The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-14


to interest his constituents in street
car extension or an alley paving mat
ter or a sewer in a city two or three
thousand miles away and get them to
vote him out Of office.
-, Arrested by Alien. r..
Then there are the delights Of hav-
ing your personal liberties looked after
by a body Of gentlemen from all oyer
the continent. If your ash can gets
accidentally tipped over in the alley
it arouses the highest kind Of patriot
ic emotions to be arrested by copper
who owes allegiance to no one but the
gentleman from Assiniboia, who got
him appointed, and to be hailed before
a police. judge who holds office by rea-
SON of the favor of the gentleman from
New Brunswick.
It is so. delightfully."- easy to teach
common sense to officers who owe their
selection to political services rendered
at point anywhere from 500 to 5000
miles away, and who are totally i'm
mune to discipline from the people8of
the city in which they serve. It may
prove to be different among the Canadi-'
ans, but in Washington it is nothing
to see a clergyman arrested for letting
the light on his bicycle go out, while a
statesman who runs his Automobile thru
the streets at AN unlawful speed can
only be stopped and asked for his card.
That s the law, and a policeman who:
would arrest a statesman under those
circumstances would get into hot water.
Washington is indeed beautiful. It is
a poem in those parts which have had
the favorable attention Of congress, but
there are alleys here filed with hordes
Of vicious people, presenting a more
hideous picture Of filth, crime and
degradation: than can be. found in any
other American city: And the citizens
|ofss Washington can not legislate them
cut of distance because they have sur
nderedthsi1s birthright to congress.
posed. of men from. every state in the
! union, men who legislate for those who
can ELECT or EFF eat them and not for
those who have surrendered themselves
| and the right to protect themselves
into the hands Of aliens. Yes, Wash
ington is beautiful, but the Canadians
| will do we'll to inform themselves on
all phases Of the situation here before
they 20 toe far in their emulation. II
The Race Question. f.
They may find, when it is too late,
that even the general governments pay
/ ing half the taxes Of the ordinary prop
erty owner is no better off, just as they
have found it out in Washington, as
any one may ascertain by comparing
the tax rate here with that Of any
other city in the country.
! Washington has. not always beer
without representative government
The latest experiment. in that direction
was abandoned, at the request of the
people, in 1872, for the reason that the
negroes and poor whites, by combining
We're in control. Of the city and running
things with high hand. =
These conditions, however, could new
er prevail in Ottawa, which is far NORTH
of the negro line on this continent. tt
people will always be intelligent whites
! While what has previously been said il
this article about the serious defects O
the present system Of government il
the District Of Columbia is all true
yet it is very doubtful if ,Washingtol
would vote to overthrow that system
even If given the opportunity, for tn
proportion Of negroes to the total popu
lation is now much greater than it wa
, in 1872: - : >-.-': ...s.-s
There are today more negroes i
Washington than in any other city j
the world, and the number is increasins
The total population of the district !
about 1926 900, and Of this numb Der MOI
! than 100000, or about an even one
: third, are negroes. If this conditio
confronted Ottawa, there would, in til
I opinion Of folks here, be some point i
their apparent desire to abandon repr,
sentative government.