The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-28
THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE E$$
WHY HUNT FOR TREASURE

There's something abou, piracy that draws and iasenates
the miud-a least the boy mind
The skull and crossboncs the masthead the eutasscs
ground like rasors the Long Toms double shotcd the mer
chairman laden with treasures the damse-maybe-n the
cabin and after the cruel fight and the victory the registering
in the camp on the coral the division Of the loot and the
burial OF the treasure chest dead OF night at the place where
the shadow Of the point OF the rocks struck the stroke Of mid
night on the first full moon in whatever month it was
Fasenatugi Why the boy that doesn't like pirate stories
is wrong somehow And perhaps our juvenile liking Tor
these stories that makes eredueus Of tales Of the buried
treasures Of Captain Kidd and the like.
OF course we must admit when pressed that piracy was
about the most dirty trade any engaged In but we
like to think Of the chests and dream OF finding them
all the same Honest now haven't you often imagined yourself
finding one Haven't YOU the CLINT OF the gold and the
glitter Of the Jewels the rusty hinges OF the chest gave way
Piracy picturesque because it is primitive Mere success
in robbery doesn't attract The operation OF standing
with club and making him pay bonus to you before you
would let him put food in his mouth or take smoke after
meal would seem and groyeng and nauseous Oh the
plan Of snakng blind after another and stealing
the pennies from his tin Cuphat wouldn't appeal to YOU nor
going funerals steal the silver handles off the collins and
the pennies from dead mems eyes. Those things may be all
right financially, but they not heroic No boy Will ever
dream Of in those matters OF the old style piracy
Alas That's why has gone Of the big business
Of the day. merely the struggles OF uians with
clubs gel the coffin handles aud the eopses pennies
Senator Beyerdge Of Indiana told the other day about
the way tobacco has andbagged competition and
plotted the smoke and chew until has put Captain
Kidd out OF the running the tune Of SlSOoOO OF actual
gain in capitalization in six years All criminal probably but
when thing profitable that what prosecution is to drive
men ont OF half as, they nl Not that any have
swamed in The prosecutions Of the have not even
scared the fellows already They eve IN the threats OF the
law.
We put tobacco get money to fight Spain After
the war we off The tobacco forgot to take the tax
out Of their prices and have gone in pure absence OF mind
collecting and poekeing sineel Fine business
And so much like the blind man deal too
We get nice little reyeuue-Sso0ooOoo year-out OF
tobacco But we handled ii is handled in Japan We
should get six times as much How do they handle III They
make it government monopoly They the growers gov
eminent price the tobacco sell it to all the world and
make good revenue out OF it.
Oh. you say. that's socialism,
WELL SUPPOSE 1T is. 1T is THE TOBACCO
POLICY OF COSTA RIGA. FRANCE, PORTUGAL,
ITALY SPAIN AUSTRIA TURKEY, RoUMANIA AND
Japan is 1T ANY MORE MoNoPoLIsTIc THAN THE
TRUsT7 AND WHICH is BEST. TO MAKE PROFITS
FOR THE TRUST OR THE PEOPLE1