Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

FOR the delectation OF his subjects. His
method OF lighting was 10 have gsadiators
brought into the amphfdheater whose eyes
had been torn oat and whose legs ana
arms were securely dashed with ropes and
straps. Then Commodus would beat tho
dayijghts out OF them with his club and
hail himself as Hercules reincarnatei You
can unravel the connection for yourself.
hate to think of how many modern Com
moduses have seen come and go under
yonder white dome during the past quar-
ter OF century,
Vent Abuse With Impunity.
1.-THE other afternoon. at a ball game.
heard number OF roughs hurting vie
abuse from the bleachers at a ball player
Ia the first base coaching box. Those fell
lows were not only roughs. they were cow
ards. They knew that their position was
secure and that they could vent their abuse
wall OF men. They knew they couldn't
De picked out by the player they cursed
opscenely. They knew that the ball player
was helpless to punish them.
AND the incident reminded me OF some
ehins. ahe something a parallel. Ii
you re good at figuring out paraliels try
your hand at that one
The gentleman of the Senate ybo
uuDoeo US importunate and hungry beg
oars toesed US fine. patronixing sop later
on Ia MS address. He said that we might
worthy and deserving persons. taking us as
a whole. Rich business that way of nut
ing T. wasn't ft7 Sounded something IKE
the GOOD morning, men,. OF the foreman
OF Hungarian gang of gravel train hands.
Ana yet come to think OF It, IL Isn't after
all. such a bad thing to be worthy and de-
serving. Is tg In the course OF my long
residence In this capital In the capacity of
an importunate and hungry besgar l have
known quite number OF these legislative
government clerk baiters who IL the world
It wpra peif
serving.
"One of the other dIverting ramincatfons
OF the senator's address that in which
| ne expressed the opinion that government
clerks who enter their departments at n
certain salary notch should be perfectly
| content TO stick at that NOTCH. Nobody
asked them to go to work for the govern
| ment.' said the senator. In effect They
were free to stay out of the government
employ IL they wanted to. But, once In.
they ought to be perfectly willing to re-
main at the notch at which they enter
Keen-Cut Common Sense.
"keen-cut common sense. that. isn't it.
viewed from any angle? / wonder what a
whole government building full Of perfect
ly ambitionless men and women workers,
all of them entirely willing to stick to their
entering notch. would seem and look like7
They'd have a fine incentive TO make good
1t their labors. wouldn't they, in those cir
cumstances and enveloped by those condi-
tionsf If the world In general were regu-
lated in accordance with such system /
wonder how long we'd continue to spell
the word Progress with capital p?
And, when you come TO reflect upon
the matter, nobody, nowadays. is begged
and implored by employers to go to work
for them, even In the world OF business
and commerce. In this epoch of hustle
and competition 1t is not my understand
ing of the situation that you can sit stil
and expect employers to lope along and
hand you work, any more than you can
rest yourself on reclining chair and ex-
pect folks to swing your way and slip You
money. But, IN that same world Of busi-
ness and commerce, the men and women
who ask for work and. getting 1t. per-
form that work so satisfactorily that they
feel themselves entitled to advancing rates
of compensation for their iabors. are not
! bawled at and dubbed importunate and
| hungry beggars for submitting their claims
| for increased compensation are they2 1t Is
| the cry OF the present regime In Washing
| ton that the departments of Washington
| should be made to resemble, In so far as
possible, big business plants conducted by
private individuals or corporations. IL that
| Is the idea and the scheme, when Is there
| going to be a beginning of the application
| of business principles in the treatment or
the people who do the work In the govern
| ment Departmental And IL a beginning OF
| this kind ever does happen TO be made. Is
| 1t going to be one OF the tenets OF the
system that the workers shall be compelled
| to stick to their notch and never ask for
] anything better, even when they re old ana
lOary-headed tnan what lnSy given
when they enter the service?
.'If you take careful notice OF this WASH
ington Kaleidoscope from year to year,
you'll observe. among other things, that
officers of the army and navy, when they
want anything, get right together and go
after it. They bang right smack on the
doors of Congress for 1t, and they get
what they're after in about ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred. have yet to hear
them designated importunate and hungry
beggars And yet they are servants OF the
republic, we are, are they notg Ihey
wear real cute and cunnin little unlIornls'
| IL is true but they're none the less govern
mental servants The answer? All IN two
ords-'connections, pullF
Government Servants Themselves
"And, when 1t comes to that. these very
| men who make specially of toastng gov
| eminent clerks In the nay-shunal halls OF
| legislashun, as Jedge Waxem of Wayback
| used to say-these very chaps are servants
of the government themselves, are they
not? They hold elective instead of ap-
| pointive bilets-that's about the only ac-
tual difference between them ana govern
meut clerks that L can see. But the elect
| i've part of their jobs gives them the power
to bully another class of government-pald
people and they take advantage OF IL like
small boys backed up by their gangs.
1--we got mine, and I'm going to get
more and work by billet for all there is In
It. but you fellows have got to be content
with what we give YOU or stand clear for
trouble and a whole lot of it. that's all.
This is their altitude toward the govern
|. ment-paid folks who hold their JOBS by APP
pointment Generosity apotheosized' Isn't
it?
'I say nothing of those little cars OF
the government departments VINO nave
| reached their summit by cringing ano
| crawling, perpetually and perennially sell
out the people under them py curFyihg IaFor
with the legislators VINO trounce the clerks,
privately agree with everything such iegis-
| iators say about the departmental workers,
| and stand in with them In every scheme
| and lob devised to hobbIe or stab the clerks
| They're simply too common and mean ana
| onnery to talk about.
This win be about all. am hungry,
| though 1 don't feel importunate. But l
| might as we'll say that I'm both, and let
| # 90 al that. hadn't l, since that's the way
! rye been tarred with all the restf I'm
! going across the street to the lunchroom
! and importune the man for mug OF milk
and a ham sandwich"
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