The Washington bee., 1907-02-23

IIt.LLlElllCll- Al AllA9NAo al y H. N-N-N'
and especially I find many in Congress,
Roth branches of your body passed the
s-rarv bill, put the poor government
-rar, has been ignored. Satisfied with
an increase in your own salary, you de-
rberarely ignore the poorly paid gov
.rrr7enr clerk and wind up endeavoring
to take from the poorly paid walters the
small tips that liberal patrons give them.
Gentlemen. where IS your conscience? ?
What do YOU mean? I want to say that
many If YOU who board in hotel and
-asraurants will suffer if such bill is
aracted into a law. Why don't you pass
few laws that will improve the con-
fifion of the people in this city? You
don't seem to have any stability or
courage. You permit yourselves to be
influenced bv temperance advocates who
se. great harm in whiskey, but no harm
81, flowing sporting houses to exist IN
. so--aIled Christian community, Why
IN Won strain out 4 gnat and swallow
. rsmeT? How IS it that many of you
can Gee the wrongs of other people and
cannot see your own? You come here
and interfere with our schools and our
local government and close your eyes
~ thousands of notorious laws that are
enacted yearly in your own tates. The
neople of this city want the right to
vote and choose their own officers.
They are fully capable of electing
their own servants and enact laws that
saI b. more effective than the laws that
you enact
The people in this community have
enough TO stand. They are taxed to
such an extent that they can scarcely
exist The most remarkable thing about
our local government is, when the courts
have no law to fit offenses, a police reg
rlafon is Immediately promulgated.
We need a government of, for and by
the people" The whiskey interest IS
imposed upon by temperance advocates
while they permit othe~ wrongs against
the people to exist that are more dan
gerous than whiskey.
viii there be no end to your school
bills Is there to be no rest for the
taxpayers? What the people in this
city want IS a uniform set Of laws for
their government.
In the several Departments of the gen
eraI government there exist gross dis
examinations. Men who have once be-
Geved in equality of citizenship have
been intoxicated by racial prejudice.
They seem to think that they represent
one class Of people regardless Of what
the other class does in supporting the
government. We need men in Office
who will respect the law and guard the
interest of all the people regardless of
their color OF condition I am opposed
to passage Of the bill that tends to af-
feet the walters. I don't see anything
good in the temperance bill. Are people
so weak that they must have laws enact
ed TO keep themselves straight? If a
man can't take a drink of whiskey with
onur affecting his brain he should not
take it. No man or woman is obliged
TO do a thing against his or her will and
if there are people so weak, you should
enact q law making it obligatory upon
The law branch of our local government
To arrest such people and if found guilty
.mur5s0n them in the workhOuse.
] regard many temperance advocates
insane. They have one theme. Crimes
of . more serious nature are passed by
rrr.tced. Then we have the so-called
m5aEsts. They drink all the whiskey
h.g can get but condemn a man who
belongs TO Mormon Church. The
mo-aI-t viii kin, rob and steal, gentle
men. and If a beggar is in need and
asks for aims. he is arrested and given
ninety days upon the farm Now isn't
.ais Inconsistent VIII the lawmakers
in Congress point out the consistency
f sr-h lawss Such conditions the poor
Class must confront in this city. The
hard working fruit venders are arrested
daily and compelled to deposit from tlve
TO ten dollars ior standing two minutes
in enc place. These hard-worklng clu-
zer-. arr. never at ease. They are driven
from pillar to post
There are things that Congress should
consider. The poorly paid individuals
and fruit ycnders in this city are op-
pressed, prosecuted and cheated by op-
Dressive laws. 1 hope, gentlemen, that
YOU will let good enough alone and take
TIP these oppressive police regulations
and oppressive laws that are now affect
ing the poor.
THE EDITOR