Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-13

ceQS a
execution until the proceedings had been
submitted TO this government and knowl-
edge obtained therefrom that our citl-
zens had received fair trial. The death
sentences were subsequently committed
or were RENTED on conditions of leav-
ing the islands. The cases OF certain
Americans arrested and expelled by arbi-
trary orders without formal charges or
trial have attention and some instances
have found to justify remonstrance and a
claim for indemnity which Hawaii has
not thus far conceded.
Mr.. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister,
having furnished this government abun-
dant reason for asking that he be recalled.
that course was pursued and his sue
cessor has lately been received.
ITALIAN LYNCHING.
The deplorable lynching of several Ital-
ian laborers in Colorado was naturally
followed by International representations
and l am happy to say that the best eff
forts of the state In which the outrages
occurred have been put forth to discover
and punish the authors of this atrocious
crime. The dependent families of some
Of the unfortunate victims invite by their
deplorable condition. gracious provision
for their needs.
The manifestations against helpless
aliens may be traced through successive
stages to the vicious padroni system.
which. unchecked by our immigration and
contract labor statutes, control these
workers from the moment of landing on
our shores and farms them out in dis
tant and often rude regions where their
sharpening competition in the fields OF
bread winning toll brings them into col
lision with other labor interests. While
welcoming as we should those who seek
our shores to merge themselves in our
body polite and win personal competence
w n
an assemblage of distinctively alien Ia
borers hired out to spectators and ship
ped hither and thither as the prospect or
gain may dictate as otherwise than repug-
nant to the spirit of our civilization, de-
terrent to individual advancement and
hinderances to the building up of stable
commodities, resting upon the wholesome
ambitions of the citizens and constituting
the prime factor in the prosperity and
progress Of our nation. If legislation can
| reach this growing evil 1t certainly should
be attempted.
RELATIONS WITH JAPAN.
Japan has furnished abundant evidence
| of her vast gain in every trait and char
acteristic that constitutes nations
greatness. We have reason for congratu-
| lations in the fact that the government of
| the United States by the exchange OF
| liberal treaty stipulations with the new
| Japan, was the first to recognize her Won
| derful advance and to extend to the con-
| sideration and confidence due to her ma
\ tional enlightment and progressive char
| acter.
The boundary dispute which lately
| threatened to embroil Guatemala and
Mexico has happily yielded to pacific coun-
| sells and it's determination has by the joint
| agreement of the parties been submitted
| to the sole arbitration of the United States
| minister to Mexico.
The commission appointed under the
convention of February Is. 1882 to set new
monuments along the. boundary between
| the United States and Mexico has com
pleted its task.
AS q sequence of the failure of a scheme
for the colonization in Mexico of negroes
mostly emigrants, from Alabama undel
| contract, a great number of these help
less and suffering people, starving anC
smitten with contagious disease, made
their way or were assisted to the frontier
where in wretched plight, they wer
quarantined by the Texas authorities
Learning of their destitute condition,
directed rations to be furnished then
through the war department With tn
| expiration of the quarantine, they Wer
conveyed by the railway company at com
paratively nominal rates to their home
In Alabama upon my assurance in the alb
sence of any fund available for the cos
of their transportation, that l woul
recommend to congress an appropriation
for its payment. l now strongly urg
upon congress the proprety of MAXIM
such an appropriation. 1t should be re
membered that the measures taken wer
dictated. not only by sympathy and hu
mainly, but by a conviction that 1t wa
not compatible with the dignity of thi
government that so large body of GU
dependent citizens should be thrown fo
relief upon the charity of neighborin
| state