Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-10-06
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600 cases, says if prohibition is to
be success, it must emanate in the
heart This Judge is brim full and
just running over, so to speak, with
common, everyday horse-sense. Don't
you think so? OF course you do.
When freak legislators learn that pro
hibitive legislation can no more re-
move the desire of a glass of S
the Water from the physical system
OF all who enjoy it, than one may dip
the ocean dry with clam-shell, but
that prohibition in order to prohibit
must be in the heart of him who
wants prohibition, then will the
legislators cease enacting prohibition
laws which only create candidates
for the Jail or penitentiary, for some
of the humanity on Earth will drink
beer and liquor long us they can
procure it-in secret, if not public
and there are always those to be
found who will take the chance of ar
rest, by bootlegging and conducting
blind dpigs, in order to furnish
those who desire nose-paint or the
amber -colored fluid. AS for myself,
enjoy a glass of Its the Water"
and between you, me and the gate
post, its entrancing, delightful and
enjoyable taste is not lessened one
single bit, far as I am individually
concerned, if am compelled to pat
ronize boot-legger or blind-pig,
in order to obtain it.
Now a Kansas City pharmacist de-
clares that sassafras tea, as a tonic,
never did anybody any good. It's
up to some pharmacist to tell US,
soon as possible, that cream of tar
tar, or molasses and sulphur, which
ma used to make us eat in the spring
time never did anybody any good.
Prepare to hear this-its coming
Some people in Olympia use Ia
coma gas; are subscribers to Ia
coma-owned newspapers, printed in
Olympia; take trip to Tacoma and
purchase their groceries and dry
goods in that town; then holler long
and loud that times are dull here;
that they cannot see how some of
the business concerns make expenses
at the same time these cheap cod
fish Olympia residents owe bills at
the business houses they are talking
about. 1t is too bad that such peo-
pie as mentioned in the foregoing
having positions in Olympia which
permits them to live here and spend
their cash in Tacoma, while Ito use
slang phrase) they "run their face"
for goods, which most likely they
will never pay for, at the stores in
Olympia. Not long ago an Olympia
woman visited Tacoma on an excur-
sion, and while there bought the
cloth for a dress at S145 a yard,
thinking she was getting q great
bargain. Some time later she visit
ed Mottman S store in this city. and
found on sale (not speciaD the same
Identical cloth at $1.l5 yard.
The woman very naturally knew
she was bilked and says she will
hereafter buy her dress goods in
Olympia.
The P.-L says there "are homes
by the thousand in Seattle owned by
men who never commanded the
wages of Il skilled mechanic" Ger
tainly there are-that's the trouble.
Wonder if the P.-L imagines this is
news? If SC, it has another guess
coming. Anyone knowing about
the homes of wage-earners in the
Queen City, knew this long, long
ago. Now will that paper tell the
public just how many thousand
homes there are in Seattle which are
actually owned by men who do COM
mand wage OF a skilled or unskilled
mechanic? Far as wage-earners in
Seattle, owning their own homes,
the money for such being owned by |
the toll of the wage-earner alone
why, Tacoma has Seattle. as Colonel
Roosevelt would say. beat to a
frazzle. :" The majority of wage
earners in Seattle live in rented
rooms or houses. If they do happen
to live in a house they call their
own, it's 100 to l shot they are
buying it on the installment plan;
thus they do not own it until it is
paid for. I'll venture to say Ia
come has twice the number of wage
earners that actually own their
homes, and can produce the deed |
thereof, than has Seattle.
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The P.-L in a recent issue con-
tains an editorial headed: " A State !
That Goes Ahead, in which it tells
of Ellensburg erecting a woolen mill
to cost $50, 900: Everett building a |
new salmon cannery to cost $40, 1000; !
Sumas to have new bank, and so