New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-26
MDOWELL'S LATEST SCHEME.
LIBERTY BELL" MAN GETTING MANU-
FACTURERS INTERESTED IN CUBA

FACTURERS INTERESTED IN CUBA
William o. Mcdowell. of Newark. and Of Lib
erty Bell repute. has another scheme in which
he is trying interest the public and incidentally
to raise about $1,000 As president of the Cuban
American League he appears 10 be sending from
No q Broadway, New-York notices to manu-
facturers all over the country. which are marked
CONFIDENTIAL" to the effec. that every manu-
facturer in the United States is Interested
ing the enlarged market that VIII come from Cuba
becoming permanent part of the Union, with all
tariff barriers removed" The circular continues:
That this may be under present legislation it is
desirable that the initiative shall from Cuba.
Only the ignorant and seIf-seekinr Cuban of to-
cuban members are urging that we shall send
they can confer and who VIII advise them in com
ptgt-Is oisahlAiuon work ana that untiI they
can De represented by Cubans at Washington We
VIII look out for their interest. We should have in
decided to send this circular 10 the one thousand
principal manufacturers in the United States,
reason YOU shall be unwilling to contribute will
you kindly favor Us with a line, that We may sub
Now that We are about to complete the Mica
part of the Union becomes, if possible even more
important than ever before. and must not fail
P. S.-We incose you copy OF a circular letter
the repeal # the Foraker amendment Any in
fuence you VIII exert in tbs direction will be ap-
preciatcd
The circular letter recites. among other things.
that the Cuban-American League is now engaged
in the most satisfactory part of its work-that of
re-estabshing the industries of the island. in for
warding educational work, and in developing con-
dtions that viii justify and encourage emigra-
ton
The Foraker amendment to the Army bill, which
it is sought to repeal. is as follows:
And provided further that no business franchises
concessions Of any kind whatever shall be
or other authority whatever in the island of Cuba
during the occupation thereof by the United
At the head of the ''confdentiaP' notice 70 manu-
facturers following Mr.. McDOweIFs as presi-
dent the league, and the of other officers,
is the name of the Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. MacCracken,
chancellor of New-YOrk University, a member
of the Advisory Council. educational department
Chancellor MacCracken seen last evening at
his home in Loriug Place, observation-disclosures
eighty-frst-st. by a Tribune reporter, and said:
I have only a vague recollection of Mr.. NIcDowells
asking last fall the use Of my name, and l should
it, My position. however, was to take no re-
ponslblilty IN c1hiTcD WIN az b a R
council along with General John Eaton, ext nlted
John W Hoyt. Ii D. The extent OF my entire
relation the to the best of my recol-
with reference the enterprise proposed, but
education in Cuba There was no suggestion 70 me
of any plan whatever that touched either political
commercial affairs, but only matter OF en-
couraging educational advancement IN Cuba in
which 1 have taken considerable part IN various
must disown entirely. any recommendation1 or
his asking the public for contributions TO any
object Whatsoever. The utmost favor promised
by me to Mr. Mcdowell such as am In the
habit OF showing every week or every day to cti-
whom l suppose to be engaged in a public
spirited way in promoting good laws and whole
some measures in behalf of public education.
With reference TO the Liberty Bell scheme, IL
will be recalled that from 1898 to 1896 thousands OF
persons induced TO send Mcdowell money and
silver for the OSteDSible purpose of raising debt
from the American Liberty Bell He promised to
send miniature souvenir liberty bells made from
bell metal taken from the famous battleShip keaT-
sarge all who would send him stated sums OF
money. from SIS 20 SIS. Complaints to the Newark
10 an investigation of McDowells methods. 1t APP
peared that Mcdowell was sending out hundreds OF
circulars daily. He asserted that he received
salary and got financial benefit whatever from
his work but giving his entire time TO it from
patriotic motives The auditors of the original
Liberty Bell Committee demanded Of Mcdowell
accounting and the expert investigation 1t is said.
showed an uneXpended shortage of about $4,000 1t
was charged that time that Mcdowell made n
authorized of the names of prominent persons
with the genuineneSS OF his several schemes. Ac-
cording TO his vouchers submitted to the
auditors he received about $4,000 in three years.
After the Liberty Bell' scheme Mcdowell sent
out manifestOes and appeals for Cuba Libre."
Mr. Mcdowell lives at No AT Summer-ave. New
ark A Tribune reporter called the house last
evening A brother OF Mcdowell met the visitor
in the parIor and explained that Mr. Mcdowell was
so absorbed in his work that he could not be
seen" 1t was his desire al|s to keep out Of the
newspapers Said the brother: He is, in COM
munication with President Mckinley and General
Leonard Wood. and he is more at liberty to
speak than President Mckinley himself