The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1909, Page 6

Qatly by “‘A Reader’’ Is Deeply Stirred has been deeply I 1 it stlrred { have read the president I have thought it over, an again m call, It rings true ¢ who have regarded the president as a shuffler or a rer are put to rout. He, too, can swing the big stick “On the great question of our right to the Newfoundland s of our hardy mariners } fisheries, Taft is outspoken for the r al His clear and vigorous denunciation of pelagic sealing patriotic heart. What can be more intrepid than his stand on the matter of continuous voyages? “The plenteousness of our crops is alleged with no fear of the hosts of pessimism. The ‘hopeful trust’ in the dawn of a bet ter day for the Congo country is a sturdy Hlow at same class of undesirable citizens—to coin a phrase “Reform in Liberia and the islands of Spitzbergen is de- manded in clear and incisive phrase, which cuts the ground from the miscreants who have opposed these great popular move- ments; and at the same time the rights of Americans mining coal in the latter lands are to be conserved. Those mining or owning coal everywhere will be cheered by this manifesto of the presi- dent. It is judicial, but it is firm. Tur Reform “Those who doubt the success of reform in Persia and key will be reassured by the president's message in Mohammedan lands will feel a great impulse forward when the message re es the Orient “The F president's nery claim in Chile has been smoothed over by the of diplomacy with rigid enforcement American rights, and with no stain on American honor “The abolition of ‘likin’ (whatever that is) in China is an nounced with moderated joy. in this great educational reform is a proud one Truly the administration’s part} And so of the stern battle which has been waged to secure to Americans the right to loan money for the construction of Chinese railways ‘These heroic struggles mark the pathway of the real statesman “While ‘likin’ (whatever that is) is abolished in China, it is] merely transferred ta Nicaragua, where Zelaya is to be made the recipient of a consignment of it. “The muckraking magazines are to be made to pay higher postage. “It was a great message.” It is a significant fact that the; That mty collector of cw opposition to Judge Lurton for the who tipped the scales at mupreme court does not come from those senators friendly to corpora tiona, m8 100,000 might be said to be im pretty good! condition. By unanimous consent Zelaya is now considered to be the “Uncle Joe” of Nicaragua In Copenhagen several scientists) are looking around eagerly for the Danish word that means “stung.” Anyway, all the witnesses agree that Mrs. Brokaw was a lady when she was sober. —- The time for shopping early has perfect | passed, but can still it now.” you “do THE ARTLESS ANSWER NO 1 RANG FER MYSELF. Do YER OWN RINGIN'! SIMPLE RULES TO MAKE THE LIFE OF A STREET CAR MAN MISERABLE At last a modern Cromwell for, will be appreciated and will gr the street car men has made him self known. A champion for those over-worked and little-respected Knights of the Ding Ding has writ ten to The Star to take a rap at the patrons of his line who are con tly assist the said conductor In keep ing bis car on schedule time If you are going to get off at Madison st. be sure to get ont and stand on the car step at Pike gt By so doing the conductor will know EERE hounds and tracked the fugitive to| fare of other |horses’ hoofs, the voices of men|and kiss her passionately over and jand the barking of bloodhounds are| over again’? through tinually roaring and beefing about poor service. signs himself “Conductor No. and he encloses a book of rules which he says Seattle people could follow with good results There are 16 of them, and here are a few “Never mind asking for transfers it's the fool conductor's busi ness to know what you want whether you are drunk, dopy or just asleep.” “A little ‘dab’ of society news or family gossip judiciously dispensed at the last moment while the con ductor is waiting for you to alight NOT THE SAME JOSHUA “We had a county my way a few love for biblic re wa nounced that he couldn't resist the desire to air it on every possible oceasion,” said Congressman Henry D, Clayton, of Alabama, w da since. “One day an old darky wa brought in from the mountain d trict under suspicion of m ing an illicit still, There » real evidence against him ‘What's your name the judge he shambling bl man. ‘Mah name's Joshua, jedge, was the reply Joshua, eh? he rubbed his wa Are you spoken of in Holy down whose judge years prisoner? eked red the sald the ands. ‘Joshua, you that same Joshua Writ—the h who made the sun stand still? No, fed as the hasty ar *‘twarn’t me, Ah'm de Josh de fhoon shine Mack's National Monti judge, made Norman yy. where you expect to leave the car, and you won't be carried by your corner ‘In order to show that you are| a free born American citizen, always! drive on the car track. If driving rapidly keep on the track for half a and if drivicg slowly keep he track for two miles at east In this way you can show the bunch m the car, including the motormar that you have as much right on the earth as all of them combined. You of course, could turn out of the way,| but ft is far better to let the “| man you if he | time.” motor- | fun around wants to make schedule Langtry’s Alleged impertinence. | our old friend | bringing out of Bathe M Ld a nd volume memoirs, ald a books should be publisher witty Bathe it te ecimen of it dinner tour jathe d near her de is a witty audaciou party on | Vho is that fat man over there | the curious blue face? That is my husband,’ the answered; her voice wa with rag Ob, how ald Lady Bathe, ‘You're the very person| 1 wanted to meet. Now tell me, is| be blue wom, an trem slow fortunate! all over? an is such a curious com bination that v hamed and is inches taller voman | It | look THE 8STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1009 THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE WKAR EH LYNCH LAW IS THEME OF “THE NIGG: q EDWARD SHELDON’S GREAT NEW P FORO IORI tm ” Burning of a Negro Fiend at the Stake Is Bnly One of the Sensational Features of This Much- Discussed Play, in Which Leading Role Is Played by a Seattle Actor. ERR EE ee ee yet he te sheriff of the county nominee for governor of the and he thinks it is his official duty to lodge this cowering: wreteh in jail The attempt ts futile, though, for the lynebers, led by the dead girl's father, seize the prisoner, drag him out of wight, struggling and screvoh ing; and then a flare of light, with his shrieks of dread dying away in piteous groans of pain, make the audience shrink and shiver, Phil deplores bis inability to enforce the taw Don't feel badly about dear,” his sweetheart says, ingly Although dreadful, right—and, after all, he's algger #0 it, sooth it is only @ Mor | ‘The play proceeda with Phil | of a |row In the governor's office jatate not named, Here the probt |bition question is brought tn, Phil i# a moderate drinker, and a whisky bottle is ever uncorked on his side board by an open box of cigars, but din, bids fair to develop @/hg believes that most of the out-| far more tional career (han! rages by negroes come of drunken: | was accorded “The Clansman,” the |; Ho he decides to sign a pro other play of the South tnyol hibitory bill which he Is expected | the relations of whites and Dlack®/ to veto. That onrages his cousin, to which every ganization shy owner of a distiuery, and pre {9 America has taken violent ob | cipitates the play's disaster; for jection. Sheldon’s new play ts sald! this cousin knows that Phil's grand far tn adve: t her was a quadroon, He has uo the powe n tO suspect the secret. The which M taipt of negro blood does not show lor two seasons in bis high-bred, keenly intellectual | In writing from New York about/pyorsonality. The blow parsiyzes The Nigger,” Franklyn Fyles) him for a time. He cam parry it makes the following comments on| py vetoing the antiwhisky bill, in| “The Nigger” | whitch case the only keeper of the | A newspaper di«pateh from any | truth will deliver to him all proofs | southern town might read as follows! of # The struggle within bim is without causing A negro terrible. It ends in bis making the named Joe White was lynched to-| measure a law and declaring his! night on the plantation known 48/own negroism in « public speech. Morrow's Reat. Joe had assaulted | tiereafter, as he ts a nlager, to be & young white girl and she had died | despised by the race whose blood in| of her injuries. Her father led ali, hia veins in a ratlo of 1S to 1 mob of the neighbors with blood-|he will devote his life to the wel niggers GUY BATES POST Edward Sheldon's The Nigger,” Just produced at New theatre In New York with @ Bates Post, a Seattle actor, in the newest play, role, negro to be Nell, slums ul drama ¢ Fiske exploited the Morraw place. Sheriff Philip | Morrow tried to lodge the negro tn| jail, but the lynchers took him from | o . oth | Georgiana? Therein lies an ethno- seer yong > an 10 # tee and) iogica! and ultra dramatic factor of this play. Before the disaster be fell Phil, he declared that “a gill A private letter might give these of black blood in a white man additional part are without | makes him a nigger”; alee that “a arousing any amazement or incred-| nigger tv an animal, but not a bu ality: “The lynching of « negro! man betng”; and now he says to the here, about which you may have appalled girl that, of course, they d, has been followed by no &r|cannotmarry. When she sssents| rests, although the lynchera did not to their parting as inevitable try to hide their identity. The best though, and recoils from bim with people of the comemnity approve instinctive aversion and disgust, an the death penalty as thus dread- | ethnological quertion explodes itself fully inflicted. The assaulted girl with rending force, If it is true was delicate, refined and only 15./that a mulato’s child by an all The negro waa a lazy bummer and white other parent may revive and drunk at the time of his crime. | revert to the face and color of the Even his mother, a good old despised race, then why may not mammy, once a slave in the Mor-| this Phil, even with hia ratio of 15 row family, accepte bis death at| drops of Clreassian blood to | of the stake as a matter of course. | African—with bis family an® soctal Folks at the North have no idea) ties all proudly white-—with his ed of the prevailing sentiment on thi#/|ueation from nursery through col awful subject in the South.” jexe to polities! leadership all in — jsttiling in him # loathing of the ne. Which goes to prove that the|aro-why may not the amall strain first act of “The Nigger” fa true| Of black blood break out im hisn to iife. The scene ia in the flower! wildly, feroctousiy, under the strees garden at Morrow's Rest. Young) of excitement? Phil Morrow is rounding up his — courtship of Pretty Georgians, inj} Do you take my meaning, or the light and shadows of the moon | rather, that of Author Sheldon when shining through foliage, with a be | he makes Phil cry ont that he trothal that places them fn each| won't give Georgiana up, seize her other's arms of love. A clatter of|in his arms, hold her to his breast What about his affianced bride, The girl comprehends heard from a distance The fren-| it. She knows that the me brut sted entrance of old mammy Jinny,| {sh passion that made black | with an incoherent appeal for her|assault and kill a white girth negro animalieam that many South erners seek to abolish by burnings at the stake-—bas turned ber hither to polite Jover into a beast. She writhew and screams ox though in the grasp of « gorilla. She strikes his face with her soft hands doubled into fists. To her he is suddenly a dreadful monster son Joe, is not needed to inform the audience that a biack assatl ant of a white girl is being hanted the woods to be burned alive. Joe crawls up from the bush es and falls at the lovers’ feet, a pitiful heap of helpless terror, Phil) has no sympathy with negro mon-| sters who destroy southern women; THE MINSTREL MIDGETS “When am a babtendah lak a dentia’, Eph? “When he draws one, Rastus.” “Kerrect. Now, when am @ good spendah lak a man uf@ah ‘leetric fan?” When he blows hisself. De band will please start de openin Pork Chop, Marguerite. bars ob, ‘Lub Me Lak a WHAT THE LAW ALLOWS WOMEN OF WASHINGTON With the “exception of denying her suffrage, Washington has been prodigal in the legal privileges with which she has endowed women, both married and single. In few states have the lawmak been so solicitous of m led women's welfare as in the Everg State. In none have more laws been passed tending to gua protect the married woman and her offspring All the harshness of the common law with ite antiquated idea of women as little better than a chattel has been replaced in the law books of this state with statutes in keeping with the doctrine of women's equality with man During the next week ‘The the advantages that married women Iving in this st r others of thelr sex living In states where the law red with legislation for women patterned more after the of the rough common law r in a series of articles will potnt p have stilt less out ove book encuml or conceptions POINTED PARAGRAPHS. THEY ALL BALKED. a e ways of] A farmer had purchased a finet automobile, of which he was very proud, and he never tired telling | 1 forgets himaelf Many a hand painted complexion |every one what a powerful machine like hr he had. One day, however, the in-| judge a man's liberality by |evitable happened, and he found | on himaelf himself stranded eral miles wiedge i# a dangerous |from home, Try as he would, he joould not make the thing go. A neighbor happening along, and seeing his glum face, thought to out by hin\cheer him up, so be asked: “How ly was|/many horsepower 1s ma. | | chine?” minded man Ne what he thing if it swells a men's head. Kvery additional friend a woman has «ives her more Many « man ha inability to realize whipped to talk about won that your thar be proud he ‘jen't half an inch shorter, e The farmer spat diagustedly: An innocent girl is too innoeent |“ put of plty~—1 yong, re ity, Boe Hy f fis, a" mall, La THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRU SAY, EVERETE W/SN YOU'D VANE MWS AND GET MR FOUR GOOD mark WERES A BIG DE ps 2 FOR THEM AND / APRUD KA RON OVY BEFORE —m—— - = STAR DU wise several other wrter sherk stort Prof. Withelm The Hiltboard plying at 1 am the » can furnint only tmp. 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