The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-01
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The Law and Order League organized
Friday afternoon viii waase no time or
breath arguing with these terrorist lead
ers- 1t Will not tolerate violence, ana III
the city administration will not meet It's
duty IN dealing with organized terrorism,
sppesE viii Re had 20 other peace omceTs
This much the terrorists and fneir ofneiai
eymraf5izsrs might - sell understand In
the 6eganninx--Spokan< B<Esew-
All this talk about the necessity of hav-
ing our law makers pass stay law IN
favor OF the farmers OF Eastern Washing
con because their wheat crop was de-
sfroyed by the elements Is mere ros- ne
growers of Western Washington migns
with equal propriety ask for stay law oe.
cause the lice came and cus down the weld
Of hops. or the milk producers might ask
for similar enactment because the price
Of miik has dropped 50 low there Is little
money in the business. There ID no call
for an extra session for the purposes
named above, and we do not believe there
viii be one--Aabara Arsss.
The Tacoma Moraiag Union. the outcome
Of the recen, trouble on the Ledger, IS as
bright as a new iron dollar. liz Is cieveriv
edited. full of local news AID well printed
Mr.. Charles C. Stewart. fos several years
telegraph editor of the Ledger. Is managing
editor. and Mr.. d. A. Msuasby. an old and
experienced printer and newspaper man,
Is the business manager. The union
printers have shown that they have the
brains and the backbone TO issue credit
able daily on short notice. The best indi-
cation in the world that the good viii and
sympathy of the better class OF the people
OF Tacoma is with the union printers Is the
practical support accorded the new paper
by the merchants and advertisers. Three
cheers and tiger for the Morning lrasoFa
Tacoma Herald.
The Chronicle is not an alarmist, and 1t
knows thai the people of Eastern Wash
ington, considering the source, viii pay
little attention to the Rerisms utteranees.
But this sort of talk is like a bunch Of
thistIedown thrown into the ART
spreads to the tour winds The Chronicle,
therefore, urges the selection of a commit
tee of safety from among our citizens to
inform the proprietors of the Reriesr that
this sort Of thing will be no longer toler-
ated in q peaceful and iaw-ahiding COM
munity. Let them be respectfully but
earnestly and firmly urged to control, with
some regard TO the interests and credit OF
this city, the utterances of their voluble
maniac of q newspaper. If this plea prove
fruitiess. we might try the efficacy of re-
straining order from court of equity, in
which the citizens of Spokane would GER
tainly have a prfma facie case. In either
event, the Chronicle would suggest the en-
pioyment of Judge Turner-whose legal
ability, eioquence and determination We
all admire-as the advocate of the city's
interests.-!Spokane Chronicle.
The Tacoma Daily Ledger Office has been
"ratted," scab labor having been imported
from California for that purpose. The
Ledger has always secretly opposed organ
lied labor. and now il has come out
openly against it. Since the day it was
started it has been a leech upon the
treasures of Tacoma and Pierce county,
and thousands of dollars of the taxpayers
money, has annually been blackmsiled
from the county officials by that payer.
Since Nelson Bennett, the old Chinese
employer, bought the paper it has
been much worse than before. Bennett
objected to pay an honest days wages
for an honest days work. and
instead of $45 for 5000 ems composition,
wanted &C, COO ems set for that price-so
he put in machines few weeks ago the
foreman received orders to cut expenses
500 per week, and in order to do so each
man took extra work upon himself. See
ing that 500 per week could be saved Ben
nett wanted to save $500, so he ordered q
cut Of 20 per cent. in wages, although
knowing that such wages would be lower
than those paid in any legitimate daily
ONCE in the West; and also knowing that
the printers would not accept the cut
Result: The printers walked out and
cheap labor from California has taken
their places.-Sprague Independent.
The Tacoma Ledger Is suffering. in COM
mon with all the newspapers OF this state,
from the hard times. Unwilling to view
diminishing profits the manager resolved
to make its employees bear the brunt, and
first reduced the number OF its compositors
from twenty-five to five by the employ
ment of the Mergenthaier line-setting
machines. Now q further reduction has
been attempted, the union scale accepted
by the printers of Tacoma, Seattle and
other Western cities being reduced 20 per
cent. This could not be accepted by the
union, and ''rats" were imported from Los
Angeles, that il, men not belonging to any
union, men who have never served an APP
prenticeship at the trade and are willing to
work at what wages they can get This Is a
bad move on the part of the Ledger man.
agement. They have never published
consistent political organ. and never sue
ceeded in making.a popular paper truly
representative of the interests of Tacoma.
Tho Ledger has always represented the
capitalists who supported il, and while fed
with fat contracts by the city government
has failed as truly representative organ
of public opinion. Public sympathy will
be all on the side of the printers, and the
organized forces of all the labor unions in
Tacoma will made the position of the
management most undesirable one be-
fore many weeks have elapsed. The men
have behaved with tirmness and modera-