The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-11-21
Beautiful Washington.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER

who permit twice as many white peo-
pie to live here. But | went to New
York and 1t seemed like a plunge into
a roaring, seethiug hell of filthy streets
grafters and malefactors. Allen
street is so narrow that the elevated
road makes it a tunnel and one can not
get along except in narrow passage
in the middle of the street. The
houses, pavements and part of the
street are simply packed and swarm
ing with the poorest, filthiest Russian
Jews just dumped off the ship, men,
women and children. Not an English
word or letter on sign, all in He
brew. Then hardly a week passes
that ''dago" doesn't kill some one
with dagger over some trifling thing.
Invent to Ellis island to see them come
in. If the farmers in the u. S. would
make excursions to Ellis island and
see the quality of the hall million a
year dumped in there it would be
shock to them. lived in the Sioux
country when that tribe was on the
war path and when we seldom went
over the stage road that we did not
find men scalped in the road. But it
was safer, there we're more comfort IN
life than In New York--and the Sioux
civilization was far better than New
York's. / went TO Nassau. Wall and
William and other streets on Sunday
and in these narrow streets among the
sky-scrapers it was like being in a
deep and narrow canyon in the noun
tains. If there is nothing better in
life as lived there then It was great
mistake to drive out the Indians. Yet
people tell me that after awhile one
gets used to New York and like it. /
bad the pleasure to see DR.. George
KTiehn and Mrs, Kate Henricks. She
Is as bright and peasant as in her girl.
hooF lays in Lexington. got back
to Washington and it seemed so clean
quiet, respectable and beautiful with
its Eecsd streets and avenues aud many
parks. They don't give the negro cart
takers a fair show. Small gauges o.
from two to SIX are tending the grass
plats and no boss around aud nothing
to keep them from over-exerting
themselves and bringing on an early
breakdown.
President Roosevelt is not liked BY
the people of Washington; Mckinley
was. Roosevelt aims to leave his
mark on the capital. He hates Jack
son and wants his statue taken from
in front of the White House so he can
not see it, He wants the square
named "Independencen so as to gel
rid Of the name of La Fayette which
vexes the English ambassador qnC
makes the English toady John Hay
sick every time he rides by it. Som,
of the Washingtonians hate Roosevelt
simply because his fathers family are
dutch Jews.
But there Is something more impor
tant than that. Washington as tbs
capital, is failure. Three hundred
thousand parasites and gratters now
and destined to be city OF milhol
blood suckers on the government
Every square foot of the district viii
in time be added to Washington auC
"improvedn at public expense. Mos
of them are the least patriotic of al
Americans. The plans for magnifcen
improvements, mausoleums to Lin
coin, Grant and the inexhaustible sup
ply of national heroes, already planne
are to be carried out at an expens
whose figures are staggering. Th,
congressman from a certain wester
district said to me, ave can CIV
away every thing here and then b'
ahead" The capital ought to be i
the middle oithe country, not east @
the Missouri river, and on govern
ment reserved the same as a militar,
reservation. No lots should ever b
sold and no private business permit
ted on 1t. 1t ought to be moved frou
here for the same reason that 1t wa
put here--fOr central location. Thi
city would then become great con
mercial, shipping and manufacturing
city. There is the waste cancer not
eating into our vitals here, CROWN
from out Of the presence of titled Er
ropean diplomats aud the torylsm
! loadyism and Anglomania Of ccrtal
American women once at the bottoI
,otr, ot tho too oF tin e,n;al baav