The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-12

JOY the prosperous season soon to come
again. As Il farming community
Lewis county has made a wonderful
growth Of late years, which is manly
due to the Efforts OF its newspapers.
The Winlock Pilot says: Governor
Rogers and his party don't seem to
hang together very we'll We are only
surprised that they held together long
enough to elect such an "oddity" to
Office.
On the contrary, we think that they
will all hang together.
THE establishing of a salmon cur
ing plant at Duckabush, says the
Olympic Miner, marks the beginning
of new era on the Canal. Hereto
fore it has been logging era, but now
begins that of fish. and it is one that
will last forever The market for
properly smoked salmon is practically
unlimited, and now that a start has
been made the industry will go for
ward with great strides. We welcome
it to these fish-laden waters.
THE United States supreme court
has affirmed the decision of the circuit
court of California, refusing a writ of
habeas corpus to William Henry
Theodore Durrant under sentence of
death fer The murder of Miss Blanche
Lamont at San Francisco in April,
1898. The case has attracted atten-
ton throughout the whole United
States, and the decision permits the
law to take its course with the con-
demned man, Who will be hung ac-
cording to the original sentence This
settles the case which has been follow
ed very closely in some quarters, and
the public should be thankful that it
is soon to go out of mind.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
Times-Horald alleges that the law re-
stricting the entry Of Chinese to this
country is being broken daily, and
that, in spite Of the fact that none
save merchants, students, doctors and
tourists are allowed to enter with prop
er certificates, that five hundred of
the Outcast class have entered one
port since the first Of May. Similar
charges are made elsewhere, and it is
believed where there is so much
smoke, there must be considerable fire
It is probable that the recent decis-
ion OF Judge Hanford regarding the
entry OF wives and children OF mer-
chants without certificates will result
IN bringing the insufficiency OF the
present laws 10 the attention of con-
gress, and proper amendments be en-
grated to make restriction restrict
AS 1T Is, the law is apparently as full
OF holes us q ladder.-Ledger.
AT the risk of causing pain to the
free trade advocates who have insisted
that the adoption of protective sys-
tenn would destroy our foreign market
for American manufactures, their at
tention is respectfully called to the
fact that the expectation of domestic
manufactures from the United States
IN the first month under the Dingley
law was nearly two million dollars
more than in the corresponding month
OF the preceding year under the Will
son law. When to this is added the
fact that the September expectations
OF domestic merchandise of all kinds
were twenty millions greater under
the Dlngley law than those of Septem-
Der, 1896, under the Wilson law, it
will be seen that the dismal predic-
stions of the loss of our foreign market
by the enactment OF a protective tariff
are not being rapidly realized.-Sidney
independent
IT is high time that the Hon. John
Il. Rogers, governor OF the State of
Washington by accident" cremate his
senatorial ambitions and Danish from
his mind visions of the toga, quit his
intrigue and give the state as decent
an administration as he can for the
rest of his term. His cake will never
get beyond the dough stage, his name
is Dennis, his career will soon be
rounded out with full period of po-
litical oblivion. He ought to be able
to see it,-and "reform." His worst
enemies are in his own party, and the
leading populist papers have about ex-
hausted the vocabulary in abusing
him; only handful If hybrids giving
him a feeble encouragement. The re-
publican press finds occasional in
stances to sympathize with and COM
mend the governor for nerve in hand
ling the ACKNOWLEDGMENT about him,
although almost every act since he as
sumed the gubernatorial chair seems
to have been dictated by spirit of
petty revenge or to advance his polit-
ical aspirations. While the political
medley to which the Governor owes
his elevation could expect nothing
better than ayarice, selfishness and
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