Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-07-30
SEATTLE.
WOMAN,S RIGHTS-PROHIBI
DISLOYALTY.

EDIToR REVIEW: Perhaps few
items from this city will be of interest.
You know that last February we had
a riot here in consequence of the
attempted forcible expulsion of the
Chinese. The disturbing element, for
brevity we will call them agitators,
have never forgiven the home guards
for shooting when they were assaulted.
A rogue never has any love for an
officer OF the law, and the agitators
never lose an opportunity to heap In
suits on the deputy sherifs and our
citizen soldiers. Since February the
agifators, determined upon ruin, have
never slept nor slpmbered. They
have so aroused the baser passions Of
the excitable and unthinking lower
orders that talk of evolution, the
purchase Of guns and resistance to con.
stituted authority is freely talked of.
Our citizens made arrangements for a
general celebration on the fourth of
July, day of all days when every ma
tive and adopted citizen no matter
what his politics or religion may be,
could and should observe most heartily,
but the agitators determined to make
trouble if possible, because the leaders
of the proposed celebration were the
men who fought for law and order
during the riots, the agitators planned
a country celebration out of the city
so it would do as much damage as pos
sible. In their meetings they announ-
ced that they wanted ''nothing to do
with deputy sheriffs or brass battons. :"
Of course not
"No culprit ever felt the halters draw
With good opinion Of the law
Deputy sherifs and brass buttons
are ne annoyance to honest, law.abid
ing citizens. We had local option
election; the result had but one feat
ure of surprise, and that was, that there
were about 800 prohibi tion votes cast
out of total Of over 1000; that there
was so many prohibitionists, rejoiced
the hearts of temperance men and
alarmed the saloonists. We know
that not more than half the prohibition
lists voted. It is the same old story of
Indifference or moral cowardice. Then
election for city officers. The royal
citizens put up their most estimable
candidates. The agitaotrs put up a
good old man Of no mental or social
standing, a man who had benefited
the city ten cents where his opponent
had ten dollars, For chief of police
the agitators put up the man who GRIM
inally failed in duty during the riot
and was suspended from office by the
legal authority. For city attorney
they supported young German law
yer of no ability whatever. Looking at
the two tickets what sane man would
haye thought it possible for the agita-
tors to succeed, but they did. The
sound was not as deep as a well nor
wide as a church but It is enough.
Fifty votes world have turned it the
other way. A damaging and almost
irrepairable misfortune has visited the
city; it has frightened capital and
paralyzed business, for who will invest
money where the laws are likely to be
trampled on as they were last Febru
ary? There is one hope. We have
two well diciplined and loyal compan-
les of "brass buttons" and a goodly
number of deputy sherifs; they are
we'll armed and viii tolerate no non.
sense as they know they are right and
are backed by the government An
archists, dynamiters and agitators had
better go slow as the patience of oul
loyal citizens is about exhausted. Now
who were to blame for not putting III
the fifty votes which would have given
our city good name by placing it ii