The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-06-28
Editorial Notes.

The South American wars are caus-
ing q large influx of orders for lumber
from the various Puget Sound mills,
and Mason county will receive a res
pectable share OF the harvest.
THE Olympia Standard says, yell
low ribbon on the coat lapel now de-
signates a gold-bug, while white rib
ben hurrahs good, old fashioned, hon
est silver Show your colors.
AT the election held in Pierce Coun-
ty last week the proposition to validate
, the Indebtedness issued in excess Of
the legal limit, lacked votes of the
necessary three-ffths and failed to
pass.
MOFFIT BROTHERS, have completed
their contract of constructing the
Capitol foundations, anC It is said
lost $4,000 on the work. lids will be
opened in august for the sGperstruc-
ture. Washington's state Capitol will
be used by 1900.
The Hoods Canal Lumber Com
pay of Seattle, has incorporated for
the purpose of doing a logging bust
ness. Capital stock, $4,000, divided
into 10 shares OF $50 each. Incorpor-
ators, E. w. Haines, Elihu Baker and
4. J. Baker.
FREE SILVER is making hard fight
for recognition in the East. In sew
cral states both the republicans and
democrats have endorsed it. At the
democratic convention in Kentucky
the administration was on top, and it
reported against silver. The great
West is for silver and probably all the
political parties will favor it in this
section. Germany now asks for an
international conference
THE Multnomah Wednesday car
rled 700 sacks Of oats for S. G. Simp-
son, Kamilche He uses about half
this amount for single "feed" of his
horses" The above is from the Olym-
pla Standard. The Simpson Logging
Company is the most extensive lum.
bering firm on the Sound, but half OF
700 sacks of oats would make power.
ful big 'Teed" for about rs horses
even if they are big fellows. :.
The Methodist Churches of this
district are getting ready for their big
camp-meeting, at the Little Rock
grounds, Aug. filth. Rev Samuel
Moore presiding elder, will have full
charge of the meetings and will be
ably assisted by large force OF minis
ters from his own and other districts.
A large gathering OF church people is
anticipated Food for man and beast
will be furnished at reasonable rates
on the grounds, and cottages or tents
can be rented for the camp-meeting.
For information rs to former address
Rev. a. J. Joslyn, of Olympia; and
the latter consult, Rev. A. S. Gregg
Tacoma.
TACoMAS celebration committee
have followed San Francisco in declar.
ing that no flag shall be displayed in
the procession except the stars and
stripes; and going further, prohibited
the Hibernian flag or banner, as rep.
resentatiye of foreign country. All
societies, however, may carry desig
mating banners suspended from pole
but no flag of any description, except
the American flag. This is as il
should be-if foreigners are in America
Tor this country's good, let them do as
Americans do. The memory of the
mother country can be kept green by
other means not so public. Most oil
our foreign population very readi ly
assimilates with us, but another ele-
n.ent, like the Anarchists, are great
breeders of trouble
The ssbumling" man says: "As all
independent free thinker we think
any religious denomination that seeks
to build itself up by tearing Others
down, ought to be cried down by all
sensible people," Personally we have
always had fair opinion of free
thinkers, considering that they got
started on the wrong end of the
bible But great many people who
call themselves Gree thinkers" are in
reality nothing-not thinkers of any
kind. He is evidently specimen
of the latter class The A. P. A. is q
combination of all patriotic Ameri-
cans, and including believers and un-
believers. It's object is not to war on
the pope or the Catholic Church, as a
church, but to make him, or any other
foreign power which holds absolute
sway over people in this free country,
keep hands off of American politics
and the American school system.
America for Americans, whether by
birth or adoption governed by Ameri
cans. The feeling between the Catho-
lie and the Protestant churches is the
sameas it was before the A. P. A.
came into being. Each decried the
others mode of worship, but the