Evening star., 1896-10-26
ILLEGAL REGISTRATION.

imum. 81.
ILLEGAL REGISTRATION,
Wnshington Mnn Who Want. to
Vote in Baltimore
Detective John S. Pointer of Baltimore
Nd, brought to this city today reou;-
sition from Gov. Lowndes of Maryland for
Dennis Crowley, well-known resident OF
washington. Crowley being charged in the
requisition with having illegally registered
IN baitlmore the Goth Of last month De-
tecuVes Carter and Gallagher arrested
crowley and delivered him to the marshal
penoine hearing before Judge Hagner.
crowley formerly kept an oyster house
on the avenue between 10Th and 13.h
streets. and later at 18th and D streets
He has. 1t is said. been regarded as a resi
dent or this city for twenty or more years
put ne claims to be a citizen Of Baltimore
ana insists that he had the right to register
sition was based charges that CrowIey &c
not citizen of Baltimere, and alleges tha.
ne registered in the ninth election nrecjict
OF the fourth ward the 10Th Of last month.
Shaw's Hotel, on North High street East
Baltimore. The inotctment,fft is said was
procured through the efforts of the Reforr,
League Of Baltimore. '''' -
Independence of Great Britain.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
A very cu1ning effort by an .ppeal tn +bs
spirit Of independence which nrev.i,s
among Americans has been made bv the
free silver advocates in this camnai,,
why should We wait for other nations IN
adopt free silver? Let US declare our .n-
dependence. especially of Great Britain.
and go 1t alone, say they: and notice that
our friend Kilbourn heads his free silver
pamphlet. Uncle Sam VS.. John Bull,
lnasmuch as their contention is based
mainly on the low price Of wheat and farm
products. why don't they advocate or
Independence of Great Britain and the rest
OF Europe In that respect? Why not 20 it
aione, and ourselves fix the price of whea..
cotton. etc.? 1t is just as reasonable and
Just as practicable as to adopt free silver
coinage alone. OF course We could re-
solve, or even have law passed. to fix tte
price OF wheat and cotton; but unless that
was In accord with the commercial price
ABROAD We would not Sell bushel or a
pound. So with silver-we may pass a law
to adopt free coinage. but unless We MT
enough silver in the dollar to make its
commercial or bullion value equal to it's
race value ho other nation will take # of
us. except at discount, any more than
they "ouid Duy our wheat at double the
market price.
II we had no trade or communication
with other nations We could do as we
pieased-use silver. brass. iron or anything
else as money: but so long as We do have
trade and communication with them we
must make our money such as is generally
used by the commercial nations with whom
we deal; and l take it that we are not
quite ready yet to shut ourselves off from
world. - TIC
Ihere are two matters in which we can
and ought to declare our independence. :ot
ohiy OF Great Britain. but of all the world,
ana those are manufactures and com
merce. We can build I'D our own manu-
factures, produce our own goods and use
the millions which we now pay. to foreign
Instead.
so, too, we can build up our commerce.
In 1850 the amount paid the owners of
American vessels was almost double that
palo the owners CT foreign vessels; in 1885
the amount paid foreigners was almost five
and half times as much as that paid
Americans!
Not only was that amount, $3.50, ,53s ,aG2,
palo to foreigners and taken out Of the
country, but 1t gave employment to foreign
sailors ard officers, when It ought to have
been paid to our own people, and given
employment to Americans.
Ihat is a Kind Of independence that T. Ill
be Of benefit to us as a nation That is
practicable, While unlimited free coinage
OF silver ny this government alone is not
Inat, II seems to mel is the first impulse
or PATRIOTISM, as well as our true national
poilcy. and yet, nearly every man who is
shouting for free silver advocates a policy
which, instead OF tending to establish cur
manufacturing ard commercial independ-
ence, tends to perpetuafe our dependence
Not only that, but their attempt to force
free silver OF the ccsntryo is doing more
than all else to break down both our ma1-
ulacturing and rcialbindustries, de-
render the present had itimes Infinitely
worse. ta y
1t is strange that yrnen will let pa-..y
spirit SO blind them that they cannot, or
will not, see this. sG w c. D.
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Illness of Mrs. Anna Dorsey.
Mrs. Anna Hansorit Dorsey, the we'll
known Catholic story Writer, is lying
dangerously Ill at her residence on Cali
fornia avenue. Mrs. Dorsey is now in her
eighty-third year, and while practically an
invalid for several years. her vigorous In
tellect was unimpaired and her pen has
been kept almost as busy as when she was
In the prime of health. She has been a
pioneer in Catholic literature and has heen
honored by personal letters from Plus TX
and Leo XIII a few years ago. The Uni
versfty OF Notre Dame, Ind, has bestowed
on her the Laetare medal"
>oe-
Nitrate of Silver.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
Ex-President Harrison in a recent speech
said that Mr.. Bryan proposes to give a