The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1908, Page 4

HE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO, {307-1900 Geventh Ave. VERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, 5 These are exohang: and connect with all de partmente—ask for department or name of person you want, “BALLARD STAR AQHNOY — 640) ta EVERETT STAR AGENCY PHONES we > ott rae, BTOH Rockefeltor Av. Munsot 1088, RF week, oF twentyefive cents per month. De copies Ope cent per copy, atx ¢ Hvered by mall or carrier At the Postoffice at Seattle, Washington, as se when your that date ar name fe taken fram the let of The Mian fall to reach SUBSCRIBERS ook AY. eventing, ple unset. Main 1000: Ind 441, betwee TE you should mine It A perfect service wo be certain of gtvtae our sumsort « THAT GROSSCUP DECISION In reading over the decision of the United States circuit court of appeals, written by Judge Grosscup, reversing the $29,000,000 fine imposed upon Standard Oil for accepting re bates from the Chicago & Alton, three things stand out espe cially 1. The verbal spanking of Judge Landis. 2. The charity of the higher court towards Standard Oil Co. because of its plea of ignorance. 3. The singular misconception the higher court seems to have of the real meaning of the interstate commerce laws. i i There has grown up in late years an unfortunate suspicion t § of our courts, both state and federal. Men n nger look upon f the judges as without reproach i And yet every time a man has dared to say that lawyers j who mount the bench are often humanly and even criminally weak; every time a man has dared to say that justice is not always meted out to rich and poor alike, he has been savagely denounced as an anarchist; as one who would break down the very foundation of our liberties and our laws It is therefore with something more than surprise that one ; notes the tones of contempt and disrespect and scorn @ith ‘ which the court of appeals has referred to Circuit Judge Landis. ONE OF THE CRIMES OF JUDGE LANDIS IS HIS ; YOUTH, ANOTHER IS THE FEARLESS MANNER IN 4 WHICH HE COMPELLED STANDARD OIL TO COME INTO COURT. STILL ANOTHER I HAVING HEARD ALL THAT THE ROCKE sLER LAWYERS HAD TO SAY AND ALL°THAT THE GOV ERNMENT LAWYERS HAD TO SAY, HE CONSTRUED THE LAW AS IT WAS GIVEN HIM TO SEE IT, AND ANNOUNCED THAT THE MOST POWERFUL LAW BREAKER IN THE WORLD SHOULD BE PUNISHED FOR ITS CRIMES. If this was an ill-founded judgment; if it was not backed] ay up by the record of thesease and by the laws of the land, the Circuit court of appeals could have said so im, a manner more} Ty befitting the dignity it assumes, more befitting the respect it demands. In the eyes of the man in the street there is little excuse for the tone which the higher court adopted towards the lower. Tt exceeds many of the so-called anarchistic speeches of the pol-jawed tone of voice, “they uked to| didn’t fit anybody's shel te blamed on to me. Winters, too, I) iticians, When the common man 1s haled into court for a crime, it helps him little to say that he did not know he was breaking the laws. The judge ordinarily adjusts his spectacles upon the bridge of his judicial nose, and solemnly reads the culprit a sermon, the moral of which is that ignorance of the law excuses . no one. In this Standard Oil case we have the monumental farce of the traffic manager of the corporation ready to come into court to testify that he did not know that his company was shipping oil at six cents, when the struggling rivals of the Rockefeller corporation had to pay the regularly published tariff of 18 cents. To the highly sensitized and profound intellects of the honorable judges of the circuit court of appeals it may be per- fectly clear that this professed ignorance is snow-white and spotless innocence 1T MAY BE PERFECTLY CLEAR TO THEM THAT THE STANDARD OIL CO. DID NOT KNOW THE MEANS BY WHICH IT WAS ENABLED TO UND) SELL RIVALS, BY WHICH, IT CRUSHED TO EARTH THE INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS, BY WHICH IT PILD UP RICHES BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVAR- ICE OF ANY MAN ON EARTH SAVE ROCKEFELLER ALL THIS MAY BE CLEAR TO THE HONORABLE JUDGES, BUT TO THE ORDINARY MAN WITH THE ORDINARY BRAIN IT LOOKS AS IF STANDARD OIL IGNORANCE SHOULD EXCUSE THAT CORPORATION NO MORE THAN IT WOULD EXCUSE THE HUM- BLEST LAWBREAKER IN THE LAND. Finally, Judge Grosscup says the interstate commierce act was “intended to promote, not to restrain, trad Queer! Most people thought the very object of the act was to regulate trade and to smash the monstrous rebate system, Most people thought that congress, forced into a realization of j the manner in which certain trusts were crushing opposition and } piling up ill-gotten gains, had passed a law which in effect was : the old Mosaic law— THOU SHALT NOT STEAL! If that is not the main object and intention of the law, then those who demanded it, those who framed it and those who adopted it must have been mazed in Egyptian darkness Some months ago The Star quoted Chief of Police Ward as say ing that billiard and pool rooms of the lower sort turned out more eriminals in proportion than did saloons. Yesterday The Star told of @ burglary of a San Francisco saloon by two Seattle boys, one of whom was killed in attempting to escape. The boy who was killed began bis downward course by frequenting pool rooms in this city How many others are there on the same path today? Iu congratulating ©. J. Erickson on securing the contract for the construction of the new dry dock at Bremerton, The Star desires to express the hope that Mr. Erickson’s good fortune will not inter fere with the regrade work now being done by him in Seattle. We are, of course, interested in the dry dock, but not to the exclusion of & desire to see our streets straightened out 4 Of course It may merely be a coincidence that George Lamping i} dg affiliated politically with the King county officials who made it Possible for. him to secure so favorable a lease of the county prop erty on Third av The water front would offer a good opportunity for a discussion | of the antiinjunction planks of the two big political parties Dr. C.F. Lathrop Seattle's Popular Onteopath, the City While You Wait. 217 JAMES 6T. Pike Phone Main Seattle, Wn Fire-Proof Storage FOR FURNITURE, Manoa, TaAUNMS, BTC, With awful throats between the lines «[ hit the hay PLAYFULN AMONG THE POULTRY. clothing. xx: 16. Now, I should like to know what is the matger with you two | w chickens!" Hig brother's always pickin’ on mooo! PPDOOEOOOOOOOOOD OSDIR SOOO OS OOO OOOSOOOSEDOFOOOOOD Every time you catch yourself] Apples subdue the craving for to- worrying, emile! bacco Dynamite exploded in an Ohio Distance from San Francisco to LOU ROGERS ( lthrasher, thereby shocking the] Yokohama ts 4,700 miles, we OUTBURST. OF EVERETT TRUE PATHOS ——»PUGILISM POLITICS | STAN MOST ANYTHING j ji i. # Eo R PUBLICITY POVERTY PATRIOTISM $| jm Alcohol will remove pitch from; “Thou shalt not steal,”—Mx heat 3 ae ae May Irwin, the actress, is said to Old Castro ought to have known | b® worth more than $1,000,000 1s) « © ae 4 better th to strike @ lady in the — 1 ei*o ie steamships are allowed 20 cube leasaieihaal hmeaiiletneah vs y About thin time six* years ago [feet of baxgage free. THES AGININE MANEUVERS HAVE ine - there was a lot heard about the " GONE FAR ENOUGH I! 144 HAND YOu Shirt Waist Man, Hindoos belle 1 . **#e tortoise and uy) |OMN BRAND Mi! / WENT INTO TH/$ BY JOSH te re “Ativer’ Fine Meld the earth PRITH te caught 4, minsing only 34 A Word From Josh Wise. is oven worse.” Anybody burt’ In the game Mariat" asked Mr, Stubb, in sur prise Hurt? Why, gracious, John! Th ore kay three different play “Sometimes @/ ors died at the home plate.” pl m cous.” x, ext: &. an elephant OUT 4 LITTLE SUPREME VEST OF 4¥ stood upon & hug Congress spent the coin faster than the mint could put the motto on.—The Con . “And thou shalt take no gift; for] A shrewd observer of the suffra- rift blindeth the wine, and pre-|gette movement says “No woman eth the words of the right ayed by his club, He wore no unk or chest protector bit ut wants to be a voter after she gets ote a voter of. her own.” We are too has-been be In Danger. dt dotting gallant not to dispute #; but tt some “My goodness, doesn't Misa Kider Judge—It appears from your rec-| sounds reasonable Washington missioné where he allus| know any better than to carry on|ord that you have been 37 times| Herald with Jack Kidder as she's doing | previously conviete ee a berlonged.” this evening?” The Prisoner (sententiously) “Oh, doctor,” exclaimed the fronting No, we must forgive the poor| Man ts not perfect nervous young wife, as the eminent] cated. girl, Sho's old and inexpertonced o @:@ " wur m entered the sick room, “if given te To clean straw hats, dip a stiff} *™ operation is necessary"we want ruil Only Partial Support rush in a solution of oxalic actd| YOU to operate immediately! Ex Do you subseribe to the platform | dissolved in hot water; + woll|Pense is no object at all.” - ae of your party this year?” with clear water and press with We will gperate at once,” replied | ex practice A Matter of Form. “Not so much as the managers|warm iron, Place tn the sun until | the eminent surgeon, without look vb he had re tt " | Doar sir—we open with the words| Wanted,” replied the finanoter thoroughly dry, and the bat will be/!ms at the patient. jer hing Saige Reco gd b pe Perignon a pe a That tell of warm affections, like mew o ‘od ha leuk te Whatee er ace ake 2 $m And then we atart to roast the man hE cheese. ones grea wa Hod ogg ban yyptiimenrd hacording to Gireations One day the office boy went to] Hrle is a soft rennet cheese|tnis note for me?” ahe asked. | cath Four tae et And when he haa been botied tn oft | of the Soaring Kaglo and/made from cow's milk. It has!" “why, why, no,” stammered| write “no” and four the And baked and fraasied duly ‘o'6 A tramp at the door,|been made in France for several Y . ' ; a oe And stn and fried on either aide We close up with “Yours truly.” To write the firet line of the note Our pen is dipped in honey; } Then we grow sterner and demand early mail our money, @ tell him ft is overdue And at his slowness grumble, And then we close it brief and short And add “Your servant humble.” it, The man who didn't know about The etiquette of writt Would not imagine at the That we were primed for fighting, | But ashe reads a line or two And words begin to rumble wi He always takes a tumble, Fond Meetings And #0 one can not aye tell “What are the first fruita of Or judge at the beginning, love? though its language may be aweet, — Persuasive, kind and winning, Fatal Defect. L.guess they're dates.” A gentle roast that nearly cr" Wit scoreh the en velo: Erbe Argue?” ¥ it winds up “Your “You.” 1M so frequently while she was my! Medicine Droppets, with marose nip- | $150 Met Water mettle eae “It tatled.” operator. 1 did not mind her look: | pen, special. & fer be | Special.” maroon rubber, ing in the leat, although it made ite kuaranteed. Shocking. “Is that so? It was a good “John,” began Mre. Stubb, tn an “You, it was a good paper say football was brutal, but baseball Louls Post-Dispatch. cpmeietamnin Sd * 4 ne a A ON a acon woticed looked at Milas Sally Hompttal” much more than was good for his She lee Mags, “Mesice,” double cost § ' bostuees Then, when she would #4; for tww days eut to ber a in vc [wok up and catch him at it he! 41.06 Mot Water Botties, “No-seam, $200 Fountain Syringes, would blush furtously and turn) city, speciat at... 6te Above: but of (3 As Translated from the Original Choctaw. # away, Winters was very bashful. | Foeatate Ogrinace, rama flow spectal for two days at BY F. W. SCHAEFER. , th th tu th Le THE THIEF AND THE HOU Dos. A thief came im the night to break into a house, He brought with him a choice veal cutlet that he might Square things with the House Dog,so that he should not office his ma ster by bow-wowing. As the Thiefslipped him the appetizing bit, the indignation, wheered: “If you think to stop my mouth with that, you have rats in your rafters. This sudden kindness on your part doasn't jingle any joy bells for me. For know that my misguided master has’ foundered me on chicken croquetta.so that I feel lees Mke lunching than barking-—and [| don't feel iike barking a little bit.” And with the turther advice that the yegg do the burgiing notseleasly, so aa not te disturb his snooze, the House Dog stretched out hia portly frame and This teaches us that many an elaborate precaution ts entirely un- hecessary THE VILLAGE CUT-UP Being the Joyous Chatter ‘of a Conspicuous Pest. | BY FRED SCHAEFER. Whoop-dedo, fellows! I just got 4 in from the Old Settlers’ picnic, Who was there? Oh, everybody and their sisters and their cousins and | the ants. Creeping thin led the girls « life. Birdie Bean le came sight out and said she wished she'd ‘used Insect powder instead of pearl | powder. Nettle Winzinger giggled | and sald Birdie might as well have it wouldn't show on her complex jon. Now they don't speak to each other exoept when they bave a good jolt to hand out, I had no tfea the! woods were so full of ticks. Even Lem Hoover's dollar watch was full of them. Hee-haw! Judge Skoover was the headliner in the exercises, He paid a warm tribute to the pto- | ¢rs threatened to get a divorce be | neers, It was warm because it was| cause he lw so fond of the wlddy | warmed over from last y Some-| whirl, Aunty Ackley brought out body said it was the firat time the|some of her home-made salt-rising dge had patd anything without be | bread, but {twas so heavy Bod a dunned for tt. There wasn't sup-| Sandpiper said be couldn't see how posed to be any intoxicating liquor | the salt could rise with all that bak | on the grounds, and there wasn’t. | last aboard. But the big scream was | Care was taken not to spill any of /the quott pitching contest Sone. it. A couple of shell game workers | body stole the horseshoes and they reaped a harvest on the outskirts of | fintshed the gw with old man the crowd, but Hen Biezley, the | Swayzee's set of false teeth, There | deputy sheriff, when notified of it,| wasn't any casualt ak of,| chased them four miles to get his|only Abe Okenbetger's engagement | bit from them. Unfortunately the| was broken beoay miscreants escaped before Tandy | snake down bis girl's neck. Shel Klute could get a bet gown, and| didn’t mind the snake so much, but} ‘Tandy had been saving up for it| she kicked on accepting any kind of | since last cireus day, Grandpa Ma-|a garter from him till they'd been! lech Sowers rode on the merry-go-|to a squire. Otherwise a pleasant round all afternoon, Grandma Sow: | time was had by all whi yay Bea rieute funy rors | One-Half Price Sale of Clothing Now on at the Crown Clothing Co. 1121 FIRST AVENUE Watoh for Wriday's af DOWNING, HOPKINS & RYER, Inc. BROKERS Grain Private Wires Alanon Die Kavanagh Co. Genuine jive, proven and tors 104, 406, 106, 707, 108 Johnston MI 4 University ot, and he says he has had nothing to | centuries. Mention was made of| eat for six days. it as early as 1407. It ts entimated If we can find out how he does| was sold in Paris last year. The other woek!” | tant keys on which pretty Miss Sally | things, even if one of my eyes te WHOLESALE I Hked Miss Sally and that is the! ftal, you know, and that makes up pow! TOWN § why another maiden, who, | for 4 lot Hat | was mistaken, for m Fee eieeet hare “amar ao | when Miss Sally did have a chance| SO13-101S FIRST AVENUE pretty as Mi the latter's place and runs her fingers over my keys each day And thereby bangs a tale. presided over by one Horace Win hat in the lottér Will not be “What tne become of Brown a, py } Ae Fe 3 sogennes.| “y | imaniy you fellow am | blame Mins Bally for looking her make Guemerous errors in let.) one day when Win noon hour, came over, to Miss Sal-| ly's seat and began clumatiy pound-| “OH! Ga! fag out a note. The note read Itke| days until Winters; poor, oashful you Just at that moment Miss | pound out another fetter Sally came in the door, Winters| “Dear Sally,” he wrote, per and turned be managed to loosen {t and crum-|composing the letter, so Winters two of which are alike. = ple tt up béfore Miss Sally ever|tet !t remain in my carriage. Pret-|—| Although in perfect con- wished that he had left the lett Winters. “I-I—well, you see, Sal-| the keys catch ly dear, | wrote that note myself!”| “Oh, this old he cried with a sudden burst of | witehed!” cried Mine Sally courege. “Not bewitched,” 4 Oh,” gasped Bally. jters. “It's your frien@” gap And what's your answer, dear?” |friend and wants to see asked Winters growing bolder. Let's try this combin Miss Sally said nothing, but! Then he took the fi , grabbed up a letter head and/her right hand in bis placed it in the carriage spelled out “Yes.” There Ww TU write it,” she said catching of keys there, 1 a TO my surprisé Miss Sally start-! sure you. That's why Miss BY FRANK H. WILLIAMS, for | believed that Mis# Sally would |4 to write “No.” I couldn't have'is no longer my operator, My name is Smithington No. 3.|have anawered it favorably. 1) ~ —— Hacer a am « typewriter—a machine of | > es you know, and do see — Feteh him in,” sald the editor.| 7,000,000 pounds of Brie cheese we can run this paper for an-jexport trade was alsa, very impor oye is cap _ leon operated until a week ago.|*mall. But the othe: Well, it wasn't many to answer Sally, now «ite Rubber Goods for Less Friday a Today and tomorrow radical price reductions wili prevail cupectally well selected number of Kubber Articles All ane f/ condition —cach piece carries (he Quaker guaranter My abode is a humble law office him | inet one year days, cut to re, which Winters promptly out j j } Be | $1.75 | Bat the first time that | knew ¢ affalr was really serious was %, during the) riday and Matur Te | | j | $2.50 Combination, | Miho Wacer Bettie ana em No-fieam” tot | Syringe. maroon, Sawai: Bottle and Fountain sy flow tubing. four Fauart “capactty. reduced #110 | ie: “Dear Sally-1 love you Will man, got up enough courage to A very busy shopping season in our Rubber Geods Department has forced an accumulation of Hot Water Bottles, no “1 love rned very red, jerked at the pa-|you. Wl you marry me y. I held to| This time Miss Sally ‘did not * posible, but|come in to interrupt him while eo paper as tight dition, such an assortment of odds and ends ts of little value You may, therefore, have them at almost your own price. Se to $2.00. o ty soon Mises Sally came in. She I felt very sofry about that—I|gave a little start when she saw the letter and then a bigger start Let Your New Fall Suit Be a Bradbury ‘System ui —then you'll have the supreme satisfaction of knowing that you're dressed in fault- less style. Where You Save One-Third ee gage 804g This opportunity will not last forever. The McCarthy stock is melting away now like snow in summer, Get your share of the-bargains while they are going. This is the windup anda sale like this is not likely to ever be repeated in Seattle. | 1-3 Off On every article in the store. No reserves. Doors open to- morrow at 9 a. m. and close at 10 p.m. Come early and buy liberally, —then, afterwards, there will be many months of satisfactory wear, for “Brad bury” Clothes are fashioned of finest quality fabrics, thoroughly well shrunk and Splendidly man tailored—their wear- ing and shape-retaining qualities are un- excelled es —a very large assortment to choose from, at any price from $15.00 to $40.00. the very nobbiest styles, fabrics and color- ings evolved this season, remember that you're heartily welcome to open an account with us for the suit you select—-pay a little down and a little at a time—no extra charge whatever for the accommodation we'll be glad to show you the new suits delighted to have you “try-on"—pleased, indeed, to answer any questions you may care to ask concerning our “little-at-a time” plan, why not come in tomorrow? Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 209 Second Avenue Union Street “Seattle's Reliable Credit House.”