Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-07
Disappointed Presidential Candi-
dates Dig at the Newspapers.
And Plea That Women should Have
One-Half of the Offices.

ing ADDRESS, ana QOeS nOI alUOS6IueT SuS
gest the presence of briefs, musty law
books and faded hieroglyphics on yellow
parchment. Although womanly III APP
pearance, she is not entirely void of mas
culine proclivities, for there are under
currents in all her remarks which are
highly-havored with conceits and witty
sarcasms, that none but woman some
what masculine in thought could utter.
Many blows were delivered with rapid
and stunning effect at our social and
political systems in the national capital,
which caused many ripples of merriment
and applause from the audience.
A residence of
TWENTY YEARS IN WASHINGTON
Had convinced her that the national capt.
tai was to America what Jerusalem was
to the Jews and Alexandria to the Arabs
"a Mecca at whose shrine worshipped
the aspirants for spoils, and Offices that
would lead to their attainment; a para
disc as a social and political center; the
museum of mechanism and art; the
library OF the nation, aggregating SO 900
volumes; and a Congressional library
that contains more than twice that num-
Der. 1t was the great seat of learning Of
our day, civil, scientific and economic; a
cosmopolitan city, SO far as different
languages are concerned: and the abid-
ing place of that great tower of strength,
the Washington Monument, which COM
pares in grandeur with the tower Of Babel
and the leaning tower of Pisa.
She paid many high tributes to
AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND INVENTION,
And was under the impression that the
obstacles of time and space would be
annihilated in the future; higher per-
lection in the art of communication
would be established, and those obstacles
which we now deem insurmountable
would pale into insignifcance before the
light of scientific research and learning.
The colored race are well represented
at Washington, and fill many public
offices with credit to themselves and the
nation; but since they are the "bone of
contention" over which two great parties
are wrangling for possession, their posi-
ton is not an enviable one. AS the motto
of the colored race is upward and on
ward" it brings them within the bounds
of the worst high-toned Irish displeasure,
whose greatest boon in life consists in
holding Office, breaking political heads,
ard receiving pay for work they never do.
THE OFFICIALS AND CLERKS
Are spoken of as being barnacles on the
body polite, who spend all the money
they earn and all they can borrow from
their friends, their position being their
capital and stock-in-trade, and when they
lose it life has no further charms for
them. There is no man so depraved as
he who has no money, and though his
cause is just one he has no protective
friend in the government, for party lines
decide his fate ere he has time to change
his politics. Dethroned from office, he
hangs on to the skirts of his party, wait
ing for it to regain power; suffers penury
and want; lives in and hopes with an in
fatuation worthy of a better cause !;
spends his days hanging around the doors
of Congress, and his nights in garrets
and cheap restaurants.
With every change of administration
the hue and cry is to 'turn the rascals
out" and though the new administration
has its full measure of corruption, and a
free use of it was necessary to obtain the
reins of government, that is all forgotten
or quietly hushed for the time.
The lecturer gave special stress to
THE IRREPREssIBLE NEWSPAPER MAN,
Giving him credit for knowing what peo-
pie were going to say ere they uttered a
word. With nimble fingers he prepares
speeches for Congressman; the menu for
public and private banquets; toilets for
society ladies, and gems of wit to fall
from their lips; and elaborate bits of
scandal and gossip were originated in his
own busy brain.
+ Washington is church-going city, and
the Sabbath is generally viewed with
President attends necessarily having the
largest attendance and highest pew rents.
Ours is great and powerful nation,
and instead of locking up the public
wealth we should throw it into the hands
of the people by giving them employ
ment. Our legislators have made some
great mistakes in not passing bills for the
relief of the deserving soldiers who were
entitled to pensions, from having served
in the Mexican war, and now that there
are so few of them, and they are on the
"down hill side of life," they should be
relieved. There is more money spent in
the Pension Bureau to keep a few unde-
serving out than would be paid to them
if their claims were recognized. Ii some
of our public money was spent in
RECLAIMING OUR NAVY
From the insignifcance in which it has
fallen, and in making lasting improve
ments in the way of absorbing the pres
ent monopolies and making government
enterprises of them it would be comforting
an inestimable service upon the people
If women were the legislators there
would be a howl set up from one end of
the country to the other, and it would be
81 told you So" but men can hob-nob
and watch each other and do nothing
without mourning the disgrace woman
would in the same position. Women
should get one-half the postoffices of the
country, and with 10000 women in the
Postoffice Department we could expect TO
GET THE NEWS LIVELY
There is only one case on record of a
Republican postmistress getting the best
ofthe Democratic administration and that
was by marrying her Democratic success
or. Women make the most successful
lobbyists, for they make complete study
of the weaknesses of those they intend to
NOKh, anu ny the prONerDlal weakness
of her sex cause men TO lose their guard
and favor enterprises which their sober
judgment condemns.
When a woman sets her mind on GER
tain object she hardly ever changes her
opinion, but man will use every posi-
BILE subterfuge to keep his position, and
readily changes from a Republican to
partisan Democrat. Almost every stage
of human existence is represented in the
ranks of office-seekers; men who have
failed in business; doctors without pa
tents lawyers without clients, and news
paper men without subscribers.
THE CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE,
AS the world advances in knowledge be-