Wichita eagle., 1890-02-05
PROTECTED FOR MONEY.
A Moorish Citizen Shows How Consul
Lewis Sold His Influence.

TANGIBR. Feb. 4-The Times of Morcc-
co today under the caption of "A plain un-
vanished tale' prints the following as
leading article: 4 few days ago poor
Moor came to us in great distress and ask
ed our advice and assistance. He said: I'm
the month of February last I had been
much oppressed by the sheikh Of my dis
trict and having heard that christian pro-
lection was to be had in Tangier at
moderate price, my family desired me to
90 to Tangier and make inquiry with
view of purchasing one, if l found
the price within our means. So l arose and
took present in my hand and came to
Tangier. / was directed TO the house of
one Solomon Azogue, a Jew, with whom l
brother, called Yakoob, and the other
Abraham Amzlen. | never saw any of
them before. In answer to my inquiries
they told me they could sell me very
strong protection for $780, which would
cover myself and ali my family. |
told them plainly we could not
pay any money down but we would give
our protector part of our crops and in
crease in our sheep and cattle year after
year. They then took me to the private
house of Mr.. Consul Lewis. They had
some conversation with the consul which
| did not understand and then told me he
had consented to take $50 cash down and
that they had agreed to pay the money for
me- but it would be necessary for me
make a paper pretending to sell
all my property to them for that amount,
so as to secure them, but they would take
the payment in five annual lnstallments.
They fetched bag containing sSo. Then
we went to the public notary's where for
the $50 conveyed in a document one-half
my property to solomon Ozogue
and the other half TO Abra-
ham Amzelem After counting and
receiving the SIS l gave the money back to
Ozogne He said he would take it to the
consul and in return he gave me the fol-
lowing document:
United States consulate. Tangier,
Morocco. The first day of March 1859
ham Amzlen, of Tangier, a citizen of
the United States Of America, and
Sid Mohammed Ber Ell Maholem
III Hasan Juid FL Emsawiv, of Tangier, IA
subject of the sultan. Upon application
of the above named citizen OF the United
States this certificate is issued for the in
formation of the Moorish government in
order that none of the terms or treaties
covering the above named Moorish sub
ject may be violated by Moorish officials.
[Signedl WILLIAM REED LEWIS,
United States Consul for Morocco.
TSeall
/ went home rejoicing and my family
was very happy for about twenty days,
until l received two letters from Azogue
and Amzlem asking me to come to Tan
gier and pay my debts, amounting to SS5
! went to Tangier to seek an explanation.
They treated me harshly and said | must
pay the whole amount or go to prison,
paying no attention to my explanations
that they had promised me five years in
Il L A,1~ L.
brother and AmZlem and Juniato, who
acted as interpreter, and l went to Consul
Lewis. THIS two brothers Ozogue and
AmZlem and Consul Lewis went to an
other room. l was not called. Shortly
after the three Jews came out. They said;
Consul Lewis is going to punish you Sc.
yerely."
Greatly alarmed I hastened home Fif-
teen days after the shiek took from me all
my ANIMALS, thirty-six in all, and sent
me a prisoner to Tangier. Three days at
ter | had been in prison my brothers, who
had followed me to Tangler, borrowed $50
from two Jews named Moses Pelho and
Moses Mughi. 10 do this they mortgaged
all our family property for S125, payment
being due in in three months. They also
borrowed $50 more TO pay the expenses of
my arrest and imprisonment and the seiz-
ure of my property. The $50 we were
obliged to pay as soon as possl-
bic, and that is all that we have
been able to raise at present and now we
are in worse difficulty than ever The
Jews demanded their money and have the
right to take all our property and put all
three of US in prison until the whole debt
Is is paid together with all the expenses,
which would, of course, be three times as
muchasbefore, and all our property may
be seized and sold at prices far below its
value and if we z into prison there is no
hope OF ourllving even TO come out again |
because there is no one to help US. What
can we do?"
The only thing to be done TO save this
unfortunate Moorish family from ruin |
and death is for the United States govern
ment 10 settle the claim of the Jews and
pay all the expenses that have been in
CURED in and about the matter They had |
no manner of right to send representa-
tive here and maintain him in his position
year after year to swinule and then i'm
prison poor hard working people.
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