The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-10
THE PASSING THRONG.

supreme court OF the Donninion Of Canada
sitting at Ottawa and from there 70 the judicial
committee OF her msjesty's psivy council, not to
the house Of lords, which is the court of last re.
sort In England for cases appealed from the
English eourt& Parties in Canada have under.
gone changes OF name the sage a with you in
this country. am now one Of the party called
Liberal Conservative. the parry which has been
most prominent In Canadian affairs for the last
twenty years / never was in ONCE. though
from 1854 70 1884, when west on to the bench,
was always active In politics. I need not tell
you that politics 10 not becoming to .
judge on the bench any more in Can.
ada than In the United States. Imperial
federation7 The time when all English
colonies shall be united into enc great political
unityf Well. that is grand idea, admit; but
II IL not practical politics. mean that II II
not practical question-n9t living politics.
The imperial federationists have no definite,
feasible scheme to propose There II always,
too, the practical difficulty ttat IL the empire
were consolidated or federated in this way and
Canadian or Australian representatives ad.
mttted to the English house Of commons, Cam
ada would be called upon to contribute to so
called "imperial" expenses. to help furnish
funds TOR everything the empire did. At pres.
snt, IL II trus, We have no representative In
parliament; but England collects NO taxes In
Canada and II obliged besides to defend Canada
against any aggressor. II . foreign soldier set
foot on Canadian soil they would soon come
face to face with the Englikh redcoatA You
now are going through a great fight here on
economics, which watch vita interest have
just in my fortysecond annual subscrip-
ton to the New York IribusS and. I suppose,
when add that I favored protection for the
Dominion OF Canada I need ne. tell you what
think OF protection here"
K. M. Prolis, Of Peinte de Gale, Ceylon, 10
ltOnDin0 Ia TN O1a hOtn HI II
Cingalese gem merchant. and IL an interesting
character. He 10 of slender build, with dark
complexion, wears his hair long, but curled mp
under his hat, and has q soft voice and . hand.
some face. "Ceyion IL one great mine Of pre-
ciOus stones," said he. "ALout 5000 natives
with searching for. mining, cutting and polish.
Ing gema AL precious stones except diamonds
are found there. Within the pest two years an
Alexauderite was found which weighed six
pounds for which the finder refused 10000
1t Is . stone which 10 green in the
daytime but at night CLOVIS Iiks . ruby. Pearl
fishing ts also great industry. The divers are
paid by the month for bringing up the shells,
and those who break the shells are paid by the
piece. Oftsntimes people speculate in the
shells, buying them before they are broken open.
sometimes they strike it rics and sometimes
they get nothing. 1t il exactly like a lottery.
In buying gems in the rough a.so there Is great
risk, a. they may have flaws or be OF color or
have other defects which are only revealed
when cut Yes. there are othes great industries,
but the people engaged In them are foreigners
There are great sugar, coffee, tea, cotton and to-
bacco and spice and cinchons plantations. the
latter being the tree from which Quinine 10
made. These plantations are owned by great
English companies. whose profits are enor-
nous The work on them 10 per.
formed BY Tamals or coolies from India
who live like the Chinese. en- rice and water,
and get only IS month and hoard Themselves
The Cingalsse are not 80 eager to make money
a. the foreigners, and while nsany Of them own
small plantations they do nat make a. much
money, and - q rule they age poor. Yes. the
women OF my country are considered beautiful.
and many foreigners have snarried them or
raise families by them. do not know whether
he was married to her or not, but an American
consul had several children: by Cingalene
woman. who are now being educated in this
country"
A. Kutner, OF Fresno, Cal, isin the city visit
Ing l. Kohn on his way home from a six
months pleasure tour in Europe. He was fortu.
nate enough to catch the last steamer out Of
Hamburg before the breaking Gut of the plague
in that city. Mr.. Kutner speat large portion
OF his time while abroad at the Karlsbad springs.
in Bohemia, one Of the most noted watering
places Of the world, and where people from all
over tho globe can DO met Curing the season,
which lasts from April to October. At the time
he was there there were between 400 and 500
Americans at the springs, and ON the Fourth of
OF July they got up quite q celebration and
banquet Il sometimes think Americans don't
appreciate this country as: much as they
should" said he. "But the lossest condition of
our people is so far superior to 1hat of the same
class in Europe that there IS no comparison
The condition OF things is such that men.
women and children In families must all slave
to even exist A man can earn about 20 cents q
day and women work for eFen less have
seen women carrying water In largo buckets
strapped to their backs, deliver coal and other
things in the same manner, carry brick and
mortar to buildings In course of construction
and work in the fields and ca the railroads
And the most they can ge. for such degradation
Is to exc out miserable existence. would
rather be stage horse in Ameft ca than laborer
In Germany. i have always bf.en An Independ.
ent in politics, but am now cenvinced that the
protection policy OF the Republican party is the
proper thing to avoid the danger OF our work.
Ing people coming to the Same condition as they
are in Germany. i met men atyoad from South
Carolina and Kentucky who Had always been
Democrats, but they said they would hereafter
vote with the Republicans sor the ressous
which convinced me-"
Richard Y. Cook. OF PHILADELPHIA, one OF the
best known business men Of the Quaker City. fs
At the Grand. Mr.. Cook Ia one OF the busiest
men OF his circle in the Eass Though but a
young man, being less than Is Gears of age, he IN
president OF the Guarantee Loan and Trust
Company, vice president of tic PENNSYLVANIA
Warshousins and Ssts Deposit Company, il q
member OF one OF the leading hosiery firms in
Philadelphia and il . director aud moving
spirit In other enterprises R:s brother, Joel
Cook, Is one Of the leading mexnbers of the staff
OF George W. Childs' Ledger, IL a correspondent
OF the London Times and an authority on eco
nomio and bushes matters. Mr. Richard Y.
Cook is short, of compact and s9rong physique,
and In face is an almost exact double of Gov.
Roswell 2. Flower, OF New Yos1 state.
Brig. Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, in.
spector general of the army. was in the city
yesterday and left in the evening" for Tacoma
whence he goes on to Portland. General
Breckinsidge was appointed fra lieutenant and
aide de camp OF volunteers on August %, 1861.
and entered the regular service IS second lieu.
tenant OF the Second artillery OF April Ii, 1862
He was promoted to BE- frss Lieutenant on
August l. 1868, and captain on J4ine IL. 1874 He
entered the inspector generals department. az
major on January 10, 1881, ane has remained
there ever SINCE attaining the rslk Of lieutenant
colonel on February 8, 1855, colenel on Septem-
Der %, 1885. and brigadisr geneSA on January
30, 1859.
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