The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-25
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
sEATYLE, TUESDAY. JAN. 2s.


THE THREE YAKIMA JAWsAfTHs.
The document enahodying resolutions
adopted By the Joint committees Of the
three parties Mt Yakima is gem In
ifs way II political slang Is perInissi-
bic in the columns Of a newspaper. II
NAV be described as .corker." The
big drum was put into the hands Of
firse men with good muscle, and they
have made the tympan resound.
After congratulating their fellow
citizens and facilitating themselves up
On their achievements I'm the past, the
resolution committee Just goes for
the plutocracy and the ruthless des-
rotisms and the sordid and unscrupu-
lous greed Of the aristocracy. The
document is red peppered with denun-
Citations of corruption. greed and job
berry: the plundering Of revenues and
the ravishing of resources: the extor-
tionate greed Of creditors and the ra-
pacitsex OF transportation companies.
In sweet contrast to this aqua forts
and corrosive snblimate of campaign
eIoauenec there are touching illusions
to the tofling masses and the public
veal and wealth producers. those we'll
known lay figures which always oc-
cupy a conspicuous place on Peoples
party platforms and are then put away
with other properties OF the professional
mouther 10 be taken out and busted
and furnished up fer use next time.
The chief enemies Of these word
building blatherskites this year viii be
many who last year were I'm Populist
ranks Producers who were last year
denouncing wealth are now the owners
OF fat bank accounts. Men who were
last year dnwn-hearted and despairing.
unable 70 see which way To turn. and
who with the characteristic Of human
nature grumbled at all the world and
blamed everybody but themselves. are
now pretty Wei pleased with them
selves. think they are very shrewd
fellows. and having cleared their prop
erty from mortgages aud taxes, are
hack IN their sound mind They will not
take any further part In the warfare
against men yho have money. They viii
lie on thee side of the party which
encourages the legitimate acquisition
of wealth. the enjoyment of comforts
and the duty of every man 10 keep cut
OF debt. If possible. but If he go into
dCht 10 pay II hack like man.
The Peoples party Will not tack for
adherents. There are enough men In
It's ranks who Eever win be any further
advanced. 40 matter what the opporti-
mites for prosperity may be. They " Ill
be Joined by the men who sanl on he
street corner ham,. around the grocery
stores or loss il. village saloons. eyor
ready with glib speech ana hlsh-souna.
Ing phrases Ia show how the world
should be run and other people's bual-
hess regulated.
Pops are sometimes made BY cir.
camssanees. hut they are usually born.
\ man who Is naturally indolant
thriftiesa. ready with the gifs OF sab
and finding In the prosperity Of others
. wrong TO himself. "a 10 Be found IN
every country. Fortunately. he IS
never IN the majority. Human energy.
and perhaps tho selfish desire az most
men II better their condition by their
own endeaver. is always too much IN
the ascendant. The nessimiss, ths
calamity howler. tire man who never
docs anything himself. bu; always
shakes his head ia depreciation Of this
achievements % others. is ever with
Us lie Is Is he found in every state
and in every itt'le settlement. lie
drifts from one party o. another. ha,
always with the party that lescs. his
politics is l{ke his business gnofhoas
he Is never successful Fer the mo-
men; be Is a ropulIst. hut az soon a
ne becomes successful hv chance. 81
makes lucky advance In hts fortunes
le belongs "a some ether party.
The leader ~ saeh an aexcega'lon Is
usually ere vita q snatserlns 81 abb
ity ulso has been turned down BY ems
CT The ether parties. livery man who