Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-03
NEW YORK LETTER.
NEw YoRK, July 81.

the Democratic National Heddquar-
ters since the passage Of the Mills
bill. While the result was not un-
expected, it had been thought that the
alleged Democratic opposition would
reduce the majority to bare mar.
gin. All day long Chairman Brice
has been receiving politicians from
various points and the talk is all
about what will become of the bill in
the Senate. Opinion is about equally
divided as to whether the Republi.
can majority there will offer sub
stitute, refuse to accept the bill rs it
comes from the House or amend it in
such q manner rs to kill it. The feel
ing at headquarters is that it makes
little difference which course NAV be
pursued. With singular unanilhity
the Democracy has put itself on
record through its representatives in
favor of cutting down taxation that
takes from the peoples earnings
SJ,000,000 month more than is
necessary to meet the obligations of
the Government.
Banker Morton has just about rs
much as he can attend to explaining
his alleged partiaIity for italian Ia
borers ut 81 II day. Some of the
smart labor agitators here have dug
up chapter i'll the millionaire can
oidate's career more Offensive to
workingmen than the "guano" oxpe
rience. The charge is that for his
own work he has habitually employ.
ed imported "pnuper" labor. 1t
comes into particular force now That
Congress has taken what seems to
be the preliminary step tow ard cheek.
ing the overwhelmingly filthy influx
OF pndrone immigration. The labo,
people say that Uncle Moneybags MS
an eucourager Of italian labor Mt 81
Il day is even more obnoxious as a
candidate than Gen. Harrison with
all his Celestial vagnries.
! In New York and the large cities
hereabouts, the italian labor oues
ton has got to be quito as formidable
as ever was tho Chinese question on
the Pacific slope. Last month, fol-
instance, thirty eight thousand dirty,
ragged, half starved Italians poured
into this city alone, through Castle
Garden. These people have no bet
ter ideas of the duties of citizenship
than the Chinese. They live com
fortably. and more or less content
eddy, i'll places where well-bred dog
would die from nausea. They herd
together, twenty men, women and
children to room, in the filthiest OF
squalid tenements, and fish out THEN
dinners from ash barrels and garb
age receptacles along the streets
They are hired by shrewd leaders O!
their own nationality for from twenty
to fifty cents n day, and are relet il
droves for from seventy five cents te
a dollar day. The individual work
man is 80 insignificant factor thai
he is only known to his employer b,
number.
In the light of these things thai
old song of the Republican sirer
anent protection to the American
laborer' has a grotesquely dolefu
tone, and the Democratic committee
are grinding the music box to the
fullest extent of it's tunes. Tons O.
circulars are being prepared fol-
broadcast scattering, showing the Ia
boring people how the Republican
managers are attempting to deceive
them by the free trade scare-hov
everything that they consume (pa,
their money for) is protected, !
while all they have to sell, their Ia
Dor, is brought into the freest and
hercest competition with the filth
snbsisting padrone laoor of the
world.
Chairman Bricc, of the Democratic
Executive Committee, an Ohioan, re-
ceived large delegation from the
Buckeye State yesterday. They
brought the most encouraging re
ports OF the progress of the campaign
there, and MIR. Brice insists that the
party has an even chance of success
III the home of the red bandanna.
Humans personal popularity, he
. says, will give the ticket big boost,