The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1909, Page 1

NO. 208 MARTYR DE LARA TELLS THE TRUE REASON WHY HE HAS BEEN THROWN 1O THE DUNGEON AT LOS ANGELES. INGTON, Oct. 22.—The department of commerce and la gent a telegram to the federal authorities at Los Ange the release of De Lara, the Mexican held as an alleged upon $3,000 ball, it is understood that while De Lara his sympathizers have set on foot a movement which in the bail being furnished. BY GILSON GARDNER, Staff Correspondent of the United Press. OS ANGELES, Oct while passing through Be J took the trouble to in case of L. Guiterrez De wae bad been arrested the Sunday be Tat ar with being an The alleged anarchist was pom bail, and I had « with him at bis reatdence. of De Lara ar nnownced purpose of the gov ‘Aethorities to railroad him back to Mexico has given a new Fie my investigation, and to the Interview which I then secured. ie not an anarchist. He is a Mexican patriot. His only g the fact that he has dared to criticize the Diaz government. fe a crime in Mexico; it is not such in the United States. De tee to the United States as a political refugee. Palted States is supposed to furnish political asylum for those persecuted beyord endurar in other countries. This Mex very right to expect immunity from political persecy the United States. Instead of this, he has been persecuted. Wy the agents of Mexico, but by officials of the United States. d that the present action against him is persecution. Mmple. It is the same infloence which ran down and finally the Arizona penitentiary at Florence his compatriots, Magon, Villareal, ing intertiew with De Lara was written Was received of De Lara's latest arrest: Bread in the papers, | was arrested while addressing an Bthe city square—the plaza. 1 was charged with nothing without warrant. I was talking to Mexicans about mt of Mexico. Also I was explaining the doctrines have said the same things hundreds of times. I am the socialist party. fan anarchist. | made no threats againgt either Pr t Diaz. Not only have | made no threats against consider it a great misfortune to Mexico if anything yn tte Diaz. 1 much prefer that he die @ natural death. The in Mexico wit! go forward much better thus. [do we seek? A return to the constitution of 1857. That Mi provided for the liberties of the people. It provided for and it forbade a standing army. it insured the people ® monopoly of the lands and against the conditions of peon- have resulted from such a monopoly. A peaceful accom of these reforms is what we have urged. ce WR ON THE LOMN SHARK Responding to the urgent appeal Because the Mexican for relief from scores cf men and Wants me arrested. Be- women who are compelled to pay ean government is to loan sharks exorbitant and fb eal refugees, notjlegal high rate of interest on but in the United | sums of money borrowed on jewelry and other articles pawned by them. ‘Assistant Prosecuting Attorney jJohn Perry announced today that he had started a campaign of prose- cution against this class of money lenders Sufficient evidence large number of them has been gathered to warrant thetr arrest Of the United States. |The first step will be to have some the American govern-| victim of the loan sharks who will in his political} not shrink at the thought of pub- What is the inflo-|licity sign a complaint. For several Which moves the tectives of the prosecuting Bad the American y's office have been making and prosecute men/a canvass of the various pawn is against the |shops. ‘Thelr work has been so successful that Prosecutor Perry declared today that the cases he | will prosecute are complete. On October 16, eatigate the President before any Arrested here in Los the U. &. im government is and the courts of to pursue men RWhose only crime is Me Work for a constitu EO government In Mex rs against a Forced to Seek Loans. ‘The interest that some these Magon sharks have been charging people Were arrested by pri-|Who, by force of circumstance fn the employ of |have actually been compelled to pawn articles of jewelry and wear Held in Jai. ing apparel, is really an outrage,” were |sald Mr. Perry today otal ag ros hs on 7 statutes provide that they n effort was 4 Mat time to use the im Haws to railroad one of without war Month before | Ke % per cent on loans. It & fact that they demand any across Finally, how igure tha happens to en ir minds. In many cases 10 and er cent have been the charge Was wet to wor ; Creel, at that time er to the | The law also says that it is a mis. HOOK & trip tro demeanor for any pawnbroker to ted! sell any of the articles pawned ng GF t6 Los Angeles. Hor & notable banque within 90 days after the redemp and Mexican, |tion period expires. t by Nevertheless, this very offense Concessions es with Ame # being committed dally I have Henmediately following iso learned that if a man charges 1|back one day in the payment of his interest he is charged interest Seainat the thro " at ed in jal! and th fase, were a |pawn an article today and redeem it tomorrow you must pay the in just the same.” jfor an extra month, Also, if you istrict atior: took | terest | Punthought-of chs Won't Sign Complaint. * ened (9 Violate the ne | Mr. Perry says the prosecution Hations’ wax lodged,| would have been started long ago urd charge the three |if he could have found @ person to Set? Oragged into Ari.|sign his name to a complaint ey Were put thr vugh| “They will come in and com @E8 trial and were yen.| plain,” he continued, “but when I S Year and a bait the |@#k them to carry thetr complaint | Before this titence |into court they InvaMably declare these three , men had | that publicity is distasteful to them. fh Jail a year ana a |! fish now until I find a man or BM ih the United Starec | Woman who will not balk at going BTeAled about the into court. This practice of charg ing these rates of Interest must stop.” same Thirteon.) E SEATTLE \ ‘TAR falls | HOME | -EDITION— STA Fe THE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1909. DMARTYRS, ONE DEAD, THE OTHER DOOMED THAEATEN THE PEAGE OF TWO CONTINENTS )DEAD MARTYR FERRER, IN LETTERS GIVEN TO THE WORLD, TELLS OF HIS HORRIBLE CONDITION AND FATE AWAITING HIM. | (By United Press.) | to Judge seriously the charge CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Two letters,! againat me. | am in an infect: ing to have been written t ed cell, have no light, the food is vile, and It requires strength to bear it all, Everything good rer and supposed to last messages his are publi | to all, all, alt today. They are dated October (Signed) | 2, and were written tn prison ui ms ! are addressed to M. Naguel, | FRANCISCO FERRER ident « nch committe The second letter says in part nally teal prison-) “Although I am innocent =e prosecutor demands capital punt | “You e the most terrible ment * in based on police de thing about this was the die | nunc They have represent as the chief of all the covery by the police in my [ed me world's | house of a revolutionary leaflet | anarchists | Which | had never seen before. | “The whole came has been ar | “Today the judge informed [ranged by the investigating judge me that he had finished the | and the police, The case they have study of my case and that | | made out | was to be tried by courtmar | enc tial. So it is all ended. “1 ghall shortly be tried by men who, f fear, have minds not sufficiently free to be able te all « te wmnalous insinua no particle of done no wrong. against of lies and ¢ tions, They hi proof I have Greetings | (Signed) FERRER” | omens on SEATTLE SOCIALISTS WILL ~ONDEMN DEATH OF FERRER Big Mass Meeting Called for Sunday Night, When the Execution of the Spanish Educator and Liberal ! The people of Seattle will voice “At the begianing of this cen their abhorrence of the murder of|tury Francisco Ferrer, of Barce Prof. Francisco Ferrer, the great|tona, made up his mind that his Spanish educator, at a mass meet-|country must be redeemed from! ing called by the socialist party of | the medieval despotism and that | Beattie, to be held at Arcade hail/ the rational way to do this was to next Sunday evening, October 24, | educate the cb ren at Sp. m. This meeting will be “This task was appalling only a repetition of similar meet. | The monks absolutely con Ings being held all over Europe the situation, even to decid and America. text books that were | “The enlightened and universities, Seven-t jot all nationalities are aroused as | Of the people could neither read nor never before at the length to which | ¥Tite, according to the census ignorance and tyranny have gone! “Ia Barcelona he founded his in their attempta to suppress free-|Excula Moderna, educating the dom and education,” said Mra. Min./¢bild according to his natural in nie EB. Parks, “Prof. Ferrer’s life |Clinations, leaving bim free to in was spent In the cause of general | Y?stiaate and aiding him in his pur ing th educated |!" the education jeuite. Ferrer’s schoolk in Barce jona number over a thousand Worked for Education. |puplia, His school books are found “Nothing could be said against |*!! over Europe. | him except that he earnestly! A League of Thinkers, worked to educate the people. Sur-) He founded the International rounded by the forces of ignorance, | League of Rational Education, of j Superstition and bigotry, in & coun-|which Prof. Haeckel, of Jena, | try not yet entirely released from) president, and which counts hun. jthe darkness of the Middle Ages,|dreds of the foremost thinkers, his Ife and personal Hberty were | educators and scientists all over } constantly endangered, but this did/the world among tts members. not daunt him “These are only a small part of “The great Spaniard did not hesi-| the reasons for the universal indig. |tate to die for the cause of free- | nation and sorrow over his murder }dom and education, « cause which “All people that are interested in should command the unswerving | the progress and education of the devotion of all who desire the wel-| race are Invited to attend this mass |fare of the race, and who realize meeting, and Seattle will not be be | that only in the progress and en- hind the reat of the world in show | ightenment of all is their own free ing its sentiments,” concluded Mra {dom and welfare assured, and his Parks death will give a greater impulse Several of the most prominent |to the cause to which his life was|educators of the clty have n | devoted. invited to address the meeting. | = = ae rs _ ie Jeourt, “but mine is only a human mind and I have arrived at these conclusions after Mstening careful ly to the evidence brought out ' 1 : |Jenious nature and a highly strung the action she has shown a spirit of extreme bitterness and hatred towards Rief. § seems to have had a vindictive desire to humilt M “I Gnd,” sald the court, “that Mrs. |Rief is possessed of an unusually temperament. All through this trial and during the pendency of ate him and to annoy nim in-every} possible manner | | | | | Judge Ronald Makes De- Rief Also to Blame. cision in Granting a Di-| «1 hota that potn partion are to blame for this state of affairs which gor a Aeahad OR ea man | th Parties to Suit. jand woman to longer live together —— | Rief is to blame for his cold, uncon Mrs. Rief will get the dog. |eerned bearing, and the many little Game Warden Henry Rlef, who|things he has done to draw out the jis suing his wife for a divorce, can} worst of his wife's characteristics,’ jhave all of his personal effects, but! Considerable time was taken up| | Mrs, Rief will keep the famtly 408) this morning by attorneys for both | ag a protector,” Judge Ronald said | sideg arguing for the division of the today in announcing his decision to| community property | raat & Giroeee iy the Hist cane Mrs. Rief wants all of the com The division of the community on ubele. wala of bie ty has net yee been decided | munity proper alued at $6,200, property hi ; without alimony, and Jay Allen ask upon i “ ed the court to give Rief all of the After Judge Ronald had heard a property, consisting of the Rief lengthy opinion this morning, Mra.| Pore dna vacant tots, and: aweer lef created something of a furore on , vaard = the court room, She arose dra meee perpelans alimony of | matically and, with a shaking finger id pointed at her husband, sald Judge Ronald announced that he “Judge, a great many of the state eter pondered over the case Jast ments you have made there are not|/Pight until nearly midnight, and) true, and my husband as he sits|had reached no conclusion, and that there knows they are false.” he would try another night or two She shook with pent up excite-]at It ment and stood for a moment with} The court announced that all wit-| accusing finger pointed at the game | nesses would have to be patd by the} warden. ‘Then she hurriedly sat/side calling them down. “Most of this testifying is done} | “Maybe $0,” Said Judge. through friendship, anyway,” ~ “Possibly true,” slowly said the! marked the court, JAMES J. JEFFRIES. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—James J. Jeffries in back from Europe, looking ax he did in his prime. He told the great crowd that met him at t dock that he was going to wipe Jack Johnson clear off the map of the universe, and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 this morning he grinned and a long wh the sooner the better heard the news best news I've onship away from When “LAl Arthuh said Going to take the chamy He hasn't a chance It's a jok A full account of Jeffries the sport page return to America will be found on away through a rear door, the cook | Fan out the front entrance and into the arms of the policeman. The officer then ran through the back seeing anything of five shots door, and not the hold-up men, fired i into the ground, for some reason or other. He then came back into the restaurant and casually re marked never was any good. restaurant is not more than "t from the corner. A hous which is being moved stands in the of Thomas st. at the cor Nearby ts a bill board, and a light shines all night there. patrolman acknowledges he saw three men lurking in the shadow of the house which ts be- that his gun OFFICER HIDES Policeman Watched Three Masked Men Enter the White House Cafe From o “ ing moved, and that, apparently Behind Bill Board. they were’ putting on masks Se, x with a bright idea, he hid behind a bill board to watch While Patrolman W. H, Hoag hid! the trio. He admits he saw two enter the front taurant and the up to at the back way the men! And yet the robbers had time to point a gun in the face of the cook restaur- go through the cash register and get out the back way and out of sight before the officer cook, yobbed the cash register and! at the front door It is supposed that the vexation at the unobliging hold-ap men hay street to in-|ing failed to walk out the front door into his hands caused him to riddle the ground with five bullets. the men made their get! The robbers got $6.26 BANKER SMITH MAY NEVER BE door of the res behind a bill board wondering what other go round by three masked men we 3 o'dlock this morning, White rant, at 304 Fifth av entered the House N,, held the ssorapthays appeared got away before the agile policeman wandered across the Veatigute When BROUGHT BACK At the fice today could be s ing di cuse prosecuting attorney's of. no definite information cured as to what is be toward getting Smith, Ex of various were made to why no plans are under way king to Smith's return, but. it admitted that nothing is being Local Authorities Evince Little Interest in His Ar- rest and Take No Steps to Secure His Return. sorts slinianaudhalnen done We'-Ww. mith, the. “private There ts nothing to do,” it was y stated. “We received our informa banker,” who is alleged to have jtion as to Smith's arrest from a secured about $15,000 from small. private yurce and we cannot do property holders in Seattle on the|anything until we see what the pretense of negotiating loans for|/Canndian’ are going fo do with them and who is now under ar-jhim. If he is given a stiff sen rest at Winnipeg, probably never|tence of a few years over there, will be brought to Seattle, for trial, of course we won't need to do any He i accused here of grand|thing with him. They won't release larceny him to us until they are through In fact, it is believed that no|with him. We will find out in a real effort will be made by the/day or two how things stand over local authorities to secure Smith's | there.” here “If the Canadians have Winnipeg | minor charge against him only a wouldn't presence f Smith is in jail in under the name of Myron A. Moore, | they dismiss it and turn him over according to a special dispatch toto you?” was ed The Star. He is charged with Yh, no, they wouldn't do that. fraud and received his preliminary hearing this morning. We can’t hope to get him until they ‘are entirely through with him,” RR HERR AE RHEE EE EAE ERA RA EEE EE EERE HERR EE EEE EES SEATTLE ONE CEN} L BIG BREWERY LEAVE GEORGETOWN? JEFFRIES IS BACK POLITICAL INACTIVITY CONFIRMS Tilo RUMOR |Lawlessness of Georgetown Saloons Gives Impetus to / Temperance Wave and Heimrichs Will Probably Abandon the State. TAKE NO PART IN BIG ANNEXATION FIGHT ee eee ee ee ee ee ee es The Georgetown Brewery Is One of the Largest in the West. The Seattle Brewing & Malting company, or the Rainier brewery, at Georgetown, is the largest in the West, employ- ing between 350 and 400 men. It was founded in 1888. It has dominated the politics of the city ever since, and has been active in opposition to any move which might weak- en its power in the municipality eeeeeeeteee reet SSE SEEK E KE edad eee ied tee ied edn eee eee eee & & Malting comp ad state ¢ Heimrich bro’ Georgetown Is the Seattle Brewit big plant out of ¢ In spite of the intention att going to move its Washington ers would deny such and in city of Se question in the affirmative ago The Star reported the sale of the buildings brewing company at Georgetown to the Union Pa orgetown t that th people in here are who would answer the Some we } and land of the } elfie rafir i | Shortly before this report beame public, work was begun on an enlargement of the brewery's facilities. At about the time of the reported sale this work was suspended and has never been renewed. i Take No Part in the Campaign. | Today there is in progress in rgetown the regular municl- | pal campaign for the election of town officials, and in addition for a | vote upon the proposition of annex n to Seattle, In the past the | brewing company has been very ive in Georgetown's political af- | faire. In the present campaign the brewing company fs taking no | hand whatever | “So far as this campaign is concerned,” said a Georgetown | politician to The Star yesterday, “one would never know that | there was a brewing company in the town. Heretofore the | Heimrichs have spent money and worked actively in George- | town politics. Today, so far 1 can tlearn, neither of the brothers, nor any of their representatives, have spent one dol- lar, nor attempted to influence one vote in this campaign.” For all of the reasons given above the people of Georgetown | firmly bel that the big brewing company has determined to go out of business in that town Political inactivity Is Very Puzzling. There are others in Georgetown who will not admit a belief that the brewery is to be moved, but who do admit that the mactivity of the Heimrichs in the present campaign is somewhat puzzling. In the past the Heimrichs have fought every annexation movement, and have backed the antiannexationists with money and influence, Those in Georgetown who be ey are going to have the brew- ery always in .heir community express the opinion that the Heim- richs, realizing the conditions in Georgetown have done more to further the ancé movement than has been done by any other influence, hay ed to be anti-annexationists, and are now perfect- ly willing that Georgetown shall become part and parcel of the city of Seattle Saloons Must Obey the Laws. Although the ttle Brewing & Malting company is at the head of the liquor element in the state of Washington, those Georgetown | people who are trying to clean up their town do net now blame the | brewing company for the conditions existing in their community. | The brewing company, they say, long ago came to realize that if the temperance movement was not to grow to such an extent as to fi- } nally put them out of business they must use their influence toward | making it appear, at least, that saloons were obeying the laws. “If the brewing company is to move from this town,” said a Georgetown business man yesterday, “it is because of the grow- | ing temperance sentiment in this state. | believe they have sold all of their property and have gotten a big price for it, and are | going to take advantage of this to pull out and go farther | south, nearer to their biggest market, and where there will be no | danger of the temperance movement overtaking them for some | years to come. In any event, | believe that the Heimrichs fully realize now the mistake they have made in preventing the an- | nexation of Georgetown to the city of Seattle. | “Georgetown has become advertised throughout the state of | Washington as about the blackest spot west of the mountains. Every- where one goes temperance people are found using Georgetown as &@ terrible example of the curses of the liquor traffic. The Star's fa- | mous editorial ‘From Roadhouse to Morgue’ is in the hands of half | the temperance people of this state. And, unfortunately, what has | been said of Georgetown has been true. The Heimrichs, realizing | the impetus given the temperance movement by the publicity accord. | ed Georgetown, seem now to be willing to quit the fight and ‘to ald in the clearing up of the town. | Bitner this, or they are going to move out of the state of | Washington. And I believe they are going to move.” = 2 = a ito eee eee eee eee ee ee ee a ee = ON KISSES AND THE COST 0° THEM BY T. J. DILLON, It would be a matter of both scientific and sentimental in- terest to know the mental processes by which that “Seattle young woman arrived at the conclusion that an unwelcome kiss taken from her reluctant lips was worth in cold, hard cash 5,000. As a commodity, medium of exchange, reward, tribute and gift, the kiss antedates many of our oldest institutions, but never in all the ages that it has passed current between man and woman has its monetary value been definitely established: the price has fluctuated, from a world gladly thrown away, a witness Antony and his charmer of the Nile, to the chilly salu- tation in the home of withered hearts. In the absence of any authorized quotations, to arbitrarily fix a value of $5,000 on a kiss is rather startling, all the more 80 when details as to the length, breadth, dimensions or dura- tion are net set forth. Standardization under these conditions is not possible. For all the interested kissing and kissable public may know, it may have been a hasty, inaccurate, ill-timed and generally unsatisfactory labial communion, deficient in all those delicious thrills, tremors and esthetic delights that have made the practice popular since man crawled out of the Paleo- zoic slime, If such were fhe case, $5,000 is manifestly too high a price to pay, with eggs at 60 cents a dozen, butter at 90 cents a roll and the general cost of living so high. On the other hand, this osculatory incident may have been one attended with all ecstacies that make for unearthly happi- ness, transient rapture and ravishing joy. The earth may have paused, the stars halted in their course, and Cosmos may have marked time for that all too brief delirious moment when lip to lip two souls were transported, in an exquisite agony of delight, to the uppermost pinnacles of the realms of bil That such a kiss should be held up before the world with a price tag inscribed “$5,000” is suggestive of ruinous price cutting and paltry bargaining. That all the gold of the fabled shores of Ind should be considered an equitable recompense for such a kiss is as repugnant to the heart as it is incompre- hensible to the understanding. If this price, this meagre baga- telle, $5,000, should be established as a reliable market quota- tion, it would be the saddest page in the political economy of romance, AREER EEA EEA AE EAE EEA E EAE EEE A EEE EERE EEK EE DRO ORROC URAC URAC AC AR aR AC aC aE aE ae LE ot SEBO