The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-03-29
IS Said to Have Eight Thousand
Fallen Women
Private Citizens Are Arrested and Thrown Into Jail for
Daring to CriticiSe Such a Criminal Con
dition of Municipal Affairs
seates Citizens Aroused the Gravity the
lie by the Post Intellgencer.

Was Chief Meredith following out
that famous biblical quotation when
he instituted the proceedings which
he did against the editor of this
paper last Saturday evening, which
says: "a guilty conscience needs no
accuser?" He certainly must have
felt as does the above quotation
plainly state, or he would not have
done as did he. Chief Meredith and
his superior officer, the mayor Of this
city, not content with throwing the
gates Of this splendid municipality
open that the city might be cap
tured, pillaged and looted by the
criminal slums Of creation, a great
many Of whom have focked here
from every part of the globe; not
content with bringing about that
condition of affairs in this city,
which is an extreme menace to hu-
man life and liberty, as well as to
feminine virtue; not content with
making Seattle a city that would
cause the ancient inhabitants of
Sodom and Gomorah to hang their
heads in shame and disgrace at the
shocking sins that stalk about our
streets with perfect impunity; not
content with making murder, arson
and riot an almost everyday occur
renee; not content with fostering
institutions that drag every man,
woman and child within the pale of
the lowest perditiOn; not content
with practically making every other
business house in this city a place Of
game and chance, all Of which are
fostered and protected by police au-
thority; not content with being per-
sonally responsible for condition Of
municipal affairs which permits the
criminals to openly defy the state
and municipal laws upon our statute
books, thus allowing vice and crime
to run riot along every street, alley
and byway in this city; not content,
it is repeated, with all this, they en-
deavOr to make it an objectionable
sin and an unbailable crime for any
citizen OF public newspaper to criti-
else such an unlawful state Of af-
fairs. But yesterday, so to speak,
one OF the frequenters of low
gambling houses took a human
beings life because he refused
to lend him more money to
continue his gambling debauchery
and midnight mauraudings, and this
crime paled into insignifcance in
comparison with the criticising of
the administration that fostered such
high-handed outrages, and that man
was permitted to go home and stay
unmolested that night with his wife
and children, while the man who
dared to criticise the administration
that should be responsible for such
was thrown into jail, denied bail,
refused the privilege Of seeing coun-
sci, mistreated and abused by the ar
resting officer and plainly informed
that his was a crime that did not de-
serve even the consideration of the
officers Of the law sworn to do their
duty and to protect the rights of
each and every citizen, irrespective.
"AlFs well that ends WE'LL" but so
far as this case was concerned, it
failed to end well for the man who
perpetrated it. Though it required
two lawyers and a couple of bankers
number of hours to get together
$500 in cash, owing to the fact that
it was Saturday night, and owing to
the fact that most Of those business
men who would have had that sum
Of money at their command had
gone home, yet they succeeded, and
the prisoner, whom it had been