The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1889 Page: 4 of 6
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From our Special Corre§pond«nt.
OUR WA8HIHQT0H LETTER.
Washington, May 4, ’89.
APRIL 30,1789. APRIL 30, 1889.
STATES, 1789,
THIRTIIK.
POPULATION
4,000,000.
»*•**«**
STATES, 1889,
-roRTY-TWO .—
POPULATION,
65,000.000.
THEN AND NOW.
When Wishing ton President,
A* cold «• any icicle.
He never on a railroad went.
And never rode a bicycle.
He read by no electric lamp,
Nor heard about the Yellowstone,
He never licked a postage stamp,
And never saw a telephone.
His trousers ended at the knees;
Bv wire be could not send dispatch.;
He lUled his lamp with whale-oil grease.
And never had a match to scratch.
But in these days it's come to pass,
f All work is with such dashing done—
We've all those things; but then, alas—
We seem to haye no Washington.
—Robert J. Burdette.
Now that the whoop and hurrah Is
over, let’e take stock and strike a bal-
ance, at It were, and see if we have not
tome dark shadows that will lilt across
the brilliant picture we have been asked
to admire. There id no qiore worthier
cause to celebrate than the growth, proas,
perity and happiness of a people as a
State. Pride of one's country is a com-
mendable pride, but In contemplating
with pride the greatness of pur countrv,
we should not let our pride blind our
eyes so that we cannot also see the quick-
sands and quagmires that are scattered
here and there along our pathway of pro-
gress. A country may be great in point
of numbers and the amount of wealth
that has been accumulated within its
borders, but wealth breeds cowardice and
corruption, and numbers often lead to
communism and crime. A country that
is wealthy by the aggregation of money-
holders is strong, but a country where
wealth is gathered by unjust laws into the
hands of the few, to the Injury and wrong
of the toiling millions is a menace to a
Republic’s stability. Rome, poor but
tv hardy, was the mistress of the world, and
it was only when she became rich and
profligate that she fell an easy prey to the
hordes of vandals and goths that poured
in over her borders. Other nations have
passed through the same ordeal, and it
might be well while celebrating the pass-
ing of our centennial mile post as a con-
stitutional government, to see if we have
not lost much that makes a nation truly
great, in the accumulation of such vas't
fortunes in the hands of the few and the
pauperizing of the many. Take England
for an example, the England of the nine-
teenth century, the treasure house of the
world, and compare her to the England
1 rich in
the
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of eighteenth century, not so
money, bujt the richest nation on
globe in true greatness. Then she was
the mistress of the seas and the arbiter of
Europe, but to-day not a nation in Eu-
rope so poor as to do her homage. Eng-
land to-day will take a snub for fear that
if she resents it her shop-keepers would
suffer a loss in pocket. And the United
States is fast going into the same rut. As
a nation we have submitted to enough
insults since 1865 for a dozen wars. Was
it a coincidence, or a piece of satire, that
the celebration of this centennial should
have been on the steps of the United
States sub-treasury on Wall street, New
York? When Washington took the oath
of office on Wall street, New York, April
jo, 17S9, he there became the head public-
servant of the whole peqple of the United
States. It was a fitting piece of irony
for Harrison, as the President of the
United States, to journey to New York
and stand on the steps of'the sub-treasury
of the United States, not as the president
of the people as their public servant, but
the servant of Wall street; through his
secretary of the treasury The president,
his cabinet and the supreme court were
all in Wall street that day, in person, but
In practice they are there every day in the
year. This may seem tough but it has
the merit of being true, and if anv wrong
has been done, It is not by the writer
stating it; hut the fact that affairs are so
that it can be so stated is where the crime
lays. When Washington became the
President of the United States, he was
not president of but a small portion of
what is tjow the United States. The
state, of Texas Florida Louisiana. Ar- j he is fit for the place." But'the l^tma's-
were then under the Spanish flag. Oregon
was claimed by England in common with
getting at such a discount, and the for-
eign element of the poorer class so pro-
lific, that it is only a question of time
when even Blue Blooded Boston will be-
come an American city only in name. In
1789 there was not a millionaire in the
United States; but as an offset we had no
tramps. In one hundred years we have
reached a point where our millionaires
are counted by the thousand, and our
tramps by the tens of thousands. This
may be a cause of gratification by the
Depews, and his employers, but for men
who think more of country than of pelf,
it is otherwise. How strange!v to the
thoughtful does this selection of" an ora-
tor for the day seem, yet, when we con-
sider who were the ones in Wall street
celebrity how appropriate? Chauncy
Depew, the witty after dinner speaker,
and attorney and employe of the Vander-
bilts. In Washington’s time, the then
boatman, Van der Bilt, spelt the name as
it was, viz., Van der Belt, but during the
hundred years the name has run into
Vanderbilt. As the Vanderbilts, Goulds,
Sages, Standfords, Crockers and that
crowd, to say nothing of Standard Oil
Rockenfelter, Payne, vVhitney, etc., now
rule the country through both democrats
and republicans, it was peculiarly appro-
priate that the mouthpiece, attornev and
lobbyist of that gang should be chosen
orator of the day. How well he spoke
his piece. Americar from his standpoint,
was first settled at Plymouth Rock, Massa-
chusetts. Jamestown, Va., and John
Smith were unknown to him. Though
he was to deliver an oration on Washing-
ton,a careful perusal of hisspeechs shows
that while he thought George Washington
was a good man in his time and day, the
master mind was Alexander Hamilton,
Washington’s Cabinet, was Jefferson,
secretary of state; Hamilton, secretary of
treasury; Knox, secretary of war, and
Randolph, attorney-general. Read De-
pew’s oration carefully through and vou
will see a studied effort to belittle Jeffer-
son arid laud Hamilton. By his system
of'reasoning, Hamilton w as the father of
the national bank system,high tariff, and
as the democrats follow Jefferson and the
republicans follow Hamilton and as De-
pejw is a republican and tool of a corpora-
tlbn, It can be easy to see that the so-
called celebration of the Washington
Centennial, was but a base prostitution
to the glorification of the republican
party and the money bags of the United
States. The celebration of this Centen-
nial in N«fw York was de-Americanized
when two such assinene creatures as the
“four-hundred-set Ward McAllester” and
“we-Centennial-people” Fish w-ere put
at; the head of affairs. When the pro-
gram of the ball was announced, and we
were told who could dance in the Cen-
tennial set, and when the orator of the
day was announced, it was plain to be
seen that plain American people had no
business there- What a fitting climax to
the outcome at the ball, drinking and
carousing to such an extent that decent
people fled and the police called in to
clear out the house. Times are some-
what different in New York to what th- >
were in Washington’s time. And vet we
rejoice.
THEORY VS. FACTS.
I he ship of state that was launched
April 30, 1789, with Washington at the
helm was freighted with a valuable cargo,
of self-government. The chart by which
he and his successors were to sail by was,
equal and exact justice to all, special
pfivilges to none. The greatness good
fqr the greatness number was marked as
the harbor of safety on this chart. The
sea that the ship was to sail over was an
unknown sea, with many hidden rocks
along its bottom, unknown eddies and
whilpools were on its bosom. Bv a strict
attention to the chart and a strong arm
and cool head much danger could be
averted. But it was a dangerous thing to
try new and unbeaten tracks. All his-
torians agree that Washington honestly
tried to confine himself to the chart of
the constitution and went over many
bad places without danger. In Washing-
f°h’s time the crew were poor and
patriotic. At the present time it is
different. Their brains and merit were
the controlling influences in selecting
men. How is it now? Take the present
cabinet for a sample, Blaine is secretary
of state, because it was necessary to make
a dicker for his heelers to vote the ticket.
Windam is secretary of the treasury, be-
cause Wall street wanted him and he
goes in ostensively as a Western man,
but really Eastern. Noble is secretary of
the Interior, because he was a school-
mate of the President. Miller is attornev
general, tor the simple and sole reason
that he was a law partner of the Presi-
dent. Tracey is secretary) of the navy,
because the two wings of'the republican
party in New \ ork could not agree on a
man, and the President took him as not
being the choice of either. Proctor is
secretary of war, because he represents
the blue bloods of New England, and
Rusk, secretary of agriculture, because
simply and solely because he bought it.
1 his is the idea of the dav and shows
^wev^irbJm:hro^,^
was a Russian province. From the stand- a.tairs? The people themsehes n
olnt ot growth in area, we certainly theory we are .'government of the peo-
ind should h- j pie, by the people and for the people.
pot... ... R.wwss. ... «ic«, wc cerminn
have much to he proud of and should be
Steam, electricity, gas, postage stamps,
bicycles, matches, dudes, and a thou-
sand other things we think absolutely
necessary for our dally existence, were
not dreamed of. We are • ahead in that
respect, but they were ahead of us in the
character of the men and women thev
had that day. There are more divorces
granted In the City of Washington at the
present time, in a month, than were
granted in the whole United States in the
year 1789. The women of that dav were
as chaste as the best we now have but
were more prolific, for at that time
motherhood was looked upon as being
honorable and not, as at the present
ashkvnable It Is a lamentable
l- . - , ■----- people.
r*ach male citizen twentv-one vear* and
oyer, with the exception of idiots,
lpnatics, insane people and persons con-
victed of crime, has a ballot placed in his
hand*. It is sad but nevertheless true
tijat but few people understand the full
responsibility of the ballot placed, not j
inherited, in their hands. The ballot is i
placed in every voter’s hands in trust to
be used for the attainment of the ends for
which our government was established.
No voter has a right to use his ballot for
any other purpose. It is not placed in
his hands as an article of barter, and the
nian who tor money uses the ballot com-
mits a crime that should be punished
with the severest penalties. But alas!
mugh ballots are annually sold to make
■^MteazissrwsvsT^n, a howling force. The
press, to a great extent, shares the blame
for the state of affairs. How many pa-
pers are there to-day that come up to the
highest order of good purpose? So it
was a fact that instead of being the
educators of the people, and by constant
endeavor point out the pitfalls and quick-
sands that abound, debase themselves by
finding out the weak and depraved taste
of their readers and then pander to that
taste to increase their circulation.
Statesmanship has been laid aside and
the demagogue is on top. In the better
days of our republic we had statesmen
who made the science of good govern-
ment a study, and put themselves in the
lead to lead the people.to a higher plain.
To do this required self-sacrifice, patriot-
ism and patience. No so with your
demagogue. He has no opinion ot his
own, except to get office, and keep it.
His every effort is to find out what the
prejudices and passions of the masses are
and then pander to them. There can be
but one result from such a course;
patriotism, and the best interests of a
common country are traded off for
office, and at the end of one hundred
years of constitutional government we
have arrived at that point where we are
absolutely ruled by rings, from the elec-
tion of a precinct" constable to the elec-
tion of a president. Another and the
great curse to this country is our un
restricted immigration of "paupers and
disreputable people from Europe. The
greed of gain is the cause for this.
Scores of steamship lines ply between our
shores and Europe. 7"hey run for the
money that is in it. , By a "high tariff we
make it Impossible to bring merchandise
from Europe sufficient to pav the ships
for running. To get freight these com-
panies have agents drumming Europe for
immigrants to bring to this country for
the freight that is in them. Men" who
are the offspring of people who for
centuries have been ground under the
iron heel of despotism, and who are not
able to tell the difference between license
and liberty are dumped by the hundred
thousands each year on our shores to
taunt and undermine the system of a
government for the people. These peo-
ple reared and educated in a country
where government means oppression,
land here innoculated with hate to all
government. They come faster than
they can be assimilated to our American
idea, hence, here in the United States
where we should have but one class of
voters and those American voters, we
never hold a convention nor adopt a
platform for a party that we do not hear
of this or that being done to capture the
Irish vote, the German vote, the Scan-
danavian, and God knows what else vote.
Let a man get up and say, “let’s bid for
the American vote,’’ and he is at once
silenced for fear that he may injure, not
the country but the-partv. The
truth had just as well be told at this Cen-
tennial as any other time, and that is,
that there is not a state in the union
where a man can run for^m office as an
American and get elected. He maybe
an American born and bred, or honestly
naturalized, but he does not say it, if he
wants votes. Go to your court houses
and read the oath that a foreigner takes
when he becomes naturalized. You will
see that he takes a solemn oath to re-
nounce all his allegiance to any foreign
potentate and becomes by his oath’s
form, an American; and yet before the
ink is dry ot his signature he is in the
political pot taking a hand to de-Ameri-
canize all our lands, customs and habits.
The steamship company brings him here
for the freight that is'in him, and the
professional demagogues’ heelers hurry
to get him naturalized for the vote he
has to sell. This is our progress in a
hundred years. In theory our govern-
ment is based on law and order, yet we
daily allow men to become naturalized
citizens who loudly proclaim against all
law and order, and" openly say that there
every vote will be for the overthrow of
the government thev have sworn to pro-
tect and support. Was there ever such
assinene tolly! in Enrope self-confess-
ed anarchist are put down as thev should
be with grape and cannister. But now
it is different. Let the authorities of
anv city, county, state, or the United
States, take these cut-throats bv the
throat, though it may be done for the
best interests of all, aiid the partv out of
power will take up the cause of these men
and promise, that if, by their votes, thev
will turn the other party out and put them
in, then they can do as they please. This
is wrong. VVe are party men during the
election, but we are, or should be, good
citizens at all times. Party mav be a
good thing, but good citizenship is better
at all times. Whenever a man takes the
oath of office to any office in the states or
United States, he then becomes the pub-
lic servant of ,all the people of his baili-
wick, and not of his party alone. This is
an obligation that rests on him bv virtue
of his office. But there is an obligation
equally as strong resting on the shoulders
of every true citizen who respects the
majesty of the law, and that is, he i*
bound by allegiance to his countrv to up-
hold the hands of the lawfuilv elected
public servant; no matter if he "was elect-
ed bv the opposition party. If he has, in
discharge of his lawful duty, to hang a
cut-throat, he should be commended and
not condemned. Party success achieved
by honorable means is" a good thing, but
to gain party success by the prostitution
of the honor and fair name of one’s
countrv is a hideous crime. It is well,
perhaps, that this centennial should come
more than a year before a national elec-
tion for congressmen. It would be better
if the people of the whole countrv would
devote some of the time to reading up
the ways that are dark, now so freely
traveled by professional demagogues, and
make up their minds that in the future
they will think and act for themselves and
try and stem the tide and check the mad
run that we are now; making, to a time
when a man owes allegiance to the Gov-
ernment founded by George Washington
and his co-patriots, will not find it neces-
sary to apologize for being an American
citiaen.
KOTBS AROUND WASHINGTON.
The total amount of bonds purchased
from August 3, 1887, to date is $163,382,-
85°! of which $101,805,650 were 4 1-2 per
cents and $61,677,200 were 4 per cents.
The total cost of these bonds was $189,-
■80,259, of which $110,268,210 was paid
for the 4 1-2 per cents and $78,912,048
was paid tor the 4 per cents. The cost of
these bonds at maturity would have been
$-24»594<I52 or $116,096,507 for the 4 1-2
per cents and $108,497,645 tor the 4 per
cents. The saving by their purchase was
$34>4i3>892> or $51828,296 on the 4 1-2 per
cents and $29,585,596 on the 4 per cents.
President Harrison went to the New
York centennial, andt^s a proof of how
much Washingtonianism he absorbed we
can see by his appointing his brother to
the good fat office ot marshal for the
middle district of Tennessee. The Har-
rison family will not get lett this adminis-
tration, that is certain. Let’s celebrate.
REDUCING THE SURPLUS.
By the time congress meets the ques-
tion of surpkis will be a thing of the
past. Coriwal Tanner is working might
and main to pay a pension to all that ask
it; and, with the assistance ot the pen-
sion agents here, by the time congress
meets there will be "a deficiency of per-
haps $30,000,000 to provide for and the
annual list increased from $80,000,000 to
over $125,000,000 per annum. Let us
celebrate.
TH* INGRATES LAMENT.
“O ven I dinks ot vat I am,
And vat I used to vas,
I dink I fling mineself avay,
Mitout my getting pay.”
So sings Gnat Q. Henderson, as he
daily walks the street, and sees his chance
forgetting office getting beautifully less
as the days fly past with rapid rate. Gnat
should have remembered the old truism
that, while the world have often utilized
the treason,they always detest the traitor.
Ex-Sutler Zadek has not, up to date,
secured the appointment of “Consul mit
Hamburg.” To say that Zadek is furious
but mildly expresses it. He said to the
writer the other night that Harriaon vas
running the barty, and if he did not get
his place, he be tamned it he verks mit
the barty any more. Keep cool Zadek,
they know your worth, and know that
they can get you it they want you.
A BLOCK OF FIVE.
Dudley, in his letter, to his triend in
Indiana, saya, Harrison has gone back on
him, because the wicked Democrats say
that he wrote that block of five letters.
Harrison believes himself in flocks ot
five, if not in blocks, for he has a bunch
of fives ot h'.s own. His appointments
from Indianapolis is as follows: Porter,
Halford, New, Miller and Husted. How
many ex-soldiere in this list? G.
From our Special Correspondent.
BU8I5E88 REVIEW.
Philadelphia, May 3, ’S9.
Chicago will have a population ot
1,221,000 as soon as it adds a few
suburbs.
Bennett, of the Paris Herald,
wants the United States to send a
strong corps of American mechanics
to the Paris exposition to see and
learn things.
Laredo, Tex., will soon have the
largest railway shops west of the
Mississippi river.
Out of the new enterprises re-
ported in the south, about one-third
of them are talse alarms. Neverthe-
less there is great activity. A kind
of land speculation is in progress
there, and it has been stimulated re-
cently by the heavy purchases of
lumber manufacturers, iron-makers
and coal miners. Only this week a
very large delegation of capitalists
are passing through the West Vir-
ginia coal regions with a view ot de-
ciding upon purchasing several large
tracts of land which have been on
the market for some time.
Sugar is to be towed in barges
from Mantanza up the Delaware
i river.
The anthracite coal trade is con-
j siderably broken up, and the buyers
j are endeavoring to keep clear of the
| market, hoping that the anxiety of
the miners will force them into mak-
| ing a concession.
| The master builders of the United
States do $750,000,000 worth of
I building every year.
The rail-mills are coaxing for busi-
j ness, but the railroad builders are
slow to give it.
Several new paper-mills are being
built in Wisconsin. Some of them
are ot very large capacity. The
paper-mill industry is prospering and
much capital is rushing into paper
making.
One electrical company has 104
motor cars in operation on iS roads
with 85 miles of track, and has under
control 14 additional motors.
| The new Edison company has a
capital of $2,000,000. Business is
^going to be pushed.
The Standard Oil company has
just bought twenty-five mi!es of steel
pipe to be laid in Pennsylvania.
The railroads are not making
money; a great deal of new work
1 is projected, but builders are slow
about going ahead. A 70-mile road
is to be built in California, a 210
mile road in British Columbia, a road
from Denver to Salt Lake City, and
a number of small roads in Illinois.
There are several very important
schemes under way for the improve-
ment of inland navigation and the
construction of canals which will
compete with railroads. Just what
shape these schemes will take it is
impossible to say. Among the
| schemes contemplated is the slack-
j watering of a portion of the Ohio,
' also of the Allegheny, and the slack-
watering of some small streams in
the west.
Since iSSr there has been $37,-
000,000 worth of lumber stolen from
the government, and only about
$500,000 worth of it recovered.
The Distons, at Philadelphia, em-
ploy 2100 hands, and turn out 400
dozen saws a day.
Steel rails are down to $26 per
ton, and the mills do not get half
enough to do at that.
Reports from builders in the large
cities and small towns show that
house building was never more ac-
tive than it is so tar in 1S89. Very
large contracts have recently been
closed tor lumber in lumber centres
in Arkansas and in the gulf states.
An upward tendency in prices is
looked for. No such tendency is
manifested in iron. Prices have not
been weakened in the iron trade, al-
though pressure in that direction is
very strong.
The iron trade is in a had way,
but, for all that, the output of crude
iron is 150,000 tons per week.
Another effort will shortly he
made to build the South Pennsyl-
vania road. Railroad builders have
plans completed for a vast amount of
work, but are waiting for more pro-
pitious indications. The interstate
commerce commission is making ex-
cellent headway in the extremely dif-
ficult problems placed in their hands.
It has a few score decisions to make
—enough to tax the strength of in-
tellectual giants.
Dry goods manufacturers are
working on some of the finest de-
signs and qualities of goods ever
presented to the market. There will
be new styles in all French satines
and zephyr ginghams of all designs.
The qualities of drapery silks and
hosiery goods have never yet been
equal to those to be presented this
summer. The Vestibule silks, plain
and printed, are also coming in,
which will excel anything yet of-
fered, and India silk goods of ex-
quisite weave and pattern are coming
out. The manufacturers recognize
that something must be done to
stimulate demand, and they have
certainly accomplished their object.
During the past year there were
mined in the United States 145,400,-
000 tons of coal, worth $208,000,-
000. The production in Great Brit-
ain was 162,000,000 tons.
The boot and shoe makers report
a sluggish demand, but are not al-
lowing stocks to accumulate.
“Will the supply last?” is the
question the natural gas people are
asking.
Business is light among jobbers
and retailers, but wholesalers and
manufacturers are preparing for a
heavy fall and winter trade.
In 3267 factories in Berlin there
are 4970 apprentices, or 66 ap-
prentices to every 1000 workmen.
Last week $10,000 worth of dry
goods were imported to Brazil and
$S2.ooo worth to China.
Last week lake navigation opened
up, but this will not help trade
much. Some 200 miles of road are
to be built this year in the State of
Pennsylvania to develop coal, iron
and timber lands.
Immense wheat crops arc promised
in California, and this is worth more
than the gold mining.
Magnificent presents tor distribu-
tion bv lot, by Fashion and Fancy,
including solid silver and diamonds,
given away to the first five hundred
yearly subscribers, after April 15,
to that magazine—now on exhibition
at the Mermod-Jaccard Jewelry Co.
St. Louis, Mo. Send 25 cents for
sample copy to “ Fashion and
Fancy,” 610 Olive Street, St. Louis,
Missouri.
St-tf
A woman who became insane trom
religious excitement and was ad-
mitted to the asylum at Staunton,
\ a., is 1828, has just died, having
been an inmate ot the institution for
l sixty years. She 92 year* old.
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