Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-11-02
THROW ING MONEY INTOTHECAxu

As the taxpayers OF Washington feeliugIy
sppr, ciate, Il good deal OF money has b.ea
thrown away at various times in the So
called work Of improving" and cleaning
out the Washington canal Annually for
many years more or less money has gone into
mat hauseOus and ray snous sink-aol liter Ally
thrown away, As everybody here knows
Sometimes 1t Is a sum OF S75,0el, sometimes
Iess, sometimes more; but every year the people
are sure 10 b. mulcted 10 greater or less ex-
tent, TO pay tor the mythical work OF sscleaning
cut tie canal" Laiterly, however, the tax
1'avers Lave shown such unmistakable signs of
lmpatIence at being plunderei annually
through this transparent "iOb" of canal clean
lEg tGat we had not supposed there was an in
dIyldual IN the community who " ould have ta,,
sasSCran G. 10 propose T. waste more CORPORATION
money IN the same direction. But 1t seem to he
400 fat thing OF be given up SO EASILY
Parties are hand st work getting ND corner
grocery meetings for another raid upon the
coTpOrduon treasury through the inevitable
JOB OF canal cleaning. These parties put for
ward the speciOus plea that the JOB VIII afford
woTk fer poor people. Very likely; bat if
money must be appropriated from the city
treasury merely 20 keep people employed. let
II b. expended in opening or repairing streets
clt-hlng or filing up miasnatic marshes, or
SoIIe permanent Improvement. The question
--Ises, however, whether the Corporation is
nOund 10 TAX Itself 10 furnish employ II mt to
all corners. The Emperor Napoleon finds it
1ecsssary 10 keep the dangerous classes in
faIis and elsewhere fully employed Al the
public expense: other wise they might busy
themselves in raising street barrcadrs and up
setting the Empire. Bat this mode of keeping
the people "quiet" proves q pretty expensive
one for France, and the cost vi running the
n in
actually greater than our expenses were du-
ring The most exhausiing years of the late war.
We can very speedily make the expenses OF
cur municipal government mC1ns up IN pro-
portion 10 those of France y We uEdsgtaN tue
same policy OF nLdIHg wO.k iCr everybody.
Tee cansl iOb0ers say that il Is better to en-
pIOy tie poor than t. feed hem by charity. \
better way than either = - let them q where
their labor i needed - the firms of the sur
rounding CouLtTy - aIueE in want OF the very
labor iLa- is tOcking % IL, CITIES. FROM various
causes Washington cry Is pIdcs % resort for
reeGy people from all narteIs. fhev seem -
suppose thst Government; VIII ia some way
r-Oyire :or them II they clee ze. - Washing
isH. orr Poor. EJcs= - Uv-rTla WIG taaul:
The CL-Ei-ars .. private ciaL-u- are exhausted
IN providing or Them. + is notorious that me
amount ~ ItoJr III Washington j.. ana has
Isrn sIECs tCe close o. the var. enormously
bayo-d the needs d iAe city. and TINS will cJl-
Ii-Us CD - iha case Indeed t.ie evli VIII grow
upCE Us--if Ne hold on; the md uceHirnt Of pro-
yiGIug vJ-k for al. A. the Cooperation expense.
BUt - any ri-s there SHOULD be no more
money thrown a%Jy upon the canal. :. i
J.>- tl-l brown away 10 cause MS patching
UP process serves 20 maintain Il. ILIs.4ca. -
radical cure i demanded aa1 plan - hit
end sAcUIt be seL-i-d Upou and Cared Ct.
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