SOCIALIST’S COLUMN
Edited by E. W. R oms
MUNICIPAL
OWNERSHIP
I’AYM
By Curl I). Thonpson.
Municipal ownership pays. It pays,
Il nd of all, in better WbgvH, * tier ter
khoiirx mid improved condition, for
"labor. Am! to the socialist that i the
timl mid moat important considera
tion of nil.
To l»c specific: The rity of Hun
Francisco, upon taking over one of
tlu at reel cur tinea in that city about
a your ago, immediately raised the
wiigeM of its employes from 27 cents
per hour to 87 Mi cut* per hour and
reduced the hours from ten to eight
per dny.
’ Eleven cltioa in Englund, upon tak
ing over their public enterprises, re
duceil the uveruge bourn per week
from eighty to sixty, and continued
to reduce them.
Glasgow alone spent $515,040 per
year in increased wages, shortened
hours mid improved conditions of its
street cur employes.
According to Albert Baker, former
manager of the London street ruil-
wnya, municipal ownership of street
cur lines in Englund han redu.ed the
lours of street car men 48 per cent
and Increased the wages not less th.in
42 per cent.
The gains to labor in better wages,
shorter ho; rs mid improved conditions
amounted to $2<M),(HMI per year in
London; and nearly us much in Liver
pool.
And these are only typical cases
chosen out of hundreds. These im
proved conditions follow municipal
ownership everywhere.
And municipal ownership pays in
unother way. It pays in actual
profits to the cities.
Eor example: In spite of the low
rates and better wages, Milwaukee
clears a" high as $20<),0<N) per year
on its water plant. The city of Ber
lin, in Germany, clears $4,500,000 per
year off its several different munic
ipal enterprises. Six cities in Eng
land, for which we have figures at
hand, cleared $1,440,135 off their gas.
wuter and markets alone in a single
year. Glnsg >w made $1,837,704 net
profit;« off its munici al street cars
in a single year.
The city of Cincinnati owns n rail
road 336 miles long, crossing three
states. It is called the Cincinnati
Southern, and runs south from Cin
cinnati, Ohio, through Kentucky to
Chattanooga, Tenn. It is worth $40,-
000,000. It is paying for itself and
producing a reve.iuc of $526,816 per
year over and above all expenses.
So you see, municipal ownership
pays. It pays in better wages, short
er hours and improved conditions of
labor. It pays in lower fares and
better service. And, best of all. it
pays in dividends to the public—divi
dends .’or the "common good,” as
they are culled in England.
masters are using them to beut down
the wage scale and make worse the
conditions of thoau who still have
Jobs.
The terrors of unemployment are
only beginning to make themselves
felt. More deud will fall on the
battlefields of industry tomorrow or
next week. More will be wounded
Mor- will he imprisoned, no one can
tell where or at whut hour the mas
ters will strike next.
It may then be your turn. You
muy bo the next victim. When the
public would-be murderers of Chicago
i.hot ut the parading jobless they shot
at you. When the private murderers
of ('brom.!, New Jersey, did their
work of death the blood spilled was
not the blood alone of a few workers.
It we» the blood of the entire work
ing class.
They shot at you. They shed your
blood. They want to still further en
slave you and your children to follow
you.
There is a /rowing national move
ment to protest against this unem
ployment that the mauler class is
using fo further entrench itself
against the growing power of the
workers.
The workers organized into the
Socialist movement know whut they
wunt done. They are trying to en
list the support of the great mass
of toilers in order to force their
demands into action.
Unemployment is a great problem.
The President and Congress claim
the Jobless problem is too big for
them. So they do nothing. Which is
precisely whut the masters want them
to do.
President Wilson and Congress can
do something to meet this problem.
They would do it if they were the
servants of the mas es and not the
tools of big IbsinesJ.
The Socialist Party, the political
wing of the working class movement,
proposes to put every congressman
on record on the question of unem
ployment.
The "g'ad hund” is gftierully reach
ing for your wad.
In Europe it ir a call to arms; in
America a cull to alms.
The worker sells himself, and the
employer gets rich off the proceeds
of th • sale.
The "enemy” with guns is .lot hrlf
as dangerous to the workers as the
enemy who is after profits.
Even the worker has his heritage,
"he ' iortgi'.;.e and the public debt is
transmitted to his children.
Iti ckcfcllcr belkves in organized
lu'air like he does in Christianity —
in theory, but not in practice.
Why an Inspection Law?
THEY SHOT AT YOU!
The fo':owing affidavit, by one of
Every shot fired at workers on
the
victims, was published in the
strike is a shot fired nt you. Every
<.r< p of blood shed in the cuuhc of Sentinel of Liberty:
labor is blood shed for you. Every COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, I
» ss.
•ife lost in the struggle of toil has
State of Nebraska,
|
been martyred that you and yours
I, Catherine Egan, being first duly
might live.
sw-orn, on oath depose and say that
It was thought that capitaBsm had
when I was nineteen years of age I
done its worst at the massacre of
vo'untarily vent to the House of the
the women and babes at Ludlow,
Good Shepherd of Omaha, Nebraska,
Colorado. The conservative, capitalist
located at Thirthieth and Jones
New York Tribune tells us that we
streets. I had had some trouble at
are mistaken.
\
heme and left without telling any
The Tribune declares that the
body where I was going. Of the
slaughter of the striking fertiliser
Sister Superior in charge I asked to
workers at Chrome, N. J., Just a
stay six months, to which she agreed.
few days ago, was "Worse than the I was assigned to the laundry and
Ludlow battle in the Colorado strike."
put to work. Afterwards 1 was in
But a few hours ufter the Chicago charge of a department and helped
police had turned their guns on a to get out special washes for some
parade of Jobless men and women, of Omaha’s prominent citizens. We
protesting against their hunger and did the laundry for the Henshaw.
nakedness, a gang of hired gunmen, Rome, Paxton and Millard Hotels and
wussa ..dns no less legalized, turn loose other i nali hotels and hospitals. The
a hail of deadly bullets on a gather Field Club wax also a good customer.
ing of striking workers at Chrome, We also had work from the Omaha
New Jersey.
Club and the Y. M. C. A., but do not
All escaped bodily injury in the get it now.
murderous attack at Chicago. But 22
The laundry is equipped with the
were sent to jail. Not so easily did latest up-to-date electric machines,
the workers escape the penalty for and the girls, of whom there are
asserting their rights at Chronic, N. about two hundred and forty (240)
J. There one striker fell martyr to when I left five months ago, were
the cause of labor, four were fatally often compelled to arise as early as
wounded, all others more or less se 4:00 A. M. and work as late as 8:00
riously injured.
In the evening. We were told to pray
The Ink had hardly dried on the for more work, instead wo prayed
U. S. Supreme Court decision uphold for less, hut always had lots to do.
ing the assessing of $252,130 in dam On Sundays wo had to clean the
ages against the 200 Danbury Conn., machinery, so it would be ready early
n embers of the Hatters' Union, v, hen I Monday morning. Sunday is the only
the courts of Arkansas levied fines of j time we have to clean and oil the
$500 and $1,000 and jail sentences m chines, as wo are busy all the
against seven members of the United I week, nnd have no time to stop.
Mine Workers of America, growing When a holiday comes it means n
out of the miners’ strike in thnt change to us girls. We generally
stnte. Among the Arkansas miners work to 2 o’clock, and once in a
who thus suffered the wrath of capital while we are given ice cream.
ist law was Fred Holt, recent Social
When my six monvns was up I
ist candidate for Gove-nor of Okla asked the Mother Superior to let me
homa. In the meantime the struggle go, and she refused. I had written to
In eastern Ohio rageu on.
my father In South Omaha, telling
The mnster class has seized this him where I was, hut did not get
hour to more securely fasten the nny answer. Now I know he did not
chains of wage slavery upon the get my letter, which was addressed to
limbs of toil. Millions of workers my home. The Sister probably de
are jobless, seeking work, and the stroyed the letter, as I agreed to
stay only six months, and signed no
paper for any set time. I was as
tonished that the sisters should keep
me against my wishes. In vain I
pr tested; begged that my father
should be notified of my whereabouts,
but all in vain. I was a prisoner, and
was compelled to work until I knew
not how long, maybe until death
came. The com'ng of new girls and
whether I knew them were special
objects of my attention. Home were
brought here by the Police and some
were sent here by Police Matron Ella
Gibbons on six months' detention, but
never get out unless their relatives
know they are here and call and take
them away. The girls are ho closely
confined that they become wild, fight
in:’ and scuffling, serving to change
the course of the day. When a Sister
utiempta to interfere she generally
gets a licking, unless is strong
enough to lick the disturber. One
girl asked to get out, and she had a
light. She managed to drop notes
out of a window, and the next day
detectives came and took her away.
If a girl did not behave the way the
Sisters wanted they would use a club
mil afterwards she would do as she
was told. I was named Sister Cath
erine — all the girls’ names are
changed when they enter, and they
are given religious names, and are
told not to tell other girls their real
names, or how they got there. When
ever the Sisters leurn that a girl
wants to get out they hide her when
a visitor is shown through the house.
Sometimes we were hidden in the
bath rooms until the visitors were
gone, and then we were put back to
work. During lunch we were told
to hurry up so the work could be
finished, and it was hurry all the
time. We also made overalls for the
M. E. Smith Company, quilts for
Hayden Brothers, and did other work
for smaller places.
When we retired we were placed
in a large room where twenty-five of
us girls slept. We hau nice beds and
did not complain on that account.
We were treated well enough if we
worked hard and said nothing. So
were the twelve colored girls who
were working down stairs.
We
learned how to work, and they keep
any one who can work. We never
saw much of the colored girls — they
keep them separate from us.
The visitors are few, and occasion
ally we see the Bishop pass through.
One woman died of consumption, and
we learned that the corpses of all
who die'here are sent to the Creigh
ton Medical College.
I sometimes
wondered if that would be my last
resting place.
So the years passed one by one
until I counted that it was six years
that I was held a prisoner, when 1
expected only to stay six months.
Then one day a new girl was brought
in by her folks. I nearly screamed
for joy at the sight of the newcomer.
It was Ella Callahan, of South Oma
ha, daughter of Police Judge F.Calla-
h n, who I found out later eloped and
married against the wishes of her
parents. Her fo’ks had her arrested
and brought her to the House of the
Good Shepherd for safety. But I
did not say anything till I saw Ella
alone and nearly hugged her to death
for joy. I begged her, when she
would be taken home by her parents,
that she would tell my father where
I was. And later, when my father
appeared with an attorney and de
manded my release, I nearly died of
joy, so glad was I to see him. When
I was leaving one of the Sisters got
me to sign a paper not to get any
pay while working in there. I scarcely-
had clothes enough to „over my back,
and had nothing at all for the seven
years of work I did. There are lots
of girls who are begging to be
let out, but it seems that one must
know their real name and their rel
igious name to get them out, and
also have a lawyer. I feel sorry for
the poor girls, some who have no
friends, and those who do not know
how they can let their people know
where they are.
As I looked back, when I left the
huge iron gates behind, I shuddered
at the huge building. With a wall
18 feet high about it, and the win
dows with bars, the smoke pouring
mt of the huge Iron chtmney -
darkening the sky; it looked grim
and .errlble. A prison conducted by
the chtiTvh was something that I did
not believe possible, yet I have spent
seven years of my life there, and
must now learn how to make my
living,
T have made this statement freely
and voluntarily without any coercion
of any kind by any person, _ and I
hereby state that it is true and cor
rect in every particular and that it
is given in my own words.
CATHERINE EGAN.
CHICAGO’S SIGNIFICANT
TRIOTIC VICTORY
For the first time the issues were
squarely drawn at the election of
April 6, 1915.
The result was the greatest plural
ity in Chicago’s history for Wm. Hale
Thompson for mayor, whose nomina
tion, an well as overwhelming election
is directly creditable to the patriotic
organizations and sentiment of the
city.
Inspired by the patriotic organiza
tions, the G. of L., Orangemen. K. of
L. and Knights Patriot (the latter of
which especially received Mr. Thomp
son’s application and financial sup
port from its early inception), led off
by the heavy Chicago Masonic and
other fraternal membership, the cler
ical forces behind Mr. .Schweitzer re
ceived a drubbing long to be re
member«!.
The landslide also carried in the
safest council in Chicago’s history.
That the issue was squarely drawn
is shown by the following letter
which speaks for itself.
“UNITED CATHOLIC LEAGUE OF
THE UNITED STATES
Subscribed in my presence and
sworn to ho fore me this 11th day of
November 1914.
EDWIN DAVIS,
Notary Public.
My commission expires September
23, 1920,
Saint Peter’s chair, the real thing
is in Saint Peters at Rome, and lends
sanctity to the greatest Religious Mill
in the world.
PA-
I
To Carry the War Into the
Enemy’s Country
We have completely defeated the Roman Catholic Hi
erarchy in the Courts, and. although at a great coat in
work, money and imprisonment, yet we are now ready to
carry this war for freedom and righteousr.fwi into the
enemy’s country. You helped us in our defense, will you
help us in our "forward march?”
Previously Acknowledged..................................
$18.70
J. H. Fowler
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W. C. Mott ...........................
1.00
Oregon City Friends...................................................
4.25
THE CASCADE REAL ESTATE CO
Silverton, Ore., Journal Bldg., has the following property for Sale:
See Cascade Real Estate Co. for. Business Chance: A saw mill that
bargains.
will cut 700 rail road ties in a day,
Dear Brethern:
List your property with E. W. Ross, 250,000 feet of logs cut, 50,000 feet in
I am compelled to address this per the new manager of the Cascade Real the pond; all you have to do is to fire
up and go ahead. Price only $1100,
sonal letter to you in the hope that Estate Company.
it will lead you to cast your vote for
Seven-rcom House and Lot in Gei half cash, chance to buy 500,000 feet
near the mill.
candidates in your City and Ward ser Addition on installment plan.
Fine Lot on Fitch Strset, a dandy
who are friends of the church which
Four-room House and Lot, 70x210,
we have the honor to be members of. on Mill Street. Good location, only ouilumg sight, close tn, it ’-.ill not be
on tne market ltng, only $350. < ime
It is something unusual for our $1750. $200 :ssh, good investment.
quick I
league to take any part in political
Do you want a man to work ?
$2000 buys a nice little farm near
affairs, but at this time we feel that
Lady, how would you like to buy
we can do so with credit to some of a dandy little business in Silverton. Amsville, of 15 acres, all cleared.
Fruit, berries, house and barn; all
our people.
We have it for sale. Write to Cas
It is with respect that I address cade Real Estate Company, Silverton, fenced. This is a bargain. Will ex
change foi farm property near Silver-
you, as I unnderstand that you are Oregon.
ton.
a good Catholic.
Fine lot between Portland and Ore A 54-acre farm, 12 acres hops, fruit
You are aware that the present
candidate, Mr. William Hale Thomp gon City on car line for sale for $800, trees, berries, garden, grain land,
$50 down, $15 1 er month. T.Js is a tine house, hop house, bam and mac
son, for the Mayor of Chicago, is
adam road, fine water, plenty of
not a Catholic, and for that reason large lot 50x138 Vi feet,
crease in value.
pasture. Cali in and get full partic
you should assist in defeating him by
Buy a lot in Geiser’s Addition— ulars.
voting for our friend Robert Schweit
$2,500 buys one of the finest homes
zer and thereby placing the church best buy in Silverton—must sell and
where it belongs in the City of Chi you get the advantage of the forced you ever saw. There are eight lots,
cago. Mr. Schweitzer has pledged sa'e. You can pay for this lot and lota of fruit, ten room house, etc.,etc.,
himself that if elected he will place the CASCADE REAL ESTATE CO. paved streets, city water—one of the
only Catholics in office and it should will bui’d you a bunglow—pay for it I best places in a town that has a future,
other Scotts Mills, Ore.
be to your interest to vote for him in tead of paying rent to the
fellow.
against William Hale Thompson, who,
FOR SALE — 1500 lb. Draft Hi rse.
Do you believe in dreams? Your
by the way, is by no means in favor
Buy a dandy home in Oak Grove,
dream of a home will come true if you Oregon. Four-room house, 22 fruit
of our faith. «
Your duty to your church in the will let the CASCADE REAL ES trees, lawn, on car line, good garden,
coming election is to vote for the TATE COMPANY tell you how to buy e’ese to church, school and depot. $200
Catholic candidate, and I hope you a home on the installment plan.
down, balance $20 per month. Price
FORTY LOTS for sale in South $1800. Beautiful location.
will cast your vote accordingly.
Salem—high and dry, fine location,
Yours very truly,
8 1-3 acres right in the city with
cheap end on easy terms.
one of the best houses you ever saw,
United Catholic League United States
Fine Large Lots in Salem, sightly fine bam, chicken houses, all kinds of
(Signed) M. J. SCANLON
location, low price, small payment fruits, grapes, berries, walnuts, etc.,
Secrtary of Chicago Branch.” ¡down and small monthly payments.
cement side walk, paved streets, elec
This significant result certainly
FOR SALE — A nice large lot, tric lights, sewer, city water. Can ->e
shows that
clerical
interference 50x120, in the Capital Citiy. Fruits of subdivided. Close in. A dandy bar
(when known) will not be tolerated tvcry kind, n Oregon Electric Line, gain at $7600. Half down. Long time
in American governmental affairs.
'2 blccks from school, near church. on balance.
Good bargain at $250.
Dandy building lot in Davenport
$1500
buys
seven
acres,
one
mile
Additio-
->n very easy terms. Will
Arkansas Pass, Texas.
, from Silverton, all in cultivation. take a good cow or a horse or both,
Dear Friend Hosmer:
Hard mackadam road, small house. a little cash, and $5.00 per month
I would like to respond to your call A bargain, if taken soon.
for balance.
more liberally if I was able. I’m over
See Cascade Real Estate Co.
$1200 — Three acres in Southern
80 years old, cannot work and my in
Now we have it. Lot at one half Calofornia, water for irrigation,
come is small. I send one dollar; it price to the person who will build a 3--oom house. $300 cash,, balance to
is not much but will help a little. If $1500 house on it, good location cn
¿uit purchasei at 7 per cent.
all the subscribers would send you South Water Street. Also other l>ts
We have land for sale in Cali
a little, it would help you very much. in this part of Silverton with the un
fornia. Washington, Idaho and Al
Yours for Freedom,
derstanding that houses built must be berta; any place, tell us where you
• •••••
of $1000 valve or over.
want it, and we place you right
$12,000 buys a twenty-four acre where you want to live, W e have
West Union, Iowa,
tract adjoining Silverton, all in culti- land in Lake View for $60 per acre,
April 12, 1915. , vation. Good buildings, stock and for a small payment down and bal-
J. E. HOSMER,
farming implements can be sub- ance 30 years time, 5 Vs per cent
Editor Silverton Journal,
divided. Would take $6,000 in ex- interest. This is irrigated land and
change on other good property. This lies in the famous Goose Lake Val-
Silverton, Oregon.
property should not remain in the ley, from 2 to 10 miles from Lake
Dear Sir: Some kind friend sent
market long as it is guilt edge goods. View. Also a butcher shop and
me a copy of your japer of date
slaughter house in Lake V-ew at a
Come quick!
•
of April 2d, and I am very much
bargain.
$4.000
buys
20
acres,
%
miles
from
pleased and delighted by the makeup
Do you want to buy a beautiiui plot
and contents thereof, as it reflects Silverton, 14 in cultivation, balance in
and proves the liberality, desire for pasture. Four-room house, good barn, of grounil w th fruit and berrie. al
ready in beanr.g, with wood shed Luilt
truth, and depth and range of thought all fenced.
FOR SALE — Two Turbine Water and two tent houses ? This is a bar
of its editor and publisher.
I know not your circulation, but I Wheels, Shafting , Mortise Gear gain on the installment plan. T1 e
do know that it should be thousands Wheels, Boxing, Couplings, Rolle? property is three blocks from car line
that runs inti Portland. Price $1800.
of times larger than it is, if No. 22 ; h eed Mill, etc.
160 acres near Lyle, Wash, at $30. $100 down, $15 per month. Now’s the
is a fair sample. Life is a struggle
per
a^re. Six acres cultivated, and 80 time and The Cascade Real Estate Co.
for exis’ 'nee at the present age, and
it is so only because the people are acres easily cleared, It is right in 1 are t*le P*®Pl®- Come and see!
Grants Pass property, lot 150x200.
ignorant, and they are ignorant be the orchard belt. See Cascade Real
5-room
house, big barn, city water,
Estate
Company.
cause nf the fierce struggle for ex
istence.
$4 000 bujs 20 acres % of a mile lights, etc., only $1500. Terms.
Instead of seeking for light and from Silvertcn, 14 acres in cultivation 1 $2400 buys a farm of 160 acres,
truth, which can be found, and which with balance in pasture, four room , six miles from Munson, Alberta,
would destroy ignorance and also the house, good barn and all fenced. See Canada. A” cleared, 145 acres in cul
tivation; all in the famous wheat belt.
truggle for
existence. All
are Cascade Real Estate Company.
'
This
land has been cropped twice.
seeking to avoid the truth, thinking
135 Acres for $85. per acre, 90
that thereby they can better their acres in cultivat’on, 60 acres in <rop,
$3800 buys twenty acres, one mile
condition.
balance in pasture, six-room house, from Silverton, six in cultivation,
This ha3 been exemplified and three barnes, four head of big horses, good water. Buildings cost $2000
driven home to me by articles in your c w and bull, nine head of hogs, wag and are all new.
Journal of S. H. Van Trump, Guy ons and plows, and all all machinery
$85. an acre buys an excellent Wal
Fitch Phelps, and their references to needed to run the place, all new.
do Hills farm. This farm is worth
Hall and Ross. At this distance it
Telephone shares go with the place. over $100 per acre.
looks to me very much like a
“punch and Judy’’ show. But good
BOYCOTTERS
will come of it. It exposes to the
reports took it up and cut loose thus:
world the editor of The Journal as
When dealing with the Roman sub
a broadminded and cwnrageous man.
The business men of Centerville, jects, do unto them as they would
Hereby I enclose a money order Iowa, have combined against the Ro do unto you. The editor of the
for the sum of fifty cents to pay my man Catholic boycott. A Catholic Daily Citizen is one that cannot be
subscription to The Journal............... entered a store and demanded that a ruled. 'He is not alone in his d
I may be able to help you In the way certain card advertising a patriotic cision that the Catholic priest and
of building up your paper and at the lecture he removed; but much to his his confederates can not run his busi
same time disseminate a "knowledge surprise he had met a man. This ness.
of the Truth." The Truth in the man emphatically refused to he dic
This action of business men in Cen
minds of the workers is the only tated to. Then the Daily Citizen, a terville in asserting their manhood,
Savior of the world.
Fraternally,
paper that has been running since makes the merchants of Silverton
• ••••* 1864, and carries the Associated Press look like 30 cents.
L. D. R.