Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-30


bered that the same j. Howard Wat.
son travelled the State few years ago
writing staff letters telling of the
popularity of Republican principles in
each town visited, which appeared
quite regularly in the P-L., when
published by the Pipers.
Politics in municipal elections is
rotten to the core. Nowadays elec
tions OF officers for municipal posts are
not for the good of city, it seems, at
all, but for the financial hetterment of
those who are elected. "The people
be damned" is tho thoughts of most
candidates at city election. Graft,
theft and plots to grab money, are the
only subjects dealt with by the office.
seeker to-day. Public speeches, pub
lie promises, are not taken seriously
by the broad.minded voter, for he
knows it amounts to nothing.
When John d. Rockefeller, the
Standard oil king, intends to make
some college or other like institution
a present of q million dollars or so, he
adds an addition OF one cent per gal
lon to the wholesale price of kerosene,
which means An addition of about
SIC, ,O0O,O 900 to his own income at the
cost of the consumers. If Congress
or State Legislature should levy such
tax on the people without giving a
mighty good" reason for it, there
would be a big row. King Rookie.
Teller fears no trouble in that way.
Gambling should de licensed. No
use to have gambling as a plank in
every municipal platform each year.
It. becomes tiresome to the anti.
gambler and to the practical gambler.
People will gamble long as life itself
exists. No power Of man will ever
stamp it out completely. They may
curtail, or suppress it somewhat, but
stop it, never. If gambling was IL
censed, the revenue could be used in
many ways for the betterment of city,
county and State, but as il is now,
gambling is carried on. and while a
few may get rake.of" for playing
deaf, dumb and blind, the town,
county or State gets nothing.
The throne of the Sultan of Turkey is
made Of gold and is studded with 10000
pearls as big as filberts.-Er.
The Sultan's throne contains one or
two more pearls than does the chair 1
use when grinding out "copy" for
this column. The chair in question
is made Of radium, yet, while perhaps
short one or two pearls, as contained
in the throne OF the Sultan's, this is
greatly overbalanced by the S.99S
rubies in it, large As the nerve of a
Seattle real estate shark, and 1000
diamonds the size of a Wenatchee
premium apple, which blaze and
sparkle almost as brilliant as does the
so.called editorial paragraphs which
ooze from the millet.se size brain OF
. certain would be editor in Olympia.
An Eastern Washington editor, after
proceeding to chastise me, literally, as
to religious assertions which 1 have
made in this column from time to
time, writes with such looseness OF
language that 1 really wonder, at
times, to what extent pious zeal may
not lead those who are supposed to
possess that charity which speaketh
no evil"
| It is An easy matter to cry in6del,"
"your views are poison" ""your tenets
abominable," and to state your con.
victions is unblushipg effrontery."
| But to imagine that such assertions
are an argument is extremely childish
After reading the editors severe ar.
raignment. and history Of myself, 1, al
first reading threw down the pape,
with disgust, inasmuoh as felt only
sorrow and pity for human being,
who by his writing pretends to be one
of bis Gods right hand agents, with
credentials for reserved seat in front
of God's-his god.throne, and who ..
the same time "roasts me TO death,
so to speak, with . lot Of nonsense
that would be silly rant for sixteen.
yesr.old school boy to write.
| Upon reading the article the second
time, I concluded to notice it, just fol
one fact alone, and that is this: Every.
thing the writer has said about me is
correct in just one particular, and
that is, every word he says personal
about me is q lie OF the first water
out of whole cloth. That's all. ]
have my opinion concerning religion.
allow for others to have theirs. ]
never called q man "a foor in my
life, because he did not believe as ]
upon any subject. Now to let thi.
editor understand the views I hold
upon tho subject he seems delighted
to dwell upon, using me as 9" fall
guy" to use street expression, I will
try and enlighten him.
Let me inform him that he is him
self an "infdel," to those who believe
in the truth Of other religions. TO whom
Christian views are abominsble poi
son." and Christian zeal unblushinl
efffontery," and the advocacy OF suct
An unholy vocation"
This Watterson.Stead. Scott OF East.
ern Washiugton-pardon me for class
ling him among the foregoing great