The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-10-01


even to himself. The individual
knocker is bad enough, but when it
comes to whole organization becom-
ing knockers, it is simply outrageous.
The labor union is simply an organi-
cation of knockers, and should have
emblazoned on their banners, I'VE
are the dog in the manager" They
are against monopolies, yet they try
to monopolize everything pertaining
to labor.
In some parts of the East the Labor
Unions have become so insolent and
.domineering that the people will not
buy articles with the union label on.
This is IAN eye for an eye and toot
for a TOOTH" but it is an allowable
offset to the dominating spirit of the
union.
Bubbling fountains should take the
place of the present tin cup variety
There is danger in raising the cup and
no one is safe in doing so unless more
careful and cautious than most people
are. An Eastern paper relates an in
stance where on one side of tin cup
fountain consumptive was using a
cup and on the other child with the
whooping cough. With proper pre-
caution evil results might be avoided,
but people are more or less careless
and are not thinking about such
things. The bubbling fountain would
completely eliminate all danger from
that source and the anxiety in that
respect would be relieved. Nothing
but bubbling fountains should here
after be installed.
In a churchyard there was an in
scription which read: Prepare for
death and follow me-" An Trishman
observing it took his pencil out and
wrote under it: ITO follow We I'll not
consint till I know which way ye
whit"
1t is stated that Methusaleh was
over 900 years DID, but those years
were not as our years, 365 days, but
were reasoned by moons, each moon
counted as year. At that rate IA
thusaleh was not over IS years DID,
and Abraham about r. When Jacob
purchased Rachael and Leah he work
ed less than six years for the two.
Some people would think that six
years were too long a time to work
for any woman but we must recollect
that in those days women did the
heavy labor and man did not have to
pay for Merry Widow hats and tailor
made gowns. Women's apparel was
a pair of ear rings and a sheepskin
apron.
The American people are the in
ventors and general boosters for the
whole world. Their inventions have
been more beneficial to the people
than the inventions of all other ma
lions combined. They invented the
steamship; they invented the tele-
graph the telephone, electric light,
the reaper by which the billions of
bushels of wheat are reaped and
threshed; the sewing machine; the
labor saver for worker and very many
other useful inventions, and now they
have discovered the North pole, and
what they will do with that the Lord
only knows.
That President Taft is not a politi-
clan is proven by his speeches in his
Swinging Around the Circle" His
speeches upholding the present tarhhR
law is perhaps correct, but as the law
has been passed and nothing can be
done now but to put it into force,
what good can come for the president
or anyone else to discuss it? No one
can determine now just how the law
will operate. Prominent men who are
experts in this matter are of the opin-
ion that it is the best law we ever
had. Perhaps it is, but we must wait
for the test. The president made
serious mistake, politically, in grilling
the insurgents" These are among
the brainy men of the Republican
party and have a right to express
their opinion with reference to the
tariff schedule publicly. The presi-
dent has stirred up feeling which
may lead to the disruption of the
party It would have been better for