Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-01

stroHS, aOle -DOuleu married men, WHO
neglected their families. They were
too lazy to work. They were chronic
loafers. When cold weather happens
along, these sort of animals have no
coal or wood. They bum around
saloons and keep warm while their
wives must suffer with cold. They !
are not energetic enough to steal fuel. |
During cold weather l have seen
children picking up pieces OF wood,
and following the railroad tracks for
coal. In several instances the child
rem had able e-bodied fathers who were
professional losfers. II there is any
wood or coal provided the children or
wife must resort to all kinds of make
shifts to keep warm. The woman is |
always the greatest sufferer. But very
few realize the amount of suffering
that exists in every city and if you
will 60 to the fountain head you will
find, as the Chicago Board of Charities
did, that fifty per cent. OF the suffer
ing can be laid at the door of shiftless
husbands who do not make an honest
effort to provide for their families.
4 4 4
How much does it cost to send a
letter from Olympia to Yokohama%
asked a tall, angular woman, with
masculine voice and a somewhat hairy
chin, as she stepped up to the stamp.
window at the postoffice Wednesday
afternoon.
Five cents"
And how much to send a letter to |
Tacoma2"
"Two cents"
IL won't pay it,"
every we'll, DON'T"
/ 81 don't suppose you'd throw of
anything on account of the shorter
distance, but 1 thought I'd ask you,
anyhow. When you carry letter to
Yokohama for five cents you ought to
carry one 10 Tacoma for half.cent.
It's . shame. l don't have to send
my letter through this postofice, and
1 won't. There's neighbor OF mine |
going to Tacoma next week and she'll |
take it for me and be glad TO do it,
don't care for the money, mind you,
but I'm not going to be swindled. |
I've been reading up on these things,
and I'm -"
"Thats all right, but I'm very much |
occupied, and -"
"You amt occupied any harder
than 1 am. young lady; but I've got
time to tell you that this Govern.
men,'s cheat and a swindle, and it's |
founded on wrong principles, and I'm
agin' it from the word 60, and it's
never going to get any money out of
me when l can help it, and generally |
can. I'm a Socialist, and I'm getting
to be mighty near an anarchist, and
you can tell the Government 90. young |
lady. You don't get two cents out OF
me for taking q letter to Tacoma. |
UnderstandW
| With . look Of lofty scorn she |
turned away from the stamp-window |
and went out OF the Office.
At q late hour, last night, The |
Government" was still in existence,
but in the person of one OF its trusted |
representatives. it had received severe
shock.
How Have the Mighty Fallen!
The Tacoma NesOs says, Roosevelt
meant what he said when be refused |
to be candidate for the Presidency
again; but that he intends 10 dictate
the nomination, and can do it,"
Then the News winds up by saying,
1.-TWO years may chsnge this. though
there is no reason now for apprehend-
ing such . change"
The editor OF the News would never
make q living as political prophet.
He certainly wore colored goggles
when he wrote the foregoing.
Probably the NeVs has not read, as
yet, OF Teddy's action in the Browns.
Vile incident; Teddy's idea OF Japan.
ESQ citizenship, and Teddy's thinking
he is the whole United States. His
party managers will not allow him to
dictate the nomination for Presidency,
as they have good reason to know to-
day. that the people do not want any
more of Roosevelt. nor will they vote
for any candidate who signifies in any
shape or manner that he is 10 be the
whole United States, the show in the
big tent, the 1T, whom Roosevelt
would suggest, if he be allowed the
privilege. Not on your tin-type. His
political leaders are too cute 10 allow
this.
| If the Not.there.hero.of San j usn.
Hill" was q candidate at this time for
the Presidency. and popular opinion
against him will continue to enlarge
during the next two years. he would
be showed under buried from political
Office by an avalanche of white ballots.
The present straws Of unrest, wanted
change, vibrating over all the country,
plainly show which way the wind is
blowing, and is is rapidly becoming q
gale. hurricane Of non approval and
discoutent.
Roosevelts political curtain is de.
scending in response to the signal
given by the prompter, whose word is
supreme law on the political stage, and
whose name is Public Sentiment"
LUE F. VERNON.