The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-05-20

the city can not forget self interest
sufficiently TO associate himself with
il Is cause for deep regret.
The arguments advanced for not
doing so are well taken and none OF
them are new. Everyone knows
that If a man is dishonest and so self
centered that the present advantage
Of commission tempts him 10 make
representation that what one man
tells customer is entirely wrong
for the sake of selling his own prop
erty or his own listings. the mere
joining of an association will in the
majority of cases not change him
whether the organization be real es-
tate association or church. The
work of regeneration must be deeper
tnan that.
The fact of the matter Is that
about the only common ground
which the real estate men have Is
that they are all attempting to sell
land and about the only proposition
upon which all are agreed both
snsly and when they meet face to
face is that the Yakima valley is a
spot ON the map which has been ia
vored by the Almighty in a pro-
nounced and peculiar way. The
minute stranger delves into the
hidden mysteries of this cline fur
ther than that. he is treading on
dangerous ground and soon engulfed
into a raging surf of opinions re-
gardng the points of superiority of
the several valleys and their alvant-
ages and disadvantages until at
length the victim is as hopelessly lost
as though he were in neurological
labyrinth with no thread leading
back to life and light. Is it any
wonder that many of them become
sick a heart and cry ont in despair,
"What is the truth about Yakima ="
It is perfectly natural for the man
who has purchased land in the
Naches valley to sustain his judg
ment by representing the facts con
neeted with its crop record and it is
just as natural for the next man vino
has made money in Parker Bottom
to think that there is no spot in the
valley superior to that When two
commercial travellers for rival ink
or paper houses call upon us we do
not expect them to act out the Al
phonse and CASTOR stunt. But the
evil Of the "knock" in the case of the
real estate men is more farreaching
than in the case of the drummers
for the reason that our trade is
steady trade while as a rule people
buy land but once and further than
that we are supposed to know our
business we'll enough not to get
loaded up for a bigger burden than
we can carry. Too many real esate
men regard their patrons as suck
ers" to be shorn and their savings
as easy money to be grabbed by the
first man on the job.
If there are any men in North
Yakima who do not clothe their
business with the dignity Of an hon
orable calling and who covet easy
money to SO great a degree that dis
a0nest and lowdown methods are
means to the end Of securing it (and
some of our good brothers have been
50 kind as TO point out what have
been designated as such to us on the
street, this community is bound to
suffer and suffer deeply. AS we
have already stated. the joining of
the association will not eradicate the
evl and the mere fact that one is 4
member while another is not. does
not necessarily indicate anything for
the honesty of the one or the dishon-
esty Of the other But one thing is
certain nothing can be accomplished
without organization, and it has
been our experience that oftentimes
these organizations result in the
smoothing out of petty jealousies
and riyalries and paving the way to
higher standards. We have 1t
proved to us often enough that Hon
esty is the best policy" which is only
another way OF saying that the
Golden Rule is just as applicable to
business as it Is to religion
ANkENY AND BLETHEN.