The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-23
THEY LOVE Us?
YES THEY DO!
Heartless Treatment OF
Americans by Servants
of Great Britain.
BOND or BLOOD A BLUFF
Charity Begins in the English Heart
and Gets No Farther
Than That.
es.eclal ia Lake County Tames).

New York, Jan. 23.--Jamaica re-
1ugees who arrived here on the
steamship Prinz Eitel Friederich say
that Governor swettenham's caddish
rejection of the kind Offices of Admiral
Davis was merely a manifestation of
the Briton's constitutional self-esteem
and hatred Of Americans. The 100
Americans who found their way back
to Gods country" wnfcn they call
1t now with intensified fervor, are
ready to declare. and have declared that
the much exploited "cousinly feeling"
and "the bond of blood and language"
are all one-sided; that the average
Englishman. when It comes to the best
IS capable OF forgetting it totally in
his own mastering selnshness.
The American sufferers could not
have been treated worse had they been
cast on the bleak and unhospitable
shore of some desert island. This feel
ing was crystalized in the following
set of resolutions passen aboard ship:
we. company of American refug
ees of Kingston, Jan. IA to II, 1907.
on board the steamship Prinz Eitel
Friedrich. herewith utter emphatic
condemnation OF the conduct and be-
havior in that period of certain on
clafs OF rank, specifically Captain Par
sons. commander of,the British steam
ship Port Kingston, lying in the har-
Dor of Kingston. and aboard which was
Sir Alfred Jones, his superior, and
other sficials, basing our contentious
on the following counts:
No Americans Need Apply.
s.First--That Captain Parsons de-
cllned to furnish food for one meal to
the small number Of Germans. led by
Captaln HTchard vahsef Ug tlss HGn-
burg American line, who prevented
four docks from burning on the night
Of the 14th, among them the Port
Kingston's own wharf.
''Sscond-That such American and
other refugees as the small boats man
ned by Captain Vahsel and others
gathered and lodged on Monday on
board the Port Kingston were summar-
lily ordered ashore at p. m. on Tues
day to make room for English refugees
though women and children tearfully
pleaded that they had not food nor
clothing on shore.
''Third-That the wounded of mixed
nations were taken ashore at the same
hour and left in cruel situation or
the railway wharf until cared for by
American naval authorities on Thurs
day, except such as were moved by
train to Spanish Town or by relatives
who found them.
Must Not Disturb Sir Alfred.
"Fourth-That when rather Dono,
van of Boston. Father Gavin OF In
dianapolis. and the Rev. H. F. Ault
of Fgatboro. Pa. took a petition to Sill
Alfred Jones and Captain Parsons from
the refugees, sleeping on trunks, sack:
OF coffee. and the cargo fouled plank'
of the Hamburg American dock, to al
low the said refugees TO so on boarC
the Port Kingston, then at the dock
and sleep on the bare clean decks
where they would be safe from re-
current earthquake snocks. Capsair
Parsons refused with great incivility
and coming to the Hamburg American
dock. showed the party further dis
courtesy.
"Fifth-That in the three days
though Sir Alfred Jones and his party
on board the Port Kingston had all tn,
comforts OF a large. we'll equipped ship
no tender was made either OF food
water. coffee. bedding or medical as
sistance.
the above unpleasant visit of Captain
Parsons, no official visit was paid either
by the police. military or colonial au
thorities to the large body OF Ameri
can refugees on the Hamburg -Ameri.
can docks. the known center for Ameri-
can refugees in Kingston. TO offer sue.
cor or protection in any degree, ol
even ascertain the condition in which
they were.
English First, Always.
seventh-That in individual case,
and minor ways we were made to fee
the superiority and first claim OF tn,
English. and found the much talked Of
bonds or blood and language, wher
tested to be a mockery and diplo-
matte phantom
Therefore we declare our resent
ment and condemnation. this utteranc,
being the joint expression of the pas
sengers in common assembly on boar'
the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Jan. 21
1907"
ChurIixh from the First.
Broughton Brandenburg. who wa
one Of the passengers on the PrIni
Eitel Friedrich, tells the following
tory in the New York Herald:
Hard on the heels OF the earth.
quake and fire and destruction came
signs of English prejudice agains
Americans. Little signs Of minol
snobbtshness such as all travellers OBJ
serve rapidly intensified into deliberate
act Of selfish churlishness and ever
brutality
This Is in no wise true Of the ma.
tive White Jamaica women and men