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Berger has been elected by an increased ma jority over his first election. His case is now on appeal to a higher court and if if goes against him he will go to the peni tentiary instead of lo Congress. It begins to look very much like that the' same' de fiant spirit that re-elected Brger will be a powerful factor in the next presidential election. Whether right or wrong mul tiplied thousands of voters in this country have' lost confidence in the government and will vote for the proverbial "yaller clorg',, if he', she' or it will but promise to strive to overthrow the existing form of govern menl ll* Unlet M. Wells, (i. P. Listman, or some one' else of like' anti-government stripe is not elected governor of the State' of Washington them there is noth ing in the' signs of the time's. If such a castasthrope is to be' obviated let the Republicans make' an effort to represent the' people instead of the corporations and may perhaps the threatened danger will he' averted. If Titlow of Tacoma ever gets in Wilson's cabinet he will have to suck a higher teat than the Washington State Democratic or ganization. Down in Puyallup, Paulhamus is planning to jam the city. This is not the first in stance' Paul has jammed things. New presidential timber is being con stantly discovered, the last being Victor Ber ber of lied! and Damnation party. Between the financial plunderers and the union labor bandits former U. S. Senator Beveridge is of the opinion Uncle Sam has a mighty slim chance of getting by and he seems about three-thirds right. Caldwell's letter seems to us to be a bid for the support of the Tripple Alliance. If so, then it's another instance of "anything to get that pretty liltle coon." THE PASSING THRONG. An editorial contributor to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is responsible for the following paragraph: When Henry R. King, returned from the' South this fall he told of a Georgia negro he had met who had nearly been re lieved of his pulpit by the deacons because lie persisted em preaching em. "Procrastin -,7i n .*" It seems according to Mr. King, that Dr. M. A. Matthewswho also hails from that section—had been clown there p "i I" el nn "Predeastination," and this colored brother had been to hear him. So, when called before the board of deacons he orated "in this wise: "Why, I don't believe you all knows the meanin' of this here word, Proscras tination. Didn't you all hear Dr. Mat thews preach on dat very word at Atlanta and he' am one' ob de leaders in our church. Why, Procrastination. Procrastination, dat am one ob de fundamental doctrines ob de Presbyterian church." If yon have ever talked to Mr. King you would, after reading his bit of pleas antry at the» expense "of a Georgia Negro," be of the' opinion that he was quoting him self, and endeavoring to palm it off on his ebony lined mental superior. The color ed preacher in Georgia that would take it onto himself to go to hear Dr. Matthews preach is one of superior mentality and would go to hear Dr. Matthews, because he, the' colored preacher, was of like intel ligence as Dr. Mathews. The colored preacher of Georgia that would attract such minds as Henry R. King is unable to read his own name' in print, hence never, heard of Dr. Mathews and has no faith what ever in his white folks religion. Of course its that class of colored preachers that at tracts Mr. King as it gives him an oppor tunity to come West and crack jokes at his expense. This Mr. King is quite a plana tation Negro story teller, which, I am inclined to think, he acquired from constant association with the illiterate "gals and boys," down on the farm," and his stories are always of a humiliating nature. You never hear of him telling a story of how colored persons in Georgia have outstrip ped the poor white trash of that state des pite the fact that the white people almost weekly lynch some colored man, woman or child for no greater excuse than because they try to act like white folks. You never hear of Mr. King quoting from some learn ed colored divine, who is the mental equal of Dr. Mathews and the mental superior to himself, but that may be clue to the fact that, Mr. King is himself too dense to quote from such a personage."Where ig norance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Some time ago this same Henry R. King was invited to speak in the assembly hall of the Broadway High School and instead of speaking to the edification of the stu dents thereof he told vulgar stories about Negroes of the South, and colored boys and girls were compelled to listen to the rot and become the cynosure of all of the white boys and girls present. Within the next few days thereafter the principal re ceived a number of sharp letters from colored parents, to which he kindly and gentlemanly responded and apologized for the insult and promised it would never hap pen again. Recently this same Henry R. King has been elected a member of the school board of Seattle and the head of our educational system thus black guards a part of the patrons of the schools, whom he was elected to uplift. If Mr. King himself spoke other than in southern jargon his jokes about the southern Negro might be a bit more amusing—But, what fools we mortals be. Www Last Monday's Associated Press dispatch es gave an account of the lynching of a colored man down in Georgia—an ex-ser vice man—Who fought in France to make the world safe for democracy, and he was lynched because he was suspected of be ing implicated in the killing of a white man, but that is nothing new, for Georgia, it will be remembered, is the breeding ground for sabbotage committed on color ed folks by white folks. It was in Georgia where a colored woman was hung up by her feet and then disembowled, and the fetus that fell from her stomache was stamped to pieces by Christian white men. It is in Georgia that the lynching record leads all the other states in this union It was in Georgia that Henry R. King first saw the light of day and it was in Geor gia, that he grew into the habit of hu miliating colored folks, because public sen timent in that state favored such a modus procedure. In all human probability if you would ask Henry R. King, why the above Negro was lynched he would reply in his broken English, because he outraged a white woman. In Seattle Mr. King runs a chain of stores for men and I am told he has a large colored trade. They doubt less are not aware of the fact that the owner of those store's is one and the same man who humiliates them every time he gets an opportunity." * * a As 1919 passes into history it can be said of the colored citizens of Seattle that they acquired more real estate during its existence than they had in all the years past. Its next to impossible to speak with exactness of the amount of real estate they purchased last year or the value there of, but the' amount is not only in the hun dreds of thousands of dollars, but even more, and the craze to grab more is still on and unless there come an unexpected lull the amount they will purchase in .1920 will double and then some the amount they purchased in 1919. Moralizing for a moment on this real es tate buying among the colored citizens, and especially those who have purchased the greatest amount in Seattle its a freakish turn of human nature that is difficult to explain. Had many of them who purchas ed expensive homes in Seattle last year, had have been of a like turn of mind ten years ago, and they were equally qualified to have done so then as now; and the spirit to get the dirt abided with them until now, it is safe to say they would have by this time owned in and about Seattle not less than ten million dollars worth of real estate. You doubtless think this an exaggeration, but the reason you think so, if think so you do, is because you have no idea how many colored persons ac quired titles to parcels of real estate in Seattle last year. The colored man, as a rule, is not com mercially inclined unless he has large num bers of colored citizens to draw upon for trade and this seems especially true of those living in Seattle. They,' however, have kept a watchful eye on' the Japan ese of the city and after comparing the Japanese with themselves they were not favorably impressed with the commercial and financial progress they had made and this seems to have been the moving spirit that drove them into the real estate market, for be it remembered, they have purchased as much real estate as a business investment as they have for actual homes. Even much of the resident properly that have pome into their possession is now rented and will continue indefinite so far as they nowr know. Real estate, in Seattle is more val uable to one of moderate means than a like amount of money invested in bank stock. For an example a colored man purchased a business corner and paid $12,000 for the same. He is receiving about $100 per month rentals for the place, which is poor ly improved, and at the expiration of the prseent lease hold the same property will bring a monthly rental of $200. No bank stock would give a like dividend on the actual cash invested. It stands to reason that the colored person of limited means will do better to invest his or her money in real estate than in even high class se curities. Buy the dirt and you wont get hurt nor break the locket thats in your pocket: Speaking about colored persons buying real estate in Seattle I talked with P. Frazier, a Seattle realty dealer and he said, "I, perhaps, have sold to about one third of the colored persons who have purchased real estate in Seattle within the past twelve months and I have sold to forty-seven different persons, the whole amounting to $360,125.00, averaging about $5,350 per tract. In addition to the sales he has made to colored folks he has made many sales to Jews and Japanese and on the whole he has enjoyed a very prosperous year. m # * According to the omens Hugh M. Cald well is about to announce himself a con didate for the nomination of Mayor of Seattle and in this he is exercising his great American privilege, but his move in that direction had no soner been made, when many politicians looked wise and de clared he was a dead sure winner because he had been over there in the service. The ex service man is deserving of a great deal of consideration, when they are really deserv, ing, but they are deserving of no con sideration from that view point when they use it as a club to knock some other fel low out of the road that their personal am bitions may be attained. Mr. Caldwell is a practicing attorney and, I understand is doing well in his profession, which takes him out of the dependent class. In plain English Mr. Caldwell should not be given more consideration than Mr. Fitzgerald be cause the former has been to war and the latter has not been. I believe Mr. Fitz gerald will make a thousand times better chief executive of Seattle than Mr. Cald well and the two men should be measured and compared on their merit and not their war record. As between Caldwell and Fitzgerald, I am most decidedly in favor of Fitzgerald, and, do not understand me as having fully dcided to support him if Others enter the mayorality contest, but that he who runs may read, as between