Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Brave Woman Who Would Teach
the Dependent Of Her Sex Prac-
tical Pursuits Of Life.
Randall Marshaling His Forces to Make
Fight for the speaksrship in
the Called Session.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1885 Char
lotte Smith, who devotes money and !
toll to the amelioration Of the woes Of |
her sex, has secured nearly an acre Of
ground in the immediate vicinity OF |
the capitol and would found poly |
technic school foriwomen, She would |
teach poor girls how TO set type AID |
manSge newspaper, how to use type
writers and telegraphic Instruments,
how TO wash and iron and how to
cook. She has made money and |
would instruct women In this art and |
how to rely upon themselves. She |
does not propose TO reform the fallen, |
but TO close the gateways TO per- |
dition. Charlotte Smith, by persist
ent effort, caused the establishment |
OF the bureau Of labor statistics. Her |
one-ideaism and earnestness In prose
cutting the task she has undertaken |
have given her well-dehned place |
among Washington "cranks;" but she !
Is none the less respected FIR her integ-
rity II conduct and character, and for
the vigor and zeal with which she pros
ecut,s her benevolent purposes -Four
and FIVE hundred women and girls are
now and then thrust out OF the Depart
ments Helpless, knowing nothing,
incaUable Of toll in any pursuit, many
OF them drift into Rbodes Of vice
or sell themselves TO adventures
in politics, or to others who lead lives
| Of idleness about the capital. Char
lotte Smith would intervene and find
skill and employment for those who
| prefer virtue 70 vice, and independence
/ 20 idleness and crime. Then she
/ would educate women for practical
pursuits, and invest them with the ca
! pacity To care for themselves as clerks
and trades-women. Three are four
| senators and many members Of the
! house confess keen interest In the con-
summation Of the purposes Of the Wig
orous, fearless Charlotte Smith, who
halls from st. Louis. q Guy
which boasts OF giving Esds and
Neavls 10 the whole country and
would now win renown through the
tolls and genius Of Charlotte Smith.
THE DIsINTEGRATiON OF PARTIES
Sam Randall is younger, stronger,
fresher and more YivaciOus, since he
| Went South, than ever before. He ia
ubiquitous. He sees more visitors at
the capitol than Sunset Cox and makes
more aud better speeches than auy
body except Cox and Wellborn He
participates IN every debate and Ia
doing more to cleave the Democratic
party In twain, In congress
and throughout the country. than any
body except his antlpode, Mr.. Mills of
Texas. IL there be q called sessi n,
and the necessities OF the rapidly
multiplied starving poor Will demand
1t, Randall will contest Carli-Ie's
claims for the speakership and then
the issue Will be made up, not only In
the house, but throughout the c0uu-
try, between tariff reformers and pro-
tectionlsts, The Republicans are fall
ing into the same ditch with the
Democracy. Every bddy knows that
The revenue codes Of the country. rap
idly transferring the whole wealth Of
the country TO the protected classes.
nave wrought all the woes OF the
masses OF the people. For twenty
years the tariff has been transferring
annually more than a thousand mil.
lions OF dollars from the purses OF the
poor to those of the rich, an this is ali
that protection, in It's last analysis,
means. Protection to laboru Il a
= RlRring lie accepted AS truth only Inv
dupea OF the protected classes. RenublI.
cans discover the fact in results Of
protection now contemplated with
alarm by thu rich, and confessed In this
widespread, pitiable poverty by toll
Ing multitudes. Sam Randall becomes
the great exponent OF protectionIst
Democrats and Republicans, while
Reagan, Carlisle, Mills, Wellborn.
Coke, and many Republicans, diyerge
towards free trade. That the reduction
OF the tariff, because OF the vast snms
required TO maintain the pensioned
ciasseo and the government, NAV he
wholly impossible, Randall Would
abolish the internal revenue system
and make whisky and To-
baeco free He wins here supporters
and thus marshals his forces 10 win
the speAkership.
, This conflict must come. The sooner
/ the better Lsboring men are com
binlng They begia to see how thev
! nave been robbed by nefarious codes
lnsltuted Ito protect % labor.u and
lhe storm eliminates next March
Cleveland will behold parlie- rem
! into fragments when he frat bpholda
the federal capitol.
And yet, an old Pennsylvanian rem.
ressentative Of protected coal and iron
said yesteTday--his name Is Curtin
that the people were never happier or
| the CON nfFy mora