Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-14
mn SHOT AT BRTTISHERS
.oo sIsHsAcK WRITES AN AN sweR TO EDWARD PRIEST.
 MANS LETTER.
,..a pas Enough 10 Dc to Eradicate Her own Social Evils and In,
 human CrueIties.

human Cruelties.
 qb4 coming of an English commit tos to this country to investigate sonthern lynching is meeting with th4 unmitigated eensufe of every sa,+bern Governor. who, with his rsanle resent such ofEciOus inter ,,oalinr of the dupes of Ida Wells <. answer to the letter written by rdward Priestman to Gov. Fish hsek the Governor has addressed him IS follows:
 LITTLE ROCK, Sept. B. r, tse people of Bradford, England
 should hesitate to notice further asther the resolutions of your city or va,lr reply to my letter but for the fart that committee, as 1 am informed through the public press, has been sent by the English people ro investigate and denounce Ameri- ean lynching.
 Ofeourse. we are bound to credit vo,lr people with sincerity in sending 4hjs committee. even if We are com- uelled to do at the expense o1 fAeir common sense They ought to know. however, that such officious latermeddling will hurt the cause they seek to assist. Such imperti- nenee, coming from England of all ether coun eries, is especially offen- zee precisely for the reason that England of all other civilized coun- tries, has the greatest amount of outrages upon life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness among her own domestie sins to correct, which Should challenge all the energies and good services of her charitably dis posed people.
 -Four greatest novelist, Mir. Charles Dickens, in the character of Mrs. TillYhy, whose charity was SO much elgaged for the poor heather thous- ands of miles away that her own household was left to destituti0n and disease, has furnished the world With such a it illustration of the Present efforts of the English people te extend their charity to the negroes of the United States. that feel con strained to do q little missionary work myself by suggesting the pub lration and general distribution ainong the charitable people of England of history of Mrs. Tillyby and her inglorious and ineffectual henevolence.
 The people If the United States aeeply deplore the condition of the Irish tenants, outraged and op- pfessed, not ny irresponsible ruffians and assaSsins, but by the English 9oYemment supported by the En- glsh people
 Their hearts ache 10 see the people nI Egypt held hy the throat by the hngliSh government in hopeless slay- efy 10 the greed of English bond hOlders, who obtained their bonds through g corrupt bargain with q Fharions tyrant.
 They contemplate with amaze Aelit as well as with regret an En- kliSh statesman, and one most hon. ofed at home and abroad, boasting e now much England as thegreatest F'eait"r nation of the globe Is rob- plng her debtors hy the demonitiza. gun ol silver, and making this rob pffS 0n excuse for refusing m inter allanal agreement for bi-metailic s'ahdard of money.
 All the better feelings of their na- ''lfe are shoeked and outraged in the 'Atftme at the published accounts II ieeherons English nobility barter hood. -.'''> s"' 7.1'
 'N sS h kiGiA kOE AlI NIF AsionaFy work Of all ohe benevo. the world. 1 ''''' '''' ie[ ~h@ wever intense theirindigpa. "ea at England's outrages the 'ufrlcan people have too much sooa sense to undertake to inter 4sua'e With these matters, which a. ,eS would like so much to see rem uleo' but they would respectfully 'sSeSt that it would be much more N, accordance with propriety, as "ell ''s with practical judgment i ~, puf committee would transfer its ' ''u ol operations from our aomes " anairs to it's own, which stand, sadly in need of charitable atten nun Very respectfully,
 WM. NJ. FIsHBAcK.