Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-08-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[rrom onr Regnlnr correspondenl.l

from Our hegnlhr COfrospOndcut.l
WAsnINGToN, d. G., Augusi 1S, 1884.
Between Ben Butler, the bctc noiy OF pol
iticians, and Steve Elkins, the Titanic
dispenser Of "soap," the present campaign
promises to reach the bottom Of the de.
pravity that attaches to our political aye
TEN. Not only are offices md high polit.
ical positions made the objects of bargain
and transfer, but pledges are made that
huge Congressional jobs, in aid Of railroad
and other corporate monopolies, shall be
put through ns y reward for the inicrces-
sion of these powerful influences. Jay
Gould could we'll ailo,d TO put n hundred
thousand dollars in the Indiana contest
four years ngo, because lie got it back in
ten fold ratio in The friendly legislation
that followed, AMI the Republican party
took Stanley Matthews and put him upon
the bench Of the highest court in the Uni
ted States to look after Jay Goulds inter
esls besides. 1t IL this kind of "boodle"
that is running the present campaign, for
what amount oi potency would there he in
the rnl,ry contributions wrung from the
Government employees?
One of the most interesting and instruc-
tive Of the departmental reports is that
proceeding from the Commissioner OF Edo
ucation. Tho volume embraces eleven
hundred pages, and exhausts the subject
of education in America so far as the sta
lisics are concerned. With school pop
ulation OF sixteen million in the country,
there are six million who attend school
out OF the ten million enrolled. There are
two hundred aud ninety three thousand
teachers, TO whom was paid last year
nnety-one millions OF dollars Upwards
of one-half OF the number of teachers were
women, whose salaries are gradually get
ting to figure near to the just proper
tion of that OF the male teachers. Why a
man should receive one hundred dollars
per month for the duty that ii woman is
required to perform for forty or fifty dol
lars, is not comprehended by the ordinary
mind. While the colored population send
eight hundred and three thousand of It's
children 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 urt
eight thousand colored pupils in norma
schools, six thousand six hundred in acad
J emies, and two thousand three hundred
in colleges. There are half million o
| All, ,Ja,,Io pu otnIipa ahnvn upH hp-
yond the elementary schools, that is, th,
, higher branches of education, and upward
of twenty-three thousand ministers, doc
tors, lawyers, and scientific men emerg'
from the colleges every year, with tn,
doctors decidedly IN the ascendency.
Dr. O'Donnell, minus his sample lepers
has been here and delivered his lecture oil
, leprosy. 1t turns out that the doctor il
, simply an anti-Chinese emigration agent
delegated with authority TO show up th
, loathsomeness of the disease and conse
quenlly the dangers that beset ns iron
, contact with the Chinese, who seem to hav
e the sole monopoly of the infection. What
| ever may be the sentiment of the genera
l public upon the Chinese question, there
J. no dispuling the fact that il was no
ready 10 tolerate O'Donnell's lepers VIII
have thus far been kept in the back
ground and out OF sight. The people c
o. the far off Pacific cost who are threatene
o with Chinese invasion, can hardly expee
u to find the same antipathy to the moo
e eyed children of the sun among the Easter
h people, and O'Donnell's errand has onl
had The tendency TO enlist sympathy for
people who are the only people TO demon
strate the existence of purely scrip
!. tural disease, whose loathsomeness is MOI
= imaginary than real
The horrible part of the Greely Art
business has come to light in the recili
: of the sufferings by starvation and IL
lie dreadful resort 10 cannibalsm. We has
10 therefore the reason for the recovery
but IL of the 1S bodies of those who die
- upon the frightful shore of Cape Sabi'
m The other seven were thus enabled TO su
he tam life long enongh TO greet the rescuiI
10 party. For this hideous chapter of Il
10 Greedy expedition there is grave respons
10 biity resting somewhere, and the Mo
II. proper place for il is the Sisnal Ofit
- whose chief officer, Gen. Hnzen, has exhi
ia tied either consummate ignorance al
n imbeGility, or 3 total disregard of 4
nj teachings or impulses of n common hun
n. anity. Had lie established provision d
pots at the points designated by LIE
Greely, and in accordance with the explit
promise that he made to so establish the
this horror would have been entirely avoi
ed. But Hazen like many another arI
oil officer before him, became so profound
at impressed with his superior knowledge
IL the Artic country and the necessities
!. its explorers, that he left at single po
900 ratlons Tor starving and ice bele'
I'd. ured crew, and brought home 10000 l
ell. tions that should have been dsribul
hs along the shore of Smiths Sound as h
"@ been Faithfully promised. Is such a m
M as this fiji to hold such a position
longer? Dom PEDRO