The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-07
Socialists Trouble Breeders
Roosevelt Peels Hide off and Hangs
1t on Fence, Then Goes Hunting
for Real Game.
oEss REPLIES IN RED-HoT sTYLEi

That socialists are queer lot, with many
notions that threaten the overthrow OF the ex-
listing society is fact well known to every stu
dent of the present order. Many patriotic cltl-
zens have attempted to warn the people by an
expose of the socialist falIacies but with little
success until President Roosevelt, just prior to
his departure for Africa, wrote couple OF lead
ers in the 'Outlook" for April which the
doughty Teddy's admirers say literally 'took
the hide off the socialists"
Thereupon Eugene V. Debs, the one-time Jail
bird-whch distinction his friends rather glory
in-replied in the May LIST issue Of The Appeal
to Reason The reply is in the usual vein of the
socialists, and like every other attempt to point
out the supreme idiocy, to call it no worse, OF
these fanatics, who claim ''every knock is q
BOOST this edition is being widely circulated
as 'reply."
1t is we'll worth reading simply to show the
dangerous character of these socialists, and to
point out some of their "arguments ever see
one who hadn It an arguments
They are "queer" no doubt of it. Here is
a sample Of ad talk they put out: ''No socialist
longs to be mionaire-at least for the mere
name. Few socialists for riches except
as they, by such possession, can help to bring
about the revolution that will make rich every
man and woman willing to work. richer far than
all the Vanderbilts, Goulds and Rockefeers."
Yet every socialist wants a competence, some
thing laid by for rainy day, the day when he
may be thrown out on the junk pile, worn out
and unfit. Every socialist longs to be his own
boss, own his job, own his tools, own his home,
his own 'vine and fig tree;' he wants his home
and job together in congenial surroundings free
of the mad scramble, wrangle and jange of the
modern profit mill Notice the inference that
human beings are through sausage ma
chine like so many weenies"O.
Under the old way of buying homes you have
to pay two or three times what you should pay;
in fact EaIl no traffic will hear - Rut
there is better way, cheaper way, the trust
way--co-operation.
By cooperation you can save One-half and in
many cases much more by joining your friends
with like needs and desires.
Take irrigated orchard land, for instance.
There is absolutely nothing in reach of the man
of moderate means so safe, so pleasant, so profit
able so healthy as fruit growing under irr-
cation, yet when the man of modest purse wants
to buy five or ten acres of orchard land he is
literally "held up'' for three or four times the
actual cost of the land and irrigation works..
The old fashioned real estate man justifes the
hold-up by pointing to the profits of $500 to
$1,000 per acre.
There is but one way to escape the hOld-up-
cooperation. Join your comrades who want
orchard lands.
In October, 1907, well known socialist of
Spokane organized a cooperative company to
build an irrigation system. In 1908 they built
ten miles of ditch, cleared, plowed and leveled
1000 acres and are now planting $4,000 trees.
Every dollar these comrades invested brought
them four times as much as if they had not CO.
operated. THEY ARE AN OVERWHELMING
SUCCESS
The same socialist who organized that COM
pany has now organized another on similar
lines, The Round Lake Irrigation Company, and
invites the investigation and cooperation of
those who believe in the principles
They offer of the very choicest fruit
lands, plowed leveled and planted to the best
commercial varieties of fruit, water right to
one and one half acre feet of water per acre, a
proportional interest in the irrigation SYSTEM
an interest in their stores canneries, cold stOr-
age telephone and other industries, ALL FOR
5000.
Only 10 miles from Spokane, climate equal
to Wenatchee, only 1900 feet elevation and right
on two transcontinental railways.
DOES 1T PAY TO COOPERATE? Figure for your
self. can't buy Columbia Valley land around Spo-
kane at ANY price; it can't be had.
Such you CAN buy will cost you $3.50 to $500
for the raw and water You know that.
won't Columbia Valley land.
After you bought it, the other fellow sl
irrigation works and will hold the end of
maintenance You know that.
Next you'll find the telephone trust the phones.
the electric light trust the lights the grocers'
trust owns stores the Gamers trust the
neries and the commission trust has a monopoly
handling your fruit and you know that is true and but
half the story.
Does it pay to cooperate? You had better