The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
mil Winter at the National
\ Capital
rup ORDINARY CONGRESSMAN
eo,,.1istIo Leaven that is Now
Inc working Throughout the
Country.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 1885
90 of THE HERALD

vyinter has uoI D0Oii
'tI,v, for many years. Were it not for
ne No onticipations of February 81, and OF
LII, ~. 18th those accustomed to the ex-
' '.an,ert of capital life, yet outside OF
.hsnaIes of the upper-ten social circles
Md find life almost unbearable. The
.,foI wheel and the amusement buzz
are in a constant whirr, No
hnman being IS equaltO taking in all the
.ociaI gatherings, and could not think
- entertaining all the propositions for
.nnsemept that money affords. There
40 M less that eight theatres, or halls
= vbicb entertainments of theatrical
character are held six days each week
md si1 of this number are regularly
o-osnized theatres, three of them giving
tTo performances every day-Sunday
srcepted. There are an average of
.jpbt to ten balls nightly, perhaps two
To four concerts and two lectures
Then there are church gathe rings,
Christian Association meetings, temper
snce conventions, the meetings of de-
hating and literary societies, and politi-
cal assemblages. Andsso it goes or ad
;afnitun; and yet in the midst of this
~rernetuaI amusement convulsion, with
entertainment for man and beast, of
every variety, suited to every taste and
all coIors, it is possible for person to
get WoefullY lonesome. If a fellow had
all the money in the world, and was suf-
fering for amusement and was satisfied
with ease or with difficulty, he would
often be driven next door to distraction
to decide which of the many amuSe-
ments offered he would perfer.
With all the advantages Washington
possesses, social and educational, not
outstanding the fact that the brightest
and weightiest in the land gather here
one is not distressed with the superflu-
GUS intelligence floating around, nor
with the overpoWering evidences of
honesty and probity. Private
characters are anything but safe from
private assault The fact that man is
amember of Congress. which ordinarily
would, and which ever should be the
best evidences of a mans integrity and
patriotism, is fast becoming a brand,
and an intimation that the Individual
sporting NJ. q. as an appendix to his
name is triekster, a liar, and a charla-
tan in proportion to the amount of
ability with which nature has endowed
him. Nor is the fact that a person is an
NJ. c.. any evidence of brains. It is a
notorious fact that an ininetesinal
proportion Of the men who are in the
House of Representatives do any work.
The others are no use whatever, save
toyote, swell around and draw their
salaries. Such thing as taking part in
any honest legislation is rarely dreamed
Of. 1t is Of as little moment that a man
should be accused of working not for
his constituent nor for needed legisla-
uGn' but for reelection. Men joke each
ether about 1t, and where they are near
~ all moral conVictS, and where honor
attaches more to the place and to the
i9an because OF the place rather than to
Iae man himself and to his conduct in
NE With the Senate it is better in
some respects, and far worse in others.
II Is accepted as a self-evident, or a
thoroughly established fact that the
ognaIe VIII never pass any measure
whlcn; construed in any light, might
n Possibly menace a corporation or
monopoly. Brains nor honesty nor
1 epu count for anything; if a
nan nan mas money, he can be a United
hrs.es senator, and protect all the in
u releSIs Of rings and oFthe aggregated op-
PaGSSO[S OF poor and hard-workinp
Anu n Sulerlng community. AS in the
tHto!use' tlere are men conspicuous for
s glelF patriotism and love of right. Int
W a,s 1acI mat men absolutely worthless
s. legislators, notoriously corrnnf as
uuahelers, the certain friends IF ali
menf pOiLeS, the enemy Of every move
men Non Cslculated to help the working
tbs thai fH VI 10 grasp by the throat some. of
sprb , roal olood-suckers, the fact that
Pain n llei can, by the power of money,
Of of' IN spSEsltlonS that should be evidences
talk ' etasa and moral superiority
Is anS = Iale Of national degradation that
reyers siiiis but pleasant for one who
preeisf,As american Institutions and ap-
which tS.the glorious opportunities
anijntLey afford for the honest labor
Tb a'Tillslc merit. 49,
peonIe MatailSeatlons are that the pious
sompfbin4e United States will have
10 eTarc;sss besides the Mormon people
Itbas use themselves with ere long.
socialists Vpuisriy been supposed that
could a. nihilists and dynamiters
couDtrl VT in no held for their labors in a
are st,;I.i IKE the United States. There
is Soon 5nilg evidences that this illusion
Wbsrern summarily to be disneIIed
and eo orel one class has the financial
otbeSs ornamental advantage over fba
man mere you will find deSna a &c &c
ian5 m In Russia, in Germany ~ Tre se
the dOos' u os us OF the poor are laid at
countrios c Vi government, for in these
which Ii,ssooF eSir,nment recognizes a caste
lfe-blood 81 !. IKE the vampire, on the
the capit.S +. Inc poor. In America it is
human ' moI, the unprincipled and in
poor. GoS,.nopollst that brushes the
formal ofic s;a.IInent, while it gives no
favored cast4 recognition of such a
Spoken fr SeSe Is nevertheless the out
Hed robboselna Of every form of organ
ere calenJatss, OF the poor. Any meas
o. this mo r.Su 70 curtail the ADVANTAGES
house Of paeyed class, is paved nv fine
Utmost difsoppI5esentatiyes only with the
gan Inter.Stsstedlt -as witness the Rea-
De killed by' ' a. Commerce bill-orIv fo
Rent the GS,o sliat powerful arm of govern.
against announced friend of m9ne " a. !.
Senate afHG y and honest labor he
laaets are 60 she United States Tbeee
Character o3 notorious. the nnvo-thS S
such conlrD NJ men called to legisiate is y
rom LIN ~ fame, that If iS sA hsn Il y
Haze Hade the snb iP, oy every newspaper j,