| Show ii NOTHING = DOING Dull Winter at the National A Capital 1 fIlE ORDINARY CONGRESSMEN Leaven that Is Now Socl oTL = The STovelalisatig orkf Throujhout the Country WASIIIFOTON Feb 20 1885 Conespondaaof Tnt IIBALDJ The same old storynothing doing admitted that a duller universally unl It IS not been known in Wash baa winter nn for many years Were it not for the mgton anticipations of February 21 and of Match 4th those accustomed to the excitement ex-citement of capital life yet outside of c the pales of the upper ten social circles would find life almost unbearable The wheel and the amusement buzz social jaw > are in a constant whirr No human being is equal to taking in all the social gatherings and could not think of entertaining all the propositions for amusement that money affords There i are no less that eight theatres or halls I hlch entertainments of a theatrical in which character are held six days each week and six of this number are regularly organized theatres three of them giving two performances every day Sunday excepted There are an average of eight to ten balls nightly perhaps two to four concerts and two lectures Then there are church gatherings Christian Association meetings temperance temper-ance conventions the meetings of debating de-bating and literary societies and political politi-cal a Andso it goes or ad infnitum i and yet in the midst of this perpetual amusement convulsion with entertainment for man and beast of every variety suited to every taste and all colors it is possible for a person to get woefully lonesome If a fellow had all the money in the world and was suffering suf-fering for amusement and was satisfied with ease or with difficulty he would often be driven next door to distraction decide which of the many amusements amuse-ments offered he would perfer With all the advantages Washington possesses social and educational notwithstanding not-withstanding the fact that the brightest and weightiest in the land gather here grt h i fh rreJ one is not distressed with the superfluous superflu-ous intelligence floating around nor with the overpowering evidences of Icmesty and probity Private characters are anything but safe from private assault The fact that a man is a member of Congress which ordinarily would and which ever should be the best evidences of a mans integrity and patnotism fast becoming a brand and an intimation that the individual sporting 0 as an appendix to his name is a trickster a liar and a charlatan charla-tan in proportion to the amount of abiltiy with which nature has endowed him Nor is the fact that a person is anY an-Y C any evidence of brains It is a notorious fact that an infinetesimal proportion of the men who are in the House of Representatives do any work The others are no use whatever save tovote swell around and draw their salaries Such a thing as taking part in any honest legislation is rarely dreamed of It is of aslittle moment that a man should be accused of working not for his constituent nor for needed legisla tion but for reelection Men joke each ether about it and where they are near ly all moral convicts and where honor attaches more to the place and to the loan because of the place rather than to the man himself and to his conduct in We With the Senate it is better in some respects and far worse in others It is accepted as a selfevident or a thoroughly established fact that the senate will never pass any measure whit M construed in any light might possibly menace a corporation or a monopoly ly > Brains nor honesty nor reputation count for anything if a Tunis has money he can be a United States Se Senator 5dJ protect all the in rests ofrmg and opthe aggregated ffinff a Poor and hardworking op Ho suffering community As in the Ie there ttSr are men conspicuous for thefr fr patriotism and love of right but the as e leg Iatars t men absolutely worthless flwK the rs notoriously corrupt as monSA1 certain friends of all monopolies the enemy of every move ment calculated cu ated to help the working the flnandall blood sucke throat some ot uch UClaI bloodsnckers the fact that gain pos men lh can by the power of money of f intellectual tionsthaat should be evidences ec a and moral Itlli superiority ttellsatale a t le of is anyt national degradation that reveres anything but pleasant for one who Ievereslinerian i institutions and pre uatea the ap which ththe glorIOUs opportunities an strIDjeescm rit for the honest labor The merl t lndicaGons People of atioUns are that the pious the oOruethine United States mIl have to methiagbesides exercis the M ° rmon People Ithasrrue emselves with ere long ° SOCialisrpul rv been supposed that could find nihUlSts and dynamiters roalnd n sfor labors inra d for nrrn hfield or their labors in awe a-we sS jl ± f evh e United States There is sSrn8 eVIdences that this illusion Whereve sUmmarily to be dispelled and goverm one class has the financial other there nmental advantage over the men Inere you will fine desperate land all n 11 Russin German m Ire the door the ills of the Poor ire laid at conntruLn government for in these 5h > ch li 1 v7r ° mejit recognizes a caste lifeblood tike the vampire on the of v of the the capSth Poor In America it is I k < niaa m the unprincipled and in mon P ° or S ° P ° Iiat that crushes the onnal Government ofi > while it gives no dal favored ca recognition of such a spoken frie nd lSf nevertheless the out Iled 0 t robber every form of organ life o calulaJd the poor Any mcas 1r this mane to dcurtlil the ndvantaes g0 ° se ° mkeeTed class is caved by fhe utmost dig p esentative3 only with the baliIn + C2S to tras witness the Rea likllled b yth Commerce billonlv to li t e ttJl powerf1 ti pmonpu arm of gov rn against ron wend l1nstlndust uncedfnendofmonevas I Senate r of th Y and honest laborthe Ihacis are 50 United States These notorious character the ahacter of unworthy kota C1Umon fame that legislate is ot itg lbandied fIlartJlip to Ii amo H that it is bandied jibs the sU lipeby e every newspaper is 3 l ion the foul conundrum and tlou 111 long 8inc U C ° lions have 1 n any conspicuous quarter ees What hma is inevitable outcome of such a condition con-dition when protracted The answer is unmistakable it is anarchy The man who is willing to work finds it impossible impossi-ble to live on the allowance He sees those he labors for accumulating millions mill-ions rand rolling in wealth they cannot utilize to advantage while he and his wife and children suffer either starvation starva-tion from enforced idleness or from want for the actual necessities of life even while employed He sees this and he sees that every effort of government govern-ment is to increifse the powers of and protect property of one classa favored oneat his expense and that of his co laborers and he hates with a depth of hatred that many and bitter wrongs alone beget those who oppress him and those who with the forms that protect that oppressor His hatred is excited by unprincipled hounds unwilling to work and who hope to enjoy at the expense of the rich and by the destruction destruc-tion of property and the flowing of blood He is without legal redress and unlawful methods must be resorted to Woe to a nation when the wrongs of its laboring classes become too grievous to be bornefor in that hour peasantthe laboring classes the stay of every State will turn and the scenes the French Revolution the burning and riots in London the French commune and the riots Pitteburgjiggravated a thousand fold will be reenacted The result is inevitable where the conditions promote as they do in this country and as they seem to do in Europe If the warnings of this day are not for the wise there is a great likelihood that Utah will be avery a-very comfortable place for many who want to see it sink today for no riots can occur in a Territory like Utah while property is as generally divided as it is today If there is any significance whateverin the events of thetimes it is thatthe people of these United States will soon have a more serious and more im menent danger to grapple than the Mormon question WANDERER t |
