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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
PUBLIC PRINTER PALMER.

The two leading papers of Washing
ton City, published by Afro-Americans
are in quite controversy over the re-
Itention and removal of Public Printer
Palmer. "The American" openly de-
clares that Palmer is unfriendly to
the colored race, while the bee" de-
nies the allegation and defies the alli-
gator. If the Bee is to be relied upon
Public Printer Palmer has now in his
employ in the government printing
office over 200 colored folk on the regu-
lar payroll and he promises to even in
crease that number in the near future.
Without taking any part one way or
the other IN the controversy this paper
| is glad to note the fact that so many
colored folk have been given positions
in the government printing Office, if
for no other reason than because under
the public printer in the Cleveland ad-
ministration the most of the colored
employees were let out and let out for
no other reason than on account of
their color. If Mr. Palmer has righted
that wrong and is continuing to right
| it there should be no sufficient excuse
on the part of either of the colored
papers to either want or ask his re-
moval. Persons should be employed
on account of their fitness for the posi-
tiOns they seek, and not on account of
their color. 1t is noted in recent is
sue of the Bee that in a competitive
examination for a position in the pub
lie printing Office ten young men took
a very rigid examination, and of the
ten two were colored. After the pa
lpers had been carefully marked and
graded, it was found that one of the
young colored men had made the high
est average, and as a result he was
given the coveted position, which
meant 81 per day or some $1,000 a
yetar. He was at once put to work by
the public printer, not on account of
his color, but on account of his fitness
which was right and proper, and it is
hoped that more cO1ored men will as
pire to accomplish ust what this
young man has done-win an honor.
able place by their wits and wisdom,
instead of by their pull and chicanery.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19

against the Jewish race in this coun-
try. However, it is most likely that if
any great number of Jews come to the
United States that anti-Semitic feel
ing, which runs riot throughout the
European countries, will begin to show
itself in the United States just the
same as there. If there is any race of
people in the world that should be will
ing to go to the assistance of an Op-
pressed race, it certainly should be
the Jewish race, and while the Jewish
and the Negro races may not have
anything in common from a racial
standpoint, yet the two should never
have any enmity in general from a
racial standpoint between them, for
they are both oppressed to certain
extent, and they are both numerically
weak in comparison with the Anglo
Saxon race. 1t is quite true that the
Negro is the doubly despised one of
the two in this country, nevertheless,
even in America an anti-Semitic feel
ing is now apparent, and any move on
the part of the Jews to become dis
tinct factors will see the same race
prejudice spring up against them as
are the Negroes of this country now
experiencing in all of the Southern
and many of the Northern states:
"All coons look alike to the," and like
wise will "all Cohens look alike to
me-"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
ONE HUNDRED MILLION.

If what Bishop c. H Fowler is re-
ported to have recently said as to the
natural increase of the Negro race be
true, the Negro problem of the United
States promises to settle itself in the
very near future, and settle itself by
the Negro becoming the dominant race
of the entire continent. Bishop Fowler
is one of the Methodist Episcopal
church's leading divines and foremost
thinkers, and when he makes a state
ment it can always be relied upon.
dred years from now there will be
100000,000 Negroes in the United
States, and that, too, without emigra-
tiOn, and from that number an army
of 20,00O,000 can readily be raised.
Moses when the bullrushes!" what
will the Southern lynchers do with
such an army as that to confront
them when they start out on one of
their nefarious lynching escapades
The article in full has not been seen
by the writer hereof, hence it is not
known by him by what source Bishop
Fowler reaches his conclusion, but he
seems to have reached it. Such an in
crease as that would appear to be
pretty rapid, and even more rapid than
the statistics of the past would war
rant While the colored race may be
rapidly on the increase, it does not
seem that it will increase as rapidly
as that, Bishop Fowler to the con
trary Notwithstanding.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19

detail. Not only has he directed the
affairs of the Mormon church, but he
has likewise directed to some extent
the political affairs of the territory,
and his wishes as to the recognition
the Mormon churcn should receive at
the hands of the politicians, both Re
publicans and Democrats, was carried
out almost to the letter. 1t was his
son, Frank @. Cannon, that was made
one Of Utah's first United States sena-
tors by the Republicans, and, who, by
the way, made a very able representa-
tive and doubtless would have been re-
elected had he not have switched in
politics by taking up the Bryan cause
and the free silver craze, and he was
elected to pleace Apostle Cannon. Thus
from time to time it has been very ap-
parent that the CannOns led by Apostle
Cannon, were very important factors
in the affairs of the new state of Utah,
and he who figured on ruling political
affairs in that state without consulting
the CannOns, generally counted with
out his host. Regardless of the reli-
gion which Mr.. Cannon represented,
there is no denying the fact that he
was a very able statesman, an accom-
plished and refined gentleman, and he
has reared family there who partake
largely of the prOpensities in these re-
spects Of their father. Mr.. Cannon
was an Englishman by birth, having
been born in Liverpool, England, jan
uary II, 1927 He was converted to
the Mormon religion while yet in Eng
land, came over and at once became an
active worker and leader in it's affairs
in Salt Lake City. Without regard to
religious creeds, political faiths or diff
ferent nationalities, the oath of Mr..
Cannon will be mourned by every
man, woman and child in Utah, as we'll
as other states in close proximity
thereto.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
A MULTI-MURDERER.

A most remarkable Negro criminal
has been brought to light in Clarks-
dale, Miss, who is now in the pest
house there, suffering with the small
pox, and it is believed that he cannot
recover. The Negro himself, laboring
under this belief, has confessed to be
one of the worst criminals in the
country He claims to have killed
Capt. John D. Day, Patrolman Peter
J. Lamb and ten other persons, as well
as wounding thirty men, women and
children in New Orleans from July "a
to July 27, 1900. When arrested he
gave the name Levi Charles, but he
mas a number OF aliases and his real
name is thought to be Robert Charles,
who was responsible for the New Or
leans riot last July. when the house
in which he and his companions were
barIicaded was set afire and burned,
1T was thought that Charles was killed,
n fact the police say that his body
was identified by his friends, but this
man who is dying in the pesthouse at
Clarksdale declares that he is the real
Robert Charles, the notorious despe-
lado that the police thought to have
ueen XII led at the time.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Bubonic Plague Spreading - Oil
Promises to Become King Cuba
Rejects the Platt Amendment
Sends Committee to Washington
City-Mormons' Loss in Apostle
Cannon's Death.


From the reports sent out from
Washington City, it would seem that
the bubonic plague is spreading
throughout the world at an alarming
extent, as since November 1st last
there have been thousands of cases of
bubonic plague reported from all parts
Of the world. 1t has made its appear
ance in Cape Colony, London, Paris,
and many other densely populated
communities and countries, and unless
the authorities in those communities
be able to stamp it out, it will become
an epidemic and prove as fatal, per-
haps, there as it has in the far East
1t is disease to be dreaded, and it is
a disease that the authorities of any
country should endeavOr to prevent it's
spread when it has been detected in in
dividual instances. In Bombay, British
India, during the week ending Febru-
ary 8th, there occurred 1,770 plague
cases and 1929 deaths, which is an
awful condition of affairs. The
plague should become an international
consideration and study, and a united
effort should be made on the part OF
all nations to check it's headway and
prevent its further spread, for there
is no doubt but that if the leading ma
tions of the world would take this mat
ter up in a diplomatic way, it's raw
ages, as well as its spread to some
extent at least could be headed off,
Regardless of the commercial damage
that may be done to any country or
community, if such is affected with
this loathsome disease, such country
should be strictly Quarantined against
by all other nations and thereby pre-
vent her citizens from carrying it to
other places. Already the plague has
made it's appearance in San Francisco
and there is no telling how soon it will
be in other points along the Pacific
coast, even spreading to our own East
If San Francisco has cases of this
disease the health officers of the other
cities on the coast should see to it that
the proper quarantine be placed about
things coming from San Francisco, lest
the disease be spread in other cities by
such means.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
THE WANDERING JEW.

That was rather remarkable re-
view of the Jewish race which appear
ed in last Sundays Post-Intellgencer
by Richard j. H. Gottheil. From the
reading of it, there is no doubt but
that there is another race in this
world besides the Negro race that has
treatment, and, it would appear that
that rough treatment, so far as the
Jews are concerned, has not wholly
lpassed as yet, though it is slowly
lading away. The Jew, judg-
ing from this review, has
been made the serf, the slave and
the stink-pot for all nations for cen
5uries and centuries. "The Wander
ng JeW," it is clear to be seen, does
lot mean that individual Jew that
Christ personally rebuked, but is ap-
plicable to the entire Jewish race,
Thichh as been driven into a wander
ing Jew condition, wandering from
pillar to post, trying to find some place
where they can live and follow the
pursuits of peace and happiness pecu-
liar to themselves without being dis
turbed by other nations and national
tiles, which is hard place for them
to find. Practically speaking the
hands of the world seem to be against
them, and wherever they light some
race form of prejudice always crops
out against them on the part of the
natives. The Jew perhaps is doing
better in the United States than in
any other country in the world, save
Jerusalem, and on account of that fact
it is said that pretty near a million
Jews that are oppressed in European
/ countries at present are struggling
with might and main to raise money
enough to come to the United States
| because they have learned from mem
bers of their race who are already here
| that there is but little prejudice
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19

1t was but few years ago that this
country was excited from one end to
the other over natural gas, and thou
sands of companies as we'll as millions
of dollars were organized for the pur-
pose of boring into mother earth in
order to find store room of natural
gas by which the wheels of commercial
enterprise could be more cheaply
moved. While the natural gas craze
has to some extent died out, it never
theless did prove to be a great thing
in the business world, and many cities
in this country are today being lighted
with natural gas, and to some extent
the homes therein heated. From all
parts OF the country come reports to-
day that companies are being organiz-
ed for the purpose of boring for oil,
which is thought to underlie a great
many of the sections of this country.
To the casual observer it would seem
that there is as much probability of
finding oil in large quantities under
lying certain sections of th4sc ountry
as coal, gold or any other mineral sub
stance. What or who put it there no
one seems to know, nor do those bor-
ing for 1t seem to care. The mere fact
that it is there is all they care for and
they want it. Scientists are in quite
a controversy just now as to what is
the origin of the great deposits of
oil that are being found in many parts
of the country at present, some declar-
ing it to be mineral, others a vege-
table, still others a freak of nature
but like gold, silver, coal and other
things that are found in the bowels of
the earth, its origin is wholly unex-
plainable by man. No one knows rom
whence gold came, and no one seems
to know from whence oil came, and
though scientists may dispute over the
freak, yet nature itself remains silent
on the subject and will continue to do
so. But this can be truthfully termed
an oil age. The United States has had
her coal age, her natural gas age and
now comes her crude oil age Nature
seems to be determined that the world
shall not lack for some kind of com.
bustible material to use as fuel for
mans happiness and comfort.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
LEARN TO Do SOMETHING.

It is learned from a correspondent
of the Colored American that the
Tuskagee Institute, at the head of
which is the famous educator, Booker
T. Washington, has twenty-eight dis
tinct industrial departments, which
teach the young men and women
trades, the graduation from either of
which means for them ready employ
ment and lucrative salaries in most of
the states of the South. Nothing
should be more gratifying to both the
white and the colored folk of this
country than to note the fact that the
colored folk have awakened to their
duty to learn something for their
hands to do as we'll as their heads
While the Tuskegee Institute is not
exactly the pioneer in this matter, yet
it has done more toward bringing it to
a successful climax than all of the
other schools established for the bene-
fit of the colored folk in the United
States put together. Prof. Washing
ton doubtless fashioned his school
after the Hampton Institute of Virgi
MIA, but his school has been crowned
with its well-known success on ac
count of his own personal efforts
while the Hampton institute is the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19

Bishops Turner, Grant and Tyree,
of the A. M. E. church, have united in
la proposition to send a competent di-
vine of their church to the Philippine
islands to organize a branch of the
African Methodist Episcopal church
in those islands. This can doubtless
be looked upon as missionary move
and missionary move which is quite
|commendable on the part of that
church, but looking at it from a cold
blooded business standpoint, it appears
rather impracticabIe. The natives of
those islands do not take to organiza-
ton or institutions fashioned after
the American colored mans ideas,
and, if the writer has been creditably
informed, they do not care to be
known as a part and parcel in any
shape, form or manner of the Ameri-
can Negro. Whether such a PROPOSE
ton on their part be right or wrong it
is theirs to decide and by no means the
American Negroes. If those people
wish to hold themselves aloof from the
American Negro, it is their right and
prerogative. They seem to want to do
SO, hence it is but a mere waste of
time, energy and money on the part
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church to make efforts to organize
these people into their church and re-
ligion against their will, to say moth
ling of the undying loyalty of the Fill
pinos for the Catholic church Other
Protestant churches have failed to in
terest those people in their religion,
land if is more than 1ikp1v that tho
ministers sent out by the African
Methodist church will as signally fail
as has the other Protestants.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
COLORED RACE
AS Critically Observed in the
United States.
IT'S UPS AND DOWNS
It Predominates in Cuban ConVen-
tion-It's Rapid Increase Plant
alton Preacher Negro and the
Jew Philippine Missionaries =
Multi Murderer - Thoughts from
Exchanges Commented On.
NEGROES PREDOMINATE.

1t is going the rounds of the "col-
ored press" that a majority Of the
members of the Cuban constitutional
convention are Negroes; that is, per-
sons of African-Spanish descent.
There seems to be quite number of
conflicting reports on this point, and
to settle a lOng-standing dispute, it
would be wise for. some one to report
accurately as to the nationality of
each of the members Of the Cuban con-
stitutiOnal convention, as we'll as the
exact proportion the two races
in the convention bear to
each other. If it be true that
a majority of the members of that con-
vention are colored men, they prob
ably feel as if they have person
al grounds for not ratifying the pro-
pOsal made by the United States in
the organizing of free republic in
Cuba, and, again, if it be true that a
majority of the members Of the Cuban
convention are colOred men, then the
former assertion made concerning the
status of the population on the islands,
as to the colored race far out-number-
ing the whites is quite true, which ac-
the convention at present. If the Gu
ban convention in it's present racial
condition is opposed to the United
States, it is because a majority of the
members thereof who are colOred
think that they have a just and suffi-
cient cause to suspect Uncle Sam, ow-
ing to the treatment that he has per-
mitted members of the colored race in
the United States to be subjected to,
since and before the Lincoln emancipa-
tion. However, it is very doubtful
whether a majority of the members of
the Cuban convention are cOlored folk,
and The Republican is inclined to be-
lieve that such an assertion is a mis-
take. That the question may be set
tied once and for all, it is hoped that
some one interested in the matter will
look it up and accurately report the
same at an early date.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
MRS. GEORGE KILLED.

Though a coroner's jury found that
no one was to blame in the accidental
killing of Mrs. J. R. George at Lake
Washington last Saturday by a run
away team, nevertheless public opin-
ION is much divided on the subject and
it is believed by many that the team
was lett unhitched by the driver
thereof. Unhitched teams have caused
so many fatal accidents in this city in
the past that the city council passed an
ordinance imposing heavy fines upon
persons who leave their teams un-
hitched, and many of the teamsters
have been fined for the offense, and any
disposition on the part of the team
sters to override the ordinance the
citizens are ready to censure the ag-
gressOr in the severeSt terms. ANY
driver caught leaving his team without
hltching it to something which will
prevent it from taking flight and run
ming away should be doubIy fined. If
this lady met her death on account of
the carelesness of the driver of the
team which ran over her, and tram
pied her to death, then somebody
should be responsible for it, not that
The Republican wants to see a hard
ship worked on anybody, but to con-
vince those having charge of teams
that it is their duty to securely fasten
them before leaving them. The owner
OF the team, if it was the careIessness
OF the driver that caused the lady's
death, should be responsible in per-
sonal damages to the family of the
lady who was killed by his runaway
team.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19

The report that the Cuban conven-
tiOn had decided not to accept the
Platt amendment, which was passed
by the United States senate a few days
prior to its recent adjournment, will
cause many of the leading statesmen
of this country to stop and consider,
as it may mean that the United States
is on the verge of war with the Cubans,
thus having to do what the Spanish
tried for so many years to do-whip
the Cubans into subsection. The in
habitants of the West India islands
and all of the South American coun-
tries always appear rather war in
clined, and will take up arms to fight
at the slightest pretext. The Cubans
may feel that this country is attempt
ing to make vassals Of them, instead
of Independent citizens, and having
spent so many years in constant war
fare for absolute freedom there is no
doubt in the world but that they will
go to war even with the United States
before they will surrender one scintilla
Of prospects to their long-cherished
hope of freedom. However, it is hop
ed that the better judgment of the Gu
bans will prevail and that the affairs
will be amicably settled, that Cuba
will be free and at the same time the
United States maintain her dignity
and protectorate over the islands.
There is nothing else for the United
States to do but to maintain the pro-
tectorate over the islands, not only for
the present, but for all time to come,
if for no other reason than to prevent
European powers from getting the
same foOthodld in those islands as did
old Spain have for so many years. The
Monroe doctrine covers Cuba and all
the islands in that section the same
as it does South America, and when
once the power of European countries
has been broken at any point in Am
erican waters it should be broken for
all time to come, and the United States
should stand by the proposition if it
has to go to war to do so. If Cuba is
wise she will accept the proposition of
freedom as laid down by the United
States government and be friend to a
nation that wants to be a friend to it.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
Andrew Carnegie himself made

Andrew Carnegie himself made a
no less princely gift nor a less merit
orious one, Notwithstanding the multi
plicity of his gifts, than that made
by the family of the late P. D. Armour,
in which the Armour Institute of Chi
.cago received $1,0OO,0OO in memroy of
the late Mr.. Armour, who first founded
the institution. Accumulated millions
can be put to no better use than the
educating of the young people of this
country, and the Armours have set a
most excellent example, and when
placed at the disposal of universities
of general learning and education it
certainly does the greatest amount of
good to the greatest number of per.
sons.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-19
IRISH LANGUAGE.

At a meeting of the Irish Literary
Society Mr.. F. A. Fahy gave an inter-
esting lecture on THE Irish Language
Movement"
The Irish language, he said, belong
ed to the Celtic group of languages,
and had been spoken for more than
1000 years. 1t had a vocabulary Of
about $4,000 words, nearly all home
made, and was extremely rich in ma
tive idioms. 1t fiourished until the
commencement of the nineteenth cen
tury, when the process of decay set in.
The sO-called national system of edu-
cation founded in Ireland in 1881 was
opposed to the teaching and speaking
of Irish in schOOls-in fact, the nation
al schools had been declared the grave
of the Irish language. The famine OF
1846-47 and the rush of immigrants
from Ireland to the United States and
other parts of the world had also con-
tributed to the ruin Of the old tongue.
The result was that, while in 1881
some 100000 persons in Ireland
spoke the native language, in 1891 only
about 100000 persons, or One-fifth of
the population, were abe to do so.
During the last century there had
been a steady growth in Ireland OF
English thoughts, manners, customs
and ideas, and the Irish people had
abandoned the ways of their fore
fathers and taken to their hearts those
of the SaXon.-London Chronicle.