The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-09-15

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Rock on yesterday was given out
the following epistle, which gives il
to the sanity apostles, or followers,
of the negro wench, Ida Wells,
where the chicken got the axe;
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, I
LITTLE Rock, Sept 13, 1894. :
To the people of Bradford, Eng.
should hesitate to further no
tice either the resolutions of your
city or your recent reply to my let
ter, but for the fact that a com
mittee, as | am informed through
the public press, has been sent here
by the English people to investi'
gate and denounce American lynch
ings.
Of course we are bound to credit
your people with sincerity in send
ing this committee, even if we are
compelled to do so at the expense
of their common sense. They ought
to know, however, that such offic-
ious intermeddling will hurt the
cause they seek to assist. Such
impertinence coming from England,
of all other countries, is especially
offensive, precisely for the reason
that England OF all other civilized
countries has the greatest amount
of outrages upon life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness among
her own domestic sins to correct,
which should challenge. all the en-
ergies and good services of her
charitably disposed people. Your
greatest novelist, Mr.. Charles
Dickens, in the character of Mrs.
Jellyby, whose charity was so much
engaged for the welfare of the
poor heather, thousands of miles
away, that her own household was
left to destitution and disease has
furnished the world with such fit
Illustration of the present efforts of
the English people to extend their
charity to the negroes of the Unit
ed States that ! feel constrained to
do little missionary work myself
by suggesting the publication and
general distribution among the
charitable people of England of a
history of Mrs. Jellyby and her in
glorious and Intellectual benevo-
lence.
The people of the United States
deeply deplore the condition of the
Irish tenants, outraged and op-
pressed, not by irresponsible ruff
ans and assassins, but by the Eng
lish government, supported by the
English people.
Their hearts ache to see the peo-
pie of Egypt held by the throat by
the English government, in hope.
less slavery to the greed of English
hondholders, who obtained their
bonds through corrupt bargain
with a penurious tyrant,
They contemplate with amaze
ment as well as regret an English
statesman, and one most honored
at home and abroad, boasting of
how much England, as the greatest
creditor nation on the globe, is rob-
bing her debtors by the demoneti-
zation of silver, and giving this rob-
berry as an excuse for refusing an
international agreement for BIZ
metallic standard of money,
All the better feelings of their
nature are shocked and outraged
in the extreme at the published ac-
counts of lecherous English nobility
bartering in the virtue of innocent
girlhood.
Surely here is a field for all the
missionary work of all the benevo-
lent people, not only of England,
but of the whole world,
Yet, however intense their indig-
nation at England's outrages, the
American people have too much
good sense to undertake to inter-
meddle with these matters, which
they would like 50 much to see rem
edied, but they would respectfully
suggest that it would be much more
in accordance with propriety as
well as with practical judgment if
your committee would transfer its
field of operations from our domes.
tic affairs to its own, which stands
so sadly in need of charitable at
tention, Very respectfully,
w. NJ. FIsmAcE,
Governor of Arkansas.