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Show SENATOR JONES INTERVIEWED. Views of the Nevada. Statesman on the Silver and Chinese Ques-tions Ques-tions The ITluir Glacier. Senator John P. Jones, who bo long and ably represented Nevada, the land of sagebrush and silver, in the Senate, arrived ar-rived in Portland (Oregon) yesterday, says tlie.jVeus of the 1st. The distinguished distin-guished statesman was accompanied by his wife, nieces and son, Dr. Clunness, wife and sou, of Sacramento, and K. E. Moulton, of New York. Senator Jones is now serving his second term in the Senate, which will expire on March 4, 1886. He is a distinguished looking man, 55 years of age, with long beard, keen eyes and pleasant smile. Senator Jones is the ablest man that ever represented the State of Nevada in the Senate, and his famous speech on the silver question is one of the best ever delivered in Washington. It attracted the attention of the thinkers of both America and Europe. He is noted for his open-handed liberality, and is of such a genial nature that he is possessed of a host of friends. Last evening when the News representative repre-sentative entered the Esmond Hotel he found quite a number of distinguished gentlemen waiting to pay their respects to the Senator. Among these were ex-Governor ex-Governor Woods, Col. Frank Drake, ex-member ex-member of the Nevada Legislature, A. T. Stephens, Col. J. H. Mills, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nevada, W. T. White, Congressman M. C.George, Ben. Holladay, Gen. Rufus Ingalls and others. Senator Jones was warmly received re-ceived by his waiting friends, and it was only after quite a little wait that he was enabled to grant the reporter an interview. inter-view. "The trip to Alaska was one of the pleas-antest pleas-antest I ever had," said Senator Jones, "the Muir glacier, as the showmen say, was alone worth the price of admission. Just imagine towers and pinnacles of ice 250 and 300 hundred feet high, like cities of the ice king, glistening with prismatic hues and falling into the sea with a sound like salvos of artillery. The sound made j was something fearful. It was a mighty and impressive drama of nature, enacted with Titanic properties, and gigantic scene shifters, in the presence of an audience who felt their insignificance in the face of such a wonder." "How did you like the appearance of the Tread well mine ?" "It is a magnificent deposit of ore 480 or 490 feet in width, with a slate foot wall and a granite hanging wall. The ledge has been traced for a distance of two or three miles. Ore in almost inexhaustible inexhausti-ble quantities is plainly in sight." "Do you care, Senator, to hazard a prophecy on the result of the forth-coming election in New York?" "Of course," said the Senator, with a merry laugh, "I predict that the Republicans Republi-cans will win." "The silver question, Senator, is now-attracting now-attracting considerable attention. What do you think the outcome of the agitation will be?" "It is simply possible that there will be a modification of the present law, but I am positive there will be no cessation of the coinage of silver. It seems a little singular Jto us plain Western men that when everything is down, when a dollar will buy more wheat and flour, more blood and sweat than ever before, that the money lenders cry out that money is getting scarcer and dearer. The silver question will come before Congress this winter, and discussion will be had which will throw considerable light on the question, ques-tion, and perhaps change public sentiment senti-ment on that point. The rays of the sun are just as bright, the earth as fruitful, and the people as hopeful as ever; but two or three million toilers in this country are idle who are willing to work. The reason for this is the timidity of capital, which stands alool ana retuses to invest because it is thought the lowest point has not yet been been reached. Some people say that the alleged over production is the cause of the existing dullness. If this is the case, tramps should be rewarded and honest industrious woikers be put in jail, to stop this great alleged evil of over production." "What do you think of the existing Chinese situation?" "I am. and alwavs have been, in favor of stopping Chinese immigration to this country. The lovers of Chinese cheap labor ought to emigrate to Pekin. The journey will not cost much; and one employer em-ployer can go there and employ a hundred slavish toilers cheaper than he can bring the hundred here. There the advocate of cheap labor can have and enjoy the culmination of what is only undergoing process of evolution here. If the Chinese cheap labor advocates prevail it is simply a question ot time when American institutions will be like those of China with all their disgusting disgust-ing elements. You cannot have self-respecting self-respecting citizens, and at the same time have your labor performed by willing slaves. Therefore, I contend and emphatically empha-tically declare, that no argument can be made in favor of bringing Chinese slave lavor on American spil to undermine and enslave th American laborer." |