The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-11
THE NEW ENGLAND" FRAUD.
Letter From IN Indignant Seattle Man
to IN Adveftlsing Magazine.

SEATTLE. Wash, May 10, 1s9a
New England Magazine Corporation. 2Sl Co
lumbus Avenue, Boston, Mass-Gntlemen: I
have received by mail from you q copy Of the
New Engldnd Magazine, published by your cor.
poration, for each of the months OF March,
April and May, 1898; sent to me, I presume. In
pursuance OF q subscription given by me Tor the
came. No such subscri ption was given BY me
otherwise than upon the faith and inducement
OF Representations made to me by your soliciting
agent that your magazine would contain an ar.
ticie upon the city of Seattle to b written BY
Mr.. John W. Pratt. of this city. I hnd in the
May number. among those received by me -
above stated, an article on the city OF Seattle.
purporting to be by Mr.. Pratt, but on examinar
ton of its text find that it il not his article:
In this, that you have without any authority
altered the text of his article, where he makes
reference therein to Mount Rainier, by chang.
ing the name used to designate the mountain
from Rainier to Tacoma In doing this you
have committed q series OF crimes, the least OF
which is the crime OF forgery, BY fraud
uient alteration OF the text written by
Mr.. Pratt over his signature For this
crime your corporate character fortunately pro-
tects you from prosecution and imprisonment
at the hands OF the law, since the guilty intent
IL on essential part OF the crime and intent can
be predicated only of creature poss essed of .
soul The crime next in importance 10 your
OuenSc 6&dluot inc iAWb Oh GOOu toSt0. Next
come the breach Of common honesty and the
fai:hlessness to tho representations OF your
authorized soliciting agent; and by reason OF
this last hereby repudiase my subscription and
shall return to you by this mail the copies OF
the magazine sent me, and I chserfuily invite
you to Join issue with me in any court Of tho
state OF Washington on the question whether
my su description is any longer of force Far
beyond and above all these hitherto enumerated
crimes in magnitude towers your offense against
local history and against the just seif-respect OF
An Intelligent commonwealth. Whether you
have done this knowingly in aid Of
the advertising schemes of railroad
corporation that has been undertaking,
in the interest of its directors rings,
to reconstruct the state OF Washington and re-
christen its landmarks in the interest Of their
TOWNSHIP speculation, do not know. But,
whether Willingly or unwittingiy. you have
done what you could to aid that corporations
vain attempt. We, here In your sister state,
would be ~ well justified In undertaking to
force upon the good people of Boston town q re-
HnQuishment of its long standing name and .
return to the old Indian name of the peninsula
-Mushauwomuk: nay, We would be better JUS
tilted, since MushRuwomuk was Q legitimate
aud specific Indian name, while Tacoma ID but
q corruption OF q quite different Indian word
never applied specifically to the mountain for q
century past called Rainier, but merely used
generically 70 indicate . white mountain or
range of mountains. In closing, res pectfuliy
recommend that you follow the advice Of the
third article In your March number, and devote
yourself prayerfully to "the study OF local his
tory" Yours truly. THoaAs r. sHEPAan