The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-20
las VIEWED AT WASHINGTON.
tBY G. A. EpwARps.)

Since the Peace Jubilee" fiasco the city
OF Washington has settled down to Its
usual dog day dullness. and 1t can get
duller here than in any place on the face
of the earth when 1t does get dull
Once In a while there is spasmodic
howl by the real estate shark and the
boarding house keeper for an extra ses-
sion OF congress and then the town set
Ties down and gasps for breath again
This city is sui generis; there is not an
other like It on the face OF the earth.
Since 1t was made the permanent seat OF
government 1t has been perpetual PEN
sioner on the bounty of the government
and the people who come here on business
with the government. It's revenues are
derived from salaries paid out by the gov
eminent. The golden stream poured into
its lap is steady one and always the
same size. 1t never feels the hard times
that are felt in other cities. Hence 1t Is
always cynical when 1t hears OF the suf-
ferings OF the poor. Banks may break and
factories may shut their doors all over the
country and these people, the hired hands
only know about 1t through the newspa-
pers. They never come in contact with it.
Consequently it has never done anything
for itself and never wlll-this city. l mean.
The sum total OF its enterprise is con-
fined to getting up peace jubilees" and
the inauguration festival every four years
and trying to rob the come ons." Out
side of an alleged brewery and a little
planning mill it has not a mandatory of
any kind. u IS the only town of 100000
people in the world that does not contain
a wholesale house In any line of industry.
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1t lives by the game of grab. and when
people refuse to come here and be
"maced" these boarding house experts and
real estate sharks get mad and cuss every
thing, including themselves. Out Of the
100000 people here over $4,000 are negroes,
and they are sassy and omnipresent at all
times and under all circumstances. They
crowd YOU out of the best seats in the
street cars and the theaters, and also
crowd YOU off the sidewalks. IL you hit
one of them and knock him down for his
insufferable impertinence, you are sent to
the work house or compelled to pay an
exorbltant fine. The city is run by three
commissioners appointed by,the president
and they are the supreme power and there
is no appeal from their decision These
three commissioners seem to be run by
the long haired men and short-halred wo-
men of the district, and they are eternally
camoring for the passage of blue laws to
hamper the Individual liberties Of the peo-
pie who come here either on business or
pleasure. This is the capital of the great
est Nation on the earth, and it is, there
fore, visited by the people from every
country on the globe and should be the
most cosmopolitan in the world. On the
contrary. 1t is the most provincial and
narrow gagged and narrow minded place
you ever got into. Instead of keeping
every place of amusement and refresh
ment omen at all times for the accommoda-
tlon of the people who come here for no
other purpose than sight seeing and amuse-
ment and frolic, they close everything up
tighter than Dicks hatband at IL o'clock
or Western man who is used to some per-
sonal liberty at home, is compelled to go
to bed or do worse.
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The population is made up of 'niggers."
boarding house keepers, real estate sharks
grafters and insolent offcialsm When
a man has spent four years in a govern
ment office he is untitled to earn a living
at anything else. He is used to sucking
pap and he will not get out and hustle
for beef. 1t pleases him better to lie
down in the middle of the road and starve
take notion to do so, 1t would nightly
please many of their acquaintance and
the country at large. The general gov
eminent paws half the taxes of the Dis
trlct of Columbia and these people ara
mad all the time because ii does not pay
the other halt They might be satisfied
If they were given access to the treasury
vaults and told to help themselves. but
an invitation that means less will never
satisfy them. 1t is worth a good salary
to have TO come UP here and live with
these people. especially during the dog
DAYS Now Is winter" of their discon-
tent. They have no congress to pluck
and they are too well acquainted with
each other TO try to steal from one an
other, And during the long hot days
when the asphalt melts and runs down
Capitol hill II is almost worth a mans
life to speak to one of the natives. No
wonder newspaper men come here from
out of the free, glad, hearted West
and are driven to the wine cup for solace
and comfort and all forgetfulness. Now. I
have nothing particular against this city.
but lust couldn't hold in any longer
and had to ease my mind by speaking
my piece and telling few truths about
1t or bust, ! feel better now.
We seem to be Up against ! good hard
game over in tho Philippines. With as
many troops as he has had for months.
General Otis is not able to more than de-
fend his restricted lines. which only in
clude Manila and its suburbs, His men