A UNIQUE AMERICAN CITY
Washington is the one city in the world which die statistician ignores, and whoso “ output ” cannot be reduced to the common denominator of dollars and cents; and yet its “output” makes the lines.on the chart* of statisticians waver. It deals in two products only—politics and society, and they are so interwoven that practically they are one. Other great cities,, and especially other capitals, are something more than political and social centres. They are great because of the hogs they slaughter, or fiha cloth they weave, or the mulions in their banks; great because they are the centres of art or literature or science; bnt Washington is none of these. It hoe m> trade, no commerce, no finance; it has no world-famous collection of paintings or sculpture; no literati of its own, no poets, no painters whom the world watches with jealous care, proud of what they have already done, calmly confident of what they are yet to do. It is the one American city where the language of the exchange and mart is an unknown tongue.-—’ Harper’s Magazine.’ ______________
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Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 7
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182A UNIQUE AMERICAN CITY Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 7
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