Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-15
The Day, Nov. 4, 1924
To the Un-Americanized Americans of the District,
Day of Humiliation and Mourning
To Other Americans, a Day of National ENTHUSIASM
and Patriotic Pride
THEODORE w. MOVES

American cizenin Of people, BY the people,
the peopIein Government which roots its justice in con-
OF tn. governedn representative Government wnen m
separately couples taxation and transferring soldier with
representation.
Since the $4,000 Americans of the District national
they entitled on American principles to be
." w. o them ""d WHICH .s"d: the%
How is that District Americans do not exercise this rs
,;ci stains Of the future redent Of ths Ten Miles Square
constituting the OF Government and unnentiona iaed
to give Congress the powe1 analogous to that wch pol
granting Congress and electoral college to
the population o the Dtre whf" bfeam "edn which COR
reefs this unnentlonal ems ; ,o.n,h;, and
] oI,;x ontT Of the Naoua al csp;aI it empowers
tation Congress and the electoral college whenever in IT'S
power.
DISTRICT FIT FOR NATIONAL REPRESENTATION.
Are the people OF the District fit in numbers, intelligence
citizens OF State Yes They American citizens assem-
all the territorial requirements Of the community about be
to full atShood Though they are not in this e0'"
o s s n s'f , s"ecp, k nf~ State !" the
The community in intelligence in public spirit, in patriotic
devotion distinctive American characteristic is
The distinctive american privilege OF national representa-
"n With e m & M" the ae
and defective and su the Nation in this respect un-Amer
What the amendment Proposes is eqniahs s and
OUT SAME REPRESENTATION AS OTHER CITIES,
National representation the Dstric, will proclaim
world tina, the Republic devoted the principles
representative Government capable OF enforcing them
other republics capitals rolled districts like
Mexico Brazil and Argentina These nations have found
themselves mpotent full national the
people OF their capitals.
1t will proclaim the world that tho people of Washington
FIT participate national representative Government
the people OF Rio Bu"nn Aires and Mexico City Washing
ton VIII cease to be the only Capital in all tho world whose
the national representation that enjoyed by all other
National will cohe the Washingonan with
vital American privilege to which he undenabiy
entitled will cleanse him OF the stigma and stain Of Ame
eanm and curing his political mpotency, win him with
II win relieve the Nation Of the shame
at its heart and Of impoteney to cure this evil
II will inft injury hardship upon Nation or
Capital to eounteraet these benefits.
. After four have passed Americans will
TINS day OF PATRIOTS pride exercising the highest privilege
aud power bestowed the citizens oi the worlds
Republic Shall election day 1923 be
day OF nndeserved humiliation the people District
NATIONS SHAME OF UN-AMERICANISM AT ITS HEART
An evil condition maintained BY the Nation Nations
Capital rightly viewed typical and characteristic The
is national no, local
Auocraic repre- sentative Government in the only
american territory governed exclusively by the Nation brands
the Nation nSe distinctly and mdeibly American
the Nations Git. the Nation The the Nations
heart II the Republic is tainted with a, It's
heart the whole OF the body polite is thus tainted
Should the Nation irrespective the Jus, plea o III.
Na>hnetonans and purely national concern abolish the
OF the National Capital territory under
exclusive national con,ro Al when principle
OF representative Government from without the Ne
public and undermined from within time when all
Americans thrilling the appeal pucr
higher stronger Amtricanism and devoted aud
sacrificing spiri, American nationality will not the Nation m
Ss accordance with the the III its OWL
vital interest that there shall longer the vcv heart
OF the body polite this foul Surs
cal relief the Nation blood poisoning = an
urgent patriotic task Cut it uninehns.! Cut it out at
once!