The Washington times., 1904-01-19
FREE-HAND COMMENT
ON MEN AND MANNERS
Cutting OF the Carriages Of Government Officials Deze
mated as Illustration OF Penny Wise Economy.

= ulscohsoiate consulate seeker.
w nose bosom was sadly wrune.
walled. On. for the city of Mukden.
And alas for the Port of Antung!
I've waited, he said. for ages.
And round my Senator hung.
And there goes the city of AIukden
And also the Port Of Antung.
Ny coat it is getting shiny.
My nerves are becoming unstrung
And they ought TO have given me Muk-
den,
Or the succulent Port Of Antung.
For ! am consulate seeker.
The disconsolate seekers among.
and I'd have been happy with Mukdeu,
Or even the Port Of Antung.
This matter Of economy is being car
ried too far. It was All right. perhaps
90 demand another half hours work Of
the already hard driven employees in the
departments. but this move on The part
Of Representative Lands 10 deolive the
Assistant Secretaries Of their carriages.
smacks OF old womanish meddlinr. T.
may be true that AIR Cannon does not
ride in a carriage az the Government eN-
pense. but then. that Is his business.
He doesn't need a carriage 20 empha-
size his greatness. and he is too modest
To desire one. This. we take it. Is very
desirable combinat,9a. But there are
Rabobs in the Government service who
do need carriages; they desire them ana
they have no other claims TO greatness
save the fact that they ride In carriages
occasionally at the Government's eN-
penke Moreover. the Government it
self has certain amount of prestige 90
keep up What would the representa-
tives Of foreign powers think OF US II al
our nabobs We're going about on foot2
This is the Capital City. and &c is fitting
that its streets should be enlivened by
oquipages dashing hither and yon. and
that goodly share OF these should con-
tain the assistant dignitaries Of our own
Goverrmeut
The bones of a giant nearly eleven
feet in hesght have been unearthed near
EVhlnemucca. New. IL is not at all prob
abla that he belonged 90 q race of giants.
or that other similar remains VIII be
found II is more likely that he was a
freak in some prehistoric circus.
The Italian government is about 10
send an emissary TO this country on a
wise and humane mission. Adolfc Rossi
viii be sent over here 60 consult with
our immigration commissioners as 10
the best means OF inducing Italian immi-
grants TO take TO the country on arriv-
ing and 10 engage IN agriculture In
place Of settling in the cities as so many
OF them do. II anything can be done in
this line. our cities win be benefited
as well as the Italians themselves.
These people are natural adopts in GER
tain kinds OF agriculture. such as vine
and fruit raising, and there is alum
dant room for them ca lands which arc
most promising, but which Americans
have not yet done much with As agri-
culturists. they make useful citizens
and can work out happiness and pros
perity for themselves Their quarters
in the various large cities in which they
have settled. on the other hand. are
without exception filthy, overcrowded
and unsanitary. This is an important
4 matter with US. as nearly $4,000 Italians
arrived I'm this country in 1893, and our
/ officials should give Mr. Rossi the full
est cooperation
/ We have spoken several times Of the
/ boy problem in this town. remarks in
spired by the frequent appearance in
the courts Of boy offenders for trial
and sentence. A curfew law has been