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"heSEATTLE REPUBLICAN
vol. vii no; 10
'96-'flO STATISTICS
Interstate Commerce—A Foreign
Trade of Two and a Quarter
Bilion Doilars—Exports - Imports
—Money in Circulation - Increase
of Railroad Employese— Other
Items of Interest.
(Special Correspondence.)
The statistical report of the in
terstate commerce commission shows
for the year ending June 30, 1899,
the total single track mileage in the
United States was 189,294, an in
crease for the year of 2,898. This
increase is greater than for any year
since 1893. The aggregate length
of mileage, including tracks of all
sorts, was 252,301. There were 36,
--703 locomotives in service at the end
of the year, of 469 more than for the
year ended June 30, 1898. The to
tal number of cars of all classes in
the service was 1,375,916, an in
crease of 49,742. The number of
persons employed on railroads was
928,924. and increase for the year
of 54,366. All these improvements
are a part of the existing prosperity
under this administration.
On June 1, 1896, the total circu
lation of money in the United States
was $1,521,584,283. Of this amount
a little less than $500,0Q0,000 was
in the form of gold and gold certifi
cates. Jn the following four years
the enormous sum of half a billion
dollars has been added to the people's
money. This is in excess of the coin
age value of all the silver mined in
the United States, at a ratio of 16 to
1, since 1896. The per capita circu
lation of the country has expanded
from $21.35 on June 1, 1896, to
$26.50 on June 30, 1900—a gain of
$5.15 per capita in four years.
The foreign trade of the United
States for the fiscal year just ended,
amounted to almost two and a quar
ter billion dollars, and was the larg
est in our history, imports amount
ed to $849,714,329, and the exports
of American products and manufac
tures were' 51,394,479,214. The ag
gregate figures of our foreign trade
reached $2,244,193,543..
Compared with previous years the
imports of the 1900 fiscal year have
been exceeded only once, in 1893,
when they were $16,700,000 larger.
The value of our exports last year has ]
never been exceeded, the largest pre
vious total being for 1898, when they
were $163,000,000 less than in the
year just ended. The following
table shows our imports and exports
in each fiscal year since 1890:
Year— , Imports. Exports.
IS9O $789,310,409 $ 857,828,684 ]
1891 844,916,196 884,480,810
1892 827,402,462 1,030,278,148
1893 866,400,922 847,C65,194 -
1894 054,994,622 892,140,572
1895 731,969,965 807,53<\165
1896 779,724,674 882,606,938
1897 764,730,412 1,050,91-3,556
189S 616,049,654 1,231,482,330
1899 697,148,489 1,227,02^,302
1900 849,714,329 1,394,479,214
Next it is of interest to know the
total volume of our import and ex
port trade, with our favorable or un
favorable balance in each year, thus:
Total Foreign Favorable
iear- Trade. Balance.
3£90 $1,647,139,093 $ 68,518,275
1891 1,729,397,00»; 39,564,614
1892 1,857,680,610 202,575,686
1893 1,714,066,116 *18,737,728
189j 1,574,135,914 237.115,950
1895 1,539,508.130 75.565.200
1896 1,662,331,612 102,882,264
189" 1.815,723.968 286,263,144
1898 1,847,531,984 615,432,676
1899 1,924,171,791 529,874,813
1900 2.244.193,543 544,764,855
•unfavorable.
Only once from 1890 to 1900 has
our foreign trade balance been
against us, and that was to the ex
tent of $18,737,728, in 1893. Dur
ing the other ten years the balance
of our foreign trade in our favor
amounted to $2,702,880,507, or at
the average rate of $270,288,000 a
year.
During the last four years our fa
vorable_foreign trade balance has
reached almost two billion dollars—
to be exact, $1,976,335,518.
During the three complete fiscal
years 1898-1900, under the adminis
tration of President MeKinley, our
favorable foreign trade balance ag
gregated no less a sum than $1,690,
--072,374.
We are more than a two billion
dollar country as far as our foreign
trade is concerned—we are well on
the way to being a three billion dol
lar country. This is expansion of
the best kind.
Now for one more comparison,
showing how the foreign trade of the
United States compares with that of
Great Britain and of Germany, the
figures for the two latter countries
being for the calendar year ending
December 31, 1899, while those for
the United States are for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1300:
Country— ,f% Imports. Exports.
Great Britain $2,360,619,989 $1,289,971,039
Germany 1,236,888,380 949,957,960
United States ... 849,714,329 1,394,479,214
The imports of the United. States:
are the smallest, and our exports are
the results of the late Republican
the largest. Therefore our trade bal
ance must be the most favorable.
Let us see what it is:
Total Foreign
Country— Trade. Balance.
Great Britain ... .$3,650,591,028 —$1,070,648,950
Germany 2,186,846,340 —280,930,420
United States ... 2,244,193,543 +544.764,885
Last year Great Britain had an
unfavorable trade balance that ex
ceeded a billion dollars. Germany's
unfavorable trade balance amounted
to $286,930,420. But the trade bal
ance in favor of the United States
amounted to $544,764,885.
Another fact that is very import
ant is this: The United States is
now a larger exporting nation than j
the United Kingdom, our exports 1
last. year exceeding those of the
mother country by $104,508,175.
The director of the mint states
that there are $16,628,323 of 5-cent
pieces and $9,952,892 of 1-cent
pieces outstanding. This gives an
idea of the enormous number of!
these little coins necessary to trans
act the business of the country.
Since the coinage of these pieces be- i
gan the total number that have been
coined is, of 5-cent pieces, $17,991,
--298; 1-cent bronze, $10,072,310.
imports of merchandise at Manila
in 1899 were worth $17,450,412 the ;
duty collected thereon being $3,364,
--090. The value of the goods re
ceived from the United States was
$1,350,364, China, England and
Spain each supplying more than this
country.
The new commercial arrangement
with Germany is made under the
third section of the Dingley law, and
is within the complete discretion of
the president. . The duty on argols -
imported from Germany is fixed at!
5 per cent, ad valorem; brandies or
other distilled spirits, $1.75 per proof
gallon;.-ehanpaigne and, other spark- ;
ling wines, in quart bottles, $6 per !
dozen; still wines and vermouth, in
casks, 35 cents per gallon, and paint- '
ings in oil or water colors, pastels,
pen and ink drawings and statuary,
15 per cent, ad valorem. Our ex
ports of meat and food products to
Germany will benefit by getting rid
of some of the exacting and discrim
inating duties which have heretofore
been levied or threatened.
ORGANIZING A BATTALION.
Lieut. Col. Frank W. Spear is
making arrangements to organize a
battalion of cavalry in this state.
Two troops are to be organized in
Seattle, one in Spokane and one in
Tacoma. It has been suggested that
one company should be colored,
both officers and men. The colored
troops will be assigned to Seattle,
but will be drawn from every part
of the state. Active recruiting will
be commenced in September, and in ;
case of war the battalion will be
ready for foreign service by Novem
ber. It is said that large bodies of
cavalry will be required for service
in China. The intention of Col.
Spear and the other officers will be
to offer the services of the battalion
direct to the secretary of war. It is
also possible that two other battal
ions will be organized in Oregon and
Idaho, making a full regiment. It
is said that Lieut. Smith, late of the
independent battalion, is slated for
captain of the Tacoma troop, and
that Lieut. Leonard P. Spear will be
selected as battalion adjutant. The
officers of the various troops will be j
elected by the men as soon as fifty!
men are enrolled in each troop. , |
All communications should be ad
dressed to Lieut. Leonard P. Spear,
acting adjutant, No. 1020 First ave
nue, Seattle, Wash.
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Seattle should breathe easy
once more as the "foreign
devils" have been crushed in
the politics of King county.
They died hard but died they
did. Knickerbocker, Lysons
and Lewis, their aids, should i
follow their masters to new
fields, where pastures will be
more green for the laddies.
•
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1900.
NEW ORLEANS HAS
■
A Desperate Negro Desperado
Who Defends His I^ife to the
Bitter End, Killing Eleven
Persons and Fatally Wound
ing Others—He is Finally
Killed, but Sells His Life Very
Dearly—Other Race News.
Charles, the desperate New Or
leans Negro, may have been flagrant
ly guilty of crime ere the first at
tempt was made by the officers of the
law to arrest him. He may have
Ijene even more" guilty of crime in
deliberately shooting to death the
two officers of the.law who attempt
ed to arrest him, but perhaps the
crime that he was -originally guilty
of was such a nature that he knew
ne would be lynched if he was ever
taken into the custody of the officers,
for it must be remembered that Ne
groes are lynched for most any petty
offence that they commit in the
South; and for that reason he de
termined to not be arrested and di
vested of every nfeans for the protec
tion of Jus hie. After he had killed
two men he was quite confident, that
to be taken alive meant a most hor
rible death for him, hence he fought
with a desperation that knew no
bounds, when once cornered. When
a man single-handed and alone suc
ceeds in standing off a mob as did
Charles and selling out his life as
dearly as did he, some how or other
ere goes up a spark of admiration
tor the man from the bosom of all
brave men. The cries of "Burn him
at the stake!" and "Kill him!"
which he could hear from the turbu
lent mob that surged about his tem
porary fort told him too plainly that
his hours were numbered. He there
fore said, "Though 1 go I shall take
company with me!" and every time
his Winchester rung out a man bit
the dust, and he continued this until
some eleven persons had been killed.
It has been a long time since a color
ed man in the South showed so much
bravery, but this one is to be com
mended for selling out just as dearly
as he did. It not only took the en
tire police force'of New Orleans, but
the state militia as well to kill their
man, and when they succeeded they
found that it had been done so at a
terrible loss to the "superior race/
who had joined in. a nigger hunt.
The enraged white citizens, Chinese
Boxer-like, not being able to kill the
man they wanted, killed every other
colored man they could see, yet they
now realize what it is to arrest a
i\egro who knows he is going to be
lynched and makes up his mind to
sell out as dearly as possible. Let
the same spirit of bravery, despera
tion, or whatever you may call it, be
come common among the Southern
Negroes and lynch Jaw will not be
of much longer duration. Would it
have been possible or probable that
Charles or other Negroes to get a
fair and impartial trial when they
commit crime, then it would be the
duty of all Negroes to help to bring
to justice any Negro that commits a
crime against the peace and dignity
of the state; but such is impossible,
and inasmuch as it is to be force
against force, violence and despera
tion against such, 'and mobs against
mobs, then it is the duty of the Ne
gro population of the South to play
its part and play it just, as did
Charles of New Orleans.
NEGROES TREATED INHU
MANLY.
Repeatedly has The Republican
pointed out the fact that, if the Ne
groes of the South were treated a*
humanely as they are in the North
and other sections of the globe,
where they are to be found in great
numbers ,there would not now nor
would there ever have existed a race
conflict between the whites and the
blacks in the South. Now comes the
Medical Record, one of the leading
periodicals of the country, and de
clares that the Negro, who existed in
large numbers, so large as to be at
one time considered alarming, in the
country of Mexico, who, having been
taken to Mexico under similar cir
cumstances as brought to this coun
try, for slaves, but who were freed in
1813; but not having been branded
as. outcasts by their former masters,
as was the case in the South, being
treated humanely with the view of
making citizens of them, have been
finally absorbed by the citizens, and
are making even better citizens than
the Spaniards. More progressive and
more accumulative in the wealth of
the world. Just the opposite has
been the treatment of the Southern
Negro by the "superior race" of the
i arted States. Since his emancipa
tion he has been left to his fate by
the men who set him free. Enraged
over the fact of his fredom and de
termined that he should never be
aught else but a menial of the worst
type, the Southern white man has
murdered, maltreated and misused
the Negro until he has succeeded in
making of him a revengeful, spite
ful and retaliatory being who never
loses an opportunity to do a white
man a barn, when he can do so with
out fear of detection, lie was lead
into politics by one class of white
citizens and shot out of politics by
another class of white citizens, and
both classes belong to the race that
is now denouncing the unfitness of
the American Negro for citizenship.
The men who set him free and then
rode him into, political battle have
folded their arms in perfect content, i
while the men who scourged him as j
a slave are now shooting him as a
freeman. Had a humane course been
pursued with the newly emancipated j
race instead of a bruttish one, as lias j
the Southern Negro been subjected
to >ime ls<>:>, the South would now
be one of the most prosperous sec
tions of this country, for the Negro
would have taken to improvement,
civilization and education a hundred
per cent, more rapidly than he has
tinder the circumstances, and that
is saying a good deal. The Negro is
naturally docile, and, if lie hase be
come vicious, as he is now accused of
being by the whites of that section,
then the white man himself is solely
Responsible for the same. The Ne
gro's women folk lias been brutaliz
ed, robbed and divested of their vir
tue by the licentious white men of
>outh. with the lavish use of
money and means and with intimida
tion and '"superior race"* cajoleries.
While this was and is going on the
black men are but silent spectators,
for any interference to prevent such
meant sudden death to them. If it
occasionally happened that the out-'
raged feelings of the Negro found !
vent in retaliation on some unfor
tunate white woman, then he became
a most dangerous adjunct to the
peace and happiness of the commun- j
ity, and the neighborhood, from the i
cradle to the grave, were summoned
to witness the burning of a vicious
Negro at the stake. Nothing has
been so instrumental in bringing
about the present chaotic state of af
fairs in the South than the barbarous j
way the Negroes have been treated
by the whites, who have been even
more inhuman to them than were
the Chinese Boxers to the mission-!
aries. Pray, how much worse are
the reports from China than those
from New Orleans? Who would
think that human beings living in a
Christian land, and far advanced in
the modern art of civilization could
have ever committed such atrocities
as are daily reported from the South
as being perpretrated upon the de
fenseless Xegroes by the cultured
and Christian white citizens? One
day, unless there is a change, the civ
ilized world will be moving against
the United States, just as it is today I
against the Chinese empire, to pre
vent the further slaughtering of the
Negroes within our domain, and per
haps the slaughtering of whites as
well on the part of Southern crimi
nals, for crime begets crime, and
when one becomes steeped in it there
is no telling as to where it will end.
ILLITERATE White Voters in NC
Now that the political fate of the
Negroes in North Carolina is hang
ing on a brittle thread, with a fair
prospect of the thread breaking and
the man at the lower end being
plunged into a fathomless abyss be
low, it might not be out of place to
say a few words as to the ■situation
and en use which have prompted such
a retrogressive step. It has been
given out to the world by the whites
of the South in general that the Ne
gro was an illiterate, ignorant per
sonage and totally unfit to have the
right of suffrage in his possession.
Thirty-five years* trial as a citizen of
the United States has not made
much improvement in his condition
as a slave and a chattel. He is no
more fit from an educational stand-
I joint to exercise the right of suf
frage bow than when he was set
free. While his white brethren are
constantly advancing in the art of
better citizenship the Negro is dete
riorating, are some of the adverse
criticisms the Negro is getting these
days even from persons and locali
ties lie did not expect. In the state
of North Carolina today the "red
shirt* terror reigns supreme, hop
ing to make a majority of the white
citizens vote to negative the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments
to the constitution of the Federal'
government, because^ forsooth, the
.Negro has not accomplished since
iie has been free all that the preju
diced minds of the whites expected
him to do. But how about the edu
cational condition of the white men
in that state who are voting to dis
franchise the Negro? The follow
ing extract has been taken from the
census report and will throw a dif
feren: light on the subject in North
Carolina:
Illiteracy in North Carolina is in
creasing, particularly among the
whites. By the census of 1870 there
were 38,111 illiterate white voters
in North Carolina; in 1880, -±4,420;
in 1890, 49,570 —an average increase
of 800 illiterate voters a year, and a
total of 21 per cent, of the entire
white voting population.
It strikes the writer that if the
illiterate whites and blacks were all
disfranchised in North Carolina and
the South in general, there would
no Longer he disturbing elements in
the political world down there.
Such a proceeding, it must be ad
mine*!, would mean a loss of three
fifths of the white voters and four
iifth.- of the colored from the poll
hooks, hni it would eliminate from
the suffrage list the ignorant and
illiterate, who know no more about
what they are voting for and about
than a stone statue, and it would
then lie an easy matter for the edu
cated blacks and whites to harmon
ize their differences.
REPKiIKET
The King County Repnblioan
Convention is a thing of the past-
It took it two days to complete its
labors, but it did them well.
Hon. J. M. Frinks, endorsed by
an overwhelming majority for
governor and sixty-three delegates
will work as a unit for his nomina
tion.
The nefarious and hellish-plot
on the part of the Piper-Humes
Ankeny gang to steal the conven
tion, nuos' signally miscarried.
Mr. S. H. Piles was made the pre
siding officer.
For Sheriff
A. T. VAN DE VANTER
For Superior Judges
ARTHUR C. GRIFFIN
W. R. BELL
BOYD J. TALLMAN
For Prosecuting Attorney
W. H. WHITE
For County Clerk
C. A. KOEPFLI
For County Auditor
GEORGE B. LiMPING
For County Treasurer
J. W. McCONNAUGHEY
For Count) Assessor
W. A. BAILEY
For Superintendent of Schools
W. G. HARTRANFT
For County Suveyor
CLARENCE E. WHITE
For County Coromer
DR. C E. HOVE
For County Wreckmaster
DR.SAMUEL BURDETTE
For County Commissioner, Second
District
L. C. SMITH
For County Commissioner, Third
District
P. J. SMITH
For State Senator, Twenty-Fourth
District
DR. J. J. SMITH
PRICE FiVE CENTS
For Representative, Thirty-Eighth
District
-JOHN RINES
For Representative, Thirty-Eighth
District
JOHN BARCLAY
For Representative, Thirty-Ninth
District
FRED W. COMSTOCK
For Representative, Thirty-Ninth
District
DAVID BRUCE
For Representative, Fortieth Dis
trict
REUBEN W. JONES
For Representative, Fortieth Dis
trict
JOSEPH DA WES
For Representative, Forty-First
District
Z. B. RAWSON
For Representative, Forty-First
District
W. H. LEWIS
For Representative. Forty-Second
District
It. B. ALBERTSON
For Representative, Forty-Second
District
F. It. BURCH
For Representative, Forty-Third
District
O. A. TUCKER
For Representative, Forty-Third
District
EDGAR C. RAINE
For Representative, Forty-Third
District
WATSON ALLEN
For Justices of the Peace, Seattle
It. B. GEORGE
T. H. CANN
For Constable, Seattle
SAMUEL KAUFMAN
Following is the list of the
delegates to the state convention,
who are instructed to secure, by
all fair and honorable means, the
nomination for governor of
i Senator J. M. Frink:
T. H. Bain
B. Williams
S. C. Woodruff
I. A. Mosss
J. H.
C. A. Taylor
L. T. Haas
D. W. Griffin
Harry Emery
J. H. Calvert
George B. Kittinger
It. A, Wright
J. H. Powell
R. H. Young
C. M. Anderson
W. H. Morris
H. L. Sizer
James D. Hoge, Jr.
John B. Ault
James Gregg
H. R Cayton
E. B. Palmer
George E. Morris
J. C. Redvvard
Jed. G. Blake
J. D. Jones
D. B. Ward
Albro Gardner'
S. J. Meek
Angus Young
Ira Bronson
J. E Crichton
H. It. Shepherd
J. A. Whalley
S. J. Williams
S. H. Piles
J. H. McGraw
F 0. Harper
Will H. Parry
Jacob Furth
Frank Paul
Harold Preston
Milo A. Root
J. P. Hartman
C, P. Stone
A. J. Goddard
A. H. Can-
George W. Deßolt
L. S. Hawley
H. 13. Richards
J. R. Weatherby
C 0. Anderson
G. A. Brooke
M. F. Hatch
E. P. Kendall
M. Morgans
A. A. Risedorph
W. J. Shinn
A. T. Van De Vanter
Mike Kelly
0. L. Campbell
O. Bassett
M. B.Sachs.
