The Seattle Republican., 1909-07-16

NNONNAS~
to make a fight for the senatorship next
year. and may continue of that opinion, but
if they could also get member In the house
of representatives they would not turn 1t
down.
In placing Thomas A. Parish on the tax
commission, Gov. Hay has put man on the
board who is fully able to look after the
interest of the state and man, Judging
from the past and especially since he has
been assessor of King county, who will look
after the taxpayers interest and not be tne
tool of the corporations and the special inter-
est men of the state. Mr.. Parish has twice
been elected assessor of King county and has
served but six months Of his second term.
The first assessment he made the special in
terest men of the county realized they were
up against the real thing and began to squeal
about being overtaxed but Assessor Parish
moved on in the even tenor of his way, as
sessing the rich mans property just the
same as the poor man s, and as result the
tax roll of the county was good many
million dollars larger under him than any
other assessor that ever held office IN the
county On the tax commission Mr.. Parish
will be an able second and co-worker OF j.
e. Frost who is giving the taxpayers some
Of the best work along this particular line
that they have ever had or even ever ex-
pected to get The tax commission board, as
it now stands, is an exceptionally strong
one. and one that will sooner or later reduce
and equalize taxation all over the state and
compel the rich man and the special interest
men to bear their just proportion of the
taxation of the state
We used to think that the Seattle Re
publican" was published by some ambitious
legislator, but recently we have come
ork to the conclusion that it is conducted
Editor. by some astute 'culud" man.-Gold-
endale Sentinel.
If it be true that the publisher of
lie Republican is "cullud man" as thinks the
the Goldendale Sentinel, which think has but
lawned upon him, then there is no denying the
the black man of the United States is rising,
asst intellectually rising Both the Sentinel and
lie Republican have been published for the past
years and have during all that time exchanged
ms, and we believe each has been under the
tinuous management IF The Seattle Repub-
been so cloVefly oQlCoQ from IlIlo TO IlLne GudG
; Of the Sentinel thought it was being published
ambitious white man with legislative aspirations
IN by Negro then if the latter be true, the edit
Sentinel should not only be willing to admit that
man of this country is just as good as the white
he should openly advocate it in the columns of
suspect that the suspicious of the editor of the
were aroused not because the editorial work of
lie Republican in his mind was any less clever
ad been, but because it recently defended the
the oppressed Negroes in the United States,
against the rules of journalistic propriety for
man. to admit that the Negro has any rights
white man is bound to respect, and any editor
g any such equal rights for Negroes must him
"cullud pusson" though he looks white The
q with God in his heart should be just as willing
Y to champion the rights of black man as a
n and in so doing it need not necessarily follow
white man is advocating either social equality
lack man or the miscegenating of the white and
k Of this country Every human being should
are deal from every other human being, however
me may seem to be or however high the other
4 the scale of civilization Because man is not
anne complexion as yourself or your intimate
is no proof whatever that he is inferior to you.
be the worth Of the man that sways public
nd his complexion should play no part in it.
lsands with bowed heads and aching hearts
ooked on, as the remains of the late Francis w.
Cushman, loved and adored by all