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The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
CANAL.

The beginning of work on the
Nicaragua canal is now hanging fire
for lack of an international agree
ment between the United States and
England. The engineers have fin
ished the survey and the route has
been staked out by them from start
to finish, and as soon as treaty
agreement can be reached and ratI-
fed between the two countries, con-
gress will appropriate the necessary
$10,000,000 for the completion of
the canal. 1t is to be regretted that
this great waterway has been delayed
from time to time on account of first
one trivial obstacle and then anoth-
er, and the American people truly
hope that the end is now in sight,
and that it will not be many more
months and years before the two
oceans will be connected in Central
America by a great ship canal,
owned and operated by the authori-
ties of the United States. Much
controversy has been going on
among the leading fnanoiers as to
whether the Nicaragua or the Pa
mama route was the proper one
through which to push an inter
ocean canal to completion, and as
the French grant to the Panama
canal could have been purchased by
the United States at. nominal fig
ure, the Nicaraguan canal has hung
fire, but those well versed in the
matter declare that any figure for
that right-of-way would have been
an exorbitant one, as to build the
Panama canal was almost impracti-
cable.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
GAMBLERS GAMBLE.

Probably not since Wall streets
"black Friday" was there such a
cOmmotion among the brokers as
there. was one day last week when
Northern Pacific stock jumped from
$500 to $1,000 per share. 1t is rath-
er unfortunate for the citizens of
this country that spectators and
gamblers can corner the money mar
kets to such an extent as to create
so wild commotion as did the cor
ner on Wall street last week in fin
ancial circles. Fortunes were made
and lost in the tWinkling Of an eye,
and gamblers either became million
aires or penniless in equally as short
a time, and to bear the brunt of all
this the honest citizens of this coun-
try were called upon, and the money
markets as well as the financial cor
Germs all over the United States
stood trembling in their boots, while
these gamblers toyed with the ma
tion's finances. It is therefore re-
peated that such is a shame and a
disgrace to this enlightened age and
our cultured civilization.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
THE oPINIONATED EDITOR.

GA newspaper editor should be a
person Of opinion and not trim
mer," remarks an exchange. That is
true; but if he is a person of opin-
ions and expresses them in the col
umns Of his paper, he will not be a
person of money, and that, too, on
account Of his opinions, for the edi-
tor who has an opinion and expresses
it always goes hungry, while the
trimmer lives in the lap of luxury
Republican.
The Seattle editor may find it un-
profitable. to express his opinions.
Perhaps its the quality of the opin-
ions. Now, in the Palouse country
it's different. The Palouse country
editor with opinions expressed, never
goes hungry; he lives on the fat Of
the land (The Tribune was present
ed with a slice of bacon a few days
ago.. For luxury he gets a free (O
ticket for everything except field day
sports. He has the privilege of
booming his town gratis. He is in
vited, without extra charge, to roast
the road supervisors, the people who
let their chickens scratch up the
newly planted garden Of their neigh
bors, and those who let their cows
roam. Money is a thing he has no
use for except to pay paper bills and
back rent When he gets to heav-
ems door he can present his comp"
for he has given St. Peter an ad-
vance write up.-Puyallup Indepen-
dent.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
THE WORLDS DEBT.

Debt has become one Of the great
bugbears of the world Of finance
This is especially true of the vari-
Gus governments throughout Chris
tendon. Every government and
nation at present seems to be over
whelmingly in debt to some other
government, nation or individual,
which Indebtedness bears exceeding
ly heavy on the citizens Of such
debtor country. For the past one
hundred years the worlds indebted
ness has increased at an alarming
rate. For example, in the year 1876
the worlds total Indebtedness was
but $2,433,25O,00O. In 1920 it was
81 ,299, 100000; in 1913, $8,419,-
045,000; in 1862, $13,3 1892 1875, 900;
in 1872, $22, ,41O,232, 900; in 1882,
$26,249, ,9O1, 900; in 1901, $31, 1,493,-
749,00O. 1t will thus be seen that
from 1896 to 1901 the indebtedness
of the world has increased $29, 9,06O,-
$4,000. Evidently extravaganza
in its widest form has been prac-
ticed by persons having official
charge of the affairs of the various
governments of the. world during the
last century, and some way or means
should be devised to check such fin
ancial extravaganza.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
SCHOOL TOWN ORGANIZED.

American energy and enterprise
have induced a number of colored
people in the state of Louisiana, liv-
ing in Bossler parish, to organize
what they are pleased to term School
Town, which has received its name
from the fact that an industrial
school as well as industrial concerns
are to be located therein. Laboring
under the belief that the surest and
best method of fighting the devil is
with fire, these people have decided
not to sell town lots to any other
''save colored folk" which is a rath-
er selfish POSITION to take. Perhaps
there is not a town in the whole
United States, at least town of any
size, from which colored people are
barred, and it is extremely foolish
on the part of any colored people to
attempt to build up town Of any
size or commercial activity on the
cornerstone of BLACKS only al
lowed" However, the energy which
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
TEDDY OR FREDDY.

In reply to a question asked by
one of the leading Negro editors Of
the East as to whether the next pres
ident would be Teddy or Freddy, a
correspondent to the Colored Amer
lean didn't do a thing to Freddy.
In explanation of this journalistic
jargon, by "Teddy' is meant Vice
President Theodore Roosevelt, Pres
ident McKinley's running mate,
while Freddy means Gen. Fred
Funston, who a few weeks ago cap
tured Aguinaldo, the noted Filipino
rebel. The correspondent thinks
there is no comparison between the
two men. Teddy he lauds to the
sky as one of Gods noblemen, and
Freddy he pronounces one of the
most treacherous human beings that
ever wore the "blue." His manner
OF entrapping and capturing Agui-
naldo was a disgrace to the Ameri-
can soldier, who, for the most part,
is characteristic Of unfinching BRAY
cry and manliness. The writer
could not have said more unkind
things Of jeff Davis, had that noted
Confederate been a candidate for
the Republican nomination, than he
has said about Fred Funston, who
perhaps has no political aspirations
or ambitions whatever, especially as
to the presidency of the United
States. All is fair in love or war,
and if the writer had only consid-
cred this proposition, which has
stood the test for so many years, he
would have found such a flood Of
billingsgate poured out upon the
head Of this daring young soldier,
who did what any other soldier,
whether American or otherwise,
would have done, to be wholly un-
necessary. The criticism, to say the
least, was uncalled for, crude and
cruel.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

The Northwest is most sadly dis
appointed over the decision of the
president not to visit this section Of
the country during his trip to the
Coast. While no great preparations
had as yet been made, still the whole
country was standing on tip-toe, as
it were, looking forward to the time
when the chief magistrate Of the
greatest republic of the world would
be in their midst and shake their
hands as fellow citizens. Owing to
unexpected sickness of Mrs. McKin-
ley, the president found it inadvis-
able to try to make so long a trip as
the Northwest route would have
compelled him to make. While the
Northwest is sadly disappointed in
this, there is no doubt but that the
president is likewise disappointed,
for in deciding not to come this way
he will fail to see one Of the greatest
cities on the Pacific coast, which CITY
Is none other than Seattle.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
SINGLE TAKERS ABUSED.

Whether the theory of single tax
be right or wrong, it is not in the
province of the police of any city to
have any orders issued to suppress
the voice of any one advocating sin
gle tax on the streets so long as such
person or persons do not disturb the
peace nor do anything to incite the
crowd to riot, bloodshed or in any
way impede traffic on the streets.
The public generally will condemn
the chief of police of Detroit, Mich,
for issuing an order preventing Tom
Bawden, a single tax propagandist,
from haranguing a crowd of believ-
ers in that theory on the public
streets, because the administration
of which he was a creature was not
in sympathy with single tax ideas.
So long as a theory is not menace
to good citizenship and does not ad-
vocate principles which are anarch-
istic and revolutionary, then, in the
United States, men should be per-
mitted to discuss their hobbies at
pleasure, and as many men as the
streets will accommodate at one time
without blocking up the gangway
should be permitted. to hear him
without molestation on the part Of
any officers Of the law or on the part
OF any opposing party to the theory
thus advocated, and unless this pol
icy is followed out it will not be long
before this country will see some of
the tactics pursued in England,
where public newspapers are sup
pressed because they dare to criticize
the chief magistrate and ruler Of
that country, become a part Of the
organic law Of the land.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
HARRISON CONDEMNED.

An exchange from the East edited
by a colored man is Of the opinion
that president Harrison was the
first Northern Republican to try to
establish a Lily White Republican
party in the South" The truth Of
this assertion is seriously doubted,
and it strikes the writer that it was
the Southern states that re-nomi-
mated President Harrison against
the wishes of the Northern Repubh-
cans, and as a result Mr.. Harrison
was defeated by the North. The
South did not have one electoral
vote to cast for Mr.. Harrison, and
the Northern people felt doubly
chagTined that the South should
hold the balance Of power in the ma
tional convention and nominate
man for the presidency who was
practically without following in the
North, hence his subsequent defeat.
1t hardly seems possible, if the above
be true, and it is, that Mr.. Harrison
should have made any great efforts
to organize ''Lily White" Republi-
can party in the South, or a major
ity of the delegates from the South,
who were colored men, would never
have voted for him at the Minneap-
oils convention for a denomination.
Under the circumstances, however,
it is almost impossible for any pres
ident not to show some signs of
building up 'Lily White" Repub-
ican party in the South, as great
majority of the colored folk have
been disfranchised and legally have
no right to hold public offices such
as are in the gift Of the president Of
the United States, and as some Re
publican should have them it will
have to be white Republican.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
GIVES UP HIS LIFE.

1t seldom happens that one col
ored man will sacrifice himself for
another, yet the Associated Press
dispatches of last Monday told of a
most noble black hero in Indiana,
who willingly sacrificed his own life
for that of friend. The trainings,
teachings and everyday life Of the
colored man have been Of such a
nature as to prompt him to satisfy
his own feelings, wishes and desires
in every case and particular, even if
it is done at another's expense, and
leave the other fellow to do the best
he can, so far as his personal COM
fort is concerned, and this has be-
come so much a second nature to
him that it even extends to his wife
and children. But here, in a most
pathetic case, is an exception. Will
liam Phelps and James Staplebury,
while cleaning out a boiler in Indi-
annapolis, suddenly found themselves
IN a steam tank, the steam having
been accidentally turned on by some
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
Under Critical Observation
Here and There.
IT'S UPS AND DOWNS
Ex Congressman White Is Chosen
Race Leader President Harri-
son and Silly White Repub-
licanS" Town for Blacks
Only - Kindergarten Teachers
Remembered - Does Not Like
Funston.
WHITE is LEADER.

The world has been given to un-
derstand that so far as the black
man is concerned in the United
States, he is to follow the leadership
of ex-Congressman Geo. H. White,
who is now in Washington impor-
tuning the president to appoint him
to a federal position. This selection
seems to have been made by num-
ber Of the leading colored men of
the United States, who recently met
in Washington City, and, after due
dehberation, selected theier king, is
sued a proclamation of his selection,
and then commanded his colored
subjects to fall down and worship
him. Mr.. White has been given as
his assistants in this great undertake
ing the noted leader and industrial
educator, Booker t. Washington,
and likewise the well-known jour
naliSt who for the past quarter of a
century has led all other colored
men in the field of journalism, Hon.
T. Thomas Fortune, Of New York.
No one will doubt both the natural,
as well as acquired, ability of this
triumvirate, to not only lead the
Negro race, but to lead any other
race on the face of the earth, but is
it not remarkably strange that the
voice Of the entire race, consisting
of ten million souls, should be
echoed in so few self-constituted
dignitaries? If the Negro is to have
a king, why not leave the selection
to the entire race membership?
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
SENDS HER A CHECK.

Mrs. Alice Duggett Cary, of At
lanta, Georgia, has been made the
recipient of a handsome check from
one Of the Ogden party, who recent
ly went South to study the educa-
tional conditions Of that section of
the country, which check is to aid
that lady in completing her present
kindergarten school year for colored
children, which, according to the
school authorities of Atlanta, is one
of the brightest kindergarten schools
in the whole state of Georgia. Mrs
Cary has the reputation of being one
of the most successful teachers in
Atlanta, and stands par excellent i'll
educational work all over the United
States. She was educated in Mich
igan school, her home being in Bat
tie Creek. Believing that she could
make herself useful to the race to
which she belonged, which was sad
ly in need of useful persons, she
went South and took up the work
OF teaching, in which she has been
engaged for the past ten years.
Mrs. Cary made a most favorable
impression upon the kindergarten
department Of the National Educa-
tional Association, which met in San
Francisco last year, and the leading
papers of that city spoke in the
highest and most commendable
terms of her during the sitting Of
the Association there.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

the organizers Of this new town have
manifested is rather to be commend
ed than condemned, as it is their in
tenton to establish in that city an
industrial school on the Booker
Washington order, operate sawmills,
lumber manufactures and carry on
and conduct all other classes Of COM
mercial business. If they success
fully do this they will have set a
noble example for their posterity
and one that should be put in full
force and effect in every other sec
ton Of the South. They propose
to charge $36 per lot, $12 cash and
the balance on six, twelve and eigh-
teen months time, with 8 per cent.
interest.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
CANADA GOES SLOW.

Of all the governments on the
American soil the Canadian govern
ment seems to be making the least
progress. When Canada refused to
join the American Revolution, it,
with its own hands, seems to have
driven the last nail into its own fin
ancial as well as commercial coffin,
for that country has been unprogres-
sive in every manner and respect,
while the United States, from which
it is only separated by an imaginary
line, has fourished like a green bay
tree and forged ahead until it is now
one of the leading nations and coun-
tries of the world, and boasting of
having in the neighborhood of SO,-
100000 souls and with wealth al
most beyond calculation, while Can
ada, with almost as much territory
as the United States, if not more,
has but 100000 souls and with
property all told not to exceed in
value that of the state Of New York.
Had she become a part of the Unit
ed States at the time Of the Revolu-
ton the same territory would now
perhaps be accommodating 3O,OOO,-
600 souls instead Of 100000. 1t
might not be out Of place for Can
ada or British America even at this
late day to consider the proposition
Of throwing off the British yoke and
becoming part and parcel of the
United States.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

The airship fever is loose. Oh,
for the patience to fondle frolick-
ing shadow!
Have you invested your money in
''lle" stock in the hopes of realizing
big fortune on a thirty-cent invest
ment?
Seattle rum-sellers seem to have
no respect for the Sabbath. The
hot end of barbed wire would per-
suade them to change their minds.
Female pickpockets are still push
ing along the financial movement.
There is no danger Of Seattle fall
ing behind in the hold-up race.
Constant rehearsal with "high Ii
cense" keeps the afternoon Blinker
from growing rusty. Let it drop.
The subject has chest trouble.
Only ten months until 'Uncle
Tommie" will be shelved. I see
him down the road going to a politi-
cal funeral.
The Dominion government knows
that the Morans can now be taken at
their word. They made a monkey
of Labor Commissioner Bremner, of
Ottawa.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| There are 10000 different kinds
Iof butterflies.
In 1900 the United States import
ed 81, 100000 more silver from Mex
leo than it did in 1899.
Italians call locusts "little horses" !"
and the German term for them is
ebay horses"
Though Sir Edwin Arnold is to-
tally blind, he still keeps up his lit
erary work.
There are at present 25,868 In
dian students in the various schools
maintained by the government for
the education of the Indian children.
During the past year there were
published in Germany 24,792 new
books, which was an increase Of 1871
over the year previous.
Statisticians say there are 72,000,-
900 cubic miles Of water in the At
lantic ocean and 141, 100000 in the
Pacific ocean.
1t is proposed to build pipe line
from the oil belt about Beaumont,
Texas, to the Gulf, the construction
Of which will cost $1O,00O,00O.
Bananas under shelter do fairly
well in portions Of Southern Cali
fornia, and the crops generally prove
successful ones for the planters.
In future, judges Instructions to
juries in the state of Montana are to
precede the argument of council.
This was done by a recent act of the
legislature.
During the year 1900 the Stand
ard Oil Co. paid 100000 in divi-
dends to the holders Of its stock.
The total issue Of the stock Of the
company is $1OO,OOO,OOO.
There is much room for improve
ment in the state of Montana, as il
is learned from the interior depart
ment that there are still 3O,00O,000
acres of public land unoccupied in
that state.
Between February l and May
the Southern Pacific handled 24,434
passengers from the East, and 49,
945 Travelled on colonist's tickets.
This is the largest travel over that
road for good many years.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

AS usual, May day always brings
about tsrikes among the operators in
industrial works. Owing to the diff
ferences between the machinists and
the master machinists of this city, a
general strike was inaugurated by
the machinists last Tuesday, and the
shops in which they were employed
have been idle since then, especially
that part Of the establishment which
they kept in operation. How wide
spread this strike will prove is hard
to say at the present writing, but it
is not thought that it will extend to
other branches connected with the
various machine shops of the city,
nor will union labor in general in
augurate sympathetic strike which
will to any extent retard the build
ing progress that this city is now en-
joying. More pay and fewer hours
seems to be the text Of the strike in
this city, which text has been
preached on numerous other occa-
sons with success.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Between February l and May
the Southern Pacific handled 24,434
passengers from the East, and 49,
945 Travelled on colonist's tickets.
This is the largest travel over that
road for good many years.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

During the past year there were
published in Germany 24,79S new
books, which was an increase Of 1871
over the year previous.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

There is much room for improve
ment in the state of Montana, as it
is learned from the interior depart
ment that there are still 3O,OOO,000
acres of public land unoccupied in
that state.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

There are at present 25,868 In
dian students in the various schools
maintained by the government for
the education of the Indian children.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

The bicycle cop could write a
great story of anxious affection"
1t will pay in the end to understand
his weakness. What you hand him
will, have good deal of weight.
He'll be out again this evening.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Italians call locusts "little horses"
and the German term for them is
ebay horses"
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17
Weekly Round Tables Big
Budget of News,
TOM TATTLER TALKS
BY Brief Snap Shop Stories Chin
ese and Japanese Each Have
Dazzling Funeral Possessions
May, Brings Strikes Epworth
Leagues Annual Celebration
A General Review of Things as
Casually Observed

The Chinese funeral over Jan
Yott, which took place last week,
was most imposing affair, and
much money was spent by the
friends Of the deceased that he
might reach his final home in pomp
and splendor. So elaborate was the
whole affair that general comment
was heard for a couple Of days or
more thereafter about it. The Chi
nese living in this country for the
most part have made and saved up
considerable money, and on such oc-
casions as this they always give the
MEXICAN man. an idea of Just how
the Chinaman can spend his money
over the remains of friend OF an
acquaintance. A noticeable feature
about it was that the japanese paid
special attention to the procession
as it passed up Second avenue, per-
haps for no other reason than be-
cause it was Chinese funeral, for
if there is any people that the Japa-
nese hate it is the Chinese, hence the
noticeable attention they gave to it.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Though Sir Edwin Arnold is to-
tally blind, he still keeps up his lit
erary work.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Bananas under shelter do fairly
well in portions Of Southern Cali
fornia, and the crops generally prove
ones for the planters.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Is Councilman Byers' "cow ordi-
nance" covered by international
treaties? My boy, if sincere thanks
are winged things that fly to heaven,
there is now a flow Of gratitude to
the sky.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

1t is proposed to build pipe line
from the oil belt about Beaumont,
Texas, to the Gulf, the construction
Of which will cost $40, 100000.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

An opportunity on the part of the
japanese to rival their national en-
emy, the Chinese, in the burial of
one of their dead presented itself
last Monday, when Mrs. NJ. Furuya,
the wife of a well-known japanese
merchant of this city, died and was
buried from Bonney 4 Stewards. 1t
is said that there were fully fifty
carriages in the procession and that
not less than $3.50 worth Of cut flow
ers were placed over the casket of the
deceased. The entire japanese col
ony of this city and community
turned out on this occasion. If they
had any intention to outrival the
Chinese funeral of a few days prior
they succeeded most royalty, for
from Japanese standpoint it was a
most imposing affair.
The Seattle Republican., 1901-05-17

Statisticians say there are 72,000,-
900 cubic miles of water in the At
lantic ocean and 141,O 100000 in the
Pacific ocean.