The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1909, Page 4

An Editorial by a Burglar ‘A young man named Vincent Decker, about to be released from the Ohio penitentiary, learned that officers from Indiana | when they swung open for him, to arrest would be at the ng his parole f Decker is finishing a ten-year sentence in the Ohio pen for him for violat rom the Indiana state reformatory burglary. That he has been a “trusty” and a model prisone> seems to indicate that if prison can ever reform a man, it has done so in his case. Yet the officers of another state are to take this thor-/ oughly punished (if not reformed) man and reform him some more. With a fragment of his youth remaining, Decker says he wants to start now on a decent life, If he doesn’t start now he} ’ . | doesn't sec how he can ever get a fair start. So he has penned lowing plea, which is pretty much of an and made public the fol editorial “I was a minor when I received my parole from the Indiana reformatory. The parole is a contract not to leave the state. I broke it, but can a minor make a legal contract? “The judge who sentenced me to ten years for burglary knew my past and gave me the stiff sentence, he said, with the hope that it would reform me. If that object has been accom- plished, what can Indiana or any other state do to make my reformation greater? I must be given a chance before any one can judge. If my weliare is to be considered, society should | allow me a trial freedom. ‘To recommit a man for childhood} offenses savors of persecution, or at least of over-industry on the part of those who earn their bread at the expense of those less fortunate than themselves “If ten years does not reform me, nothing on God's earth ever will. If we revert to the old Mosaic law of an eye for an eye, society can justify itself in anything, but if we are to reform men, we will have to follow divine instruction and the golden rule, “T have earned a chance and I want it.” To Arms Looks like trouble with Japan! We cannvt have trouble over the general proposition that the Japs in this country are worse than the Chinese and whol- No; they're here posing as our equals, lower- ly undesirable. ing wages, ruining western garden lands, running small Ameri- ‘can dealers into bankruptcy and spreading unmentionable vices and all the Oriental contagions. These things are calam- jtous only to the poor. We have to put up with them in the name of diplomacy. Some of us got hot over the association of the licentious Japs with our school girls. The big stick of diplomacy whack- ed us into a state of submission. Most of us patrons of public schools are poor people, or of moderate means, and diplomacy preferred contamination of our daughters to interference with mercantile designs on “the open door” in China, to which Japan holds the key. But now it really looks as if we might haye trouble with Japan. Dollars are concerned, instead of daughters. The great American trusts are feeling hurt, and government must get busy right away. The Steel Trust has set up a plant in Manchuria, and the door has got to be kept open for those millionaires even though we lose every battleship and every man of army age between San Francisco and Bangor lays down his life, Japan runs the Manchurian railroad and guards it with an army. Controlling transportation, Japan can dictate to the! Steel Trust management of that plant in Shansi province, Man- churia. It must not be. Taft, Root and the new minister to China, Crane, lately relieved, are already roaring belligerently, in private. War! War! War, in behalf of the Steel Trust! Of course, the American gardeners, artisans and storekeepers who_ have been squelched by Jap competition, and the fathers of| school children forced to immediate association with the Japs, | _ will do the bleeding and dying in the war. But, war, anyhow!! Freedom may have shrieked when Kosciusko fell, but she must | yell her level best for the first time, now that our beloved Trusts aren’t being treated right. The divorce season among the; When the Behring sea gets down “400” has opened most auspiciously,|/to business, it can show the Gulf with Mrs. John Jacob asking for alof Mexico some new frills in the private chunk of the Astor miliions. | havoc-wreaking business. As a matter of humanity, the court at least should give the tater} Selling liquor to minor girls is urban ex-patrous credit for injured | just about as profitable as putting feelings. freezum in meat, and vice versa. MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS (We Visits the Earth as a Snectal Correspondent and Makes Wire- lets Observations in His Notebook. JAW YWO MALE LARTH-DEINGS ENGAGED I CONSTRUCTION OF SOME (VENTION awe GREAYER PORTION OF TIME, WOWLVER, WAS GIVEN OVER YO MUCH TAMMANY WAX FIGURE CARTOON, ENTITLED table thing. THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, ” , | been convicted of theft; pictures law mn are = more of deadly tenements « variou ak: ut of other cartoons exposing Tammany’s lr wife'n t thie evil methods | | Souston P To offset this, Tammany set up fee Wise Says: | y ja& museum next door, A goat was put in the window with a slgr ' We've got Fusion « goat.” A band of and aa i's now stationed at the entrance t tonne OG se Paes ess AO eh paseeee OA siiiiedeasisnuiile and a barker on a stool erten | wuw YORK | "Come in; it's free; and be sure to t t k plawan / ; RK, Oct A brand /read the paper wrapped around your RT from ater now political feature is being @x-| eandy,” 9 wat phal cane? | plolted In the hot mayoralty am At the pretty girls hand out at - a bulaneee }paign now raging here, The nov-| molasses taffy pe politic Wawhtagton jelty ts called “Political Museums.” | tracts: ic aspera xn sy 1 _ |The republicans started the now) 4 real live elephant haa the beat} L |game by renting @ store room on! joy tn the plac On atitS ules lo a Union square and placing tn the | ye “The mublie elept ha radical window a full-sized effigy of a cow, |e" pkg eng agar fonso made a bomb deme ae 1 | wants to eat the public hay; that's Ferrer nb decision & FR ong ieep boned to be cat why it wants to get Into office,’ ; . oF, anc ign OD! The eleph o «i pon tin ; rig. you property holders feed the cow." | shirking so far the trust heads got together at a jAnother sign on the cow's bag) ‘The chief theme of the posters | PAMAUet and tonsed bouquets at each jteads: “Here is where Tammany | that line the walls of this exhibit ia|sumer: - OOF MF Ultimate Con jmilke tt that it is @ mean thing to throw 3 This cow {dea was elaborated | mud at New York agra, that corn disease, | upon until now the store room is| Four wax figures in a tableau in af after the corn is dis- | filled with exhibits, such as post-|the rear of the hall are supposed SO Fle ane credo al BOY ers, telling how recklessly Tam-(to tllustrate the story that Otto j many spends clty funds; photo-| Bannard, republican candidate, was pend oe eee a (pas sanem 0 graphs of Tammany men who have | selected for the homor by Timothy | Porte nieiner Sif ermination, | “THAT EARLY MORNING NOMINATION.” ee ed AT WATERWAYS: PROBLEMS THAT AMERICANS MUST SOLVE BY HERBERT QUICK Author and Expert Writer on American Waterways. The biggest feature which the waterways convention at New Or leans could take up is the impend- ing breakdown of the railroad com- panies under the increasing com- merece of good times, and the ne cessity for the development of water highways on the Missourt, Mississippi, Oblo and Tennessee rivers to relieve congested ratlway lines and freight yards This in the big, physical, contt nent wide feature. With It foes the necessary cc tion between the commerce of nat Lakes and the commerce of the ocean through American territory via the lakestothegulf deep waterway Germany has voted $55,000,000 to [ff deepen the Kiel ship canal to 39 [ff fi We should not begrudge HERBERT QUICK. $200,000,000, If necesxary, to place Qs on an equality with Canada.and Great Britain on the lakes ! Canada has already more commerce through her Soo canal than we have through ours. When she has completed the Georgian bay ship canal, she will destroy American commerce from the lakes te the sea, and the death knell of our merchant marine on the Inkex will have been sounded. Another tople of enormous interest tx the necessity for laws to prevent railways from driving commerce from our waterways European nations have long since enacted laws to protect waterway commerce. The waterways convention can do no greater work than to bring this idea home to the people, and to sound the slogan, [ff “Protect the throat of the waterway commerce from the knife of the railways.” } A third topic of equal importance is the absolute necessity of (ff public terminals, public docks and public wharves, if a waterway |[f { commerce, free from private monopoly, tn to be developed The convention should examine New Orleans’ system of public wharves without freight handling machinery, ite warehouses and its belt line of railways, encircling the city, and all publicly owned All over the country the canais, rivers, lakes and harbors are |i owned by railways or private dock companies or other land own ers, Unless the cities, towns and states of this country have pub. i le spirit enough to acquire public terminals, the government should |} refuse to spend public money tn trying to develop «a waterway | commerce. Privately owned terminals means privately owned waterways commerce. The shipping interests between Chicago and i Buffalo are controlled by the ratlways, which own or dominate the | harbor front of these two great cities. For the United States to improve the harbors of Chicago and Buffalo, leaving the wharves and docks in the hands of the railways, is equivalent to building a waterway and making the railways a present of It By bringing these few great probleme prominently before the |i people of the United States, the waterways convention at New | Orleans will do more effective good than by scattering its fire in | a fruitless bombardment of many of the fortresses, and which must And a little kindness is a char You can lick most anything into & boy but sense. Women rule the waves of the; be battered down, These are the big “noises” which we have a |{f POINTED PARAGRAPHS. | REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR 1 right to expect we shall hear from New Orleans. | i} | matrimonial sea. The arguments of most mon are| sound—and that's all The amateur gardener more blisters than vegetables getting engaged is how some mean raises | old cat said she never could. The easy things to believe are| | those that are unbearable ! The most that a girl Itkes about |i Most men who are born rich act things than it is to do them leas than a matchless matchbox te sympathize with the loser minds have no minds worth men-|act if the right tioning.—From the Chicago News. It's easter to say disagreeable | as If they were smarter to inherit all jfortune than their fathers were to make it | A woman can recone } Often the winner is in a position | letting one man ren imo | whea it ought to be another by thinking how indignant she could one knew ere There's hardly anything more use- People who never change their York Press. TAL KK ~——— WERE PROBABLY CONS/D- 4RING BAST METHODS YO PURSUE I COMPLETING SAID INVENTION, Yes, BUT THAT DOWT MAKE A CROOKED POLIT)~ cian STRAIGHT! WELL, BUT You've GOT 10 HAVE ORCAN- HLATION IN THE PARTY, DON'T You! -- v | OPEN TILL TEN {* ORDER to accommo- date our many friends a and patrons who are anx- ious to secure Exposition ‘ pianos at this sale, our store will remain open till 10 p. m. every night this week. mI | “Ya, Successor to D, 8, JOHNSTON CO. Eilers Music Bidg., Third and University. greatly exceeded the supply An appropriate fashion's critics venience and without extra charge. Bake Oven Treatment For Ladies and Ge Mewoue and rT ‘Treatment. ion We Sollett Your Patronage. Tee ek net ee Mate CAFE & GRILL | Prompt delivery assurgé. - OE es, —-TOURIST BATHS — = ae FIRST AND MADISON. | ome, trial cone test. @oodnye ho re f OCTOBER 27, 1909, scruisartirntt THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE Sit aah aeeere! S| taser | BAILLARGEON’S | Extraordinary Cut Glass Specials| | From Our Newly-Stocked Basement Section. An Event of Great Importance to Lovers of Fine Cut Glass, We want every lady in Seattle and vicinity to become better acquainted with our wonderfully attractive Section, stocked today with choice products of China, Silverware, Cut Glass, Hammered Brass Marble, Bri Trunks, Valises, Toys, Dolls and Tourists’ Supplies, which we sell at from 10 to 25 pet cent less than elsewhere pa er's late trip has secured for us tremendous Cut Glass specials for your attention at almost half re gular prices i. $5.00—For choice of 3 $7.50—For 9-1 and 4-pint Cut Glass Jugs, Footed Peck aa Ce 12-inch Ice Cream Trays, nieces). Regularh PD 8-9-10-inch Bowls, 6-7-8 $5.00—Por Cut Class Large inch Footed Compotes, ice Tub, Regularly $825, | Celery Trays and Orange $4.50—For Cat Glass Cov Bowls, Sugar and Cream ered Cheese Dish Regularly re 25¢—For Cut Gl ss Salt and Pepper Shakers; Cut Glass Toothpick Holders For 6-inch Cut Glass Vase For Cut Glass Knife Rest larly $150 and 950 For Handled or Unhan- dled Nappi larly $1. ond $155. Special Sale of 27-Inch Embroidery Flouncings 50¢ 10¢ Sets, Water Bottles, May- $7.00. Herepe pes pon: regu $5.00—For Cut Glass ay ae complete. Regular. a 50 to $8.75. | ly $8.5 : :75—For Cut Glass | $6.00 per De —For ‘lace T Toinch Bowl; téguiatiy | é pai 50 eae sie, gulasly : $6.95. | $10.00 per Dozen—For Cut Glace Tum | . . . oe | Ci | ’ : : $3.75—For Cut Glass 7-inch Compote | blers. Regularly $16.00 per dozen. 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Regularly $3.50. | es j Ladies’ Suits $25.00 Tomorrow we place on sale another shipment of Ladies’ Suits at this popular price, and we hope to be able to supply the demand (the last two lots of over 300 Suits being ab- | A Baillargeon Embroidery Offering Far and Above the sorbed in about two days). These are the best values we Ordinary ue have yet offered, our buyer having induced the manufac- | 1,200 yards of 27-inch Hand Loom Embroidery Ft turer to still improve upon his output, in consideration of | “Sample Strips” brought over b importers, Meio the large quantities we were using. All the popular cloths | at a fraction of their worth aie fi t saad are_represented—Broadcloths, Scotch Tweeds, Wide and | nainsooks and Swisses; qualities ranging at Smooth-Wale Serges, Novelty Suitings and Mixtures, in | to $5.00 per yard. On sale by the strip— brown, catawba, artichoke, taupe, raisin, navy and black; | ¥ ; e | | | mostly strictly tailored designs. 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