IS THERE DISCRIMINATION AT THE CITY MARKET?

A NEWSPAPER MAN told the Editor of the Times yesterday that the New City Market, which had cost a splendid sum of public money, was being occupied completely by the Italians and Japanese farmers.

The assertion was boldly made that the New Marketman, appointed by the City Council, made no bones of cutting out white men, whether they were Scandinavians, Germans or straight Yankees and giving preference to the "Japs and Dagos" -- to use his pointed language.

The Times has made no investigation touching this subject -- but walking down the full length of The Market discloses a condition that seems to bear out the charge to the extent that about 90 per cent of the market-men doing business on Saturday belong to the nationalities indicated.

It has been said that the "white farmers" of King County care but little about The Market -- and fail to take advantage of the opportunity offered -- but this is denied by the party complaining to The Times.

This man boldly says that the "white man" is crowded out in favor of the Asiatic and the Italian -- and if it be true there should be a new Marketman forthwith -- and in order to establish the truth The Times proposes to make an investigation in the near future.