Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-08-14
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Pieces Of Individual Opinion Washed Up by the
Tide, Doomed, Sawed. Split and Piled

Pieces Of Individual Opinion Washed Up by the
Tide, Doomed. Sawed. Split and Piled
BY LUE VERNON.
Talking about the political lash and
whip. Organized labor unions not
only wish to use whip but the busi-
ness managers or walking delegate
would use whipping post and prison
for all men who do not wish to join
their organizations if they could.
The public at large will celebrate
with much pomp and brilliancy when
the joyful and long-wished.for report
comes that the Times and the P.-I. of
Seattle have ceased, for q time at
least, their controversy about The
Disappearance of American Shipping
From the Seas" The P.-I. thinks it
knows Pyle about the subject, while
the Times just Blethens away as if it
owned 10000 or 10000 vessels.
If you are an American, be one. If
you are Britisher or Canadian, be
one. If you are liar, be good one.
If you are thief, blackleg and hypo-
critic, be one. If you are a gambler,
be one. If you are preacher, be one.
Don't try to deceive all the time. In
these days OF X-rays, telephones, wire-
less telegraph, telepathy and detec-
tives you can't do it. and you are a
weak-minded person if you try it.
The home of newspapers will be al
lowed to Tacoma. Two new publ.
cations were launched on the trouble.
some sea of journalism in the City OF
Destiny last week. The Weeks Work,
an illustrated journal, is one, the
Labor Inquirer is the other. "Too
many cooks spoil the BROTH" is an old
saw, yet it can be applied to news.
paper publications, as we'll, some
times, and how so many publications
expect to make enough money to
build palace for the editor or furnish
him with enough money to remain
over night in the Washington hotel in
Seattle, is beyond our widest dreams
of Imagination. Some of these news.
papers now being published in Ia.
coma will be lucky, indeed, if they
can scrape the money each week tc
pay the DEVILS" wages.
Montague Vernon Ponsonby, who
claims to be an English journalist, has
written a book entitled, The Pre-.
posterous Yankee" He devotes much
space to the alleged American habit ol
exaggerating. "The American thou.
sand" he says, ais about three hun
dred." If this is true it makes the Seat
tie Times circulation figures look like
the shadow of death. Again, he says
"the American mile is almost eight
hundred yards; everyone is lying
Americans lie in the pulpit, in Con.
gress and in their Sleep" But there
is one thing we don't do, Mr.. Monta.
que Vernon Ponsonby, and that is We
no longer lie awake on account Of the
remarks OF foreign observers who
simply cannot understand the country
A woman who lives near Olympia
conducts q poultry farm. A rumor
got out in the neighborhood, one day
last week. that her chickens we're
holding protracted war among them.
selves and that feud was on which
would probably spread and include
the poultry Of other farmers in that
section, and eventually exterminate
all the chickens. A committee oi
farmers were appointed to look up and
kill off the womau's chickens. When
the chairman of the committee
stepped into the barnyard and ex.
amined the fowls he discovered that
no more peaceable chickens could be
found, and the apparently bloody con.
dition of tho womsn's poultry was be
cause she had painted them with red
paint in order to distinguish them
from neighboring flocks.