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Febuuary 22, 1907 of such literature is not necessarily a muz zling of the press, for no man that has any interest in his fellow man would publish such degenerating matter, knowing as he would the demoralizing effect it would have on the general public. When men publish such pa pers as the Hearst and the Blethen sheets, they do so for the money that's in it, regard less of the evil effects they may have on the public. The man who sells and dispenses in toxicating drinks has no care for the crimes that may be traced directly to those drinks, but he does so because it is money in his pocket, and the elevation of the human fam ily higher than some saloon bar and wine room is of no interest to him. # # # Polite Railroad Employes. Jim Hill should send a secret agent to his Union Depot in Seattle, and have him make inquiries as to when his train would leave, the price of tickets and other such informa tion as the traveling public generally seek, listen to the snappish, uncourteous, uncivil and haughty answers returned by the young snipes in charge of the ticket window, then discharge them and fill their position with at least —gentlemen. —Tacoina New Herald. Whether or not there is excuse for the above the writer verily does not know, but he does know the average young man at a railroad station is the most self-important being on the face of God's green earth. He is without manners or civility, and the man or woman traveling would as soon face a fierce lion for information as one of those young railroad officials, and this is not any more so in Seattle than all over the country. So impolite are they that when one happens to run on to a man in the employ of a railroad company who speaks to the traveling public as though they were human beings, and that he, the railroad man, is just a plain human being like them, they feel like falling down at his feet with the exclamation, "there is at least one gentleman in the employ of a railroad. One of the troubles with those rail road clerks is that they try to be laconic in their replies to the inquisitive public, and instead of being laconic they art pert. While they are asked a great many foolish questions by the traveling public, yet those clerks take their positions knowing or presuming to' know all of those things. It is gratifying to the anxious traveling person to hear from one in authority whether the train is late, and if late, about how late. It's a great relief to the minds of the passengers when tied up on the road for the trainmen to politely announce, "there is a wreck ahead and it is impossible to say when the train will move forward." A hundred and one other little courtesies the men in authority on the various railroads might impart to the traveling public without inconveniencing themselves and yet greatly relieving the minds of their passengers. There should be some consideration due the person in transit, since thousands of persons are annually killed through the criminal carelessness of railroad employes. Hooligans Hit Hard. Further proof that Southern sentiment is THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN responding to the leadership of intelligent and far-seeing men, and that because of such influence Negro-hating is not so popular as it once was, is presented by the case of the Atlanta News, which has just been forced to suspend publication. The News was founded five years ago. Its proprietors adopted the principle of "yel low journalism," which declares: "We will give the public what the public wants," meaning thereby that they assumed a public demand for sensationalism of the worst sort. On this basis they did fairly well in building up circulation, and the paper was prosperous until last September, when its conductors de cided that the public wanted a crusade against the Negroes, with red-hot appeals to race prejudice. Its columns were therefore filled with exaggerated stories of alleged Negro outrages upon Avhite women, and with calls for the revival of the Ku Klux Klan or ganizations. This effort to incite violence w Tas steadily persisted in until it had its natural effect. The "Hooligans" of Atlanta for whom the paper was published, began to apply its doctrine that "the only good nigger is the dead nigger." The history of the race riot thus started is still fresh in our readers' minds. Many innocent and industrious Negroes were killed, and the hos pitals were filled with other victims of the mob before the state militia and the police had re-established order. Then the grand jury conducted the inqui sition on the riot and its causes. It "pre sented" the News as having directly contrib uted to the outbreak by its "extras." At once reputable subscribers dropped the paper and urged their acquaintances to do like wise. The city's pride, aroused by the in jury to Atlanta's good name, struck hard at the offending newspaper. Nearly every mer chant withdrew his advertising. After try ing to stem the tide for several months at great loss, the News has given up the fight. —■ Tacoma Ledger. Recently Miss Frances Kellor, who de voted her life to the study of criminalogy among the black folk of this country, deliv ered a lecture in Chicago, and among other things she called particular attention to the number of colored young women who are coining every day into our large cities with no place to go and no knowledge of the perils of city life. She called attention to the fact that at every railway station in our large cities may be found the kindly face of some white women waiting to receive, and if necessary rescue the white young woman. The doors of Christian Associations are wide open for them, and other havens of welcome and peace offer them hospitality and refuge. For the colored girl there are no such agen cies of kindness and welcome waiting to save and protect her. Hundreds of places freely offer hospitality, mental and moral stimulants, to every other class of young people except the colored American. Plain ly we must do these things for ourselves. It is a singular fact that we are deficient in ways and means for protecting our girls and bringing them into wholesome environments and under friendly and uplifting influences. We seem to be doing things in the same old unprogressive ways as when society was less complex and temptations less subtle. The city girl becomes a woman all too soon. She loses the bloom of girlishness while still a girl in years. They early crave the sensa tional and the unusual and lose all appetite for simple joys and wholesome amusements. Sunday school has become simply a rendez vous for frivolous exchange of greetings be tween the sexes, discussions of the latest dancing party or theatre, and an almost total ignorance of the Sunday lesson. It is no longer a question of locating the responsi bility for this state of things, but how and Avhere to apply the remedy. 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