The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-06-09
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, Publisher.
STTSIE REVELS CAYTON, Associate.

few years after the emancipation of the Negroes
of the Unithed States phanthropst from the North
who had done great deal to get them into ship-shape
to begin the new life into which they had been
ushered while visiting among them in the South
asked one of the leaders, did he have any word to
send to his friends in the North to the progress the
Negroes were making, and for an answer the old man
said, tell them we's risn." Now the Negroes of
the Northwest desire to send to the four cor
ners of the earth that they making substantial
progress in the way of being among men.
Within the past few days Ed F. Myer, Negro clerk
in the Navy yard at Bremerton, has been indicted by
the federal grand jury for completely in swndlng the
u S. government out of almost fabulous sums OF
money which may reach into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars The system so perfect so goes
the story that it took the keenest experts to unrave
the ball. and yet it is far from being exposed.
The same grand jury indicted DIR Schadd, young
man in whose veins Negro blood flows, and for that
so cassed for having made false returns in the
census report for the district in which he was enumat
Or Dr. Schadd operated in Seattle and said to have
reported hundreds of persons living where only bare
walls were subsequently found. It seems that he was
prompted to do that because of the three cents he re-
ceived for reporting each name Earnest e. Tanner
a Young Negro of Tacoma, who recently graduated
from the high school of that place has been indicted
for census frauds The grand jury indicted Steth
T. Storrs railroad porter accused of smuggling opium
goes the report for many years. and out of which he
had realized large of money The porter is now
estimated to be worth in real estate 5000 If
in the past the Negro had no higher ambition than to
steal chickens he is bravey that and he tears
it off in chunks just like white folk, and if his pro-
gress in other walks of life has been as marked as
that of mixing into deals and games out of which he
realizes big money though he frequently gets pinched
by the strong arm of the law, then he is rapidly be-
coming to be an honered and respected citizen of the
United States where the almighty dollar reigns king,
and every man is money mad.
A great deal is being said and done just now in
order to boost this that city in the shape of getting
more citizens and selling to other sections all
over the Northwest and yet little nothing is being
done to induce industrious families to the count
ry where they will be able to make living at one half
the labor and IVORY that they compelled to undergo
by living in the cities If third of the residents of
Seattle owned five acre farms in King county and they
raised the most they consumed then Seattle, King
county and the entire state would be the richer by
good MANY more million dollars than they are, and
as with Seattle with every other large town over the
country. Seattle is great over grown city throngng
with unemployed citizens who unable to say today
whether or not they will eat the next day while the
country districts are undeveloped widernesses. Get
back to the soil for real comfort.
While the fight over the coal lands in Alaska seems
to be beween two great interests yet the suit started
against President Tfa the grounds that he STEP
ped his bounds when he withdrew the lands from entry
sounds perfectly puerie and is only instituted with
the view of trying to create public sentiment in favor
of the coal land grabbers that hoping to gobbe it
up The interests men so seldom get their hands
called that when they do goes hard with them. With
the interest developing Alaska the average
poor man will be no more benefited financially than if
the whole country still wild bowling wilderness.