The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-08
AMERICA IS WORSE
THAN IMPERIALISM
Such Is Conclusion OF Social
lists After Study OF COL
orado Situation.
GOOD WORDS FOR KAISER
Asrlin Socialist. Admit That He
Wouldn't Treat Workmen as tho
Authorities of the Centennial
State Have Done.
Copyright, 1904. by W. R. Hearst.)

VdpSLb QGSOl9 COTSlueTaOlS space TO COIl-
ments on tho treatment by the American
authorities of union miners In the Cripple
Greek district, and, incidentally, the Ger
man government comes in for a certain
amount of praise in this connection.
In a leading article commenting on the
persecution OF the union miners a promi-
nent socialistic paper in this city says
editortally:
ITO those who were wont to consider
the great republic on the other side of the
Atlantic a haven of refuge for the W
trodden classes the course of political
events In America is greatly regretted.
with every safeguard thrown around
the freedom and liberty for which their
forefathers fought the great intelligent
American people has allowed the power to
drift into the hands of a few.
Daily 1t becomes more and moro evil
dnt that the United States is no longer a
democratic republic, but a mighty world
power governed by an oligarchy OF pluto
Gratis.
The worship of money and the reckless
use OF 1t by scheming magnates in cor
rupting legislatures is the primary cause
credible.
Violating State Laws.
IN Colorado. the so-called higher classes
S0yp 4A0 AAAiA OWbA-
ers-and their followers are daily yiolat-
ing the avs of the state to annihilate
w~orkingmen whose only crime Is that
they have formed unions for their own
protection, unions which are perfectly
legal under the existing laws Of the state.
"Workingmen have been corraled into
pens as If they were wild beasts and. not
having a place to Danish these unfortu-
nate people to, they have been deported
Into q ~neighboring state, Kansas. One
wonders what the next stage OF the mill
tary tyrant will be.
We socialists In Germany ave been
subject to much oppression, and there is
marck, In his palmy days, would have
aiked to have treated German working
men In the same manner, but with hum
dreds OF thousands Of bayonets behind
him he did not dare to do this.
Comparison Favors Germany.
Nobody will think Of accusing our pres
.ent German government of loving the So
-cialtsts or the labor unions overmuch.
but 1t knows that should It ever try to
treat German subjects as citizens Of Col
-orado are being treated today the flames
revolution would spread over the coun-
try like wtldire.
The kaiser is at least fighting US fairly.
the monarchial government under which
live would never think Of violating
the law to crush the laboring classes, and
the labor bureau In Berlin has even in
respects done good work for the
worktngmen. but not so in the land of
free and the home of the brave.
And the government of the United
States. the republican party now in pow
.er has the effrontery to give them q
chance to continue this sort Of regime for
-FOUR years more.
One might be tempted to say that the
A r1eriran 10 hOrirD mon doooryA uybot than,
get, when their votes give them power to
off their yoke at any time.
Surely no other people would ave rs
much patience as the American. but that
patience has ceased to be a virtue"
Tho Vice Traffic.
Reports from the various anti-vtce So
.cieues In Germany show that the per-
traffic OF exporting young girls,
from small provincial towns
they are delivered to disorderly houses,
has again Increased to an alarming ex-
Agents representing houses Of this lind
lin New York. Philadelphia, New Orleans
.Buenos Ayres are more active than
and in spite Of the watchfulness of
rthe police authorities 1t Is no secret that
hundreds Of girls leave here every month
ito be sold in the modern slave markets OF
the western hemisphere.
The chief of police in Berlin a few days
issued a circular to the police author
'ities OF all towns and cities announcing
that the organization of the society for
.of girls had now been perfected. and asked
for vigorous cooperation from the police
authorities.
The secret service department. which
has charge OF watching the movement OF
anarchists. has been ordered to give part
.of Its time to watching agents for I'M
moral houses. and has been provided with
all data and facts gathered by the Anti
Vice society.
The arrest OF several American agents
whose names are known to the police il
expected to follow in a very near future
and they are being carefully Swallowed.
Sufficient proof Is said to be in the
hands of the authorities to send half a
dozen of them to the pen.tentiary, while
enough Is known of many others to war
uant their expulsion from the country.
Story Much Exaggerated.
Some time ago the people of Aedenburg
were greatly excited at the report that a
former faithless lover had repented on his
-deatllbed and left a fortune of several
million marks TO his old sweetheart. a
Mrs. Preuser, who at that time was work
ing In a factory.
The whole story of the inheritance APP
S<2A \ ~ g 4tAAAhS 49, 80
style.
BY spreading the story of the many
which she was to inherit from
her ex-sweetheart at Kobleu, Mrs. Preu-
ser succeeded in borrowing considerable
of money from citizens in the
factory town, and when she had pretend
ed to be on a trip to koblenz to arrange
with the executors for the transfer ofthe
money she had really concealed herself in
her home for a week.
When her creditors began to press her
for money and wondered that the millions
did not realize, she invented a story that
she had been the victim of a swindler who
made her pay 800 marks for the news
the inheritance and for the necessary
ana even carried this so far that
she swore out a warrant for his arrest.
AS nobody else in the town had seen
anything of the mysterious stranger, the
police, however. became suspicious and
her. just as she was getting
ready to leave for America, and she has
confessed that the whole story of the
repentant sweetheart and the millions
in her own brain.
Germany and South America.
The organization of emigration to South
is to be perfected with the evil
purpose in view of creating a strong
>-o, a ~ ~, ia ~ tLo& -,oe&orn row !