The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-10

Correspondence OF tho Herald.
WAsHINGroS, july @, 1850
There is not little trouble brewing in the
departments because Republican party
managers propose to levy contributions, for
party purposes upon every placeman. No
acquisitions are sent to female clerks, but
every male sculllon and copyist, however
mean the pittance doled out by the bureau
each month, must pay his pro rata share of
the cost of printing and distributing the
choicest campaign party literature.
now THE MONEY Is USED.
Here, newspaper articles are written to
effect special purposes in special localities
The luckless record of local party leader is
traced through the journals of the house or
senate, his speeches and votes
are printed and scattered over his own baili-
wick and he Ards himself destroyed by the
money gathered from clerks in the depart-
menta. Local Republican party leaders are
also supplied with special speeches on special
subjects for special occasions. The same
speeches, for different men, in states remote
from one another, are prepared here and
commentary w young sluktt-
men pin ieathering, ms candidates for legisla
lures, for immortal flights in congress. The
usefulness of money gathered in Washing
ton in triling sums, but in the aggregate con-
shutting a mighty resource for party mana
gers, is more servieeable than any used for
campaign purposes. Therefore the readiness
Gums nominated in little bilets.doux
Al hnaA
quarters. 1t happens that the
are not few adherents Of Hancock in each,
will be compelled to contribute to the funds
of both parties. Very certainly refusal to
pay Gsrfeld's people endangers, it is alleged,
the tenure of place, and rather than risk e1-
pulsion in midsummer for unknown" rea-
sons, every body pays. 1t is rather hard on
poor devils having wives and children to sup.
port; but bachelors who squander their sti.
ponds on base ball, boat races, theaters and
''pretty girls" cannot complain.
CLERKS WAGES IN WASHINGTON.
The average pay of the 1000 clerks is
perhaps $50 per month each. When board
and lodging bills, not less than 500, and cur
rent expenses in city like this are paid, even
bachelors have little left and benedicts moth
ing. Governments, and those in au-
thority everywhere, deem marriage
crime, and only vices of
the age are promoted and fostered by the
country's laws and by those who frame them.
If there be no change in codes affecting the
RELATIONS or THE sExEs,
society will be finally resolved into those
elements that distinguish Partisan modes Of
life. Therefore we find the opinion obtain
ing everywhere that marriage must be fos-
tered and guarded and favored, or women
made men and invested with all the rights
prerogatives and privileges Of men, not only
in the courts and in social life, but at the
ballotbox and in business affairs Would 1t
not be wiser 10 accept the theories of An
drew JOHNSON, the late president, who not
only proposed TO make marrisge safe and
honorable and beautiful, by preferring mar
ried men and women for all offices and hon
ore, but BY exempting them from many bur
dens and duties to be imposed upon those
who ovaded obligations of marriage and thus
escaped responsibilities of society ard duty
10 government Andrew johnson, in u
speech at Knoxville, Tenn, proposed to
make convicted thieves and
villains Of high and low degree
IncapaDle OF procreation, insisting tnat
the intellectual ard moral worth Of the peo-
pie could be heightened by no other means.
He declared that there should be jury to
determine whether people were fit to wed.
Those who believe that the vices and dis
eases and virtues of fathers and mothers are
transmitted TO children cannot question the
wisdom Of thelate president who pronounced
in favor Of these reforms years ago, in the
midst Of the mountains of Tennessee. He
even insisted that the intellectual grandeur
of Athens and Egypt of old was due to the
fact that eunuchs were numberless. The
depraved in mind and body we're not suffered
10 transmit their vices to posterity. 1t is a
great pity that law givers have never studied
VI accepted the philosophy of Andrew John
son. 1t is great pity that laws and
popular habits of modern times inpel
women to seek the rights and privileges of
men, and with justice, for reasons stated, do
they set up their claims. Marriage is bur.
den,ome and costly, and protected and re.
warded and honored in nothing Ever party
managers impose exactions alike upon bach.
e!ors and benedicts. Therefore five thousand
clerks are saying: ave cannot maintain
wives and children, and he is fool who weds
in Washington" Therefore, the vices OF
,hs capital.
SCENE FOR AN AETIsT's PENCIL.
Two Texans. Hubbard and Throckmorton