The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-07-19

CLEVELAND wants third term. but
he will get something worse than his
first trial for the second term, if he
attempts it. The retirement to his
low practice will be indefinite this
time.
STIcKToITIvENEss says the Whatcom
Blade, is better quality than intuit-
iveness. Those who have stuck to the
Sound through the depressing period
are beginning to realize again the sig
nificance OF that axiom. Those who
intuitively left the Sound for other
lands are tiocking home again, eager,
broke, repentant.
THE first parlor of the Native
Daughters of Washington was estab-
lished at Port Townsend on the 4th of
July under the title of Lucinda ParlOr
No. |, with charter membership of
seven. The parlor was named In
honor of Mrs. Lucinda Hastings, the
pioneer woman of Port Townsend,
recently deceased, and the first matron
is Mrs. Jesse Allen, youngest daughter
of Mrs. Hastings. The organization
will at once be incorporated and then
other parlors throughout the State
will be established. Like the Native
Sons, the Native Daughters were orig
mated by Judge J. a. Kuhn, the we'll
known pioneer.
AS A matter of fact, says the Olym-
plan, the cause OF woman suffrage has
less to fear from masculine opposition
than from the apathy and hostility of
women themselves. This is demon
strated by the marked favoritism with
which that sex is regarded by the la ws
Up to date it has been impossible to
to interest the great body of women
in the suffrage movement. They can
not be brought to believe that they
are now treated as serfs, while many
OF them insist that q participation in
ia politics would weaken or destroy
the moral influence they now exercise.
Some few women although pretending
to be great sutfragists, are also in OPP
position, because they fear that if the
fool women" get vote they will put
"God in the Constitution and the
bible in the public school," 1t is
really too bad that this country can
not be conducted to suit every one of
the sixty millions of people in it, and
in harmony with the ideas of the
crankS, as well.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL HAIGHT has
given an opinion affecting the oyster
industry, which is of some import
ance, in response to an inquiry from
the commissioner of public lands as
to the authority to sell oyster beds
located below the line of ordinary
low tide He holds that the state can
give no title to lands under the tide
land laws to beds below the line OF
low tide, and quotes the section gov
erning the case as follows: Cali per
sons having the qualification provided
by law to enable them to purchase
tide lands within this state and who,
prior to March Goth, 1890. in good
faith entered upon tide lands not in
front of any incorporated city or
town nor within two miles thereof on
either side and planted and cultivated
thereon artificial oyster beds, and who
continued to occupy and work the
same continuously in good faith to
March 26, 1890, and ever since said
date, and are now in possession of
and working said oyster beds in good
faith, shall be permitted to purchase
the same for the purpose of cult vat
ing oysters thereon."-W. c. Trade.
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THE prosperity of this country de-
ponds upon that we call its develop
ment. When development is arrested
business of all kinds is poor. Labor
is thrown out of employment and the
inability of the masses Of the products
of the fields and shops causes prices
to fall; the standard of living is gen.
orally reduced, and only those who
have accumulations of money, fixed
salaries or income from investments
are able to keep up the expenses of
good times. This has been the expert
ence of the country since the control
of the government passed from the
hands of the progressive party into
the control of the reactionary democ-
racy. The degree to which develop
ment has been arrested is we'll illus
trated by the experience of the Bald |
win locomotive works of Philadelphia.
In 1892 and during the first six
months of 1898 the Baldwin establish
ment employed $500 men and the
average production was eighteen loco
motive week. During the latter
part Of 1898 and down to June 1896