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cl they do this more to play good fel-J wash those down they do not believe, e lows with the whites in their opposi-j While at the bar drinking one day an e tion to the colored race than for any- expressman came in with a bill and d thing real vicious, for it can be safelyj walked up to Mr. Hawkins with the e said that the Jewrs are far from be- remaik: Mr. Sartori, here s ycuru ing race prejudiced enough to inter- bill. ' Mr. Hawkins at once dropped ?f fere in any way whatever with the on to the fellow's mistake and thought a peaceable proceedings of any other he would have a little fun out of it at i-j race, unless for policy sake, and j Sartori’s expense, so he informed the hence when the Jews in the! teamster that he would not pay any South unite with the mobbcrs of the bill, that he would have to wait, that colored folk they are simply trying he would have to come another day; to be good fellows and falling in writh in short, he was broke. This infuri-«.~e prevailing sentiment of the country.Winstock Was White.The Jewish race, like the Negroes, have some queer experiences while doing business with the Anglo-Saxons ofthe United States, where race preju-.lice against both thee Jews and the and(ills U) see what would happen Jated the teamster and he began to abuse Sartori, as lie thought, in language that wouldn’t look well in a Sunday school lesson leaf. Mr. Hawkins heartily enjoyed the joke and did not U se his temper lor a minute, but finally Saitori came in, and then the fifteen or twenty persons present wereNegroes is very pronounced. Some years ago, while the writer was clt; n-Mi. i.awkins then explained to Mr. Sa.ioii what had transpired. With!!versing with a Jewish attorney in this a vicious snap cl bis eye8 sartori tin n-1 city. Melvin Ci. Winstock, the conver- ed to the nmil an(1 iu hroken EnKUsbsation drifted to prominent colored men, and Winstock incidentally mention 2d Hon. (1. W. Williams of Cincinnati, Ohio, whom he had met while touring Europe. Mr. Winstock spoke in the most complimentary terms of Mr. Williams, and ended up by saying Williams was treated by the Europeans with more deference and respect thannglishsnarled: “Did you think I vas a damn nigger!” With the accustomed repartee of his race Mr. Hawkins then shied in: “No, 1 think lie thought 1was a damn dago!” This brought down the house and cost Sartori not less than a “fiver.” Prior to that Hawkins had been Sartori’s attorney, but the next day he got his check for hishe (Winstock) was. This, to one ac- m(.nthly saIary all(1 was to|(J that hisquamteil with Wiliams, was rather !egal services were not further needed laughable, as he (Williams) was not at sai tori’s place only prominent in the affairs of Ohio, but was prominent in the affairs of the nation. He was a writer of no mean ability, having made something of aMoore Was Rastus.Speaking about the mistakes thatoccasionally occur over racial identity fortune at writing books, and not books reminds the writer of an incidentfilled up with •nigger jargon, but which happened in Seattle a few years novels and periodicals which attracted agc hl which 0 M Moore the Piesentworld wide attention and brought to effident secretary of the Information him many hundreds of dollars; while. Bureau, was the central figure At on the other hand, Winstock was not the time jn questi(.n Mr Moore in crn.generally known even in the commun- nection with Homer M HU, was oper.ity in which he lived, was simply a lit- ating a printing plant in the basement tie Jew traveling through Europe on of the Ria|tf A co,ored nlan deBlringhis hardness or his gall, or, perhaps, to become the publisher of a newg.even worse yet, on borrowed money. The two men did not admit of compari-paper rented space, etc., from Hill Moore for the issuing of his proposedson whatever, and yet Winstock could journal Mr Moore had but ^ not understand why Williams could come to Seattle from Hoquiam where have so many more attentions shown bej too had been rlmnjng newg_ him in Europe than he, because, for- paper and tb(J co,ored man whom wg sooth, he (Winstock) fancied that he shall ca|l Rastug fop leasoug was a white man. but he was only a knowu to the writer wag no ,)eUer Jew and the white men of this city known in tbe ci thant lt;• ■ « 1 . r-m a a_ as s aa X 1 . _ 1 1 « • ssubsequently made him that fact. 5understandGood as a White Man.The idea of a Jew being a “whitebut his paper being Republican in politics, and the Republican party being just a bit anxious at that time as to the colored vote, the editor was frequently consulted on matters political.man” brings to mind another mistake, i . . .. .. Somehow or ether the idea got outwhich the writer heard at a Popu- . .1 among the politicians that Mr. Moorewas Rastus, the colored editor, andPopulistic gathering in this city during thehalcyon days of Populism. One of the t „that Rastus was O. M. Moore. So gen-speakers, who was somewhat oratori-eral did the idea become that Mrcal as well as eloquent, spoke loud and woa f ‘ , ,long of Shylock’s pound of fish, from 3^“^' 0,1 th*which Shakespeare wove such a beau- a ZT ^tifui story. This was taken serious!exceptions to by a Jew in the audi- the coloml paperence. who was a very ardent Populist.| m ?, „ ‘ '°Pe‘ lt youLj ., . will make a success of your paper andHe then and there arose and said that ... * 1 1 ’* , Tiidny other things of n encoumfirin^he was opposed to this thin*? of the' n , tw u,dbln°Jew being singled out on every oca-! 7 it T' S°-ion as a Shylock. The Populists at! , f hU,‘ 'y an thatpolitician that he would not have timeto explain before his interrogator wasgone. When he did explain to themthat he was not Rastus it seemed to dono good, for the very next fellow hemet persisted in dubbing him Rastusand that he was running a colored paper. It was rather funny for a while, but it soon grew very monotonous to Mr. Moore. His wife, who, by the way, is one of the most amiable women that ever lived in Seattle, got onto the joke and did everything she could toward encouraging the politicians in pushingthat time were struggling hard for a foothold in this county and state, and the leaders thereof did not care to drive a single follower from the party, and so the speaker jumped up at once and began to make apologies. “Why,” said he, “I have the highest respect for every nationality, and I think just as much of a Jew as I do of a white man.” This didn’t better matters very much, and resulted in the Populistic Jew leaving the room and swearing vengeance on all forms of Populism. But the thought to he brought out is the Anglo-Saxons of this country do not believe th® R“tUB idea alonS- and on it wentth* tow o ...v.io ______ .. . ! untl1 Moore succeededthe Jew a whie man any more so than they believe the Negro a white man.— - ♦lt;$-»-Thought Her Touched.Complexion has a lot to do with one’s nationality in this country. For an instance, not long since the writer was coming down an elevator in which there was a young Jewess, who was very, very dark in complexion, but there was no denying the fact that she was the offspring of one of the leadingin convincingthem that it was a clear case of mistaken identity. Even to this day he smiles all over his face when you speak to him of the time when he was a colored politician in Moore Hill’s office and was editing a Negro paper. -She Was White.Recently a young white lady in Kentucky boarded a train, and being of a „ i dark complexion the conductor andJewish families in this city. For somej train crew mistook her for a quadroon reason she took occasion at that op- Negress and ordered her to take a seat portune time to state her utter dis- in the nigger car.” The young lady gust for Negroes, and she did it so protested, but say what she could or that all present could hear her very would to the contrary she was unableunkind if not unladylike remarks. No one protested as to the language she used because they considered the source from whence it came, but oneto convince them that they were grievously mistaken, and was finally driven to the “jim crow” car and there sweated and fumed during a half a day’sof the Anglo-Saxons, who seemed ride of having actually been trans-rather disgusted with the young girl’s remarks, said in a pretty loud tone of voice, Well, I was of the opinion thatthe lady was something of a Negro herself.” The lady was dark enough to be considered a Mulatto, and not a very bright one at that, but she thought she was getting the approval of her Anglo-Saxon hearers by making unkind remarks about the colored race. She simply wanted it known that she was a Jew and not a Negro. Just where the honor is in being either of the two in this country is more than the writer, who is also a Negro, can say, but every crow thinks his birdiethe blackest and is the happier thereby.Was Nigger vs. Dago.There are other dark races in this world, and among them is the Italian. | Sometimes the Negro and the Italian 3 get all mixed up. and it takes personal 51 explanations to tell which is which. , Perhaps the most of the readers of this -j paper are personally acquainted with f i the colored attorney in this city, J. i Edward Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins is i something of a sport and he frequent-j ly visits Sartori’s place, where the 1 sports, attorneys and big men in gen-s era! assemble to exchange ideas andformed into a Negro in broad daylight. It would not have been so bad if she had only have gone to sleep a Caucasian and woke up a Negro, butthe transfiguration was going on and she was forced to sit quietly by and watch it do so, which was doubly humiliating to her. She finally reached her destination, and quickly informing her attorney of the insult she had been subjected to, he took immediate action, and now that company is $10,-000 poorer on account of the conductor’s stpuid blunder. It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, for now nearly a third of the colored folk ride in the first class car lest another mistake be made, and the other two-thirds feel hopeful that the leading whites of the state will get the jim crow car law repealed, preferring to have colored folks ride in the first class car rather than to have their women folk mistaken for niggers and thus doublyhumiliated in the presence of whitefolk. ♦lt;*♦ -■ 1 jSummer Excursion RatesTo the beach. No more delightful summer resort in this state than at Westport beach. Inquire at the Northern Pacific for special rates. ***asI-
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Seattle Republican
Seattle, Washington, US
Fri, Aug 08, 1902
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