The sun., 1912-08-02
THE RED HANDANSA.
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simple squire seth.

simple squire seth.
Scth Bullock reported that tho sorn
br"ro vote WAS not altoget her sat isiiec
with Nh" handanna emblem There were
stories afiost that members Of ths Theo
dorus Rex r~ersgc had been seen sport
ing elk l'andannas about their delicate
fhroa'-. II was intiipatcd that Lord
Harvester. the Earl OF Perkins. had beer
soon IN China silk affair; likewiss
Amos. Keeper of the rrivy Purse. This
would hever do, and when King khakh
hoard of IL he rcb,iked them for their
carelcssn"ss. First thing they knew silk
bandannas would lie on par with silk
stockings in the estimate Of plain folk
Seth said And the Bull Moose himself
was not particularly attractive TO the
people Of The plains. who declared that the
Moose was only familiar TO rich male
factors who could afford to hunt him.
Indeed. bronco wags remarked sub
rosa that tho chief characteristic OF the
Bull Moose was that he had big head.
When Seth whispered these dark It'd
ings In the royal ear King Khakhi told
him to refer all doubters to his last arti-
Gle In the Outbreaks And so poor Seth
sat up all one night searching the print Ell
lines Of the Thousand and One Editorials,
like a beachcomber raking the sands. in
hope of enlightenment. But the more
Seth read the more frightened he became,
for he found some justification for an aw-
ful insult to the flag that he once heard
uttered. that the Red Bandanna was not
unlike the Red Flag. not only OF danger
but Of anarchy.
What else could some OF the utterances
OF the master mean? Take these excerpts
from one of the most recent OF the Thou
sand and One Contributed Articles, and
watch the red bandanna transform itself
into pure red. the red that Emma Gold
man loves:
They Uhe representativ Of big b,isi-
ness and the thousands OF smaller men
who in panicky fashion follow their lead)
trust in the courts and the great corpora
tion lawyers. and they become uneasy
lest the people themselves insist on exer-
cising control over the act ion OF the courts
when the courts buttress privilege. The
important thing to them is to prevent
the Government being made in fact what
it is in theory"
Or this:
They are condoning far worse out
rage than the Mcnamara dynamitins), J.,
infinitely more far reaching in the dam
age done to the country a. q whole"
And little further on Seth read these
words, which made his hair curl, and
with good reason:
These men those who live softly
abound in the New York and Boston
social and business or professional clubs.
in the boards Of trade and chambers OF
commerce. in the bar associat ions, in
the residential districts where people OF
means and leisure dwell They are free
from physical toll and hardship; they
live under conditions that tell for ease
that indeed tend rather to too much self.
indulgent softness and therefore. alas! to
that dreadful selfishness which il born
Of fear when they become alarmed lest
the system which has brought about these
pleasant conditions may be changed"
Even simple Seth was scared when he
saw his devoted master had really written
these sentences And this from him.
Seth whispered to himself, when with my
own ears | heard him say that he never
preached class hatred Why. Debs is a
dufier alongside Of him" But Seth WAS
wise enough to keep these thoughts Of
lese majesty beneath his flannel shirt
bosom. He only told the cowboys that
the royal edict had gone forth that the red
bandanna must not be Of the silk variety
on any account. that even Viceroy Munsey
would have to wear one Of the printed
calico sor1