The Sunday globe., 1901-07-14
NICE PROSPERITY !
Working Men and Horses for their
Bare Feed.
GOVERNMENT PRICE TO TOILERS
The Old Henry Ward BeeOher Compensation Of
One Dollar Oay-Ou Prosperity Admins
lion as ESempIited in the Wages Paid 10
TOerS In this District - Foreigners and
Others Living In Clover.

ing from his rOOst in Canton the polit-
ical moves in the chess board Of State
politics. He and his representatives
are busily engaged assuring the old
soldiers, who intend to "hy the coop"
this fall, and vote for Colonel Kill
bourne, that the Administration gives
them the preference in public employ
ments, and that the country was never
before so prosperous. But neither Mr..
mckinley, Mark Hanna or Charley
Grosvenor dare deny the charges of
the Sunday Globe, that old soldiers
have been discharged from their posi-
tions, reduced in salary, and that doz-
ems of them walk the streets Of Wash
ington in idleness, unable to secure en-
ployment, although fully qualified to
fill clerical and other positions now
held by drones or foreigners, like
for instance, "Glue Pot" Smythe, in
the Union Building, G. P. o., and "Dia-
mond" Park, each of whom do abso.
lutely less than two hours work each
day for their S5 per diem compensa-
ton. Mr.. Park wears diamonds on his
digits and in his shirt bosom, and
looks more like a millionaire than a
Government employe. A ten-year-old
schoOlbOy would dte for want Of eXer.
else in only performing the labors Mr..
Park is called upon to do each day. Yet
there are old soldiers walking the
streets of Washington, with families
to support who can not get a Govern
ment Job Of So per diem, much less the
S5 a day paid to Glue Pot Smythe,
the Scotchman, and diamond" Park,
the millionaire.
In this Government Of prosperity
and foreign appointment clerks, chiefs
and cabinet officers, one would think
that a native-born American working
man or old soldier might at least Sc
cure enough of the crumbs to keep
himself and family from want But
such is not the case, for, besides the
old soldiers whom we know to be in a
state of semi starvation, there are hun
dreds Of hard-working heads of fam
lilies in Washington living, God knows
how, on the pittance paid them for
their labor by District government,
the heads of which receive $40 per
uem each and any extras lying around
loose,
Laborers are employed under this
Prosperity Administration whose com
pensation averages 81 a day-the late
Henry Ward Beecher's maximum COM
pensation for a workingmaR. Think
Of the bald hypocrisy Of the Hanna
Mckinley monopolistic Administration,
going up and down the land proclaim
ing prosperity" when the laborers OF
the Government are compelled to work
for 81 per day!
Nay; worse than that. The District
government pays for a man, a horse
and cart S1.6O per day. Take a man
with a wife and family who is compel
led to furnish a horse and cart and his
own labor in filling said cart and pay
him SLIGO to support himself, family
and horse, we mildly ask the McKin-
ley strikers where is the prosperity"
so much harped upon from every sub
sidized organ and high-salaried for
eigner in the service Of the Hanna
Mckinley Administration?
one dollar and sixty cents per day
paid by the Government ot the united
states 10 JoIler Ior MS own labor
ana tnaU OF his horse Is less tnan any
European works Tor on his native
hearth, other things being considered,
sucn as the cost oil living, climate, etc.
Leaving out altogether the DaCI mat
TINS is a people 5 government, supposed
TO De conducted in the interests oI the
WA0le people, including the uolllng
classes. Here we have a Scotch clue
POt foreigner, ana dlamOnd-Stud-
deu exquisite sitting where lne breeze
Oh the electric tan Will strike the backs
Oh tnelr ueCks, drawing 81 per alem
Wnlle out III the man ana morse hlllng
sun we have tolnng citizens Worklns
Tor the same Government at an aver
age OF 81 per day and w cents per day
Tor their horses! Besides, we have
Old soluIers who fought TO preserve
such Government tramplng the
streets, and II they are tamlless,
Lrudglng To the Soldiers Homes, which
are fast becoming worse than the or
ulnary poor-houses or warehouses OF
Northern States. And still we hear
the cry OF prosperity from every
blatant Administration striker and
from every imported foreigner WHO Is
either appointment clerk Of the war,
Agricultural or other Department OF
the Government.
Three dollars and twenty-five cents
per day is paid by the District or L. 5.
Of Washington for a man,
two horses and a wagon on District
work. Here we have a man who Is
compelled to own and feed and care
for two horses besides MS own labor
receiving as compensation little over
N.,I
Glue Pot Smythe or Diamond Park
for sitting in the shade in the Union
And Smythe and Park are
bu. types Of hundreds, nay, thousands
of Government oftice-holders, who en-
10y these snaps while the industrious
toiler who renders honest service to
the Government must either starYe
himself and family or his horses to
make both ends meet and keep an
humble roof over his head.
In this alleged peoples govern
ment we have three Commissioners
lally- -gagging," tilted back in their
chairs under cooling fans, who receive
for their services CD as much per day
as another American citizen, his horse,
cart and labor receive for a whole
weeks toll The idea Of the boasted
richest Government on earth" paying
SLIGO per day to an honest toiler for
the labor Of himself and the horse he
must own and feed ought of itself to
induce the very stones of " ashing-
ton to mutiny" and when, in addition,
the insult is rubbed in on him by we'll
paid Administration strikers" subsi-
ulzed newspapers and imported for
eigners, who fill the principal Offices Of
the Government that I'VE are enjoying
an uneXampled era of prosperity under
lue benign administration Of William
the wonder grows that
some such scenes as the Boston harbor
tea matinee is not duplicated in every
city and hamlet in the country as a