The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-09-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

uousot IN utf Y0ulhhuOd hbu Wal
fascinating 10 the dIsonthrallmcnr
of statesmen and diplomats and men
supposed to be Invulncrablo TO le
male charms, She led them all in
her tram, for she was n perfect
adept IN the url she had chosen ion
her Washington existence. Iot
sho vas incapable OF intrigue. and
nohady ever moment question.
cd Heg chastity, else her usefulness
to her self aud her art would have
been past. She was prudent to a
degree that enabled hor to accom-,
pIish her work successfully, and
many a dollar did she lay by to BIO
,eXpendad upon thriitless husband.
rev oil tho ~amsn Who pose as
Iobb5 .ists in these days amount GO
much in that line, because the times
and The name of the lawmakers are
essentially different from those Of
thirty years ago.
These women lack elreamspec.
ton and they are wanting in almost
every necessary quality tor the
gaining OF influence enough over
the votes Of Congressman to make
their purchase an object. Conse.
quontlY year by year the female
lobby decreases in number, 50 Ian
as the brazcn professionals are con.
.cerned, but their places are more
than fillod by the persistent female
who desires, aud makes her -.eswg
equivalent to demand for, u olvrk.
Ship in some one of the depart
ments. For lack of nerve, or some
other cause, these persistent Great.
ures are not hustled out even after
they have threatened the life OF the
official who has politely Informed
thom that there are no vacancies
and one young lady who has al
ready perforated the son ola Sena-
tor, has signifed her intention OF
repeating tho operation upon the
Secretary of the Treasury in case OF
bis refusal to approve her appIea-
ton for a place in his department,
Such pranl1s as these are not ealcu,
lated to invest the publicmind with
tho expcdieney and proprioty or
justice OF d'Iing up tho departments
with this sort of clerical help.
There has recently dawned an
other era OF investigation under the
auspices of the Internal Revenue
department upon tho reported dis.
covery that tho revenue officers in
the upper part of South Carolina
have been on the still hunt at the
price Of $50 per still, for some yeals
past and this is another instance
of tho alcglueas Of tho watch dog Of
our plothoric Treasury. The mode
adopted tor this now tangled com
pound felony is to hire ch&rae,erlcss
persona to put up old stjll5 in some
vast aud remote wilderness and
when the job is compIotc these rev.
enue officers come down upon that
old still, like the wolf upon The AS
syrians, capture the material and
get the Government reward OF $50
tor the seizure, Those captures are
always made in the night becausc
informal revenue officers can always
sec better at that time. The sane
material is then IdEged Off to do du.
ty in somo otbcrpart oflho State,
the same officers selling it again
and baggiug another $50, and so on
until there is no rost Tor the old
still. And beside the reward OF
$50, which these officers receive 70,
euch seizars, they get frs, class
send of from the department fOi
thoir adroilness and official cunning
In smelling ont tho existence Of
these Illicit stills in mountain fast
uesses, where no man but a revenue
officer would ever think of looking
for one, and tho rhetoric of the de.
partment is expended in tho olabo.
ration oill, wonderful achievements
in the direction Of oXUnguisdIng II.
| licit stDlls that never began TO have
an existence.
Attention is just now being at
tractej to one of the minor OWLS oil
a too high tariff 10y reports rba
there Is o great amount Of snug
| Cling across our Canadian frontier
1t is even said that for every dol
lars worth Of goods are Struggled
into this country from tho British
| Provinces. \ ljttlo reflection is al
that is necessary 10 show that I'M
contraband traffic over q limo OF ND
character, stretching thousands i