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SDAY EVENING, MARCII 18, 181)1RDmlB»l17-u»nmeleitlR nil nStf-Aip-I—onn«rflrhe tra id i is id 1MW lax lue onl wvl tra9PdiemeHa-sol-ridI'heton , is In l in id the im-the I of ;aU*iit*nmuKotMSh-■ or lt;01.ora n-uoton • ofliy,I IlHAvror-UlQnethutthetlt;HlmUricf881ofro-l ,.f theI list ling the fortool(he100.top.me id I liethetry,my-l, AHI 11*2 W 71; xi unt ) re-hen stcd millwill 17 1 jU18 US 7.83 the col-*cn-wh-the I* istheTHE STILETTO IN NEW YORKENGLISH APPROVAL.Jtitlg* Cowing nt the Court of (JenftrMl (iuo ii On Modern In-■UQrr«-Tlin Vendetta I'roml-e* lo Il#( ninn nn Irmtllitf Ion.New VoifK. March 1«—In the HVW this rooming there Is Ihefollowing rc|xir! of a trial jn the Omrt of General H^wloni and the remarks of Judgtf (Wlm; Hum*.* W[km: One Nttocio was on trial In the Oonrt of General fie* -don* Monday on mi {nflldtneni for felon Iona osmauIi In haring allot mid wounded Frank Clement. As the evidence was nol sufficient toemivlut, Attristnnt District Attorney McIntyre abnmlomd the mac. The ml-triul hid Jndge Cowing to make tome pertinent re-mifi.H relative to the Italian habit ofThCurrying weapons and to the great difll cully In getting tmtimoiiy from acme ofthem1 am compelled to agree with the District Attorney a» to 11k course hr has taken, nitiil the Judge. It ta a deplora-1-1* fact that, nil through this country', three people whOcomc here for mi asyltuu and to enjoy our hospitality give the pollen authorities mill tin* courts n gnat deal ofl rouble. A.s a rule they carry deadly wtapotift and are ready to nit? thorn on the aliuntnt pretext, and sometimes for no reason whatever that would he Mlisfac-ton* to llic minus of American*. ThWc have been ca*k* tried In Glia court where murder,has been done upon the slightest Imaginable provocation. It In a bondUion of affair* that must l« changed, in my Judgment; or it will grow much more serious.TufhU case there does notappm, to have been any reason why Urn defendant should have shot complainant. but cx|cn-f net bat baa taught us that in not to ho wondered At In an IfSJhm case, in thlacaaa.also there in n l-orttet tangle of con Nor is that surprising In miBguRflHil ™Italian CAM. They cutno here with a tru-mPndoua army of witncttasonbolU sitUH. ai d frequently all the witucsflcscomradlgt each other flatly, and it is next to Impossible for the court or jury to come to any rational conclusion. ,,I have often I bought UuL iu theseciisc*—if It could hi» dom^-lt would hu afood idea to put Die complainant and lt;U»-endnnt and all of the wltuo*aca in a bag. shake tlu-ni up and takeout a witness or two at random and accept hi* story of tlio affray. In this wav, usually, I think we could get at the truth just about on surely ah wt? would by 1 intoning to till of the testimony and weighing If.‘•It is not my desin* to discriminate) against any people. There arc undoubted! v rocmI Italian* ns there am good Amrrh’Ati-. But there is* no doubt that many of the Italians bavujtot learnedtriai they arc now among a law-abiding people, alio that they must real rain their violent pooh ns and keep their hot Southern blood cord.•The Criminal Judge** of Mils county hare for revoral years realised that the crime* of violence among Italian* in this city arHm reiuiing. and tUui it |» getting to be a eerlotix mount c to the pence and dignity of this community They have deemed It their duly on other occasion* to dfiiQUUCe from Iho Bench this crowing etil, and I deem it my duty todoslt;»no.v. * Jtldgr. CowiUg then dltu barged Xuccio.AHE THEY IN THE SAME BOAT tTllf MrKlutey Hill nim! tl.e HUtrlrl or C'olmuhlit Apjiroprhtliun Hill.Expe*fn in h^islAtion advnneenn idea Hint is oT lbo unuost Importune© to the District of Col uni bin. The question of tlio coiiMiliitioiinlity of Iho McKinley bill in now before the Supreme Court, it being held by those who hmvofiltered the suit* uguiiiHt the (.'oVoruiuent that the hi!! is unconstitutional because the enrolling clerks loft out of it the clause providing for n rahnte in the tobnecotax If the Supreme Court decides tlml the hill h uu-constitutional because of tlmt omis-ion Hum the expert* the IMHtnrt bill will also fait. Tlio phrolling clerks oinlttcd a clause from the Dinmet Appropriation lull—the Clause providing for a h.iard of assduors. It would thus sccuil to be the almost i tie vita I do couchislon tbut if the McKinley hill L- mu'oiutitlltlorinl then is the District bill also umonstittitlonal.The XVhllo HqaaUron.Tampa, Fua., Man-h 18.—Tho white H|tindrou crosswl the ImrintoTampa Harbor yefterdny. Tito ships were visile! by cxcitnlons oi hundredH of people, among them Secretary Proctor, Major-General Hcbofldd and tnemhcntal bin staff, At-torticy-Gen oral MiUer and a number of other distinguished people, the gue»ls of Mr. Plant.Tong range practice by the Atlanta and lbe Boston inside the north harbor waswitnckned by hundreds of (tcople. The leug range progratumu will be repeat Ml dally for two weeks or more.Acting Hear Admiral AValkor boarded the Yorktown in tlio afternoon with Secretary Proctor. Genernl Schofield, At toruoy-tioiiernl Miller and other prom ITHETHtNDKHKR APPKOVEfl NEW OR BEANS I A* NC111 NO.X IINVboi Cnnrt* Are Botnlnntrd t»y Crlr^‘-unt* NtiUileg If hi a ii* Hut to On Hnrk to Ptrsl I’rliielplr* to KTnt Tbelr Bellvernnre' — Comment* from Hie Atlnntn r«n*tltatlon ntul Cun-rirr JoiirnAl.Nr.v Yoiiu, March is.—The ir.»lt;/ Mia«the flt;dlowln« from ttuirinm Tlio 77vinL Hi an iHlilulial on the New Orlenim tragedylajlh- It I* nil \ery well to reprobate a re soil |t» violence, but in *udi circum.ntnm.e* nslhrsewhat way iv There for cumucl-paling the community from un Intolerable tyranny excepting lo resort to vlohoiee?The law require.* triul by jury, ami trial bv Jury Imx been reduced to n farce t»y the knowledge pOHMMed by every juryman that If he emnictl a member of the Matin bis life l* nor worth * wetk'a purebnw It Ik really a mlsu*e of InngiiAgc to apeak of a rcnort to violence. The ntnnding rale in New Orleans i* Hie rule of violence, aiid all Hint Mr. Parkeroon and hi* folio wornbuyo done ia to accept the condition* pre-Beiih ......I»ed by the Matia All law rowta nUlroaUdy upon force; and when the courts nrUdominated bv Uie CriminAl.i whom they exist to nitnlab. nulhing remains but tn go bark tollfrtErind pi w to effoct tbclr deliverance. itrlf»8 violencf bo Abaitdouad by all mean.1*, but lt;/•'lt; ?nri«irurtftt CiMli-pi me* Ht,•‘Among the men who were lynched thcro may bav« been gonje who did not actually lire nt Honm-sy. but it is Uot pretended that there noru any who were not membra OI !hc detc-ataiile Society that da-cree«l hi* death. That being the case, It U impOABituo to feel any very acute dlstrro. Demure, ill the midm of the violence they had rendtfrMl Indifpemabk. thpy huvolutui xnniewhut moro Mvortly punlditvl than if thoy had been legally dealt with.njnt gUBbta ami camu up to the port of Tampa and went ou by rail toTumpn.rim A/. Jitmtn (JttitUr to-day says that it Is curious to Hud the peopledf Italy lninentlng the death of Hieafatiaconspini-ton at New Orleans. They were wrctchw who had been driven out oi their own country a* peat* of aocirty. The grief of tho Marquis dt Hudini for tlio tucn who were lynched would not be long or vorv profound. If the Mann* hud not emigrated they would have received equally Khorr yliriit from Hicllian vigllaidv..The fiwfthi// Ntanibnil remarks: *'If Americana believe that Uieir Judicial system \h dofoctive, they should lot public epiidoii reform It, and not resort to whole-*n!e murder.Thr Rout hern Xfay.Nt;iv Yoi-k. March 18.-Tlm \Vn,W- At-latitu (Ga.) ajtCcial rays; The ComJltulivo, referring to the effect of llie New Orleans lynching io IiOth the North mid S*mih, will nay editorially: In the South soci.-U* WARTO war against criummh ami ni*nln*l furolgncni. lit the North Moclcty wage* war against foreigners and not ogalusi crlinlnnU. This Is a plain ataUtmeat of I lie case, and the cotutueuU of the nr«u upon the recent New Orleans lyiiening will bear us out. For a half century the Northern nuwsmqwra have born opposing lynch law, declaring Hint It is novt-f a juMitiablo rume.lv. On the Other band, the representative uew.ipitcra ofthoSouth, while deprecating the wild jiihtirc of the mob, have maintained that in excepthninl Instances it i* right for theado to resume their hovereignfv and y a desperate it'inedy t«- a ilf^pomb'evil.Just now Hie Utterance* ot the pro*, nro unusually significant. With feu exceptions, the IcodlbK Nurtliern dalli.-OHrre With the Now York Thnr- that th-.’Itiion* of N.-w UriMii9 wcr«j right in taking the luw into their own Immlslast hat unlay. The Houthern pni*er*, with fort exccniiotiB, condemn the affair. Tlio Middle lUgintn say- that there \v«* no ■nod reason for lynchinji, and that It will Increnw* tin* .spirit of ItwlcMiit^-. The Hmuiton t\uitny* that the tragedy was mighty, monstrous.How are there opposing view* to he accounted for? Why Is it Hint this outbreak is defended or palliated in the North? The explanation In on Hie sur-fme. If the victims hud been negroes the Northern pros* would have boiled over and demanded the iuierfercme pi the Federal Government and the roeoiistruc* thm of Loulsinno. Hut the men who wore exceiited hmqutiicdto be Itulian*— fercdgnora—and that made it quito another matter,The bitter, unrcaKouablt! ami growing haired of the foreigners iu the North ha. become a blind cras.c. When a uegru i-? I y nr lie'll for the worst of crimes—n felonious assault on u helpless white woman —the North protest*. When the foreigner weeta the same fate, even when his guilt is Hot proven, the North smilingly ap1 troves or offers a tamo and Ittsinebre re-illkc. Of the two section- the Hmtth lt;k'-tuples the higher moral plane.”A\ ultrraon'm l.cader.\WlMDaihishillamHeam1 Win Coil v Ii the wh twe the mu do (Co I lov AIM lireIUrleion:tidloi*oIwoloflId* a f tratiaterlirfOf'lii)itinASimiOn1nil8UArVtf*wOfevibe‘Mi on st u nu sti OilhnElCothHi{A.F.C U w ( tin ret let tmG«noHeTrtIf«dtbeOI1InnilUUIIpn|UJthnfguM'I»iMairiMHinibi
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