Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-04

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it chill or chile, con carne it's Just
as hot Gee!
What a Mysterious Lou" | am,
it seems, TO everyone but the butcher,
baker and candestick- maker.
1t is reported that the Eiffel tower
is in danger of falling down. 1t has
been leaning a long time, anyhow.
McXico's cotton-crop totaled 100,-
600 balcs-every ounce of which went
direct to home industry spindles.
This reduces imports to 1000 bales.
You take my word for it: Taft S
sins are piling up fast and furious,
and the Back from Elba" club is
growing at the rate OF fifty thousand
Il day.
Like the devoted mother who lar
rups her husky kid $ trousers seat to
a fraZzle, can say to the bOycOtted
mcattrust that it hurts me more
than it does you, but it must be
done
Uncle Joe Cannon will neither saw
wood. nor say nothing, nor 90 way
back and sit down, but he can al
ways be counted on to make noise
that sounds like profanity on the
slightest provocation.
DR.. Fletcher says each mouthfu'
of food should be chewed 32 times.
One chew for each tooth If prices
of fOod-stutfs continue to go up peo-
pie will have to make it 64 chews per
mouthful to get their money worth.
Just so long as the meat, oil, iron
and other barons and kings of this
United States of America can reach
into their vest-pocket and pull out a
federal Judgment, the dear people
may just as well sing, Goodbye
My TenderlOin, Goodbye. y
Rickard and Gleason are hopelessly
at odds over the selection of Il bat
tleground for the heavyweight
championship fight next July. Any
thing to boost q game is literally
swamped by aviation. anti-mcat
crusades. automobiles, and all round
apathy.
Hon. Louis r. CLAWS is or the
griddle, according to Washington
dispatches. Certainly. Men who fight
the dOllar-marked servants of the
people and who expose oly-tonged
and " holierthan-thOu' pretentiouS
mountebanks, get the griddle. But
CLAWS is game and the people know
that there is always fire where there
is smoke.
Every citizen of the United States
shonld and has the right to make
charges against any department and
they should be investigated, but if
they fail to stick and are proven false,
the big stick should be used lib
orally. The actual truth rather than
mere charges is what the people
wish and regardless of party affilia-
tionS, the people in general want the
rascals down and out.
There is one thing in favor of a
philosopher. He tor she) always es-
capes commitment to the asylum for
lunatics, and never favorS death at
the stake for heretics. In other
words, philosopher is never af-
ilicted with fatty degeneration of the
heart or rush of fanatical blood to
the head. Witch-burners, faggot-
beaters and political ghost-dancers
are suspicious of philosophers
Most of the men who are sioganing
back to the soil would not return
to the soil if free ranches were Of
fered as bribes. The lure of the
city is a deluding and bewildcring
and fascinating lure 1t is as over
powering as the fumes of the poison
Gus night-shade tree of the South.
Nevertheless the men who own the
land own the people. and the city
wdge-earner is to oil intents and
purposes an industrial slave. " \
small ranch well titled makes man
happy, prosperous and independent
He is no mans funky; no mans
slave
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