The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-05-24
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Secretary Shaw made people open
their eyes at speech he made in
Baltimore the other day to the School
for Instruction in the Revenue Cutter
Service.
Mr.. Shaw said: s"There is nothing
that will take the native capacity out of
a man SO quickly as employment in the
Army and Navy. If 1 wanted to make
preacher out of man / would send
him to West Point. 1t is the best school
on earth.
But in one branch of the service-I
won't say which-if a man has a good
idea they court-martial him.
The Chief of Police of Washington
recommends that women go armed with
hat pin. The law does not permit the
carrying of weapons of defense, but
Major Sylvester seems to think that q
hat pin is as good weapon as q woman
needs A hat pin has been known to
do effective service. In a big crowd
where the people in the rear are in
clined to crowd upon one, u hat pin
Judiciously poked under the arm. point
to the rear, will make a hole all around
you. as we'll as create CONSERVATION and
a racket if rammed home hard enough.
1t Is true too, that jab from a hat
pin, half a dozen of which a woman al
ways has around her, will drive most
anybody away who is not possessed of
castiron hide. Yes. hat pin is all
right in the hands of q brave woman.
And women have to be pretty brave
In Washington just now. There has
been a perfect storm of pocket book
snatching of late. and the whole city
has become alarmed. The police force
of Washington. while really of the fin
est. is also one of the smallest for the
size of the city. 1t takes such q large
number of the police force to guard
the White House and grounds that it
cuts down the availab number for
the protection of the parks. The Sug-
gestion has been made that the United
States Government should furnish it's
own guards and that these should be
selected from among the troopers at
Fort Myer. This would add glory and
glitter to the retinue of Army and Navy
attaches who are already there. and
possibly be more in keeping with the
surroundings.
Congress has been importuned to give
larger appropriation for the Police De-
partment, but has failed to do So which
is certainly penny-wise and Million
doiiar-fooliSh proposition. 1t should be
remembered. always. that the District
of Columbia more than pays itself for
every dollar that Congress apprOpriates
for it. In the first place, the Govern
ment does not pay a dollar of taxes so
that the people of Washington who own
property have to pay much higher taxes
In proportion. and keep things i'm
proper order for the Government All
the taxes of the District are turned into
the United States Treasury. every penny
OF them. Then when the District wants
money it has to ask Congress for it,
The Government pays 81 ZOO for every
one which the District puts up, half
and half, you see. but the Government
does not. even in this way. pay quar-
ter of what would be assessed against
its property IL such thing were pos
s!ble. The District cannot get q dol
lar unless 1t is appropriated by Con-
gress. despite the big sum she pays into
the United States Treasury: so it is
not fair for the country to howl every
time an appropriation is made for pub
lie purposes in the District.
The body of the late Carl Schurz was
laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
1t Tarrytown. n Y. last Friday.
The Post Office is having trouble
again. Down in Raleigh, N c., there
is free-delivery carrier who happens
to be of black skin. though he seems to
have very white kind of brains. The
people Of that section. however, prefer
not TO get any mail at all to getting it
from the colored man. And so the poor
IelloW Is 10 lose his job.
The way of the scientist after he gets
out OF the United States is sometimes
pretty rocky. There is a noted wash
fngton scientist, Prof. Mckinney. who
has been engaged by fruit company
down in Bocas del Toro to hunt out
and rout the banana pest He went
vigorously to work and found that in
lot of huts the pest seemed to be pro-
hn I<.xl
huts. in which he declared no human
being could possibly live, anyhow
Well. whether they can or can't they
do. and so Prof Mckinney was arrested
by the owner of one of the huts and
thrown into prison for arson. The COM
pany by which the Professor is en-
ployed protested to the little Govern
ment OF Bocas del Toro that the huts
belonged to- them and they had a right
to have them burned but the Professor
stays in Jail. Gen. Gardia, Secretary
OF War and Minister of Foreign Affairs
issued an order that he be released. but
the Professor is still in Jail. and so the
United States has been informed The
President may have To order a warship
down there To secure the release of this
American subject
Michael Davitt. the great Irish leader.
lies at the point of death He has a
dtSoltu III treasury Depart
ment here i'll Washington.
II was given out at Yale last Thurs
day that Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew
had received the necessary % votes of
Yale alumni to put him in nomination
for the corporation for another term
six years The election will be held on
June &c. commencement week Mr..
Depew's term expires then.
Gen. Greedy, in a telegram to the War
Department, declares that the reports
that a large number of persons were
killed in San Francisco by the Army
are incorrect and misleading. He states
that not single person was killed ~
a Regular soldier. and that the Coroner.
Chief of Police, Board of Health, and
military commander have found only
four persons who met death by violence
After five years of labor, a civil scry-
ice retirement bill has been perfected
by the United States Civil Service Re-
tirement Association. 1t was introduced
In the House by Representative Fowler
of New Jersey. and in the Senate by
Mr.. Perkins, of California.
The purpose of the bill is to provide