The Seattle Republican., 1903-03-06
County Jail,
temporary PrOsSubstitoot.
March.

March.
, Dear Fayther Limirick.
Dim scarf fur once an don't yes
| forgit it. the hole sivin NV us is here
now.
Fayther Abraham is fitin to bate
the divil to kape this temporary biz
ness from bein premanint an from
| jining us himself.
He sez he can kape out wild Hokus
Pakus. Dim really sick-no foolin-
an Oil haf to finish this litter mkt
wake eff Dim well enuff.
Your lovin' son,
MIKE DOOGEN.
Mike Doogen is quite sick, and un-
able to furnish his regular weekly
letter, but he will be around by next
Week.-Editor.
DR.. Frank Carroll has returned from
the East and is out advocating innu-
merable reforms for the health de-
|
year or more he has been at the head
of this department of the city of Sc
attic, and it seems strikingly strange
that he would recommend so many re-
forms, the workings of which no one
but himself has any knowledge of, and
yet almost in the same breath tender
his resignation to the board of health
as health officer and city physician
If this city is so sadly in need of
health reforms and DR.. Carroll is con-
versant with the practical application
of such reforms, it seems nothing more
than right than that he continue in the
city's employ and put them into exc
cution. But no city physician has
ever staid by his job very long, and it
must be that they either have un-
pleasant duties to perform or non
sensical board to try to please.
Labor unions and union laborers are
having the DEVILS own time in their
endeavor to run Moran's shipbuilding
business contrary to the wishes of the
owners thereof. Just why these peo-
pie should feel themselves elected to
direct the destinies of this companys
business, in which they have not a
single dollar invested, is the perplex-
ing question. Strike after strike has
prevailed at Moran's shipyard during
the past year simply because the
workmen were not allowed to dictate
how much and how little they worked,
and yet draw enormous salaries every
Saturday night. If union laborers
think the Morans unfair, let them keep
away from them and the-whole dispute
will have been settled without an eX-
change of words. Bringing a man to
term it, by either violently or other
wise destroying personal property of
his is criminal and he or she who COM
mits such should be banished from
this country. Granted that the Moran
Company is arbitrary and much op-
posed to union labor, and will go
broke if it persists in so doing, then
is not that their funeral? Less solici-
tude on the part of the labor unions
lest Morans go broke would show a
good deal more common sense on the
part of the former.
"It's always good to be in a hurry"
exclaimed snail that had been nine
hours in crossing a thoroughfare and
felt the brush of a passing wagon
wheel just as it was clearing the track.
Evidently the city authorities that
have charge of the erection of muni-
cipal lighting plant in this city en-
tertain similar views as to the prepar-
ations they are making for the plant.
A private concern with the same
amount of money backing it would
not only have completed lighting
plant since those authorities were or
dered to erect one for the city of
Seattle, but they would likewise have
built a whole city. Though the bonds
have been voted for months and
years, no apparent move has been
made towards the erection of the