Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-30
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The P.-I. and Times OF Seattle are
as friendly to each other as two strange
bulldogs.
II you do not want your history of
past years revealed, don't aspire to
public office.
If you are inclined to be charitable
read the P..L. If you are a miser in
principle, thought and deed, read the
Seattle Times.
John Cort, of Seattle, is becoming
to the Northwest what Grau was in
the east-the king OF theatrical man
ayers.
It costs at least ten times as much
to live according to the requirements
of fashion as does to live according to
the demands of nature.
The beauty of living in a small town
is that the people sympathize with
you if you are in trouble, and if you
haven't any trouble will hunt up some
for you.
We are informed by q Portland
paper, that the largest gas.plant in
the world is at Manchester. England.
l have always supposed, heretofore, it
was in Seattle.
Senator Depew, so dispatches say,
is very sick man, and must give up
all work and business. Sickness, the
Senator will find, is no after dinner"
or joking affair.
Native mother-in-lavs in South
Africa, are not allowed to come within
a mile OF her dusky son.in.law's hut,
or house. And yet we send mission
aries out there to civilize those people.
Politics is deep game. If you are
q tendsrfoot-keep out of the politi-
cal arena; if you don't, some of the
old time politicians will make you
look like lead dime with two holes
in it.
The time is fast approaching when
Seattle newspapers will have to main-
tain correspondents in Los Angeles to
telegraph the "doings, arrivals and
departures" of Seattleites, who visit
the City of Sunshine and Flowers"
If saloons in Seattle are closed at
! o'clock every morning, what will the
policemen of the Queen City dof The
newly elected Municipal Ownership
Mayor ought to use judgment and
show little horse.sense in the mat.
ter.
An Olympia man says he has been
shipwrecked on an English ship,
China ship, German ship, Yankee ship,
but the most cruel, nerve shattering,
heart aching and miserable one he
ever experienced was that of-court-
ship.
If you visit newspaper Office, read
all the local matter hanging on the
hook. The editor appreciates your
thoughtfulness in doing so, and will
most likely ask you to read and an.
swer his private letters, marked per-
sonal.
The P.-I. OF Seattle says that Japs
in the southern part of japan are
starving, and is featuring" . sub
scription for them. The Seattle Times
says the Japs are not starving at all,
and need no help in any way. You
simply take your choice, and handle
your widows mite" accordingly.
The cigar dealers, in Seattle, it is .
safe wager, will not present ex-Mayor
Ballinger with q box of choice ha.
vanas, his next birthday, as token Of
their good will in regard to the man.
ner in which he handled nickel.in.
slot machines and dice games, during
the last three days OF his administra.
ton.
Public water-clossts should be placed
in alleys of every city. They are
necessities, and false pride should be
relegated to the rear, by city "dads."
They are as essential for the public as
is the postal department, and more so
than the public weather service. The
placing Of such, should be advocated
and agitated in every town until the
scheme is an assured fact. =
John L. Wilson, owner OF the P..L.,
and ex.United States Senator, will be
living long after . certain bunch Of
yellow politicians are dead-politically,
anyhow. Scandal never wins. Itdoen't
pay in the end. Cheap politicians al.
ways find cheap methods to appear in
the lime.light of publicity for . mo-
ment, then fade as dissolving views in
. 1O.cent theater.
Of all things, deliver me from being
put into q groove into which do not
fit. From being given work to do for
which I have no aptitude, not even
capacity. How much less culpable is
he who assumes duties he knows him
self to be incapable of performing,
than is he whose intentions are erimi-
nal! The victims OF the failure,
which is the inevitable result, can see
little difference.
Peculiar reading is the political
articles, appearing in the Seattle
Times, no doubt written by J. How.