The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-25
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Gevsfnrnsnt EMPLOY ss- Incidents
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4 In no city, perhaps. considering Il
! slse, 10 the spirit Of speculation 30 I'll
:, as IN Washington. Especially true
! this OF speculation la q small wal
e Among ihs thousands OF government
employees receiving ON an average iron
: syOe 10 5000 year, there are very few
| venture 10 say, who havs not NJ on
4. Time or another taken . "hyer" u
stocks or dsbble In wheat. The oppor
, tunitirs Tor doing 81 sre many. Tn,
temptation To increase Ihsir little in
. come ny some lucky hit Is not AWAY,
withsioOi, aud the victims who mr.,
"biten" ~ All ea'ly Stage Of the gam,
4 do not always beD.it hy the 10 SUI
(taught them. Tho spirit ~ gambling
f"htonds 10 The army and navy, and even
some OF tho foreign diplomats, attaches
snncipaliy, whose way or ekiny out y
iNingis as much n problem D, them
psrhAps 80 To others, nHve saught the
| a. yer ana are st"n Al ime. 10 make
thtir way Into "buck-t-shops" aud kin
dr, Il institutions. Tho isiIer, in csrtsin
| qua rirrs, are Az plentiful ~ gToySpries
IN the fourth ward In New YORK. Son q
ei THEM are highly Iespcctshis looking
uoncurns. You wouldn't suspect them
oi do!ng anything but Legitimate
| buHlllrNNs okNcih 0afTN on
| their tssde-I might almost SAY profess
sion-without the least atJoiIspt 10 cor
ceal IL. Flaming signs aununnss 10 the
| uhsser-by that 80 and 80 arc ready To.
take orders for stocks on n msrgin OF
| per cent. Ia windows YOU Will see
screens which inform The public that
private wires offer special f.cllriss for
| he transaction or business, VIZ: the
lie ecing Oi the innocents. No wonder,
then, that with such tenn tations thrown
Into their way, women, and clergymen
even, Walk into ineshes out of which
they cannot hope To mud their way
without being ruined in reputation or
bringing Disgrace upon themselves and
Others.
10 think that congress has success
iuIly put stop 10 the "l0 psrceuters,"
as they are commonly called, the men
that lend money 10 government clerks
upon assignment OF their salaries
III advance, NJ the rate oi lOl
per cent. IA month, Is a. suppose some
thing very erroneous. Tire business of
those sharks is in as flnurishipg con-
dition NJ ever IL was oniv YESTERDAY
that QUE of them :nOrLgaged his house,
his furniture aud vorNthing upon
which lie could possibly raise money at
u per cent, In order TO Oe able 10 lend IL
out again NJ 10 per cent. n month. TIE
government, IL il true, does not re- og-
nize any more the validity OF pay
vouchers assigned To others in advance
of the time when they fail dua, bat the |
Shyiocks, apparently, are willing To |
take the risks, and, so far ~ can hear, |
have no reason TO regret their willing |
ness to trust the honesty of their |
victims. 1t is needless 10 |
say that most of the money lieut. out by |
them finds its way into their own pucli- |
eta within twenty -four hours after hav- |
l..tN L.
part either owners OF or partners in |
"bucke shops"
Some very curious skeletons might |
be brought To light lily you could but peer
into the closets of some of the people |
high in the employ of the government. |
How many of them, | wonder, manage
10 keep up the style of living they do on
the salary they receive. Thev were not
rich when they entered office. Their |
wives did not bring them han isol O
dowries. To suspect their integrity |
wouli be doing them gross Injustice.
Bat to speculate a little bit, Ell? Trade. |
may be, upon superior knowledge of
sffairs which their official position may
give them? Is it, after all, so very
wrong? Is IL, at any rate, considered SO
by many of them?
Without wishing to moraize any
further in this line, l can not help re-
marking what a horrible thing the OH.
cial register is. 1t tells you at once
every public mans income, or, in u ma |
jority Oi cases, very nearly so. You can
not help expressing some sstonishment
At how Mr.. and Mrs. ", at whose house
you dined the other day, can afford to
entertain so handsomely. Turning to
page 1896 you run down your finger
until you come to friend KS name,
and opposite it you find .Sl,2OO" Well,
declare you exclaim, how X. mana
gers to dress those girls OF his is u
IN stery-and, by Jove! there is w.
week he gave an entertainment which |
must have cost at least-well, |
wouldn't like to mention the figures.
Let's see what u. gets. know the u Is |
pay at least 81, 100 rent for their house
not to mention the wages they give |
their big, greasy porter whom they pass
in the presence OF all their friends ~ u |
family servant (has been in the family |
ever since he WAS a picaninny, sir, Il.
says; played with him when | was II
boy, on the old plantation; his mother
was owned by my father and brought
up the whole family, etc,) yes, u. gets,
here it is, only $500. How do they
manage to live? Speculation?
Washington is unique perhaps in pre-
sentiug examples of men broken down
in spirit and fortunes, whose uncon-
trollable desire to feed at the public
crib makes them willing to accept any
position, however lowly, rather than be \
kept out OF government employ for any
time. Not that they are unable TO So
cure employment elsewhere; on the
contrary, their past experience sh0ud&
make their services valuable in many
respects to private individuals, and UNI
douoiedly would do 80 if they could III
bring themselves to abandon
what they perhaps consider
ali eX-member of tho Wisconsin leg{
islature, now door keeper and mest
senger of one OF the senate com mitteeE
another, also a door-keeper, who nft
long ago was a bank president in VIII
ginia, ard occupied some responsible
public position in his state; still ano hey,
who is the son of an eX United States
senator, and as such, very likely, iut-
bibed the taste for holding pub IL uiliee,
which he now gralities by filing the no
sition OF a d or keeper; aud | could go
on citing an indefinite number of cases
20 support my proposition, if space per
mtted me To do SOL Washington Cor
respondent New York Tribune.
The aesthetic movement in England
has entirely died out, because-well, be-
cause PEOPLE think there Is more gO!0d
rOin mon sense i'm taking bottle of Dr.