The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-09-15


Garrett August Void and E. Kirby These gentlemen or any
Others perfect right engage in such venture ne
ISLANDER has made pretense OF exclusive right " con-
troll the field small though and yielding but very small re-
the capital and labor employed in the effort to occupy II
credy with due regard for the interests of every locality
of all the people Mr. Wall said to have had considerable
experience the business If so he may reasonably
be presumed to be competent Judge to what constitutes
fairly good field for the publication of weekly papers
Presumng that he such judge that must be evil
him that this field is rdculousy inadequate Tor TWO pa
pe he be depending the assurances OF MS
his project here that it will be an easy
matter to of business. Possibly WILL Inc
was nearly years 1t cannot be said to
have been until number years LATER II ndeed
is yet started by joint stock company of local people,
including then in business here and not only did
stockholders dollar IN dividends
but the greater part Of what they had put
present has put into it quite of money derived
other and has drawn little out of It, He has
published past what regarded by competent
Judges paper issued anywhere in the northwest so
small place He has given every locality in the county "fair
dea He has encouraged competition against bust
here elsewhere the county, his commercial adver
Using low and always have been and yet the aggregate
the advertising done by the merchants of the
county, whom good friends and patrons of the
does much than half the of of the men
employed in the Office and the official advertising of the county
the maximum legal rate amounts to only small
nua There has been steady and gratifying increase IN the
subscription patronage the paper but taken
home in the county the receipts from this would not be
large for the field is small.
Mr. Wall has not done us the honor to call upon u.s.
like estmabe gentleman He has good plant and he
may of his venture though he does it will be
greater than he would have found had he
taken the trouble find that the publisher of the ISLANDER
would have been much pleased get out of the business
than he be and that he might have had
the whole field himself for much less than his legal
and adviser represents him in Bengha paper
already invested.
his powerful address the opening of the Mime
fair James j. HILL president of the Great Northern rail
road, said
The country needs workers the SOIL Not to the
but direct him to the farm instead of the city,
possible increase of the birth
keep the boys the farm and to send youths from
city swell the depleted ranks agricultural industry the
task we'll advised political economy and intelligent
riotm 1t is time begin There be- first
servaye and economic methods of National
agriculture its the best intelligence
the highest skill that the country affords the forefront There
must be national revolt against the worship of
trade the only forms of activity and the false
that wealth built upon these at the sacrifice of the fundamental form
wealth production endure clear recognition
whole people, from the highest down the lowest age the
soil occupation which every
other is subsidiary and which all yield first re-
quisite".
According VicePresdent Fairbanks Free untrammel
ed the safeguard of free should be ire
vocaby committed to the advancement of social political
morality 1t is interviewer with social national life
that it cannot be corrupted without viaing both I'll
should be faithful tribune giving best aspa
lions OF the people, condemning the wrongs shifting
utmost the wrongdoer and the should zeal
ousy defend the right and doer of right things"
There has evidently been astonishing increase in
the Republican vote of this The total
cast in the precinct for the Republican presidential electors two
years 49, while AT primary
We indebted heretofore been a
Inflated with the Democratic party for most of this gratifying
crease and Republicans should be grateful accordingly
The recent Republican primaries in of the pre-
cncs of this county ought be regarded convincing
ment in favor of aboshng the present primary
lem and making all nominations for state and county Offices
the direct primary.