The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-13
THE STATE PRESS.

Sumner Herald: "a negro killed his white
wife in cold blood ar spokane Sunday. Served
her right for marrying him. The negro wiz
doubtless be hanged. Thus win two Objectionable
characters be relegated.p
The Yakima Republic supports the coal COM
panies in their employment OF detectives to
guard their property. IL says: "fhey had In
vested millions In the purchase of mines, open
sning them, furnishing the necessary machin-
cry and equipments TO operate them, ana In
building railroads and in rolling stock 70 carry
the coal to tide water. They had made contracts
to deliver number of hundred tons daily and
to pay large forfeit each day they failed. They
secured the necessary number OF white men 70
enable them to fulfill the obligation. All at
once, without a moments notice, the work
stops, and with it the daily output OF coal. Inc
millions invested are idle, and the contract pen
atty 10 iessening the bank account hundreds OF
dollars daily. Is 1t strange that m1ns-owners
under such circumstances, are disposed 10 nlre
an armed force to protect their property, and
such men as are willing to operate their mines
II protected? No; in the face of the lax way in
which law is executed in the United states, 1t Is
not strange. Presidents did not warrant these
King county mine owners in anticipating pro-
lection from the state"
Gray's Harbor Times: "The Salvation Army
has no rich men in its ranks, it holds no bazars
nor charity concerts, and yet IL manages to get
a good deal of money in some way In San
Francisco the army has now begun the erection
of Rescue Home for women, which will cost
5000, and there seems to be no doubt that it
will be paid for promptly and well supported.
The explanation OF the money-making qualities
OF the army seems to be that there are no drones
in it. Everybody works and the coin comes as
necessary consequence"
Tacoma Ledger: "Ths company saloon Is
new invention-at least it 10 new to fame.
There can be no possible excuae or defense Of
It. 1t ought to be suppressed without cere-
mony."
OF Colonel James Hamilton Lewis speech at
Colfax on July the Gazette says: Contrary to
established custom, expectation and the desire
OF large proportion of the people assembled to
do honor to the day which Is popularity and
rightfully held to be one on which patriotic
Americans should rejoice and be thankful that
they are citizens OF the great republic, Mr. Lewis
made the rankest kind of a pessimistic cam
paign speech from the minority standpoint, as
serting, among other things, that there
are but two classes-the very rich and the
down-trodden poor-in this country, and
dwelling at length upon the labori
troubles In different parts of the country, the
responsibility for which, and for all other exist
ing evils rested somewhere, and of course upon
the party in power This champion of the op-
pressed, like others before him, seemed to de-
light in presenting toe dark side of every pic
turs. and proved himself to be an agitator of
the first water, stating propositions regardless
CT facts. Altogether 1t was an oratorical effort
which was not appreciated, and If Mr.. Lewis
was fishing for votes, he used the wrong kind of
bait, his harangue falling like wet blanket
upon majority of his hearers"
Spokane Spokesman: eff the Oregon Improve
ment Company or its agents, including the Sui
Ivan detectives, refuse to give up their arms at
the command OF the governor, they should be
made to feel the power of the state so forcibly
that they will learn once for all that they are
not running even q small part Of this common
wealth The Oregon Improvement Company
has the right to have its property protected by
the state, but 1t has no more right to hire armed
bodies of men 70 defend 1t than the strikers
have to raise an army and capture the mines by
force. In refusing to give up their arms, the
Oregon company becomes Q law-breaker and
should be punished from the president down to
the humblest thug In its ploy, as severely as
an individual citizen would be who should will
fully resist the lawful authorities of the state"
Colfax Commoner: "The grafton delivered
last Saturday at Colfax by the Hon. ]. Hamilton
Lewis, OF Seattle, to the several thousand citi-
Gems OF Whitman county who had gathered to-
gether in this city to celebrate and to honor to
the one hundred and fifteenth anniversary of
AWeican inoepenuence, was Truly eioQuentl IN
Its language and consecutive In logic. Those
who do not read and reread it, as it is published
In the Con,moner of today, will deprive them
selves of the pleasure and profit which it abund-
antly affords to every student of the political
problems of the present and their effect upon
the future welfare Of this government"
Snohomish Eye: political parties are, in the
minds Of some people, like armed revolutions;
If successful they are right, if unsuccessful
they are wrong. Some people are never worried
about the principles of either parties or individ
nails