Show and government clerks 11 ashington critic the washington broker who belongs to the clerk lending claas elms if is it LL fearful and wonderful combination coul hold a candle to him in in point of 0 gra dingness he not t only demands his of flesh but I 1 he e drains all the financial bloda blood out of me big victims and in a short time owns them bodies and souls there has teen a continual warfare e against thia this class ot of sharks tor for the past tw enty alve years but the city is is F till infested with them and it is not exaggeration to eay say that at least one fourth of the department clerks who has hae e held office tor for live five years or more are in their power same years a ago go it was captor customary nary for the disbursing off officers leers of the various various departments to accept upon pay day orders made out by clerks during luring the tile month very much as army and navy officers now give their pay accounts and unfortunately sometimes tome times duplicate them this practice was wag discontinued however because it was learned that the clerks were being out of their ear inge by the usurers who reveled in their blood money many instances occurred currel oe especially in in the treasury department where a clerk would give an order on his salary for 75 on the of the month payable on the farat alt ultimo inno which h would sell to a broker for W 0 this state of brought the order system to a close and the temi monthly payments were ere begun but the ten ilar p r centers idill continued to thrive and thrive they do to this day their modus opera operand n di puts them outside the pale of the la law w against usury us iry in in the district and is is as follows an impecunious clerk needs money and he lie needs it badly lie ile confides bis necessities to e some ome friend who knous a broker ard then all is is plain sailing the clerk makes out his note payable in thirty days say for bearing hearing interest at 7 per cent per annum the broker gives the clerk tw and takes the tile paper of cound at fit the end of the month when liben the note is is doe due in ninety nine ine cases out of I 1 a hundred the borrower is la as bard hard up ai as ever he ile accordingly makes out another noe note of the fame sort rakes together 1060 10 00 and visits the broker again this goes on month after month until the principal is is paid over and over again and anti still remains romain ans large and threatening as ever the ten perc per eutera centera claim on their side ide that they are compelled torn polled to charge barge rates on account of the tile number of bad clients they have who never dever pay their notes they know this thin is is not true for it is is ii i well ell zed rule in all dopart part ments that a clerk who does not pay bis big debts must arrange to do so cr er give up the official ghook and most 0 of f the shylocks Shy locks have influential friends in in high places who ito only need a hint to make the recalcitrant clerk a appear at aitho the cap ains office and pay HP up alip clasi of brokers allaud alluded dlo to comprise all conditions and coors co ors of mankind oe O 0 e of them prominent in n the business is is a Pou bouthern thern ex con gres gressman and aad another oil one e who is the tile particular friend of ti alie in clerks of tie the interior de ed apartment part ment and pension office is is a colored man of aristocratic appearance appear uLce and berry wall attire they are as numerous as an the leaves in in V allom brosa but not so green by bv a lare large maj nty rity and they waxed fat and prosperous while their victims wear ath of july coas coats on the 8 h of january and have to shave the bottoms of their trouser eis a in in arre order d r to epe its semi decent app appearance earan c e a at t ke the office |