The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-11-02
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.
TIMOTHY LYNCH TALKS.
He Would Rather Die a Freeman Than
Live a Slave.
NORTH YAKIMA, oct. 80, 1899.

NORTH YAKIMA, oct. 80, 1899.
EDITOR YAKIMA HERALD: l wish
small space in your valuable paper to
sum up the hop situation in Yakima
county to-day. A short while before
picking time | was offered 1875 and IA
cents pound for hops. After that, or
about that time, the hop conspirators
got together for the purpose OF fleeing
the wealth producers out OF their well
earned industry. Tney are getting so
bold that they don't hesitate to break
open our hop warehouses to get samples.
They did actually break the lock on my
gate and cut samples out OF my hop bales
without my consent. | dearly wish TO
know the burglars. We hsye been pay
ing ont money for year raising crop.
We have to battle with the elements and
with insect life, but the very worst evil
that we have TO contend with is the two
legged vermin. The sauve oily-tongued
creature is the worst of all One OF these
vermin is in the habit of coming in the
spring of the year to contract with the
old hayseeds; by no means a contract
nothing but an option, a tying up game
with one side to it. In the fall sample
of the very best hops are rejected to
cause a stampede among the old ranChers.
What usage for the wealth producers OF
country! II We don't get the value Of
l. l,nP DYa ln
merchants and business men to get their
patronage? One of these creatures is
about 1 y inches thick from breast-bone
to back bone with no room for Il heart.
He may have gizzard like duck,
perhaps, but nothing more. These
creatures smoke fancy cigars, scented, if
you please, with rare drinks and living
on the fat Of the land. We might well
ask the question, on what meats do our
modern Caesars feed? Do these men eat
bread by the sweat of their brows? This
will cause a hearty laugh from these
dlers who never intend to sweat nor earn
an honest dollar, but leech-like suck the
blood from their brothers. How long,
o Lord, how long will this continue?
| contend that we are nothing more
than industrial slaves. All other pro-
ducts bring fair price, but the highest
priced merchandise is down to about
half its value this year. These fellows
come like birds of prey in the fall and
spring. Some of them keep scavenger
to do their dirty work, and on Sunday
the sleek creature goes off to church
when the bell tolls calling sinners to re-
pentsnce. They so to ask God to forgive
them for their weeks sknning of their
fellow men. Some of these creatures go
to the merchant tailor for clothes made
to order, while the producers of wealth
have to be contented with suit OF
shoddy for Sunday and an overall and
Jumper for week days. A Chinaman's
hops were reiected-three or four bales
of them and he would not stand it, but
took them home again and put his eau
casian brothers to shame. Another
trick of theirs is wireing on the peoples
hops. Their modes of attack this year
are different from all the years gone by.
No hearing from samples is necessary
this year. |! men will hold their crops,
give no samples but to actual buyers,
and set day or two in each week az
market days, then and not TIL then, will
these people treat us with due respect.
l would sooner die free man than live
a slave. I. j. LYNCH.