The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-08
Grsni''g state gc'srHat.
and Congressional Topics
--Bankrupt Law to be Amended
Charges Against Society I'm Washing
fon-The Correspondents Called ON
for Proofs or SiIence-Etc.

Charges Against Society I'm Washing
ton-The Correspondents Called o.
for Proofs or siIence-Etc.
WASHINGTON, January 2, 1874.
To The Editor Of The State Journal:
What will they do /? meaning Congress
They scau not repeal tile bankrupt act. Tn
day of stampedes IS over. The House wa
stampeded into an unreasoning and unwis
absolute repeal, SO it was a year ago; blu
its action then resulted in declafatory &C
that neither repealed or narrowed blu
greatly widened the scope of the existing
law, SO it will be this year. A new bill
will be introduced and passed, improving b,
judicious pruning the law as it now is. The
convenient opportunities afforded to dishon
est officers to rob both debtor and creditor by
extortIonate fee bills and illegal allowances
will be taken away. The short, hard rule
that makes fourteen days. protest of
even one piece of commercial paper, utter
irrevocable bankruptcy, without regard to
the honest debtors ability to pay will and
ought to be blotted out. The oppressive
rule that makes an adjudication Of bank
ruptcy an absolute bar and an iron door,
closed and chained against any and all
compromises and adjustments between a
debtor and majority Of his creditors,
will be repealed. The only surprise is that
It was not done long ago. In short, this
Congress will give US reasonable law.
The truth is, the time has come for sensi-
BILE legislation. We have been on stills
and hobby-horses long enough.
Finance, too, will be delt with. How,
no one knows. Money is not only the
thing we all want most, the hardest to
get as well as the hardest to keep, but
it is the most difficult thing to legislate
about. People want more paper money;
they also demand that each paper dollar
shall not only be worth more than it
now is, but be worth as much as gold. They
object to imitation, but want s'elasticity,0
and Expansion" Who can tell how to
doit? Economy in.living, careful husband
ing of resources, and an increase in pro-
auctions will relieve any man from pc
cuniary embarrassments; pay his debts
first, make him easy afterwards, and
then rich. Why will not the same means
do for the government?
Washington will also be looked after,
Not Washington the "Father of his
Country" but Washington the commons
wealth, the city more talked about, better
abused, and more slandered, or more in.
famous, than any other city, ancient or
modern, Sodom and. Gomorrah not except
ed. We are assured, and have no reason
TO doubt the statement, that even if seven
good men could have been found in either of
those wicked cities, the sweet SAVIOR of
their sacred presence would have saved
them but the saints who tells lies, Islander
their neighbors, and live outside of this
Sodom, assert that if salvation depended
alone upon finding among us, not seoe,a, but
one good man, Washington, its paved
streets, its treasury girls. its public build.
ings, its office-holders, everybody and
everything, would go to hell in half. the
time it took to swallow up any one of'sthe
cities of the plain.'
Nor, if you can believe the correspon-
dent of The st. Louis, Republican, who
recently published an article entitled
Chastity Of Washington" are the female
portion of the inhabitants of this city
much better. Washington, we are told by
him, lis unchaste above all other cities,D
and there are, hessays, 'stwo reasons fort:
First, there is here greater portion of
men who are both inclined towards and
qualified for the role of libertine than any,
where else. Second, a large number of
the employees of the government are young
men with young wives and limited salaries.
There is rage here greater than elsewhere
to keep up appearances"
Now we who live here don't believe this.
but think it wicked and infamous SANDER.
Virtu0us men and women never believed
that such charge could be true, or that
an honest, pure-minded man could, unless
he was drunk or crazed, deliberately make |
It, for such general ratings against virtue |
ordinarily come from cice /; while such |
careful details of the successful methods of |
seductlons, as parts Of that article furnish, |
could only be the work Of one who have !
great experience in that infamous business.
He must be mistaken, because it is well |
known that the great bulk of the persons
Of the class he describes came here, and |
recently too, from other states and cities.
Missouri and st. Louis included, where it |
Is we'll known that there has not been any
visible diminution in the number of libcr.
lines, nor in the bulk of vice committed.
1t there are accomplished rascals and |
experienced libertines here, it is
because they obtained their train
ng and acquired their infamous
arts elsewhere, ina community where such
eSsons are not only learned but taught, |
md where prostitution is deemed so much
Of necessity that it must have chartered
rights and legalized existence, even though
such an enactment is against decency, |
against the laws Of God, and the constitu-
lion of the state. ry
1t is a mistake also to suppose that there
are either more ofsuch wretches here than |
IN other cities, or that they are more expert
mere than elsewhere. Ii is shame that
such villains are not uncommon every
where. They are always UNANIMOUSLY ac-
and forever wage a cruel, |
brutal and remorseless war against their own
ace, and. most of all, against if not their
own, at least against other mems sisters,
oires and mothers. But vile as they are it |
s hard to say how much worse they may
be than those who prefer general charge |
If unchastity against whole city.
1t is mistake, also, to suppose that
young married women" even if their
husbands salaries are small, are the easy
1ictims who readily fall. Every married
woman was once newly married, SO that if
his libel is true, then it reaches to every
married aconaan, if she or her husband
happens to be poor ; and as more than
ninety per cent. Of all newly-married people
Ire poor, that correspondent has the un-
snviable priority and pre-eminence of an as