The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-06-28
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rected my attention To the scene 7 bod
so recently left, and looking through tba
| fungiscope | was enabled 10 see what
had before escaped me.
! The huge dome under which the Off
cials and the committees gathered had
an attraction of gold, and resembled
somewhat an inverted funnel, and from
| this flows strong current of gas gener-
ated by individual magnetism, set in
motion by the officials beneath; and
this supplies the motion power Of the
great machine.
l now observed, also, that the mem
bers of the several committees had each
one eye covered by a golden scarf, with
q greenback that was a necessity of gov
ernment service, Don Henriques in
formed me, to enable the individual to
see with an eye. single to succession.
Some OF the other officials, / also no
tieed, carried one hand behind their
back with the palm upward. This very
extraordinary habit, the Don said, was
not the habit of official education, rs [
might suppose, but originated solely in
the unwillingness of the honorable gen
tlemen to let the right hand know what
II think he said what, though it may
have been who,) was being done by the
| left.
No-Man's Land justly boasts of some
OF the finest walks, drives and boule-
wards in the world; but, as | turned the
lfungiscOpe on these, made a strange
discovery.
1t was, that many of them were built
over the heads of the poorer or laboring
classes, the houses, cottages and shan
ties being distinctly visible, like incOn-
gruous arches, in the foundations of
these grand roadways.
Before | could express the astOnish-
ment l felt, the Don remarked that this
was only an extension of the centraliZa-
tion plan, illustrating the practical
workings of the great machine, of
which, indeed it formed part
While looking at the nearest boule-
ward and admiring the gay cOlors and
costly dresses that swept careIessly
along behind the richly caparisoned
horses, my attention was attracted by a
policeman dragging away an individual
clad in rags, who had dared to climb up
the parapet below, and who had the te-
merity TO ask aims.
Further OH / noticed an immense fac
tory, from which issued a long process
sion of young women and children
hardly yet in their teens, all bearing
heavy bundles, i'm some instances larger
than themselves.
"There," answered Don Henriques, in
answer to my look of inquiry, 'srhOse
are working-girls and seamstresses en-
plOyed to make mems garments. Their
compensation, reckoned in your money,
would be four to six cents each for
shirts and eighteen to thirty cents for
trousers, and about double that amount
for q coat And YETI continued the
tlnn fa inrr f.nnffIat,ffa1Frr
button hole, ait is one Of the beauties
of the Capitalization nlan that all these
excellent people have to bear their share
of national burdens, while enjoying our
national blessings, under the beneficent
working of the great machine"
L made no comment on this at the
moment, for / was engaged in looking
at an object in another direction, to-
wards which turned the glass. 1t was
small cottage, having a garden at
tached, with nothing remarkable around
it, yet giving external evidence of the
frugality, taste, and neatness of the
owner
To this small cottage and its comfort
able surroundings | saw a group of Off
cials-similar in appearance to those at
the receptiOn-gOing and coming. Pom
derous tones and innumerable printed
blallhSs lti8tlDtE Will Wllll00 l0lIRfl1lS,
were borne by these persons.
"Merely detachments of our Ex-traor-
dinary army of assessors and collectors"
said the Don, with unusual emphasis on
the EX., and a yawn.
He was evidently weary, and closed
the fungiscope and returned it to him,
for which he thanked me and added:
"Only the most common working of
the most tangible portion of the great
maehine-a part which is far too easily
seen-being apt to provoke inquiry from
the ignorant and uncultivated many,
who cannot understand why the cul-
tured few should control and not pan
when the other class do.n
Don Henriques brushed fly from his
spOtless coat sleeve and lit cigar, Of
| fering me one. | declined.
a shadow had fallen on my spirit.
The government of NO-Manis Land
to the superficial observer might be all
| that had been claimed for it, by its le-
giOn of interested speakers and news
papers, whose plaudits are not pub
| lished as ''Oflicial;n but the workings of
| the great machine-as revealed through
the ungiscope-shOwed, | thought, a
hollOwness, a falsity, a tinsel glitter
wholly at variance with truth.
I had seen enough.
Refusing all solicitations to prolong
my stay, hurried to my balloon did |
mention that the favorite route is
traversed by balloon?), and left for home
at once, arriving last Thursday.
In view of the short time | was alb
sent, perhaps it is not strange that a few
Of my intimate friends should declare
that they were not aware that | had
been away, and that the fungiseope, and
all saw through it, were myths!
As well might they declare No-Man'.
Land mythl-or doubt the existence
of William w. Shakespeare