The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-06-09

say-nothing real bad about visit to the city.
But we have no intention of running the Columbia
river over the peaks of the Cascades or building
suspension bridge from Pitney Butte to Mount Rainier
in order to get wheat crop on his side OF the hills
We have the wheat over here, brother Cayton, and
you'll have to come after it starve. We found the
Queen city all to the good however, and no doubt would
have been even impressed with that open spirit had
had the pleasure of personally greeting the editor
fo the only Republican paper. "-Davenport Tribune.
In his losing patience with an army officer who op-
posed the promotion of deserving soldier on the
grounds of him being Jew President Taft might popu-
larze himself at least in the minds of all fair minded
men, by being equa determined that the Negro soldier
be given no less square dea when he seeks promotion
as he has the Jew In army circles at present the
Negro soldier, however mertorous he may be, has no
more show of promotion than the regulation army
mule
The editor in chief of the Seattle Daily Times may
not think he needs any of the milk of human kindness
that flows from the editorial fountains of the country
press and there thing certain he is not getting it.
In other words have failed to line in any OF
the weekly papers of the state that has not been con-
demnatory of the Blethens and inclined to think that
an indictment by the grand jury just half what
the bunch deserves and will get
Jack johnson, the heavyweight boxing champion
of the world left for England last Sunday to be
at the coronation 1t took twenty Saratoga trunks to
accommodate his ward robe Evidently it will be great
race between Mrs Whiteaw Reid and Johnson, king of
the prize fighting ring with his twenty trunks of dun
age as to which will outshne and with the English
folk it will be- Il love my king, but oh you Americans
It is common talk on the streets that the Wappen-
stein Jury will agree to disagree and the whole trial
will have to be gone again. Just why the rumor
should get spread abroad that two of the urymen will
hold out for acqutta in spite of evidence to the con-
trary is rather strange but that is what you hear
in every group of persons who discuss the outcome of
the WappensteIn jury.
Men of the character and business of J. w. Bax-
ter the Burns detective, may be necessary for the
stamping out of vice. but from view point. they
are too low and despcabe to be recognized as whep
who is guilty of stealing sheep which is considered the
overt and most degrading crime human being may
be found guilty OF.
Whether or not there is any real danger of the
''vellow perl'' in the Northwest the writer verify
doeth not know but the late shows there are
49, 900 Japanese in San Francisco 12 in Seattle and
5000 in Tacoma with hundreds of others scattered all
over the Northwest and finding less lucrative
employment.
May perhaps the U. s. Supreme court is making
the trusts be reasonable argues one high official but
from the way stocks and bonds go up by leaps and
bounds as soon as the Supreme court orders the trusts
to be disoved it begins to look the Supreme court
had better be reasonable the trusts will raise hadese
with it.
When Benjamin Ide Wheeler asserts that, the Uni
ted States is ruling the PHILIPPINE islands better than it
is ruling ITSELF he reminds of the average southern
white man. who declares The white folk of the south
are the Negroes best friends and If true In each IN
stance it is a case of being killed by kindness.
When again Mrs Whitelaw Reid, the wife of our
representative at the court of ST. James, puts on her
jewled costume which is heavy that she has to sit
while she receives her guests, the world would be
none the loser if some get opportunity to drop
her into the Atlantic dress and ALL
With Turkey punging headlong into hot Greece
Uncle Sans next Thanksgiving day dinners ought not
to be near so expensive those of last year. But
serious it would be awfuy bad for Turkey and Greece
to 90 war this year when Carnegie is giving up so