The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-15
CORRESPONDENCE.
BEHIND THE SCENE.

WASHINGTON D. c.. June &c 1875.
Troy CHEF.-God help poor working men and women
in our Government Offices with the thermometer standing
% and degrees in the shade with breeze and the
nights hot in day time For four days we have sur
fered ntOerabe Pedestrians to be seen on the
streets with umbrellas their he ads fans in hands
TRYING to fan cool breath but cool rephyrs come
to bless them So pant day and night wishing for one
Of those cool Western nights to bring sleep to our weary
bodies in vain God speed the President Cabinet ana
all that have money to 60 to some cooler chmes S"eh
blessings do the employees OF the treasury
and other Government Departments. We have men and
women employed from all parts of the United states IN
our Departments that not money to 90 away
with have heard heart rendng stories oil poverty
and misery the years of my residence in this ey
the Capital country than in the thirty years oil lie
in the West 1t all goldth glitters lady Treas
ury clerk will write West she is getting do
lars per month; it looks like goodly sum to working
woman of the West She does not take into account how
much IL costs live where neither governed nor
can govern. Men well as women are depriVeu oi
their vote here 1t Is said GOdhke, but those
that are sent make laws do not prove
So Gods laws are unchangeable-he does not make a.
law TODAY and repeal it tomorrow our lawmakers do
Congress will make law session for this Distinct and
at the next year heavier than is pos
sible to pay then make appropriation to help the
weight of from shoulders then tax us less for time
mart of the have Governor that robs the peo
ne bv his extravagance in improvements. Hundreds OF
widows have had lose their homes because 1t was I'M
possible e pay their Improvement taxes Is right tor
the whole of the United States to be under Republican
Government and the District of Columbia to be under
xcrss than n ,nonsrchical government The western
grasshoppers nothing to the eastern guerrias Ihey
are like the monkey dividing the cheese for the quarrel
some cats-the monkey gets all the cheese Our city Is
fu Winters Of men and women seeking appointments to
the Departments There fifty applicants to one va
caucy II one lucky enough to get the appointment
he soon finds that seeking for object peasanter
than after he has gained it, they find at the end Of the
month their wages all gone for with the exorbi'
tant rents and board is impossible to live for less than
their nav 1t is noted fact that good share OF the
clerks are in debt for their whole salary before pay day
comes around no matter what their pay may be-f little
or more all the same We have high life in Washn Ston
and low also This narrows life down to constant round
Of labor day after day. hot cold rest change or rec
reation The majority that have looked on and can see
behind the scene Of tho same opinion Major H.
who used to live in Kansas but has lived here some years
Il met him. the other day. SaysI, why, Major yon
look bady" Il have nothing to do, neither can get
ANYTHING to do said why do yOu not get into some
of the Departments r. asked Il would rather cut stone
by the road side may have to como to it, but shall be
harder up than yet he replied This is the
other side of picture but is true it well FOR US to
know all the truth we For this reason have writ
ten the above think If of people had the mon
ev they would take Greeley's advice, and go West"
| MRS. p. NJ. STURGIS, NJ. d.