The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

was seen to arise and without even
a tear drop upon the grave Of the last
motion before the house; without even
the culver of an eyelid or a sigh of
regret. the heart rendlng duty of &C
ceptng the resignation Of the cor
responding secretary was gone thru,
oh horrorsl
The stoopt and care-worn chairman
raised n sad and pathetic face to the
now awod throng of bomb-throwers
md announced i'm weak and tremb-
ling voice ono doubt because he feared
legal action') that all those who had
gone on record as voting in favor of
hearing the gentlemen from Seattle
way would stand suspended by that
local unless an appeal were taken.
NO, dear heart, not an appeal to
Reason" but an appeal from the de-
cision of the ehair)
Aha! Once more Think you he
got away with it?
Nay, Pauline. Nay again
A gentleman arose while the arising
was good and came back at the now
sinking spirit of anarchy in much this
fashion.
Picture in your minds eye one of
Raphael's q guess he's the guy most
exquisite paintings of the angels play
ing around the dying child's doorstep
and you have the scene.
Out upon this doorstep the tall and
sanity figure of our tailoring friend
appears with an angel tucked under
each arm and in a most soft and sooth
ing voice rendered the following ora
ton:
Friends and fellow workers Get
it0 In the hall Immediately opposite
this one the gentlemen who have been
so discourteously received by this local
will address a meeting All who care
to hear their side of this controversy
(Which in American means quarreD
are heartily invited to attend this
meeting"
With that last and crushing blow
the brave and invincible band of pat
riots arose amid many tears and wall
ings of those now thoroughly crushed
and gasping horrid old things, swept
majestically from the room, trailed
by the indispensable Or
ganizer.
Imagine the scene!
All that was left of the gathering
now, out of nearly one hundred wild
and frenzied dregs of humanity, I'M
couth and degenerated as, they were,
after those of them thag EsasFe se souls
of integrity and responsibility had
left, was a paltry measly, almost one
hundred
The balance had departed to that
confessional of purity, the other hall
So you see them, all alone, gasping
and striving to remain erect in their
chairs but all to no purpose.
All! Let us draw the curtain upon
this scene. IT'S too horrible.
AS Shakespeare, the venerable and
poet once said, "Out, damned
spot! Out, say!"
ACT II.
Place-The other hall. A full house
Standing room only.
The scene as now presented is a
majestic figure that didn't have much
time to linger but which had to catch
a car. Up near the throne that was
occupied by one of our budding legal
lights, this figure was Grating with
an earnestness not to be passed upon
lightly. Tears welled into those eyes
as he spoke of mistreatment by the
Porkchoppers that occupy the I'M
readable state office.
a." he Grated, ran in opposition
to the Porkchop candidate for sheriff
in King county and now my whole
local is fired out of the party"
He had numerous documents to
prove his assertions. Documents,
mind you, that were signed in the
hand write of these very same Pork
choppers. Let us not detain you long
er for I am forced to admit that this
soul of integrity had to catch his car
and as a consequence he couldn't talk
forever. So he quit and left amid the
cheers of his compatriots.
Who now appears? What, no, var
lets! Make way for the successor of
Wendell Phillips, the only man that
after the black slave of the South was
freed could see that slavery was not
ended. But Phillips is dead. Long
live the new Phillips, "the prohpet of
our modern times" as one of those
unbearable Porkchoppers put it, Harkl
Lend you ears! As Mark Antony
would say.
In a soft and subtle voice this new
speaker Of the evening commenced
his grafton.
He told Of the unjust treatment ac-
corded him by the unsophistaicated
troglodytes of the worldwide move