The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-02
THE STATE PRESS.

Pa1ouso Gaseeee: As the session at Olympia
draws % Q close Il becomes moro and more ap-
parent tha4 In Washington, - elsewhere, lcgis-
latures ars Disappointing things. But
Il II probably sale 70 cay that the public have .
wrong idea about Legislatures and Legislators.
capital to represent his constituents, but to adj
vance himself The legislature II . political
educator, q favorable medium for ambitions
wings to develop symmetrically. stepping stone
70 higher stages Of public acting-for those who
hold full hands after the draws conservatory
for the propagation and culture OF the perennial
commonly known - the pOcketbook. The pres
emit Legislature has probably been an average one
- legislatures co. but the really good and incor-
ruptible men were in the minority, - always.
The public should learn to accept philoscphi-
cally the fact that their representatives are not
their servants, bus their superiors, sent to the
capital - ambitious men, and not a. reformefs.
Whatever people hops to accomplish, let them
learn never to put their trust in legislatures.
Fairhaven World: s'Wonder If Seattle and
Tacoma viii sQuabble ~ vigorously over chang
ing the name of sWhitechapef - they have
over Mount Rainier. The World has an idea
that the only way TO change the name OF Rainier
to Tacoma IL 70 grade II down to level with
Tacoma and incorporate IL within the city lines,
and the only way to make the people call the
district known - whitechapel By street desig-
nation u to raise IL up to the moral standard OF
common decency. Voting new names to cover
its vicious rottenness reminds one Of the Indian
who, according to Mark Twain came to the
dance with his big ugly form clad In napkin"
Spokane SpokesmGn: ST Mr.. Blair viii only
take care of himself he II good for twenty years
yet, and how better could he spend those years
than in lecturing TO the heathsn upon the adj
vsntases of woman suffrage and the necessity
for federal aid TO education in the South? The
senator can 20 over to China and talk on these
fsyorite and fascinatinR topics year in and year
out without fear of interruption from his
hearers. The American press will report him at
length whenever news gets dun on this side of
the world, and If he should happen through &C.
cident to run dry Of words or metaphors, Alder
man Davidson or Patrick Henry Winston. we
are sure, will volunteer 70 20 over and help him
out"
The Tacoma Globe turns from it, transports of
rarc on the Metcalfe-Clarke business TO seek
consolation in religious matters. Its: leading
article vesferlav vss IN the Weslev snuiveYssry
OF Wesley. Il says: sThe success Of the principle
he laid down ID Z signal tribute to his foresight
a we'll as TO his true religious instincts. The
tendency of the present day 10 toward . very
liberal and elastic view Of religion and Of relig
gious beliefs Men who decline to accept the
theories Of the Methodist church may well join
with the members OF that church In honoring
the anniversary OF John wesley.%
Blaine T+i1rne. .Considersf<a dfssppoint-
ment is manifested throughout tie state in the
efe.t ~ Tire hin in the Ie,isIature for ths mr..
chsse Of asS, for public school buildinss his
vsa = measure that IN believed by rnanv should
have become = law II patriotism n of snv
value 70 = nation IL should be a part of the etu-
cation that the youths OF the land receive In the
public schools. There IL nothing that would so
efFectualiy and permanently instill into the
minds of the youth the principles of true patri-
otism as BY teaching them to reverence the nag
Blaine Tyibxne. sSenstor Forests hf,l for the
sunnression ri hos,oa and trsmna q : NOV. in