McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

1iIdiilc dispenser Vi soap, Inc pres
ent campaign promises to reach the
bottom of the depravity that attaches
to our political system. Not only are
offices and high political positions
made the objects of bargain and trans,
fer, but pledges are made that huge
Congressional jobs, in aid of railroad
and other corporate monopolies. shall
be put through as a reward for the in
tercession of these powerful inau-
ences. Jay Gould could we'll afford
to put hundred thousand dollars in
the Indiana contest four years ago, be-
cause he got it back in ten fold ratio
in the friendly Legislation that follow
ed, and the Republican party took
Stanley Matthews and put him upon
the bench Of the highest court in the
United States to look after Jay
Gould's interests besides. 1t is this
kind Of ''boodle' that is running the
present campaign, for what amount of
potency would there be in the paltry
contributions wrung from the Govern
ment employees ?
One of the most interesting and in
structive Of the departmental reports
is that proceeding from the Commits
sloner of Education. The volume en-
braces eleven hundred pages, and ex-
hausts the subject Of education in
America SO far as the statistics are
concerned. With a school population
of sixteen million in the country,
there are six million who attend school
out of the ten million enrolled.
There are two hundred and ninety
three thousand teachers, to whom was
paid last year ninety-one millions of
dollars. Upwards of one-half of the
number Of teachers were women,
whose salaries are gradually getting
to figure near to the just proportion
of that of the male teachers. Why
man should receive one hundred dol
lars per month for the duty that wo-
man is required to perform for forty
or fifty dollars, is not comprehended
by the ordinary mind. While the
'colored population send eight hun
dred and three thousand of it's child
rem to school in the South, the whites
in the Southern States with double |
the number of school population send
only half as many more to school
There are eight thousand colored pu-
pills in normal schools, six thousand |
six hundred in academies, and two
thousand three hundred in colleges.
There are half million of students
pursuing studies above and beyond
the elementary schools. that is, the
higher branches Of education, and up
ward of twenty-three thousand min
listers, doctors, lawyers, and scientific
men emerge from the colleges every
year,with the doctors decidedly in the
ascendency. DIR. O'Donnell: minus
his sample lepers, has been here and
delivered his lecture on leprosy. 1t
turns out that the doctor is simply an
anti-Chinese emigration agent. dele
gated with authority to show up the
loathsomeness Of the disease and con-
sequently the dangers that beset us
from contact with the Chinese, who
seem to have the sole monopoly of
the infection. Whatever may be the
sentiment Of the general public upon
the Chinese question, there is no dis
putting the fact that it was not ready
to tolerate O'Donnell's lepers who
have thus far been kept in the back
ground and out of sight. The people
Of the far off Pacific coast who are
with Chinese invasion, can
hardly expect to find the same antip-
athy to the moon-eyed children of the
sun among the Eastern people, and
O'Donnell's Grand has only had the
:endency to enlist sympathy for peo-
pie who are the only people to dem
onstrate the existence of a purely