Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-14

,".asretted that could not follow my
S ,n,nulse to refuse to see him
eight of his big strong body
"a big strong face, with its typi
oallv American careless good humor
the cool head, the warm heart, the
omuood eyes and lips that could also
sorden into sternness of resolution
a sight of this old friend and com
nanionln-arms, my mind began to
m and felt him stirring in it like
sunshine attacking a fog. Il know
what you've come to say" l began,
hut don't say it. shall keep to
WAmy tent for the present"
Then you won't have a tent to
keep to-" retorted he
very WE'LL" said |. my private
affairs will give me all the occupa-
II Non need
He laughed. "The general resigns
from the command of the army to
play with box of lead soldiers"
That sounds we'll" said I. But the
better the analogy, the worse the
logic am going out of the business
II Of making and working off gold
u bricks and green goods-and that's no
analogy"
q Then you must be going to kill
8 Yourself" he replied, for that is
4 Hfe"
public life-active life" said /
\ Here there are other things and
! looked toward my two daughters
whose laughter reached us from their
pOny-cart just rounding distant
+ curve in the drive
His gaze followed mine, and he
gatched the two children until they
we're out of sight, watched them with
the saddest, hungriest look in his
eyes. Guess you're right" he said
gufiy
After a Silence I asked: What's
the news?"
|, A quiz2ical smile just curled his
lips, and it broadened into a laugh
as he saw my own rather shamefaced
smile of understanding. Seems to
me" said he. that | read somewhere
2nce how a king, perhaps it was an
fperor, so hankered for the quiet joys
pit he got off the throne and retired
a monastery-and then established
mes of post-horses from his old cap.
al to bring him the news every half.
hour or so. | reckon he'd have
taken his job back If he could have
got it."
Il reckon" said l.
! We'll" said he. the news Is that
they're about to GUST you from the
of the national commit
lee and from control of this state"
Really" said |, in an Indifferent
tone, though I felt anything but in
sttferent.
Really said he. Burbank is
throwing out our people throughout
the country and is putting Goodrich
men in place of 'ern-wherever our
fellows won't turn traitor. And they've
got hold of Roebuck He's giving a
dinner at the Auditorium tomorrow
night. It's a dinner of II covers
think you can guess who ten of EN-
are for The eleventh is for Dom
inick!"
That was enough. grasped the
situation instantly. The one weak
spot in my control of my state was
my having left the city bosses their
local power, instead of myself ruling
NE cities from the state capital. Why
mad done this? Perhaps the bottom
reason was that | shrank from per-
uniting any part of the machine for
which | was directly responsible to
10 financed by collections from vice
and crime. admit that the distinc-
uoh between corporate privilege and
@uhder and the pickings and steal
Jugs and prostitutions of individuals
! more apparent than real admit
@a the kinds of vice and crime !
olefated are far more harmful than
ls other sorts which are petty and
uske loathing ourcasts Of their
"aehed practitioners Still, I was
'"a Or Pharisec or Puritan enough
= ise and to act upon the imagin-
=! distinction. And so, | had left
ue city bosses locally independent
y. W without the revenues and other
-as nom vice and crime, what city
FVaeleal machine could be kept up?"
pomlnick!" I exclaimed.
Exactly" said Woodruff. Now.
~ Sayler, the point is just here. l
olame you for wanting to get
4 IL had any other game, I'd get
D Yself. But what's to become
Il of your friends. not only
s state but throughout the
ANA 'ly Are you going to stand by
If, see them slaughtered and not
. nnger to help emf"
,Aa mere was no answering him. Yet
nc y spur OF vanity. which clipped into
ana ~ thought of myself thrown down
Sou oat by these cheap ingrates and
ces aaarels, had almost instantly
wear 70 sting, and my sense of
Won. disgust had returned If I
.estacs s il'o the battle again. what work
ro Ssa me- ne The same old monotonou nor
rIeh 10 outfiank burbank and Good.
tic tic 0y tricks as old as war and mol.
ma ana effective only because h.