Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-07-04


the Columbia, is now ordered to CON-
mence their construction.
A new two-cent stamp, for dropped
letters. has been issued, containing a
portrait of Gen, Jackson.
The new postal law went into opera
ton on Wednesday last. The postage
on letters to any part of the United
States is now only cents. Two cents
are charged Oh dropped letters.
JEFFERSON COUNTY UNION
TICKET
For representative. Samuel McCur
dy; probate judge, Albert Briggs,
sheriff, w. w. Armstrong; wreckmas
ter II. L. Tibbals; coroner, G. w. Par
IRISH; surveyor, Henry Weber; Com
missioner, J. S. Robinson; county
treasurer, James Seavey.
We learn from Hon. r. B. Page OF
Port Discovery that a man by the
name of James Tucker was found MUIR
dered in his own house at the head of
Port Discovery bay on Thursday last.
The wounds were supposed to be in
fiicted with an axe, principally about
the head. No clue had been obtained
as to the perpetrator of the deed when
our informant left.
The Peoples Transportation company
on the Columbia river has transferred
their steamers to the Oregon Naviga-
| ton company and consequently freight
and passage have gone up to the old
rates.
An editorial on "The Day We Cele-
brate" says:
1--WE today enter upon the S8th year
of American independence. While up
on the Threshold of the new epoch in
our countrys history it becomes us to
pause in the midst of festivities and
general rejoicing with which we have
been wont to greet each return of our
revered anniversary and /bestow at
least few moments thought upon the
present unhappy condition Of the in
heritance bequeathed by the blood OF
our sires. 1t should be day of chas
tening and publication; special oc.
casion for adding fresh fuel to the
watch-fires of liberty. as we review the
deeds of those who yielded their lives
on the CORY battlefields of the Revolu-
ton. While we venerate the holy
cause in which they were engaged and
hand their names down to posterity as
the exemplification of all that is noble,
patriotic and worthy of emulation, let
us remember that the present struggle
for the perpetuity of that inheritance
is no less worthy of our regard and
the thousands who are engaged in its
defense are equally entitled to our
generation and love. If the cause of
liberty was worthy of purchase at the
Icost of so many precious lives, before
tried and when all previous attempts
to found a government upon the in
nate principles of freedom had proved
LiioCldUlC ldliuISo, uOW luuCu ulOTt
cheerfully should we sacrifice blood
and treasure in perpetuating the price
less boon, now that its practicability is
no longer shrouded in doubt! In the
three-fourths of a century already gone
we have but had time to prove the
Great Experiment a success, and were
without the practical benefits of ex-
perience and precedent to guide us
clear of the hidden shoals which
threatened destruction to the good
Ship of State. We will have a chart
when we are again safely afloat and
know how to steer clear of future
|perils.
LET us, then, link the present with
the past and today pledge ourselves
anew to stand by our country, come
veal or woe, through right or wrong,
as long as there is a shred of the old
banner left flying or a man to bear it
aloft!"