Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
STRANDED IN LONDON
Unusual Number of Americans
Went Broke Abroad.
OUR SOCIETY KEPT BUSY
Over $4,000 Expended in Helping
Countrymen Home.
PREJUDICE AGAINST NEGROES
Steamship Crews Do Not Want Them
to Work Their Passage Back.
ScEool Teachers Unlucky.


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LONDON. September 2S.-Amercans in
London complain that never in their eXpe-
rence abroad have they encountered 50
many stranded members of their country
"a during the season which is just coming
to a close During the rush months veri-
table army of distressed Americans have
been lined up at the entrances to the big
hotels. steamship offices and other places
frcquented by Americans and have implored
assistance. A large number of these are
takers of the worst order, but in the ma
jority of cases the applicants are genuinely
in need.
1t speaks well for the American society
that no genuine case of distress has been
allowed to pass unaided. and sum eX-
ceeding $1,000 has been spent in rendering
assistance. an increase of 81 900 over last
year. The exact figures of these assisted
are Oh. OF this number l1S had their
passages paid to the United States, 9S were
assisted temporarily. ~ were put in the
way of working their passages back, and
% were found unworthy of assistance and
put on the black list.
A considerable number of the female ap-
plicants who. outnumhered the males. were
school teachers who had underestimated
the expense of a European tour. In sew
eral instances really wealthy people found
themselves in distress. and were obliged to
apply to the American society for money
enough to send cables, which usually
brought remittanCes.
Despite the stories of the overcrowd!ng
of steamships making it impossible to OBJ
tain homeward passage. the American So
ciety saws that this year the cases or
Americans stranded for this cause are far
less than il 1906.
Hard to Handle Negroes
Some of the most difficult cases which
the society has assisted have been those of
negroes The officials find that at ports
like London. Liverpool and Southampton
there is the greatest objection to giving ne
croeS q chance to work their passages
home The shipping agents say tina; per.
sonally they have no color prejudice, put
the crews have developed 1t to a great de-
gree and the presence of negro aboard
a vessel sailing from these ports is sure to
lead to troubles. At ports like Cardiff no
difficulty is encountered on this point, ana
most of the stranded negroes are sent
there.
Secretary Van Duzer has not found RS
pountrymen and women ungrateful, a. TINS
year nearly 300 of them have repait money
advanced
he various American societies abroad has
ed 10 considerable friction, particularly
between Paris and LonGon- 1t is claimed
that the Paris society Is developing the
habit of giving applicants their rare. 10
London and unloading them on the society
here. The officials of the Paris society deny
this.
GroSvenor at Sea.
Before leaving London on his way home
Gen Csrosvenor of Ohio gave The Star cor
respondent a few of his political observa-
tons Among other things, he said: L
must confess that ! have never been so
puzzled to form Judgment as to how mat
ters are going to shape themselves There
seems to be a growing opinion that Pres
ident Roosevelt will be the next cand date
of the republican party for the presidency.
believe that President Roosevelt honestly
does not want the nomination. Neverthe-
less | cannot close my eyes to the truth OF
Joe Cannon's remark that no man ever
fused such nomination and no man ever
will.
If I permitted myself to guess l should
say that Secretary Taft's prospects are far
and away ahead of those of any other can
didate. He Is strong and able man. thor
oughly IN sympathy with and capable of
continuing Mr. Roosevelt's policy. But
whether it IS Roosevelt Taft or any
other candidate. there is no question of
publican success at the polls.
While there has been more or less fnan-
Cial panic. the crops this year have been
good and the general prosperity of the
country has not been affected, which, TO
my mind, assures republican success
"On the democratic side will be Bryan;
he Is the only available candidate"
Hearst the Impossible
How about Hearst?" asked the CORE
spondent.
He is impossible" said the general, land
furt hernDrp he saws he does NOT want the
nomination. Yet there is no doubt that
Hearst holds a dominant position in the
democratic party, and his opposition would
be fatal to any candidate to the nominal
ton"
will Pres dent Roosevelt's tour break
the solid SOUTH"
"Oh. no; not this time. The southerners
will have to be licked at least once again
before they begin to see the error of their
ways and fall into the republican lines. If
President Roosevelt wee the republican
cand date I believe. however, that he could
carry Missouri. Kentucky and Tennessee
bL- no other republican candidate could
The issue of the campaign will be the tar
if, with the republican party IN favor of
revision. Revis on is necessary, but it will
not be free trade by any means; 1t will sim
ply be a readjuStmen.. There will of
course, be other issues, but campaigns are
usually fought on one great platform
and the tariff this time will form that plat
form. The antitrust slogan will undoubt-
eddy be sounded and while / believe II Will
he good for the republican -rty. l do not
think it will be good for the country PEI,
sondlly cannot see any great evils which
the trusts have inflicted. on the contrary
| can see where they h,y. conferred ire
mendous benefit.
1T is curious in this connection to note
that while America is in the throes OF anti
trust agitation Germany is doing every
thing in her power to encourage the forma-
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