The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-14
.EXTRAVAGANT
WASHINGTON LIFE
Some Reflections and Suggestions to
Senator Albert ]. Beveridqe.


which has always distinguished
him from the common herd. For
the moment he has turned his at
tention from child labor to the
question of extravagant living in
Washington. Too much money
is wasted at the National Capital
on clothing, food, luxury, and
general indulgence and display.
1t goes to Mr.. Beveridge's beating
heart, it does, and quivers there to
see such sinful waste. The states
man with the rolling name begins
to nurse despair. He stabs the
future with searching eye and
discovers almost the exact date at
which it will be impossible for any
but millionaire to sit in the Cap
itol and give the government a
vigorous and well-fed service.
And this when the orators and
lawmakers have just increased their
own salaries by s., 500 a year.
AS it happens however, we
know something about Washing
ton, even in this remote, parochial
community, and our information
leads us to the guess that the In
diana Jeremiah will be wise to
mend his moan. Perhaps he has
not thought of it, but there are
more than 800 head Of statesmen
in that corral we call the Capitol,
and large majority of them are
not mllllonaires or anywhere with
in sight of that condition More
over, it is still true that thousands
of intelligent and cultivated men
and women are more than willing
TO accept official positions yielding
as little as 81 200 a year, while
the 81 800 and s. 900 places are
attacked in as large and deter
mined numbers as were Guasimae,
Caney, or San Juan in the strenu-
Gus and splendid year 7ol 1898.
Prices have gone up" to some
extent during the last few years,
but Mr.. Beveridge at least it bound
to admit that his salary has gone
up too. Automobiles are getting
cheaper every year, and when it
comes to theater and street cars,
the least observant witness must
confess that Washington is the
very paradise Of the chalked hat
and the deadhead
We make bold to wrestle with
the Senator in this field. 1t seems
to us that he has consorted too
much with the wealthy and too
little with those of straitened
means. All of which enables us
to imagine that he overrates the
prevalence of the val-au-vent, the
bruit imperial, the contract terra
pin, and the caterers entrees in
general, forgetting the joyful sus-
tenance of "jowl and greens, 3"
good honest hash, plain soup, and
hot corn pone, with country butter
and real pot of liquor on the side.
1t. is only natural that a man of
Mr.. Beveridge's official eminence,
personal beauty, and captivating
parlor manners should be sought,
not to say solicited, by the gilded
throng 1t is conceivable that he
has forgotten the humble but in.
MIGRATING and digestible fodder of
his infancy. But Mr.. Beveridpe
cannot make us believe that ST. 800
year is less than enough to keep
the average statesman full of good
cheer and leave him free at the
close of the session to 90 back
home with Tightening waistband,
curling upper lip, and very con-
siderable salvage in his pocket
book.
We stand shoulder to shoulder
with the Hon. Albert jeremiah
Bevefidge in most things. We
dote upon his shape, his forelock,
and his gift of song. Right
here, " however, we cut loose from
his alluring tack, and take another
path. New York Sun.