| Show A 1 From i n time to lo time thie complaints arc aro titto M by b about the tha brutal manner cr In custom cu house tales At In n American potts of en cn entry try rj and Hi are certainly Irm ll TJi The IlU latest st At criticism I train from n a Now ork correspondent to it t tho the London Tins Tho Tue writer rays pews The Fh CORr e of ot the Now York custom house hOUM have now flOW become those of mor After some seine months of ot decency officials paar nn l m 1111 rules are uro suddenly ap rip applied plied nil Tho lends friends i of ot at riving arriving 11 lit I passengers gers gots ate from the pier Tho iho la S women Included not some but nil are held In a Q r de do It u mounts to arrest on sus suspicion of ot smuggling and are nut not al nl allowed a lowed to leau the tire or communicate with their fi lends Tire Tho search Is him min mill ute ate and destructive to prop erty rt which Is III strewed d about the floor It H Is prolonged for tor hours on the wind windswept swept t dock dork tho thu victims meantime be being beIng belag ing lag exposed to Inconvenience annoy annoyance alice ance Insult and humiliation The im immediate immediate mediate Instrument of ot these Is tho the thodi deputy di surveyor Mr Croft the tho ulti ultimate ultimate ultimate mate responsibility rests on Mr Mn Did Bid Didwell Bidwell well w ll collector and Mr Oage OnRe secretor secretary of ot the treasury Tho The American grumbles protests and submits thought though the detention Is certainly Illegal and the th ther acts are arc probably Illegal Under the tho old oM rules lules English passengers ser gem escaped the claim not reaching them They are oro arenow now flow swept Into the net lIet Whoever proposes S to journey hither must ex ox expect poet to endure on landing temporary Imprisonment and anil a whole series of ot Wanton persecutions Air Mr Ir Spaulding assistant secretary of ot tho the treasury publishes nn an apology for Cor these proceed ing Ingi Ing based entirely on ou the usual treas treasury I IS ury ur view that the tue ln Int t possible dollar of duties on personal luggage should bo be extorted extort 11 from Innocent passengers To Todo Todo do that hurt tho the treasury tre is willing to ox ex p isa tho the United States to rind and snake make HB Its customs rule one ono of ot aura bar Jar harlem barium I Due flue vigilance should of at course be ob observed served for the tue protection of the Amen Ameri American can cun trade hut but thero there Is absolutely no 10 need of ot barbarous or Inquisitorial measures Travelers should not b lie be presumed to bo be thieves though there may fatty Inn bo IJu some dishonest Individuals among thorn them In no other country ex ox except except Turkey perhaps are arc they thoy tile sub flub subjected J tell to such Indignities as liS here lucre com corn complained of ot and there thero tho the them themselves themselves selves are not any on an more arena honest than they ought to be lie In civilized cotta conn countrIes trIes trie trIes travelers are oro on landing treated as all ladies Joal s and gentlemen unless there art aro reasons for tor a 11 contrary procedure pro The theory here lucre Is we presume that the tho country cannot afford to lose loae the dollar a n tourist may owe 00 the govern goern government government ment m rit on dutiable goods but the tha fact is that If Ir customs regulations are so 0 I ns nut to drive aWay aVay the tourists tho the country h will lose loso thousands of ot dollars to 10 every one dollar extracted by ob oh obnoxious obnoxious noxious custom house officials |
