The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
CORRESPOND DEN CE.
WAsHINGToN, MAY -, 1897.

WAsHINGToN, May -, 1897.
DEAR ENQrIRER:-The New Workers.
who think money will buy virtue and
have no conception of such thing as
sentiment or feeling, have had the imru-
dence to express w sh that Was hin gtons
bones be removed from Mt Vernon to
New York. That city was the place for
Grants tomb not only because he wished
it to be there but because that was
his bona tde home in his last years when
he did business as Wall street banker
But let WashingtO remain in the sacred
soil of old Virginia. hallowed with so
many dear associations and traditions.
1t is fit and becoming to his life that
w ASKING ton should rest in the quiet spot
by the fair Potomac and it is fitting that
Grant should rest in feversh, money get
ting New York.
Speaking of Grant, while it is proper for
all to honor his memory, there is much
folly in the fulsome adulation that is ac-
corded him by the orators and news pa
pers. Grant was not the General that
Thomas was: he was exalted by others OF
his side, and he was no match III all for
Lee. He only knew, and acted on the
principle that he was bound to win in the
end if he could kill one and lose thr, e.
This was correct calculation and Grant
was the man to carry out his bloody pc Icy.
The Civil Service law is being kicked
OH, Il h,f nf
school boys. In some quarters no attcnt on
is paid to it at all The pressure Of the
spokesman is too hard to be resisted and
the poor G.. $. Commission is now an oil
iect of pity or ridicule. The work of tax
ing off Democratic heads has opened up
finely and promises to spread widely.
By far the greater number of office hold
ers in the Departments here are gold bugs,
but that will not save them from the axe.
The diSgraccful scene of army officers
listicutting on dress parade and thea gong
before court to damn the cht.a:.cr OF
woman is spectacle tn 1t could never
by any possibility happen in Europe. TIL"
'scrapers" should have gone on the field
and settled it with deadly weapons and
saved all scandal about woman's name.
That is the way it would have been done
by army officers across the water and afore
time in this country.
Clevlands posing for third term is
one of the ridiculous things. His going
to Jersey to live was sharp trick. He
knew he would be turned down with en-
phasis by the Democracy of New York,
and so he turned aside in the parts of Jer-
sey. The Democrats, with Tammany at
it's head and Is to the watchword, will
carry York CITY over those who are put
ting the people to end of loss and trouble
| in order to carry out their blue law sump
tuary notions.
1t is painful to reflect that nothing but
dollars and cents will move our govern
| ment to interfere in behalf of the Cubans
| who are masSacred without regard to age
and sex And the dollars are not on the
| side of humanity and the L. S. Govern
| ment swags its weight where the dollars
are.
Some Englishman for a pretty msde
meanor was sent down to the farm by the
police justice here. Upon complaint by
| him, his case was thor oughly investigated
| by the British authorities and it was found
that he had had a fair trial and was
punished by law. Would the U. S. do
this? Nit.
There can be no doubt that Prince
Georges is Democratic county when
| the people vote their honest sentiments.
How could it be otherwise when it is a
purely farming region and when the Re-
publican tariff will prove such burden
some tax upon them and the Y will be re-
quired to pay this tax on "a constantly de-
Ginning scale Of prices for products and in
| currency which is growing dcarcr all ssthe
time.
The elections this fall will be of more
than ordinary interest in Maryland as in
deXing the result when members of the
Assembly come to be elected
KEwIs.