Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-04-22

tions may depend upon partisan ex-
penditure in the expensive transpor-
tation of these possible voters to
states often remote. in securing and
retaining legal residences for them
and in carrying them to the polls.
The natural tendency of the situa-
ton will be at some time in the flu
| ture to develop an army of political
| mercenaries to be utilized COMPETE
| lively by the party which can best
| afford to stand the expense of arrang-
| ing for their organiZat ton and mobifi-
! cation. Such large shifting. unstable.
. continually increasing army of po-
! tential voters might even become an
! Irresistible invitation to corrupt
colonization of-voters practices.
| If no corrupt colonizing of voters re-
| suited from this concentration of po-
tential voters and non-voters or po-
| litical aliens at the voteless seat of
i government. the national evil and
shame would remain of un-Ame rican
non-representatiVe government of the
| National Capital territory under ex-
culsive national control. Autocratic
misrepresentation government in the
only American territory governed eX-
clusively by the nation brands the ma
ton itself as in this respect distinctly
and indelibly un-American. AS is the
nations city so is the nation. The
capital is the nations heart. If the
republic is tainted with un American
1911 dl us nc3ft, the whole OF the BODY
I polltlc is thus tainted.
Now Worthy of Nations Regard.
Some senators and representatives.
VINO have served the republic well
FOR many years and have been accus-
toned to see the capital community
treated as lmpotent and negligible.
are SLOW to perceive that the capital
~ no longer merely the camping place
or transient Americans. but has de-
int,
com Observation-Disclosures. resOurccful,
populous. DubIic-spirited. patriotic
win marked civic seIf-consciOus-
ness. with Il strong community get-tO-
Eether spirit. and with an inspiring
community pride. 1t is well organized
IL mas It's Board of Trade. it's Chamber
or Commerce. its Merchants and
Manufacturers Association" it's Cen
trai Labor Union. its Federation of
Cl'lzens Associations. which cover
and represent the whole area of the
DlStrlct 1t has its Oldest Inhabitants
associations, and its association of
native Washingtonians. 1t has organized
Tor financial equity for the District
ana has impressed the justice of its
cause upon every tribunal or congress
Slonal committee which has given to
IT'S representations thoughtful con-
slderation. 1t organized for war sery-
ice and made a phenomenal record of
volunteer enlistments Of soldiers and
sailors, of gifts Of money for Red
cross and other war services, for war
taxes cheerfully paid. for subscrip-
tlons to war loans, from first to last
or the series Of liberty loans.
with the same vigor and enthu-
slasm which marked the organization
OF the people of the District for the
war and peace services above sup-
gested, they have now organized to
secure voting representation in
Rouse, senate and electoral f.o11aoa
through the pending constitutional
amendment.
Respect for Capital Community.
Thoughtful, sympathetic cOnsidero
ton should he given to their apncoI
by every American statesman and ma
tionaI legislator. 1t can no longer
with absolute impunity be cOntemptu-