The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-07-20
roT A VICIOUS CITY.
lexington Compares F%avorably
,.h Other American Towns.
-c,osing Laws Are Obnerved
'.u Classes of so~ciety-A Hint
,or citizens Who Love to
sign Petitions.
-snoc,al washington letter.

&c the undivided opinion of ex-
nsrienced army officers that the
lPonteen should never have been
way from army posts. Their
tah'h was not listened to before the
opLH wos passed abolishing the can
law and now their views are even
es-s pronounced, because OF existing
ambitions in the army
An officer on the staff of the adjutant
81 recently said: "Gen. Corbin
e' nld never dream of telling any
,obool-teacher how to manage a pubic
'ohool. He would never think OF tell
inc a preacher how to manage his
,rcb' or how to preach. He would
- offer to instruct a superior Or
-s,ist how to drill a choir. He would
81 he so absurd as to offer to act as
.nrgeon in place of the surgeon gen.
up Rut he knows how to manage
A. army. because that has been his
vta business. But the good preachers
.rd wel-meaning temperance work
who know absolutely nothing
.hout army life and its environments
..rdI, undertook to abolish the army
..nteeu. and they succeeded"
# is singular and gratifying to no
.os what interest the people of the
.ountrv take, not only in the army,
bnt in the citizens of their national
sopital. The petitions which they have
.srt here to be used before congress
tor the total prohibition of the sale OF
,ouor in the District of Columbia
would probably measure a cord, or a
cord and a half, if stacked up appro-
priately.
There is one fact about Washington
that should be noted-there is no 9TH
,r city in the country which is so wide
". so thoroughly advertised and com
mented upon. Here are 200 newspaper
correspondents watching everything,
commenting upon everything; and
Washington is more closely watched in
newspaper way than any other city
Of the country. There is no city IN
which the laws are more strictly OBJ
served; and the police court reports
will bear out the statement that there
Is no better regulated city than this
On account of the general publicity
given to every little occurrence out OF
the ordinary line, and the exaggera-
ton of events through partisan CORE
spondents. an idea obtains in some
quarters that this is a very bad city,
and that there is a great deal of wrong
doing. At the same time it is true
that our local government is as good
as that of any other city, and in nc
other city are the laws better enforced
or better observed. The only people
who break the laws are people who are
sent here by constituencies in districts
remote from the capital of the ma
lion.
Recently along petition came in from
citizens of Cincinnati praying for tota
prohibition in the District of Colum
bia. This petition came from a towr
In which Sunday is celebrated as a holi
day, with all the theaters open, a mat
lnee performance given in the after
noon, evening performances, baseball
games, and so on. This seems to com
with poor grace to a city in whicl
Sunday is observed more r%eligiousl.
than it is anywhere else. Sunday her
lisa day of absolute quiet and rest. No
a public resort of any description
open to the people on a Sunday, eS
ceut the churches and the hotels.
Another peculiar phase of the in
terest felt by the nation at large i
the welfare of the District of Colun
bia is shown in the piles of petition
that come in from various parts of tn
country, especially New York and Ne'
Jersey, praying for the enactment @
some laws "to protect young wome
In the District of Columbia" Now,