The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Private Exchange Matin 9400 and Independent 441. . The Star Pol cond-clana matter nontha. Bix. montha, area tt peaitin Week. i gut of clty, 30 dente per month up » = ral Santor w Favor by motley ng I ecure prompt and regylar dell © for The mesure. the. Lest ilure to 1 to aubs titute am the man agement ce oF all aad complalate 8 attention. | tven ¢ ourteous and prom tle yw Hed to arrive any nl ght b) look kind} ne Brrice at oF Main 9400 oF Ind Kew tor the nan Deve a ee of any or any atter ig the desire o ons, “The fight in court to determine the right of parents to send pol psi ma out of town will come up chap eth Such is the telegraphic news of Tuesday, February 27, a 5 from Lawrence, Mass., where the trust controlled officers clubbed mothers and fathers and tore from their arms wet yie whom they proposed to send away from the misery of t we say that the mere fact that there should be any pet tion at all as to such right is an awful reproach upon the nation. ; . re we a nation of free people? It seems that there is wot about it, It looks as if the jlory of a and Ap- pomattox were a dream, a tasty, glittering Diull. Whose are our children? hrs they really ours, or do they belong to the corporations, that they may grow fat on their cheap services? What are our children? Are they prop- Are they “chattels,” in whom ok ey pe Soe itle, and the right to say where they shall go in pursuit o! ok and iappinaes? Alter all the blood and suffering, after scores of thousands of mothers have offered up their children on the battle field, after the martyrdom of Abraham Lincoln, must we have another fugitive slave act, under the accursed money hogs of Massachusetts, who chase children through the other states of free America and whip them back to the freezing and starving of idleness or the soul killing servitude of the mills? Great God, dear reader, don’t sit in your comfortable home and say it is only the children of cheap foreign labor at Lawrence. Your child's turn may come, The moneyed plute crat believes that your child is property, and will not, when the occasion comes, hesitate to lay hands on your child with- out compunction, and as a legal! right. : ‘The question is raised in court—think of it!—not as to whether your child shall observe the laws as to theft, assault, sanitation or schooling, not as to whether you shall control child in compliance with the just demands of society, as to whether your child shall be sent where it will not} starve or freeze, where it will be safe from the dangers of riot. Behind the high toned sentiment of the rebels in our great Civil War was greed in property in human beings. That same greed shows its fangs in Massachusetts today. | It raises the question of property right in human beings. A) court must decide whether or not Americans are free men. It is no time to mince words. Those fangs must be pulled. The law and the court which stand for dollars and against men JOSH WISE “Jones has a dry wit, don’t you think?” “Well, something gives bim an un- quenchable thirst, anyhow.” After the Campaign Once, at the height of the civil war, two men at a railway station saw a cartload of wooden lege de- part for a military hospital. “Those wooden legs,” said the first man, “are a rather eloquent protest against war, aren't they?” "You," agreed the other; “they are what you might call stump speeches.”—Sacred Heart ft , Never Again “T notice that you courteously refrain from mentioning the name your political rival in any of the speeches.” “I can't say my practice In that respect Is so much a matter of courtesy as of prudence. I once THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1912, s] a iS Wins “ae ~, pUVEsTe No smoking compartment is large enough to hold me at tho same time with the traveler who entertains the crowd with stories of women When I see a “drunk,” I don’ know whether to kick him or the, idlers who walt by to see the Wagon take him away. “ Don't negliigentiy flick ashes on me. That's only a pose,’ nd I'm Hable to push you off your’ An unpleasant “rough house” ‘ts’ in store for the establishment that’ drops me like a hot cake, whoa have gone to deal in person, ahd transacts business over my with someone who has called, up over the telephone, ¢ MILO HAD CRAWLED INTO ‘WE FEATHERS, BUT LAY AWAKE UNTIC. LONG AFTER MIOMIGHT. HE FINALLY SAT UP IN BED AAD CALLED VT," SHOULD WS BAKE BREAD IF. WE DON KNEAD IT.2 Show ovy Tut cawoce! A Modest Note Reginald De Koven told at a wicale in Chieago @ pretty story praise of modesty. ! “A group of touris he said, and their children must be pulled down, by peaceful means, | started in to denounce a rival, but| “visited in Bonn Beethoven's house if possible, but, if necessary, with the spirit and defiance with|s# son as I mentioned bia name /One of the tourist 8 girl of twen- which Patrick Henry looked upon the hangman's noose and | the audience burst into deafening ity or so, sat down at Beethoven's ctied, “Give me liberty or give me death.” CITIES are like the careers of men. They never stand still. They are cither going forward or falling backward. Se- attle is at a Critical point in her career. Will she vote next) week to GO FORWARD or to begin to FALL, BACKWARD? If she elects vice and big business as her real rulers, who w dare say that she will go forward? FIRST signs of spring in Seattle weren't the robins or the flowers, but the spring bonnets on maids and matrons last Sunday. Uncle Sam Do It? Many people ask why fire losses in the United States, afe so great and insurance rates so high. In Germany the ernment insures your dwelling and makes building regu- sree In this country private insurance companies, for profit, insure your dwelling and then try to influence legisla- tion to secure building regulations which will bring about a reduction of fire risk and loss. Does not our method involve not only great waste of property, but also frightful loss of} » as witness the Triangle shirt waist factory fire in New York city? Maybe there would be greater security to life and prop-/ ve he the same government which prescribes building regu-| also paid losses. It would learn by experience, wouldn't! it?) Permitting the building of fire traps increases, not only the hazard to the occupants of that building, but also of ad- property, and sometimes of a whole city. Which policy is wiser, Germany's or ours? WHEN you speak of Toledo you think of Brand Whit- lock. When you talk of Cleveland, you think of Tom Johu-| eon, former mayor. And Cotterill a big enough man to make the people of the nation speak of HIM when tu.ey talk} of Seattle WALL STREET threatens a record breaking panic if investigation of the money trust is pushed, hey? Let's wipe out Wall Street! The “back to the soil” movement is unquestionably the: manifestation of a genuine human impulse and human need, but— Thus far it has been, on the whole, only another oppor- tunity for promoters and land sharks to speculate on the necessities of the land hungry. Probably the worst example is the Florida Everglades swindle, where, it is to be feared, the government that should) have protected the homeseeker actually protected the interests that took millions out of the homeseeker’s pocket and gave him nothing of value in return. It is pitiable! TAFT is going to reply to Teddy, ech? ‘Nother poor de- luded mortal who thinks he can get satisfaction by replying to an editor. 4 PARIS doctor says if you've got a bald head something’s the matter with your teeth. Bet Mr. Henpeck won't sub- scribe to that. COUNT BOBRINSKY got up in a mass meeting and denounced Roosevelt as the sworn enemy of Russia. Oh! just wait till Tedrinsky takes a crack at that count! WHICH of Mr. Roosevelt’s hats is in the ring? If it’s that old soft felt, in the band of which he wears a row of cartridges, hostile gents will do well not to kick it too hard. ANOTHER of Cousin Bill Taft's commissions has re- ported, ‘The postal commissioners report that doubling the postal rates‘on newspapers wouldn't “distress the publishers.” Distress ’em? Why, it would tickle ’em almost as much as and continuous applause.” ingtom Star, ‘Waah- Revenge thing was sald ay evening party. Shortly after midnight « tleman fully he put forth the excuse that at the late hour the next-door neigh- bora might object. “Oh, never mind the neighbors,” erted the young lady of the house. “They poisoned our dog inst week. —Lippincott’s. THE TROUBLES OF THE NEWLY RICH “Your,daughter’s brain, madam, ‘appears to be normal.” “Dear, dear; we've never had anything of that kind in the family) before, I'm sure!” All Made Clear A woman missionary tn Chin: was taking tea with a mandarin’s eight wives, The Chinese ladies examined her clothing, her hair, her teeth, and so on, but her feet es- pecially amazed them. “Why,” cried one, “you can walk and rup as well as a man!" “Yes, to be sure,” said the mis- sionary. “Can you ride a horse and swim, too? “Yes.” “Then you must be as strong As @ man!” “I am.” ws “And yon wouldn't let a man beat you—not even if he was your hus band—-would you?” “Indeed I wouldn't,” the mission- ary sald. The mandarin's looked at their heads. softly: “Now 1 understand why the for- eign devil never has more than one wife. He {s afraid!”--Western Christian Advocate. “Is my hat on straight?” “No, One eye show Life. elght wives one another, nodding Then the oldest said, THE DAMAGE having their pockets picked. SPEAKING of the prospective strike of 800,000 English miners, Associated Press says: “A hopeful sign is that the ike funds are not sufficient to maintain a prolonged strug- ” Sort of cheers up the Associated Press to think that 4000 men and their families will reach the starvation stage quickly. e-} ss anything mile a and I broke a few rules of priety. om piano and played the ‘Moonlight THE CITY PLAN To the Readers of the Benttle Star: > wks ol ‘ali wunbites’ the courtesy of the editor of The Star unte i Ly, has been granted the privilege of placing before the publi the reasons why the league believes the pubifc should vote for the city plan to be submitted at the genera! election, March 6th, The foi jowing is the fourth of a series of brief statements which will appear un der the authority of the Municipal longue: STATEMENT NO. 6 ON REPORT OF MUNICIPAL PLANS COMMIS BION TO BE SUBMITTED TO VOTERS MARCH Sth ‘The most active opponents of Seattle's plan are group of men who call themselves the Civic Plans Investigation committee, The executive committee of this organization is composed of the following gentlemen: Josiah Collins, who, as state senator, tried to defeat the Dill which provided for the submission to the people of # constitutional amendment giving us the initiative and referendum, Mr. Collins is the chief opponent of the City Pian. He owna property near the southeast corner of Second avenue and Yealer wi Last year when the Municipal league was 0; ing the bond issue which would have located the City hall on the old site at Third avenue and Jefferson strest, Mr. Collins, at a small and a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, intro duced and passed a resolution which put the Chamber on record before the public as reversing itself on a former vote, which was against the fasue and the location of the city hall on this site, It was afterwards stated in the Post-Intelligencer that Mr. Collins packed the meeting. ‘This was done by Mr. Collins for the same rei he now opposes the eb tan. Phe remaining members of the executive committee of the Civic Investigation committee are: ©, B. Horton, one of the owners of the New York block, Second and Cherry street. Charles C. Clise, who represent the L. C. Smith heirs and other heavy property owners at or near Yesier way. T. N. Haller, who owns a corner at Second ay, and Columbia st Ralph Nichols, manager of the Chapelle propertios The organization, ia addition to these men, is composed of other heavy property owners in the congested business district, who bave been skimming the cream off Seattle's prosperity by collectibg high renta. It is said that this organtzation has at ite disposal $10,000 to defeat the plans it has sent through the mall pamphiets at a great o largely composed of misrepresentations, and its paid henchmen are speaking at public meetings almost every night. It is reported one big corporation alone put up $1,000 to defeat the plan Why do these wealthy property owners oppose the plan? They fear the establishment of the civic center will open 4 new business area ‘They wish to prevent the spread of businers, so limited district at an unreasonable figure. High rents mean high prices, The people pay, These men have already become rich be cause of the restricted area of first-class business property, The plan will put ® stop to this monopoly, High rents kept new business houses out of Beattle and crushed many loca) concerns out of existence THE MUNICIPAL AGUE OF SEATTLE. eee Tim HAD CHANGED Play ny, 8 to keep rents in a] y Editor Star: “Honor to whom honor is due Love of a “square deal” prompts me to deny wtay c being ciroulated to the effect that Geo. F. erill as state en's eight-hour bill Dae The recores show, Benate Journal, 1909, the following: No. 61, an act to regulate and |imit the hours of om ployment in mechanical and mercantile establishments, ete, P, §79, Labor. reports that the bill pans Senator three others. P. 7)2, Senator Paulhamus moved that the bill beds poned, (Senator Cottertll spoke agains! this motion) demanded by Senator Cotterti! and six others, Upon called, Senator Cotterill voted “NO” on the motion to pone, Upon this and ail oth Report signed by legislation advanced or by ‘ation of Labor, Se 1, during his four years of member of the state was unquestionably the truest, ablest and most efficient of our workers, never tiring Ip ergy in behalf of the common people. On ail occasions he with and carried out, to the degree that we asked, all efferts half. * in appreciation of such services, | ask that your ter publicity, in order that the truth may be more fully knew_ evil effects of verbal campaign statements count bor 3 CHARLES R President State Federation of Editor Star; Candidate Joe Smith, for counctimag, bes for the finals out of some forty-four entries. ‘The people of Seattle need some new blood in the efty Joe Smith is the man for the job. He is vigorous, als able to nee the pitfalls and Jokers alipped into bills and ondiga often turn apparently useful measures into worthless legi JowBmith has recelved a handsome indorsement and be elected. He is @ novice in politics, but the people of realize that, if elected, Joe Smith will be another Oliver # Concentrate on Joe Smith. T. J. CASBY, 628-29 New se: Seattle, Wash, Editor Star: In the current issue of the there is an article, page 22, headed “Could New York Havel whieh, no doubt, you have already noted. Believing that readers might be induced to vote against the proposed terminal project, after reading that article, | respectfs 4 quote some in The Star. Very truly, W. M. SCI 656 Thirty Second Ay, N. The edtitorial from the Saturday Evening Post, follows: “COULD NEW YORK HAVE DONE WORSET “Years ago the city of New York built a passenger been immensely profitable. For a long th there has been a additional subways. The old one is crowdet. Sections of it does not reach have become populous and are 1 portation, The profits of the present subway would fun credit upon which all the capital necessary ‘o build could be raised; but the city has never received a dolar of They ba’ 1] gone to the private corporation that leased ven without that basis of credit, the city could raise me pew subways; but to give satisfactory service, all the new, should be operated as it—and the private o lease, has control of the ol way for more than halfa ‘The company proposes to co-operate with the city in subways, furnishing seventy-odd million dollars of the while the city furnishes fiftyodd miliions—upon condition, it shall receive 8% per cent interest on its total im fifty years. That is the price it demands for “When New York built the original subway, people afraid of ‘municipal ownership,’—or, in this case, They said such a proceeding was sure to be exceed but we doubt if any extravagance in municipal operation w the city as much as the price it Is now required to pay to se lt-—Reethoven own work, in his own room, on bis own plano! “When the girl had finished «| arose and said to the old caretake: I suppose lots of famous mual- | Was pressed to sing. Very thought-|cians have been here and played on this Instrument? “"Well, mins, wored, gravely, ‘Paderewski Wa eat. here last year, and his friends urged him to play, but he shook bis tite head and said ‘No; | am not worthy New York Tribune. i ine Mra. Brow: worst habit Mr. Brown—What is tt, dear? Mrs. Brown—She turns ai ae I had then. Giase House Mra. Jones hag’ on the street! | Mr. Brown—How do you —Judge. | Harbor Island. T Port Commission Against Propositions 7 and 8” Seattle, Wash, Fébruary 27, 1912. fo the Chairmen, Committee on Raflroad and Navigation, Seattle Commer- clat Club, Committce on Harbor Development, Municipal League. Gentlemen: - In reply to your letter of the 23rd inst. to th® Port of |fE Seattle Commission, asking to be advised as to develop- ments in the Harbor Island terminal question since the arrival from New York of Mr. R. F. Ayers, | have the honor to submit the following on behalf of the Commis sion So far av ‘e Commission can ascertain, the financial scheme vacifie Terminal Company, though not yet definite cmned, is substantially as follows: Capitaiizauon—Common Stock $6,000,000 Preferred Stock .. 5,000,000 i ‘The contemplated cash proceeds to company's treasury |B from this ‘sane will apparently not exceed $3,200,000. The balance is to go to offictals and to prometers and brokers instrumental in organizing and financing the project. It i ty through this ase of a portion of the stoek, according to ij Mr. Ayers, that the company is able to secure the neces- ‘Hi sary expert assistance within a practicable salary limit, the combined salaries of the three highest officials being thus only about $40,000. The Commission has so far taken no steps to look up the financial standing of the promoters nor to verify the severe criticisms that have been brought against certain of them. The Port Commission's sole function in the proposed enterprise is to be that of buying land too costly for private purchase, erecting thereon certain strictures, and then leasing everything to.the Terminal Company for jong term of years: The Port District 1s to derive no revenue except interest on bonds and enough additional to retire bonds as they mature, There is to be no re adjustment of rentals to conform to the growth of busi net The company is to have a free hand to exploit the sehold for its own profit by legitimate means dur ing the period of the lease. It is to pay no taxes except such as may be assessed upon the leasehold itself. The Company proposes to build certain improvements with ite own funds, such outlay to be approximately $2,600,000, or one-half of that of the Port District in the same time. The “tentative agreement” leaves this option al with the Company, but Mr. Ayers concedes the justice of @ positive guaranty by the Company'on this point. The Commission is unable to @scovpr any basis for Mr Ayers’ prediction that his company will, within a com paratively brief period, expend $6,000,000 on the project Mra. Henry Peck+You used to the caretaker &D-|say that | looked good enough (o|a nervy woman.” Peck—I haven't as good an appe ° NATURAL LIKING “You know,” sald the minister, “that money is man's worst enemy.” “Well,” replied the man, thoughtfully, “I suppose that is why some People like bim for the enemies he has made.” A PRIZE PUZZLE “That man has been making the same tariff speech for years, and | demurely: and looke back every time we pass/ don't understand tt yet.” “Certainly not,” replied Senator Sorghum; “that speech is like a} Way~yjconenérem. After you guess it, it's no good any more.”--Washington | Star. lan infant clase. pany.” Fi SEQUENCE Mr. Andrew Lang once asked Mr. Israel Zangwill to jees for a charity bazar. Zangwill replied in Heart Review. “Jones’ mother-in-law ts certainly ‘What bas she done?” “Bhe has threatened to sue him for nousupport.” | you Youkers Statesman Two or three young men were exhibiting. with great results of a day's fishing, whereupon this note: “If A. Lang will, I, Zang, will? BULLY FOR HER “What did the banker's daughter say when you r “She said | would have to go to par before she my proposition.”—Haltimore America CRADLE ROBBERS. _— TOUgE- womas te “Fish go in schools, do they not?” “I believe they do; but why do you ask?” “Ob, nothing; only 1 was just thinking that you must The Company is inststent that rentals be deferred sub- stantially as set forth in the “tentative agreement” (See page 50, Bulletin No, 1, Port Commission), This they re- gard as necessary to bridge them over the period of getting their business upon a paying basis. For reasons constitutional, statutory and other, the Commission will probably have to reject this proposal. Some expression by the Commission in favor of a re- newal of the thirty year lease is urgently insisted on, but the Commission has no legal right to give such assur- ance and is opposed to it as a matter of public policy. In respect to the crossing of East Waterway and the method of letting constructibn work, nothing has develop- ed to lead the Commission to modify its views as express- ed on pages 63 and 54 of the Bulletin, In regard to the future operation of the development, the Terminal Company would virtually occupy the posi ton of sublessor. It would lease the piers outright to steamship companies, who would themselves have the right to sub-let. Warehouses, lofts, etc., would be subject to partial lease, the Company furnishing certain service of @ general character, and operating directly the service #8, lighters, etc., connected with the establishment. whok ration is therefore intended to be largely that of a sing and not direct operation by the Ter minal Company In regard to the outlook for the enterprise, no evidence bas been presented by Mr, Ayers which would lead the Commission to modify its opinion that the development as planned is out of all proportion to any reasonable ex- pectation of the near future, and that if actually gone into on the scale proposed it must inevitably end in failure unless sustained by the Port Districe All the evidence addu thus far indicates that, if this enterprise could not suc here under the terms of an equitable lease, it could not possibly succeed in any other Sound port, even with a free site. No evidence has been presented by Mr. Ayers that would lead the Commission to belleve that the system which he proposes can meet the needs of this port any better than the Commission's own plan in any of the fol- lowing respects: Export of lumber, wheat, fruit and ft transhipment of bulk commodities, structural ste to the Interlor; transhipment of Oriental cargoes; warehonse facilities; handling of immigration. The pub- lic has been led to believe that there can be no “terminal” except on Harbor Island, whereas, as a matter of fact, the terminal factlities proposed by the Commission are quite 48 favorably located as those on the Island. The specific advantage of the proposed development is its industrial feature, and this, of course, lies outside the province of the Commission. The industrial lofts will attract small manufacturers by their cheap rents and et ashingtoa Star. gee. erminal— superior conveniences. No doubt also the ice proposed throughout the city will de® It is in this connection that the com aterway becomes important. It is sary to point out that these industrial featt necessarily dependent upon this particular velopment. poe An added advantage to which much imports tached by some fs the prestige and advettl et the proposed development would bring to this pert. The question was asked of Mr. Ayers if the Por} trict had any security that this whole not fall into the hands of a great t ort either fau or steamship, and his reply in that it had none. - From the foregoing you will readily eee that objections to the project from the Commission's of view, apart from the litigation which 1 will volve, are that it makes the Port District jancial scheme which is open to just criti is in important respects at variance for which the Port District was created. ‘ which the Commission now has, it would Um have postponed the submission of Propositions? @ special election called for that express months later, so that they might receive ow consideration which they ought to have, Wf time’ available for the Commission te work ott poe project on a rational basis, with a legal and eam division between the work of the Port District Om of co-operating private agencies, and if the © were free to seek peration from any parties instead of being virtu: nce to only, the whole matter eet basie. e e Commission takes this copes gtatement that has general currency. letter Mr. Irving T. Bush to the Port Commission 18 pe Ayers was entirely Layee fell was through any inquiries by the Commiss! In regard to Commercial Club's criticlem of Washington Ferry project—that it is stricay matter—it may be replied that the county District embrace the same territory; that upon the taxpayers will be exactly the same agency does the work; and that if the Port D it, all conflict of jurisdiction in navigation Lake Washington will be avoided. The Co reason to believe that the county would that in due time it may probably wish to 4 Kirkland Ferry to the District Very truly yours, H. M. CHITTENDEN, ene Fa m Support 7 and 8y the Commission by | Voting “No” on Proposition Port Commission Will Later Submit to— Ea People a. Plan Formulated in the Interest of the F