El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-17

This mornings "Achiug Void" reads
Round About lecture for saying hard
things about the appointment of Jake
Catlin as store keeper for the Hood sui
ferers. In the lecture several mis-
statements are made. In the first place
Round About has no personal grlev-
ance against Jake, but believes the
position should have been given to
some American who suffered from the
flood, OF which there are many who
we're fully qualified-bOth democrats
and republicans any of them
would refuse to go on the pauper list
and receive rations from the govern
ment. In the next place Jake Catlln
was not appointed by an army officer
to the job, but was appointed by Mayor
Magoffin. The HERALD has always
opposed the free distribution of grub
to the MeXicans and did wat to g
who was g, ing to do the distributing
before it oppos ed the move. ''There is
no reason why Jake Catlin should nol
have been appointed store keeper"
except that it would have been better
to appoint some one who was really a
flood sufferer to the position. A still
better move would have been not to
appoint any one to the position and
for feeding lazy Mexicans. Does the
| Aching Void catch the drift?
| There is no good reason why the
county should have to pay one cent of
courts, bpt never the less it does paw
the jury fee in every case tried. Z e
litigant only pays the jury costs up to
S. and the county has to foot the bal
ance of the bill. No wonder the coun-
ty is on the pauper list.
| This morning while the water works
company was flushing the hydrants a
Mexican with sack of flour was on the
opposite side of tLe street from the by
drant and set the sack down in front Of
the stream of water with a look on hl-
face as much as to say: "Wet it; there s
more where that came from and it costs
nothing"
| A number of the Mexicans who are
being fed at the expense of the United
States government take their Tree grub
over the river and rrAue it for teq uila
| and get on u high drunk at the expense
of Uncle Sam. There is no danger OF
| the flood sufferers police saying any
thing about this as 1t might cause the
government TO close dow n on the job.
A sO-called union labor man COM
plains because the Southern Pacific
road employs foreign labor on their
sections. Why don't the union labor
man 60 before the Knights of LABOR
and make charges against the i'm Or
tation of LABOR into the United States,
| aud let the organization see that the Of
ficers do their duty in keeping out for
eign labor and report sucn officers DIS
/ n lou iy,,rr ma W
lated with impunity. For every case
of imported labor there ls a fine Uf ST,
600, and If the labor Organization Will
| work up one or two OF these Cases the
| Importation OF pauper labor will stop.
| They have the law and the Sympathy
of the people on their side anu would
| De encouraged if u committee of laour-
such cases.
The poor Mexican who lost his home
| by the flood but was too proud to go
| out to ID Fort Bliss, but instead rent
ed house in town, dos not come In
on the free grub business. This kind
of Mexican generally votes as he pleas
es aud is not one OF the ''early and
often" voters on election days.
A railroad man said this morning
that ''all railway employees are taxeu
for hospital dues every month, but they
have nothing to say in the sci. of
| the cOmpany's ply sician or as TO where
the hOspiGa shall ue located. When u
railroad man applies for a job he Is
| asked If he has or is sueinR auy railroad
| company before ne Is given EN- plUy-
ment. Take my own Case. l lost an
arm in the service of q railroad. An
o, der came fl ON The chief surgeon til al
my arm must not be cut off, but that |
must be sent TO tn. company's hospital.
DR.. Villas disregarded the order and
cut my arm OH. know would have
prompt acLion. After 1 got well L APP
pied for posi- ion wltn the road and