Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-18

own State" as is his accidency, al
though the former has made no effort
to contribute visionary diatribes t
mushroom periodicals or have his por
trait emhlazoned on the wrappers o
Paine's Celery Compound or othe
quack medicines.
Mr.. Townc expressed his pleasure il
meeting SO many people who hat
been drawn together as Mr.. Heifnel
had said, without the excitement of M
active campaign. He differed, how
ever, with the gentleman. The cam
paign began in the Chicago Conven
ton of 1896, and it will continue til
when, in 1900, we see the second JET
ferson inaugurated President of the
United States. 1t gained renewed
strength at the count of the ballots
of the campaign which followed. He
believed that the election of 1896 wa:
verdict rendered upon only a part
of the evidence. Had the people
known what the present administra-
ton was to do, it would have suffered
overwhelming defeat. The Republi'
cans of 1896 had become total sub.
version Of the principles advocated
in 1850, andMark Hanna was en-.
abled to gather campaign fund never
dreamed of to subvert the will of the
people. The people had, however
learned the bitter lesson Of experience,
and like the tenderfoot who was in.
vigled into game of draw poker in
Montana, they were prepared to avoid
the pitfalls of the past and check.
mate game that owed its success
mainly to confidence. The tenderfoot
was dealt four aces, and very natur.
ally raised the stake to the topmost
limit on what he innocently believed
to he an invincible hand. When it
came to showdown, however, and he
reached out for the money, his op.
ponent blandly demonstrated with
Hold on, the money is mine" How
can that be demonstrated the Tender.
foot, when l have four aces to back
my claim" "Ah, my friend, was the
rejoinder, you should understand the
rules of the game. have a lulah-
three spades and two diamonds-nnd
if you look Mt the rules on the wall
you will see that 'lulah' beats four
aces" Sure enough, when he turned
his head, he clearly saw that the
"rule" was in full force. Well, he
played on, in the hope that the vary
ing fortunes of the play would accord
him such a paralyzing deal. Sure
enough, it came, and he confidently
extended his hand to rake in his win
nings, when his opponent again inter.
rupted with, "My friend, in playing
this game, you should keep in view
the rules which govern it," and on
glancing at the wall he discovered a
new legend had displaced the former,
which read: "a 'lulah' can be
played only once in a night" The
"lulah" which Hanna played in 1896,
he did not believe could be success.
fully played second time.
The force OF the speakers remarks
consisted in the clcarness with which
each proposition was stated. "The
broadest generalization, he said, ever
made on the subject of money was by
Aristotle, the greatest Of the Greeks,
who, more than two thousand years
ago, said. Money is the instrument
of association" The history of money
is implied in this definition. Until
men associated together, until, in
other words, society in some rude
shape, at least, was formed, money had
no existence. On the other hand, the
formation OF society was itself impos.
sible until money was invented. In
the very infancy of the race our bar.
baric ancestors supplied each one his
necessities by his own labors. Each
head of primitive family pursued OF
entrapped the wild beast for meat
gathered from the bounty of nature in
root and berry the other constituents
of his simple diet and found in the
fur of animals and the bark of trees
that which served him for clothing
and covering. But as the beginnings
of society appeared and the establish.
nent of peace over greater or less areas
of country permitted, in some degree
the cultivation of the arts, the division
Of labor, commenced. That is to say,
men having peculiar opportunities or
special talents for different pursuits
devoted themselves to particular in.
dustries. This resulted in the pro.
duction by each producer OF q sur.
plus of commodities beyond his own
necessities and compelled him to
crafty his other wants by exchanging
his surplus products with the surplus
of other needed things grown or made
by other producers. This exchange OF
commodities was effected by trading
them directly one for another and
give rise to the system which We
familiarly denominate barter.
A man who made sandals, wanted q
covering for the head. Without
money, he had to meet the man who
made hats and exchange his shoes 70.
the other product, but with money an
easy exchange could be effected. He