The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-10-19
WASHINGToN'S GROWTH CHECK
ED,

a demand 1Or the 1(elurH VI lne RlSnI
to Vote to Black and White Citi-
zens of the District of Column
bia-Weal,hy Citizens
Being Driven
Away.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 16.-Wash-
ington, the Capital Of the Nation, still
clamors for the right of suffrage.
Years ago, the franchise was taAel
away from viii G citizens so as to de-
nyive colore1 citizens Of the right to
vote, but like all such inpustices this
limitation against colored cltl-
zens has reached, and it is now White
Washington which is clamoring loud
est for a urn to the Days of sur
frage. The Washington ID. O. Times
most vehement in seeking to have
his Injustice undone, 1t compares
conditions in Washington with Paris,
capital of the French nation, and says:
The city of Paris-although some
gentlemen from the middle Wet
lent know it's temperate city, far
more temperate, for instance, than
he average prohibition city of the
Unitei States. In Paris they have
temperance, and NOT prohibition, And
they have visitors from all over the
world that spend tens of millions an
nuallv, and contribute to the vast
wealth of Paris. If Paris were like
WASHINGTON, a voteless city, and
group of Congressman, Indifferent 10
the rights and the interests OF hum
dreJs of thousands of citizens should
make Paris a prohibition city, as Con-
gress is about to make prohlDltlon
,itv of Washington, what do you tn NIX
would Shappen to Paris? What would
beoame Of the prosperity OF that city,
of its throng of visitors from all over
! the world? Prohibition would affect
Paris as the war affects her now-put-
ting a damper on gayety, on travel
and on prosperity.
Prohibition will affect Washington
as it would affect Paris-if the Paris
ians were unfortunate enough TO i've
in city where they had no voc.
Washington will be checked. in its
growth by prohibition, which VIII
make of the Nations Capital MD
die West dreary prohibition example,
ruled bv we'll meaning and ignorant
nrohibitionists. Washington with a
sare government, free from fanatic
ism. would inevitably become the great
vonter of wealth and social life in
he United States. More and more
well.to-do would \come here to live.
bringing with them the spending OF
-,eolth and the creation of prosperity
More and more would increase the
~ value of the land in this city, tne
= huil1ing of magnificent house. the pos
sibility of just and reasonable TAXA
tion, revenues constantly increasing
. without hardship, because of the ever
growing influx of wealthy cltiTe1s-
: and all to Washington's advantage.
But wealth is NOT prohibitionst
Ice water is not the beverage OF tn.
successful man-prohibition facts
! TO the contrary Notwithstanding. L
o is not ice water that gave his fortune
4 IN ]. Pierpont Morgan, although, a
the doctors pointed out, it was TOl
MUCH ice water that killed u. II
Hartman before his time. Ther
- NAV be, there evidently are, America
citizens that cannot trust themselle
far from the ice wafer cities. Bu
these are not the SUCCESSFUL me
'. of America or of the world.
They are not those that, If permi
t. ted. would, and WILL Make Washlnt
ton the city of wealth and prosperit
II that il ought to be.