Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-05-17
MOCK PHILANTHROPY,

~ 80 '''f announcer i.St WIN Nie
inien !cnt. was On. on "A tour OF visitation To
the various schools OF the county. calling
our attention to the fact Weare well pleased
got his Office without being elected. takes in
terest enough in the schools to pay them q
visit at all. AS tic Superintendent signed
nearly every whisky ps ett' &c presented to
sion, perhaps he started out Immediately to
tell the teachers and scholars about it, and
explain to them the moral and humaniZing
influences of selling gin, and how much it
Superintendent OF the poor also appears on
the various petitions. Comment unneces-
sarv.
The above extract, it is needless to
say, is from the Echo. We do not be-
lieve that there is another journal on
the Coast, or anywhere, that is con-
trolled by the narrow, illiberal and self
ish ideas of the one or two individuals
who write up that paper. 1t has never
pleased the Echo that anybody should
hold IN office, no matter how humble
a position it might be, unless he could
make the grimaces and utter tho grunts
peculiar to the association of which it
claims to be the exponent. It assumes
that it's friends are the chosen people,
and that all who differ with them are
entitled to no rights, social or political,
and should be debarred from exercis-
ing any of the privileges of American
citizenship. This idea is more in keep
ing with the dark ages, when men
were placed upon the rack, for opinions
sake, than the enlightenment Of the
nineteenth century. We hold to diff
ferent creed. It is just as much our
right to sign whisky petition as it is
Mr.. Munson's right to protest against
the license being granted, and we have
a better right to mind our own bust
ness than Mr.. Munson has to attend to
the business of the whole community.
We would probably be justified in
this connection, in abiding to the time
when Munson himself sold whisky, and
did some other things he should not
have done, but the mantle Of charity
SO freely accorded him by this commu-
nifty in times past, shall shield him now.
The Echo never appears to be at all
influenced by such fraternal impulses.
It is veritable Modoc, and can only be
controlled by being kept in continual
fear. As long as it is within range of
howitzers it plays "good Indian" but
soon as the force retires, it sounds the
war-whoop and fourishes the scalping-
knife. In it's peculiar mode of warfare
it not unfrequently uses the boomerang,
and sometimes really inficts more dam
age upon friend than foe. A single
instance will illustrate: A few weeks
ago somebody who had been teaching
school got on spree and lost his money.
Without inquiry, the occurrence was
made, by the Echo, to serve as slur
upon the present Superintendent for
granting certificate of good moral
character" and even when it's publisher
ascertained that our predecessor was
the voucher for the morality of the un-
fortunate gentleman, he did not at all
feel it to be his duty to correct the false
impression he was instrumental in pro-
ducing. We let it pass at the time,
and do not care for it now, only to serve
as an illustration of the injustice prac-
ticed by some people who claim to be
the especial champions of all measures
of moral reform.