Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-08-09

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In discussing the country known as the
Yakima Valley, cOlOred man, who has a
boot black stand in Toppenish, said to the
writer: ''The Japanese seem to realize more
out of their farms in that valley than do
the citizens. He is forced to pay $15 per
acre per year for such lands as he leases,
and he pays more for any help he has to
hire than any one else, but at that he. |
repeat, seems to realize more out of his
farms than the white and black citizens,
who can rent the same lands for SO per
acre per year. The white and black folks,
in but rare instances, dO little more than
drag along year by year and exc out an
existence. while those little devils make
big money. Our government should not
permit them to drive the citizens from the
farms as they are doing.
Concluding this brief discussion of the
japanese invasion of the Northwest in par
tcuar and the United States in general, it
occurs to us that the white man is after all
not the mighty master of mankind that he
has been represented to be. if he is fright
ened out of his wits at the prospects of a
Japanese invasion. In Japan proper there
are but sixty million Japanese, while in the
United States there one hundred and
twenty million white citizens Now, if the
entire Japanese was put in the United
States. even then the white man should
look for great amount OF trouble in
ruling the land as he is now doing. 1t
is preposterous to predict dire calamity to
this government from the 100000 Japanese
already here. who are doing nothing but
farming the lands of the white man at
high rental and selling the white man the
products of the lands at less figure than
do those white men who farm and sell their
products to each other.
In asking to personally defray all of the
expense of bringing Billingslev back to
Seattle it seems to us that Sheriff Strnger
is admitting a guilty connection with his
escape Since Bilinesey has gone
think the community is perfectly willing to
say. "Let him 90 and NAV God bless him,
wherever he may be-" In the Gill trial
Blingsley rendered the community invalu-
able service and did not deserve the drastic
punishment meeted out to him, despite the
fact he was guilty of the crime for which
he did time. His Incarceration in the King
County stockade was in the form of
punishment for exposing corrupt official
ring in Seattle, by odds more criminal than
was Billingsley. and that is saying good
deal
Grant you that political pull and inhu-
ence were responsible for the pardOning of
James j. Callaghan, who had been found
guilty of embezzlement but in spite of those
more deserving gubernatorial cemency
document never left state house than the
one that freed Jim Calaghan from that
conviction. All the time he held the posi-
ton as charity commissioner Of King County
he helped deserving men and women. He
did not compel them to bow down and take
pauper's oath before helping them, but
he helped them without any one of them
s'lrrendering the spirit of a man for aye
that He did things he could not legally
explain and he helped persons who were
ashamed for their fellowmen to know that
they were being so helped and here again