The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-01
STATE PRESS OPINION.

One good normal school is better than half q
dozen poor ones. Provide one locality with .
well-equipped school, and place at the hesd of
1t men of education and experience: then q
school may render the state good service in
training teachers in the best methods Of teach.
ing.-Eucnsbarg LOcoliser.
George Hazard was in town Tuesday trying
to persuade some of the faithful to become office
seekers, insuring them that If they would give
him SO he would use his influence and secure
them an appointment There are already three
applicants for the Rockford postofice, and the
fourth to enter the race. An aspirant for the
position Of timber inspector also resides here.
The question now arises. did this influential
Democrat carry so away with himf-ROckford
Enterprise
The constitution should have provided for
the creation OF new charitable, penal and edu-
cational insti buttons BY the recommendation Of
q competent board Of elective state officers, who
should recommend the maximum appropria-
lions for the creation and support Of public in
situations The legislature should have power
to modify the demands of such board, but not
TO increase the same In this way the scramble
for normal schools, asylums. colleges and ex-
perimental stations would be eliminated from
the legislature. The RepeiLe urged this upon
Whatcom county members of the constitutional
convention when they were elected, but moth
ing was done about the NATURALIZATION
RereiN<
In recent issue OF the Seattle Posi- INrELIr-
eENCE1 that paper in commenting upon the
death OF Capt. Alexander Sampson, the veteran
Eighth ouse keeper of Puget sound. who died at
the advanced age Of &c, says: 'Strong liquor
imbi5ed too freely undoubtedly fastened his
DEATH" This 10 certainly convincing argu.
ment in favor of temperance and prohibition.
II the poor, misguided man had only not Sim
hoN fppolv - huf
rotations, he might have plodded on through
this wicked worli for at least twenty or thirty
years longer, while il he had been total alb.
stainer It IL difficult to even imagine what his
ago would have been at the time of his demise.
-Wenatchee Advance
Gipsy Ashton, the murderess OF Thomas Hen
dsrson Boyd. appeared In court AZ Seattle last
Thursday, and was given until Monday to plead.
1t 10 understood that she will plead not guilty,
and there 10 also . general belief throughout the
city that she will not be convicted OF the charge
of murder in the first degree, but will get Off
with term of imprisonment Her crime was
a. cold-blooded and premeditated murder As
ever came to the public notice, and should be
dealt with by law as the crime deserves, regard
less of sex. 1t would be a nice precedent to es-
tablish, that OF giving women OF worthless
character an opportunity to kill of people for
some real or fancied wrong. without any chance
OF suffering the penalty for their crime. 1t 10
about time that such nonsense should end
Sitter ton Miner.
The criticism of the provision OF the Andsr-
son bill giving to a railroad company feeling it
self aggrieved BY a rate established BY law the
right of appeal to the courts. will not bear close
scrutiny. sufficient answer to this objection
is that the constitution makes this provision an
essential part of such law. And even without
the constitutional provision, and without its re-
enactment by the legislature. the railroads
would have the right to go into the courts for
redress OF such wrong as might be inflicted upon
them BY a legislative reduction OF rates to
point that would not yield the cost OF operation.
The unrestrained power OF fixing rates would
carry with it the power OF conhscation. The
point below which legislatures may not 60 II .
REASONABLE rate, and who, II not courts and
1uries upon sworn testimony, are TO determine
what are reasonable T'-The Neo Vest