
Chill, and Henry Meiggs came in after
ward and assisted them. Until the ad
ministration of Hamilton Fish the
Americans were all but supreme OF
the west coast of South America"