The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
THE LOBBY
Got $4,000 Out of the $4,000
Collected at the G. P.O.
AN INFAMOUS DISTINCTION
Honest Mechanics and Laborers Graded
Lower than The Negro CIert-The RepubII-
can Congress 10 Be Asked, Without the
Assistance Of Lobby 10 Place Tho White
LabOrsr on a Leve With The Negro Clerk

Assistance Of LObbI 10 Place The White
LabOrer on Level with Tho Negro Clerk
Two years ago the printers and
binders in the Government Printing
Office received an increase Of wages.
This was not accomplished without the
expenditure Of a large sum of money
to secure the influence and cooperation
of the third House." known as the
lobby" Hence an assessment was
levied on the employees to be benefited
by the legislation of $25 each. The to-
tai sum collected aggregated some
$4,000.
1t has now leaked out and the em-
ployes are mumbling it under their
mustaches (that is those who wear
such facial ornaments) that the lob.
by received for its services the sum
of $4,000, leaving a balance Of $4,000
to be accounted for. 1t appears, from
a communication which is here in.
serted that there is in contemplation
the leyying of another assessment to
sesure sick leave" legislation, and
some Of the bolder ones among the
5000 odd printers and binders are brac-
ing themselves for a vigorous kick.
Here is the communication,
WHO Cor THE DOODLE
EDITOR GLOBE;
When the printers and bookbinders
received an increase Of wages, about
two years since, the necessary 'legisla.
ton cost the G., p. o. printers and
bOokbinders S25 each, the sum aggre-
eating more than S30,0Os. 1t was al
legged by the three individuals who
handled the sum that $4,000 was nee
essary to FIX" the lobby at the Cap
itol; that is, to secure Congressional
legislation for an increase of pay for
the G.. p. o. cOmpOsitors and bookbind-
ers However, the "lobby" repUdiate
the assertion and say they only receiv-
cd $4,000 for their services, oue.third
Of the amount collected from the print.
ers and bOOkbinders. Probably Mr..
Oscar Ricketts, can inform the victims
how this money was located. In view
Of the fact that the lobby declare that
they received only $4,000, the print
ers and boOkbinders are anxious to
know of the remaining sum, $4,000.
Who got it? 1t is said that another
levy will be made on the G, p. o. en-
ployes to secure Sick leave" legisla-
tien when Congress meets, but they
will not consent to be plucked again.
A VICEM
Washington, d. G.
The writer sends ms name to The
Globe, and the same will be immedi.
ately forgotten for all intents and pur-
poses of Identification. No correspond.
ent need hesitate to send US his or her
name, as there is neither power in the
courts nor loose ammunition enough
in Washington to compel us to reveal
the same.
The Globe again respectfully directs
the Public Printers attention to this
species Of blackmail levied on help
less employees. If a measure has merit
and the granting of thirty days sick
leave to mechanics as well as to other
Government employees has undoubted-
ly such merit-where is the necessity
Of taxing employees and raising a cor
ruption fund for the parasites-male
and female-who infest the lobbies Of
both Houses?
If this is a Republic, and If an hon-
est mechanic, working for the Govern
ment is the equal of an honest clerk,
why this distinction of sick leave?
Does not this very distinction proclaim
the legal inferiomty Of a workingman.2
Can Congress refuse to place the
workingman on a legal equality with
the cOlOred or white clerk in the SER
vice of the Government, and thus by
it's refusal emphasize the inferiority OF
the laborer? And If it does, will the.
toilers of the Republic again elect
Republican-Imperialistic Congress to,
make class distinctions among equal
citizens?
This Infamous, impudent and bnpe-
rialistic outrage OIL denying to honor
able, honest mechanics and laborers-
citizens and peers as they are-the
same privileges accorded to the lately
enfranchised negro, If the latter hap
pens to be a clerk, makes the blood of
those who fought to preserve Slch a
Union boil in their veins We know
Of men who, sword in hand, led and
stormed the enemy's entrenchments,
now in the service of the Government
under the class title Of mechanics and
laborers. These men, by the bastard
class legislation Of our present mon.
dlNlllNdl anu SulNtl SeINlCt lOIu Oh
government are denied the privilege
granted to the slaves and the sons Of
slaves whom their valor made free
The collector who asks a mechanic
or laborer for a dollar to purchase a
lobby" that an act of common Justice
may be enacted by Congress should be
whipped naked through the streets OF
Washington.
If the Government mechanic and Ia
borer elects to be a slave and a tool
Of the Republican.Imperialistic party
let the dog wear a collar like other
dogs, and his name and number en-
grayed thereon; but let "a. who can not
and will not forget that they are
American citizens and peers OF not only
Congress but Of Mckinley and his
Cabinet, stand up for their rights like
men and domand, not beg, OF Congress
the legislation which place -.e em on
an equality with the negro clerk.