The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-10-14

ton, this year, it is one Of redemption.
CLARK County will have 100000
pounds of dried prunes, which are
worth 4 cents pound.
THERE is no good reason for any
mud-slinging against the persOnel of
the local county tickets. Personally,
without any exception, both parties
perfectly right, however. to criticize
the acts of those in office, and TO COM
pare them with former administrations
The public schools of Mason County
owe their present state of efficiency to
the painstaking work of Supt. Gunder-
son. Every school in the County. re-
CARELESS of distance or accessibility,
has been visited by him during every
term. The same conscientious work
can be expected of him, if the people
elect him as their representative.
IT is strange and unaccountable
how any man can drop all the prin-
ciples, traditions and their friends of
the Republican party, and take up all
the "isms" of fusionism, for the sake
of the .will-o'-the-wisp of free silver.
Most Silver Republicans feel that they
made mistake two years ago, and
that they are in uncongenial company,
among people with whom they have
no interests in common. Their treat
ment at the hands of the late Demo-
cratic CONVENTION is an indication of
what must surely come.
The Democrats are making frantic
efforts to claim that the fusion plat
form does not commit them to single
tax and their speakers are lodging the
issue in the best way possible. There
are good populists who do not favor
subordinating all the principles for
which the Populist party has stood
Tor years for the sole benefit of the
single tax propaganda, and pervert-
ing the organizationof the party for
the benefit of Bob. Bridges and Eu-
gene Way and their heresies. The in
telllgent populist farmer is no single
taxer.
HE workingman, and especially
those employed in the lumber woods,
will have little time or patience this
year to hearken to agitators, who may
come among them to tell them that
times are hard, and they are oppress-
ed by the financial system of the
country. They need but compare
their present condition with that of
two years ago, to give the lie to such
statements. Now every man is en-
ployed, and the wages are at top
notch. No idle men in Washington
men wanted everywhere, and men are
again independent. Do they want to
change these conditions, or will they
let we'll enough alone?
The last legislature, although its
members professed to be ardent SYM
pathizers with the working man and
the farmers, did many acts against
the interests of those classes, and in
favor of corporations. Though loud
in their demands for Scent rate on
the railroads they held up and finally
defeated such a measure. Now the
fusion platform howls for one more
chance. It was the same with the
fishing interests, the trap-owners got
In their work, and have their interests
protected in every respect with the
minimum of license, while the seine
pays nearly as much license, and
catches small fraction of the number
OF fish. In Mason County many of
the ranchers living on the shores Of
Hood Canal and our bays have small
seines and put in some time each year
hauling for fish to supply them with
cash, and they must pay license, az
well as those who make business Of
fishing. The trap men want still fur.
Their advantages from the next legisla.
ture. and the people Of Mason County
should see that their interests are IN