Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-22

With regard to being arrayed in battle
royal with one of Chocolate Rumdum Lus-
combe's stripe, as indmated in your last is
sue, we wish to say that we would feel very
sorry, indeed, to leave readers of the GLOBE
under the impression that we had stopped
to his common level by the foolishness of
wasting time in disputing vile assertions
which nobody will believe We might say,
however, that we have no objections to be-
ing so arrayed with any of the Official knaves
at police headquarters or the District build
ing. We are willing, in fact, to allow the
major, Commissioners, OF any Of their sW ell
headed obstructionists two columns to one
in defending themselves against our asser-
tious. But when it comes to using your
paper for that cowardly push to even up
their grievances through a knight of the
quill over the signature of an ignorant Italian
dupe, by malicious falsehoods, we wish
to remind you that there are courts in which
such crimes can be more successfully com.
bated than by taking,up space in your paper.
Instead of desecrating it for any such snis-
ter purpose its columns can be put to better
use in uucovering few things in connec-
tion with District affairs that will have a
startling effect upon this community and
from which the general public would derive
some benefit
We might here say that by the time this
reaches you, Luscombe will be posing as
defendant in suit for SIS 1000 damages for
slandering Charles Herbert, poor cobbler,
whom he accused of stealing shoes from
Messrs Hahn & Co g store. After Mr.
Hahn told him that he would discharge Her
bert on the strength of his complaint he
realized the fearful nature of what he had
done, and had the writer transfer his prop
erty to his brother to avoid the legal conse-
quences of his act. This suit for slander is
the sequel TO his abuse of Lieutenant Daley,
Private Williams and myself. 1t has been
staring him in the face for several months
and to Offset what we intend to testify to
in behalf of a poor man, shamelessly
wronged, he is simply trying to make it ap-
pear that he is being made victim of per-
secution.
To take further notice Of his emanations
would only add to them the dignity Of fear
that somebody might believe them, but even
if they did, that would not make them true,
therefore why should we care Who could
\ be so cowardly as 10 add to the infamous
/ load of a fellow bent almost double from
the weight of guilt and shame2 Who would
de6le the spade of reason by driving itinto
filth to besmirch poor wretch already be-
mired up to his neck2 Let us give him at
least a breathing chance for reformation.
/ Life is too short; its feeting golden mo
ments are too precious to waste them upon
two-legged cattle of his breed; it would be
a sim it would be the next thing to casting
pearls before swine
/ Your idea Of the fitness of things to make
/ your paper a success may differ widely
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that even though you have travelled part
of lifes thorny way, you have not become
victim of such morbid sensibility as not to
endeavor to distinguish between the false
and the true of what is submitted to you
for publication Therefore, if after reading
what follows you think we have hearts that
beat alike and feelings inspired by desire
to benefit the public as we'll as to profit by
| your labor, you may insert the substance Of
this paper as an introduction to what will
follow in the columns Of the GLOBE, weekly
for some time to come
| It seems to us that il would be much more
profitable for you and decidedly more
pleasant for the writer to take readers Of
the GLOBE by the hand as it were, like one
person Of tender years, and gently lead
them among the charity wolves of Wash
ington to show them how they have become
a powerful building corporation by work
ing the poor with one string and the rich
with another. We might uncover to them
some of the sorrows and much of the suf-
fering that has resulted from this turning
of philanthropy from its proper channels.
visit to the District Building might also
prove instructive. There is the Building
Department, the Health Department the
Engineer Department the Excise Board,
/ IS tfa Va IA,
Fertilizer Company, or what is better
known to some citizens as the Street Clean
ing and Garbage Department, and the
Board of Charities Then nearby is the
Harper Building, containing the Fire De.
partment and Police Headquarters.
There are stories in connection with all
these departments far more interesting to
the young and the old, the rich and the
poor, than any fairy tale ever written.
Stories that will not only take readers
among the poor and oppressed but into the
wake of beautiful girls driven from home
by hunger and ensnared to be led astray. Il
may be as interesting to readers Of the
GLOBE as il has been to the writer to watch
them traverse the way from the halls of
charity to the infamous Division.
Upon such imaginary trips there would
pass before each readers mind as upon
canvas, scenes OF sorrow, suffering, want
and imposition never to be forgotten--pen
pictures that would not fail to inspire noble
impulses ia the breast of the most hard
ened wretch living.
There are in fact stories that have never
been told and others that will stand retell-
ing that will show up men and things In
general in the District building and along
the shady walks Of charity as they are and
not as they seem to be- There will be no need
Of lending an artificial coloring to such in
cidents, as the most rosy representations
will be sufficiently tinged with sin TO lend
them shade enough to verify the truth Of
the oft-repeated assertion that one half the
people in the world are not as sanity rs
they appear to be; and the other half is far
from being as bad as the better half repre-
sents them to be.
Such contributions sir, like so many Sun.
day sermons will have a tendency to make
Of readers devoted husbands, faithful wives,
fond and affectionate children. They will,
ia short make of them better citizena bvy