Evening star., 1936-11-03
The Day, November 3, 1896
To the Un-Americanized Americans of the District
A Day of Humiliation and Mourning.
To Other Americans Day of National Enthusiasm
and Patriotic Pride.
THEODORE w. MOVES.

THEoDoF
of
a @ ons s or al @ g not SS the
among the whole people Every American sovereign in
his right day he this sovereignty
as he deposits his vote in the ballot box
To all full hedged Americans this is day of national
inspiration and patriotic pride.
To the -Americanized Americans of Washington the
day is one of humiliation and mourning
The Americans of the District of Columbia alone
denied the opportunity in future the
sovereignty which belongs to them and attaches nseparaby
The 4s6S69 Americans of the District 1880 census
figures the latest census count later figures being es
Of the and eontisaoas
is denied representation in the National Govern
ment
relation the sole function of the
the laws which they must obey
DISTRICT MORE POPULOUS THAN EIGHT STATES.
The Americans of the District of Columbia, according
to the of 1880 ounumber the Americans of eight OF
Vermont, Delaware wyoming and Nevada. They send
agents to the National to make laws for them
mont s. arizona 5; New Mexico s. Delaware, 5; wyoming
Montana and Utah in 1880 exceeded slightly the
District of Columbia in population They send to the Ma
Ss sns ush
new Executive To the electoral college Which chooses
Of Rs H1sd sstsz sends
wyoming,
g. and Nevada 3. X
m to the Of Se
% SAFES Sh MORE % Than S NNE STATES % ccMBINEp.
whatever in the taxing body the District Of Columbia paid
in national taxes nernal revenue for national
The District of Columbia with Representative in
Congress- contributed in national be expended by
Congress for national and than
25 States including Georga with l2 votes in Congress
S5afs q S0u 8
aaS 1;kss New Ra
ico s. Vermont s. and Washington nevada D Ne"
The District of Columbia with Senators or Repre-
which senators Reprsenatives are paid
pa s
Arkansas South Dakota North Dakota IDAHO Arizona New
Mexico Vermont and Wyoming.
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
and % t Rsd in M an n taxes Tas 7
concerning the amount and kind of taxes they should pay
and how the tax money should be spent The District of
permitted to send no to the National Leg
aure to participate in deciding how the tax money should
hagrant of taxation without representation
it is impossible to conceive.
IN relation national the function
4ses6e 1890 Americans Of the District of Columbia is
other Americans in the councils which determine war or
a
SENT MORE SOLDIERS TO WAR THAN SEVEN STATES.
The soldiers sailors and marines furnished by the Dis
contributed by Of seven States New Hampshire
Vermont, New Mexico Wyoming, Arizona, Delaware and
Nevada Votes in Congress to make war; to end to
decide whether shall go to war; are cast by those
communities, as follows:
District of Columbia, 0; New Hampshire, 4; Vermont g.
New Mexico 8; Wyoming, g. Arizona, g. Delaware g. and
Nevada 3.
OF VOTING e AGE s4.z EXCEEDED IN 1880 THAT
It's population voting age 21) in was 341-
1885, exceeding that of 10 of the States.
1t is contended, however that these figures of voting
m
of District residents who vote in the States and who might
not vote in the District even if they had the opportunity
in the District 1906 thoroughly qualified actual
voters in the States There 4O7S6 persons the
District who hold their places under the apporonment
and partisan leaders in the presidential campaign of 1882
estimated that there from to 10000 persons in
the District who could if they @ & vote in the States
sonabe carried the figure OF possible potential voters In the
States up to 10000.
and District lin 1s3O the residents not nat
uralzed be deducted and from the Districts population
Of voting there be further subraced 10000 covering
deductions the resulting D. c. potential voters who vote
Nsw asmpsre s only s2 than that of ga
than Idaho 3S,784; 1924 than Mexico
241s5 48 oo more than Vermont (2o3 4ss 300 more
O27,23O), and 1876 726 more than Nevada (55,713).
OVER FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND OF VOTING AGE
IN 1885,
In the pending presidential campaign Q936) the D. c.
reelection estimates of the D. C. residents who if regis
tered could vote in the States to figure 100000
have su a M e q oe
ation from 4s6S69 1880 to an estimate OF $4,000 on
In the 1880 the residents years of
constituted of population (486869