The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-16
Georgelown correspondence.

! GEoRGErowN, sept 10, 1887.
/ The first session of our Democratic Corporation
has closed, and the two Boards have adjourned
ssne d'e, ask candid public wherein have they
excened or equalied the American Corporation Of
| 1880. Have they been more economical Are
| our taxes any ess2 An intelligent people win
answer no. And while they have done nothing
| 70 commend themselves to public favor, they have
| left undone very important work
A school tax Of some ten or eleven hundred
dollars, which was collected early in the year. of
one dollar from each voter and which can be APP
piled only by act of Congress to- public schools,
still lies idle in tho treasury Of the town from the
refusal OF the Cooperation to appropriate il TO that
| purpose.
Our town has but one public school, located in
the extreme southeastern part Of IL, which, al
though Of great utility, is wholly incapable of ac-
eommodating the increasing applications on the
part Of our youth for admission.
| good school room could be had until tile Cor
poration able to build, for small rent, in the
northwestern part OF the town, near the corner of
Fourth and Market streets very desirable loca-
ton, and yet although the money is collected for
the purpose, and our youth are roaming the streets
TO their and the public injury the money lies idle
and does not even yield interest
Had the American party elected their ticket,
we should have had another public school without
any increase of taxation.
Iagain ask a rejecting public, what has been
gained by the success Of the so-called Democratic
party here? Have we more energetic Mayor?
Are our streets IN better order this year than last
Are they kept cleaner? Have We "a better night
watch, police officers, scavengers, night or day.
hayrweigher, or any other officer in the Corpora,
ton than we had under an American adininistra-
ton? Let our citizens answer for themselves,
and especially those, who from restless dtsire of
change and holding the balance of power, elected
the present incumbents. How far the present
party in power can lay claim to Democracy, will be
shown by therb bitter hostility last winter TO univer
sal suffrage, which Congress granted to our people,
and which an indignant people only forced from
them by o series OF mass-meetings, in which to
their credit, a few real old Democrats joined, De-
mocracy is all things to all men; chanelion. like.
it changes its colors to suit circumstances unlike
the American patty, consistent in its doctrines of
political equality, but yet repudatng agrasianisn,,
sguat,er sovereignty or alien suffrage, while it
would not interfere with the acquired rights Of any
naturaized citizen, it does look forward to such an
amendment Of the naturalization laws as will pre-.
vent raw Irishmen and atheistcal Germans from
continuing to hold the balance of power, and thus
directly ruling land which should be governed as
was originally intended by the sons of the soil,
| and yet for this they have been ruthIees!y pro.
scribed, swept from all offices, even the lowest in
our town, las where are thy otD mechanics refused
work if they are Americans businessmen marked
for the same reason.
What Is the remedy? The last elections, both
in your city and ours, show that parties are
nearly equally divided in both places Let then
Americans employ Americans Let them buy
their hats shoes, groceries or dry goods, of those
only who either are Americans or sympathize with
the party and you viii see the Clipper, and the
American and other papers of the party, freely
shown in our stores, and circulated among The PEG.
Pile. All we want is light. Our principles are
right-the bone and sinew are with VS., and |
neither despair Of the Republic, nor of tue ulti-
mate success Of the American party.
FIDES