THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN - Chronicling AmericaOnce again those elected to rep-resent the various states of the United States in the halls of Con-have assembled at the Na-Congress Convenes

THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Price One Year, $3.00. Single Copies, 10 Cents. SEATTLE. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1908. Volume XV, Number 24. H. R. CAYTON, Publisher. Once again those elected to rep- resent the various states of the United States in the halls of Con- have assembled at the Na- Congress Convenes for Closing Session tional Capitol to begin the closing session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. While noth- ing remarkable or unusual is ex- pected to happen between now and the 4th of March, 1909, when it will pass into history, yet the members of the present body hope to so completely clear the legisla- tive boards by that time that they will be able to plunge into the tar- iff reduction tussle, which the country was promised by the eani- . paigners before the election, as soon as the present Congress dies and the new one born and will have been culled together by President Taft. While to the average lay citizen it might ap- pear that the country is being legislated to death, yet there is always imminent need of the pres- ence of Congress to patch this or that piece of legislation which, ow- ing to the size <md progress of the . country, has sprung aleak: to pass Buew legislation in order to meet 'unforeseen emergencies that have arisen on account of the rapid development of the country, and finall^ to kill off certain legislation that is no longer applicable. Theodore Roosevelt has wit- nessed his last opening of Con- gress wi;h himself president of the United States, and his xnes- Roosevelt Reports to Congress sage thereto savored a great deal of a farewell ad- dress. While the message was not of a pathetic nature, yet it did make recommendations that the president knew could not be acted upon before the present Congress, as well as himself, officially died next March. It was not as long as previous ones, but it bristled with pertinent points bearing on the general good of the country as he seemed to see them, a great many of which were brought out by the work that was begun by him some time ago and made more visible by tie late campaign. President-elect Taft, upon assuming the duties of the presidency of the United States, could not do better than to at least re-recommend the most of the salient points which were recommended by President Roosevelt in his recent message-, and then see to it that they are favorably acted upon, even if he has to use the Roosevelt big stick in order to succeed. The message recommends federal control of interstate corporations; railways put under complete control of the intei-state commerce commission; telegraph and telephone com- panies likewise controlled; better employers' liability laws; a weekly half holiday for all laborers during sum- mer months; doubling the salaries of federal judges; the cheeking of the abuse of issuing temporary injunctions; national forest policy indorsed; the improvement of in- land waterways; the establishment of postal savings banks; more money for the bureau of education; the census appointees placed under civil service rules; the government printing office placed under the department of commerce and labor; soldiers' homes placed under control of the war department; the immediate admis- sion of Arizona and New Mexico; federal control of interstate fisheries; American citizenship conferred upon the people of Porto Rico; the withdrawal of Uncle Sam's army from Cuba within two months, and many other less important measures. The city of Los Angeles, according to the Times of that city, is in the throes of a garbage collecting contro- versy, and the authorities, who had thought the city would make a barrel of money by handling the proposition itself, Garbage Plant 'Losing Proposition are in the position of the Irishman who grabbed hold of the horns of a mad bull to show his friends how strong he. was, but realized after he THEODORE ROOSEVELT. had caught the bull the predicament he would be in when be attempted to turn it loose, and soon began to pray for his friends to help him let go of the animal. After three years' trial of the city collecting and burning of the garbage, the authorities have come to the conclusion that, it costs twice as much for the city to do the work as it would for a private concern to do it. The city's incinerator, purchased at a cost of .s'Bo,ooo, has proven an expensive luxury, and the city is now seeking to get some private concern to take the garbage contract and pur- chase the incinerator at one-half of its original cost. The city of Seattle might profit by the experience of Los Angeles and begin to hedge now on its garbage collecting proposition before it will have lost ten times more than it has already spent. By those who have given the subject much thought, it is believed that a private concern in Seattle could collect the refuse of the city at one-half the cost to the taxpayers than if done by the city. The condition of Los Angeles should be looked into before the city of Seattle goes further toward putting in a system of its own. At a public meeting held in the city of Greater New York not many days ago, in which men and women, par- ticipated, the crjminology of the Negro in the political world was being discussed when the audience was startled Anglo-Saxons Are Absorbing Negroes to hear one Mrs. Blake, herself a Southern woman, make use of the following: "I don't suppose a woman in this room has seen a real Negro. I have, because I am a Southern woman and as a child saw plenty of them on my father's estate. But white blood is now so mixed with black blood that the real Negro is being wiped out. In 100 years from now I don't suppose there will be one left, and everybody, broadly speaking, will have a strain of Negro blood in their veins. I cannot say that I will regret it" We are satisfied that the lady did not exaggerate in her state- ment, and every other person born south of the Mason and Dixie line is likewise satisfied that she did not. That the Negroes in the United States within the next hundred years will have been completely absorbed by tin; whites is just as apparent as the shining sun. It is impossible and contrary to human nature for ;i black people to be able to thrive and grow strong numerically, financially and other- wise surrounded by a white people, as is (he condition of the black folk in the United Slates, and those persons who take indig- nant exceptions to the theory are either ignorani of the f:i"ls or are whistling to keep their courage up, hoping that it will not happen. In the United States the number of mixed bloods of white and black parentage lias increased from a few hundred thousand at the time of the emancipation to nearly four million at the present time, and yet no one can be charged directly with having brought this about. The white man pretends to be fighting the miscegenation of the whites and (Ik 1 blacks in this country, even taking human life if his women do not live up to his dogma, but forgets all about his beautiful theory when the ride comes up to him, and as a result the mulatto population of the country has increased a thousandfold since the emancipation. Since the shutting clown of the tenderloin district in Seattle the wise ones are asking of them- selves, "Is a tenderloin district a Are Tenderloin Districts Neces- sary Evils? necessary evil for a city?" There have always been and always will be fallen women, who will be the consorts of fallen and disreputa- I ble men, as well as men who wear the "holier than thou" mask. If there be no district where large numbers of the more brazen and vicious are herded together, these fallen women will flourish just the same. On the other hand, if a district is set aside for them and if every available space allotted to them be occu- pied, there will still be thousands of them roaming around among the chaste and upright persons. In view of the fact that the "bad" seems to be omnipresent, the question naturally arises, "Is there any specific need of a district being set apart for lewd women, where they can be sought by vicious men?" It is certainly a debatable question, and The Seattle Republican would be glad to get your opinion on the subject. To herd vicious women into one district and permit the same class of men to go and live where fancy leads them is an unfair proposition, and is, in short, class legislation and should not be toler- ated. But a few days ago two young married men sat talking to each other. "My wife leaves Saturday for a three months' visit with friends and relatives," said one. "In that case I suppose you will either fake rooms at a down-town hotel or a house of ill-fame," was the startling reply of his companion. In reply to the latter question, the first young man declared he had not fully decided which he would do. Had the same remark been made concerning his wife the other fellow's life blood would have paid for the insult, and yet he is a companion of his wife, and his wife has as much moral right to spend her vacation at some house of ill-fame as he, and on returning be considered by her husband just as angelic as the man who had either taken rooms at a house of ill-fame during his wife's absence or spent a great many of his leisure hours therein. The editor of The Seattle Republican raises a mourn- ful wail because of the lynching of three Negroes the day before Thanksgiving, and the apparent apathy of the governor of Tennessee. Need we tell any man why those Seattle Republican Unduly Criticised. "niggers" were lynched? No! He says that no one interfered. Cer- tainly not! The lynching watt not done in a moment of high passion. It was an act of calm justice. He calls the Tennesseeans \u25a0 I

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