Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-04-03
Let 9 Try to make 1t Plain.

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struggling public enterprise covered with
harnacles and iccchcS sucking ITS life
blood as price Of immunity from abuse.
Our much-rcspcc ted contemporary.
the Oiympi,tn. prrtendS that it does
not understand wlat his paragraph
means; that it is dense and needs
elucidation. THIS is oar reason for
assuming the task Of cNplaining what
we surely Thought would be rcco%
nlzcd and admitted Is a sclf-evident
propoSition 1t leaves in doubt how
ever. whether or not the our neigh
Dor may belong the Tallyrand school
of diplomats. and extreme caution
impels him to hide his head in the
sand to escape pursuit. Perish the
thought that he may belong to that
other chass referred to by Indian Su-
perintendent Kendall in days of ''auld
lang syne. when an Agent on one of
the reservations wore out his patience
by requests for explanations OF or
ders issued from the head Office. At
last forbearancc absolutely ceased to
be virtue. and elected a volley from
Supt. Kendalls always expressive
tongue which sOuded somewhat like
this: See here, dang it; can give
you instructions, but | can give you
brains to understand them" AS in
timated, we are inclined to reject the
latter presumption, and will assume
that the former hypothesis is true,
and patiently assume the task of dem
onstration of q theorem.
The inquiry made by Oiy is who
are the barnacles and leeches" that
have bled Struggling corporations. !"
Very well. Yes, let us reason to-
gether. In abiding to leeches, who,
tell us, could we have meant but those
autoperipatetic talking-machines en-
ployed by the elder twin who so con-
tinuously, SO persistently, and so Of
fensively, at times, traversed the
whole town, to demand patronage
as a douceur, whether it have been for
wares, sold and delivered, or for
prospective benefits that are so dense
as not to bear the slightest outlines
of probable results, and solicited with
a tang to the words that implied a
roast" should opportunity offer
and an order not be given. A lead
ing business man Gin no way connect
ed with the Light and Power compa-
ny, as officer, employee or stockhOld-
cry stated to us that it was just like
pointing pistol at his head when
one of these canvassers placed a dia-
gram before him with allotted space
and price all arranged for immediate
acceptance, and the verbal intimatiOn
We think we can make it to your
interest to give us an order" To
make it more plain and remove all
possibility of a charge of density, "
we state that this citizen whose bust
ness was and is both legal and honor
able, regarded the demand just about
as Mr.. Heermans, President of the
Olympia Water Co., did the demand
of the ex-boss. now a matter of court
record, in which immunity from
abuse of one of the twins and favor
of the city Council was promised for
five hundred dollars blood-money.
AS the twin that has thus time and
again roasted" the Water compa-
ny, the Light and Power company,
and favored q rival to our very excel
lent telephone service, it stands to
reason that probably less ro,o meth
DDS have been adopted than where
there was crime to condone, in
which dizzy of thirds" and halves
of thirds. told of by Mr.. Gilbert I'M
der oath, were successful. If the
alleged Levins graft was unsuccessful,
it was doubtless owing to the same
cause that poor Oliver Twist was re-
fused second instalment of treacle
and birthstone when he held out his
spoon for more.
Time was when the Recorder mani
tested all the leech-like proclivities,
whether it got its proportion of the
half of q third" whack-up or not,
and from the evidence displayed that
it has not gorged itself, the assump-
ton is fair that others would not
have had better success had they
adopted the methods of the footpad.
No newspaper merits success that
lives upon patronage that is not vol
UNFAIRLY accorded for merit of some
form or other. The judgment of the
public is unerring in that matter.
1t is proper, therefore for us in &C
cepting the challenge to cite the infa-
nous Thacker methods for "addi-
ton, division and silence" enforced
by flourish of a club, as well as the
stilletto thrusts to injure hated ri
val by accepting legitimate business
at starvation prices.
AN Eastern inventor has devised q
refrigera4ing apparatus that will
pipe ice. water all over the largest
hotels. You turn the faucet instead
of pushing the button to get a glass
of ice-cold water. The cheerful click
of the ice-pitcher will be no longer
heard hut tho omission of n silent