The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-09

SAMMY PERkISg PIPING WA11.
IL Sammy Perkins cannot save the
country ons way he II bound 70 do II
anothsr-if that II his real purpose Ia
Me. This . IN important pwovise. be-
cause II has not yet been established In
the public mind whether Sammy Per
1kins has any real purpose In life. or
what purpose he subservss.
But assuming for the moment that he
has an object. he VIII not allow con-
oistency to thwart him. For = time he
attsmpted 70 save the country by az
ploitjng the virtues Of Hanna il the
Tacoma Ledger. and UNFOLDING the Nc
kinisy administration. In the hour OF
IT. need. the country did not desplse
SAMMY Perkins,. It n true II paid 40
particular attention to him. but at least
Il did not make any effort to get along
without him. when. however. the war
was really over. and people had time TO
think OF less serious things. those who
knsv anything Of him At all began to
look st him and laugh.
There = nothing more annoying TO a
man az Importance than to be laughed
1T II was evident that the country had
recovered tts assurance and felt that It
could do without sammy Perkins; and
% IN umbraxe he left the poor Ledger
20 get along tbs best way It could with
out him.
Then the country got into . horrible
condition. It got IN awful attack of i'm
pertalism. This opened the eyes OF SAM
my Perkins TO the fact that there was
. real need for his services, The Re-
publican party was becoming pompous
In its prosperity and he therefore turn
ed his attention TO Democratic paper.
He now runs the Tacoma Daily News.
which can grind out more lugubrious-
ness to the column than any other sheet
IN tina country. A writer on Puget
sound once said the weather was 30
gloomy here that II drove people to
6teilacoom. II may not lie quite as bad
~ that. but only man III for Stella
COON or one who was affected by the
gloom could imagine such horrors as
those which now flow from the pen ~
Sammy Perkins.
He finds fault with the fact that the
United states IL represented at the Eu-
ropean congress. and because no other
nation on this hemisphere In represent
"a there he takes this To mean that We
are regarded as "the au,ocrat of the
American continent" In Samoa. we
have got into mess Among cur other
offenses and caiamitles we are cou.em-
plating 'the making Of a canal to con-
meet the two oceans. the laying OF ca
bic TO the Philippines. the erection of
fortincations and naval stations at vari-
Gus points abroad, the establishment az
huge coating depo,s. the permanent en-
largement Of army and navy. and other
enterprises which will require vast and
continuous OUTLAWS Of money"
Everything Ne have done IL con-
demned: and about the only thing We
have not done If also condemned Sam
my rcund.y abuses the government, for
not arving acquired the Caroi!ncs. lie
says: AT the least. we needed a coal
ing station ard possibly eah.e station
In the CarollneS
The more he piles on the agony the
worse he feels. Earth hunger grows
The appetite demands more and more
Already there are mods and hints inai-
catins a desire 20 acquire sphere ..
influence tn China"
II a man It'd n5t tive In the sunshine
and had no ether means az iearnlas
what was going on than SsFnrny's new
crgan. he would hecsne so peeslrlsssis
and blue that he weals Ne inclined e
follow the example Of the peer fellow or
the Edmonton trail who shet himself
through the head. after sticking M =
sign cn reiehhoriug tree, "Ffsjl can'i
be worse than shzs trail, TIL chance IL"