Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-04-25
BUNDLE OF QUERIES.
THE SAGE OF YElM ASKS SOME
pertinent QUESTIONS.

The Words Of Some OF Its Leaders Ar,
Quoted in Judgment Upon Its Present Policy
Query First: By what authority car
a Roard of Commissioners take SOL.
OCO out of the pockets of the citizens
of Thurston county and give it to q
railroad corporation?
1t is evident that it has been done
AS see by the decision of Federal
Judge. Oh, but some one says, "Our
Commissioners didn't do it," Let's
see. There is certain AMOUNT of tax
to be raised, and if some privileged
cuss or cusses are exempted from pay
ment, the amount of their exemption
tails on those not so exepmted, or in
plain English, the people pay their
taxes for 'em. Now l don't know how
all OF the people feel about this mat.
ter, but l do know how some of them
feel, having heard them express them
selves quite forcibly in style and man.
ner following: "If the N. P. r. CON-
pany can have any part of their taxes
remitted, every taxpayer in the county
has the same right; and, in justice
should pay proportionate amount
and no more. Corporations are no
better than individuals and should be
subject 10 the same laws" Every
man can't afford to have a paid attor-
ney to bulldoze the Commissioners.
While the people OF Thurston county
have high regard, personally, for the
Board OF Commissioners, they can't
help but feel that they exceeded their
authority in an official capacity in ex-
any part OF the taxes on the
N. 2. Co. The taxes ought, in justice.
to have been increased, as they are
not, and never have been assessed, at
like their true value, and
thare isn't single corporation in the
State that is.
Query Second: Is it fact that the
Declaration of Independence has been
suppressed as An incendiary document
in the Philippine Islands?
l have seen it so stated in two differ
ent papers. In one of which find
the following: "An act defining the
crime of treason" etc, enacted by the
U. s. Philippine Commission by au.
thority of the President of the United
States. Section 10 reads rs follows:
Until it has been officially pro-
claimed that q state OF war or insur-
rection against the authority or sover-
eighty Of the United States no longer
exists in the Philippine Islands, it
shall be unlawful for any person to ad-
vocate orally, or by writing or print
ing, or like methods, the independence
OF the Philippine Islands, or their
separation from the United States.
whether by peaceable or forcible
means, or to print, publish or circu-
late any handbill, newspaper, or other
publication, advocating such inde-
pendence or separation. Any person
violating the provisions OF this section
shall be punished by fine not exceed
ing $1,000 and imprisonment not ex-
ceeding one year." Wouldn't circulat.
ing the Declaration of Independence
violate this order? If George the
Third ever promulgated more damn
able order, will some member of the
d. o. p. who favors imperialism please
make me see it. l await his pleasure.
Query Third: How do the acts Of
the present and past administrations
of the 4. o. p. comport with the doc
trines OF Lincoln and Jefferson?
Let US examine. This from Lincoln
referring to the Declaration of Inde-
pendence:
"In their enlightened belief, speak.
ing OF the signers Of the immortal doc
ument, nothing stamped with the di-
vine image and likeness was sent into
the world to be trodden on and de.
graded and embruted by its fellows.
They grasped not only the whole race
of man then living, but they reached
forward and seized upon the farthest
posterity. They erected . beacon to
guide their children and their child.
ren's children and the countless myr.
lads who should inhabit the earth in
other ages. Wise statesmen as they
were, they knew the tendency of pros.
perity to breed tyrants, and 30 they
established these self.evident truths
that when, in the distant future, some
man, some faction, some interest
should set up the doctrine that none
but rich men, none but white men, or
none but Anglo-Ssxon white men, were
entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, their posterity might
look up again to the Declaration ol
Independence and take courage to re-
new the battle which their fathers
began. So that truth and justice and
mercy and all the humane virtues
might not be extinguished from the
land do not destroy that
immortal emblem OF humanity, the
Declaration ol Independence. Let US
discard all this quibbling about this
man, or the other man, this race o,
that race, being inferior, and therefore