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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
VOL. VII NO. 4
BROTHER IN BLACK
As Found in Uncle Sam's Great
Domain -Tuskegee Institute's
Commencement Exercises —
Much Money Raised and Dis
bursed—Louisiana's Disfran
chisement Law—Some Glitter
ing Negro Success—South
African Republics and the
Black Man.
The 31st of May last saw the
commencement exercises of the
Tuskegee Institute, at the head of
which is the world wide educator
Prof. Booker "T. Washington.
The entire school presented a most
cultured and refined lot of boys
and girls, such as it would be
hard to discount go where one
would or might. The industrial
part of the school attracted the
attention of the most of the hun
dreds of visitors, white and black,
that were in attendance during the
entire commencement week On
dress parade 800 fine looking
healthy young colored youths
drilled on the campus grounds to
the satisfaction of the admiring
crowds. From the annual report,
which is to soon be published in
pamphlet form, the following
financial facts have been abstracted
in advance:
Receipts for the year $197.(530.00
Current expenses for the year . 94,490.08
Paid on last year's deficit 29,355.71
Building and i mprovements.. 22,91fi.80
Toward endowment fund 47,407.10
Miscellaneous purposes 1,901.00
Students have paid in onsh,
toward tiieir ex ; enses 9,901 00
Students have paid in labor
toward their expenses 63,102 93
There wore forty-seven regular
graduates this year, there were
sixty-four the year prior, but the
curriculum has been raised this
year, which lessened the number
of graduates:
The enrollment this year lias
reached 1,231, 872 boys, 339 girls.
Twenty-eeven States, two Terri
tories, Cuba, Porto Rico and Africa
have been represented. The en
rollment last year was 1,164, 801
boys and 363 girls. Alabama leads
with 485, Georgia 223, Mississippi
76, South Carolina 63, Texas 46,
Florida 49, Louisiana 36, Tennes
see 22.
The following Northern States
are represented: California, Con
necticut, Colorado, Illinois, Indi
ana, Kansas. Massachusetts,
Michigan, New York, Ohio and
Wisconsin.*
No industrial school in the
country has reached so high a
state of perfection as has the
Tuskegee Institute, and that too,
despite the fact that all persons
concerned are Negroes. Even
Northern schools would do well to
pattern after Tuskegee and South
ern white schools bear no compari
son whatever to it.
A bird's eye view of the work
ings of the Louisiana disfranchise
in en t law may be seen from the
following excerpt:
A very strange and a dangerous
feature of the Southern Negro is
practically disfranchised. In
many counties (parishes) there are
very few white people, and a few
dozen men are the rulers <>f thou
sands. In Concordia Parish, four
of the eight wards casf only 40
votes and elected 12 officers. In
the seventh ward of Caldwell
Parish, but two votes were cast,
and one vote was cast for the con
stable, and it elected Mm. East
Carroll Parish cast but 167 votes;
Madison but 151, and they elected
full boards of officers and members
of the legislature. The small vote
is not due to lack of population.
One ward which cast 7 votes has a
population of 2,051; another
which cast 2 votes has 506 inhabi-1
tants; and another which cast but |
one vote has 639, while yet another
which cast a single vote for con
stable has 1,884 inhabitants, and
would ordinarily have cast 450
votes. There is one element of
discord here; for as representa
tion in the State Legislature goes
by total and not white population,
it may well be that districts with
a large white population, like New
Orleans, may not like it to have
ten of their votes balanced by
one vote in the "black parishes."
Rev W. J. White, editor of the
Georgia Baptist, whose columns
are devoted to the Christianizing
of the colored folk, had a narrow
escapal from being treated to a
similar dose as that administered
to the Manly brothers of North
Carolina some years ago, for re
producing an article from the
Washington Bee, which article
criticised the white people of
Columbia, Georgia, for lynching a
young Negro because he shot and
killed a young white man that
grossly insulted a young colored
girl with whom the colored man
was in company on a street car.
Editor White was forced to sign a
retraction in the presence of a
howling mob made up of drunken
scrapegraces with not sense enough
to carry guts to a bear, vulgarly
speaking, to the effect that he did
not even know that the article in
question was being put in his
paper, and he felt certain that
none of his help knew it. Of
course Rev. White prevaricated,
but under the circumstances he was
excusable.
In most of the Western towns
where there are upwards of 500
colored citizens you can always
find two weekly papers published
therein styling themselves, "color
ed papers" Just how two such
papers can succeed when it is im
possible for one to succeed is the
amusing thing of the situation.
In the East, South and North,
where there are thousands of
colored folk in every commuuity,
you can not find more than two
"colored papers" in a whole state
and yet out West every 250 Ne
groes must have an "organ." Run
ning a newspaper for the express
purpose of bleeding candidates for
office without displaying any
ability to write a sensible article
for insertion, does not reflect much
credit on the man that is running
it and certainly does not elevate
the race to which the Negro, who
runs such measely sheets, belongs
very much in the eyes and estima
tion of the superior race of this
country, who takes this cheap way
of bidding for a few Negro votes.
If "all coons look alike" to the
Canadian-Australian Steamship
Co, it will be bankrupt before it
gets through paying all of the
Coons in the United States the
snug sum of $2250 each for re
fusing to carry the Earnest Hogan
Comedy Company from Hawaii to
Vancouver per contract on account
of their color. The steamboat
company refused to carry the
company and the members thereof
sued for damages and each got a
judgement for the amount as stated
above. There are 38 members in
the company.
Since the British people have
always been unusually friendly to
the black race it would seem that
j the late war there will prove a
Godsend to the Negro, and he will
be developed there as other places
where British civilization prevails.
Under the Boers the blacks fared
very badly, and England has
! always stood between the Boers
and the blacks.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1900.
HAWAIIAN TRADE
With the United States for the
Past Five Years Compiled by
Senator I,odge-It is larger
By Par than with Many of the
European Countries and Ex
ceeds oar Trade With Turkey
Ten Fold—Greater than Our
Trade With Most of the South
American Republics.
(Special Correspondence.)
Washington, June 10. -Senator
Lodge is one of the most careful
and thorough investigators of the
expansion question in all of its
bearings. He has just been ex
amining the growth of our trade
with Hawaii, and finds that five
years ago, in 1895, the total Ha
waiian trade with the United
States amounted to only $11,500,
--000. Last year it reached $33,
--500,000, having increased almost
threefold within five years, and
most of this increase has occurred
within the past eighteen months.
The Senator says we may not
think that a business of $33,500,
--000 amounts to very much, when
oar foreign trade is now running
up into the billions, but to com
pare our trade with the Hawaiian
Islands, with their handful of
people, with our trade with some
of the larger countries of the
world, gives a better idea of the
value of colonies to the United
States.
As a result of his investigations
Senator Lodge finds that —
Our trade with the Hawaiian
Islands is over 100 per cent lnrger
than our total trade with Austria-
Hungary.
It is 75 per cent larger than our
trade with Denmark.-
It is 60 per cent as large as our
total trade with Italy.
It is nearly four times as large
as our trade with Portugal.
It is over 150 per cent greater
than our total trade with Russia.
It is almost double our trade
with Spain.
It is 125 per cent greater than
our trade with Sweden and Nor
way combined.
It is more than double our trade
with Switzerland.
It is ten time's as large as our
trade with Turkey.
It is nearly 30 times larger than
our trade with Greece.
Comparisons with countries on
the American Continent show that
Hawaiian trade with the United
States is equal to 30 per cent of
our trade with the whole Dominion
of Canada.
It is nearly 150 per cent greater
than our trade with all the Central
American states.
It is 60 per cent as large as our
trade with Mexico.
It is 50 per cent larger than our
trade with all the British West
Indies.
It is nearly five times as large as
our trade with Porto Rico.
It is three times as large as our
trade with the Danish, Dutch and
French West Indies, with Haiti
and San Domingo included.
It is almost twice as large as our
trade with Argentine.
It is almost half as large as our
trade with Brazil, whence we im- j
port most of our coffee.
It is nearly 400 per cent larger
than our trade with Chile.
It is nearly 400 per cent larger
than our trade with the United
States of Columbia.
It is nearly fifteen times larger
than our trade with Ecuador.
It is more than six times larger
than our trade with British, Dutch
and French Guiana.
It is ten times larger than our
trade with Peru.
It is ten times larger than our
trade with Uruguay.
It is more than five times larger
than our trade with Venezuela.
He then makes comparisons
with countries across the Pacific,
and finds that our trade with
Hawaii is within six million
dollars of being as Urge as our
trade with the Empire of China.
It is more than three times as
large as our trade with Honkong.
It is nearly half as large as our
total trade with all the British,
Dutch and French East Indies,
which send us such large supplies
of sugar.
It is equal to 65 per cent of our
total trade with Japan.
It is more than five times larger
than our last year's trade with
the Philippines.
It is nearly twenty times larger
than our trade with Asiatic Russia.
It was larger by four million
dollars than our trade with the
> hole of the Australasian Colonies
last year, with their five millions
of people.
It was larger last year by more
than three million dollars than our
trade with the entire continent of
Africa.
Senator Lodge says the increase
in our trade with Hawaii has been
very marked since its annexation
by the United States, and he looks
for equally rapid improvement in
our trade with Porto Kico aud the
Philippines. These colonies will
absorb some of our surplus manu
factures, and they will also draw
upon this country for their pro
visions, thus increasing the de
mand for the products of Ameri
can farms.
Kansas has made another record.
No|. content with plastering the
walls of her State buildings with
cancelled mortgages; not con
tent with doubling her bank
deposits since 1896; Kansas now
has but one inmate in the State
poor farm. Dining-halls and bed
rooms that a few years ago were
crowded with the idle, with the
hungry, and with the poorly clad,
now echo and re-echo the solitary
tramp of their one sole inmate,
who is without kith or kin, and
who is too old and feelle to work.
But one sad relic remains in the
Kansas poorhouse, to remind the
taxpayers of the days when its free
soup, free bed and free clothes
were donated to those who were
compelled to idleness under a
Democratic Administration, and
under its policy of destruction to
all American industries, both of
farm aud factory.
The trusts are not having things
their own way by any means.
Officers and directors of the Ice
Trust ,of New York, have been
summoned to show why they
should not be proceeded against
criminally on the charge of con
spiracy. They are accused of
restraining and preventing compe
tition. There is no tariff on ice,
therefore it can not be an offspring
of protection. Its parentage has
been traced directly to Tammany
Hall, which is robbing the poor of
New York and depriving the
people there of a summer neces
sity.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana,
wrote the report, which he after
wards submitted to the Senate,
recommending the passage of the
bill -to extradite Neeley, also of
Indiana. It is a strong argument
in support of the Administration's
policy of probing the Cuban
scandal to the bottom, and doing
it promptly.
Wanted: By a colored man and
woman a place to do work in a
private family. Woman good
cook and man an all around handy
man about the house. Apply at
this office for further information.
UNIONISM WRONG
Causes More Distress Among
laboring Men than it is Ever
Productive of Good—Union
laborers Not so Successful in
I/ife as Non-Union Men—Their
Representatives Not True to
the Cause they are Elected to
Battle for-Unionism Proves
to be a Failure.
We do not think any class of
men in the United States are
doing the country as much real
harm as the union labor organiza
tions. Here is a partial list of the
damage they have caused in St.
Louis during the present troubles
there:
Loss in trade ($750,000 per day
for thirty days), $22,500,000.
Loss in salaries to wage earners
thrown out of employment, $500,
--000.
Loss to transit, company in fares
(-$20,000 per day), $600,000.
Cost of citizens 1 posse so far
$50,000.
Cost of extra police, $60,000.
Extra cost in guarding property
of company, $20,000.
Loss in wages to 4,000 strikers,
$240,000.
Loss to property caused by
rioting, $20,000.
Number of strikers, 4,000.
Number of women and children
depending on strikers, 20.000.
Street railway systems affected,
thirteen.
Mi es of track owned by the
transit company, 200.
Thus it will be seen timt the loss
to St. Louis thus far aggregates
the enormous total of nearly
$24,000,000. With the citizens'
posse on the pay roll at a daily
cost of $10,000, this figure is likely
to be greatly increased before the
end of the strike. On the citizens'
posse are a number of men promi
nent in the business and social
community. Several millionaires
are among them.
As in this case so in all others,
and yet labor unions can not point
to any great good they have ac
complished for humanity since
they first became known to this
country. We believe that statis
tics will bear us out in the allega
tion, that among that class of
laboring men, who do not belong
to labor organizations and work
for moderate salaries, more wealth
and comfort are to be found than
among the labor union men who
work for big wages. Tho labor
unions have forced high wages in
many instances, but the laborers
do not seem to enjoy the wages
they earn, and, if the laborers
themselves enjoy it, then the
famili' s of the laborers do not do
so. While on the other hand, the
laboring men who hold themselves
aloof from labor organizations
have good homes aud their families
enjoy their earnings. Perhaps
there is eminent need of labor
organizations in this country, bat
they appear to be very poorly
managed and directed, hence the
charge, "they do more harm than
good." Laboring men should
understand each other and, per
haps, unite for th^ir own good, but
when men have to unite for the
express purpose of violence and
wholesale destruction to defy the
very laws that they themselves
make, then it looks as though
something is wrong with the men.
If the laboring men can sufficient
ly unite for violence they can
sufficiently unite for the enactment
of laws that will regulate such
things, but no. Notwithstanding
the fact that the laboring men are
fully five to one in this country
over the capitalists and their fol- j
PRICE FSVE CENTS
lowers, yet laboring men can not
be trusted in the legislatures <o
make laws for their own good.
Send a laboring man to the legis
lature and he passes laws diametri
cally opposed to what the labor
unions declare to the best interest
of the laboring men, showing very
conclusively that the laboring
legislator undergoes either a
change of heart or he has no
sympathy with the cause of his
fellow workmen. The laboring
men in the United States can elect
every official in the country if they
would, and, if their cause is so just,
it seems that they would do that
very thing and thus right all
wrong and have things so run that
they would not be imposed upon,
but they do not, and, it therefore
stands to reason, that the labor
union strikes and struggles are on
the wrong road to reach the
earthly millieum they talk so
much of.
. WILLIAM HcKINLEY I
§) AND . g
1 THEODORE ROOSEVELT I
I Were the unanimous §
I choice of the National §
■•) Republican Convention ©
Jj Republican Convention ®
I for president and vice $
| president. Each nomi- i
I nation was made by ac- ©
f clamation. .The Phila- |>
•> delphia convention was $
«> delphia convention was &
'] the most enthusiastic Re- §
;] publican convention ever <fj
| held.
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According to the Ballard News
Jule Reidelsheimer is responsible
for the following as to our coming
Fourth of July celebration:
The eagle's goin'
To howl and yell,
An' flop his wings
And screech;
He's goin' ter get
Up early too,
To wake up all in reach.
He's goin' to make
Seattle ring;
He's goin' to rip and tear;
He's goin' to roost on
Highest peak
And split some ambient air;
He's going to rise up
In his might,
An' circle 'roun' an' sail,
An' durn the duck
That thinks he kin
Put salt upon his tail;
He's goin' ter rip
The upper air,
An' sail down on this town
An' let a few
Gol durndest whoops
That ever hit the Soun';
He's goin' to spread
Them wings of his'n
An' sail right down our way,
An' make us folks
A-livin' here,
Dead stuck on Elliott Bay.
Here is the situation in a nut
shell as to a comparison between
McKinley and Bryan, tho oppos
ing presidential candidates:
. Hon. William McKinley
My chances for President.
Prosperity
Protection
Upright public and private career
Good wages
Work for everybody
Honest statesmanship
W. Jay Bryan •
My chanches for President
Free silver
Free trade
Populism!
Wreck"
16 to 1
Ruin!!! Etc
