Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 6 | Sherman's Threat

SHERMAN'S THREAT. Senator Shern.au of Illinois, imlig-nant imlig-nant at the profiteering landlords of the national capital, threatens lo introduce in-troduce a bill to remove the scat of the i'ed-'ial fovernment from the LUs-triet LUs-triet of Columbia to some western city, preferably St. Louis. Washington, he declares, is no fit place for a capital, to begin with. It isn't centrally located, locat-ed, its only industry is politics, he says, and the chief aim of houseowners and restaurant proprietors is to extract the last penny from the pockets of their tenants and customers. The Illinois senator lias a reputation for speaking I113 mind in language bereft be-reft of any attempt at finesse, and ho docs so in this instance. His opinion of the national capital, or, rather, its gouging landlords and hotel and cafe keepers, doubtless would not be fit to print. The cost of living in Washington Washing-ton is notoriously steep; rents are at a tremendously high level and everything every-thing else in proportion. That is the statement of others besides Senator Sherman. Washington is atrociously hot in summer and but for the presence pres-ence of congressmen its winters would be monotonous to a degree. In facf, Washington's saving grace is its proximity prox-imity to Baltimore and Philadelphia. But high prices and profiteers arc not peculiar to the District of Columbia. Colum-bia. The gouger is omnipresent. . And why St. Louis? With wdiat explanation will Mr. Sherman face Chicago, after proposing the Mound city as the successor suc-cessor of Washington as the fedcraJ capital And what is to be done with the marble piles, the capitol and the rest of them? It is a big undertaking for oven Mr. Sherman to propose. Perhaps, Per-haps, after all, it would be better to ! cuss the profiteers a little more vigorously vigor-ously and let it go at that.