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No. 248 TOVERI •M S s 3 «« Thomas Jefferson believed that the only censorship that was safe, if our liberties were to be preserved, was the right of the people to censor the government. His successors have reversed the process. Now the government seeks to censor the utterances of the people. As one of its officials has put it—“Keep your mouth shut.” Jefferson showed that the only way to keep our liberties was to do just the opposite. Here is what he said about censorship: “NO GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO BE WITHOUT CENSORS, AND WHERE THE PRESS IS FREE NO ONE EVER WILL.” ! s ¡SOCIALIST PAPERS ARE DENIED MAILS get French revolution that anybody Hoover, Dictator, Does PARLIAMENT OPEN; on the dry knoll. The work a n i-jo f prisoners and all contributions als have been drowned, sold or levied during the w ar to be re hears the holy message of free Nothing for Ameri- KERENSKY SPEAKS m eaten W e have yet to learn to and the money lenders re 'tu rn e d . dom proclaimed in a m anner together. It seems very simple that is not to be denied in the fuse loans to farm ers until the) T h irteen th —Commercial treat- can People --------- A fter several weeklies had • ! “Grandmother of the Revolu land is dry again and planted. i ies not to be based on the peace and yet up to the present time been deprived of their mailing same breath. tion” Addresses. Members of T he inundated Chi Li p la in ' tr e a ty : each country may act in W e have lived to see a people Hoover has announced that he it has been all but impossible. privileges necessary to their very Parliament, Declaring People is still pouring flood w ater • dependency w ith respect to its that was bound, gagged and will not attem pt to dictate retad It is so easy to sow the seed of existence the authorities began Ought to be Masters of the through the Grand canal into commercial policy, but all coun- downtrodden raise itself and lift food ¡»rices and he cannot prom dissension in the ranks of the their attack on the daily Social its strong liberated arm. It is as ise to reduce the high cost of Soil. T ientsin, where the w ater is now tries to engage to renounce an workers, so easy to impose ig ist press. though one's innerm ost soul living— which the poor ultim ate stationary. The American Red economic blockade after the war. The ¡Milwaukee Leader, that were tilled with sum m er and Petrograd. Saturday, Oct. 20.— Cross is erecting huts for 5000 Fourteenth—The conditions of norant, incompetent, recreant . I has stood for the rights of the sunshine: as if one heard the consum er naturally supposed the Prem ier K erensky, on opening refugees and other fo reig n e rs' peace should be settled by a j food law was all about. He re- leaders upon them. N othing ,s j working class since its first is- chirping of all the larks that her ; ports the adm inistration has the Russian prelim inary p arlia are planning to dyke their con- peace congress consisting of del- casier in fact than to keep w ork-i sue, and which opposed l ’rus- ald the spring of liberty. I made considerable progress in m ent today in the M arinsky pal cessions and to pump out the egates elected by the people ami ingmen fighting one another to I siailism and Kaiserism and mili- ace, made a ringing speech in w ater before freezing w eather confirmed by parliam ent. Diplo- 1 he revolution has in some their own undoing and to the Ja r’sm all its forms, was the evoked the mingled feelings of the food conservation propagan- which he said : sets in. The Tientsin-Shang- m atists m ust enagge not to con- H ousew ives he says, are n rst to be deprived of its m ail joy, fear and hope. The joy j da. “ R u ssia w a n ts peace by right, hai railway is washed away in . elude secret treaties, which here- salvation of their exploiting ing privileges. responding to his appeal that b u t w c n ev er w ill bow o u r h ead s m any places, m aking relief and ! by are declared contrary to the arises from the fact th at the per m asters. Then came the Elore, the nicious principles upon which they sign food conservation to force."’ the transportation of supplies e x - ! rights of the people and cons;- Let us understand first of all i H ungarian Socialist daily that the czar and papal rule, unfet cards. ( )h, what a m ighty T his declaration was warmly quently void. treem lv difficult. th at we of the w orking class 1 hated both the H apsburg and the tered by any laws and until re stride toward the solution of the applauded bv the members of all Fifteenth—Gradual disarm a food problem ! T h a t’s about the 1 1 lohensollern tyranny which political factions. His address cently supported by the western are the wide world over ot one ment by land and sea and the es- rules the central empires. It powers, no longer exist, and are ! greatest ¡»rogress he has to re- was largely confined to an ex World Peace Plan ' tablishm i port. Just think of it! P utting and the same class. No m a tte r , was noj charged with favorin., Drawn by Russia ?vstcni ent oi a. non-m ilitary no longer able to enslave and ' the responsibility of the conser- planation of tiie m ilitary situa w here we were born, w hat o u r ! the Kaiser anti his m ilitary oli- tion and an appeal for the ne oppress the people, to shatter ami i I he instructions to M. Skobcl- race, nationality, color, creed, sex garchy or the emperor of Aus-1 to destroy the best and most val i ratio n of the nation's food sup- cessity of saving tiie country. Petrograd, Oct. 21.—The R u s -P ofi end b>' recom m ending him or occupation inav be, we are all. tr ’a- hated tyranny and was! uable that has existed in eastern ! ply—and by inference the blame He said: >ian peace program as drawn up lo >ceb to jem oye all obstacles for the high cost of living—up to , , ' . . . a champion of Socialism so iti Europe. The fear is that the “ W e must fight only to save bv the central executive commit- to 7 le nieet,n>f everv J m o th e rs son and daugh- got . , the axe. the Stockholm i the housewife. Now, as a m atter the Country." feelings and disposition of the tee of the Council of W orkm en's con,erence and to secure the of fact, the average American ter of us, of the same enslaved \ e x t came T he N ovy Mir, a The Bolsheviki left only oc and Soldiers' Delegates, in the ttrantm g ol passports, people will remain as before. T he housewife, impelled bv necessity. and exploited class. Russian Socialist daily that hat-. hope is based on the idea that long ago discovered the secret casionally applauded. T he working class, since the ed the Romanoffs anti supported Kerensky, in the form of instructions to M. Sko- WHITHER ARE the spirit of the revolution will of conservation the experts k eep ' Prem ier r , • , beleff, ex-M inister of Labor, its beginning of organized society, ( !.be . re ' ” lution and the i gain in strength, so as to turn prating so much about while t h c 'CO" rsc hls spcech |,a,d an en’ delegate to the Paris conference, . , . ‘ , . . ¡Social Revolution. It was light i WE DRIFTING has always been enslaved .«. | inK tllc |)a ld c s. for the w ro n g l against nationalism in Russia—- ; food sh a rk s c o n tin u e to le w thusiastic tribute to the valor of consists of 15 articles, covering' act as a damper on its grow th in their tribute. Like the “little ! the Russian sailors, but said he the whole ground from Panama some form and exploited of some [class so it was in the way. i could not sav as much for R us England and France, and finally, ( By John A. Sleicher, in part, usually the g reater part, of And then came the strangest spread to the G erm an peop’g, red hen” she “ will” and s h i ! sia's troops on land. M. Avsken to Persia. Article XI demands Leslie’* W eekly.) w hat has been produced. ( proceeding of all—the serving of; crush the junkers, and finally “does." Can you imagine the tieff, chairman of the executive the “neutralization" of the Pana average American housewife re- i „ f ,, - ma canal and Article IX cal’s t r > comm oi , peas- , , . . , ,, , Do the thinking people of this Now if all of us w orkers are notice on the German Socialist make for peace. • tusm g to conserve cent , beef . • ittee , , oi the council 7 daily, the Yolkszeitung, to show 1,l! ,!K‘ r c s iltn tl' ’,i ot all colonies country realize the revolutionary „1. . » I , . ants delegates, was elected pres- It the Russian revolution could in the same economic class—and cause why its m ailing privileges l steak—a task she mav have to ■ •, . , 1 Ihe program , trend of the tim es? Are we es- • I , , . ,, ! n ie n t of th e p a rlia m e n t bv a m a to Germany. be instrum ental in m aking an think about not more than once ; • f J th at is a fundam ental fact which should not be taken away. This 1 tl1e centra1 executive comm ittee tablishing th e radical changes joritv ot Joo. end to that idiotic war which no sane person will attem pt to paper from the start of the great tears and destroys the white race ¡a week? O r 35-cent pork roast? Madame Catharine Breshkov- ' T. , , „ that the Socialists have long de- ¡O r 50-cent butter? Or 52-cent 1 lis t— E v a c u a tio n bv the Ger- ,nan(ied? Does this account for deny—then it follows logically world w ar has denounced the I for the benefit of the yellow skaya, “grandm other of the revo ! eggs ? 'Y-11, in<- a u t°nom y t ]le extraordinary spread of the lution,” addressed the parlia-i ni.an2 ol and inevitably, that our interests Kaiser and all his works. In do race coming generations will In addition to these in stru c ing this it has aroused the ire, have reason to bless it as one ot lo la n d . Lithuania and the I. W. W. movement, until it has ment, declaring that the people are the same, that we rise or fall of many Germans in this coun-t tions given the housewife who L e ttish provinces. i become such a menace to the ought to be m asters oi the soil together, and that together we try and lost circulation. H ow -; of the greatest benefactions h u has been “drafted” for heavy du they cultivate. A just solution S econd— A u to n o m y of Turkish country t h a t drastic action m anity has received at the hands ty on the firing line in this b a t ever, it never wavered for a m o of a single country, and will look against it has been taken at are enslaved or emancipated. of the agrarian questions, s h e , Aruivnia. tle against the food nirates, the I b ird — S o lu tio n of th e A ls a c e -; \ \ a s h in ‘^tOn said, would enable the country to If our interests arc the same ment as it was edited by revolu with reverence on those who so departm ent of agriculture has avoid dangerous collisions; th ere Lorraine question by a plebiscite.! Do we reaHze that the L w tionary Germans who had fought speedily accomplished it. then our instinct if not our intel Prussian autocracy for years. It added its “b it” of advice. Tt fore, if the council of the repub- the voting being arranged by a : W . is at war with the constitut- As regards the future of L iber gravely suggests that “greens” ligence should teach us to get never hesitated, however, to d e ty. Equality and F raternity, I and nuts (“n u ts” in this relation 1 lie sincerely desired to assist the local civil authority, alter the re-i e(1 authorities of the land and together, to stand together, to nounce every evidence of the 3 thC tr ° ° PS ° f >Ot l th at 1 W 0 0 of its adherents are country it should solve the prob-; T liyí . must remain skeptical. Liberty, m ake common cause together, spirit of Kaiserism shown by in mv estim ation, is equivalent is particularly significant) make lem in conform ity with the exi- »< iLicre!’.- ¡seeking to control our industries an excellent diet. Ye ^l >tor.itu>n to Bel- and tbe ¡abor on our farnls the industrial lords of this coun " r‘ gencies of Russian history, and *nd to fight every battle to g eth to free trade, and. as those na to make an “excellent ' , <o , ♦ i try. And the same story m ust tions who oppose free trade are ought giuni «ii her ancient trontiers four o f t jle N orthw estern states . , , sue ad d ed , let th e R u ssian in te l- er. industrial, political and oth be told—it got the axe. meal along about I hanksgiving lectual classes not oppose such a and compensation for her losses — W ashington, O regon. M ontana advocating liberty, it seems erwise, from slavery to emanci Last week the Jewish Daily clear that the friends of liberty time. trom an international lund. and Idaho? solution.” l ' i f t h R e s t r a t io n o f S e r b ia a n d ¡ ‘ M u s t w e p a s s th ro u g h th c Tt’s like the old story about the Forw ard, the great cultural pa- are in reality in favor of au to c pation. M. Avskentieff, acknowledging the itinerant who stopped at a As individuals we arc abso oer of the Jewish race in A m er racy. 'I he question of liberty , his election, said that the council M ontenegro with sim ilar com- throes of the French revolution house to beg food. T o impress of the republic would doubtless pens.at,on. Serbia to have access and tear down the ak ars ¡n ouf ica was requested to step b e lutely unable to escape our sla lias been perverted and abused fore the T hought C ontroller of bv the various governm ents, just the m istress of the house with consider the problem of promot- ?? tllc A d ria tic . Boznia aw l churches and place within their vish environm ent. W e are com America, 'flic Forward is the the extrem ity of bis hunger he 1I1°" 'I democratic peace on the 'Herzegovina to be autonomous. I m ost sacrcd prccincts> as was pletely at the mercy of the boss. official organ of the Jewish So as the phase of brotherhood has fell to his hands and knees and ; b.^ is of the new development isp u ted B alkan dis- donc ,,, Paris, the women of the been contorted bv the church: T here is not a ray of hope for cialist m ovem ent in America, i o n lv the ideal of brotherhood is began tearing up the lawn with | of the nationSi but for S()jne thne tn cts to receive provisional an- streets? Shall we wipe out the his teeth. “ Mercv,” the woman i Rupsja woui(i ' not for an insla mt ton.unv ollowed bv a plebiscite. Christian Sabbath ami substi- and, in the interest of truth and us o r our class. invincible. Brotherhood, as con said. are vou so hungry th at al)andon thc (lefense of thc CoU Seveiith Bouinania to be re- tute a day of riotous pieasure? But th f very m oment wc < !« > ”,•? £ • " ':,sA ' / " 1 ca,’e' ’ “ P ™ ."’ ceived todav, however, has de ,un von can eat grass .-'” cs. m ad try, upon which the utm ost ef store,! h er old in,„tiers on con- Shall we. as they did in l'rance. , ' , ■ tell the tru th about the capitalist scended into a class war and together our helplessness tu rn s , class of America. ft was de- am. ves,” he replied. “ Poor fort of every citizen m ust be con < l.o ».i uiat ^he g ian t diudja an-, while proclaiming, liberty, etiual- into conquering power and there nied the use of the mails along brought on the present world man. I’m so sorry for you,”, she centrated. tomunv ami grftnt equal rights to ity> and fraternity, dra'g p r „ - war. in the course of which the said consolingly. “Go around in is nothing on earth that can re with the other four. , , . , i Leon Trotzky, president of the , 4, < , . testing statesm en to the scaffold m ajority of the races on the , , , I the back yard—the grass is long- j cCntr il executive comm ittee pt E .eg h th -A u to n o m y for the, and establish the mob in the sist us. T he one thing we have earth m assacre each other to the j er there.” Ita lia n pro v in ces of A u stria to be halls of legislation? A Reflection of the the Petrograd council o f w o rk - best of their ability. W hy is to do therefore is to learn how U nder the food law the sir 111 •’ m en’s and soldiers’ deputies, was followed by a plebiscite. I Look abroad and see what is Russian Revolution this? Because the human race of $?.500.000was provided for the to get together and then stick N inth—R estitution of all co‘- happening! accorded leave to address the Note the terrific has wasted its vital energies of running expenses of the adminis- onies to Germany. together so closelv that not all /ri _ _ . struggle to safely establish a re- . . , . , :(i>v Georg Brandes. noted Dan- thousands of vears on the illu tration and $150.000.000 was ap house. He violently attacked the I e n th — Re-establishm ent the corrupting power of capital- ' Jsh crkic \ public in Russia! Note the sion called the “ Heavenly K ing propriated to carry out the work governm ent, describing it as ir- Greece and Persia. j responsible and denouncing its r i 4, v t , • startling concessions made to so- dom,’’ instead of using its intel ism nor all the blandishm ents of Czarism was for the last cen-J of the whole food adm inistration, ¡¡x.urgeoise elements. The Max- \ ‘ ^ c,lt7* 'zat,on aP i Halistic demands bv conserva- hell itself can divide us. j tury a strong embodiment of all lects for the improvement of rh e governm ent realizes th at I jm alists, he declared, could not s rails leading to inner seas and t ive Great Britain! O bserve the T o conquer we m ust have J ' ie vicious principles. It rep- mundane conditions. the American people have been ; work wit], the governm ent or also the Suez and I anam a can- , seeds of revolution springing up Religion is a word still sur ! forced bv the high cost of living power: to have power we m ust r.c ’ en,cd coercion upheld by cru- •M s. fre e d o m of navigation for i jn Spain. Italy, Sweden and with the preliminary parliament. . . , . eltv. w rong m aintained bv per- rounded by a halo, though relig to the point where it is no long m erchant snips Abolition of the throughout all' Europe, W ith cheers for a democratic um te in the same industrial u n - , s e c tio n . imprisonm ent, exile and ion belongs to the infancy of the i er endurable. The situation, as peace and constituent assembly r.^.i! to^ torpe, o m erchant snips j W hen the governor of Idaho ion and the same political party, the death penalty. It stood as human race, and, since this in i the departm ent of labor views m wartime. ¡ aske¿ (he , w w ¡f ¡t w and when we do th at the chains the invincible foe of the human fancy, has only worked for evil it, w arrants the belief th at if all the Maximalists left the hall, I welfth— \11 belligerents to ---------------------------------------------- the other members exclaim ing: fall from our limbs, a new sun race an '' hum anity. Now it has influences. renounce w ar contributions or and lO c Store— W elcom e Store, thc prices of coal, food, clothing "A good journey to you As long as the church in R us . and rents continue to climb as ... , . I ceased to exist. To those in ¡..„ennuties in anv forn,. , h e ! rises to meridian glorv in our n .. , , , - , , . ¡R ussia who have cherished i sia. as well as elsewhere, is sus thev have in the last three vears M ILLION LOSE nionet spent on the m aintenance 684 C om m ercial St., A storia. Ore. 2m skies, and the world is ours for- hopes, to those who for the last tained. to feed people on super- the country m ust face a grave HOMES IN CHINA ever. j 30 years have longed and" ear-, stitution. with priests who keep internal crisis. E U G E N E V. DEBS. • nestly worked for the liberation ; them in ignorance, and schools W ith the m achinery at hand, of Russia, to them their h o p es.1 remain that educate children to with a vast sum of money at his Pekin, Oct. 20.—The Associat ! lie time has arrived when the workingmen of the country their longing and the realization believe in legends and fairv tales, disposal, with absolute unre ed Press correspondent has just which 1.900 vears ago were fit i must unite Í Organized capital is strongly united in its efforts to of their work is no longer a dis- i completed a two weeks' boat and And Then Comes stricted authority, it he is the tant chim era—it is a reality, for slaves and small tradesm en in myn for the place. Food Admin- overland tour to the flooded sec crush the rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist the Tangible Reality j W hat few older people, after Asia 'Minor or the coast of i istrator Hoover ought to get re- tions of Shantung. Honan, and papers are always frving to form public opinion against the work Greece, then the revolution is not They publish news and articles in the interest of the - , the failure of the revolution in i suits. If he does not and can Chi Li provinces, and found that ingmen. | 1905, ever expected to see h a s ; accomplished, and cannot be con n o t—well, the people demand re the breaks in the banks of the m aster class only. T he following quotation from been realized. It is now felt that sidered as real evolution. The workingmen of A storia and vicinity know this to be an sults, not “grass.” and thev will Yellow river were com parative ------♦«♦> ♦------ the speech of an American the last 12 vears have not been «losolute tact. I he workingm en of this com m unity can see there ly unim portant and contribute get them.—-Brotherhood of Lo labor leader will fit the situation wasted. W ithout great efforts, is only one paper in A storia that is publishing th e'fa cts about the only slightly to the torrent in RICH AND POOR comotive Firemen and Engine- so long as capitalistic society w ithout resistance, almost, the <tr ike and that paper is “the Daily T overi” (The Daily Comrade) the Grand canal which keeps m e n ’s M agazine. stands and is conducted by po Russian p e o p l e emancipated hi'' paper has been published in the Finnish language only, Tientsin under water. T here is By Tolstoi. litical parties: for about ten years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper themselves by means of the revo no danger of the Yellow river re T he p rese n t position which wre, th e “ Political parties have their lution from the upper classes, educated “There are two things.” savs sum ing its old channel. The cor oi.it could be read by the English-speaking people also, so we and well-to-do classes, oc birth, growth and m aturity bv who were the real autocracy. cupy is th a t of th e Old Man of the Socrates, “which the m agistrates respondent wen by boat over decided to do all we could to let all the people know the real first serving the people with fi-'T h e v cast off their m asters, just Sea. riding on th e poor m an ’s hack; i of Athens will be careful to keep thousands of ruined vessels and tacts about the strikes and all other njatters im portant to the delitv on the vital questions of as the steam throw s off the lid only, unlike th e Old Man of the Sea. i out of our ci tv—opulence and visited m any refugee camps. workingmen, which are kept dark by other papers. a re very,very so rry for th e poor the dav. W’hen thev have a c from the boiling kettle. The big we Opulence because ’t There are at least 1,000.000 per m an; and we will do alm ost any > poverty. W IL L YOU U N IT E W IT H US FO R Y O U R O W N SA K E? complished their mission and center for all oppression in E u r th in g for the poor m an ’s relief. W e ¡engenders effem inacy: poverty sons homeless and probably 25.- become rich and powerful, thev ope has become a hearth from will not only supplv him w ith food ¡because it produces baseness: 000 square miles of territory Do you w ant the Daily Comrade to be YO UR COM RA D E» boast of bv-gone issues and fig h t, which the flames of liberty leap sufficient to keep him on his legs, both, because they lead to revo- have been devastated with the You can answ er this bv simplv cutting out and filling the but we will teach and in stru c t him battles over where thev h a v e , forth. The Russian governm ent and point out to him th e beauties i lution.” crops gone and the land still sub subscription blank below. Bring i t'o r mail it with the subscrip once w o n a victory, and use their has ceased to war against the of th e lan d scap e; we will discourse r merged. There has been great tion price t o : historic fame bv annealing to the intelligence of its big do m ain ; sw eet m usic to him and give him The Daily Comrade. loss of life, especially among the abundance of good advice. Yes. we ALLIES MOVE people for a new lease of power has abolished the censorship will Cor. 10th & Duane St., do alm ost a n y th in g for th e poor TROOPS TO ITALY old small-footed women who to acquire private fortunes bv against domestic and foreign lit- m an, a n y th in g but get off his back. Astoria, Oregon. were unable to reach the high discrim inating laws. No love i erature. lands. Please enter my subscription to the Daily Comrade for or hate of old nartv issues, no! The Poles mav be next to! C apitalism is still holding th e Thc torrential rains for six .......................... m onths for which please find enclosed $ ...................... W ashington. Oct. 23.—French j pride or prejudice born of oi l throw off the yoke. T he people s tro n g e st positions, but it show s in and British reinforcem ents are ' yeeks never before were equalled conflicts should control your of Ukraine mav use their own dications of w eakening on all fronts. reaching the Italian front d a ilv .. j’i volume in the la<t ?'* years, N am e vote. New issues are upon us language. The Tews will be g iv -' W hen voting for m en to rep re sen t according to official Rome dis- ’ rains caused floods that ev and new ideas and new votes en rights as citizens and as hu-i you, don’t vote for m en who already I patches which stated th at troons en submerged districts away Address m ust nave the wav for industrial man beings. Georgians will be rep re sen t th e o th e r fellow. j were moved from France by from the streams. emancipation, and then comes free. Lithuanians, Esthonians, The correspondent saw whole ( all the w orkers would becom e train as well as large quantities the tangible reality.”—T. V. etc., will be oppressed no more. cap If italists, of munitions and manv artillery ; families dragging plows and en- j Subscription rates: $4.00 per year. S2.25 for 6 months. $1.35 for w ho would do th e w ork Powderly. It is the first time since the great and w ho would th e re be to exploit? batallions accompanying soldiers. ‘ deavoring to plant w inter wheat o montns and ?0c per month either by mail or carrier. LET US GET TOGETHER “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”