The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-11-02
DUTY to Your Family.

Duty to Your Family.
tt is q remarkable fact that while
BRYAN in cavorting over the country en-
deayoring to procure assistance from
the voters in his attempt to destroy the
prosperity and the progress OF the coun
try and to convince them that there ia
no prosperity, the gold in the treasury
of the United States should increase to
over S451 100000, something unprece-
dented in the history of the world, says
the Walla Walla Union. 1t is remark
able for it naturally illustrates as moth
ing else could the great difference be-
tween the times that existed when Mr..
Mckinley ran for president against
Bryan four years ago and the conditions
after he has been in office. Ii 1T does
nothing else it should convince even the
grratest doubling Thomas that Bryan
was wrong when he fOretOld what would
happen to the people If Mckinley was
elected.
The man who has a family and a
home should not overlook this. lie
should not permit prejudice to interfere
with the material welfare OF his wife and
children he should not stand out
against the best interests OF his wife and
children and vote for Bryan just because
he wac unfortunate enough four years
ago to ally himself on the wrong side
and perhaps stake his reputation as
man of affairs on the correctness OF his
Judgment. No man should bump his
own head against a stone wall, but 1t he
ia so prejudiced as to be willing to do
that, then his love of home. of wife and
of family should prevent him humping
the heads of all those near and dear
to him, just because once upon a time he
started out on the wrong foot and made
an error in political Judgment.
Think of the bare cupboard OF four
years ago; think of the shoeless little
ones; think of the patient wife who
struggled through the poverty OF that
time and encouraged you to be patient
and not give up hope and cOntented her
self with turning her Sunday dress in
order that the Others might eat-the
good wife who sympathized with you in
your belief that Bryan was right and
Mckinley was wrong. Accept the in
evitabIe. You were both wrong, but
thank God you were not successful at
that time, and this year do your duty
by yourself and to your wife and little
ones and vote for continuation OF the
prosperity that carried you through the
last four years and drove the wolf from
the door.
Horse and cattle stealing have become
unpopular pursuits among the rustlers
since Joseph Canutt was elected sheriff
Some of the rustlers are in the penitenti-
airy, and more of them would be, if the
Judge of the superior court had not been
peculiarly susceptible to certain argu-
ments and influences. Many of the old
time cattle and horse thieves, who in
times now past defied the law and the
officers of Whitman county, now find it
more pleasant and profitable to work
the ranges of other states. Joe Canutt
has taught them to respect the rights of
property within his Jurisdiction at least.
Democratic orators have spent o good
deal of more or less valuable time talk
ing to PalOuse farmers about the low
price of wheat in order to sustain their
arguments that there has been no pros
perity. But they have said nothing
about hay, hogs, horses, cattle, sheep
and other products of the farm sold at
high prices. If wheat was high and cat
tie low in price the bellowings of these
representatives of calamity and mega
ton would all be about cattle.
If we can place three ounces of -four q
day in each family in Hong Kong and
Shanghai it will raise the price of Wash
ington wheat by creating a great de-
mand. Hence practical expansion means
a market for the west 1t means better
prices. 1t means new market for their
produce. 1t means direct market with
minimum freight rate. Think of this
when you go to the polls, voters, and
cast straight republican ticket.
The people of the state enter emphatic
protest against having to pay for ante
convention condolences exchanged by
wire between Governor Rogers and his
lleutenants, chief whom in Whitman
county is VIM. Goodyear. kilograms
sent to Mr.. Goodyear and many Others
throughout the state by the governor
August %, when the state convention of
August q was being fixed were charged
to the state and paid for by the state.
1t was simply petty larceny.
The official ballot is nearly as big as
the republican majority will be. Save
labor by placing your y opposite "Re-
publican Ticket" at the head, and let it
go at that. There never was a better
time or greater call for every repuhlican