The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-10-15

position to demand it. We can never
receive Justice until we can demand
and exact it, and inict the penalty OF
the proper heads if it is not forthcom-
ing.
GOOD TIMES BEGIN.
ALREADY the aspiring politician for
public Office is laying his wires for fall
and spring elections. The liquor deal
ers should be up and doing, be ebert
to what is transporting in the political
field.
Local associations should elect
members for executive work who are
conservative business men. Care
should be taken to ascertain the posi-
ton of candidates to public office to-
ward the liquor interests Men are
elected and sent to the legislature who
are enemies to our business. We are
awakened to this realization only after
some obnoxious bill has been intro
duced by the designed to draw the
lines of restraint close around the IL
quOr men.
''If aspirants for public Office are
found to be in harmO ny with us, work
as unit for their election regardless
of party. If known to be opposed to
our welfare, move heaven and hell to
defeat them. Do not allow them to
escape-they are breeders of trouble
and must be eXterminated.
'Be alert and wary of the political
CRATER.
"Let it be known that the alleged
corrupt sack of liquor dealers is merely
myth. Do your work openly and
above board and mark well with the
brand of Cain the political traitor.
efforts should be made to elect to
public office members of our assoca-
ton. AL classes of industry and trade
are represented in our legislature.
Why not stronger representation of
the liquor dealer; who will there be in
position to better protect our interests:
"What Is the purpose of meeting
here? Is it to continue in the same it
old rut, or is it to take such matters
into consideration as have been out
lined? Is it impossible to arouse our
people to The conditions that face
them? Are we so low in the scale of
human intelligence that we or the
ma jority of us connot see what all other
classes of business men have seen?
HE ALONE is BLIND.
"The necessity of practical organi-
cation from the bod carrier to the
banker and from the banker to the
trust magnate- all have realized the
need and great utility of organization
OF all the callings on the mercantile
industrial calendar, there is but one
class which persists. and is blind to its
interests: and that is the retail liquor
dealer.
'ln conclusion. | appeal to those
present to awake to the facts and con-
ditions that on every hand surround
the trade and abridge your rights.
AS your license scars skyward, your
privileges are becoming more and
more contracted and curtailed. Your
inactivity must needs bring us destruc-
ton. If you do not awake at once to
self-interests and be practical, you will
be subjected to greater burdens: and
you will be futher harassed and less
respected than you are now. | could
not be loyal to the state association or
true to myself and speak differently to
you. If | can but impress you with the
present peril that overshadows our des-
tiny, if | can only impress you all so
when you return home you will act and
and work, if can only impress you so
that you will start that good work
right here and now, and that you will
make the proper beginning looking to
the perfection of a practical protective
organization that will elevate and
emancipate our trade from tyranny.
oppression and eXtOrtion that is weis h.
ing and dragging us down: if | can do
this, and proper beginning is made
here, | feel that some real good has
been accomplished at our first annual
convention"