Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-11
VIZ ARR NENACED.
Our Country in Danger From
Undesirable Foreigners.
Action of the New York Union
League Club.

Paupers and Criminals Allowed to Be
come citizens and Likewise Burdens.
the Press and Public to Agitate for
Greater Restrictive Laws.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Union
League club Thursday night adopted
the report of "a committee appointed to
look into the New Orleans Italian lynch
ing. The report states that the affair
was nothing but murder, and that the
perpetrators should be sought out and
punished. The majority of those en-
! gagged in it., no doubt, loved their coun-
try, but We're mistaken in the remedy
adopted for II real evil they were sutfec
ing under.
After reciting and commenting on
the New Orleans lyuching, the Cincin-
natl riots and the Anarchists troubles
In Chicago, the report says:
"Whie we have taken into the body
polite a vast body Of honest and intelli-
gent foreigners, who have accepted
American citizenship in GOOD faith and
who have contributed their full share to
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we have also taken in such a flood of
! ignorance, paupelism and crime, and
clothed it with he full Tanoply of citi-
zenship, that Amelicanism is being di-
| iuted and assailed in ways that are truly
alarming We are unable to assimilate
so much ignorance, rauTerism and
crime without great danger TO the body
! polite. The illustration of this danger
are innumerable all around us.
Delay is Dangerous.
"All the better elements of this coun-
try are over-taXed in dealing with this
! food Our religious, benevolent and
educational instit tions are appalled, in
the presence of the demands upon them.
! The time is propitious to agitate these
! questions | eiOre it is too late and see If
something cannot be done to save our
country and our institutions from the
| peril that menaces them. The courts
| should be rigid and conscientious III en-
| forcing all the safeguards of the law
| against sutfra ge unworthy lestowed
! The general government and the several
etates should exercise all the power they
possess to keep out of the country crime
and pauperism, II the present laws are
not sufficient, Others should be framed
that viii be suffi lent, even if it becomes
necessary to provide that every emigrant
must produce a consular certificate of
good character at home before he shall
be permitted to lecome one OF the fam
! lily of the United States.
The doctrine Contended for is not
| applicable to any one nationality, but
TO all nationalities. 1t is the criminal
class and Taupers of the world that
we should defend ourselves from. The
! press and the public should take up and
| discuss this sub ect until remedy
shall be found that will rid us of foreign
bandits, Anarchists, criminals and the
pauper class that are such a menace to
o T country.
Resolutions Recommended.
We therefore recommend the adop-
tion Of the following resolutions:
RESOLVED That we call upon the gen
eral go., r1ment and the several s ates to
use all lawful means that they possess 60
! prevent the importation of criminals and
paupers; that we call upon the courts to
be rigid in administering the laws as to
naturalization, and in resisting the inn
portunities of political parties to clothe
improper persons with the rights of citi-
! zenship
REsoNED, That we call upon the press
and the public TO agtate and discuss the
subject of the importation of criminals
and paupeis, to the end that. if present
laws are not sufficient 10 save our country
! from this great peril, others may be en-
acted that shall be cfItctua to that End.
There wa a good attendance and the
members of the club heard the report
with great interest.
CHASTITY FIND AT ST. LOUIS,
Two Women Found on the River Bank
whose Appearance Indicate Foul Play.
ST. LOUIS, April IA gha-tly dis
| coyely was made at the foot of Fillmore
street, in the southern part of the city
Thursday morning, by officers Dugey
aud O'B icl The body of woman
was di cove,ed lying in the shall w
water near the bank Of the river, ap-
parently high above where an ordinary
wave from the river could wash it. The
remains p esented a ghastly SPECTACLE to
! the hundreds of curious Teople who
came to take view Of what remained
of some human being who apparently
had met with foul play The flesh pre-
sented hard surface, uGll to what
would be the case had the body re-
mainel in the water since death. 1t is
! he ieved the body was placed there
Wednesday night to create the impress
sion that it was a 'floater.
Late Thursday afternoon another body
of woman was found on the bank of
the river in No tn St. Louis. II was
supposed at first that it probably was
the remains of Mrs, Gaffner, who dis
appeared from St. Johns no pital about
six weeks ago, but unless the appear
ance Of the body has been greatly
changed hy the water it can't be Mrs.
Gadner, as the latter was much
younger woman
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
The Principal Points Settled with the
Spanish Government.
MADRID. April 11.-At the cabinet
council Thursday Premier Canovas Del
Castillo informed the queen that he had
sett,ed with Gen. Foster the principal