Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-12-17
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ROCKVILLE, MD
Friday Morning. -. December II, 1885,
HER FUNERAL.


spotless robe of snow everywhere shining
in the sun and blue in the shadow, with
here and there groups Of evergreens and
cedars. The streets and pavements had
been cleared and great piles of snow
were banked along the edges, which was
spattered from the continuous passing OF
vehicles and the sweepings OF residences
and places of business Doubtless, it was
big day for that portion Of society which
recognizes but disowns. The piece of clay
which was returned to the earth was but a
short time before full of life and animation
under the brilliant jets Of one Of those gor-
geOus and palatial houses of sin and shame
where few short years of degraded SEN
suality is sure to be followed by death of
misery and woe. Doubtless it was decked
for the grave as attractively as the art Of
the draper, the undertaken and the florist
could make it. Doubtless pure white en-
circled it, and in its folded and soiled hands
delicate buds had been placed, but they
withered and fell as though they had been
touched by the breath of the Upas tree.
Perhaps there was preacher present, a
long string Of carriages, men and women
dressed in faultless style, a sad scene at the
grave-after which probably there ives
wine supper and dance in one Of those
gilded halls in which, under the artistic
mingling of color, the rich wines and the
dreamy perfumes, the studied woman weaves
her threads OF dishonor and ruin
As u general rule when these unfortunate
and SHINING women pass TO the grave there
is no one to mourn, unless 1t be some shame
faced relative has been induced to perform
the last service tor the dead. They go down
to that degradation from which even death
cannot raise them, and to which no sister
in vice who is able to assist will follow
them either with sympathy or humanity
This fate is before them continually, aud
whether it comes early or late, come it
usually does. 1t is natural, therefore, that
in the sudden and dramatic taking OFF oi u
creature like her who was buried that her
sisterhood should manifest profound inter
est, and endeavor by all the devices known
TO their prodigal natures to make her inter
ment an event to be remembered. What
ever else the world may say of her, her as
sociates, resplendent in sealskins and silks
and diamonds, and perfumed with sickly
exotics, proclaimed to the public that she
had u funeral that was "a bang affair"
1t is only on occasions like this that the
neither life of large city, feeling itself ex-
posed to the rather critical and curious pub
lie gaze, deems it expedient to make dis
play of what it can do. Pitiful as the ex-
hibition was, hollow as such demonstra-
tons necessarily are, no one need forget
that the woman who was buried received
these post-mortem honors more as defiance
OF society than as a human being whom any
body cared for. Her death and burial served
as an advertisement The pomp and glitter
OF the funeral were calculated In dollars and
cents that it would bring to some ones
purse. The sentimental will grieve little,
the lost and abandoned will enter into it as
a matter of business.
Had this unfortunate and ruined woman
lived long enough to run her course of de.
PRAYED sensuality and then died or been
killed in some vulgar dive where no police
or journalistic sensation could have been
manifested, she would have been placed in
pine box and buried by the city autheri
ties in the potters field without a seaskin
sacque or diamond within mile Of her
where the voice of prayer is never heard
where the tear OF pity never falls-where
flowers are never seen, and where the birds
never alight to sing.
REDUCING GENERAL TAXATION
On reading the earnest appeals of the
President and Secretary Manning for a re.
duction of taxation it may strike some peo-
pie as peculiar that words should need to
be multiplied to induce Congress to perform
duty at once obvious and beneficial. If
the taxes are too high for the needs OF the
government, bringing in more money than
can be honestly and judiciously expended,
why should they not be reduced?
Because many of these taxes have been laid
for the double purpose of putting some
money into the treasury and great deal
more into the pocket of favored rings and
combinations. Vast businesses have sprung
up under this system, and TO the extent that
they depend upon il for their profits they
are as much a public burden as the same
number of poor houses and similar institu-
tons They resist the reduction of taxation
because it would cut down their profits and
necessitate the employment in their enter
prises of the same sagacity which is 10 be
found in the management Of all industries
which have not been leeches on the people
Always ready to have taxes increased, these
interests are never prepared to have them
reduced. 1t thus happens that class ap.
pears in country which should have no
classes, and that while the mas Of the pso-
pie favor low taxes small element is &C.
lually benefited by high taxes,
When heavy tax is laid upon an article
OF manufacture, which must be paid by the
producer and afterwards collected from the
consumer, the business calls for large CAPT
tai, and men with small means are practi-
caliy debarred from engaging in it. 1t con-
sequently becomes to the interest of the
wealthy manufacturer to resist all attempts
To reduce the taxation upon the article
which he produces, because with lower
taxes or no taxes at all, competition is sure
10 be formidable.
The resistance to the reduction of tariff
taxation is inspired by the comparatively few
men who profit by itand whose businesses
are adjusted to it. II is frem them that all
the twaddle about pauper labor emanates,
aud they are the people who, by the liberal
use of money in politics and elsewhere, have
built up a school Of so-called economists
who argue that tariffs are not taxes, or that,
il they are, they make the people who pay
them rich.
II was notable incident Of the tariff de-