| Show I UNCLE SAM AND HIS NEGRO SPIES Peculiar Condition Exists in inMany InMany Many Departments ol of the Federal Government Government PRESIDENT NOT AWARE OF IT Ctrl s In II n Ilc Duo Jm lo I Chiefs Chich Of Ot Special Correspondence Corre Washington W D C Nov NOI 1 I In ln the executive departments II of the tl government In the national capital the clerical work Is I lone done by b the tho linger Inger and Ind brains of ot otI American Indict ind gentlemen I H I Is unfortunate but tru that some ome of ot bureaus and many chiefs of or ori i divisions crazed with wih v little brief au authority affect to believe beleve that thai work nork la III dons don by b penitentiary If It an observer ob ma properly Jud e tram from th out to them Practically ever the organization tion of or the pension ten lon onee in which bu bureau reau more than 2000 gentlemen and i ladles are ure employed It has been cm eu for commissioners loners to busy bus themselves devising Int promulgating rules rule governing the conduct of at the 11 and usually there rules nn an annoy noy the es make them unhappy py and unfit them for tor the best endeavor or of or railroads trust com companies and other large corporations simply required to do their work re receive ehe their pay pa and BO go about a out their business In the th pension office which Is I used us as ns an to show a SK tem which pervades all of ot the depart departments departments ments are lre restricted ns a v tl their modes of ot living the manner In which they the clipse of ot money which they have earned and nd ar are hampered as asto asto to their rights as RI American citizens to borrow or do business of ot any kind out outside ou side elde of or the th bureau In one 01 branch of ot the treasury de department there Is I a particularly ob objectionable spy P system estem Nero Negro men and women wOlen ostensibly employed as O Om messengers m watchmen or clerks have 11 for tor their real business the of spying upon the tha and gentlemen who ore are attending to tl the clerical work of or that bureau burel The reports of ot these negro spies to the head heat of ot the bureau are ae acted upon as ae though they are always true tre as I Holy Writ Many a time a n white man or woman I finds that the head of ot the bureau Is displeased by b the nagging and nu numerous numerous little menns menn of ot annoying hu human without knowing the c man beings ui The cause Is usually In th the falsa ta re reports I ports forts of at tome of ot tho negro In I I II I the tho same bureau nn negro nelo on the pay pa roll rol ns a n c derk rk fits pis at lIt hla desk de k the greateL PIt part of pt the day wheeling about In a I comfortable comfortable chair leering End and sneering at nt the ladles II dies and men of ot the superior race who ore doing doing the clerical work In the tho large room where he Is supposed to he be employed at clerical duty Does Doel the secretary of ot the Interior know of ot the conditions In the pension pen lon Possibly Does the tho secretary of ot the treasury know of ot the conditions In that that bureau Perhaps Does the pres president ident know knol that such luh conditions exist In of ot tho departments No So a thousand thou and time no Hut Iut the facts will willbe wi be laid Jall before him In the near future not only through these news columns lint In by word wor of or mouth by b one nho ho ful tul fully ly h understands these unfortunate con conditions condl I dl |
