Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-31
WASHINGTON.

"a Picture for Congressmen 10 Look
That Western and Southern People
X of it--How 10 Preeipitate the Mil
ium.
!. correspondence ofthc Gazette.
ishington, January 2S.--Congress
uses TO expend three OF four mil
dollars in promoting the health
ess OF Washington, n city having
WO inhabitants, and as much more
srfcctsng It's water supply, which
already cost large gums. Last
{ the secretary of the treasury FUR
ed tabulated statement Of cx-
iitures by the Federal govern
I invested In the District Of Co
bia. The total n the vast amount
sg2, if2, 1851. The government,
aying half the cost Of maintenance
lis local government, now pro-
20 expend five or six millions in
construction OF buildings for the
ion bureau and congressional H.
y.
GOVERNING AND THE GOVERNED
STATES.
,is IL proper enough. But lei VA
,rther. How many millions are
he'd on ha,bors and in Eastern
:, and ON liie-saving and signal
aus, and other devices instituted
emotion o, the fortunes Of states
communities under the shadow ~
capitols The old confederation
lg manly from the fact that At
C colonies escaped taxation by
Ing tribute upon imports bought
consumed By those having no Sc-
TO the Atlantic. Bat when these
Mic sties became f1Anofae-
az communities. and the
etfiye aTifT and navigation
were instituted. ihe great
sof which interior colonies COM
nd Wee reproduced. Burdens II
enmeIi fell most grieTV1siy upon
1tciDg states, and its beneisciions
! Expenditures were mon0polized
Atlantic cities aud states. Aside
u his general view of the course
ID character Of Federal
sitiion, il has been SO shaped
Irrth the past twenty years that it
'asaaied special privileged Glasses,
~ OF bankers and numberless
sTehorporations; aud To these il
nasast concessions of public land
,nden Of Federal bonds, thus
sresf patented nobility in the
Easnade owners of imperial do
NAH the West. Not only has this
'beienW {?) legislation been
nailocal and sectional, but IL has
',eenlised In the interest OF u class
iiwalaying its representatives in
nat Int third branch of congress
Ienohtcd the lobby. In that
iioweusen the West and the peo-
ne ol West have few representa-
ives. hen California and the Pa
INC cocould not pay the cost of
rhhsle1g sugar over interminable
froIn Louisiana and
ought relief in free trade |
,ltn wall, this reciprocity |
'enty ust be nnnulled because
10 prilDlo Of protection is en- |
angereeand the equalization Of |
up,io Items and dispensation Of |
uplic be,nctions, as these affect the |
Veral stis might be demanded by |
Q peopllof every section of the |
DAD Am,can Union. They might !
mand hhapge in excepted and
reditary stems OF Federal legisla- |
IN Recognizing the East alone and
'hueu dow from our fathers who
'lie laws With reference to thirteen
ic republics along the Atlantic
ST. These arc still the poyerning
es. Fer these the Union exists
has lis being. and eua,ts iron
es of local seltlshness.
HE rrpsr n,,,v 40 ,y.,
opo 49, - w h'''
{ van wuluet 10 proper, ana even
Laaus expenditures In hctaii
ny. ilo f,.au.y nhu neainiuiness anu
'"'u,Nc''sen. VI INC a'pi,ai OF tle
'uoiio, Nono opJecb Wilen New
N u'iu bos'oii anu otler harpors
'''''uo hccessipie anu secure but |
wv 'hese measures enacted as
W., =, ,"u'se, anu Wh. given pre-
,a'o ~nvn o'net SUBJECTS OF legis"
~ ~ ~ 'ir .,1y eIentei import as
:, i" "J,o union may DC aliecteu 10y
~ ~. uv ,,1a,a primary coisideration
sl,', u s' ~, nJ.'on. VI We feueral
tern demands upon cony,esslonai
ntlon due TO The fnrt thot navy
, are constantly sent hilher IA
.esent remote eonatituencias ond
these, through peculiar routpo svs.
: of law.mnking silenem IL
y and fixed habits of the nome ond
tie? Why, when IL IL stated nv \
stern rcpreseutatiye that If fur
dred million bushels of when nro.
"a in the valley of the AllssiaInni
one hundred millions can ava
"a 10 the worlds markets andthis
nae of the enormous cost ~ i,tsr.
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