Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-07

The monkey house at Central Park
New York City, was an appropriate
place for the ape, Enrico Caruso, te
insult the woman who engaged his
particular fancy. The court pro-
nounced him guilty. Caruso com
menced his antics in the monkey
house, and should have been forced tc
end them in the prison.house, instead
of being fined $40, and discharged.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco
played the violin in q theater in that
city ere elected to his high Office
Schmitz is now facing scene in
court, charged with graft. 1t is also
claimed that Schmitz is worth over a
million dollars at present. If the last
statement be true, the Mayor of Sar
Francisco has ample means to pur
chase an old violin, and brand new
silver &C" string, box OF French
rosin and new case.
Senator Tillman is not made of the
stuff that is afraid of any threats on
his life by negroes. Tillman only
states the naked facts and truths in
his speeches about the African race
and it's the very fact OF this thai
causes certain class Of the negro
race to hate him. Tillman always
knows where he is at when speaking
of the colored population, aud few
or many of them, cannot scare the
brave Senator, who speaks only words
OF truth.
James H. Barry, editor of the San
Francisco Star, has suffered in pause
and in person. and given . lifetime in
battling for the betterment of union
working men. Yet no writer hat
written such burning "roasts" in
denouucing Mayor Schmitz, OF the
Golden Gate city, who is union man
OF much prominence himself, and was
first brought into the public lime
light by the labor union Of San Fran
cisco, as Barry has. Barry claims he
was before Spreckles, Langdon, Heney
Hearst or::Roosevelt, in the war OF uu.
masking Schmitz.
A writer in the P.-I. wants Mayor
Moore, of Seattle, to arrest himself as
vag. The Mayor and Chief OF Po'
lice Wappenstine OF the Queen City
have arrested several spiritualists, who
for a money consideration, attempt to
read or predict the future for Their
patron. Now Webster's definition oI
. fortune-teller is Zone who pro
fesses to tell future events in the life
of another" says the writer OF the
letter, and as Mayor Moore in his
election speeches last Spring, predicted
bis own election, he is therefore a see,
who must be classed as Q forecastel
and q fortuneteller. hence he is q
vagrant, and should practice on him.
self what he breaches to others.
Now what do the colored race think
of the man who invited Booker T,
Washington to dine with him at the
White House-President ROOSEVELT
"Teddy" has made q huge mistake,
no doubt about i'll say mistake-l
intended to say has insulsed, heaped
humiliation, suspicion. and the brand
of murderers upon those who are in
nocent.
Why this assertion? will tell you
Some time ago there was a riot al
Brownsville, Texas, between colored
soldiers and the white citizens, where
in, during the melee white man was
killed.
The affair was Investigated by repre-
sentative OF the whole United States
Roosevelt the outcome wat
this: President Roosevelt has dis
charged companies A, B and q, OF the
Twenty-fifsh Infantry, because the
members refused to give the names o
their brother soldiers who had taken
part in the riot at Brownsville.
To punish the one colored soldier
or perhaps six or seven who may have
been engaged in the trouble. he
"drums" out, you may say. from the
army, three companies. Thus like the
custom of the Chinese, if you can,
get the one who did commit the crime
kill the whole family.
The world knows that there art
many negro soldiers in companies A
B and G, who never took any par
whatsoever, in the riot, who knew
nothing about it at the time, who
would not engage in any act Of VIC
lence toward white citizens any quick
er than many white soldiers in oul
army would do. There are dirty
mean, dissolute, blackguard white
men in the United States army to-day
who have and do use the uniform o
the United States army as An armol
for their dirty low.down bodies, WHIT
are repulsive to even q negro soldier
of manly qualities, as we'll as to th'
white soldier of principle. There ar
bad black men. There are bad whit
men. Simply because few murder
GUS negroes killed white man, is i
any reason that every member o
! companies A, B and G of the Twenty