PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 6,1891
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A DEAD LETTER LAW.
Hundreds of Contract Laborers Are
Broneiht in Annually, to
THE DETRIMENT OF AMERICANS.
NEW ADVEBTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Inspectors Who Don't Inspect and Careless
Port Officials the
CAUSE OF THE EXISTING TROUBLES.
DUQUESNB.
David Henderson and John W. Norton '. Managers.
HTTSBDR&'S LEADING THEATER.
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2fEW Tore, Sept. 5. The contract labor
law is now six years old, and it is conceded
by everybody who has had anything to do
with it to be a complete failure. It was
passed to protect American labor against
bodies of workmen from abroad, but the
universal experience is that there has been
no protection. The law was drafted by the
labor unions, and passed exactly as they
wanted it Representative workingmen
were selected to serve at the port of Xew
York as special agents or examiners to carry
out the law; but the efforts of these chosen
representatives of the men who were to be
protected have been ridiculously barren of .
results. Large operators in ned of laboir,
skilled or unskilled, to take the place of
striking workmen have no trouble whatever
in bringing into the country poinptly all
the help they want. Kothing KAasier than
to beat the law.
I ha e been talking wjtn the Treasury
authorities in Xew YorVr on this subject.
They acknowledge fuJAy the uselessness of
the law, and are very indifferent about it.
One of the officials of the service says the
Pennsylvaniaifoions demanded a piece of
crank legislation and got it, and now they
are not wjfflinjr to co-orjerate with the Treas
ury Department in its enforcement. There
fore, ne said, the department people are not
ljing awake nights or shedding any hot
salt tears over the situation.
MUST FIGHT THEIE OWJT RATTLES.
He said further that if the labor unions
want protection under this law they must
work it out for themselves, as the port
officers are powerless without their help.
Two hundred or 500 able-bodied men coma
along in a ship, all healthy and able to do
for themselves, and they are let in as ordi
nary immigrants, yet these 'men come with
the tacit understanding that they are to
..CPgcentrate at a riven point where the
labor unions are out on a strike, and take
their places.
This is a typical case. It is contract
labor without a contract. Every man comes
as an individual. He has been told by the
agent of a large employer that there is a
job open at so much a day for so many men.
On this verbal assurance he comes to
America, probably with the employer's
money in his pocket; but in any event he
comes, and passes the contract labor in
spectors without the slightest trouble. The
inspectors are objects of quiet ridicule
among the men who pass them as immi
grants. It is unfortunate that bright men,
as these inspectors are, ahonld be placed in
such aposition: still, as long as the Govern
ment can afford to give them ?5 or 56 a day
for coing through the motions of executing
an impracticable law they seem to be will
ing to stand it
HTAVY VIOLATIONS Or THE IAW.
One of these Government agents, Mr.
Mulholland, has lately expressed the opinion
that 25 percent of the immigration into this
country through the port of 2few York is
of the induced kind and comes contrary to
the spirit, if not the terms, of the contract
labor statute.
A late and ra'ther exasperating instance
of the evasion of the law is noted inXew
.tugiana. xne granite cutters who are
working on the great blocks that are shipped
bv rail and schooner to Washington to be
placed in the new Congressional Library,
had trouble with the "association" or com
pany that runs the quarry, and they threw
down their picks and drills to bring the em
ployers to terms. An advertisement was
immediately cabled to London for the
desired number of stone cutters, who were
relerred in the advertisement to an
agent in that" city. Fifty cents an
hour was offered, and as the price in
England and Scotland is but 20 cents an
hour, there was no trouble in getting very
speedily as many skilled stonecutters as
were needed. Tiie contract was made, but
they came on laith and in a body to the
number of 250 or S00 brawny English and
Scotch artisans.
WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, SEPT. 7.
six: ietegkhts, ,
Wednesday and Saturday Matinees.
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF
The Prirjee of Romantic Tragedy,
JOSEPH
HAWORTH
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ALLAN J. SHEDDEN.
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BW. KEFMAN
BUSWESS AirWyGER
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday nights and Saturday
Matinee, a
Spectacular Performance,
ST. MARC,
THE SOLDIEB OF FDRTURE !
Wednesday Matinee and Thursday
and Saturday Nights,
Grand Double Bill,
FRA DIANO
(Written for Mr. Haworth)
AND
RUY BLAS
(Booth's version.
KATHRYN KIDDER,
ATKINS LAWRENCE,
LOUISE RIAL,
ROBERT DROUET,
J. GORDON EDWARDS,
JOHN DAILY,
E. J. MORGAN,
HORACE MIT6HELL,
LOTTA KEITH,
L. E. LAWRENCE,
ANNA McVEIGH,
JOSEPH KELLY,
IDA ASTRON.
JAMES SEYMOUR, ,
SGENEBY BY SEAVEY!
COSTUMES BY HAWTHORNE!
MUSIC BY GUSTAV LUDERS!
He will fill Booth's place before he dies, and mark tiie pre
diction, lie will be greater than Booth. Blakely Hall in Brook
lyn Eagle.
He lias what in lie theater they call genius, but for want of a
better name we" will call it inspiration. Nym Crinkle.
Haworth is a great actor of the natural schooL--Robert G.
IngersolL
A great performer. Max O'ReZ
JLadies' and Children's Matinee Wednesday. Best Reserved
Seats 25c and 50c.
JGeneral admission evenings, 50a
The Leading Amusement Resort for Ladies and Children.
M CoMEing loiay, September 7.
, SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF
ARIZONA JOE
THE SHOOTING STAR,
Supported by a well-selected Dramatic Company and the
Greatest Acting Dogs and "Horses in the World,
In the Romantic Scenic Melodrama,
THE BLACK HAWKS; .
OR, KING OF THE SANC0M0NE.
THE GREATEST FAMILY SHOW OF THE TIMES.
Replete with thrilling incidents, pathos and humor, and positively the
most complete and purest stage production in America.
The pride of the nation and the ladies' and children's pets,
JUMBO and QUEEN, the Beautiful St. Bernard Dogs.
Surprising Scenic Effects! Roaring Comedy Throughout!
The Strongest Melodrama Before the Public!
Each Part Individually Powerful! Wonderful Mechanical .Effects!
The Grand Centennial Concert Room Scene!
' The Haunted Cave of the Skeletons!
The Attack on the Silver City Stage Coach, drawn by Real Horses!
Grand Display of Marksmanship by Arizona Joe, the Shooting Star!
A Carload of New and Elegant Special Sceneryl
NEW ADTZBTISE3IENTS.
COMMENCING 'gjt
SEPT 7WJ
rvJ. M. 9 V nE5SEIiP
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POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE!
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
- R. M. GULICK & CO.
NOW FOR A GOOD LAUGH 1
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Week of Sept. 14 The great operatic comedy, O'Dowd'S Neighbors.
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TAUGHT TO ANSWEB QUESTIONS.
Every fellow was coached in advance and
all were admitted; and within a month from
the time of the trouble the sturdy foreign
workmen took away from the dissatisfied
Americans, who had been propitiated tem
porarily by the company, jobs that aggre
gated from 5900 to $1,200 a year in hard cash.
The foreigners did not come to stay as a
rule, but are described officially as "birds of
passage." The company has a limited con
tract and could not afford to waste time in
temporizing with its dissatisfied quarrymen
and cutters, and therefore gavekthem heroio
treatment with the unlortunate result
stated.
This is the kind of thing the contract
labor law is intended to preient; but it is
about as effective in a case Hue this as so
many pages of soft brown maaila paper
would be. It simply might as well not have
been passed.
During the fiscal year which ended June
.20, 1891, 813 immigrants were barred and
sent back in all the classes, out of a total of
more than 403,000 arrivals at the port of
if ew York. Of these exclusions thoBe sent
back under the contract labor law number
iewer than 50, the great bulk haling been
barred on the ground that they ere paupers
or were "likely to become a public charge."
Considerably more than one-half of the im
migrants are men, but counting the propor
tion as even up between men and women,
Inspector Hulholland's estimates would
signify the admission of 50,000 laborers in
the course of the year contrary to the con
tnftt labor law, or about 1,000 unlawful ad
missions to eiery one seeking to come in un
lawfully who Mas detected and sent back.
AXXIOCS TO KKTOBCE THE LAW.
General O'Bcirne, the acting Superinten
dent of Immigration at Xew York, has as
sured me that the Treasury Department is
not only willing but anxious to investigate
lully any clew that the labor unions may
communicate, in order that laborers illegally
admitted may be found out and sent back
to the point of embarkation. There is a
large fund available for this purpose, and
representatives of the workingmen s organi
zations ha e been .asked to lend a hand, as
the results would be exclusively for their
cenent, out tnus tar not a single enort 1ms
been made by the labor unions, as far as the
department has been advised, to ferret out
cases of illegal importation of workmen.
As long as the people immediately inter
ested are so indifferent, the astonishing
record of the fiscal year just closed may be
expected to be repeated indefinitely, and as
before noted, the federal omcials charged
with the execution of the law are not likely
to take things to heart to any great extent,
no matter hou many jobs aio lost or how
many troops hae to be called out to keep
the peace in riotous labor commnrJties.
I hay e had a long interview .with Sena
tor Chandler, the Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Immigration, on this sub
ject. He has given the immigration ques
tion more earetul study than any of ourpub
lic men and is veil qualified to discuss it in
all its phases.
WHERE THE TBOUBLE LIES.
He thinks the contract labor law is -all
that could be desired as a statute. The
trouble lies in the execution, and sot in the
Jaw, he says, which is cutting pretty close to
me irum, lorine law is strongly and clear
ly drawn, and is comprehensive enough to
liiet the most exacting conditions. Mr.
Cnandler is not hopeful that the law will
ever be a brilliant success, owing to the
difficulty of enforcing it. He does not say
straight that it is a flat and ridiculous fail
ure, because he is too smart to say things
that may seem impolitic, but he has a war of
thinking out loud so as to convey
strong expressions without bringing him
self within set terms. The Senator sug
gested that the time may not be far distant
when it may be necessary for Congress to
shut down on the great influx of foreign
workingmen, especially those having no
trades, for the protection of our labor.
This, I Inferred, was his idea of the relief
which was sought to be accomplished by the
contract labor Taw.
"While I was at Mr, Chandler's beautiful
summer home in the Warner Valley, under
the shadow of the famed Kearsarge Mount
ain, a couple of weeks ago, he let me see
the draft of a very pointed letteY he had
written to Secretary Foster on the subject
of bonding in pauper immigrants, which the
Treasury Department "has lately gone into
very extensively.
AFTEB THE TBBA8URT DEPABTMEST.
The Senator wrote the Secretary that tb
department was violating the immigration
laws in accepting such bonds, and was going
beyond its legitimate field in allowing the
practice to grow up without the express au
thority of Congress. I had conveyed to the
Senator someinformatipn in this connection
which caused him, in his capacity of Chair
man of the Senate committee and as the
father of the present immigration law, to
send this rattling admonjsher to Secretary
Foster.
This is mentioned because it has a direct
bearing "upon the labor phasa of immi
gration. Since April 1, wnen the present
law went into effect, 325 bonds have been
accepted at New York, which let in 1,000
persons who otherwise would have been
sent back as paupers. There is not a scintilla
of law for the taking of these bonds, though
the department has the backing of two
Attorney Generals, Garland and Miller,
as to the prudence, if not the
legality of the practice. Mr. Chandler
makes the issue, with his accustomed sharp
cess, that the practice is bad and that the
law is being violated; but tthe same bond
clerk at the barge office is k'ept as busy as
three ordinary men tilling out more of these
bonds for signature, and a lot of Polish.
Hebrew exiles and Italians are coming in
thereunder who, but for their .good fortune
in having somebody to vouch for them,
would not be able to pass the inspection.
SENATOR CHANDLER WILL FIGHT.
These are the elements of a' good-sized
rumpus in these proceedings when Congress
shall assemble again, and the pugnacious
Hew England Senator is the man who will
be likely to start the fun. This is some
thing that organized labor is directly inter
ested in. It should be understood that as a
rule the bonded paupers are sent away,
immediately upon their admission, to dis
tant parts of the country, far beyond the
reach ef the immigrant officials at Now
Xork. The bonded persons might there
fore become a public charge a half dozen
times over, and the officials would never
hear of it; and even if they did, the remote
ness of the cases would make it very trouble
some, if not practically impossible, to ship
the pauper! back lo New York-saying
nothing of the further trouble of hunting
up and suing the bondsmen for the Gov
ernment's costs, and also saying nothing-of
the fact that some very good lawyers think
these bonds are not worth the paper they
are made out on in a court of law.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee
is anxious to hear from people who have
suggestions lo make for the improvement
of the contract labor, immigration and
naturalization laws. He says legislation on
these subjects must be entirely non-partisan,
arid he will be happy to receive the
views of people representing all shades of
politics. It is evident that-there is to be a
stir in the next Congress on these subjects.
Edson brace.
Crashed Again.
Detroit Tree Press.
"In these idyllio autumn days," began
the new boarder, "butterflies "
"Indeed it does," interrupted the land
lady as she snatched the bntter plate, "but
you're the first one that's had the consider
ation to speak of it."
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Then never refuse a modicum to tho dys
peptic unless tt be the obstinate Individual
who refuses, or neglects to avail himself of
the groat recuperant of digestion and assim
ilation, Hostettor's Stomach Bitters, which
not only knocks dyspepsia fnto a cocked
bat, but soon jriveg, malaria, constipation,
rheumatism and kidney trouble a Waterloo
defeat.
A Suggestion.
There is no surer investment to capital
ists or those having surplus moneys than to
build houses and stores at Kensington, the
new manufacturing and residence city on
the A V. E. B., 18 mijes from Pittsburg.
Ten large manufactories are now located
which will employ 2,500 men. Honses and
store, rooms are in demand, either to rent or
sell 160 houseware now built and 100 more
in course of construction. Examine the
new city and its promising future.
Free tickets furnished at our office, No.
8(5 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg.
CURIO HALL
Will Contain the Usual Array of Interesting Attractions,
No Advance in Prices.
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But Now Has a. Complexion Free
From Any Blemish.
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HOUSE.
Mr. E. D. Wilt Proprieior and Manager
BEGINNING MONDAY, SEPT, 7,
Wednesday and Saturday Matinees.
THE ORIGINAL AND FAMOUS
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GRAND FAIRY SPECTACULAR,-
FANTASMA
A LADY WRITES MME. RUPPERT.
Baptores.
People needing a first-class truss can get
the same at 909 Penn avenue, near Ninth
street. Only place in Pittsburg where
trusses are made to order.
i. Boston lady -writes me: "My face had
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your wonderful. FACE BLEACH, my com-
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The above is but a specimen of thousands
of letters received by me, and all these let
ters, come unsolicited, as I never have asked
for a testimonial in my life, though I have
thousands and thousands on my file. I can
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NEW SCENERYI
NEW TRICKS I
NEW MUSIC!
RICES
Sept 14--GUS WILLIAMS IN "KEPPLER'S FORTUNES.
Mfr(
HARRY DAVIS
FIFTH AVE. MUSEUM-THERTER.
1 DQLLflB SHOW FOB 10 CENTS.
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Engagement Extraordinary of the
King of Society,
HARRY
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ACADEMY.
A Play to Please the Ladies
and Children..
PPPCQ. Firs flor, 50c, 75c, $1 reserved. Dress
rniULO. Circle, 25c, 50c reserved. Gallery, 15c.
GENERAL ADMISSION. 50c.
Special Prices Wednesday Matinees:
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MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7.
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Monday (Labor Day), Sept 7, Grand Holiday Matinee at
2 p. m. Night Prices of Admission.
SAM T. JACK'S CREOLE BURLESQUE COMPANY.
THE SEASON'S CYCLONE SHOW I
Direct From the Standard
Theater, New York.
The Only Genuine Creole Organization
on Earth.
A Bevelatlon of GorgeoHS
Features.
Dark-Eyed Egyptian
Beauties.
Creole
Pastimes Oriental
Splendors.
Fascinating Bewildering
Dazzling.
$
i.-ir. if yon cannot call, send 6 cents
Bs for my new pook, HOW TO BE
1EAUTIF.UL.
MME. A. RUPPERT,
Boom $03 Hamilton building, 85 Firth av.,
Pittsburg, Fa. seS
First Floor, 50c reserved.
Dress Circle, 25c reserved.
Next
Week-GORMAN'S MINSTRELS.
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NINTH TEAK. ESTABLISHED 1883.
Opening for tna season Thursday, Septem
ber at; children, Saturday, September SO.
Circulars now readv. OSloe onon day and
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Mrs. P. Harris, R. L. Britton, T. F. Dean,
Proprietors and Managers.
WEEK COfnCINC MONDAY, SEPT. 7.
Every Afternoon and "Evening.
THE COMEDY BBAMA,
INSIDE TRACK.
"WVIE- AKE3ES
A3 HABRY DENBIGH.
Hear Jennie Calef "Whistle.
HearMarieDe LanoSlng.
Week September It "The Buna way Wife."
The Skeleton Dude.
Mr. Coffey was the principal attraction at
the Olympfa, London, during the run of Bar
num's great show at that place. He was in
trodnced to the Prince of "Wales, who de
clared him to be one of the best dressed and
most entertaining men hehidevermet. The
Skeleton Dude weighs only i$ pounds.
MISS DELLA BECK, ,
The big, beautiful country lassie, who
weighs a quarter of a ton, will make an in
teresting con trast to the SkolotonDude.
FOR THE FIB3T TIME IX PI3T8BT7BG,
PROF. C. E. CHARLES'
GOLDEN TEMPLE OF ART AND MUSIC.
A monster structure of Gold and Ebony
thatnlaysJM distinct musical instruments.
and has 10 stages upon which are moving
life-like figures. This is n mechanical tri
umph that will repay hours of attention.
Nothing like it ever seen in this part of tho
Country before.
Prof. J. Lamb and His Wooden
Headed Family.
LAST WEEK OF
Prof. Williams' Silk Worm Industry.
Scenes of the Sunny Sonth.
An Exhilarating, Enchanting and
Badiant Entertainment.
Next West Lester & Williams' Lon
don Specialty Shew. e-l
EXPOSITION. I
EXPOSITION.
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IN THE THEATER.
WINSTANLEY & HOWLEY'S .
All-Star Specialty Co.
THE GREAT MENAGERIE.
A Luxurious Private Parlor for Ladles and
Children.
Ho Change in Prices 10 CENTS
to All. Children 5 CENTS.
Doors open from 1 to 6 and 7 to 10 r. x.
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EXPOSITION.
EXPOSITION,
EXPOSITION.
EXPOSITION.
CAPPA'S Unrivaled Seventh
Regiment Band.
The magnificent Loan Col
lection of Paintings, kindly
'loaned the Exposition by tie
citizens of Pittsburg and Al
legheny, on exhibition in the
Art Rooms. Tiie grandest
collection of art ever seen in
Pen7isylvania. Novelties
all departments.
in
ADMISSION Adults,
25c; children, 15c
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