National Republican., 1875-11-09
ADVERTISING AND LEPRosY,

We congratulate the citizens of the Dis
trict upon their good fortune in the recov-
cry of the free advertising through the edi-
torial colum ms of the New York Detective
Press, notably the Sun and Tribune. These
sheets appear to vie with each other in
striving 20 see which can do us the greatest
service in this way. During the election
campaign they neglected US most sadly,
scarcely devoting to US single daily para
graph, and We had begun to fear that we
had lost forever the benefits Of their curses.
Our minds are now relieved, however, for
yesterday they both returned, like dogs to
their vomit," and set before their readers
another disgusting dish of SANDER. If they
were aware of the real effect of their abuse
they would, no doubt, quickly discontinue
it. There never was so great q demand for
houses and tenements here, although thou
sands of houses have been erected during
the last few years. People who read the
lies of the Detective Press come here ex-
pecting to see an overgrown and impover-
ished city, with row upon row of unfinished
buildings, begun by the Boss" or some i'm
aginary Pool, going TO ruin, and streets dillp-
defeat that purpose is as vain an effort as for
idated and impossible. But what is their
surprise to find improvements still going on
and increased business activity everywhere,
and TO learn that Boss" Shepherds these
journals delight to call him, is an enterpris-
Ing merchant, an enlightened and cultivated
gentleman, who has done more in the way
of building up and draining and ornament
ing our National Capital than any other
single citizen, and that he is not the
thief, ogre, boOr and highwayman
which they have read about in the
Sun and Tribune. Strangers fire.
guently mistake such gentlemen as the
President and his Cabinet, as well as Gov
ernor Shepherd and quite number of the
heads Of bureaus, and even many of our
untitled citizen merchants, for ordinary
business men and honest people of one
sort or another. Their amazemen. may
easily be imagined when they are informed
that they behold in the unassuming persons
before them the President and Cabinet and
members of that awful mythical Ring"
which has been so frightfully advertised all
over the country by the press as the syno-
nym of corruption and robbery. The re-
suit is that when the reaction fairly sets in
the strangers not oaly fall in love with the
beautiful city, high rents, terrible ring,
enormous taxes, :" and all other incum-
brances, but invest money in lands and
houses, and determine to make this horrible
place winter residence. The abuse heaped
upon US by the Detective Press is thus
turned to our advantage, although it ex-
cites in US pity for the miserable beings
who indulge in it. Is it possible that the
late of Dana and Reid for the District of
Columbia is engendered by the fact that
thev dare not visit it themselves in person
because of the hbels and ISLANDERS which
they have perpetrated against some of its
best citizensl Quite likely. There is no
doubt of one thing: their advertising has
called the attention of the whole world to
this Capital as a winter residence. As
consequence, our population and wealth is
consequently on the increase. Rents keep
M to the old rates here, while they de-
crease in New York and Philadelphia, and
real estate is at least ten to twenty per
cent. higher than it would have been but
for their free advertising; our hotels are
continually improving and eRlargiRg, and
the proprietors are getting rich, while we
have had less failures among our business
men since the panic than any city of like
size in the country, and our taxes are
much lower than they are in the city Of
New York. By all means keep up the ad-
yertising. Go on with your abuse. Send