The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-28
STATE PRESS OPINION.

There seems to be no Law BY which these
human parasites Journalistic eiackmaiiersl can
Be reacacd. except by suppressinx the sale OF the
publications. which effecsuaiiy stamps them
te-soa yscx.
IL is such ~farcicai proceedings - these carried
on in the Seattle court Of late which save done
SO much TO increase the disappearing eelief
that justice 10 difficult to secure in American
courts and TO which feeling 10 due 50 many OF
the occurr.nces o! late years ut which Judge
Lynch has presided -SpakaHs Esrsese.
Nearly ali the Sound papers avoid the name
New waatcom. and say 'Whatcom.@ or "Fair-
haven," Or asBellinghana Bay" IL would be q
good idea 10 return to the ramc "W hatcom."
The posiofsce department would gladly drop
the name "New.' and - things are At present
some real estate shark is liable to plat n town
site, call IL Whatcom and sen Whatcom lots 10
the dctrimens OF the city Of New whascom--
WAGtcow Ressaale
1t is very easy TO Eli several columns of news
paper space with insinuations and innuen2o,and
IL has been done much more successfully than
in this lases, attempt to sraireh the records OF
public officials in . mean way. IL the Tacoma
Ledger were honest in this matter Il would ad-
mi; that it 10 actuated by no motive other than
the removal of Collector Wassou. who has given
this district the cleaness administration il has
had in a good many years, all because MI. Nell
son Bennett imagines he hasa personal griev-
ance against Mr.. Andrew WATSON. - Port
Touasend LudeY.
Ursula }. unfug, who killed her alleged hus-
band. Thomas Henderson Boyd, last December,
has been released from prison on q bail bond OF
5000. Three important witnesses have disap-
peared, and the district attorney Joined with
hag counsel to release her on bail until june Ia.
This may be all right, but nothing done In open
court shows it to be So II looks like tritting
with justice at the beck OF maudiin sentimental
lists. Her bondsueu. both sexes. are people
whose sympa,hies arc largely dormant for
women OF Ursula's class until atrocious crime
lands them behind prison bars. Then their
a~lertaess 10 remarkable. Their cry 10 in effect.
LET no guilty woman be punished" OF course
the moral effect of this release will be to prevent
the conviction Of this woman. red with the
blood of her victim. -Nooksaee Reporter.
The district attorney hesitates 10 bring the
woman Ursula Unfugl to trial; first, because he
thinks conviction doubtful, even in the lace OF
almost undixputed guilt, ana he dislikes to
open TO public inspection the moral cesspool
which the trial is not only certain TO open, but
to stir to the very bottom. The nature of the
disclosures to be made is foreshadowed. Some
people who are now concealing highly tar
nished characters under a very respectable COW
ering are sure to be exposed. Some people who
do not now SUI pect that they ever even occu-
pied the thoughts Of these two moral lepers,
will, perhaps-in fact, it is said by those who
snow-thnt they will certainly see themselves
gibbeted as among their intended victims
Among those who will discriminate between
the real victims and the intended victims.
these, Of course. viii not suffer, and for the
others, they, perhaps, need not care. II IL 10
necessary. TO reach the ends OF Justice, that some
havoc must be made among private characters,
it is, after all. only those who are guilty that
need to dread exposure. Why should a fear
less prosecutor hesitate to proceed on their &C.
count Tacoma Ledger.