The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05
THE STATE PRESS.

Nooksack Reporfer: sswho Is 10 blame for the
results? Ex-Acting aud Present Lieutenant
Governor Charles E. Laughton. He IL the nan
who said private guards could be employed TO
protect private property, and virtually gave
license 70 the men who shot down women ana
children, riddIed houses with bullets and at
tempted massacre of innocent people, because
they claimed to have been shot at Would this
have happened had the anti Pinkerton bill been
allowed TO become . law? Instead OF negro
miners being armed with rifles and stationed
around the property inviting trouble, they
would have been at work under the protsction
of the sheriff or state troops who would have
suppressed any disorder from every source NO
shooting at women and children would have
occurred and no fight would have been re-
corded"
Blaine Tribune: stThe Tribune Is utterly and
etcrnslly opposed to Chinese labor on American
soil, but at the same time Ii is az strongly OPP
posed to mob rule or the violation of any OF the
laws of the land, either state or national. IL
would deplore personal violence against the
Chinese as quickly as it would against any
other foreigners, so long as they are permitted
by law to remain ON our soil. These columns
will ever be found uphoiding the laws of the
land, but whenever 1t sees wherein such laws
can be changed for the benefit of the people II
will be found in the forefront for such changes
We believe the laws as they are now in relation
to the Chinese are wrong. We believe said laws
were made to subserye the objects of few rich
men TO the detriment of the masses. At the
same time we must recognize them as they
exist"
Spokane Rerietr: "The Rerie,s believes that
the white miners are more sinned against than
SHINING in this struggle. The contract against
which they rebelled was oppressive and per-
nicious. Wherever such contracts have been
required in the East they have bred misery and
ff a
miner and make of him dependent creature,
slave under the most refined and oppressive vas
salage. We do not wonder that the miners pro-
tested against them, and murmured against
conditions which have brought so much evil
and suffering to their brothers in the East"
Cle-elum Tribune: "Miners and prospectors
should be exceedingly careful TO represent their
claims and mining properties just as they are.
Avoid exaggeration aud false coloring. Good
mining districts have in the past received
serious set-backs through the Misrepresentation
of INSCRIPTIONS, would-be mining men, whose
ruling ambitions were to skin innocent in
vestors, or obtain something for nothing"
Spokane Spokesman: "Let the governor call back
the militia from the Franklin mines and leave
TO the civil authorities the enforcement OF the
law whenever it is violated. If this King county
trouble was sifted to the bottom q Pinkerton
detective would probably be found at the corner
stone. The state OF Washington il strong enough
to protect its citizens without importing Oregon
thugs to shoot down its citizens"
Goldendale Sentinel: sit seems little singular
that the same party which advocates fiat money
is also very anxious to have the privilege of
buying where they please. We should rsmem-
Der that it takes good money to buy goods in q
foreign market. This government has no power
to make money, and the idea of paying honest
debts with deprecated money is worse than re-
pudiation."
Chehalis Bee: ''Mr. Smith has been spending
the past three weeks in organizing branches of
the Farmers Alliance in Lewis county. The
proposition is not meeting with the success here
that 1t does on the plains. Western Washington
farmers are pretty sensible lot OF men, and will
not allow themselves to be humbugged by the
Alliance financial policy"
Hoquiam Tribune: sit will take the strikers
at the Franklin mines just about as long to
throttle their hatred for the negro invaders who
as tools have deprived them of their means of
livelihood, as it will the South to overcome
their animosity for the once slaves and their
defenders"
Spokane Review: "Mr. Blaine ought to recover
his health in few days now. Demonstrations
in his favor, like those of the Iowa Republican
convention, are good medicine for a sick man. "