St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
SPANISH iNrRlGUANTs.
A Foreign Power Interferes l
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A Foreign Power Interferes in
American Labor Troubles.
KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 18.-The CON-
mittee recently appointed by the board
of trade to investigate the alleged inter
ference of the Spanish authorities with
Cubans now living here, as well as with
the native-bOrn children Of naturallzed
Cubans, made O report to that body
last Wednesday. The report was first
made public to-day. and Is in part as
follows:
Your committee, through its Investigations,
has been amazed at the adroitness of the
Spanish consufs intrigues here during the
past few weeks. Everywhere, and through
every ratification of the strike. the subtle
hand OF the Spanish authorities in Cuba
can be plainly traced. Never before have
strikes been marked by foreign inter
ference. Bnt in the present instance the
sorry spectacle has been presented OF an un-
warranted interference in the local affairs OF
this country by q representative or foreign
nation. whose hospitality he is enjoying,
upon the profesed assurance of good will
and amity toward it by his govern
ment, melting and urging laborers to
hostility and hatred toward his former en-
ployer and benefactor We do not desire 10
appear discourteous towards the spanish
consul here, believing that he is merely the
instrument assigned to carry out the instruc-
tons of his superiors, but the evidence
OF his cupldity and cunning have
confronted us at every step. At the very
Threshold of the strike, we find him attend
ing meeting of the committee called to
discuss the situation. He was there, not in
the interest OF peace, nor to urge return to
work; to arDitrate their their grievances. but
with professed pecuniary aid for conveying
! the workmen and their families from this
island. Meantime his paid emissaries
were not. idle. The influence of Spanish
gold was being invoked, and provisions sent
from Havana, and dissatisfied laborbers,
whose feelings and sympathies were thus
captured, were urged to return to Cuba
Even now, after four weeks. when
the commercial interests of the island
have been forced to the verge OF
bankruptcy, several manufacturers have par
tally yielded TO The demands of the workmen
ana resumed work. We find house toulouse
canvass. still being mace by agents alleged
to he in The employ of the Spanish consul.
the final IMP of the gunboat and re-
turn to Cuba before, as they are led to
believe, starvation overtakes them. We in.
vite attention to the remarkable. unprece-
dented occurrence of Spanish naval vessel
sent here on four different occasions to con-
vey workmen TO Havana. Over 1000
laborers, with their families and
effects. have been transported to Cuba.
OF course, we do not question the
right Of any foreign government to extend
its projection 10 its subjects when in dis
tress, but when we find a representative Of
that government violating the hospitality
which he is permitted to enjoy in this eoun-
try, under the guise Of friendship, by incit-
ing aud urging its peaceable Inhabitants TO
abandon their adopted homes, and furnish
them transportation in public vessel. even
to the children of naturalized American
parents. we feel that the limit of patience
has been reached. and halt should be called
to administer a fitting rebuke.
Attention is also called to the tele-
graphic columns of La Lucha, the Off
cial organ of Havana, in which APP
peared telegram from Madrid, con-
graduating Capt. Gen. Salamanca in
having removed the Cuban colony at
Key West, which menaced Spanish in
terestS i'm America