The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-17
THE STATE PRESS.

CONCERNING the New Orleans adAix the Tacoma
LEDGER says: at IS customary for neWSpepen
70 express regret when forms Of law and legal
pseccdenss are set ct naught In this way, but is
must Be confessed that violent proceedings OF
this kind have often been followed BY very ssh
utary results Such WAS the case II Fan Fran
cisco In the early sos, In Bloomington, H., In
1sss, in Cincinnati In 1884. and in Montana on
very numerous occasions, - Senator saunders
and his friends VIII testify. In Chicago in 1857
the procedure was somewhat different, bat the
result vss the same The anarchists were tried
for crime Of which they were not altogether
guilty, bat they were hanged for one OF which
they were. A in the other cases the presidents
were set aside, but justice was done. When the
people are moved by great occasions to exercise
the original Jurisdiction that remains with
them the proceeding may look like the work of
the mob, but Il 10 really very different Ii -
the method Of tho high court of hnal resort"
Tacoma Ledger: sft seems not improbable At
least that the supreme court win take occasion
to recall portion Of It's opinion just rendered
in the tide land case. The reason 10 that the
sarily involved in this case, was therefore not
carefully presented. When fully considered, -
il must be sooner or later, Is Is likely TO have
quite another aspect At least this Il the opin-
ion of some pretty good lawyers. Such pro-
ceeding will not be out Of harmony with the
course the court has already marked out Tor
itself In other matters, notably one or two Grim
inal casea. II will be unfortunate for Tacoma.
and doubtless for other cities, If this decision II
allowed TO stand Il il unfortunate as it Is, since
it must lead to further and greatly involved iiti
CATION and greatly delay improvements The
matter is one that win undoubtedly 60 to the
court OF last resort
Spokane Regiee: "New Orleans 10 reaping the
whirlwind OF her OWN sowf n.y. For manv years
esza
precincts - in 10 other American city. Hera
the dnsiio died lite hardest death; here gambling
was licensed until II became fast and furious:
here great lottery was allowed to debauch both
municipal and stats legisiasion; here the slave
block fourished In anfc-bellum times, and here
human life was held in light regard, and the
stains OF blood upon mans hands were re-
spected rather than condemned. These con-
ditions warped the moral sense OF the COM
munity. and principles held in high esteem in
other cities were considered squeamish and
puritanical- These blood-red blossoms have
borne crimson fruit"
Stillaguamish Timss: aAs q rule the mill com.
panies scale logs in February, but for some
cause OF other, they win not scale them this
year TIL April In consequence business ar
rangements are upset, the lcEgen must wait till
then to pay their hands, their hands must walt
to settle their accounts with the merchants, the
merchants mEst wait TO pay their bills to the
Wholesale houses, and the whole business ma
chinery of the Sound moves slowly and tedious
~ from the lack Of little financial oil to lubri-
cate the wheels'
Tacoma Meas: "a man may be Democrat
and believe in free silver, and he can be Demo
crat and believe in limited silver. The silver
question IL not gauge with which to measure
mans Democracy-if involves no principles of
Democratic government, and though the party
may have line Of policy on the question, the
support or rejection Of that plank in the plat
form does not make or unmake him Is Demo-
crat"
OF the killing at New Orleans the Tacoma
Globe says: sWe cannot approve lynch law, but
II the facts in this case are as stated. and the
Italian murderers succeeded through weight OF
money in buying the jury. the action of the
lynchers viii be winked at by the great body Of
respectable citizens in this country"
Coifex CommoBer: aHon Jerry Simpson made
bulls eye and rung the bell Of truth loudly,
when he recently said that too many members
OF congress were deyoting their time to some
thing in which they were personally interested,
instead of to matters fog the benefit of the entire
country.
The Globe declares that Tacoma 4has no oaice
seekers" Calkins halls from Ocosta