Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-04-17
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proceed although we despair of be
ing able TO make our neighbor com
prehend any proposition it does no
want to understand. An attempt
will be made to show the nature o
the vampire so plainly by the Taco
ma twins, in extracting the ife-blOoC
from struggling corporations, as Oc
casiOn may require, as well as to dem
onstrate its method of hold-up of tn,
general public, by the casting drag
nets for evasive patronage, as that
He who runs may read. In adj
dition to the leech-likc methods al
ready noted, other brilliant schemes
for extracting unwilling dollars from
inhospitable pockets, were devised,
one of which was to send a bevy OF
innocent girls to scOur town and
country, store and effice, farm and
logging-camp, to obtain subscrip-
tionS from people who had no desire
for either of the twins induced SIM
ply and solely by Establishments in
spired by q lottery-like bride of a
possible trip to Los Angeles. The
merits of the papers, if they had any,
were not urged. but success was
solely upon the reliance that the av-
erage man could not resist request
preferred by the rosy lips of youth
and beauty. The surmise was in
some degree correct, and quite a
number of victims capitulated for
precisely the same reason that hands
are thrown up at command of the
bandit-compulsiOn-with the best
grace possible as the only means of
getting rid of a bore, and sometimes
the victims refused to add their own
names to the list after making pay
ment.
This would have been bad enough,
had it not been open to a system of
padding" the ballot whereby much
honest endeavor, so far as the con-
testants were concerned, went for
nought. 1t was thus possible to in
spire rivalry of those marked for de-
feat early in the game, and it was an
open secret" as to who the success
full contestant would be. At least one
OF the victOrs was announced long be-
fore the votes as published justified
the prediction.
Then again, it could have been no
kindly impulse for the Women Club
that impelled the proffer of a premi-
UNI on subscriptions to induce its
members to enter upon the same
worn. beaten, and rocky fields of en-
deavor, and thus arraying q large
number of well-wishers into luke
warm friends, or positive enemies, of
their building project. If Mr.. Per-
kins was sincere in his proffer of aid.
it would have been much easier for
him to have drawn upon his we'll
filed "weasle-skin," rather than to
the ladies in a controversy
which, even regarded from the most
favorable point of view, has aroused
passions and prejudices of the friends
of our little city. Why? Because it
is simply cold-blooded business pro-
position involving conditions which
conflict with the views of many of
our people 1t is cruel to thus i'm
pose upon trusting humanity, espe.
cially Of the fair sex, and We hope
that, though the result financially,
may not be up to expectations, the
experience gained will be sompensa-
ton in the way of preparing women
for meeting those active vicissitudes
towards which her life mission is now
SO positively trends.
TERRIBLE FIRE IN CHELSEA, NORTH
EAST SUBURB OF BOsTON.-One of
the most devastating fires of the age,
swept over Chelsea. q suburb of
Boston. Monday night, by which
over ten millions of dollars worth