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Girls, Girls Everywhere In Washington,
But Not A Man To Wed

The Washington Times, July 12, 1908

The city of Washington, the Nation’s Capital, flings defiance in the face of all the land, challenging them to compete with her in available matrimonial timber, so far as the fair sex is concerned. She draws the dead line and double dares the bachelors from corn-tasseled Oklahoma, from the rock-ribbed slopes of the West, from the snows of Alaska, to cross it at the risk of getting hitched.

The overgrown country village by the Potomac lays claim to a possession of a higher percentage of women of marriageable age with a lower per cent of opportunity than any community over which floats the Stars and Stripes, not excepting the man-deserted sitting rooms of the high-browed and austere dame of the hub of the universe nor rural Virginia where the coy and clinging lass of the Southland has been left in solitude while her possible mate sought elsewhere realms of greater activity. To substantiate which claim, though she likes them not, the burg of the broad avenue and the bouqueted beauty quotes the figures.

A recently completed police census reveals the fact that there are 17,000 more women in the city than men, which is rather startling majority out of a total of less than 330,000. It signifies that for each 100 men there are 111 women in the running. These discouraging figures, however, are but a shadow of the real plight in which a woman in Washington finds herself, for the social conditions that surround men in the Government service who largely make up the lists of possible matrimonial candidates are such as to discourage marriage and where there is a tendency shown to fly in the face of this restraint the victim is picked so soon that the rank and file have little chance at him. There are many more than 17,000 unmarried women in Washington, for the Government clerk is not marrying man and there is a doomed spinster in the city for every one of those who persists in his narrow selfishness.

The social conditions are peculiar. In the Government service there is the occasional man of exceptional ability who succeeds in riding rough-shod over red tape and getting to a place that is worth while without losing his official head in the attempt. Practically the only route to high places, however, is through secretaryships to Cabinet officers and these places are for but the few. The rank and file of the men of the departments are, then, reduced to two classes, the young clerk who serves four or five years and in the meantime studies law or medicine, and the crusty and confirmed clerk who has never mustered the courage to break away.

The first of these is bending all of his energies toward a given end with his eye always on the old home, a future professional career and possibly a sweetheart waiting for him under the old elm tree. He is not a man who will marry. The members of the second class have not found to give up their sure salary from the Government or merely of the capacity of clerks and incapable of anything further. These men marry often, but as often are cynical and blase, self-centered and satisfied with the attentions they receive from the numerous opposite sex and travel the road to the end complainingly in their narrow rut.

There are many things that add to this local tendency on the part of Washington to become a city of women. There is the constant pull of the Government upon the women every section. The stenographer who is but ordinarily efficient is able to secure $20 a month more in the Government service than out of it. The girl who gets $5 a week in a store will more than double her income if she takes a place in any of the Government departments, to say nothing of a month off each year for vacation, eight hours a day, and all the holidays.

These attractions, of course, draw the women. But, alas, when the years have begun to bring the gray hairs and the home-making instinct long stifled gnaws their hearts away they realize the folly of leaving the telephone booth, the typewriter, or the cashiership at the restaurant in their native towns. They come to realize that in these positions they would have met the active young men of business, the men who really do things worth while, but who are too busy to follow the social whirl, so get their wives from the women they meet in the pursuit of their careers. This heritage of opportunity has been greater than their sisters of wealth and social prominence, but they have bartered it away.

There are 7,358 women in departments in Washington. These are unmarried with the exception of a few, for the general rule is that a woman severs her connection with the Government when she marries. They are mostly women who support dependent members of their families, usually mother or sisters, who add again to the unattached female population.

Of this army of women less than 16 per cent are under the age of twenty-five years. This is a striking contrast with the figures showing the age of the female breadwinner throughout the country, for of these latter 44 percent are under the age of twenty-five. The average age of the women in the departments thirty-seven years and there are 253 of them that have passed the age of sixty-five. But one per cent are under the age of twenty and these promise to get over it.

The woman who enters the departments very rarely marries. There is a minimum of opportunity even when she is young and in those days she is proud of her independence and the salary she draws and slow to give it up where two have to live on a similar salary. Work in the departments at Washington means an almost certain spinsterhood.

Aside from the Government service Washington is strongly a city of women. Members of Congress and others from the outside coming to the Capital for the session bring their wives and daughters, but the sons have business and stay at home. The formal functions of society appeal to the women and they bring their daughters to be presented at court as it were.

At the theaters there is often caustic comment upon a display of a box full of most magnificent girls accompanied by one or two narrow-chested Government clerks that you remember seen while doing the departments.

The predominance of women in connection with Washington even prevails in the tourists that visit it. One does not meet the same class of people on the sight-seeing wagon there as in New York. It is a different race of people that files through the corridors of the Smithsonian Institution from that which trods the Great White Way.

The tourists who come to Washington are mostly women of the educational class. They are interested in storing the mind with knowledge of a recognized class such as may be paraded before the Friday Night Literary Club when they get back home. They want to tell their friends that they sat in the same chair that held the Father of His Country and have climbed all 510 of the steps leading up Washington’s Monument. Were they men they would be the class take their wives with them rather than those who travel for pleasure.

But they are not men. The tourists who visit Washington are 50 per cent women school teachers laying up stores of information for the edification of young America or seminary girls en tour likewise for instruction as their conductors believe but with more eyes for a flirtatious, wicked man than for the spot where Braddock landed to march into the wilderness. But they are withal a studious, serious lot on the surface and are looking for the light of learning that edifies and feels strangely at home in Washington for the whole people have come to assume an air of learned dignity in the Capital City that is in touch with its history and institutions and is on the whole very lady-like.

Under these conditions Washington throws down the gantlet to Boston. She declares she will give any determined bachelor in the world a longer run for his money than can be found elsewhere on the map. She offers him variety for her women are made up from all the grades that the broad expanse of the country can furnish. There is the hale fellow girl of the Pacific coast who will pat him on the back and call him “old man,” and the girl with the drooping eye and lisp from Mississippi. There is the corn-fed girl of liberal dimensions from Missouri and the girl from Ohio who makes her Rs a clarion call. The maid from Massachusetts who knows it is not done right elsewhere will vie with the girl of the Rockies who is aware that the Utes do not come from Utah. They will all be after him in the nation’s capital with a handicap for the girl who saw him first and the devil take the hindmost.

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The Washington Times of 100 years ago that I’ve been republishing here recently is not the Washington Times of today. The original Washington Times was founded in 1893 by William Randolph Hearst and eventually merged with the Washington Herald in 1939 to become the Washington Times-Herald. In 1954 the Washington Times-Herald was purchased by the Washington Post and merged into the Washington Post and Times-Herald. The Washington Post eventually dropped the Times-Herald from it’s masthead in 1973. In 1982, less than a year after the the demise of the Washington Post’s rival daily newspaper, The Washington Star, the contemporary version of the Washington Times was created by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. In the archives on this blog, I have not made any attempt to separate the two Washington Times, nor do I plan to. All one needs to do is see the original date of publication and they should automatically know which Washington Times is being written about.

The Times Horoscope overlaid on to Dupont Circle Quilt

Aquarius is an airy, hot, moist rational, diurnal, sanguine, masculine, western, fixed, and humane sign, and its ruling planet is Uranus, who deposited in the fixed sign of Scorpio, whose nature is moist, cold, phlegmatic, feminine, nocturnal, watery and a northern sign.

As it takes Uranus eighty-four years to make one revolution around the sun, all the powers of the earth could not move it, as the heavens guard and watch it in its threefold fortified position.

The moon was deposited in the constellation of Leo, which sign is by nature fiery, hot, dry, commanding, masculine, eastern, and the house of the sun. Being in the house of love, it denotes that there will be a steady growth of esteem between The Times and the public, which will have a powerful effect upon the popularity of the paper.

The moon being in a good aspect to the ruling planet, gives another indication of success.

Uranus, the ruling planet, being exalted in the map of the heavens in the house of science and religion in good aspect to the swing-winged Mercury, which was posited in the ascendant the house of life, and being at the same time the octave keynote of Mercury, denotes harmony in its various departments.

As both planets were in retrograde it shows that the progress would at first be retarded, and the first ten years of its existence will be uphill.

Eventually The Times is destined to become a national paper, and its circulation will be topmost in these United States and its fame will extend throughout the world.

This is denoted by the most benevolent planet, Jupiter, being posited in the constellation Taurus, which is an earthy feminine fixed northern sign.

Taurus occupied the fourth house, showing that the chances of The Times will be the most glorious of any newspaper undertaking ever attempted. The house of business is ruled by the fiery planet Mars, which located in the movable sign of Capricorn, an earthy sign; Capricorn is an earthy, cold, dry, melancholy, feminine, nocturnal, cardinal, movable, solsticial, domestic business, and southern sign, the head of the serving or business trinity rules the bending knee, and is the exaltation of Mars and the house of joy of Saturn, and Saturn exalted in the airy mansions of Libra.

The Goddess of Justice, symbolized by the scales, intercepted between the upper and the lower, the light and dark, external and internal, reason and intuition, balancing itself in its progressive movements as it marches up the hill of time.

But Saturn forebodes an evil time for The Times, as it is nearing the conjunction of the ruling planet Uranus, and forebodes dire disaster towards the end of the present year, 1896. This conjunction will happen three times during the year of 1897, in January, June, and September.

Mars, the planet ruling the house of business, will also come in the fall of 1897 and help with his destructive elements to level business affairs of The Times to the ground. Mars happened to be located in the house of secret enemies, who will then be trying their level best to annihilate The Times entirely, and everything will indicate its entire destruction; disaster will follow disaster, earthquakes, floods, and last of all mob violence.

The evil times will last for one year and one half nearly, when suddenly her enemies will be her friends. Jupiter rules the house of friends and unafflicted in the fourth house will be able to overcome all obstacles, and the latter years which may become centuries will be great and The Times will attain a position of fame and popularity and many will live to bless its good influences.

The moon, in bad aspect to Uranus and in opposition to Venus in the house of life and open enemies, distinctly shows contentions with contemporaries.

The moon rules the house of sickness, and being posited in Leo, which rules the heart, denotes that it has a good heart for afflicted and suffering humanity, and being badly aspected by Uranus and Venus, denotes that the good heart of The Times will empty its treasures even to the very last penny if it could relieve the distress in the land of suffering.

The sun, giver of life, was posited in the house of Jupiter in the second or house of money being in the cadent sign Pisces, and denotes generosity to excess. But being well aspected by Mars and Jupiter it denotes that the end will justify the means; in sowing good seed a good harvest will be realized.

Language cannot adequately depict the fortunate starry influences, as it shows the procreative forces of the fertilizing powers of the male and female elements in nature. The North, the South, the East, and the West are represented in the all four triplicities, showing a universal appreciation of the popular mind.

-E.C. Michael, Astrologer

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This unique wall calendar contains 12 maps of the Washington originally published in the newspapers of the District of Columbia between 1887 and 1909. There are two editions of the calendar available: one with the original black & white scans (below) and the other with colorized maps. Each calendar is on sale for $25 + shipping until January 31st, 2009.

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• The 1910 Publication Calendar of the Ogden Standard from the Chronicling America Newspaper Collection [100 Year Old News]
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• A Projected Relief Park Map of the United States - The Washington Times, March 28, 1897
• TAFT STIRS CAPITAL BY SUFFRAGE SPEECH - The New York Times, May 10th, 1909
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• [FOUND MAP] The Masthead Map of the San Mateo Item Newspaper
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• Squelched [A Sunday Comic from 1896]
• PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO SUFFRAGE IN DISTRICT - The Washington Post, May 9th, 1909
• Prof. Gregory Favors It - The Washington Post, July 10th, 1883
• Suffrage in the District - The Washington Post, January 24, 1880
• District Representation - The Washington Post, January 22, 1879
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• La Grisette by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• [FOUND MAP] Isola d'Elba aka the Island of Elba
• My own Coat of Arms, the Origin of the Stars & Stripes, and Hartburn, DC
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Scans & transcription of the article below:

How Senator Cannon Proposes to Utilize Potomac Park – An Educational and Scientific Object Lesson Which Would Please All of Our Visitors

From Mr. Alex D. Anderson, who has taken a prominent part in the promotion of Senator Cannon’s project for a gigantic relief map of the United States to be constructed on a portion of the newly-acquired Potomac Park grounds, The Times has obtained many interesting facts.

The project was first mooted at the beginning of the last Congress by Senator Cannon, of Utah, who introduced in the Senate a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commission of five members to “to examine into and to report to Congress upon the practicability, advisability, and cost establishing at or near the City of Washington a ground map of the United States of America, on a scale of one square yard of map surface for each square mile of actual area, or on such a scale as it may be possible to comprise within the reclaimed or Potomac flats, said ground map to be as nearly as may be our country in miniature, repoducing in earth and other materials, on scale, the boundaries and the topography, all the natural and artificial features of the surface, showing geographical divisions; also mountains, hills, and valleys, forests, lakes, and streams, cities and villages, and that said commission is to serve without compensation.”

The resolution passed the Senate on the 13th of May last, and on June 3 was favorably reported to the House by the Committee on the Library. In their report they say:

“Your committee is of opinion that a great service will be rendered to official knowledge of the country and to popular education by the work of such commission embodied in a report to Congress, and therefore recommends the passage of the resolution.”

Like hundreds of other meritorious measures, the resolution was not reached for a hearing, and there went dead with the session. It has just been reintroduced in the Senate, however, and with its acquired stimulus there is reason to believe it will become a law within the year.

The project is a most timely one, for the reason that the Potomac flats have just been declared a national park, under the name of Potomac Park, and a plan of improvement is, therefore, the first thing in order. The Senator Cannon’s plan will be the most unique, useful and popular can easily be demonstrated by a few facts and figures.

As may be seen by a reference to the accompany diagram of the park system, there is embraced in it the new Potomac Park, the existing Mall, and chain of small parks, from the Monument to the Capitol, and the Arlington reservation on the Virginia side of the Potomac, which it is hoped will soon be connected with the grounds on the District side of by the proposed Memorial Bridge. This done there will practically be formed one continuous park of 2,200 acres.

The proposed park map of the United States will be the center-piece of this system. Being scientific and educational in its characteristics, it is most appropriately located near the Smithsonian and National Museum, which are also of the scientific order.

If, in the construction of the park, the vertical scale should be made to correspond to the horizontal scale, the highest elevation of the Rocky Mountain range would be but about three feet.

But to bring out more distinctly the relief feature of the map, it is customary to magnify the vertical scale. Hence, the elevations of the Rocky Mountain range can be made 6, 9, 12, 15 or more feet. That, however, is a matter for scientists to determine. In any event, the grading necessary will not be much greater or more expensive than that in ordinary city parks.

The value of a park of this nature depends largely upon its accessibility. As the Capital City is a favorite resort for visitors from all of the United States, and the world, this city, above all others, is the most appropriate place for the project. It is also located near the hotel, department, street railway, and business center of the city, where it is most accessible to the citizens and visitors from abroad.

Another important feature in a project of this kind is the comprehensive views of the United States in miniature which can be obtained at given points. Ordinarily, the construction of costly observatory towers would be necessary, but here the Washington Monument on the eastern edge of the park overlooks the whole map. Good birdseye views may also be obtained from Arlington Heights, from the dome of the Capitol, from the Smithsonian toward the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and from the projected Memorial Bridge, when built.

Nowhere else in the world can be found a tract of unimproved land so perfectly adapted by nature to the purpose desired, so near the center of a great city, and so well surrounded, as in the park under consideration.

Thousands of school teachers and scholars annually visit Washington for educational purposes. The Smithsonian, museums, art galleries, and public buildings are valuable object lessons, and a constant attraction.

Many other classes of excursionists may be seen at the Capital City nearly every day of the year, and the number of such visitors is steadily increasing. It is safe to predict that the proposed relief park map of the United States, or, as its author Senator Cannon usually terms it: “our country in miniature,” will be the most popular and useful object lesson of them all.

The question has been asked whether the construction of such a ground map will in any way interfere with the carrying out of the general park project. Mr. Anderson thinks not. On the contrary, he declares it will make a novel and unusually attractive feature. For instance, the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, and Lakes coastlines around the map could be used for a grand driveway, the State lines for either walks or driveways, the tidal reservoir for the Gulf of Mexico, etc.

The elevations representing the Rocky Mountains, Sierras, and Alleghanies would be no higher than the elevations in parts of Central Park, New York, and not as high as many of the bluffs in Rock Creek Park.

In brief, the map will, as its name indicates, be a park map- a park in the fullest sense, and one of more than ordinary popularity.

That portion of Potomac Park above the Long Bridge, the outlines of which so remarkably conform to the general outline of the United States, Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, contains about 400 acres. The portion occupied by the map would contain 230 acres, as follows:

United States………….150
Mexico………………..36
Gulf of Mexico…………30
Central America………..9
Great Lakes……………5
TOTAL…………………230

On the scale of 150 acres for the United States, the acreage of the respective States and Territories would be as follows:

Alabama……….. 2
Arizona…………. 5
Arkansas……… 2
California…….. 8
Colorado……… 5
Connecticut…. 0.2
Delaware……….. 3
Florida………….. 3
Georgia………… 3
Idaho……………. 4
Illinois………….. 4
Indian Territory.. 1
Iowa……………… 4
Kansas………….. 4
Kentucky……… 2
Louisiana…….. 2
Maine………….. 1
Maryland………. 0.5
Massachusetts.. 0.5
Michigan……….. 3
Minnesota…….. 4
Mississippi…….. 2
Missouri……….. 4
Montana………. 7
Nebraska………. 5
N. Hampshire…. 0.5
New Jersey…….. 0.5
N. Mexico……… 6
New York………. 2
N. Carolina…… 2
N. Dakota…….. 3
Ohio……………. 2
Oklahoma…….. 2
Oregon……….. 5
Pennsylvania…. 2
S. Carolina…… 2
S. Dakota…… 4
Tennessee…… 2
Texas………… 14
Utah………….. 4
Vermont……. 0.5
Virginia…….. 2
Washington…. 3
W. Virginia… 1
Wisconsin….. 3
Wyoming……. 5
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TOTAL……. 150

As will be noticed the great trans-Mississippi States will occupy the lion’s share of the park, viz Texas, 14 acres; California, 8; Montana, 7, etc. In brief, the park will literally be a park of the nation and of all the States– one in whose improvement and adornment all will be interested.

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The other day I was canvassing the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper collection and came across this advertisement that was published on May 27th, 1910 in the Washington Times. It shows development plans for Randle Highlands, a neighborhood in Southeast, Washington, DC. I was curious about the results of the newspaper ad. As in, how much has the map changed in the last 99 years? Surprisingly, not too much. Most of the land was developed to plan, except for one large chunk of the land that remains “undeveloped” to this day: Fort Dupont Park.

The National Park Service website says:

This particular fort had six sides, each 100 feet long, protected by a deep moat and trees felled side-by-side with branches pointing outward. It was named for Flag Officer Samuel F. du Pont, who commanded the naval victory at Port Royal, South Carolina, in November 1861.

Although its garrison and guns never saw battle, Fort Dupont served as a lifeline of freedom. Runaway slaves found safety here before moving on to join the growing community of “contrabands” in Washington. The barracks and guns are gone, but the fort’s earthworks can still be traced near the picnic area on Alabama Avenue.

In the 1930s, the National Capital Planning Commission acquired the old fort and surrounding land for recreation. An 18-hole golf course was constructed. As the city grew, golf gave way in 1970 to the sports complex along Ely Place that now includes tennis and basketball courts, athletic fields, and a softball diamond. An indoor ice rink offers skating all winter. Where once the Civil War fort looked out over farmlands, city dwellers now grow vegetables in community garden plots.

This advertisement was printed 20 years before the National Capital Planning Commission changed the future of this neighborhood. I wonder what it would be like today if it wasn’t a park? Umm, I mean golf course. I was able to line up the old map with the contemporary imagery and by adjusting the transparency in Google Earth you can see how much has been developed. Click here to download the KMZ file for Google Earth

Image links to Google Maps

London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, all the other great Capitals of the nations of the world show a tremendous growth eastward.

Heretofore the pendulum of Washington improvements and appropriations has swung westward because all concerical cities grow westward. During the past two and present administrations the power of the executive head of the nation has been felt, and for the first time in the history of our country the entire nation bows to Washington. And the more this executive power is exercised, the greater benefits to be derived by the National Capital.

There are over eighty million people contributing to the growth of Washington and everything done to add to the national weath from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Canada to Mexico, must redound to the benefit and growth of Washington.

No section of the District is going to play a greater part in the Washington of tomorrow than RANDLE HIGHLANDS. The Capitol building is the logical future center of Washington and RANDLE HIGHLANDS is about the same distance from this point in one diection as fashionable Dupont Circle is in the other. The future valuation of RANDLE HIGHLANDS lots will compare favorable with the present valuation of Dupont Circle lots, when Washington leaps forward to a place among the great capitals of the world, which it is rapidly doing.

How fast Washington is growing can best be realized when look at the records for the past fiscal year. They show the number of private buildings erected during that time to be nine thousand nine hundred and five, at a total cost of $14,785,058. The next year should greatly surpass this number, and each succeeding year should add to the rapidity of this growth.

Monday, May 30th, there will be the biggest sale of Real Estate in the history of the District of Columbia, as this company owns and controls together about one-fortieth of all the land in the District of Columbia.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY

Most of the world’s fortunes, great and small, have been made by those who deal in necessities. Real estate is the greatest of all necessities, and the greatest fortunes, as well as most of the fortunes of lesser size, have been made through profitable real estate investment.

Bear in mind, these fortunes were not made in purchasing real estate in already thickly populated, prosperous sections. Such real estate has already reached a high valuation that does not permit of the tremendous profits possible as when the purchase price is small.

In short, fortune smiles on those who have enough foresight to buy property while the price is small and payments easy- those who can see things as they will be in two or three years.

A trip to Randle Highlands will convince you that it has a great future and is the place to invest your money.

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Mr. Biker – You seem to think more of your bicycle than you do of me.
Mrs. Biker – Why not? It supports me nicely; besides it is not so easily broke.

My new internet addiction as of late has been trolling through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers archive. It’s officially apart of the National Digital Newspaper Program, which is a joint project between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create and maintain a publicly available, online digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. There are currently about a million pages to comb through and I’m only just starting!

Click to read the article in today’s Washington Times about DC Statehood by my friend Ann Loikow.

After I read the article, I went on to do my morning IP analysis, and guess who visited my website looking for more information? None other than the Singaporean government. The very same government the Op-Ed was written to agitate. Examples like this prove that we really do live in a small world, while at the same time showing that human rights transcend borders.

COOPER: The Singapore 18

Prosecution or persecution?
Op-Ed by Timothy Cooper
Friday, November 7, 2008

The names Gandhi Ambalam, Chia Ti Lik, Chong Kai Xiong, Jeffrey George, Jaslyn Go, Chee Siok Chin, Govindan Rajan, Chee Soon Juan, Jufrie Mahmood, Jufri Salim, Surayah Akbar, Ng E-Jay, Seelan Palay, Shafi’ie, Carl Lang, John Tan, Francis Yong and Sylvester Lim aren’t exactly household names — but they should be. This week 18 Singaporeans — the Singapore 18 — are standing trial for purported crimes against America’s 11th largest trading partner — Singapore.

Indicted for violating the Miscellaneous Offences Act for assembling peacefully without a permit to register their concerns over escalating housing costs, they claim that they’re innocent by virtue of their right under the Singapore constitution to enjoy the guarantees of freedom of assembly and expression. Historically, however, Singapore has viewed political dissent through a lens darkly, treating protest as a threat to social tranquility and economic prosperity, rather than what it is — a fundamental right and necessity in any democracy.

While Singapore claims to be a constitutional democracy, it nevertheless routinely arrests Singaporeans for attempting to assert those rights articulated under the constitution in the open light of day. A democracy, it’s not quite.

Ironically, while their trial is about their right to public assembly in numbers more than four without a permit, and to free speech, they view it as a test about whether Singapore’s judiciary is independent enough to interpret the country’s constitution objectively. In effect, Judge Chia Wee Kiat, who’s presiding magistrate over the case, is on trial, too. Many Singaporeans will be watching how he rules. Americans should be watching, too.

That’s because Singapore’s Minister for Home Affairs, Wong Kan Seng, appears to refuse to be bound by the affirmative rights guaranteed under the country’s basic law. Last February, he stated that “[w]e have stopped short of allowing outdoor and street demonstration … Our experiences in the past have taught us to be very circumspect about outdoor and street protests.” His reference is to the race riots in Singapore during the 1960s — almost 50 years ago. Which is like saying that because Washington, D.C. experienced race riots in the 1960s, the residents of Washington must be denied the right to protest government policies. That argument simply doesn’t wash.

But the judge in the case will likely rule accordingly, regardless of the plain language of the constitution.

The late Singaporean politician, Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, stated in an interview shortly before his death that his main concern was that the public had the “perception that its judiciary was not independent.” He himself had been made a bankrupt by defamation lawsuits filed against him by his political opponents and the high damages awarded them by Singapore courts. After paying off his debts, he’d recently committed to heading a new political party, whose primary agenda was calling for the independence of the judiciary.

He was not alone. In July, the International Bar Association (ABA) issued a 72-page report on the state of Singapore’s judiciary noting that “there are concerns about the objective and subjective independence and impartiality of Singapore judges.” The report’s final recommendations advocate tenure be granted Singapore judges and that the transfer of judges between “executive and judicial roles” be banned. They also call on the government to prohibit defamation as a criminal offense, and forbid public officials from initiating criminal defamation suits, which detractors claim are used by government to silence its critics.

One of those critics is Chee Soon Juan. He’s been jailed seven times on a potpourri of politically-related charges, including speaking without a permit, contempt of court, and even for attempting to depart Singapore in order to attend an international rights conference. He’s been fined nearly $1 million to date and made bankrupt by defamation suits brought against him by former Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, and Singapore’s current Minister Mentor, Lee Hsein Loong. In the next few months, he faces six more trials and an indeterminate amount of jail time. Yet all he wants is for the courts to properly enforce the spirit and letter of the Singapore constitution. Barred from leaving the country, he’s been put under country arrest and is a prisoner of conscience.

Were the Singapore 18 living in China or Russia, they’d be enjoying considerable support from the U.S. Instead, they’re victims of a sad neglect. They’ve been cut loose by a nation otherwise preoccupied. But the next Congress and administration should take up the cause of freedom in Singapore. They should exert their influences on Singapore to open up its political space to peaceful dissent and to embrace the benefits of political pluralism. Economic prosperity and political freedoms are not mutually exclusive in Singapore or anywhere else.

Above all, this country should call for judicial reform in Singapore because as J.B. Jeyaretnam would no doubt agree without independence there can be no rule of law.

Timothy Cooper is executive director of the human-rights group Worldrights.

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In honor of the bill before Congress that provides a congressional vote for the District in the House of Representatives, Statehood Green Party advocate Nikolas Schiller has designed a new license plate: “Taxation with 1/3 Representation.”

Read the rest of the article:

source:
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20061204-114508-4261r.htm

Third of representation a start, but not enough
By Adrienne Washington
December 5, 2006

In honor of the bill before Congress that provides a congressional vote for the District in the House of Representatives, Statehood Green Party advocate Nikolas Schiller has designed a new license plate: “Taxation with 1/3 Representation.”

Although many are rejoicing that the long-overdue measure — introduced and negotiated by Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, Virginia Republican, and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and the District’s nonvoting representative — appears closer than ever to passage, the very people who have been working tirelessly for decades for full democracy in the District are none too pleased.

Odd? Statehood advocate Tim Cooper, executive director of Worldrights, said in an electronic mailing that “only local politicos, who profit more by the practice of compromise than principle, would claim that a bill that grants D.C. residents one-third of a congressional vote after 200 years of disparate treatment at the hands of a hypocritical Congress represents ‘a new dawn for democracy’ in Washington, D.C. It is nothing of the kind.”

Those who agree with Mr. Cooper and their all-or-nothing stance maintain that the voting rights bill is nothing more than a token, a pacifier and possibly even a ruse.

Why? First, the bill, which gives the politically blue District one vote in the House balanced against an additional vote for the politically red state of Utah, does not address representation in the U.S. Senate for nearly 600,000 residents of the nation’s capital.

Second, the bill, which creates 437 permanent seats in the House, provides an additional vote for Utah in the electoral college but not the District. Statehood advocates suggest that the Davis-Norton bill is destined to be challenged in court on its constitutionality.

Last week, Mrs. Norton and Mayor-elect Adrian M. Fenty met with House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, to win assurances that if the bill is not enacted in these final days of the 109th Congress, it will be among the first items on the agenda next year.

Can we blame these advocates for being skeptical?

Some contend that the District’s Democratic leadership, especially Mr. Fenty, is being hypocritical.

Others have stated that they feel betrayed because Mr. Fenty is seeking more elected representation in Congress while advocating less representation on the local level by attempting to nullify the elected school board in his takeover bid of the school system. Indeed, his actions do appear to be counteractive and at cross-purposes.

Historian and longtime statehood advocate Sam Smith writes in this week’s Progressive Review that you can argue for the Davis-Norton bill or for the mayoral takeover of the schools, but not both.

“But, what you can’t do, unless one is a total hypocrite, is support both these positions at the same time,” he said. “And an elected school board — birthplace of home rule — is far more essential to self-government than is a token vote in the House.

“A further assault on its already weakened elected position is nothing less than an attack on home rule and should be seen that way.”

In the 30 years since enactment of home rule, D.C. residents still have not been granted full local autonomy, though Mrs. Norton has worked to gain greater local control over the city’s finances. Still, the underlying fear is that the Davis-Norton bill for partial representation will be terminal, too.

For her part, Mrs. Norton has attempted to assure skeptics that this long-awaited measure is only the beginning. A fair number of folks are willing to accept how hard the legislative struggle has been to get even this far.

“It may have taken us 200 years to get one vote, but it won’t take us that long to get the other two” in the Senate, Mrs. Norton said yesterday, after meeting with some statehood advocates.

On the other side, members of the DC Vote Coalition are convinced that the Davis-Norton bill “can bring the dawn of a new democracy to D.C.,” said Ilir Zherka, executive director.

“These [congressional] leaders understand the urgent need to end the blemish on America’s democracy,” she said. “With support growing across the country, we can correct this injustice by the end of the year.”

Jack Kemp, the former Republican representative and housing secretary who is a member of the DC Vote, said he has been having conversations with House and Senate leaders and that the D.C. Voting Rights Act has a strong chance of being enacted during the lame-duck session of Congress.

“This cannot wait,” Mr. Kemp said. “We have built up momentum this year to complete the unfinished business of American democracy. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud of the work done thus far. However, we should not put off until next year a civil rights victory we can achieve today.”

It would be a disgrace if congressional representatives did not push for more representation for the nation’s capital instead of less. Given the unfairness with which D.C. residents have been treated in the past, these apprehensive advocates may be right to worry that they will be told they should be satisfied with one vote in one chamber of Congress in perpetuity.

We must continue the struggle to make certain their fears will be unfounded. Residents of the nation’s capital cannot continue to be denied the full democratic birthright of every American citizen.

It’s too bad she didn’t contact me, but she did visit my website last week (I traced an IP address to the Washington Times). If she would have contacted it would have correctly listed me as “Co-chair of the DC Statehood Green Party” instead of “Statehood Green Party advocate.” Oh well… It’s the Washington Times, no one reads it anyways…