The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1908-10-16

fare on those they held responsible Tor such state OF
affairs.
One would be pronounced pessimst if he should
say the human family is growing instead of bet
ter and really it would be mistake, but there does
seem to be latent germ of
Criminology Germ criminoogy implanted in so
In All Men many of the members of the
human family that ripens into
a well developed bump of scoundreldom as an
opportunity presents itself that doubts if any is
good. You hear of much crooked work on the part
of trusted employees and much crooked work on the
part of public men, who have been honored by their fell
low men, that honest man seems to be the eXcep-
ton instead of the rule. Members of congress are
charged with becoming the plant tools of corporations
snd schemers and paid large of money to give
the other fellow opportunity to rob his constituents
and fellow citizens. Members of legislatures are
CHARGED with following in the foot steps of the men,
bers of congress only smaller scale. State officers
all the country being daily charged with re-
ceing corruptng funds from persons desrous of rob
bing the general government. Men go to the eglsla
tures if not for opportunity to get bribe money to
vote and act in the legislature that it will bring them
business when they return to their respective homes,
and then such have the audacy to denounce lesser
grafters The official whose skirts clear of the
many vile accusations of public corruption in this day
of get rich quck is looked upon not up to date The
man poor as church mouse today takes on princely
airs tomorrow after going into public office and the
question naturally arises where did he get the money!
This civilization of the United States may be the high
est type of civilization that the world has ever known
but if one tenth of the accusations that laid at the
doors of these who are responsible for this civilization
be true then it is badly honeycombed and the day is
not far distant when it will mysterousy vanish did
the historic horse chase The biggest thieves in the
land are those who considered the most honest
they get the opportunity What city in the whole land
mas not municipal scandal to the effect that that those
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after their The church and preachers of the land
are likewise silent because they want theirs and to
pose the bigh would that the preachers could
not enjoy the uxures of this later day existence and
the Lord and Him crucied to them in comparison to
such life of luxury pales into insignifcance.
If the next legislature of the state of Washington
doe not submit an equal suffrage amendment to the
in favor of the then the members thereof
will not possess the amount of
Equal Suffrage common political horse sense
For Women that he average of this day
and date is given credit of having.
Again. if the voters after the amendent will have been
submitted do not rise above their pot house. political
ideas and vote the women the right to vote at all cleo
tons in the state then they themselves are too
and selfish to be voters and the general government
ought to devise method to dsfranchise every
mothers son of them. The who argues that
womans place is at home looking after her babies and
that it totally ncapacpates her to attend to those
duties if she even ballot for good government,
might consistently argue that farmers place is in
the fields and if he goes vote in order to improve the
government it ncapactates him for any of that kind of
work, and so on all down the line The mother
and directs the boy and develops him into acceptable
citizen and when such has the audacty to say
that mother that she is too feeble minded to vote it
lis public admission that he, himself is too feeble
minded to vote Water cannot rise higher than its
source The woman who possesses property
valued in the thousands of dollars has voice what
ever in saying how that property is to be taxed and ad
mnstered on but the hobo who spends his entire time
rampng from place place, stop overo long enough
at some point to gain citizenship and vote tax
ncumbrance on that womans property and her protests
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