The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1919, Page 1

A ARE KILLED AND 150 WOUNDED IN CHICAGO RIOT An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Tides in Seattle LATE EDITION a Eta achat TWO CENTS IN | l) Entered ap Becond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 VOLUME 22. NO. 132. ae ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919. Ty ; Weather Forecast: ‘Tonight, probably showers: Wedneg day, fair; moderate westerly. . MORE REVELATIONS MADE IN JAP MENACE! iS THIS TO REMAIN Mutual Business Club WHITE MAN’S LAND? Asks for State A Pao ek oa | (eee ee | Gre For the first time in the history of the Northwest, an organization—the Mutual B club—composed of 170 business men, met the Seattle Japanese issue face to face Monday nigh New revelations, concerning the extensive holdings of Japanese in the community, were 5 s ‘ .d I Miller Freeman’s proposal in The Star of Saturday to deport the Japanese ue atom: R. H. Mahon, local business man, commissioned by the clu from the Pacific Coast and to put up the bars against future immigration This report declared that Japanese in Seattle conduct 136, grocery stores out of a from Japan has aroused a storm and it has brought Seattle up-standing— | 835 in the city, and that they own 10 or 12 other grocery stores and hire white managers, i 8 * Smaller merchants, who comprise practic: face to face with a problem that cannot be settled secretly and cannot be ; EE peretveet mye eg een ge put off much longer. ’ |clare that they are more seriously threatened | fast-growing Japanese competition than the b The Japs are here. They are rapidly gaining control of the best farming ness firms, The meeting was called for the e land near Seattle. They are in control of the Seattle markets. WHAT JAPS purpose of considering the Japanese problem i attle. They own nearly half of Seattle’s hotels. They own more than a third of OWN H FE ; Want Governor to Make -Seattle’s grocery stores. They are invading commission-row on Western ave- ead ER ! a Thoro Investigation hue. They are gradually appearing in nearly every line of industry... ~ Discussion of the Japanese questia by consideration of a communication w! Here’s what the Japan or r7 , __ They are competing not only as workers to hold down wages, but as own- dputtih le Baattlo and near Seaities club to eeditely communes ae -ers and capitalists, big and little. Hundreds of acres of the best problem is becoming of such serious nature * farming land. state and country that it is the duty of the st Multiplying five times as rapidly as the whites, the Japs must some day— The city public market. peumenh to deal with 4 ponent” unless the problem is met now—absolutely control this Coast. Just as Ha- <meta wus Govan “ns xThe following recommendations were made to waii and the Sacramento valley have been Japanized, so will the state of or gedaan any other two whale- Padhrdh en Daeeade be. Sled ion: balialt at SE m ; rs leral government against the admission of Washington. sale concerns in the Northwest. Japanese intending to make their permanent reside! i f More than a score of restaurants, this country. : C. W. Antill, who handles leases to Japanese, declares the sons of Nippon are better land- which are served by Japanese farm- | “That the federal government be urged to 4 lords and better tenants.than whites. He praises them because they leave their riches in this ers and —— merchants. - *Poriat the feleralgeteeninast, Sepa country and use their wealth for speculative purposes. He defends Japanese control ‘of. the One hundred and thirty-six of Se- the view of veaching an amicable agreement for . markets, claiming the markets are good because the Japanese own them. attle’s grocery stores. portation of all Japanese now in the United States. ; ea ee ‘ ‘ tatty Two hundred and fifteen of Seat- Antill may be right. If we admit Antill is right, still the problem remains. Anitill, in- tle’s hotels, Whites scien 2nd, Lg Ask Government to Curb terested in the money side of his dealings, does not solve the human side, nor does he suggest Many of Seattle’s dye works and Inflow of Japancee Here a solution. Nor did Samuel Hill, deploring anti-Japanese propaganda, offer a solution. : junk shops. i sha tie Eh lg mere eer Perhaps the Japanese are. better landlords, better tenants, better laborers, better market |f Several of the largest apartment violations of our laws by Japanese, particularly law houses. stricting aliens in the ownership of property, and: — That ee poring to do with the issue—the issue as to whether this is to remain the New garages arid auboithile te. operations, including forbidding majority 0 white man’s lan pair shops. corporations. . A > Py # ss 3 “That the governor instruct the various dep If we are to have a white man’s Pacific Coast, we must face the situation of the state government to make a thoro, official in gation into the activities of the Japanese in the prod courageously NOW. Bn 7 sa/and marketing of farm products, in the acquisition of lodging houses, and all lines of small business.’”” ORDER TROOPS TO CURB WHITES AND NEGROES JAPANESE ATTACKS —=iestcnincrestine” Miller Freeman, secretary of the Veterans’ Welfare Commission, CHICAGO, July 29.—Chicago’s | was dragged from a downtown res Police tried to break up the organi-|street cars and elevated trains | dressed the ing. race war today had claimed 19 | taurant and beaten to death. At &|zation, but failed. It melted one in-| were favorite targets. As trainmen | “It has been the general impression that Japanese immigration | lives. Seven hegroes and 12 (a, m. Robert Williams, negro, drove |stant,. to form anew on another | began housing thelr cars in obedience A been decreasing,” Freeman said, “and upon investigation 1 was amazed white men were killed in rioting hie ear into the Loop. He was | street. |to the strike edict, traffic thinned, | surprised at the large numt ming in forth in the negro see | dragged forth, stabbed and left for! Arson, murder.and riot grew out of |@nd fighting was confined to the ‘ ¢: “By a subterfuge and ev n of the ‘gentlemen's agreement? i va extending to Chicago's | dead on the street. In both Instances | troubres at @ bathing beach, where | street. Attacking the proposal of Miller Freeman that the) jon cocitng in: 1 they business district. Two negroes | the murderers escaped. whites attempted to enforce a Jim) Policemen were taken from all) (Jpited States government approach the Japanese « govern- “The first Japanese to arrive here in any numbers came here to Wor were killed in the Loop early to- | ‘The nineteenth death was that of | Crow rule. beats except those in the black belt 8! PI ag a They came in a flood until labor objected, and foreed day. Police and other observers lan unidentified negro who fired into) Quiet at first Monday, the black |" held in reserve. ‘They were }ment to find a way to deport, without trouble, the Japa-}:/, greement’ to be drawn up. said the deaths would exci a crowd surrounding Lieut. James |, bega weethe at noon. At|#fmed with revolvers, clubs and rifles}nega in this dountry, S. K. Arima, editor of the Nor t has been said that any frank discussion of this question wou! that number, The injured num- | Hey of the police force. Dey reported mes Cee, 2° sa dh vigiedn vas ‘A . oh m4 r 4 ti | tipped with bayonets. 4 5 » 5 : |liable to offend the Japanese, or affect our trade th th | 7:30 clock occurred the first riot, | 2 % z ‘ with them. But wht bered over 150—stabbed, shot |) 0° hia. killed the negro in. self-d Pag 4g wager! Police stations were filled with}American Times, Japanese daily published in Seattle, sent} pecomes so serious that these people are beating, if not openly bre when two negroes gibed a police d¢ * ; ‘s and beaten. held tunty |*28> ltective as “poor white trash,” and|Tefugees. Many negroes flocked to|the following letter to The Star Tuesday: the law, it is time we brought out our time-honored pride and’ honor a re eld fully | . : or protectio ~ ae 8 5 ee ith niet “minmunition in|, OMclals found difficulty in having| trom the neighborhood cams a shot. |*hern for protection __| Waitor The Star: Iam very much | dusted it off. i mpries. Gov. Lowden. in.|>odies of the negro victims prepared) Ajmost immediately nearly 200| aie pgp ueyte, op hl ficers had diffi-| interested to read Mr. Freeman’s| Mr. Freeman's statement. that We should declare this a white{ “The age-old problem is verasied tie adjutant general to,rust;|f0F burial. White undertakers re-|wnite men and negroes were in a| uty in saining ¢ rt of control) etatement, which was made in reply passpgrts are issued by Japan to any | ™man’s country, ‘They say this agita jright here, This is the gi op to the ribt district whenever |fused to handle them and negro un-| whirling mass. Tricks were thrown | Zrote a fire the| to my criticism of his opinion con-| one Who says he is not a laborer is a| ton is liable to cause war. Fifteen | Country in the world.” police called for help. + Serra een ye sere £0 G0 20 | Sweating black faces were clubbed as| with | : jreak forth | cerning Japanese immigrants, but I| great misconstruction, ‘The Japa-| Years ago, when the Japanese were | | W INS. Cole, of the Florence another ine diel + | ede: festrictio: ran “ are ¢ over to the Alas roast and | Pany, fe Early today an unidentified negro| ‘The riots spread all over the “black |50 policemen rushed into the melee. | Tuarter, “Tt was 1 o'clock before the| CA2BOe but Wonder why suich a Ken- | Nese restriction ie very strict in re-| coming over to the Alaska coast and | folowed Peseaniie belt” on the south side of Chicago in|'The mob broke away, leaving 40 oF | Hoes finally announced thes were 4 {eman a Mr. Freeman, former gard to passports, even to the stu: | pill ou governs} “Thi country ia ing the neighborhood of 35th st. They|more seriously injured. ‘Thirty-twol|lontrol, and it was decided tot iy| member of the legislature and cap to study in America. | ment Lo yahainiban peer Ate ie hey deat ics 7 . han oo Dee ee of the American navy has such Mr. ve: »| the Japanese . There was| he Greek, or any of ee eine tincka cele tet “iseat, to: hompltale Whe militia in! thein armenies, tisteadige notistie about, the: Jupie , no other races, we should als6 deal wit KW. WAY ph Ag ‘ne death aebusred fr ois | Fights Indian Style laprovernor, Lowden. and Mayor) rose Japs ° r “The situation today needs to be| the 7 » But T think we 1'a like to buy a little farm, es. ; | |'Thompson issued appeals to both . devote more time to the Bolsh Koa aise my kiddies free from harm, | business center of the city, when| Portions of the men were detached| (0. Instendiot to. the dandaaae It must be good, and the deal closed |an unidentified negro lost his life.|from the initial storm center. One| + Lowden was called back from| Practically all of the best fanming| 3 anes The Japanese | faced with courage. It is a practical Kc a trip to the West by news of the| lands, Mr. Freeman asserts, in the} z 0 18 hours a| Problem to see that the returned s A star Sant ad will turn the trick, |4 mob, headed by six sailors, dragged | band of negroes encountering Police-| Hoty and the street car strike vicinity of Seattle, are in the hands | d@y, are trying to | soldie: t a chance to engage in ull Backs Freeman jhim from a restaurant with two|man Brooks and the traffic squad, = eaten cacne eM etiam of Japanese. Th some of the Jap-| Work out a s of shorter hours | business, “California harassed the Jap The above won a’ prize in|other negroes. He was beaten to | opened fire. Brooks forced his horse |anese lease lan 1 cultivate them and higher wages “At the beginning of the war,|Until the trade left there and 4 | death before officers arrived. down to the pavement and, stretched Pt 4 96 | is a well-known ot, si e Japanese sawmill boys | bi our be went away, | here to make Seattle one of the the Want Ad Rhyme contest | Restusd Wy Potlce out on the sticky asphalt, fought | Liberty Bonds ‘Quoted [| 15%. 2M inber that, when Japa : ay work more than ten Sdvantage|¢st ports th the oountty. “ae last week. Suppose you try} Indian fas until help arrived &- . | 9; rs first came to thi 5} § y. It is a bad habit of \s 26 jloor was open, | S0ing to run the Japanese out of ; oT his for the| The other negroes were jostled, but| There were isolated attacks on| NEW YORK, July 2%——1dberty bond | ye that me e | some anese to work so many|a this country, |.country, all Americans should onal wt ake |not seriously injured and were res-|both whites and blacks. In their| @otations today: 3 $99.54; second | | V's, $92.60; firat 4's $94.90: secong | lands were x hours, and our paper, the North ‘Troblem Focused Here Japan,” j eued by tories, Caatalqupen, stolen oye Res groups ot eolored men | 4, $04.105. thea rk $98.08 fourth | vated and be depanese: t down American Time : vise them very Xo the boys cara pein bac | eases, Bull, ot Bull Bros. p “p, ‘ y,|from the restaurant, were broken on|and boys stopped autolsts, wrecked | 44's Victory 9%'s, $09.90; Vic-| big trees and did the hard work | often to wor live according to|and $500,000 is all the commi: s, backed up Freeman an T’m out of a job and money, the heads of the three negro men, \their machines, tore the clothing| try Re 99983; ce which the white men did not like to| American customs and iaannera. ‘ has to aid them, while the Japa panese control of the “a c too.’ ‘The men responsible for that death|from the travelers and let them go do, AS THE RESULT OF THE] But the Japanese in the city|seem to have untold millions backing | Write three more lines that had toured the loop all night with | with insults, | HAMMERSTEIN IS ILL FAITHFUL § VICR OF JAPA-| doesn't work that many hours, If| them ‘ | “The Japanese have everythi 4 Z A howls and songs, searching out n The stock yards district, with thou-| NEW YORK, July 29.—Oscar|NESE FARMER: AMBRICANS | you will go to the public markets,| “The Japanese are a great race, |§ " Bull declared; “we built, will jingle. See particulars) gro night workers, Red caps were|sands of negro residents, was an|Hammerstein, noted impresario, was|HAVE RBWALIZEW A LARGE| where many Japanese merchants are| they a wonderful people, and| Public market, and now they on Classified page. chased from railway stations, Col y storm: center. Negroes took|in a critical vondition at ghe Lenox|PROKIT. As a@ matter of course,|to he found, you will see them »|they are not inferior, but they sim-| Control of it. They work on ft joved travelers were frightened away, | possession of elevated railway cross-| Hill hospital here today, He has|Japanese have gained profit, also, | their places at 6 o'clock, the ply cannot be assimilated, There is|from daylight to dark, and we A restaurant porter hid in an ice|ings and fired into the street cars or been suffering from a complication but Americans eat cream, while Jap-|the white men, Why does N »» no hope now or in the future for as-| Compete with them, When — —————— box until his pursuers moved on. at clevated trains a few blocks away. of diseases. anese eat skimmed milk. (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) similation, (CONT'D ON PAGE TWOD