Show I r a i BELVAS EXPERIENCE II I I Twenty Years in the Social and Political Polit-ical Whirl of Washington I A Disappointed Presidential Candidates Candi-dates Dig at the Newspapers And a Plea That Women should Have OneHalf of the Offices The renownecT female lawyer Mrs Belva A Lockwood lectured last evening in the Salt Lake Theatre to a fairsized audience I au-dience the subject being Social and I Political Life in Washington She was introduced by Delegate John T Caine i whQ made afew highlyeulogistic remarks on her standing as a lawyer and the fact I of her being the only woman who ever received the nomination for President of I the United States Mrs Lockwood is a small fineappear ing woman with a cleartoned and pleasing pleas-ing address and does not altogether suggest sug-gest the presence of briefs musty law books and faded hieroglyphics on yellow parchment Although womanly in appearance ap-pearance she is not entirely void of masculine mas-culine proclivities for there are undercurrents under-currents in all her remarks which are highlyflavored with conceits and witty sarcasms that none but a woman somewhat some-what masculine in thought could utter Many blows were delivered with rapid and stunning effect at our social and political systems in the national capital which caused many ripples of merriment and applause from the audience A residence of TWEXTV YEARS IN WASHINGTON Had convinced her that the national capital capi-tal was to America what Jerusalem was to the Jews and Alexandria to the Arabs a Mecca at whose shrine worshipped the aspirants for spoils and offices that would lead to their attainment a paradise para-dise as a social and political center the museum of mechanism and art the library ot the nation aggregating 63000 volumes and a Congressional library that contains more than twice that number num-ber It was the great seat of learning of our day civil scientific and economic a cosmopolitan city so far as different languages are concerned and the abiding abid-ing place of that great tower of strength the Washington Monument which compares com-pares in grandeur with the tower of Babel and the leaning tower of Pisa She paid many high tributes to AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND INVENTION And was under the impression that the obstacles of time and space would be annihilated in the future a higher perfection per-fection in the art of communication would be established and those obstacles which we now deem insurmountable would pale into insignificance before the light of scientific research and learning The colored race are well represented at Washington and fill many public offices with credit to themselves and the nation but since they are the bone of contention over which two great parties are wrangling for possession their position posi-tion is not an enviable one As the motto of the colored race is Upward and onward on-ward it brings them within the bounds of the worst hightoned Irish displeasure whose greatest boon in life consists in holding office breaking political heads and receiving pay for work they neyer do TilE OFFICIALS AND CLERKS Are spoken of as being barnacles on the body politic who spend all the money they earn and all they can borrow from their friends their position being their capital and stockintrade and when they lose it life has no further charms for them There is no man so depraved as he who has no money and though his cause is a just one he has no protective friend in the government for party lines decide his fate ere he has time to change his politics Dethroned from office he hangs on to the skirts of his party waiting wait-ing for it to regain power suffers penury and want lives in and hopes with an infatuation in-fatuation worthy of a better cause spends his days hanging around the doors of Congress and his nights in garrets and cheap restaurants With every change of administration the hue and cry is to turn the rascals out and though the new administration has its full measure of corruption and a free use of it was necessary to obtain the reins of government that is all forgotten or quietly hushed for the time The lecturer gave special stress to THE IRREPRESSIULE NEWSI A1ER MAN Giving him credit for knowing what people peo-ple wore going to say ere they uttered a word With nimble fingers he prepares speeches for Congressmen the menu for public and private banquets toilets for society ladies and gems of wit to fall from their lips and elaborate bits of scandal and gossip were originated in his own busy brain Washington is a churchgoing city and the Sabbath is generally viewed with Puritanical zeal the church which the President t attends necessarily having the largest attendance and highest pew rents Ours is a great and powerful nation and instead of locking up the public wealth we should throw it into the hands of the people by giving them employment employ-ment Our legislators have made some great mistakes in not passing bills for the relief of the deserving soldiers who were entitled to pensions from having served in the Mexican war and now that there are so few of thorn and they are on the down hill side of life they should be relieved There is more money spent in the Pension Bureau to keep afev undeserving unde-serving out than would be paid to them I if their claims were recognized If some of our public money was spent in I RECLAIMING OUR NAVY I From the insignificance in which it has I fallen and in making lasting improvements improve-ments in the way of absorbing the present pres-ent monopolies and making government enterprises of them it would bo conferring an inestimable service upon the people If women were the legislators there would be a howl set up from one end of the country to the other and it would be I told you so but men can hobnob and watch each other and do nothing without incurring the disgrace a woman would in the same position Women should get onehalf the postoffices of the I country and with 20000 women in the Postoflice Department we could expect to I GET THE NEWS LIVELY Chore is only one case on record of a Republican postmistress getting the best o the Democratic administration and that was by marrying her Democratic successor success-or Women make the most successful lobbyists for they make a complete study of the weaknesses of those they intend to work and by the proverbial weakness of her sex cause men to lose their guard and favor enterprises which their sober judgment condemns When a woman sets her mind on a certain cer-tain object she hardly ever changes her opinion but a man will use every possible possi-ble subterfuge to keep his position and I i readily changes from a Republican to u l partisan Democrat Almost every stage of human existence is represented in the ranks of officeseekers men who have failed in business doctors without patients I ients lawyers without clients and news paper men without subscribers i i THE CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE As the world advances in knowledge be I o 0 t i comes more apparent to the champions of right and women should be allowed to vote and hold office under the Constitution I Consti-tution But as mmm have so long been the masters and have let themselves believe be-lieve that the Blackstonian idea that man I and his wife are one and that one in the 1 man we have no hope is making ourselves our-selves generally heard through them Many of the leading society ladies of I Washington have tried to establish a most thorough court etiquette in our midst but so far caste has not placed an insurmountable barrier between it and the lessfavored majority It is said that exPresident Arthur was noted for his elegant dinners and upon the accession of President Cleveland the French cook who had graced the tables of the White House with such elegant displays of culinary art was peremptor ally discharged and if left to himself the President would be apt to dispense with a cook altogether by COOKING HIS OWN GRUB Although claiming Jacksonian simplicity beforehand he was the recipient of the grandest inaugural that was ever accorded ac-corded a President For grandeur and elegance of display the courts of France with all their regal magnificence did not equal it Mrs Lockwood paid Miss Cleveland many tributes as being the most accomplished accom-plished lady that has been in the White House for many years A splendid eulogy on General Grant his career sufferings his devotion to his last literary effort the reception his book should receive from the people and ending end-ing by complimenting American institutions institu-tions completed the lecture Mrs Lockwood will lecture again in i the Theatre on Friday evening the topic chosen being Women of Today |