Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-03-13
CALLING BY PROXY.

WILL L. vIsScHER Editor
CALLING BY PROXY.
A Washington, ID. c.. letter tells of how
calls are made by proxy for officials in
that city, the details and thoughts of
which 60 plain, natural, unconventional
and real American people are nauseating
10 a degree which reaches inetable dis !
gust Officials instead Of paying the calls .
which they deem necessary, or retiring ,
behiud the very reasonable excuse that
the performance OF their public duties
precludes the possibility of their making
calls in person, send their laekeys, or men
hired for the purpose, which is about the
same. in cabs about the city distributing
the officials card at such houses Of the
every day people a. they may feel called
upon 70 honor in this way. Thus some
L--i these lackeys visit - or 100 houses per
day at times, driving up TO cottage in
great state, with a pretense OF going in,
but who make a mere feint OF doing SO,
leaving the masters card and then hur-
rying of as II making an escape and as
II insufferahly bored by 50 much condo
seension.
To broad minded and independent cit
izen OF this republic. where every I'M
tainted man Is a peer and a sovereign, IL
would seem about the right thing II the
householder could get out in time to get
that turnkey by the ear and kick him To
the gate and then kick him through his
cab or coupe, thus sending back 10 the
would-be aristocrat, who has been sent 10
the capital as the servant Of the people,
his opinion Of calls BY proxy al the hands
OF turnkey.
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II il were that the laekey who Is sent TO
call by card for an Official should he
merely sent as a messenger to present the
compliments Of the official and his regrets
that he was unable to call in person, the
thing would not be 50 bad, but To clothe
lacSey with the officials proxy and make
the mere delivery OF visiting card an
ample suiiciency in the entire business
should be an insult 10 a man Of self-re-
spect, and when offered 10 his entire fam
lily an unbearable one, especially when
delivered at the hands Of a superciious
hired man. for all such hired men are un-
faHmgly moro unapproachable and as
sumo more Disgusting airs than would be-
warranted in minister plcuipotentiary.
1t Is always more difficult 10 obtain decent
treatment from the valet or boot black Of
a great man than from the great man
himself Indeed the comparison is ac-
- knowiedged 10 be odious. for the reason
that in a general way the truly grea; man
Is plain, polite by nature. easy and agree
: able 10 his visitors and never destinations.
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The negroes OF the south in slave days
had an unspeakable contempt for ''po'
white trash and it nearly broke a ne
i groe's heart 10 be owned by man wis
y was not considered wealthy and import
H-anl and those of his race Who were more
fortunately situated. as to owners. made
miserable the life Of another slave who
belonged to low down people"
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The fact is that while there should be
an aristocracy Of intelligence. decency.
honesty aud manliness everywhere. there
should be made in this republic an end 10
the growth Of office-ocracy. money-oc-
racy, and all the other ocracies which are
not warranted by some such superiority
a. that which comes from real merit.
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A story Is told OF a boy on Bellinghan
bay when Fairhaven was wilderness
who was asked If he knew where Old jim
smith lived-we call the man smith be.
cause that was not his name. The boy
y most innocently and ingeniously replied
''Ther' amt no Old Jim Smith now. II,
was offered great big pile OF money
poorly nigh a million. they say. for ht
ranch, and he's Mister Smith now.
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Because a man wentout yesterday with
out a dollar, and comes back today with
fortune. does that make him any NOR
truthful, more honest. more intelligent
Does IL make him any better mentally
morally or physically, and therefore doe
~ IL give him any more right TO put Of
airs" over his neghbors? Because MAJ
presents himself to the people Of the re-
gion in which he lives. a candidate 70
Office. and they having sufficient conf
denec in his integrity and ability. cleo
him "a that office do they thereby. ia thi
- republic, Of republican simplicity ele
As want him 50 far above them that the
must feel honored II he sends them Wis
iting card by funkey in a cab2
Well rather not. 1t Is they who do ia
a IGNORING and If he conducts himself iii,
b sensible man and patriot, treating a
worthy clzens with due and equal r,
spoct; attending to his official duties wit
all INC tDllfNl anu Nditlulit0N f'l W ult
he is master then he honors himself an
those who trusted, and thus he becom,
really great, and highly entitled to all Il
respect applause and graduation whic
may be showered upon him
In the same way the man who by din
of carefulness, economy, publcsprit, ei
terprise and courage, succeeds in fai
just. honorable aud business like way
aecumulatng vast interests which ri,
employment 10 numbers OF his fellow
- men and who ia this success does himse
and Others good, he is in no less gre;
man and is entitled 10 the high respe
- and appreciation Of his fellow citizens
II, IL has been said that nothing succee,
y'iike success" and it might be truthful
said that except in rare cases success on
comes by hard work. perseverance al
intelligent use of one capacities.
RULE OR RUIN DEMOCRATS.
The opponents Of the admission
Idaho and Wyoming into the Union pr
pose TO make the point, that no mo
western teIrities should be admitted b
cause those last admitted are showi
that they are not capable Of self-gover
- ment A Washington letter TO the On
gofiian savs: