c The Capital Journal
CHARLES H. FISHES
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MONDAY EVENING
February 10, 1919
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SEATTLE REVOLT AND ITS LESSONS.
Following in' a copy of the circular generally distrib
uted by the strikers in Seattle:
WHAT RUSSIA DID.
fihinvard Workers You left tho shipyards to enforce your demands for
higher wages. Without you your employers nrc helpless. Without you they
cannot make one cent of profit their wholo system of robbery, has collapsed.
Tho shipyards are idle; the toilers have withdrawn even though tho own-
nU nre still there. Are voiir masters building ships! No. Without
your labor power it would take all the shipyard employers of Seattle- and
Taeoma working eight hours a day tho next thousand years to turn out one
hip. Of what use are they in the shipyards?
It is you and you alone who build tho ships; you create all the wealth of
oeioty tmlny; you make possible the $75,000 suhlo coats for millionaire's
wives. It is you alone who can build the ships.
They can't build the ships. You can. Why don't yout
There are tho shipyards; more ships are 'urgently needed; you alone can
build tliem. If tho masters continuo their dog-in-tho-mnngor attitude, not able
to build the ships themselves and not allowing the workors to, tlioro is only
one thing to do.
Take- over tho management of the shipyards yourselves; make the ship
yards your own; make the jobs your own.; decide the working conditions your
reives decide your wages yourselves-
In Russia tho masters refused to give their slaves a living wage too. Tho
Russian workers put aside the bosses and their tool, the Russian government,
and took over industry in their own interests.
There is only one way out; a nation-wido general Btrikc with its object the
overthrow of the present rotten system which produces thousands of million
Hires and millions of paupers each year. '
The Russians have shown you the way out. What are you going to do
about itf You are doomed to wago slavery till you dio unless you wake up,
realize that you and the boss have nothing in common, that the employing
olass must be overthrown, and that you, the workers, must take ovor the con
trol of your jobs, and through them, tho control over your lives instead of
offering yourselves up to the masters as a sacrifice six days a week, so that
they may coin profits out of your sweat and toil.
This document is some of the evidence of the motives
back of the Seattle incident. It was not a strike in the
ordinary meaning of the word but rather a revolt against
organized society and government. It was as direct a
blow against labor unionism as against society and gov
ernment as it is now organized. Five oi tne seven leaders
of the strike were foreigners, and the man, who is said
to have been the real leader, arrived in the United States
from Russia only eight months ago.
The revolt misnamed a strikewas an attempt to
Russianize this country, and therefore, had to be sup
pressed. It should prove valuable as a warninv to all
classes of people in this country who desire that law, or
der and justice should prevail, and that the institutions
we have founded on principles of a. free democracy shall
not be destroyed. It emphasizes the fact that war is not
alone an evil of itself, but in its wake follow pestilence,
political unrest and a long train of evils.
Admittedly we have in this country the finest experi
ment in government ever launched in all the history of
the world, that is theoretically. The people are the gov-
A KISS MEANT MUCH TO A COUN
TRY GIRL
CHAPTER in.
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
CONFLICTING TESTIMONY.
One story says that Exile Bill sits brooding on a wind
swept hill, all moist with unshed tears; he looks upon the
misty sea, and sighs, "Ach Himmel ! Woe is me ! I wish I
had zwei beers!" Another says he's full of pep, he goes
to work with active step, and chops down lordly oaks;
the peasants hear his ax blows ring, they see him dance
and smile and sing, and hear his sprightly jokes. One
says through all his days and nights he sits in gloomy
state and writes, as though he wrought for pelf; but what
he writes no man may guess; if he were asked he might
confess he doesn't know himself. We're told he's loony,
that he's sane, his ear is troubling him again, he's feeling
blithe and gay; he never leaves his room, it seems, and he
goes fishing in the streams, and walks twelve miles a day.
I can't keep cases worth a cent on this erratic, changeful
gent he's like a weather vane; but little boots it what he
docs, what hornets in his attic buzz, so that he doesn't
reign. Oh, he may write or chop down trees, or manufac
ture Limburg cheese, or reap or quarry stone; let him in
dulge in honest sweat, just so he doesn't ever get his
clutches on a throne.
eminent and their will is supreme. If we have unjust
laws, lax enforcement of law, or political corruption, then
the individual is to blame and only pays a just penalty
when he sutlers the consequences, lhe government may
only rise to the standard of the average intelligence and
honesty of the average intelligence and honesty of all
the people who constitute the government. We have al
ways thought that the remedy for bad laws and dishonest
and incompetent enforcement of the laws lies solely in
raising the standard of individual citizenship. That if
every voter realized his responsibility as a citizen and met
it fairly and squarely many of the evils complained of
would quickly disappear. Careless voting for men and
measures and strict adherence to party; allegiance sow
seeds which bring forth crops of bad legislation and cor
rupt official administration. The people of the United
States may only prove that democratic rule is a success
by making such a government a success through the real
ization of individual responsibility in the voting booth,
and by every act they may be called upon to perform in
connection with matters which concern the government
of which they are a part.
Labor unionism should not be condemned because of
the acts .of the radical element within it, but labor union
ism should proceed to purge itself of these elements. The
right of the great army of workers to organize for mutual
benei it and to advance and saieguara tneir interests My worm seemed strangely empty
should be unquestioned. Wage earners who are well paid aftCT Neil lcft- The .fcoIi"g of tp-
and whose standard of living promotes education, intel
ligence and comfort, should be the nation's greatest asset.
That very condition will prevent the founding of a.per
maiient working class in this country, something that at
the present time we do not have. The workingman's
son of the past generation is the bi gemployer, the pol
itical leader of today. The young man who worked for
wages a few years ago is paying wages to others today.
This is the way it should always be in this country; it
should always be a land of equal opportunity, guaranteed
largely by free education which gives all young men and
women an equal mental equipment tor tne vocation in hie
they may wish to follow.
Labor unionism is being tested in the present crisis.
Some of the men who are now seeking to lead it were its
bitterest opponents of a few months ago. lhey are anar
chists, extreme socialists and bolsheviks who would use
the workingman end woman to destroy organized gov-
ernment and society. They preach hatred of the employ
er when the greatest interest of the wage-earner should
be m getting into closer touch with his employer, bring'
ing him to see that their interests are mutual, and that
thev can do more for him. and be better citizens, if the
standard of their living conditions is brought to the high
est possible point. The walking delegate and the business
agent of -the union ought to go. His job depends, on stir
ring up strife and he is always on the job. If strikes are
necessary, and we admit they are at times to make some
grasping employer see the light, public sentiment ought
to be with the workers, and it will be if they ask for what
they are rightly entitled to .as full and equal citizens of a
democracy. But if labor unionism lines up with the for
eign agitators it will fall, for no matter what the ultimate
destiny of the republic may be, the time is far from dis
tant when any revolution tending toward anarchy and
destruction can succeed. The tendency may be in that
direction but in a young nation, as yet sparsely populated
and possessed of vast undeveloped resources, danger of
overthrow of the government is tar oil.
What we must realize at this time as citizens is that
all organized government means to some extent the re
striction. of personal liberty. It means that burdens in
the form" of taxes must be imposed, and force employed at
times to make its decrees effective. The duty of good
citizenship lies always in striving to make those restric
tions as few as possible and the burden of taxation equal
and as light as is consistent with efficiency in the work
the government must carry on. . 1 .
The wild dream of the anarchist who believes that
every individual should be left to govern himself would
destroy industrial organization and leave the race in
worse condition than the old nomadic tribes, because irom
the earliest , times they maintained some sort of tribal
government. 'The beautiful socialist theory that all men
should agree to place themselves on an equality and live
in common, with no thought of individual thrift, ambition
or desire -a social organization of mutual consent runs
counter to human nature and if tried as an experiment
would drift into Jiopeless anarchy. The very fact that hu
manity possesses the animal instinct of self preservation,
developed easily into selfishness and greed, demands the
organization of a government strong enough to restrain
those qualities and to protect the weak agajnst encroach
ments, of the strong. An ideal government would be no
stronger than that, the next door to anarchy it mifrht be
expressed,' but history has proved almost conclusively
that only strong central governments exist for any great
length of time, as the life of nations is reckoned.
The democracy of the United States is as yet an ex
periment it is barely one hundred and fifty years old,
a youngster among the nations of the world. The sober
common sense, the intelligence, the unselfish patriotism
of all classes of our people1 will be required to prove the ex
periment in popular government a success.
Japan would be more popular if she didn't talk so
much about the equality of races.
The Portland boosters will come before the legislature
and state highawy commission asking for the construction
of a paved road around Mount Hood. They should be
truned down hard. Portland s Columbia highway re
ceived 60 or 70 per cent of the $6,000,000 bond issue, and
if the legislature votes $10,000,000 in bonds for road work
those roads must be built where thev will develop the state
and be a benefit to the businessman and the farmer. If
this money, or any considerable amount of it, is to be put
into purely pleasure tour roads like the Mount Hood loop
it is the duty of every conscientious legislator to vote
against the proposed bond issue.
Salem has a particularly live bunch of strangers
within her gates today. The retail merchants of the state
are guests of the capital city during the sessions of their
annual convention.
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
Pan-Germany having been disposed of everybody is
free to pan congress.
pointmont. that he had said nothing of
caring for mo (I did not Bay "love"
even in my thoughts) lingered andn a
way distressed me. I had let him kiss
mo, and a kiss from a man meant more
than letter writing, to me. I had waited
in the cmnty little station, whither his
aunt and I had gone to see him off, un
til his train had beocmo a mere speck
'in the distance. Then I made an ex
cuse not to acompnny Mrs. Carter to the
store, and wandered away on tho road
loading bevond tho village; tho one
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE.
Noil and I had takon the day before
a road guarded by groat trees whose
deep-green leaves only trembled in the
light breeze. I walked on and on until
I reachod the wood, and the log upon
which we had sat. There was tho hole
in the moss as Noil had left it. There
wore, pieces of a twig which he had
broken in his hsnds while we talked. I
stooped and gathored them I have
them still.
I sat on the log dreaming until the
sun faded into soft violet glow be
hind tho horizon, then I walked slowly
home, groping among" my confused
thoughts, trying to puzzlo out tho mean
ing of that casual kiss Neil had so
lightly prosed upon my check.
"You didn't understand, Neil, you
didn't understand," I said over end
over to myself, scarcely knowing what
tho reiteration of the words meant; or
even the words themselves. Dimly, back
in my mind, was the thought that had
Neil known I cared, ho would either not
have kised me, or he would have said
more than to ask mo to writo to him.
A moment I stood still boforo I went
into tho house. I shivered a little in
tho warm .night air, but not with cold.
Then taking my courage in my hands I
wont in.. I had been afraid mother
would ask me where I had been, but be
yond giving me an unusually sharp look
she said nothing.
"Well, young Forbes is gone," fath
er said when ho came in a few minute?
afterward. "You'll get more time to
help your mother now, Bab," with s
sly wink. Father had desperately tried
to tense me about Neil.
"She has done enough cvon with him
here," mother bridled.
"He's a fino chapl no wonder Mrs.
Carter is proud of him. He 's her broth
er's child. His fnther died just a little
whilo before ha we graduated from col
lego. 1 met her coming home and she
told c. She said you and sho had gone
t0 the station to see nun off, liab
"Yes."
Dinner was ready and so no more
was suid of Noil. But after I had help
ed mother with the dishes as usual, I
rept off np stairs and sat by my open
wmdow, thinking of Neil, dreaming
dreams that brought blushes to my
cheeks.
I was foolish to think Noil would care
for me a simple littlo country girl
when he saw so many girls who were
more acomplishcd, so much handsomer
and better educated. Yet I kuew that
I should never b as happy as before ho
came; never feel just the same again. 1
had given him my love unasked. But
I had given it just the sninc. 1 should
probably marry some day, But not for
a long, long time. Not until Neil had
becomo less a fnteor in my life than he
then was rather, in my thoughts. He
had prnctiaclly gono out of my life.
Finally I went "to bed and once more
cried myself to sleep.
Neil had said he would write. Ho 1
constantly made excuses to visit the
post office, although, father had been in
tho habit of bringing the mail when he
came home to his meals. I ncver hid
received a letter from man. Foolish
notes or invitations from thet own boys
had occasionally come to me through
the mail, but no real letter.
Day after day ag no letter came 1
grew more depressed, more snrc that he
had alreadv forgotten me, and that 1
should not hear from him. Then about
two weeks after he had gouo home, and
the very first day I had not gone to the
post office, father brought mo his let-to:-.
,: letter from New York, Bab." he
said, tcrutinizing the post mark as he
handed it to me, though I very well
knew he had done so before reaching
ti ine.
My first letter from Neil! I covered
and I tucked it under my plate. I
would read it when I was alone. And
although father teased me, and mother
Voked toward it anxiously, I kept it un
opened i-ntil I reached my own room,
My rst letter from Neill I covered
it with kisses, then read it over and
over until I knew it bv heart.
Tomorrow Barbara's First Love Letter
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MRS. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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A FIRST GLIMPSE AT SPRlXt
CHAPEAtJX
Brown satin is foundation for th
upper toque's frivolous top of satin
roses set In ostrich fancies of a paler
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brown lisiere straw In triangles alter
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Mpped with burnt goose.
Disturbers On Way To
Port For Deportatioii
Chicago, Feb. 10 Two heavily guard .
er carloads of foreign disturbers were
en routo to an Atlantic port today for
deportation. The men were largely
from coast cities where they have been
held for various periods awaiting ocean
ininsporraiion.
Jn tho party were many Russians
and a, few enemy aliens. All won al
leged to be radicals and trouble mak
ers.
A. D. H. Jackson, head of tho Seat
tle, Wash., office of the immigration'
department was in charge of tho party.
His passengers, he said, were permit
tod to wave red flags and sing foreign
songs all they desired.
Immigration officials here were told
tho men had not been connected offi- .
cially with the general strige at Seat
tle. Deportation came at this time only
as a coincidence.
ASSIGNED TO CONVOY.
Washington, Feb. 8. The wsr depart
ment announced tho following organiza
tions have been assigned to early con.
voy :
The 16th, 20th and 266th aero squam
ous; signal corps cssual company 183;
base hospitals numbers 7 and 43; 59th
balloon company and 328th bakery company.
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