Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-16

naturailZe any applicant lor citizen
ship who is Socialist, or in sympathy
with Socialism. 1 am no Socialist
but believe in "equal rights for all
special privileges to none" Why no.
refuse citizenship to Swedenborgians
Spiritualists, believers in transubstan'
tiation, Christian Science, or Other
people who believe things that mos,
people do not believe? Why not deny
the ballot to red-haired, or hsir-lipped
or cross-eyed men, or men who whistle
rag-time tunes in the halls of public
office buildings? Men who can Wa.
their ears, or have six toes on q foot
should also be shut out. We have 6
great country here indeed. And o.
its greatness, Judge Peter Palmer il
Exhibit A."
A well-known Olympia physician
while recently attending a late sup
per, at which he was an invited guest
INDUCED rather freely in variou.
liquors. Not being accustomed to
drinking, the effects soon became ap
parent. Before the supper was over
he was summoned to one of his most
aristocratic patients, and was soon al
the house. The doctor with super.
human efforts managed to walk
straight, and was shown into bis
patients boudoir. He drew out his
watch and proceeded to feel the pulse,
but, try as he would, it was impossible
for him to find it. Disgusted with
himself he muttered: Positively
drunk" when to his amazement the
woman exclaimed: go, doctor, l i'm.
plore you not to tell on mel"
If you have not read "The Jungle" )"
by Upton Sinclair, buy it to-day, and
commence. l have finished reading
it. Look out, boys, as i. won't be very
long until you will end the preachers
of your millionaire meat packers try.
ing to smooth their crimes over for
them, and make us Hiram Greens"
believe that it is all right, because the
Bible says so, as We imagine it will
only be few Sundays until they will
be quoting q part of the 21st verse OF
the 14th chapter OF Deuteronomy,
which reads thus:
"Ye shall not eat anything that dieth
of itself thou shalt give it unto the
stranger that is in thy gates, that he may
eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an
alien"
Now what are you going to do about
that. for don't the Bible say that these
condemned whelps can do just what
they have done? Let's sing something
and be dismissed.
Every time President Roosevelt
whacks his big stick down in q rotten
place in the public service out pops q
United States Senator. When the
buzzards begin to circle around q vel.
low spot in the financial world and an
investigation is started to find what's
dead, out pops a United States Senator.
Every time stakeholder of a M oneyed
concern who believes he is being
robbed by his fellow.grafters kicks the
top off the graft, out pops a United
States Senator. Tho first shot out OF
the box in the Equitable Life expos
ure was a United States Senator. The
first whack OF the big stick on the
land grafters in Oregon exposed .
United States Senator. The explosion
of small bomb under st. Louis get.
rich.quick graft concern nailed a
United States Senator. One random
shot at the Panama Canal threatened
to expose two United States Senators.
The tobacco frauds, now being investi.
gated, will catch a United States
Senator. There are but ninety of him
in all, but he seems ubiquitous.
The successful up-to-date preacher
in these strenuous times, in worldly
sense, makes religion the handmade oil
Greed. He must support the Thing
which Is, even though be knows it il
wrong. He may speak glittering gen
eralities with q golden tongue, but
when he eases up the seorn and wrath
OF the gospel for those who grind the
faces Of the poor, he only jingles the
silver pieces of Judas Iscariot in hi.
! pocket. When he uses suave speech
to keep the poor in bondage, to up
bold the political conditions tha
despoil them. he betrays his 90
called Saviour not less basely than die
the false disciple in the Garden, with {
kiss. 'Tis only truth that makes vi
fre,; there is no truth in the Gospel
governed by Greed. A creed tha
reconciles the doctrine of universe
love with the acceptance OF the right
eousness of Grab and Graft when they
are successful. is q Haunting lie. Th,
man who consciously breaches such I
creed is procurer for the plutocracy
Q pander to the harlot success, and al
such is beneath all honest mems con
tempt.
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| With this issue, the final chapter o
the serial novel We have been running
is concluded. 1t is two columns long
but we have only one inch of space 70
it. so have compressed and boilet
down" the hero's tragic end IS follows
Harry took small brandy, then {:
his hat, besides no notice of his ::
pursuers, meantime revolver {.
from his pocket, and lastly his {:
own life. ::
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