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Show " STATEHOOD WANTED. The people of the District of Columbia Colum-bia are going in for self-determination. The time is propitious for the movement, move-ment, they arue. At pre&ent they enjoy en-joy none or the privilege- of Americans -ave that of piying tuxes. They are taxed -without reprfpentation, they pay, and that is something the forefathers brought as an indictment apaint-t George the Third, and forthwith wt-nt in armed revolt. The inhabitants of the fcdrml ; district do not indicate that Ihey ;i rc j going to the extremes of the forefathers 1 in ursi ng their demands, but they arc very nines in earnest, nevertheless. The dictrii" is governed by a federal conimisHiun. residents have no voice in jtihlie affairs and no vnte. They bear (he tax burden of citizenship without with-out enjoying the rigt to elect their favorite to office or reject the candidate candi-date of the despised opposition. Seeing See-ing that pelf-determination is being preached in P;jrin as an inalienable right the world over, the District of Columbians Colum-bians propose to apply the principle where it hun be- a mo't negleeted, rpc-ci.'illy rpc-ci.'illy in the I'nited States. A'lmi.-ion in'o the uniun a a sovereign sov-ereign s';ite 11 au3;rd, with representation representa-tion in congress by two fenatnrs and two representative". The matter is being be-ing vigonitisly pressed, mid Washington reports huve it th.'it a bill ere-tirI(r the district into a f ul-f If dge.J commonwealth common-wealth will be propo-ied in the coining enngrr";. |