The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-08-04
NEW YORK LETTER.
New York Star Syndicate Letter to the MAG
NoLIA GAzETrE.l
New YoRK, July 81, 1888.

fieauQuarIcrS Since Cn6 passage OF
the Mills bill on Saturday.
While the result was not unex-
pected, it had been thought that
the allegedDemocratic opposition,
would reduces the majority to a
bare margin. All day long Char
man Brice has been receiving
politicians from various points
and the talk is all about whit will
become of the bill III the Senate.
Opinion is about equally divided
as to whether the Republican
majority there will offer a sub
stltute, refuse to accept the bill
as it comes from the House or
amend 1T in such a manner as to
kill it. The feeling at Head
quarters is that 1t makes little
difference which course may be
pursued. With singular unan.
NIFTY the Democracy has put it
self on record through its Rep
resentatives In favor of cutting
down taxation that takes from
the peoples earnings $4,000, 200
Il month more than IS necessary to
meet the obligations of the Gov
ernment. No one supposes that
the Mills bill can become a law
at this session, but it makes the
record and draws the lines sharp
ly and distinctly.
Barker Morton has just about
as much as he can attend to ex-
planning his alleged partialify for
Italian laborers at $1.00 a day.
Some of the smart labor agitators
here have dug up chapter In the
millionaire candidates reer
more offensive to workingmen
than the ''guano" experience.
The charge is that foi his own
work he has habitually employed
''pauper" labor. 1t comes into
particular force now that Con-
gress has taken what seems to be
tho preliminary step toward
C he c k ing the overwhelmingly
filthy influx of padrone immigra-
ton. The labor people say that
Uncle Money bags as an en-
courager of Italian labor at $l.00
day is even more obnoxious as
candidate, than Gen. HARRISON
with all his Celestial vagares.
In New York and the large
cities hereabouts, the Italian
labor question has got to be quite
as formidable as ever was the
Chinese question on the Pacific
slope. Last month, for instance,
thirty-elght thousand dirty, rag
ged, half-starved Italians poured
into this city alone, through
Castle Garden. These people
have no better ideas of the duties
of citizenship than the Chinese.
They live comfortably and more
or less contentedly, in places
where a well-bred dog would die
from nausea. They herd togeth-
er, twenty men, women ant
children to a room, in the filthies
! of squalid tenements, and fish on
their dinners from ash barrels anC
!, garbage receptacles along tb'
streets. They are hired by shrewd
leaders of their own nationality
for from twenty to fifty cents
: day and are re-let in droves fol-
from seventy-iye cents to a dol
. lar a day. The individual work
', man is so insignificant factoI
that he is only known to his em
pioyer by number.
1t IS very much the same witt
, mass of immigrants of othe
: nationalities, particularly Polish
Hungarian and Russians. Will
!, some good citizen timber come
|, in the riff-raft drift, the bulk 0
it is the veritable scum and dieg
of Europe, pouring into Castl
Garden at the rate OF severa
thousand day.
] In the light of these things tha
old song of the Republican size
. anent "protectIon to the Ameri
I can laborer" has grotesquel
dolsful toue, aud the Democrat
Committee are grinding the mu
sic box to the fullest extent of il
tunes. Tons of circulars ar
D being prepared for broadca'
!. scattering, showing the laborin
s people how the Republican mana
o gers are attempting to decelv
4 them by the free trade scare,-
d howeverything that they consum
: (pay their money for) is "prt
tected," while all they have t
sell, their labor, is brought int
0 the freest and fercest coDpetitio
It with the fillh-subsisting padron