Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-20
SOME STRANGE STATEMENTS


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/ SOME STRANGE STATEMENTS
The HERALD is, and always has
been and always will be the friend Of
the workingman. 1t is owned, edited,
conducted and produced by working
men. Its printers and pressmen are
members OF the Typographical Union,
one of the strongest and most inteili-
gent labor organizations ia the world,
and its editors and reporters put in
from twelve to sixteen and often as
many as eighteen hours of work per
day, but because they work all night
and with pencils and brains instead of
picks and shovels, there are some
wOrkingmen who do not consider
these as workingmen. The fact that
they are at their desks all hours Of
the night preparing the news for all
classes Of people in the morning, and
that they are ready at any moment, 10
brave any danger, over the worst
roads and in the dark to ferret out
any hint Of accident or other matter
Of interest, does not give them the
right 20 be considered workingmen in
the eyes Of the professional working
man. But the world at large knows
that newspapers are produced by work
Of the hardest kind and drones are
not allowed about newspaper officers
These are some Of the reasons why the
HERALD is always ready to befriend
the workingman, and for the further
reason that the workingman's cause is
just one and labor as well as capital
should be fostcred and treated Justly,
not only in the interests OF justice,
but in the interests Of progress and
general development. Self-conscious-
ness alone, ia this matter, causes the
HERALD TO make this statement, and
not because it desires TO make itself
particularly "solid" with any special
class. The HERALD is simply fearless
in its endeayors to do right, and it is
contented to abide the results. 1t
would not curry favor" it would only
endeayor TO deserve it. Itcontains no
candidates for office, it harbors no
beggars. II works for its own sup
port and the advancement of Fair
haven, WhatcOm county, Washington
state, the republic Of the United
States and the human family.
These remarks are predatory to Civ
ing the reasons for printing the fol-
lowing communication, which has
been sent to this Office with the re-
quest that II be printed The com
munication purports TO have come
from a committee Of the knights of
Labor. 1t is. not printed because OF
that, for we should not hesitate to re-
fuse to print communication from
a committee of the United States
senate, If we thought there was no
it not been printed here, there are
those who would have been unjust
enough to have said that the HERALD
refused TO print il because the paper
was opposed TO the workingman. Let
not its writers think for one moment.
that the fear Of anything of that
kind had anything TO do with the pub
LEGATION Of the communication. 1t is
printed partly as a matter Of courtesy
partly because certain Of its positions
are good and will speak for them
selves, and partly because certain Of
its declarations are Incorporate and |
will punish themselves, and the HER /
AID believes Ia rewards and punish I
ments. This paper does not endorse /
all OF the statements made la the I
communication, nor does it repudiate I
all Of them. AS to the position the |
communication takes regarding the ]
political parties the HERALD does /
not care to discuss that in this way,
but Il fully believes the position TO be
an unwarranted one on the part of the
writer's OF the communication. We
10 not believe that the contractors
boarding houses are "hog-pens," and
hat the food is hash and slop,"
.hough both may be very bad. We do
not believe that any Of the "bosses"
rave ever been "denied admission in
lell," nor do we believe that anyone
# them ever applied for such admis-
ion. Neither does the HERALD be-
ieve that "only tramps are employed
IN the contracts. On the contrary.
We know some very good men thus
employed. But without further re- 4.
marks the communication is herewith
,riuted,in order that all who desire TO