The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-16
THE average populist damns corpor-

| atlOnS lnQlScrlmlnately, ana pToDaplv
many of them deserve it at times. but
as general thing we are prone to
overlook the fact that to the corpot-
atoms is due every material develop
ment in the State of Washington, and
this is the state we are most interested
in just now. Some community and
almost every person living there, is de-
pendent on every important corpora
ton. 1t is simply combination of
brains and capital, on larger scale
than an individual could handle, and
it makes possible the existence OF the
people and often the very community
itself. II is not all smooth sailing with
the corporations, any more than it is
with the Independent business man
or the individual. Reverses and finan-
cial ruin are rarely so far away that a
business furry might bring such result
any day, and especially in manufac-
turing lines, they cannot prosper and
do satisfactory business unless the
general people, the working men OF
the country, are prospecting. In this
state we require capital, we need in
dustries of all kind, and we must have
means to develop our latent resources
or we shall never meet the grand
destiny cut out for Washington.
Let us condemn where it is deserved
but let us hasten rather than retard
the time when this state can be self
supporting and independent
ELSEWHERE will be found circular
letter signed by every mill company
of any Importance in Western Wash
ington, including every mill which
handles the product of Mason County
woods. We hope every worker in the
woods and every voter in Mason County,
for we all are directly interested in the
prosperity of the lumberman, will care
fully study the letter. Politics cuts
little figure with the mill concerns;
whether republicans or democrats are
in control, they want "sound money
and protection" 1t is but fair to pre-
sumo that these men have studied the
question for more that most of the
curb-stone orators. They think
Bryan's election would injure the
numbering business, and they know if
any one does. Ii it has bad effect on
the mills. what about the loggers.
They should look at the matter fairly
and from their own standpoint. We
say that there is little business, trade
is dull; what we want is something to
stimulate business, to revive trade.
MCKINLEY has gained three popu-
list farmers that we know of, who
were active populists heretofore. what
struck one of them was this question !:
"who will make those so-called 53-cent
dollars good?" That is not hard to
answer. No one will make them good
Ii the government does not assume
the responsibility, they will not be
good. If the government backs them,
it, the people, should have the profit
to save itself-the people-from Gun
limited" ruin. The Bryan man
guesses "that silver will 60 to 1.29 an
ounce and stay there,-but everybody
else knows it cannot and will not.
what a snap for the silver miner own
ers if it would.
Some of the free silver republicans
say they want to vote for populist as
1t would be a vote to return Squire to
the Senate. It would be nothing of
the sort. Squire is dead, politically,
and he knows it, or he would have
taken the stump this campaign. The
populists have secured nearly all of
the representative nominations on the
fusion ticket, and if they control the
legislature straight pop. goes to
Washington. The democrats or popu-
lists don't want Squire, probably be-
cause he has not also renounced his
protection ideas.
"Co1N." Harvey, whose speech in
supplement form has been circulated
by the silver men of Spokane, recently
made speech in Iowa in which he
referred to Generals Sickels, Howard
and party, as cold wrecks of the re-
bellion who have lost their honor and
patriotism, and are now the tools of
political shylocks." That's the wav
good many political shysters feel
toward the G. A. R., but they are
usually less shallow than "Coin. Har-
vey" and don't say SO openly.
| The Bryan democrat says he wants
bimetallism, and never silver mono.
metallism; the Bryan populist saws he
wants neither, but fat paper money
With Bryan's election we would at
once go on silver basis, and would
pave the way for the populist fiat
money idea. Free silver people who