100 AL
The
s.
s.
Guiana
is expected
to
leave
New Yoik on
the 25th
inst.
The
sloop
‘'Mizpah’’ with
mails
and
passengers
left here
yesterday
atternoon
for St. Thomas.
Imperitinent
and Foolish
Questions
Mr.
Rothschild
Francis!
may
[
ask
who
is the
next
man
in
the
Virgin
Is-
lands
that understands,
as
much
as
you,
or
more
than
you, the
meaning
of
The
Bill.
proposing
a Civil
Government
for
the Virgin Islands?
Has
no one
a rignt
to question
its
pur-
pose
?
To
reason
on
its merits
and
its
influence
on
the
affairs
of the
Virgin Is-
lands
?
Who,
with
a particle of Common
Sense
would
not question
this perfect
and fault-
less
paradise
that
the
Virgin
Islands
will
become
when
that
bill be
adopted,
and
becomes
law ?
Would
you
not question
this
vourself
after hearing
of
the glowing and
beauti-
-lul
piciures
of liberty,
justice,
peace,
plenty
and independence
as
are
painted
to result
from this PANACEA ?
Would
not
the
same
condirion
exist
then
and
after
the
acceptance
of this bill
as at
present
?
Will
we be relieved
of political, social,
domestic
and
industrial
problems?
1
feel
(hat
you
are
earnest
and
very
sin-
cere
in trying to assist
your enuntry,
but
way
you
not
be
mistaken
in
this?
and
has
not another
the
same
right
to assist
his
eountry
by
questioning
the
merits
of it
?
Is
it right
that
you should
think
that
vou are
feared?
Why
!
For
what?
That
others
are
hypocrites
because
they differ in your opinion of this Bill?
Is
it any
way
wrong
to
try to
know
more
of
the
Bill so
as
to have
matters
property
underswod
avd adjusted
?
Do you think taat
there
could
be much
respect
for the
sense
of justice and
fair
play
of the
American
people
were
they
to pass
this bili i Congress
as
a political
Issue
only, with
the objeet
of getting
the
votes
of Virgin
llslanders
on
the
main-
land
for
the
couwing
presidential
elec-
tion ?
Would
you
suppose
that
the American
people
would do this?
Answer.
Do
you think
thac
we have
been
suffi-
ciently
represented
in
tois
matter
of
vital importance
to the life of the Virgin
Islands
?
Are
you not a member
of the
Colonial
Council,
and
placed
there
by
popular
votes
and
are you not in
a ceriain
degree
responsible
tor the shortcomings
or irre-
gularities
of that institution
if there
be
any,
since
you
are
a component
part
of
it?
Don’t you think it would be unfair to a
$9.
LllOs
A VIE
i
pewle
tolagislate
o1
a2
m2asuare
so
im-
'
portant,
without
giving them
a hearing
|
through
their legislaiive
body
of wiich
i
you
are
a member?
In
conciusion,
may I ask,
would it
be
|
right
for uny people
to reject
or
accept
'
anything
or
without konowing how
much
i
good
or injury
it
can
L}roduce.
This
|
|
ask bzcause
you stated
"The Bill will pass
and
it must
pass
heedless
of
what
may
|
be
said against
it ?”’ !
‘
|
Don’t
vou know th®
you
are
the
only
'
man
in
the
Virgin
Islanas
who
have
'
made
a
study
of
these
matters,
hcuce
|
you
must
be
accasiomed
to
tnem,
but
.
what about
the majority of as
who wouid
'
like
to
know
something;
ang i 3 it
our
i
fault because
we are
ignorant ?
All that
|
we
ask
is tima.
L:t tha
American
p=o-
|
ple
hear
us,
as
well
as
you
were
heard,
|
then
let them
judge
our cas2
aad
actin
.
the true spirit of Americanism.
!
Don’t
you
think
this
wouid
be
fair,
|
and
would you
not be
more
satisfied
than
|
to
b 2 obiiged
to
use
or
employ
the
'
methods
of foreeful
argument
to
coon-
.
vince
a people
of
A Bill
of
which
you
oniy,
seem
to know
the
season
for
its
.
introduction
7
Please
answer.
ADOLPH SIXTO.
—Reprinted
from
the
St.
Thomas
Bulle-
-
tin of April 11th oy request.
TELEGRAMS.
SE,
CBRIUX STATION.
Washington,
April 13th.—The
John-
son
lmmigreation
il was
passed
on
Saturday
by
the
House.
The
measure
~wou'd practically
bar Japanese
and would
-
fix quotas
at
two per
cenl,
based
on
the
1390 census
and would provide for exami-
-
ination
ot imigrants
oversea.
‘
Dublin, April 13th.—A
gang
of
20
to
.
30 men attacked
a prison
vian enroute
o
'
Mount Joy
Jail
on
Saturday
aftternoon.
A
running
fight
followed
between
the
.
military escort and
the
attacking
party
|
which
was finally beaten
off.
?
Paris,
Aoril
13th.—-Thit
a
defenscive
'
alliance
between
France
and
Roumania
1s
in the
process
ol
negotiation
was
ihe
|
only official admission
the Foreign
Office
.
was prepared
to make
today
conceraing
the reports
that
France
would
guiran
tee
the
safety
of
Bessarabia
against
.
agression
from any quarter.
1t was puolat-
ed out that
the treaty
would
be
m:zrely
.
one for the purpose
of safezuarding
the
|
execution
of the axisting trealy
ana
not
;
directed
against
any
one
nailon
or
gov-
|
ernment.
‘
Moscow,
April 13th.—Leon
Trotsky,
Soviet
War
Mipister,
who
has
been
ab-
‘
sent for a long period
in
the
Caueasus,
|
because
of 11l heaith,
returned
to
Mos-
}
cow
on
Saiurday.
Before
leaving
the
f
south
easiern
area
he inspectled
the army
.
of the Caucasus
and
took part in a
party
|
conference
at Tufis.
Regarditg
the
Bess-
-
arabian situation,
I'rotsky
declared
Rus-
|
sia
was
striving
with
all
ineans
for
&
I
pacific settlement
but
was
by
no
means
|
content
to let the situation
remain
as
at
|
present.
“"We will never
agree
that
the
i
Bessarabian
workmen
and peasants
shall
|
rema
n under
the
iron
he2l
of
the
Rou-
|
manian
Nobles,””
he
szid,
in
an
inter-
{
view.
‘‘We will not
make
war
and
we
|
will strive
to avoid it by all
means.
This,
|
however,
does
not
mean
that
we
agree
to
the
present
sitvatior.
The
Sowiet
Governmen:
wi'l
use
ull
its
power
to
hiquidate
the
mutter
peacefuily.,
If its
.
efforts
are
unsuceessful
however
this
wiil be
due
to a uesire
on
the part o
the
|
otner
side
to
aggravate
the
situatinn.’’
'.
Athens,
April lsih—lhe
Greek
people
|
voted
today for
the establishmert
of a
re-
|
pubiic.
The Government
made
it known
|
this
evening
that
a big majority in
the
|
plepiscite,
held
throughout
the
country,
l
fauoured
a republic.
The
newsrapers
|
announce
that martial
law will be
proe-
{
laimed
on Monday.
This is probably
for
|
the purpose
of preserving
law and order.
'
The
voting io Athers
and
many towns
in
i
the
provinces
was
overwhelmingly
for
'
a republic.
|
Washington,
April
12ih.—-Sixty-five
thousand
miners
were
declared
ioday
by
i
Mr. Lewis, President
of the
United Mine
~
Workers,
to be
out of employment
as
a
'
result
of
inability of operators
and
min-
|
ers uvion officials
to reach
an
agreement
on the
basis
of the wages
recently
negoti-
ated
from
the
central
competitive
fieid.
An
adcitional
10,000
in
South
Western
Kentucky,
probably
will cease
work
on
April 16th,
when
an armistice
now in eff-
ect expires.
Mr. Lewis said
those
cut
of
work
included
40,000in Missouri,
Kan-
sus
Arkansas,
‘lexas
and
fOkilaboma,
5,000
1n
South
Western
Keniucky
aud
Tenessee.,
10,000 in
South
Western
Virp-
ginia and
10,Cu00
in Canada.
Ottawa,
April
13th--The
problem
of
the intending farmer
whoe arrives
ir Can-
ada with
iiitle or
no capital,
is
occupy-
ing
the
land
settiement
branch
of
the
Department
of immigration
just
now.
A statement,
issu~d
bv Mr.Robb, =ays that
recenc
surveys of the
situation
in C; nada
have
disciesed
that
in many
com-nuni-
ties tiere
are
ta: s
cquipped
with habi-
table buildings which
can
be
had
on
very
nominal
frst payments,
or withou'
any
cash
deposits
at 2il. In many
cases
there
are scitlers
in the
same
distriet
wlo are
willing to lend machinery
to new
c¢cmers
in
exchange
for
iabour.
By taking
ac-
vantage
of these
circumstances,
it is
be-
iteved
that the
rcad
will be
opened
to a
considerable
puniber
of British
snd
Eu-
ropean
settlers
with a knowledge of agri-
culture,
who find
themselves
with little
capite! at this
time.
Geneva,
April 13th.—The
impression
exists
in League
of Nations circies
here,
that the suscessful
launching
of
repara-
tion plans,
based
on
the
reporis
or
the
experts,
will lead
to the early application
by Germany
for aamission
inlo
the
Lea-
gue of Natiors
and
that
Germany
will
favonr
the
League
of
Nations
us
the
medium for handling
sny
p. oy et
caicu-