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Show GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN INTERVIEWED On the Special Train to Meet Delegate Dele-gate Hooper at Ogdell. As interviewing distinguished men is the sensational journalism of the hour, whenever we could catch Mr. Train for a moment away 1'rom the committees, bishops, elders, and fair ladies who were monopolizing his time in the President's special car, we applied ap-plied our reportorial privilege and briefly ;ive the result. AX IMMENSE AUDIENCE AND THE SECRET SE-CRET THEREOF. Reporter Your audience last night was the largest paying lecture audience ever seen in Salt Lake. What do you consider is the secret of these crowded houses you have been drawing ail over the country ? Mr. Train Telling the truth, acting naturally, talking to the thousand as I would to the individual ; showing up the cowardice, toadyism and flunkey-ism flunkey-ism of our governmept, Congress, pulpit pul-pit and press. ,In other words, representing repre-senting manhood ! There is nothing s y pitiful as to witness the feeble legislation legis-lation of our emasculated people. DANGER Oi' PISTOLS AND ROTTEN EGGS. Reporter -Do you not run great risk in the boldness with which you attack the corruption of the age ? Did you hear that when you were about going away from here last year, there was a plot to.rotten-egg you ? Mr. Train Yes, the assassins are always on my track, but their bark is worse than their bite. Listening at key-holes, opening private letters, anonymous threats and masked gentile batteries belong to the same family. I am told that many of my christian friends are furious at my plain talk in the Theatre and theTabernacle,say that I ought to be strung up on a tree ; but I ;im used to these things. I expect to nave hot work in San .Francisco with my Fenian boys, as I am in favor of open doors to the Chinese. THE CHINESE QUESTION. Reporter Your argument last night was a powerful one in favor of Chinese immigration. Our limited space on Sunday morning morn-ing having prevented our giving a re port of Mr. Train's views on this question, ques-tion, we introduce a digest of them here. Ed. Eterald. About a year ago now he lectured in San Francisco. The house was packed with Irish boys. He took sides ia favor of the Chinese. He asked them if they remembered the Know-Nothing party, twenty years ago, and if they wished to revive it now. He told them that the politicians were only playing them off against the Chinese, and intended to sell them out. They remembered how the Know-Xothin s treated them, and were they now going to organize a Know-Nothing party against China? I told them how the politicians us-?d them as tools, and how tliey followed the demagogues like a flock of sheep. Why should they object ob-ject to the Chinese coming here? lVby should they always wish to do the washing and all the dirty work? Why should they not become employers themselves and hire those Chinese for sirvants? Asain, I told them hw the Pope of Rome, for thr-e hundred years, had maintained a Catholic col-li col-li ge at Manilla to teach Chri-ti miry to the Chines: how they had h. jn the i u!y prosel lizing sect in China, and had converted GU.Ol'O.OiM ni Chinmien to the Catholic faith; and wore they now to forbid the Chinamen, whom the good Pope had taken so mui-h j a:n to Chri.-tianize, from coniin.,' to a Christian land? The political demagogues dema-gogues profess to think that the Chinese Chi-nese are going to flood the country. New, he was encaged in importing Chinese into Australia twenty year.- , aeo, and to-day there were not C"." ' Chinese in the e-ountn. It was said I there were To.'") Chinamen in Cali- J tornia. Heaseited that there were ! not 40.0i.i0, all told, in the wi,o;e j United States, althoueh they ha 1 t-en twenty years imniipratine to the I'aeiSc coast. At the rate Chinamen were being brought or were capabie of being brought by the pre.-i.rjt Uje.-ns of corn-years, corn-years, or ihrce-rpauer.- A' a century, for one million of Chinese to get here. And yet thesj dt,tr:i''.trut- ar- tryinir to arouse your nsor n.-iin-t these ! Chine-e. r.ii.W the rv;--j.-v that they are going to root you out of the country, coun-try, and deprive you of bread. He did not like to see the people fooled in this way. especially the Irish people. A great deal had been said about the importation of a few Chinese into Massachusetts; but more had gone to Louisiana, and what did we see there ? Why, the negroes were getting excited against the Chinese there the same as the Irish here. Thus we see the negroes ne-groes and the Irish standing on the same platform. I he Democratic party, which led the Irish by the nose, was a free trade party, and their great argument ar-gument was that, free trade would give the people cheap clothing and manufactured manu-factured goods. Now, according to that we ought to get as many Chinese here as possible. If they will work tor half price, we can get our goods lor half price. The true interest of the laboring men of this country was to fight against th pauper labor of Europe. And yet they stupidly vote with the Democratic party, which, with its free trade, would destroy the labor of this country to build up that of Europe. According to the present rate of importation, this country in ten years will pay $3,000,000,000 to the pa jper labor of Europe mere than the national debt. What we need iu this countty is prohibition Then let us admit free immigration to all the nations na-tions of the world, and build up martu-factuies martu-factuies and be independent of Europe. The trouble is, the laboring men of this country take the Chinese for fools. This was a grand mistake. A Chinaman, said the speaker, will learn more than any man I ever saw. Again, the Chinese are the most honest people in the world. Who ever heard for a hundred years past of a fal-ely packed chest of tea? Now you can't move in this country without getting cheated. But a Chinaman's word is as good as his bond. They are an intelligent people, peo-ple, too. There is not a person in China of the age of six years that cannot can-not read and wrif. Three thousand years ago, when our ancestors, like Nebuchadnezzar, were eating grass, the Chinese were a highly civilized pecplo. Do not, then, let the demagogues fool you any loDger on this Chiuese ques tion. THE PULLMAN l'ALACE TRAIN. i Reporter You will miss your hotel car going on to San Franchco? Mr. Train Yes. The Central has it's own sleeping cars, and the hitch arises from a question of price between Pullman and the Central. I sent this telegram yesterday: Pullman Hotel Train, Ugdeu, July JS70. Superintendent Hammond, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha: Congratulations on your magnificent Pullman Hotel tram. Ciossing the Rocky Mountains in palaces on wheels is the grandest excursion in the world. The Central makes a fearful mistake in giving us a second class conveyance from Ogden. Goodbye. Off through Asia, Africa and European battle fields. Back to Omaha in ninety days. Geo. Francis Train. a self-paying lecture tour round the world. Reporter Judging from our exchanges ex-changes you must be realizing a fortune equal to two Presidential salaries in your lectures over the country? Mr. Train Since I refuse to donate to charities and play the part of a showman, the country sees method in my madness. They pay me tweuty-five tweuty-five thousand dollars Dext winter for one lecture course. That, you see, is Grant's salary but not his perquisites. perqui-sites. This lecture business precludes the necessity of my using my gold credit in the Bank of California for ten thousand dollars, as my lectures at the Bowery Theatre, New York, at Omaha, Oma-ha, Salt Lake and S.in Francisco, en rontf, pay the entire expense all the wiy from New York to Yokohama and Hong Kong. At the same time every audience endorses my nomination f,.r the Presidency, and yet they eall me impracticable and say I lack billa-i! A MAMMOTH HOTEL. Reporter Whit do you think wj are most in need of in Utah ? Mr. Train A first-ela-s, irit-Tnmion- I ai, cosmopolitan hotel. As Salt Lake is to be the great p!'-a-;ire excursion place of the world, it should have a hotel to accommodate 4o people; which should be eh-gant'y fitf d up, and supplied with photographs of Urii'-batuYoung Urii'-batuYoung and views of'Sa't Lake city. It should be owned entiiely bv strangers. strang-ers. That is. let every s ran-T ysmt-i:: ysmt-i:: your city tike a share at $10, and carry away a portrait of Brighaia Younj and a view of Salt Lake ci'y. I will take fifty shares or i'- worth of si vk in it. Your rai'.ro.a 1 here will . - 'i.'i a - y .i- rxcii"--:-'--' r '!. I Reporter What n-xt do wo i.eel? i Mr. Train M .ney ! currency: e;r-: e;r-: c-.ilatinj milium 1 manufacture ! u should make ail y..i import, an l that ! requires currency, credit, plenty of cx-1 change. I Reporter W Qat would you suggest to accomplish this ? Mr. Train Let the President issue one million dollar bonds on his railroad (which would be about U. P. R. R. amount per mile), and deposit the bonds iu a bank to be called "THE BANS OF r.R'.GHAM,"' and issue a miJton small notes from o0 cents to .")0 dollars, as co-operative currency. cur-rency. Then build the railroad south .loo miles, issuing bonds at thirty thousand thou-sand dollars a mile. This would give you a banking capital of five millions to establish factories and make all your own clothes, what ye shall eat, what ye shall drink, and what ye shall wear. The national bank currency is all monopolized mo-nopolized ; hence the government cannot can-not interfere. Reporter Is this your plan for Omaha? Mr. Train laughingly replied that he had 5,000 lots, say at $5,000 a lot. These would tell up to $:!.". OOO.ooC, which would be good batik capital. I shall organize this when I return from my 90 days trip round the world. If you doubt my faith in the old Mormon rendezvous of Omaha of twenty-five years ago, read this telegram to the Omaha Rothschild: Salt Lake. July 24. Augustus Kountze, Omaha: Will give you sixty Thousand dollars for six hundred a-res for Central Park. Reply, Grand Hotel, San Francisco. Mr. Train's time was too limited to get his views at length but he gave us his PLATFORM FOR Civt's Amrrianuix Sum. THE GREENBACK AGE Pay or faght. Reduction Army and Navy. Release Citizens, or War. American Industry. No Foreign Ambassadors. Specie Payments Abolished forever. Ireland firt Cuba afterwards. Free Banking. Prohibition to Foreign Mamifaettuv.r-. Ddenda tut JSritunnia. Woman Suffrage. An Irish Republic. Presidential Term, Six Years. Penal Servitude for Biiborand Biibed. Ocean Penny Po.-lage. Compulsory Education in Pul lic Schools No Bible Eight Hour-. Labor. Government Postal and Money Older Telegraph. Ballot to Boys of Eighte en. Turkish Baths iu Government Sanitary Institutions. Death to Thieves. IjCt Brigham Alone. No more Land Giants Cabinet Officer.- in Congress. Franking Privilege Abolished. Repudiation or Starvation. Open Doors to Chinese or any other Emigration. He wished us, in saying good bye, to make acknowledgment for hospitality hospital-ity extended and courtesies showered upon him, first to President Brigham Young ; to President Smith, fer pamphlet, pam-phlet, "Rise of the Church ;" to Elder Taylor.for Colfax eontrove-sy ; to John W. Young, for five dollar medal, Mormon Mor-mon coinage of 1819 ; to Mr. Musser, ibr his kind drive to the sulphur baths; to the Herald and A' us for kind reports re-ports of speeches ; to Aldermen Richards Rich-ards and Groo and the band, for serenade sere-nade at the TowiiM-ud House; to Mr. Clawson, for his pile of greenbacks (half the gro-s receipts from Theatre) ; iu short, "all and iverybody in Salt Lake who had shak n hands with ihe next Pie-idcnt of Ann ri'-a." |