Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-06-18


air DcbS. Certainly 1t is. And the
liberty of any newspaper that
teaches riot. destruction, and trea-
son to the United States should end
once it commences this. The .lpDcri
to Ronso" most likely viii have reason
to appeal to the Judge for mercy, lust
about now. and should receive none.
The Ipp,oi to ReaSoH should be ex-
cludcd from the mails.
The Oregon State .IpnrnnI. of Eu-
gene City, Oregon. established in
1864 has suspended publication, after
a career of forty-tive years and
twenty-five weeks. without emitting
a single issue. To fail after so many
years, must surely bring tears of re-
grct even to the eyes of the man, Mr..
II. K. kincaid who founded it and
was under his management when it
suspended. \ lifetime of work lost.
Say. don't you know popular sub
scrlptiOn should be set in motion, if
necessary, to place the Oregon Stat,
./o"rndi on its feet again.
Alfred BOulant. owner OF a gamb-
ling house at Biarritz. has sued Anna
Held s husband for $20. 900, Il gamb-
ling debt. Miss Held husband will
fight the suit. Just recently Anna
said she would retire from the stage
with clear $1,000, 900. Gee
Won't Anna let hubby have mere
paltry $20,0O0 to pay his gambling
debt? Why even gambling debt =,
between men of honor, is as sacred as
any contract in legitimate business.
BE man, Ziegfed. and pay the
debt-then stop gambling - that $
business, Miss Anna Held $ husband i
Husbands in form of human
whiskybarrels should be cast adrift
by their suffering wives" says Il
Chicago Judge. This same Judge, if
he had paused to think a moment,
might have added that Wives in
form of human runabouts' in the
street, all day and part of the night;
never home long enough to prepare
4 meal fit for man or beast, to tidy
the house. who use enough paint on
their faces each day to cover box
car and representing wholesale pad
supply house, besides, should be cast
adrift by their suffering husbands,
also.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, who talks
more and says less than any other
college President ever heard of up
to-date, got his at Bryn Mawr
when Prof. Foulet called him liar
for declaring that France was a de-
cadent nation. David is a starr in
uttering an untruth and he'll find it
much easier to swim across the river
Jordan than to make any man be-
lieve that France is a decadent ma
nation, other than his followers who
are glad to receive "bone from his
hand,' so to speak. Veil DR.. David
Starr Jordan. We've enough of his
cant.
Listen to this from one of God S
agents at the meeting of Presbyteri-
an preachers in Denver, recently:
The next trouble over the temper
oi'V iNfott WITH u
urged the adoptian of a resolution that
judges who are members of the church
should refuse to grant licenses for sa-
looms even Il OIgh it were their lega!
duty to do so.
Here we have q minister declaring
that " Judgcs rho are members Of til,
chnrch, should refuse to grant licenses
for saloons erea hough It were their
tegm duty to do So This preacher
should be sent to the door when the
assessor calls. This fellow insists
that our laws be broken. and he sit
ting amongst Church-pious people,
as it were. This declaration is as
bad as any ever appearing in the
ippcai to Reoson. a paper that should
be prohibited the use of United
States mails.
a physician in Berkely while per
forming an operation on himself, the
removal Of growth in the nose, hit
the delicate chisel too hard, causing
it TO pierce the base of the brain.
lis just as well. perhaps. A doctor
VINO doesnt know the force to strike
ch'sel in operating on himself can.
not be expected, of course, to know
when operating on someone else
and a patient doesn't want to be
killed neither. by a physician who
does not know how hard a tap tc
give one of his tools. a joiner must
know how hard to strike the chisel
so must a sculptor, or ruin his mas
terpiece; printer must know how
hard to strike the planer" or ruin
the type, and so on. To sum it w
the Berkelv, California, physician
needs no tears of sorrow or regret
For the sake of humanity at large
who might need undergo an opera
tion, it's best; really delightful hap
pening that he killed himself instead
perhaps of numbers of patients who
may have engaged his service.