Seattle's School Money Sent to the Backwoods

Senator Range of King county exemplified his theory of the Populistic idea in the senate yesterday by his vote on the 'Barefoot Boy School Bill.' To be a Populist par excellence, according to Mr. Range, it is apparently necessary to try and 'cinch' somebody who is supposed to have something for the benefit of anybody who wants anything. Senator Range is an intelligent man. Anything that he does cannot be ascribed to ignorance. All of the facts in this case, moreover, were plainly placed before him so that he could not fail to understand the situation. And yet in spite of this he deliberately voted to rob the city of Seattle, a portion of which he is supposed to represent, of $10,000 a year for the support of local district schools in Asotin, Stevens and other remote counties of the state. We do not know how the people of the district from which Mr. Range comes feel about the matter, but we do know that the people of Seattle generally feel that they have quite enough to do to take care of their own local schools. Mr. Range is apparently disposed to be very generous — with other people's money. By his vote against the reconsideration of the 'Barefoot Boy School Bill,' Mr. Range, the Populist senator from King county, has saddled upon Seattle a tax of $50,000 unless the governor shall interpose by his veto to defeat so unjust a measure.