, 1883-09-27

paper. never. Partizan or personal
organs rarely succeed in getting
along amicably, either. Usually their
bose, disagree. OF one Is favored
more than another. and dis@ensions
follow. The same objection applies
in greater OF less degree To news
papers owned and controlled by joint
stock companies for specific purposes,
Rarely does It newspaper succeed
until it has been the means Of sink
ing thousands Of dollars; the amount
lost Is usually in proportion to the
magnitude of the enterprise. Stock
holders have 10 submit to assessments
in order TO meet current expenses,
and. becoming tired Of this, they
turn upon the management as in
competent, and not infrequently the
whole thing passes into the hands OF
some publisher who takes the prop
erty and assumes its liabilities. Very
rarely does a publishing business
succeed until it has passed through
these stages and reached individual
ownership and management. Then,
it has generally changed so much
from what was originally intended
that the object has been defeated as
thoroughly as If the business had
died outright. 1t i the individual,
free, outspoken. uutrammeled and
fearless that wins admiration i'll the
journalistic field. The least show of
partiality. or the mere suspicion OF
being under undue influence, will eff
fectually cripple his efforts. One
reason why SO few papers succeed
even at best is that few people learn
to appreciate the enormous cost Of
carving them on, until the lesson has
been learned in the bitter school of
experience. People estimate the
probable cash income of a news
paper, and jump at the conclusion
that it must be a literal mine of
wealth, when if they would but look
at the other side of the picture and
count up item by item the cash cost
of carrying it on their wonder would
be as to how it could be made to pay
expenses. If Judge Fields presi-
Dental prospects are enhanced one
particle by the paid efforts of the
Alta under its new management. we
hope to be able to chronicle the un-
usual result.
Special Agent Evans again comes
to the front with report to the De
partment at Washington that the
statements heretofore made about
Chinese crossing in an unlawful
manner from British Columbia to
this Territory were gotten up with a
view of creating more government
offices. 1t is refreshing to hear such
news from this high authority. Mr..
Evans has. descended in this matter
to the level of q scheming, cowardly
traducer of faithful officials, and of
the leading newspapers of the Ter
ritory. The officials in question,
while conscious of their inability to
properly enforce the restriction law,
have let the facts about its repeated
violations be known, to the end that
prompt and proper measures might
be taken to provide for such enforce
ment. They have evidently done
what they could to stay the incoming
celestials, and have certainly done
their duty in not attempting TO claim
that they could or expected to guard
the boundary completely. In the
dispatch which we publish today
Mr.. Evans is referred to as having
been sent to investigate the matter.
His Investigation" consisted IN com
ing to Puget Sound, putting up at a
hotel in Olympia and denouncing
the editor of this paper on the street,
who he alleged was working up" a
system of false reports about the
Chinese for a purpose. He after
wards came to Port Townsend and
ate heartily for a few days at one of
our best hotels and then quietly left
for San Francisco. A wonderful ''in.
vestigation" truly! During his stay
on the Sound we publicly called him
to account for his assertions with
reference to us, offered to substanti-
ate every statement we had made
about the matter, and rendered him
all the space he might want in these
columns, with every opportunity to
vindicate himself as regarded his
slanderous charges about u.s. In
fact, we challenged him to prove his
bald assertions; but what did he do?
Instead of meeting the matter fairly
and proceeding to proee that we
had made untrue statements, he
quietly ''took water" like any other
coward, and then went to San Fran
cisco and reiterated his foul, con
temptible insinuations. In the
meantime, violations of the law are
common occurrences. Only few
days ago, as the revenue cutter was
passing near San Juan island with
party of distinguished visitors on
board, a boat was seen in the offing.
Subsequently the boat returned to
Victoria and its owners boasted about
having slipped by SO nicely right
under the cutters nose, so to speak,
with load of Cinnamon on board, |
who We're safely landed ON American
soil. OF course there is no Use in