The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-15
SHILLING WASHINGTON.
Pleased at the Coming Change
of Administration.
AN EYE FOR BETTER LOCAL TRADE.
Rents Are Going Up, and So Are Cham
payne ard Terrapin the shopheepers
Are Happy at the Thought of Renewed
Business-A New PeacemalSer.

| little more than two weeks we shall have
a change of administration. ] violate no
confidence i'm saying that the change will
be welcomed by majority OF the people OF
| Washington This is Democratic city. as
one would expect from its geographical To-
cation. many of the inhabitants having
come hither from Virginia, Maryland and
other border or southern states. But Wash
ington always prefers u Republican adj
ministration There is no doubt about
this, and the fact is one of the anomalies
of life at the national capital The secret
of ii lies i'm business considerations There
is no better settled tradition of the capital
than that Republican administration
makes good times in the political center of
the nation. Why this is so il would not be
easy to explain, but all the business men
say it Is so, and we shall have TO take their
word for it. Republican officials bring
more money 10 the city, they declare. The
guests who come here during Republican
administrations spend more money. The
fitting population during n Republican
regime rents better class of houses, pays
more money TO the grocer, the florist, the
jeweler, the caterer, the wine merchant,
the carriage manufacturer, and so on, and
so on, than the same population does under
a Democratic regime These business men
must know what they are talking about.
Hard Times.
just now Washington is smiling in an
ticipation of four years of Republican
rule. Rents are going up a trifc. shop
keepers are appearing moro hopeful of the
future, unemployed People are thinking of
the glad days when they will receive wages
every Saturday night. For several years
the times have been hard in Washington
Ordinarily you would not think CONNER
cial depression would make much differ |
ence in a city like this There is little or
no manufacturing here Commercial |
houses are almost wholly for local trade |
The government is the great employer
Hard as the times have Eeen, notwithstand-
ing the number of closed factory doors and
reduced lists of employees i'm commercial
and other establishments throughout the
Uncle Sam has not neglected to
pay salaries, he has not cut off any en-
ployecs, lac has not thrown any one out of
work On the contrary, he has gradually
increased the number of his hands i'm the
great Departments here. and hundreds of
Jerks have been promoted TO higher rank
ana better Pay. Moreover, they have begun
10 feel the more security in their places on
account Of the spread of civil service no.
ions.
Yet the government clerks of Washing
.on have economical in their expenditures
lust as PEOPLE have economical everywhere.
Why they have done it don e suppose they
,ould themselves explain, but the fact re-
mains. 1t must lie sympathy. Social
writer's tell Us that when Period Of hard
lines strikes the country all classes Of REQ.
10 .fr,.. Il.
'essity for their doing so or not They do
t through sympathy, through timidity
which becomes contagious; they do it, not
because they have not plenty Of money.
out because they arc not making as large
profits as they once made This is an un-
fortunate tendency Of human nature, for
{ only serves to intensity the difficulty un-
Ter which the mass Of population labors in
a period Of industrial dullness. The true
patriot is the one who, having n surplus
N lank, is not afraid to spend it just as
he did in the better days
No Market For CanvasbacIss.
was talking tho other day with a mer-
chant who caters TO the fashionable trade
IN game, delicacies and wines. "You new
or saw anything like the dizziness that has |
come over cur trade during the last year or |
two of Mr. Clevelands second atministra
ton we could sell "a few barrels of terra.
pin. We did find market for canvas
backs, ard chamragros and other wines |
went Pretty freely. But CT late we have |
done nothing at I'll. 1 haven't sold but |
one order of terrarin il three months, and |
that was to you newspaper fellows for |
your annual dinner. Tho officials who |
used to buy wine ard ducks and terrarin |
have been cccnomizing ever since they saw
the Democratic parry wasn't going to get |
back into POWER That, you know Yves n
year ago. so far as the present officials are
They knew il Mr. Bryan won
they would have TO walk the plank just as
If Mr.. Mckinley was elected. So they
started in to try to save something out of
their salaries. 1t may have been a good
thing for them, this carly notice that they
had to make hay while the sun was shin
ing, but it was rough on our business"
Speaking of terrapin reminds me of
something Colonel Bill Sterrett said the
other day Colonel Bill is the brilliant
of Texas newspaper and
one of the wittest and most entertaining
men in Washington. when l came up
TO this here capital to live, he said, 81
didn't know anything about tcrrapin. l
had heard of it, but didn't take any stock
in eating mud turtles in order to get
glimpse of heaven.
A New Reform.
Il will ask congress for an appropria
ton of 500, 600. continued Colonel Ster-
rett. "and with this money l will rig up
tcrrapin train We will go through the
country from place to place, carrying with
us dining car well stocked with diamond
backs and with good old madeira to cook
them in. If riot breaks out among the
sans culotte Of Chicago, we will run out
there and feed the leaders on terrapin for
few days. 1t will break up the worst
riot that every was started and make social
reformers of all the men who get a taste
of It, III there Is too much lynching down
in my country, all we will have to do Is TO
run down there and put few doses Of ter
rapin In the ringleaders, and they will at
once become imbued with the divine prin
ciples of brotherly love. II the silver craze
gets to running too strong among my
friends out on the Kansas prairies, we will
N ioct fcrrap min into them IN uroror doceS