The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-15
They VIII Have a Fine Opportunity
During the Coming Session.
THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF PICKINGs
10 Sight for Them Out Of the Numerous
Jobs Contemplated.
AGUINALDo SHOULD MOVE OVER HERE
He Would Find n Condition that
would Teach Him what Real
Civilization Is.

Washington, November 14.-tStaff Spe-
cial.)--The Credit Mobilier scandal and
the Pacific railroad steals OF the 7Os made
the noble art of lobbying at the National
capital somewhat innocuous for a time,
and it was revived with all it's glitter and
glare when the first Cleveland regime
was ushered in, Men who, up to that
time. had been unable to buy u postage
stamp, get a square meal or credit for
drink suddenly became plethoric with
money. Men of that stamp are plentiful
here You will see him one day with p
shiny shabby. genteel coat and the next
he viii be arrayed in toys of the latest
fashion and cut. He has just elongated
the pedal extremities of some man who
wanted to poke through rotten steal and
who was persuaded that this seedy gent
had a pull with the powers that be. This
Slng are already beginning to come in
on every train that reaches the National
capital, and from now on he will be in
evidence In every hotel and barroom in
this city, Ever since Cleveland started
the fashion by saying that public office is
q trust and then acting as all trusts do
this class has been on the Increase
Neither the great destroyer OF the demo-
cratic party nor any of his henchmen will
ever fetch up at the door of the poor
house. They carried out the trust idea
OF public office to perfection. But their
game does not compare with what went
on here during the Spanish American war
and It will not be marker to the ex-
plotation and loot that will reign SUI
Preme from now on.
The possibilities of the future for them
are almost iilimtabIe. VIII they rise to
the opportunity Well will duck
SWIM Absolute and unbridled power to
exploit and loot will be theirs for the
next four years. The people have given
Vt TO them and they think that IL is COM
Ing to them to act as the people have told
them they may. In the next four years
there will be more opportunities and
openings for the exercise OF industry and
energy. OF addition. division and silence"
than would patch mile There is the
Panama canal job that will yield some fat
picking. Then there are Gathmann guns
gun boats. Oklahoma land steals and other
games of grab too numerous to mention.
Every ex-member OF congress, ex-cabinet
officer. eX-doorkeeper, local attorney,
broker agent and what not will have
enough 10 work on this winter and the
coming session of the Fifty-fifth congress
10 keep them busy and with the full
knowledge that hard work means for them
riches beyond the dreams of avarice
blanche to do with II whatFrom now on
Fsem now on Washington will be wide
open like bootiack. Come tlp. turn lob
byist and get in the swim The money no
longer belongs to the people. They have
turned It over to the republican party and
with carte blanche to do with 1t as it
Dleases. Before the end the lust for loot
will become riot OF rapacity.
II Aguinaldo has any sense Of justicN
or fairness he will at once threw up his
hands and surrender and quit business
We have been told by the amiable presi-
dent and his henchmen that as soon as he
was reelected that the Tagai rebellion"
would stop with the suddenness OF fat
man falling down stairs. He does not
want to cast any reflection on the fore
sight OF the American people or on the
veracltv of the president and his crowd
He ought not to do so at any rate. He
knows now that he is gone coon. He
undoubtedly knows by this time that s
good round majority OF the American peo-
pie do not care two whoops in hades for
this old constitution or any idea that 1t
goes with the flag. We have gone into
the empire business permanently and the
turner's and the workingmen of this
country have decided that they will not
interfere With the natives OF any coun-
try except to loot them and kill them
unless they will stand and deliver. Now.
III he has any sense he will quit hghting
and come over acre and run for office. He
does not really have any idea what A
good thing he is missing by staying out
there in the swamps of Luzon instead OF
coming over and becoming a citizen OF this
grand country OF ours. This. the grand.
est country under the sun, foremost in the
es Of tine. tae land OF the free, the
home of the brave, a magnificent land OF
churches and 100000 licensed saloons.
Bibles, forts guns and houses of prayer
millonaires and paupers, theologians and
thieves. bertines and liars, Christians
and chain gangs, politicians and poverty
schools and prisons. trusts and tramps,
virtue and vice.
A splendid land where we make DO
logna sausage Of dogs and canned beef OF
sick cows and old mules and horses and
corpses of people who eat It; where we
put men in iai for not having means OF
support and on rock pile II he has no
jeb: where we have a congress OF nearly
400 men to make laws and supreme
court OF nine TO set them aside; whers
good whisky makes bad men and bad men
make good whisky; where newspapers