Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Gill and the White Slaves idual can have any more valuable asset than a good name Neither Many with the | ! tement th y had a more priceless heritage to bequeath to their offspring inserted in their wills, together their men worldly minds, dying, have mm of considerable fortunes among their children last cart @ good na s in inspiring its citizens with that would the So i nothing else is an enthusia te r f the highest type as conviction their home city has a w le of degene Seatt her deral tee reported to congress that Seattle stood first among American ral or intellectual supremacy which it be an index orroded by their omissions or commissions, mone her sister cities received a serious injury a few weeks ago, Ww Cities as t Here it was, according to the federal slave trattic investigators, that the met 1 unsophisticated girls into a life of shame These lived with ame most openly and defiantly in Seattle, according ignorant at numerously fiends incarnate and misery out work to the fe { lat ated a viola om that law for their crimes-—in men sufficient ion of all laws human an Closely i at vf this Feport impugning Seattle's good name came the Joseph Her: that the i t 1 these two han throat an, Every arrest in and manhood who would step forth t ese 1} frow governr n os. All the money that they earned women Certa endeavor to wip i ery days recal ‘ Ts the their : South law's aid to chattel But our Seattle citizens who thought that the federal government would not be obstructed lives had been blighted by these men, had of death earned by two ignorant fore The w i accursed money of U the stories of slay was any lawyer take p forth as an open opponent nele Sam in his Seattle's fair name. Men familiar wit! North ner to mirch the amount of 6 to de back of the Southern slave hol mney to ¢ d refused for any reputat send a black man labor in These lawyers refuse er ry tect ler who was invoking the pr simply 1al property right—the custody of his legal human slave were mistaken, There was one lawyer who one man who did not care whether it was stamped with in its work of crushing t white owner wanted the white slaves’ : cy woman's shame and wo slave owners had a friend in official official at that, who The slave owners’ friend came to their aid. He took up the club of the law to do battle with Uncle Sam. Who was this white slave owners’ defender? It was none other than Hiram C. Gill, president of the city council, and candidate for mayor. A few days behind the dissemination of the news that Seattle was the headquarters of the 1's tears as long as it was legal tender. \ friend of influence, a friend of political power. A friend who A man was found, and a public men’s wages extorted from them by the slave owners stood only second to the mayor of the city wanted the we if it were true, such} an beasts by the] In Seattle the two white! THE STAR—SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1910 THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE o h jf mote Blt respondence Washington, Jan, 3, 1910. tit, they are Hare,” quoth Champ | Dear Dad; Thad « fine New|Clark, leader of the democratic Yoar present for Frank Hitehcock,| Minority, In the course of @ few Tam sure Frank appreciated it, It| brief remarks in the house of was & suggestion, but {t waa one | tepresentatives, Now that is what) | whieh, if followed out, ought to be|! call plain, wholesome — speech worth & lot of money to bie ad-|Bvery ittle while Champ displays ministration of the postoffice, t/® Knack at such, In this instance | would mean money-money to the)" 5 RP |postal treasury and to the people.| | It's this: Frank is worried about! © that $17,000,000 defiett. He | gests more postage on the mi tines and the newspapers to make| it up. My scheme is better. Stop} ouying poatal railway cara and pre | me oe them to the railroads Is lhe doing this? Sure, What the! |government pays the railroads in rental for postal care would In two yours buy the ears rented, In other | words, every two years the postal care are bought and ed to |the roads, The annual appropria }tion for rental of cars te $4,800,000, lin addition to this the roads are|ship companies. | paid $46,000,000 for hauling the oleae | |matia, As long ago as when Vilas | was postmaster he called attention Mr. Clark was paying bis to the gentlemen who charg sition ship substdtes to patriotiom and bribes by prene lack of foreign | have you heard of] Clark renide ntial | Sure | mite it Cong By the way the Champ boom? Yep. He modestly goes Hhe this tlons: out goen Cannon majority © Champ C'Une » ), democratic hope for presidential elections Clark! Anybody beat ‘Taft hich ts not such a joke, either) President Clark of Mo.; Whoopee! | ee I think the interest manifested by certain of the capitaltetic pre in the presidential possibilities of Gaynor and Harmon |e to be traced) to the rapidly forming coneluston that our fat friend from Obio is one! soft mark (politically) Bincerely, RATH ad can jto the inexcusable extravagance of }not owning t care, | am sure | Frank was delighted to know about this way to help cut down the deficit. ee “Not to pat too fine a point sual as aie ono and her husband io They came to America, and the stork made repeate } their home, but almost the children were born they sick ed and died. The last, a baby boy, died while Mre. La Bart! was on trial } The husband was mysteriously NEW YORK, Jan. 8 lday school room o | Baptist church, In Bayonne, 6 Oliver, teacher of the kinder 6 class, had « Christmas me of her paptie who bi | ear for t | whooping cough, Ten of them were [thus afftieted, and five were able | mofing O8GAR USES 1D TO BEPARA DION ADOLF FROM A FOREIGN GROWTH IN Hifo CRANIUM, UND ID MAKES BURGERY DER SAME AS A HAIRCUT. BY FREO SCHAEFER, “I am now readiness, Adolf, you for your prains, to abberade on b.cane,” “Ach, vill Id hurt me, Ongar? Dot ius vot I vant to know.” 4 “No, I vill use dot new dixcofery Id tne called sto tam pollahine Do polinbt now dejecting der into your spinal you feel ia?" ‘Only a numbness in my feet.” Dot tne a sign dey wass insens ible, or you voult haf a headach in dem. I am now prying open your skull, Do you feel id? How can I feel id ef you don't put my hant on td Ah, der stove polishing ide vork nicely Your now on der heluf shell tine dem No. 1 nefer dit notias dem *“Goot! Netder du t Now iss der crucible moment. I your Dit id b You must haf used a safedy atove meningitin. inn brai Do you no divs m re brats srt? | rasor | Vot I used You certain! 1 am sorry remote der stamina Imbectie! You vill you get my bill, Dot stove whas a colt chisel. | haf lots of stan to he iM. 120. d dot ven shine | po jine «reat stuff, ain’d td? | Yous, inde Vot vill now--sew mi Sew you up? to nafl you shut Und tn biace of der brains you vill put vot? Noddings od all STAR DUST JOST WISH SAYS: you do Fool, I am going Dere tex blenty | ' “As th’ dealer! wisely remarks, o cut o! of goot, healthy knit und fill der exeavity. you dem? |The Oriental Poo! Rooms seven chair barber shop. | Place of the kind tn the world. $10 cash given away dally. | Third av.. between Pike and Union. / By Mail, out of city—1 year, $ $1.50; 1 month, 25c, Entered at Seat} Wash., Postoffice, as second-class ph bone, und id vill | croseopist?” "Vell, as deir par told.” brains? “v to haf stud i ott Blease, von quesion : do mit der you—I am mountet 1 vill te dem “Say, do you take me for @ mi HEADACHES most cases are ca strain. We make a 6 correcting ¢ defects, and doing relieve the headache, have trouble, see us. Schuchard Optical Co 1207 Second Ave. 45—Pool Tabies—45 ' 26—Solo Tables—26 Bar, restaurant, cigar stand and Largest 1413-16-17 for a td 6 wou a on | Sapte = = S2e8 Be tizei. F< a SUES." h4 Li ere white slave traffic went the news that even Seattle's council president was the paid legal ad-/to attend the party They played| viser of the white slave traffic. Gill undoubtedly made these two white slave owners pay well for his le But should they not have paid well? They never earned the money with which they were paying, anyway. The women did that. Then they forced the women to give it to them. How much money would you demand to step forth at this time as the champion of the white slave owners in the battle of extermination that the federal government is carrying on against them with the plaudits of the world as an incentive? al services. How much vice-encrusted money would have to be given you if you were president of the city council before you would allow the news to be spread through every city in the United States that Seattle's president of the council was the legal friend of the white slave owner? With what jubilant exultation must the news have been received by every white slave owner. Along with the news that the president of Seattle's city council was the slave own- ers’ friend went the information that Gill was a candidate for mayor. IH he should be elected, how fortunate the white slave owner would be. In Seattle he could force his chattels to work without fear of interference. ed in making her tale of hellish misery known to the police, Certainly they would. Gill If a woman should suce would not the police suppress the story and tell her master? is the slave owner's friend. As mayor he woyld control the police Gill as mayor certainly would be a boon to the white slave owners In Seattle the girl trying to escape from the clutches of her money-greedy master and the federal government.in its campaign against the white slave traffic would have to face the white slave owner's law- yer—Mayor Gill, Is Seattle going to convince the world that it is delighted with the government's white slave report by. electing Gil Mr, Taft can take Mr. Pinchot; oft the government pay but he can't remove bim from the af fectionate regard of the American people And Joseph G. Cannon of Dan ville, UL, also got bis with some Incidentally it all fits in nicely with that “return from Biba diction in to a middle aged person in foreign lands pre roll, reference certain you read about It looks as if President Taft picked up a lot of trouble when he Public officials who go up against the Sherman antitrust law fee) that hit something. Maybe Dr. Cook is in Seattle. Ht will (ake than his roborated testimony to prove it more incor they reached for Seoretary Ballinger. is Health Officer, MUKILTEO POSTMASTER noms FINDS CAPITAL A JAY TOWN ®2sscoreei When @ cat commits suicide on the atreet dog geta stung into a biking automo to to it that departed gets a de Boy & or Washingtonians, tngdom ec Bherrnn: nt poste tinct was going to t in this burg tatexmen, of whic sinee, according to Mr. Carter, a little boy came to him i fair and te with a dead dog, which, he said, he R rally at Deny had fished of the Assiseunk anything lke this copie creek. Following the usual custom, German amt the if the board of health a dollar the ant days later th with a second dog, which, he had fished out of the creek dollar produced a the end of the eared up five drowned dogs rand be them mentione rather to th health 1 back and Jaughed bi about six hundred member “nd when a man gave him mu the Ger sii to bi white ar and blue @oor I nba sna’ A I'm only Wha baneador 1 war Ingtor German - A me an teo,” “an for t oled for wheres know « \ ard of thinks. f ned cortats ome . friend lean Washingt f Iwelling purple ness of nie air My, but man! ( ington t# the world t ot aw You can't other great nation ita bignest Just 0 te writing paper ca the mi meaning e he saya: “It's « rubs town a he says another was ed in dog By had « y ra want © he ater ressions of ake hore rom th ying Mr. Ca d the a be, “S ; remarkable with e " ©) friend the | member ® | lartou | “I wee it jerled, “You hay Frank, You ha ong all now he mirthfuily been buncoed, eon buneoed What do you mean? anded Carter, wonderingly I mean that he worked the same kloodle on five times, was tartling rejoinder of the friend. aw him digging it up, and if the had only held out a few days he would, have had $10 in of $6."--Philadelphia Tele and the Key pt y wan a de he sald Mr gre apit what ¢ in that ja # to get pr longer toad ort nut ervation of publi uttle re Washi r>mpiimen THAVE thing like the dull sickening thud| games and had presents from a free, aod th chorus alt afternoon. Thay Were able to atop whooping long eftough to partake of a spread One small pupil named Eddie brought with him « friend not be longing to the class, but, an Eddte explained. suffering from whooping cough, and therefore eligible to the fentivitios. Robbie, the frtend, whooped quite creditably all after noon Coase When Mamma Comes. When the party was over, Eddie's mamma came home with her, Robbie's mamma just happened to come with ber. She was quite surprised to find Robbie at the party, and Robbie's whoops ceased when be beheld bis mother, Alas, they were not oa the level, but mamma expects soon to hear some Uiat are ae ee Loufie La Rart! will be out of the Bedford reformatory fn about three months. She was sent there for destroying the supposed mur derer of her husband. Within eight years she has lost her six children by death, her husband by murder and both ber parents, with seven other relatives, in the Messina earthquake. Death Beats the Stork. Loulse was married when she 1 How John Law Loaded France D if not fakes @ One of the greatest the greatest, commerctal |perpetrated upou the public, w that of John Law in his famous Missisaipp! bubble, during the rete of Louls XV. was bankrupt; the long wai Louis XIV had impoverished country, when along came a canny Seotchman, John Law, with his » to make all men, eapectally nehmen, roll In wealth, and presented hi plan to colonigt Loulsiana. Paper money, or rather paper promises, was to be the baste of this wealth, and he floodegy Uy nation with his paper, opening @ subscriptions to shares in his a ond zation scheme, and all France went wild and clergy men and women Tonght YOUNRSOT | for the chance to subscribe for this stock. In one day he had all ¥ rolling In saith and on the steeped worse than ever in poverty Riefore the collapse, however, all Europe was in a craze to buy shares in the Mississippi company, and his tory says that at one time there were half a million foreigners tn Paris eagerly spe ting In > the stocks and the pri a share. Law r general of the the Banque Royale, established, hecame th fall taxes In the kingdom, But end came, and it came suddenty lone except Law was looking for a |breal® He saw it coming and [the kingdom While Law was the greatest the commercial fakers he was not the first, He found bis exan what history knows as the 'Sea Bubble This was a Ithat found birth in next became comp kingdom whieh he col had of scheme ite |the reign of Queen Anne. was the founder of the Hngland and had won high whooped with Joy in glad) and) 0 take Eddie | GREAT HOAXES OF HISTORY France at that, time a 4 Princes and peasants, mgbles | isthmus rose to 15,000 |chaae any and| or of} the e in} ‘Bouth | the active brain of Wiliam Paterson, during! |slatn last summer, and she declared she herself would avenge him. |Home weeks later she killed Dom inte Veraisi, There was no con yinelng proof that he bad mur dered La Bartt “Another bad Christmas,” was the woman's only remark, as she was led back to the Tombs after being sentenced. She is only 26. 448 On Thanksgiving day Maude Adams’ automobile broke do when half way across the Brookiys bridge. The day was rainy and slushy, and walking was powerful bad. Buf there was nothing to do but walk, for a rule of the traction company forbids the stopping of rs to take on or let off passen re on the bridge. The Gallant Motorman. Miss Adams had started to hoof it through the slush when Philip Brennan, gallant motor gentleman, stopped his car and let ber aboard When she decided later to reward him she was balked by not knowing hin name Finally an announcement w made that the man who stopped his car for Mins Adams would not be punished if he made bimaulf known, and Brennan stepped out of ob sourity to claim his reward, which was about ten times what he bad expected it would be. jown With Worthiess Stock in His | Pian to Colonize Loui [the Isthmus of Panama, of which | jthe public had heard much within | the last few years, the place to} plant his colony. Advertisers of | gold mines and other get-rich-quick schemes might find ft to their ad vantage carefully to peruse the} flamboyant pamphlets issued by | Paterson nearly two centuries ago. |He could give the best of the present day advertisers cards and| spades. Like the more excitable |French, the cautious and thrifty |Seotch grew wild in their haste t inv dir land w ‘* and Scot-| road to a dreamed lon, and Paterson were on the high Ith the world had ne and a colony was planted on But Spain at that tim jelaimed about all there was of the| ew World, and soon a Spanish nee|army and fleet set about the task|/oan you» of driving |iathmus the Scotch from — the But the colonists did not | propose to be driven, and gave thelr fenemy an unexpected drubbing After a while, howeven, the came; the oolont ickened and} died, money became scaree in Scot-| land, and nobody wanted to pur more of the shares, and Panama was left to its fevers Afghan Position in W. »| A British officer | Valley interrogated an Afridt with regard to what waa then considered @ probable confitet In the Kurram said the officer, “it | thera were to be war between Rusala and Wngland what part would you and your people take Do you wish me t | would please you or to tell the real truth?” was the naive reply J adjure you tell me what t# the] w tell me tell you what Paterson | ‘white word. Bank of fame “Then,” sald we would just the old graybeard, | ait up there on our ou both end New York has @ theatre with « removable roof. What really needed ts & theatre with removable actors Bilkine sske alt his friends to| when they But Tt lent @ fad. It's economy. ‘That's how he gets hix blank beoks.” | Baltimore American. Now comes Nicola Testa and says he has invented wireless electric Ughts But nobody ts brave enough | to invent kerosencless lampe ¥ Jent Taft docsn't even seem to believe In conservation of mes- sages “A man never knows how friends he has until he gets polit True.” anewered Senator ghum, “and how few he has until he gets out of office.” Washington Star many into | } j They're going to tear down Madi won Squ on he gets) wt, Harry Thaw won't recognize the dear old pl Countess Cassini is the latest not able to become stage struck, She ts going to in Parte, As her bu band is a very renowned diplomat, probably get by with ft angels have to be diplo- mats these days. “Me no speakee Chinese velly the flowery king? r Journal Customer: Is this an up-to-date Votes naar Yow, for women madam; {it saya, Harper's Ba- Exceiled by Pat. A native born American member of @ party of four business men who atten lunched together, took great Jolight in joking the others on their foreign birth all very well for you fellows | t we need in thts} but you of it, you're only in truders. Not one you was born here. Yo to this coun- try, of cours you rently n't to ¢ what you owe us natives wh doors to you.” Maybe an Irishman in th party, thoughtfully Mayh But there's one thing you seem to forget " into this country id an’ me thi ine when to think wid me me back Kvery fare ¥ lothes on ly’s Maga Even the Gas Ran Away, ording to Jeff v, the worst de Angelis, the anywhere wr Kan that some Abit bunting at al with a fellow actor Angelis “In night, not mactous wa stood in the town of I had been leged hostel for two nigh nays de the ¢ mur Inst sleeping w ly for a long tht wrong Wake something was 1 shouted in my hook him violently escaping Wn you blame it?” growled Well, ¢ » off the corm shucks Weakened the Compliment Young Husband—Darting, you ace | worth your weight In Young Wife--Gold, George Young Husband— Well, let tt go at that, love. In the wild enthusiasm | of the moment, though, 1 was going | to nay porterhouse steak.—-Chicago Tribune We can dress you the neatest and most stylish with the least expenditure of money andj On Easy Payments Too During this Sale everything in Men’s and Women’s Apparel is offered at extremely low] prices. “A little down and a little at a time” ig all that is required. After March Ist our Union St. entrance be discontinued. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 209 Union 1332-34 Second Av. With the First Trial i Comes Better Baking High Flight Flour improves the « the most exacting housewife and brings results to the cooks. High Flight Flour is not an experiment—for nearly a century have been making Milled from the highest grade wheat, not a mixture of inferior g flour has been a favorite in the Nor many years Columbia River Milling Co. Office and Warehouses, best quart 1 we Seattle SOLID COMFORT Is what you enjoy when you Cook With Gas Let our solicitor call and convince you ae pes As in Trade, o—Do you think that teaver }@#@ sound fiftancter, so it was orn eeusteln |e cor thee h he pi oy EH @ man for him to fiud buyers for hig sharea| {ht unt! we saw one or the other cialis are nwallowed up !n the multi alliage Not as much chalks daaitike glitaius Waren | defeated. Than we would come down | hubby?” tude, In Washington they make the eons» hep OE A mt yt cae on Fo ee eta” patore {224 loot the vanquished tl the last I think it moans that all eam- inededs and that's Whava-the matter. lancet tcmaurieiea te] the pomt cards worth having right at ame of colonization before) mule! God is great! hat a time | paign pledges are outlawed in three |i Jhev ell andor your own news stand os of the peovle. He selected! that would be for vel" | Wools Loutavilly Courier-Journal, | & great cities of the world What's this statute of Hmitations, | 1814 Fourth Ave. Henry Bldg vin Avnistant | Seattle Lighting Company # It used to, | Phones: Main 6767; Ind. 67,