The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-05-26
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, Publisher.
SUSIE REVELS CAYTON, Associate.

In declaring unconstitutional the grandfather laws
of Oklahoma, which robbed hundred thousand color
ed men of their right to vote the United States fed
era court has the thanks of fully sixty per cent of
the citizens of the United States and that too without
regard to color previous condition. All such laws
are but intensifyng the differences between the white
and black folk of the United States and have but
ultimate outcome, race riots and perhaps war OF
determination of the blacks The black is consti-
tutionally full fedged citizen of the United States
and native of the land and should be given every
right enjoyed by the white man, whether native
naturalized. If let alone the black man will go in
the even tenor of his way and give no any real
right to complain against him and will make far
desirable citizen than any of the European sums that
are annually dumped into the United States. If the
southern states had not have injected caste into their
constitutions theywoud notnoWbe suffering froma state
of inertia which will continue to hang them like
great pail for the next fifty or hundred years.
Look at it as you WILL it is nevertheless fact that,
owing to the peculiar laws in the southern states hav
ing for their object the regulating of the social rea
tons between the whites and the blacks those states
are looked upon in the light of aliens, when
pared with the great states of the North East and
West where no such laws are ever advocated, than
part and parcel of the land of the free and home of the
brave. To place such nightmare the prosperous
young state of Oklahoma was depored by all good
citizens
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l. made the Times weather witch say the day after the
arrest of COL Alden j. Blehen editor in chief of the
Seattle Daily Times If it be really true that they
have the boss then. is the pity. In the evening
of an active life Co.. Blethen is charged with heinous
crime not only sharing in the llgotten gains of Grim
inas but conspirng to keep those accused from the
clutches of the law When it first reported to this
Office that COL Bethen associated with the graft
ers of the Gill administration refused to believe
single word of it, and rebuked the informer for ped
ding such rot but after months of investigation the
grand jury to the conclusion that he and in-
dcted him on four counts. Why is the American man
so money mad to associate with criminals for gain
when he already has competence for life in his poses
sion? Col. Bethen at best can live but few years
more he is already past his allotted three score and
ten and yet he to have cospred with grafters
for the sake of dirty dollar the if he were but
twentyone and without dollar to start out in the
world Is there end to the money grabbing on the
part of the citizens of this republic? We always be-
eved and verify knew that COL BletEen was quite vim
dctive but we were oathed to believe he actually
criminal, and yet every thing to point that way
just now. The saddest tale of tongue or pen in the
United States is, get the money" It matters not
who is responsible for this exposure if it be true it is
true and Col Bethen though brilliant in mind yet old
in body should reap his reward.
The Chicago Tribune is canvassing the Amer
ciprocity with Canada; whether there should be gen
eral revision of the tariff and if what articles
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