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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
WHY YELLOW RACES ARE UNFIT
FOR AMERICAN ASSLH1IL "A TON
NO LOVELY sWEETHEARTs IN JAPAN OR AMONG JAPs ON
PACIFIC COAST; SLAVE SLAVE WOMEN

the last two years to marry cOun-
trymen they had never before laid
eyes on. For instance, a Japanese
working in the United States
comes to the conclusion he should
have wife. He writes his father
in Japan of his desire. The male
parent casts about until he finds
the type of a woman he thinks
would mate well with his son. and
starts her on her way to San Fran
cisco, or Seattle, or Vancouver.
The bride-to-be cannot land at
an American port unless she is the
wife of Japanese on American
soil. The waiting husband goes
on board the ship. The two meet
for the first time in their lives. Not
single line of correspondence has
ever passed between them. They
are married in many instances aft
er an acquaintance of less than a
minute. They come ashore. If the
wife proves satisfactory the hus-
band allows her to remain with
him and be his servant. If she
isn't, he may sell her into a life
Of shame or give her away. Such an
abandoned wife has never been
known to complain to the authori-
ties of the treatment accorded her.
She has been brought up to believe
she has no right to ask for respect,
and humbly and obediently she en-
tiers q life of shame. The husband
is then free to get another wife.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
BY C. n, TAVENNER

Young men and women. how
would you like to live Elm the
United States if it should be de-
creed there were never to be any
more sweethearts?
Old men and women, how would
you like to live in this country if,
after a certain date, all respect for
wOmankind would be withdrawn?
1t may appear to the reader at
first glance these questions are pre-
posterous. So they are. But | as
sure you | have a distinct purpose
to serve. | desire to present the
Japanese question" in a new suit
of clothing, the kind it ought to
wear.
The situation suggested in the
opening queries would become a
reality if no one lived here but
olientals.
Japan has no sweethearts in the
sense We know them. She has no
lovers. All her women are slave
girls and slave women.
In Japan. or in the Japanese col
onies on the Pacific coast, it is not
a case Of acquaintance ripening
into friendship, friendship running
to love and love ending in mar
riage. The young japanese does
not select his wife or have anything
to do with it.
Thousands of Japanese women
have come to the United States in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
ALLEGED GRAFT
At PRISON

SLYMPIA. Nov. 21.-Charges of
graft in purchases of coal for state
institutions are now under inyesti-
cation by the state board of con-
troll. If substantiated it will be
shown that the state has been
robbed Of payment for many car
loads of fuel that have never been
delivered, through the conspiracy
of coal contractors and employees
of the penitentiary. The steal was
accomplished by the issuance of
fraudulent vouchers and receipts
for coal that was not received.
The evidence is supplied by CON
yicts employed IN the prison of
fee. The fact that memorandum
of the receipts of coal have disap-
peared prompts suspicion that the
prisoners may have formed a plot
to discredit officials against whom
they may have grievance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
INDICATES w. w. WHITE

On behalf of w. w. White it Is
explained that the suit brought by
Henrietta LOupe against him for
an accounting was based on mis-
representations made by an out
side party and was promptly
dropped when she learned that an
accounting had been made to one
of her attorneys. The action was
dismissed yesterday. Allegations
of fraud were found to be unfound
ed. The owners Of Whites addi
ton are stated to have not been
involved in the action in any de-
gree, the dispute being purely a
personal matter between the par
ties to the suit.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
SEATTLE MILK TRUST

SEATTLE, Nov. 21-An indica-
ton that the milk trust is sill do
ing business is found in the fact
that the general price of milk TO
small consumers was recently ad-
vanced to the rate Of 1914 cents
per quart.
Some milk sells as high as Is
cents per quart and in some in
stances as high as 10 cents per
quart is being charged for milk of
special quality furnished as food
for small babies. The average
range of prices is from 10 to Is
cents. The wholesale price of milk
is s cents per quart.
The advance to the present ex-
Orbitant prices was accomplished
through the milk exchange, which
was organized as combine to
maintain the retail prices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
EARLY CLOSING EVEN
IN BUTTE

Butte is all torn up over the fill
ing with the city council of an
initiative petition having for it's OBJ
ject the closing of saloons at mid
night. This is the first time in the
history of the big mining camp that
Temperance legislation has been
attempted.
That so large a number of sign
ers could be secured in a wide open
town such as Butte has always
been is in keeping with the move
ment all over the country to curb
the liquor traffic. The people are
generally being educated to the
fact that liquor interests and the
corporate interests have been re-
sponsible for graft and all forms
of dishonesty in government, and
as they crush the political power of
the liquor dealer they also pull the
claws from corporations which
fatten on special privileges and
corrupt legislation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
CAN MOVE the WHEAT

f. l.. Brown, general superinten,
dent of the western district of the
Great Northern. who succeeded F.
S. Forest, and ]. H. O'Neil, super
intendent of the Cascade division,
who succeeded w. d. Scott, are in
Seattle inspecting the lines of the
company. This is General Superin-
tendent Browns first visit since his
appointment nearly month ago.
The Great Northern will be in a
position to furnish all of the cars
necessary to move the wheat on its
lines" said Mr.. Brown. Il do not
believe there will be any question
as to the ability of the railroads
to move the grain intended for ex-
port as rapidly as it can be han
died That can be demonstrated
quickly"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
BY D. S. lands

FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov. 21.-
That Mars is Inhabited, scientists
are convinced, and for years eff
forts to communicate with the
planet, 35,00O,0O0 miles away, have
been made without avail.
That communication between our
world and the Martians will one
day be established, however, is
practically agreed. Following the
death of an army officer-scientist
there came to light papers dealing
with interplanetary communication
which suggest way of putting
into execution the long dream of
the scientific world.
This officer knew that a rifle
ball driven by army powder travel
ed 1000 feet per second, and the
projectiles of large cannon much
faster. But they fell after time
due to the attraction of the earth.
He estimated that if a projectile
could be fired that would travel 26.-
800 feet per second, it would over
come gravity and travel around the
earth at fixed height, returning to
its starting place in one hour and
% minutes.
Going farther, he learned that if
a velocity of $4,000 feet per sec.
ond was achieved, the projectile
fired from cannon on the worlds
pinnacle would pass straight into
space, escape the earth's attraction
and instead of falling to the earth
would drop upon the planet nearest
it at the time.
This theory. if executed, would
make communication with Mars
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
POSTAL RECEIPTS
LEFT IN BANKS

PENDLETON, Nov. 21.-Postal
receipts deposited in the banks
here will be allowed to remain and
the postoffice department at Wash
ington will accept drafts on Port
land in lieu of cash, according to
word from Senator Bourne, in reply
to request that all postal receipts
be kept in circulation here.
Most of the money paid to Greek
and japanese railroad laborers,
which is commonly sent out
through the postoffice, will remain
in the city. This item alone means
several thousand dollars.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
PAID TO BE CRAZY

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-Joseph
Ullman. bookmaker and racetrack
gambler. who has been confined in
an insane asylum, made more than
100000 in the stock market just
before his arrangement. While his
gambling friends took the bull side
of the market. he went heavily
short. He was placed in the asy.
lum before he realized profits and
knew nothing of his fortune. He
Is now getting we'll
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
new PARTY IN STATE

SEATTLE. Nov. 21.-A new po-
litical party is being organized in
Washington. This state is soon
to have branch of the Indepen-
dence league, now an active factor
in the politics of New York. Massa-
chusetts, Illinois and California. if
plans do not miscarry.
A representative eof this party,
Edward Rainey, of Santa Barbara.
Cal. has spent the past two weeks
In Seattle, calling upon many of
the city's most influential men. He
claims to have interested many
and AYERS that within a short time
a league will be formed here as a
nucleus of the state organization
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
BLOOD ATONEMENT OF THE
CORSICAN

Hatred nursed in the Corsican
breast does not necessarily flicker
and die out in more phlegmatio
surroundings than his native isl
and. Nendettas have been carried
across the world, and blood atone
ment exacted even in the effete
precincts of Mayfair. The climax
of COrsican vendetta in the core
of London forms feature of the
novel, The Midnight Guest" by
Fred M. White, which begins as a
serial in The Press on Monday
There is much dramatic wealth in
the picture given of the working OF
the Corsican mind.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

Inc real tTulU 10, luSSS diS wal
times. Reason as reason is not
accepted but as it is hammered
into the brain of mankind by war
like methods. A temperate, ra-
tional discussion of present condi-
tons falls upon deaf ears.
To those who think. the ques-
ton is so plain they cannot under
stand why this chaos in finance is
permitted to go on. Yet, when
they come TO think of what should
be done, they are cowed by the
predatory violence that confronts
them. But the task is becoming
each day an easier one. The great
country that laughed and sneered
at New York as a conspirator has
become grave and has ceased its
sneers. Soon it will cry in alarm
and then weep from its attliction.
Who will bell the cat?
Think of the east room Of the
White House. with all its wealth
of past history. Shades of our
great statesmen who fave assem-
bled there where our national dig
nifty was in evidence to all the
world. our presidents, our senators.
our statesmen and all the best the
other nations of the world sent
here to honor us and TO show their
respect. Think of those assem-
blages and think at this hour OF
travail, of very horror in the bank.
ruptcy of our people, that there
should be assembled in this room
mountebanks and wrestlers.
We have been sorely criticised
for calling attention to Mad
Messiah, we have been abused
for our reference to the predatory
violence that pursued inoffensive
animals, but the history of the last
two weeks has INDICATED our
every word and the history of the
next three months will write it
down forever. Pride, violence
and power. What hope then, with
ignorance at the helm. that our
ship can escape from the dangers
of the present storm? And who
will bell the cat?
Is it the swollen fortunes?
Where are they? Is it the preda-
tory malefactor? Point him out.
We have had a green goods game
In certain of our corporations,
chiefly born of municipal corrup-
ton, but the great body of our
financial and commercial leaders
are honest to the core. And who
will bell the cat?
We tell you-and would that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

possible. A speed of $4,000 feet
per second is not impossible. When
the gun and explosive capable of
such velocity are discovered, scien.
lists can drop projectile upon
Mars, beyond doubt.
A nonfusible projectile, partially
followed, could carry messages
from this world to any toward
which it was directed. The motions
of the earth and Mars being known,
1T would require but little calcula-
ton to so fire the projectile that it
would, when it stopped, be attract
ed toward it's intended destination
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
ROBBED BY FEMALE

A labOrer named Pete Hanson
was robbed at the New York lodg-
ing house last night by woman
habifue of lower Howard st. Han.
son met her on the street and they
went to the lodging house. There
she robbed him of two $50 bills and
$50 in bills of smaller denomina-
ton and silver. Hanson gave the
police a fairly good description of
the woman and unless she has left
the city the police hope to land
her in jail
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

our words could carry over land
and sea, wherever our great Attic
ton exists-it will be the people.
They will beat upon the empty
dinner pail and it will be the tee
sin. The sign they follow will
point to the soup kitchen, and the
music they march to will be the
wailins Of the wives and children
crying for bread. knowledge is
power, and ignorance is death.
Ignorance and self have assassin
ated credit. The merry men may
wrestle and tumble in the temple,
the harmless animals fee for safe
ty in the cane brake.
But on the walls of that east
room for thousand years-for as
long as history lasts--will be in
scribed in letters that all can read,
Thou hast been tried in the bal
ance and found wanting"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
EVERETT SHIPS WHEAT

EVERETT, Nov. Editorials
towering above every vessel in port
the British ship Brabloch, Captain
Baxter, was locked at the new
Great Northern grain wharf. The
Brabloch comes to take the first
cargo OF wheat from Everett bound
Tor Queenstown for orders.
There are 100000 bushels of No.
] hard Washington wheat in the
warehouse to go into the ship
which began loading today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
CORNER LOT THAT RENTS FOR s12.ooo.ooo

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.--A collec-
ton of one story shacks at Broad
way and East Forty-third st. COW
er a site that figures in probably
the biggest private rental PROPOSE
ton ever put through in America.
The property is owned by Mrs.
M3ry A. fitzgerald, who lives in
Europe,
Harry Levey, who is looming up
as "a real estate Napoleon, has
sought control of the corner for
two years. Mrs. Fitzgerald would
not sell and she was not at all
anxious to giant a longtime lease.
Levey's attorney made several
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

trips to Europe to interview her
and $4,000 was paid for cable
messages.
Levey has finally secured a lease
for 1O5 years, for which he and his
heirs will pay $12,000,000. He will
pay 100000 for AZ years and
$S,000,000 for the balance of the
term. Mrs. Fitzgerald is there
fore assured an income of a little
less than 100000 a year for more
than century.
Levey will erect on the site a
l2-story building, which will be de-
voted to offices theater and a res.
taurant.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
GOODS MUST NOT YELL

SEATTLE, Nov. 21.--The Uni
versity of Washington goods feel
much abused q, again. They have
been prohibited from organizing
basketball teams and rowing crews,
and from dining out with the men
students, and now another edict
has come from the dean of women,
Miss Annie Howard. that girls must
not indulge in roofing at football
games, but, ladylike, must merely
wave their pennants.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
NO WORK; ENDS LIFE

LOS ANGELES. Cal, Nov. 21.--
With a bullet hole through his fore
head, the body of Henry Percy
was found dead in bed in his room.
A revolver clutched in his right
hand told the story of the death by
suicide. Percy, who was % years
old, came from Seattle and it is
thought that he ended his life after
falling to secure work here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
CLUBS ENDORSE FORAKER

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 21.-The
executive committee of the Ohio
League of Republican clubs last
evening endorsed Sen. Foraker for
reelection and as the republican
nominee for president. This action
precipitates the fight before the
primaries between Foraker and
Taft in Ohio.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

SEATTLE, Nov. 21.-Clark M
Nettleton seems to be the man
upon whom the more responsible
members of the republican party of
Seattle are depending to put an
end to the search for a successor
to William Hickman Moore.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
RAT POISON KILLS CHILD

MISSOULA. Nov. PA cooky
smeared with rough on rats and
left where a child could get it is
responsible for the death of Fred
die Tyacll. age eight years. Two
other children who tasted the cake
are dangerously i'll.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21
WALL ST. SNAPS AT
ROOSEVLET'S HEELS

Here in black white feeling of
following
of 80 Broad York the best
brokerage the has
New York Stock Exchange Cotton Exchange Phlad
Orleans Stock Exchanges
eroft the Liverpool Exchange the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-11-21

The Western Pine Manufac.
turers' association has received as.
Rurance from the interstate com.
merce commission that the new
lumber rate Of MOI. will be con.
nidered Dec. 10. Lumbermen say
the new rate is exorbitant and
have appealca To the commission
tor hear.ug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-02
WkRSHIP FLEET
 GOES TO PACIFIC
SECRETARY LOEB MAKES SPE- ClFIc ANNOUNCEMENT THAT BATTLEsHIPS WILL MAKE THE TRIP.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, August 1.-Secretary Loeb said today that there had been no change in the plans to send the Atlantic battleship fleet to the Pacific ocean, and that the necessary preparations for the trip are now being made by the navy department. Upon their completion ani approval by the President, the voyage wni be begun when the Presideffnt gives the word.
 MT Loeb made this statement incident ally in saying that there was no founda- tion for the report that Secretary Met calf had been or would be asked to resign from the cabinet, because of his announcement that the fleet would be in San Francisco harbor in the near fu- ture MT. Loeb said there was no reason for critcising Secretary Metcalf on ac- Loeb's statement that the fleet will go count of his announcement Secretary to the Pacific is regarded here as sig nifcant as being the first direct an nouncement to that effect made at Oys- ter Bay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-02
SHONTS TALKS ON
 TRANSPORTATION
PRESIDENT OF lNTERBoROUGH COMPANY TELLS OF DIFFICULT TIES OF RUNNING STREET CARS IN NEW YORK.

New York. Aug 1.-President Theodore r. Shonts, of the lnterborough Metropol- itan company. yesterday told the members of the new public service commission of the difficulties of solving the transporta- tion problem in New York city. His tes- timony was given in connection with the investigation begun by the commission into the merger of several transportation lines
 The magnitude of the problem was brought out by William M Twins. who has been retained by the commission to conduct the inquiry. Tn a preliminary address to the commission MT. Evans pointed out that the merged companies transport every year fully 495 o,000 more passengers than all the steam railroads in the United States combined
 MT. Shonts said the greatest dfrlcuty he had met since he became .head of the Manhattan railroads was in the conges- ton in the city itself and in inability to procure cars IS rapidly as they were need- ed. He believed that there were enough cars operated at present to carry all the passengers, but owing to the congestion In the city the cars coul dnot be utilized to their full capacity. Some cars, he said. were crowded to the railings, another fol- lowing just behind was little more than half filled and still more coming along be- hind were almost empty. This could not be prevented. Experiments, he said, were being made al lthe time when the money Is available" MT. Shonts said the cost of every experiment had to be considered before it was undertaken. and he pointed out that experiments of ten were ex- tremely costly He said 1t cost s1. .000.000 to put in operation a certain experimental train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-02
CH0ATE APPEALS
 FOR PEACE COURT
OPINION IS EXPRESSED THAT AMERICAN PROPOSITION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVE FOR GENERAL PEACE.

The Hague, August i.-In the opening debate today on the subject of general arbitration before the special committee dealing with this matter, M. Asser (Neth- erlands) expressed the opinion that the extension of arbitration was the only practical way 10 bring about limitation of armaments. Joseph II. Choate and James Brown Scott of the American delegation then reviewed at length the American proposition dealing with arbitration from the standpoint of humanity, as well as of international law. Professor De Martens CRussia) declared that the principle of ar bitration now under discussion was pre- posed by Russia in 1899. Baron Marschall Won Beberstein Germany mad Sir Ecsyn Fry Great Britain), although they made some reservations, in general supported the American proposition, as did Senor Barra of the Mexican delegation. Dr. Dra- go (Argentine) outlined and spoke in sup port of the Argentine proposal.
 MT. Choate, supporting the proposal for the esta tablishment of a permanent court of arbitration quoted from the letter writ ten by President Roosevelt to Andrew Carnegie on April 10 and read at the in- terna tional peace congress in New York. He said that the instructions given to the American delegates were to see that the judges of this court be selected from diff ferent countries and that they should rep resent the different systems of law and procedure and the more important lan- guages of the world. The court was to be of such dignity and rank that the best and ablest 1urists could accept appoint ment thereto. The whole world must have absolute confidence in their judg- ments.
 Mir Choate said:
 Nobody can doubt the supreme i'm portance of the step in advance, we ask the conference to take in developing and building up a permanent court created in 1ss9 a tribunal which will satisfy the world d-wide demand. The cause of general arbitration as a substitute for war has advanced with leaps and bounds since the close of the first conference. Nothing more strongly demonstrates the utility of the great work of that conference than the general resort of nations to arbitra- ton agreements among theselves as sure means of securing justice and peace, thus avoiding the resort to war"
 The general opinion expressed tonight is that the real peace conference began today with the initiative of the American delegates who are praised for their de- termination to carry forward a logical proposition that is believed to be the most important effort towards the pacih- cation of the world