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The Seattle Republican
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The Seattle Republican is published
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CAYTON PUB. CO. INC.
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Telephone Main 305.
Horace Roscoe Cayton - - Publisher.
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PEOPLE NOT BENEFITED.
Much has been said from time to time
concerning the completion of the Panama
canal and the great benefits the Pacific
Coast is to derive from it in the way of
cheap transportation, and the allegation is
not denied, in fact, we believe that the rates
from the East to the West and from the
West to the East will be cheapened to a
marked degree, but the question to the con
sumer is, Am I to benefit by this cheaper
rate? Is the article so shipped to be cheap
ened in proportion to the reduction of the
freight rate made so by the opening of the
canal, for which the taxpayers of the coun
try have paid almosf a billion dollars? And
then knowing as he does that the price of
everything sold to the consumer is regu
lated by a trust or a combination of trusts
he can answer the questions without a mo
ment's consideration with, not a single cent
less will I pay for the articles sold to me
on account of the cheap rate. "Freight on
typewriters," said a Seattle dealer, "will be
reduced from $15 per hundred pounds to
seventy-five cents per hundred pounds and
that will be a big thing for our company."
In other words the government has built
the canal at an enormous expense to cheap
en the freight rates on trust goods that the
trusts may reap a greater harvest in the
future from the consumer than they have in
the past. If you do not call that class
legislation then, what is it? When the city
of Seattle put in an electric light plant of
its own the private concerns doing business
in the city immediately cut their former
rates in two and the consumer was the
beneficiary of the reduction, which was right
and proper. It would therefore appear, if
the public built the canal the reduction in
freight rate ought to redound to the good of
the consumer, but nay, nay, Pauline, not so,
you pay the same price. Who is responsible
for it we are not prepared to say, but the
United States is completely domineered by
trusts and the consumer is compelled to
dance to their music or go hungry and
naked. And under such conditions the trust
king wonders, why there seems to be such
a state of unrest all over this country just
now. Keep up the pace you are going at,
Mr. Trust, and there will not only seem to
be a state of unrest, but there will be a
bloody unrest prevailing in this country,
and one even worse than the one that is
now prevailing all over France.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. SEPT. 8, 1911.
BEATTIE TRIAL A DISGRACE.
The Associated Press has kept the wires
hot with detailed accounts of the Henry
Beattie murder case in Virginia and it has
done so for no greater reason than because
the parents of that young reprobate, who
publicly admits he has ruined the lives of
two innocent young women, to say nothing
of the score or more he is silent about, is
vastly rich, and even he may have acquired
those riches in the same criminal way that
his son has the notoriety he is now getting,
all of which is done to give the public to
understand that, if a person has money it
is not in the books for him to be convicted
of crime, though he may be guilty of mur
dering the purest woman or women of the
Iftnd. It after all is a sad commentary on
our much boasted civilization, and it can be
said, without fear of successful! contradic
tion, that so far as getting justice at the
hands of the courts of the United States it
is next to impossible, if your opponent has
more money than you.
TOO MUCH TAXES.
At the election last Tuesday the large
bond issues, except the one for the water
shed about Cedar Lake, was defeated and
rightly so. While there were some very
meritorious propositions killed, yet the
status of affairs was such that, the people
were in no mood to vote for more bonds
or anything else that would in any way in
crease their present rate of taxation. The
defeat of the court house bonds is rejoiced
at by the advocates of the Bogue Civic Cen
ter proposition, but they are hollering be
fore they are out of the woods for, they will
learn to their bitter regret that when that
proposition comes before the public the
voters wiU bury it so deep that it will never
remember that it ever was a live issue. The
AVhole idea is a real estate scheme and it is
being hatched up for the purpose of a lot
of men with large realty holdings in that
section of the city to unload it at an enor
mous price to the city. In other words, they
have not had an opportunity to sting the
city treasurer and that is the way they have
planned to do so, and the fellows who have
already been given an opportunity to sting
the city is helping along for the opportunity
they have previously enjoyed.
SENATOR BAILY TO QUIT.
Once or twice in recent months Joe
Bailey, the senor United States senator
from Texas, has threatened to resign his
seat in the senate, but has withdrawn the
threat, now he gives it out that he will
not be a candidate for re-election. The
public has begun to smell a mouse in all
of this talk of Bailey's about leaving the
senate and it has begun to wonder what
Bailey has done in the senate that is about
to come under the observation of the pub
lic, which would bring him into general dis
repute, and to avoid the scandal he is going
to quit public life? Joe Bailey went into
politics and into Congress a poor man and
he is now conservatively rated as being
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worth a few million dollars, and it has been
hinted that his vast riches is due to his
connection with the Standard Oil Company
since he has been a member of the senate.
But what more could be expected from a
man, who has rose from the dunghill of
the "poor white trash" of Copiah county,
Mississippi, where clay-eating was "putty
gud," than to grab everything in sight. It
was with him like the old man that sent
his boy off to school and had him educated
for a physician. When he came home he
gave him a horse and saddle and said to
him: "My son, go out now and make
money. If you can not make money honest,
my son, make money."
TRIMBLE FOR GOVERNOR.
In another column hereof is published a
communication from a committee, which
is espousing the candidacy of Wm. Pitt
Trimble, a distinguished citizen of Seattle,
subject to the approval of the Republican
party, and its contents are more or less
popular and will meet the approval of a
great many of the voters of this state.
We do not understand the communication
to be in any sense a formal announcement
on the part of Mr. Trimble to entei the
gubernatorial contest next year, but is
rather a public pulse-feeler, and if the same
meets a favorable reception then perhaps
he will issue a Declaration of Principles
and formally announce his intention of ask
ing the Republicans of the state for the
nomination of governor. Briefly speaking,
the circular covers a wide scope, and points
out many defects in the present manner of
running the affairs of the state which should
be rendered, and on the whole the letter fur
nishes much meat for thought.
If Mr. Trimb'e endorses the ideas couched
in the words of_ the letter, and he must
as it is signed by one of the most reputable
business men in the Northwest, he is a real
reformer, and one, that would put the af
fairs of the state on a business basis and
public officials would be told that they
would have to do business for the state the
same as they would for private individuals.
Mr. Trimble stands high in this communi
ty and is a man possessing the most sterling
qualities. He may not be the personally
popular mixer that the other fellow is, but
if you ever have any business deaWngs with
him, you will go away knowing that he
is the embodiment of honor and personal
integrity and deals on the square and in
the open with every one. Because he or
she who aspires to public office has not in
the past poked his head out of the tenth
story window of some of the modern sky
scrapers and hollowed, Hello, Bill, is no
argument at all that such person is cold
blooded toward his fellow man. He or she
who does the most good to all is he or she
who goes about his work and never fails
to in some way lend a helping hand to the
needy, who takes no undue or mean ad
vantage of those he has business relations
with and every time he does a humane act
announce the same either through golden
