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No. 249
TOVERI
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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.”
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IT IS ONE OF THEIR
WHY A “FIERCE COMPETI­ these imply, represents only the her. P robably
OBLIGATIONS TION” IN THE FUTURE?
plunder that has been taken from person in five
not m ore than one
in the in d u strial dis­
tric ts owns in d u strial property. T he
In d u stria l R elations Com m ission re-
the hide, and sweat of the slaves
and is be- of
p?rt.bp
’v? f-tP
,he peop,e
In w riting on the subject of
Not long since Secretary Mc- of modern capitalism
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th e U nited S ta te s owned 60 per
w hat it term s “Aid and Comfort Adoo gave utterance to the state­ ing swapped, traded, transferred. cent of th e w ealth of the country, and
and otherwise disposed i ,liat Hie m ost Im portant kind re-
to the enem y” the Seattle Union ment, that after the w ar would peddled,
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s sources, franchises, banks and ma-
Record discloses some of the rea­ ensue an era of competition of oi, by the m asters and owners, j chinerv.
but also i " b i l e Hie ow ners are few, the
sons why Russia does not seem "unparalleled ferocity.” And now not only J of the plunder,
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' w orkers a re m any. In m ost large
to be willing to cast her lot un­ comes President W ilson as au­ ot the slaves that brought it ind u strial cen ters they m ake up m ore
th an four-fifths of all the people. If
hesitatingly with the allies. It thority that a high state of effi­ forth by their industry. By th e o w n e rs’ pay the w ar bill, it will
states that Russia is to the allies ciency in production and a thor­ means of their ownership of the be a rich m an ’s w ar and a poor m an ’s
of life, the resources of fight. If the ow ners pass on the pav-
the great m ilitary disappoint­ ough conservation of food will means
,
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,
ing to the w orkers, th e w orkers will
ment. And why? For the rea­ be ‘necessary in order to meet tiie earth and tne m achinery of do both th e paying and the fight-
the capitalists of this ing;
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sons, it says, which “ ...a r e the fierce indnsrtial competition industry,
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i A little study in h isto ry throw s
largely centered in America. One that will follow the m aking of and all other countries of the I onto the foreground some im portant
as absolutely own the facts about Previoua w ars, lle reto -
is the Mooney case where a peace." ’ Just why the human an­ earth,
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1 fore, the w orkers have paid in high
w orkingm an is being railroaded imals of the earth should be wealth producers as did the c h at-| prices, low wages, poverty, hardship,
m asters of the ancient ■ and suff<,rings- Indeed, th ere is hard-
to the gallows in a fiendish plot called upon to engage in com peti­ te l , slave
,
, ! l.v a w ar in m odern tim es th a t has
to prevent the organization of la­ tion against each other, either as world own their human chattels, not been a blessing to som e group
Southern planters own i of business m en. The N eapoleonic
bor. T he wholesale deportation individuals or as aggregations of or . the
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,
W ars proved „
a —
source ...
of im m ense
of workingm en from Bisbee, Ar- individuals, in order to live, has ! 1 ,Cir ” ’" " ers Pn o r to tlie c , v iU business advantage to the B ritish.
vet been
ti A c t n r i l v e v
T he foundation of m any an E nglish
iz„ w ithout w arrant in law and n n e e v \t e r r vet
been satisfactorily
ex- w ar in the f United States.
,
fo rtune was laid during this h itte r
w ithout any redress. T he sup­ plained bv those who take it
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1 ,nt wilich t h e pro- ; struggle. W hile the people of Brit-
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ducers of wdalth—the enslaved ain endured the grinding h ardships
pression of all Socialist papers upon them selves to
m arshal the
,
e n su n c -. of
9truggle, many husi-
because they have persisted in competitive hosts and urge them " orkers bring forth by their la- n,.ss men prospered.
on in
ctmtrclp T lo o ; l)or- t,lev " ct Just enough upon
Clv,! W ar found W ashington
calling the present w ar a capital­ oil
in the ferncinne
lerocioUh Struggle.
. i so Tho
infested w ith business brigands
ist war, even though the consti­ no other animal is allotted the
1C avcra£ e to kceP them in th at Lincoln was a t his w it’s end.
working c o n d itio n . T h e b a la n c e Finally, in desperation, he is re p o rt­
tution provides that congress unhappy fate of being doomed er
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1 • , . ' ed to have said to a group of New
to th e m and might Y orkers who w ere in sisting upon a
shall pass no law interfering w ith i to an eternal struggle of compe is i r e t e r o
the freedom of speech or of the titive ferocity against his kind in i
as " e ll have never been pro- (
r ^ i e ^ s rlh* aZ
press, of peaceful assem blage and order to gain a living. T hat is ! ,lnce<‘- as lar as tlie.v are con- you gout lemon are said to be. and as
the right of petition for redress ' a disinaction evidently reserv e d ; cerne<L Tn fact’ jt is worse than frightened as you ap p ear to be, I
would build a gunboat m yself and
of grievances. Russia cannot tin- for man. the only animal in the wasted to them, for the verv rea­ give it to the governm ent.” The
called for i zu nboat was not built. On the o th er
derstand how these things occur whole lot that is supposed to be son that its production
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I hand, th e business men from all parts
L 1 ' 11 1 o energy upon of | be natjon w ere fatten in g upon
in a democracy such as the U ni­ guided by his intelligence and ‘
contracts.
ted States professes to be. and reason, instead of being left, as their part which brought them w ar
D uring the Civil W ar m any of the
it is the occurrence and recur­ are the lower animals to the falli­ no corresponding recompense. soldiers w ere paid in paper m oney.
depreciated th a t it took $2.65 in
rence of sim ilar things that pre­ bility of instinct to guide him I hat is w hat slaves have alwavs ' so
paper to
to buv
$1 w orm
orth ot
of gold. Mean-
I k ppn flr,;n<r
T i n i îc tv t.n i H , paner
miv m
vents Russia throw ing her full through the dangers and pitfalls !
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‘ r ‘ 1C-' ! w hile th e interest, on the bonds was
! paid in bullion.
strength into the cause of the of mundane existence. It would are for.
The Civil W ar, like the Napoleon-
seetn to be quite enough t h a t ’
>’avt m asters find them- jc w a | 8i proVed to be of the m ost
allies.
“Yet how often are the perpe­ men m ust fight each other to selves in competition with each j im m ense business advantage. Blood
was poured out freely. The common
trato rs of these evils charged in the death in tim es of war, with-! other for the custom ers that must people sacrificed to the lim it of
he found
I
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1 called
ii i upon to
. en- ; be
in order to dispose
of th e ir endurance, w hile the business
the public press with ‘giving aid out . t being
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in te re sts w ere reaping a rich finan-
their wares—the plunder taken cial
and comfort to the enem y?’
rew ard.
gage in a perpetual and deadly
The w orker need not necessarily
“Second. There are the people “competition of unparalleled fer- ; from their slaves—and as these
com pelled to pay. It would be
. . . . during
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„ n But .¡m . . a . ste rs (capitalists)
can onlv ? be
of Germany. The president of the ocitv,
perfectly possible for the G overn­
times ot .- peace.
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, * *i , ,i t • i t,n(* custom ers and hold them m ent of the U nited S tales to pay for
I nited States has time after time • f
’ . ‘1‘t ’S, .‘,1C ,C'
‘1iU J’0 ? ’U ’ l bv and through the cheapness this w ar by im posing a land tax th a t
played direct for the verdict of priests of the present order have v
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would tak e all of the econom ic rent
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-t i ani‘ KOO(’ quality of their wares, of land: hv tak in g all Incom es in ex-
the German pebple. practically to
ofter to the sons of toil. i t ! . . .
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I ces8 of lw o thousand dollars, during
urging them to revolt against would seem to be about time that it is not necessary to seek fu r­ i the continuance of the w ar; by lav-
their present m asters and take the latter made effort to solve ther for the reason why their ing a heavy inh eritan ce tax. and by
taking aH of thP war Profits awa>’
control of their own governm ent the problem of why they should ' slaves m ust be driven to effi-
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from the w ar m an u factu rers. Such
prom ising them in that case to be made to suffer such an un­ i eiency and mercilessly exploited a system of tax a tio n —called the con-
in a "eoinnetition of unparalleled ' «cription of w ealth—would prohablv
deal with their governm ent and happy fate.
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i raise considerably m ore than ten bil-
| terocity.
I he only known way I lions of dollars a year, enough to pay
so bring about a lasting and
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¡to produce goods cheaply is by for th e w ar out of th e p ro p erty rig h ts
democratic peace.
As this penalty of competition ! . . .
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of th e well-to-do.
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I ( ‘ RL™ t ¡1C s lilv c s w ltiio u t m e r e v i Sucli n thinsr is nossiblo
“ W h at are the things which . appears to be
in some m anner
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W ell, say—will it happen?
the agents of autocracy in Ger­ ' .. linked . up with trade, and , we arc 'a n d holding . them down to the i happen?
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lowest possible am ount of- sus- 1
m any have used to keep the Ger­ led to this conclusion , bv noting'
man people subservient to their that our high priests of political tenance and shelter that they can ECO N O M IC AND
P O L IT IC A L F R E E D O M
will, fearful to leave the evils of and economic wisdom couple the be forced to exist and work upon. •
which they know for others they two 'together, it onlv becomes I The common term for this s u s - '
New York City.—“ Econom ic free-
know not of?
necessary to apply the scalpel of tenance and shelter is wages, and
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is
onlv
calculated
to
cover
that
,1nni
m”st accom pany political frec-
“The German people have enquiry to that world fetish of
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tlom. O therw ise th ere is no free-
been told that the governm ent of trade, to uncover the reason whv wluch the chattel slave of the dom. And freedom of access to
tim e got direct from the Ood,R earfh is the first c1a,m of
the United States, the most dem ­ we can only escape the deadly olden
.
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dem ocracy.” These w ords give the
ocratic in the world today, has Scylla of war, by immediately hand oi Ills m aster in the shape keynote of an address by Frederick
r Howe C om m issioner of Imm igra-
conscripted the man power of the falling into the equally fierce and of a , nut. corn , . meal, molasses,
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tion a t th e port of New York, to a
nation and has failed to conscript almost as deadly Charvbdis of a sow helix and beans, and the ¡conference oil the high cost of living
the wealth of the nation. T he “competition of unparalleled fe r­ horse, ox and ass of todav gets ; he,d ’’t New York City. July 3. Doc-
German people aretold that whiL- ocity. And w hat is trade? In as h a \ . o a ts anti stab le. A nd th e ; “All over the world neonles and
ru le rs a re talking of libertv. Em-
millions of men are compelled
¡neipienev it may well have beauty • of it -,i all is that wages ate
.
nerors. kings, tories and a risto c ra ts
to giv e their services to the coun- been a simple exchange of pro- . |uared with a p a p e r promise. are justifying w ar in new term s,
; term s of liberty. N ever before in
tr\ for a mere pittance compared ducts between the individual pro­ which „ f is .. subsequently ’ redeemed
, x ! Ihe histo rv of the world was this
to their form er wages, that the j ducers thereof, who lived a s out of the very same products tnie LihPrty haR forcP(1 itself into
been produced bv the th e m ouths of men who heretofore
owners of capital in the country neighbors in the primitive com-. that have
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used it onlv for th e ir own aggrati-
But even ¿izem ent. Now they a re com pelled
are reaping enorm ous profits on munity. It m easured but a very slaves themselves.
the contracts for feeding, cloth­ short step beyond the time when after this paper promise has thus to w iden its m eaning to include all
ing and housing these armies. our primitive forbears aided each been redeemed it still lives, no j ,.But there can be no libertv under
T he people of Germany who other in their simple pursuits by m atter if the redemption has econom ic feudalism , w h eth er it be the
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i feudalism of the eig h teen th century
have them selves condemned their , an exchange of labor, a practice been repeated a thousand tunes. ! or the fPudalism of the tw en tieth
governm ent for im prisoning Karl , t jlat stjj| prevails to a limited ex- Tt is the onlv created thing the i Feudalism has changed its form ; it
t
.
im m ortality of which is bevond :
"ot
Vi’.’l
Liebknecht for his opposition to tent in m anv country
districts. , ,
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the ten a n t in the country and the
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; doubt. H urrah for competition ! w orker in the city pav feudal trib u te
the w ar are told that an attem pt n
But trade has assumed an alto- , im nanlleled ferncitv t”__ P r i today, ju s t as they did th re e hundred
is being made to deprive La Fol- gether different character. It has j p
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*' L ‘ v ears ago. Then they gave Personal
lab o r; now* thev give cash. The e a rth
lette of his seat in the Senate now become a world obsession
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and all its fullness is owned. And
because he has attem pted
to and pursues its ruthless course ■
th e law s of God are set a t defiance
when
m illions are born into the w orld
make those who are profiting bv crushinff all obstacles that ' P U T T IN G IT ON
under econom ic subjection to those
THE WORKER who own the resources of the earth .
from the war pay their fair share mav obstruct its pathway, under
“Econom ic freedom m ust accom ­
of the expense of the war.
[ the m erciless pressure’ of its
pany political freedom .
O therw ise
But what daily paper has de-J cheap goods, cheap because they
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th e re is no freedom . And freedom of
(t»y bcott Nearing.)
access to God’s ea rth is the first
d ared these things to be ‘giving are taken from those who pro­
If the owmers do not nay for the claim of dem ocracy. Mexico discov-
aid and comfort to the enem y?’ , dttce them, w ithout anything be- w ar. th e w orkers will. If the w’o rk ers j ered it. The p easan ts of Russia
will not nay. th e ow ners m ust. T here found it out. And th ese peoples are
T he first obligation of the cap- ing given in return. T rade, as is
no o th er possibility.
j giving the earth to those who use un-
italist press is to its m aster, ami we know it now. is but the world O w ners and w orkers receive all of ! d er title s sim ilar to those of the
the incom e th a t is paid out in th e S Jew s 3,000 years ago. F or the law's
that explains its attitude in ev- traffic in the plunder accruing U
nited S tates. Ow ners and w orkers i of Moses w ere the law s of equal
ery case. I t shields the enemies to the owners and m asters of possess all of th e 250 billions of > opportunity to the e a rth , ju st as w ere
w ealth th a t exists in the country, i the law s of all early people.
of free press and serves the pro- slaves, as a result of the expen- The
line of econom ic division in t h e ! “And taxation
is the agency
fiteers, regardless of the aid thus diture of the energv. the life com m unity is betw een ow ners and through which perm anent liberty can
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U’OrL’nra
. _ through
..«.I. taxation
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w orkers. IVbotAl’A
W h atev er I« bills rtnn
one Jnnf.
does ' come. ri
For
those
given to the enemy. It is an in- force, of those slaves in the op- not
foot, fall to the sh a re of the oth- I who hold th e ea rth but refuse to use
veterate enemy of democracy as eration of industry. All that ei to Pa' -
H m ust pay for th e ir privilege or
«seen -it e v e r v i n s t a n c e w h e r e G - n-rx»n4 .r»l,4_,
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w orkers in R ussia, who are \ give them up to others. T axation of
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’ lame ot weat.h, that pre- evidently disinclined to pay at all in- land values will release lands and
bor seeks to be heard and de­ sents itself to 11s in the form of <’°far as the w ar debt Is concerned, m ines. It will enlarge production. It
mands the right to organize.
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« i s. m ercnanaise. Commodities
factories,
shops, warehouses, rail-
Capitalists' profits are the reward
of their ability to rob the people.
ways, ships, mines, and all that
as to w hether the lh tn s would
in m any o th e r w ays. T he new dem ­
ocracy w hich is com ing h as in its
reach our trench.
hands a lib e rty tax, th e tax atio n of
The first wave advanced fully
land values. It will open a new life
thirty
yards before one of them
to even Ihe p oorest and will, when
A vivid sketch of war realism
dropped.
applied, in su re equal o p p ortunity for —one of the most nerve-racking
all. And dem ocracy th e world over
T h e Y a w n in g G ap.
has been inspired for g en eratio n s ) experiences it is jtossible to un­
A machine gun crackled its
portrayed in terse,
by th a t p h rase of Jefferso n . ‘Equal dergo— is
staccato
rat-tat-tat-tat ........
rat- ,
,
opportunity for all, and special pri­ soldier-language by a c o rre s p o n d -rtacc<
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jtat-tat ........ ra t-ta t; an d /sev eral
vilege to none,’ ju st as it has by th e ent
F rench Revolution w ith its ‘L iberty,
The
“over-the-top'
feeling i others flicked up the crisp chorus.
equality, fra te rn ity .’ T axation of land
with t h e 1 r*ie fa d in g wave still ran to-
values w as the rallying cry of phil-1 is nothing compared
slow
a
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ie
s
-th
e
prolonged
’*? their - cei?tr
e,a
ag o n ies the
p ro lo n g e d ’
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osophers who preceded the F ren ch I -l'i\v
In
yawne
R evolution. It should be the rallying nervous s t r a i n - o i an expected ...... yawned. ’ »«Mettly
cry of dem ocracy in the New W orld.” I enemy counter-attack.
i ,h.'t Ka?.
Kro” " d was? strew n
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‘d i v e r e d W Itn
1,Ku r e s :
s o m e o of f them
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“OVER THE TOP”
I. W . W . F I C T IO N .
W e don’t know how' the rep o rters
a re gettin g hold of the new s concern­
ing the In d u strial W orkers of the
W orld and the rom antic notion th a t
in the raids m ade upon th e halls of
th at m ilitant organization docum ent­
a ry evidence of th e crim inal pro­
pensities of the m em bership and th eir
leaders has been discovered.
W hatev er else th ey a re th e m em ­
bers of th a t organization a re not
com pletely stupid and it is im possi­
ble to regard these sto ries w ith any
degree of confidence. T h a t th e ex­
ecutive would have th e plans for an
organized cam paign of crim e filed
aw ay in som e pigeonhole a fte r they
had received due notice th a t they
w ere being a tta ck e d all round, th a t
governm ent action was invited and
raids w ere th re a te n e d , would indi­
cate th at even for “c rim in a ls” th e ir
intelligence w as below norm al and as
one m an put it. th ey w ere “solid
ivory.”
H ow ever d u ring th ese days the
public is ready to believe alm ost a n y ­
thing and nothing loth, th e scribes
who rep o rt for th at public a re ready
to rep o rt a n y th in g th a t will he be­
lieved.— Daily Nome In dustrial W ork­
er.
TAKE
Y O U R C H O IC E .
imaginative man un< tler.o„.<
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—terror
m o m e n ts of a c u te te rro r—
ic
n u i r
squirmed and wriggled, others
lav
placid ...
in d e a , th ■
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The wave
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n o t unlike th a t o t a child c o w er- oi ,m cn s t'"
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inv in the dark, lie can feel th e " l" 1
poured over the para-
p o u n d in v of the e n e m y 's b a rra g e I ' g , " 1 ,hv c l,e,n -' •’ tre n c h .
; re it c ra sh e s a c ro ss th e , I , hen T our own artillery
lo n g i b e lo
, - burst
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it
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fo rth . I t w as a stu p e n d o u s salvo.
p a ra p e t, lie s u tle rs th a t >ensa- ,
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. la m in a r in It rum
like
gigantic
tioii
ra ly
. bled , overhead
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d ream s.
lie s ta n d s riv eted t o , .
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a , f- I n , front
th e spot
rch ,; in ,,r
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f l e s i h . . . A \ n i d b om bs
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vet th e sam e m an w ith calm
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c o u ra g e w ill u n tm c h in g lv expose
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w avs.
H u n bodies w ere b ein g
lnm seli and open rapid tire w hen
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It is a cu rio u s p o in t in p s v -l
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1 • , o u t w ith b om bs, sir, lie re m a rk -
ch o lo g y .
I have faced sev eral
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Look, sir!
lie pointed to
counter-attacks, and mv sensa­ ed.
io u r iro n t.
tions were precisely the same on
"Cease fire, I ordered. For
each occasion.
There is first
the
attacks
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me
a waiting period of acute ten- .... x .uuiiKb , - had
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sion—ot
unconquerable
nervous .. W hat
. was lett ot them bad re-
- agony—which tired.
im p o ten ce
and
" T h a t’s the end. sir!" chuckled
held me in its grasp, then vanish­
mv
sergeant.
ed utterly. It gave place to a
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I
thrust , mv \ hands
into mv
«piaint sensation ot
of excited c u r-1 ,
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t
i
,
i
x
r
xt
breeches
pockets.
1
did
not w ant
iosit V and detachm ent from the , •
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) I11111 to see they were trem -
exents .1
that x were 1 happening.
I filin g .. . — Ex.
The B ursting Shells.
I recall ihe evening as if it
Apropos of the Kilkenny elec-
were yesterday. I lie details are tion. how many people know
stereotyped on my brain.
I lie ¡the real story of the Kilkenny
sky was fleecy with white clouds.; cats? It happened that the Brit-
1 here was nothing in the s u n -' ish Government employed Hes-
liaxed stretch of the enemy s sian Regim ents in Ireland for
line-- to indicate that he was the purpose of putting down the
massing
with fixed bayonets, Rebellion of 17U8. Some of these
lo u r deep in his trout line. But Germans located in Kilkennv
suddenly his guns opened, and ; conceived the notion of hanging
shells of all calibers rushed two cats over a rope with their
through
the air towards us, tails tied together, so that they
bursting close at hand and cov- m ight fight while so suspended,
ering 11s with earth, small stones, One day thev were surprised at
and sulphurous tunic-.
the precious “am usem ent” bv an
f o r the next half-hour my officer, and a trooper drew his
eves w ere
tied to my periscope. 1 sword ami cut down the cats.
I shall never lo rg et th a t half- leaving their tails behind.
The
hour of vivi< e x p ectan cy .
1 c a ’ «pute alive, ran th ro u g h an
prayed for som ething to happen open window. W hen the officer
that would break the spell. My j entered lie asked what had lie-
heart was thud.ling in my throat, come of the cats, and the reply
Should 1 be able to keep m y, was that they had devoured each
legs lirm when they came over? other. Hence the tale
.. . . H o w would it feel when the
bayonet was pushed into my
A PICTURE
You can h e a r a n y th in g you like
about Socialists now adays.
Rabid jingo jo urnals m ake very
frequent sta te m e n ts to the effect th a t
the Socialists have killed them selves
forever and ever by th eir a ttitu d e
tow ard tlie war.
T his rep re sen ts the m ost pessim is­
tic view.
O ther c ritics p resen t view s ru n ­
ning th e whole gam ut of opinion.
Norm an Hangood says th a t Socialism
in E urope has been boosted by the
w ar. T his is quite in conflict with
th e dire view s of those who think
the Socialists everlastin g ly com m it­
ted suicide w hen they failed to stop
the w ar—as if a m inority could be
expected to stop it.
Tlie big o u tstan d in g fact, how ever,
is th a t, no m a tte r w hat view they
take the new spapers and m agazines
are unable to let the su b ject of So­
cialism alone. E veryw here it is be­
ing discussed. A very g re a t deal of
the discussion is ig norant and non­
sensical, but it is discussed.
They c an 't let it alone.
If it w ere really tru e th a t Social­
ism was dying, as m anv of our
friends, tlie enem y, would like to
have us believe, would they keep
talking about it all tlie while?
b o d y / .......... \n d . above all. w h a t
W ell, hardly.
w ould h ap p en if I lost th e line? , It is in th e dusky tw ilight th a t
It is ju st because Socialism is the
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IIVV and
en say _____
Poverty,
ith her m ates. Vice
one big thing looming on the horizon . . . . W h a t would the m
of the fu tu re th a t they c a n ’t let it and the captain and the colonel Uriiue. glide forth from th e ir lairs,
and the g e n e r a l T h e s e w e re 1 They shun d a >’lie h t the m ore anx-
alone.- -M ilwaukee Leader.
tb e
f b -.it.rb i
tl,..t
. t ioUKly- Hie m ore cruelly th eir w reteh-
11
. til, it
toursed ; edness c o n tra sts with the pride of
P R E T T Y S L O W G A IN
l l i i ’HiLUi m j c .v o te d b r a in .
w ealth that g litte rs ev eryw here; only
In 1840 P resid en t Van Buren p re­
1 hen the first wave of the ex- H unger som etim es drives them a t
scribed a ten-hour w ork day for ali
em ployes of th e F ederal G overnm ent. pected counter-attack scrambled ”°°nday Jrom their dens- and then
In io n ; P re sid e n t W ilson officially .
‘ 1
s parapet.
A s ta rin g beseechingly at the rich m er-
sanctioned the eight-hour day. In 76 thread snapped in my brain.
I ch an t who h u rries along, busy and
years, in o th e r w ords, th e w orker rapped o u t a fire o r d e r .
; jingling gold, or at th e lazy lorti, who
lias m ade a gain of 20 per cent in
A m o v e m e n t r ip p le d d o w n o u r ¡jk<L a «nrfeited god. rides by on his
the hours of labor. In th e sam e p er­ lino
vr,, ,,,
•
1
hlgh horse, c astin g now and th en an
iod it is safe to say th a t m achine line. Aly men were m anning the I a risto c ratica lly in d ifferen t glance a t
production has advanced from 50 to parapet. I dropped my periscope the mob below, as though they w ere
500 per cent. Titus we see how the and stood up on the fire-step «warming an ts, or, a t all events,
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w orkers, organized under craft un­
m
ass of
b haRPr
aser lw
beings,
w hose joys
1
felt
no
sensation
of
fear:
only
mass
of
*
‘n“
ions. keep pace w ith capitalism .
,.„ .4
a »d sorrow s have nothing in com-
a.-t a n ti c o n s u m i n g c u r i o s it y mon w ith his feelings.—H eine.
L O O iiS L IK E A P E T T Y T H E F T
The jew els used by th e R ussian ■ i i
E m press a re the property of the !
R ussian crown, and w ere supposed j
to be kept in th e vaults of the Win- ,
d'he time has arrived when the workingmen of the country
te r P alace, hut w hen th ese w e r e '
must
u n ite ' O rganized capital is strongly united in its efforts to
searched a fte r th e Revolution, noth- i
ing was found by the Im perial crow n ' < ru sj tne rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist
from w hich th e precious stones w ere i p a p e r s a r e a lw a y s f r y i n g to form public opinion against the work­
extracted.
The m issing jew els a re •
th e y publish news and articles in the interest of the
valued a t one hundred m illion dol ingmen.
lars, and are said to have been sent ; m aster class onlv.
by the form er E m press to Darm- i
The workingmen of Astoria and vicinitv know this to be an
stad t, h er native town in Germ any, absolute tact.
1 he workingmen of this community’ can see there
for, sa b ' keei
United We Stand, Divided We Fall”
is only one paper in Astoria that is publishing th e'fa cts about the
<tr,ke and that paper is “the Daily T overi” (The Daily Comrade)
ms paper lias been published in the Finnish language onlv,
t'T about ten years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper
t l.it could be read by the English-speaking people also, so we
«.leaded to do all we could to let all the people know the real
tact-» .'.hour tlie strikes and all other m atters im portant to the
workingmen, which are kept dark by other papers.
Albania.
the population of which «approx­
imates l.POO.OOO. is inhabited bv
a race that has n'clying in com­
mon with the Italians.
Xine-
tenths of the Albanians are Mos­
lems. and onlv half the rest are
Roman Catholics. They speak
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