Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-04
Should Be Admitted Into Union.


No imagination can conceive any of
the great forefathers who wrote the
Constitution having in mind a portion
of the United States where 100000
persons. paying over two and half
millions of revenue tax, should be de-
prived of the same rights as possessed
by the states. or vote in their own
affairs. No power of argument can
be brought to bear to convince any
one, even child, that nine states, all
smaller than the District of Columbia,
should send thirty-one men to Con-
gress. and that they should help tell
the District of Columbia what to do,
with the said District having nothing
to do but accept it's foreign rulers.
No one familiar with the war cry
No taxation without representation"
will claim that the District of Co
lumbia should be voteless when it has
paid in one year toward the support
of the national government more than
each Of twenty of the states.
The District Of Columbia has a
, greater normal population than Ari-
IONA, Delaware, Idaho. Montana, Ne
vada. New Mexico. Utah, Vermont or
Wyoming. The District paid into the
United States Treasury for the fiscal
year ended June 30. 1917, the sum of
S2.575,909 in regular internal revenue
tax and the added war taxes The
figures for the fiscal year will show
considerable increase over this total
/ amount.
In doing so it surpassed the
amounts paid by Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada,
New Hampshire. New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina,
South Dakota. Utah, Vermont, Wash
ington and Wyoming.
These twenty states, none Of which
pays as much to the support of the
{ government and the war as does the
district OF Columbia, send 100 mem
more than one-fourth Of the national
Legislature.
The District Of Columbia pays five
times as much internal revenue tax as
does the state of Mississippi, for in
stance, which has ten representatives
in the Congress, and helps to tell the
citizens of the voteless District what
they may do and what they may not
90. 1t pays more than a million dol
lars in excess of Alabama's contribu-
ton. and that helps to rule the Dis
trict with a dozen representatives in
the Congress
The District Of Columbia pays more
to the United States than the state
of Georgia with her fourteen repre-
sentatives in the Congress-and the
District OF Columbia. thoroughly dis
franchised, has none.
Washington's Future.
Peace is now about to dawn upon
= the world, so lately engaged in wae-
ing war and desoIation An armistice
was signed November IL, 1918, and a
peace conference has been chosen by
the nations Of Europe and the United
states to establish just democracy
throughout the world.
Washington-the capital of the
worlds greatest republic, and SO the
worlds democracy itself-is visioned
as the natural corollary of Americas
participation in the greatest war in
history. One with the other nations
in enacting the great world drama.
whose denouement is the overthrow
or autocracy, the United States comes
out OF the struggle the peer of world
powers and similarly the embodiment
achieved for all coming time through
the travail of more than four weary
wears. The future of the Capital city
is inevitably linked with the history
OF the nation. Increased prestige
among the nations for the United
states means an enhanced position
among world capitals for Washington
as the seat of government.
Men OF vision, seers, statesmen,
molding the course of public policy
in the realignment of the worlds do,
minions, captains OF industry and
wizards of finance, all gathered in
Washington TIC help the nation to VIC
tory, now finally won. all see as the
Washington of the future a city
greater. grander and more superb
than any yet builded by the hand of
man. The barriers of isolation have
been broken down.
Hereafter the United States must
meet the larger ranges of vital obIi-
cations to other powers hitherto sep
arated by mountain ranges or by bar
riers raised by history. language and
national custom All these barriers
row disappear. Henceforth the United
states is one. with all democratic
powers, and destined. as all good
americans believe. to be the leader of
them all.
And in just such proportion as the
nation takes on new dignities and
new. responsibilities as a world de-
mocracy. so Washington, it's capital
city must grow in population. in or
derby beauty and in grandeur until
!; is what it's projectors visualiZed
more than century ago-a manifes-
ration in material form of the soul.
The breath and finer spirit of democ-