The Irish standard., 1900-06-02

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answered "that they could not vote the
peoples money to be appropriated to
any sectarian institution" and they stat
ed that it would be more economical to
establish a board OF charities in the Dis
trict to look after these orphans, where
they could be brought up without any
religious or UNCONVENTIONAL training.
Mr.. Herbert Lewis was brought here
from Detroit, Mich, the home OF the A.
p. AS. His abilities fer administrative
reform and economical management
were heralded with a flourish of trum-
pets, and he was installed as superin-
tendent of charities, with a, salary of
$500 to start on. We very soon find
him in an expensive office, and corps
of clerks and assistants, inside and out
side, and it was shown yesterday in the
senate by Mi. Vest (see page so7S Cong.
Record, May 15) that it costs MIR. Lewis
OH the average of $112 for the nlainte-
nance of each orphan, while the good
Sisters of St. Joseph's used TO clothe,
feed and educate their orphans at an
expense of $1S per year. Your readers
can very easily see that the Sisters could
do more in their orphanages for $18 a
year than Lewis and his gang could do
for $1oo. The Sisters receive no salary
or compensation other than they expect
to receive in the next world; but Lewis
and his aids use at least 90. cents out OF
every dollar, while the other ten cents
go to clotlle, feed and educate the
wards of the nation!
This is question which should inter
est the people throughout the United
States, as they have to pay one-llalf Of
the taxes of the District of Columbia,
for the reason that the United States
owns one-half of the property in the
District, and, therefore, is assessed one
half the taxes.
I am not making any charge OF dis
honesty against Mr.. Herbert Lewis or
his assistants. These officials are here
under the lynx-cyed citizens; they are
not in Cuba. But, despite our keen
watchfulness, the intolerant bigots,
most of whom are Republicans whom
helped to elect by my voies. on the
stump, and my pen in thc press, have
got i'll their work and carried their
point. Would that l could WELD the
pen of Dickens to show up their hypo-
crisy and their "Dotheboy's Halls" I"
where the cries of the half-starved neg
lected orphans have awakened the SYM
pathies of the neighbors in many locali-
ties, so that protests and complaints
have been sent in to the authorities on
account of the noise and pteous wall
ing, almost amounting to nuisance,
disturbing the sleep and quiet OF the
neighborhood where some of these in
stitutions are located. This is notably
the case with respect to the Washing
ton Hospital for Foundlings, situated
at No. 1715 Fifteenth street N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
In his speech as reported in the Con-
gressional Record Senator Vest referred
to Lewis as follows:
When Mr.. Herbert Lewis name was
before the senate for confirmation as
superintendent of the board of chill
dren's guardians, opposed it, for had
reason to believe from information Civ
cn to me that he was utterly opposed
to anything that had the name of Catlo-
lie or the flavor of Catholicism about it.
Take his reports, and you can read be-
tween the lines that he is a fanatic.
am told that he is honest l have no
doubt of it. There never was fanatic
yet who was not honest, and they have
poured out more blood in the history
OF the world than everybody else put
together. There is no doubt the Mo-
.f1ammedans are honest, one OF whom is
so vividly described in the Fire Wor-
Shippers as
One OF that sanity murdcrous blood,
To slaughter and the Koran given,
Who thinks through unbelicvers' blood
Lies the directest road to Heaven.
The world is full of such people.
They may not have swords in their
hands, but they have them in their
hearts, and they are honest They be-
lieve that the way to save sinners is to
take the Bible in one hand and the scim-
cter in the other. If not the Bible, to
take the Koran. I do not sympathize
with that sort of thing.
Now, take his reports. There is not
one of them in which you cannot read
between the lines tile animus that in
spires him in all this work. He discov-
crs cross, crucifix, an altar for say
ing mass, and he seems to regard it as
a sort of treason against the United
States. He seems to think that he has
discovered nest OF scorpions plotting
against the government in secret. I do
not attack this man personally. l am
talking of his official report, Of his off
cial action, as he has right to talk
OF mine
According to report by the Bureau
of Statistics in Washington there were
in the United States in 1900 more thar