Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26

able resources are indirectly made
strong by the nation, and except that
the nation, because the national inter-
ests are greater at the capital than
elsewhere. makes larger national ex-
penditures for national purposes there
than In any other city
Some Of the cities classified under this
head are London, Berlin, Vienna, Buda-
pest. Brussels. Copenhagen. Athens.
Toxic, Christiania, Berne, Ottawa, Cape
''t2) Those which are financially spe
cially favored by lavish expenditures
FOR national purposes and by spe,
the other hand the national govern
ment exercises special control politi-
cally. participating in but not excfu-
siyeIy exercising municipal govern
ment, and allowing the capital full
representation In the national govern
ment.
These capitals are Buenos Aires, Rio
de Janeiro. Mexico and Paris.
"t3) That capital which has received
since 1873 the reasonable liberal ma
and (since the same date) an adequate
specific municipal contribution Of the
second class. but which has been Grip
pied by the nation In its municipal
taxable resources. and has been denied
all participation in its municipal gov
eminent and all representation in the
national government This capital is
Washington.
Other Peoples Have Voice.
while many nations surpass the
United States in lavish expenditure Of
national money in the judicious de-
velopment of their capitals. and while
some nations contribute substantially
toward the municipal maintenance Of
their capitals, approximating in this re-
spect the wise liberality of the United
States under the act of 1878. there is
no other nation of the world which
denies Its capital community all voice
in respect to its taxes and its municipal
affairs in general, and also bars 1t from
representation In the national as well
as the local government.
These reports and this table also
show that no nation in the world, ex-
cept the United States, discourages the
material development and prosperity
of the capital along commercial, manu-
featuring and industrial lines, and bars
the local community from employment
in many of the national local indus
tries, thus reducing to minimum the
city's taxable resources and the means
Of self-support offered to the citys
growing youth.
I'm most other capitals the nation has
legislated and acted discriminatory
In favor of the capital, fostering its
commerce and its manufactures, in
creasing local means of self-support
and charging equitably Its taxable re-
sources. and rendering it attractive In
every way to its residents as we'll as
to visitors. Even when the nation does
not thus favor the capital over other
cities, but treats all the cities alike. It
does not discourage in the capital its
material development and prosperity
and the resulting accumulation of tax
able resources.
Prosperity Discouraged.
These comparisons show that while
no nation in the world Is under such
strong and peculiarly binding equitable
obligations to develop its capital. no
other nation in tho world so discour-
ages the development and material
prosperity of its capital In Washing
toms case there Is a maximum Of OBJ
legation and in the particular indicated
a minimum of national response.
But however 1t may have fallen
short in other respects. as an annual
contributor to municipal maintenance
in definite and liberal amount the
nation has. since 1873. under the wise
and fair legislation of that year. sur
passed other nations in this form OF
patriotic expenditure. The result has
been to restore the nations self-respect
as fulhller of capital obligations; and
to build up the capital of today, in
which every American has a proprie-
tary interest and In respect to which
"Win the nation repudiate and destroy
its legislation which has produced such
reaulta?"