Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-05
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
Our third party friend who comes tC
the front so valantly in the HERALI
this morning with defenses of the
Third Party-whateve that is
evinces establishment that the HER
AID should find fault with the alleged
third party since he has read in the
HERALD advocacy of "the same re
forms that the Third Party is clamor
ing for"
If our contributor has read the HER
AID closely he will have observed that
il is all the time endeavoring to advo
cate good things, and the HERALD il
far from intimating, even now, that
the "pied" convention that met ir
Cincinnati and proceeded in painful
travail to bring forth the third party
had nothing good in it. There is gooC
in cocanut but that is no reason why
one should eat the whole thing-shell
vegetable-hair and hull. There was
good in Judas Iscariot who betrayed
his Lord and Master with kiss, for il
has been proven that he afterwards
had decency enough to go out and hang
himself. Yet Judas was not a charac-
ter whom we would care to see acting
as Sunday school superintendent to-
day, Notwithstanding he was long
time one Of Christ's beloved
disciples. There was good in Cot
ton Mather and his followers
they were too awful good-but the
hanging and burning of old women,
innocent girls, stray dogs and
sometimes judge from the bench, on
such on idiotic suspicion as that
they were possessed Of the Evil One,
and performed what was then called
witchcraft, or what people nowadays
would speak Of, in some cases, as
legerdemain and prestidigitation were
no credit to them, even then. There
were great many good people in the
Cincinnati convention, and great
many good ideas floated around there
in a sort of bewlldered and undefineC
way, but all the good-no matter HOY
, much there may have been-wa
mixed with such an overwhelmin
, mass and hodge-podge, of widely dill
, fering lines of idiocy, of self-conceii
self-seeking, loony, sad-eyed, leah
, mouthed, tangle-bearded crankisn
and so many elements of grotesqu
, political harlequinism, viciously il
, tended, but ill-conceived diablerit
I, together with cant, hypocricy, Hitter
ate pedantry and lound-mouthe
, would-be-reform agitation, that tn
, average political stomach of no estal
!, lished grade of economists, good, ba
or Indifferent, could hold it down an
feel right comfortable.
The HERALD would, at any prope
time, advocate earnestly and vigol
ously, any good proposition that on
v Third Party" contributor or any c
! his associate might offer, but we don
] want, with those desirable thing,
I political jalap, rhubarb, calome
G SIENNA and salts, all in one dose. w
r like good meal, but prefer not I
= have it served by donkeys, togethe
j with a mass of their own sort of foo,
!. Reference to the report Of las
o nights meeting of the Fourth {
o July committees, printed in the Hell
n AID this morning, exhibits the fat
o that work on the big celebration
y progressing satisfactorily. The con
I mittee on orator OF the day hay
i secured the services of Hon. w. !
Il Calkins, and that is sufficient ev
dence that the audience at Fairhave
O will hear one Of the grandest al
: dres es that will be delivered in th
Il republic on Independence day.
{ The energy and industry OF Rev. /
{ j Pierce, of the First Baptist churc
, OF Fairhaven, has had its reward an
u the reverend gentleman is to be COZ
l. graduated on the successful laying
: the corner stone for the new Baptit
u church. Rev. Pierce is progressive
Z liberal in his opinions, and by Ills man
good deeds has won the esteem, affe
: ton and respect of all residents OF II
u Focal City, irrespective of creed ,
e religion.
I Tomorrow will be the eclipse Of u
sun. AS the matter looks now u
eclipse is liable TO be eclipsed, bt
: then the rain is worth considerab
more than the eclipse just at tn
juncture.
Money and Postal Orders.
The money orders issued by the postoHi
. had their origin in private speculation |
o three postofiice officials, who began Il
o system in i7v2. At that time, however, I
order could be issued for more than n,
u guineas, and the charge for sending tn
i amount was Is Cd. The system was take
!. over by the postoffice in 1893, and the a,
guineas for which 4s. 6d. was charged
17y9 can now be sent for fivepence.
Postal orders are but decade old. The
T issue was begun IN 1881, and since the
their popularity has increased year by yea
so much so, indeed, that In business circle
postal orders now frequently pass throtg