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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Washington, D. C.-"Who are the de-
generates?" DR.. Woods Hutchinson, the
New York publicist and physician, told
the American Public Health association
that the principal sources of immoral
women, drunkards, epileptics, criminals
and the insane are the homes of the rich
and fashionable and the homes of the
poor country district, the slums, he said,
do not produce anything like the number
of defective citizens, as do the franks
of the -Four Hundred" and the poorest
country sections.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Manchester, N. Y.-Free speech wa!
reinstated here today when Emil Seide
arrived to deliver his lecture. For the
past two months the local police have
made repeated announcements that no
socialist meetings would be allowed and
had ordered that no halls be rented to
the socialist candidate. Appeal was
made to the national campaign COM
mittee of the socialist party for support
in free speech fight which was granted
and this determined stand caused the
police to reverse their decree A delega.
tion of several hundred socialists with
red badges met Seidel at the train and
as a result of the action of the loca
police, over 10000 people turned out To
hear the socialist candidate for vice
president. A big torch light parade wa
held just previous to the meeting.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11
THE NOTE BOOK.

The Metropolitan for October has a
very acceptable article on socialism,
written by Helen Keller. Rather plain
when blind girl can see it.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

The strike of the Union Of Masters,
Mates and Pilots, of Honolulu, has been
won.
Manila-The cigar industry in Manila
is virtually suspended, $4,000 men being
out on strike and fewer than 1000 =
work, We hav prosperity" (fY i
every corner of this great and glorious
country of ours" (?).
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Washington, D. c., Sept. 2s.-Amid
the wild cheering of the delegates, social
ism was Endorsed today by the interna-
tional convention of Carpenters and Join
ers of America, representing 10000
American trades unionists-and almost
unanimously.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Claude A. Bowers, a Washington cor
respondent for a syndicate of demo-
cratic newspapers, sends out the follow
ing: "The old horror of socialism dimin-
ishes. The democrats throw no obstacles
in the way of Congressman Berger, and
it is significant thing that he is heard
with intense interest and is constantly
interrupted with respectful interroga-
lions. The name of Eugene V. Debs is
heard here with profound respect. His
ability is no longer doubted. His hon
esty is no longer questioned"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Our sweet scented, layender-tinted,
delicately- perfumed "intellectuals" should
be ensconed in iridescent iardinieres,
drenched with Ottar of Roses, and set out
to dry. Fifteen years ago the sporting
fraternity of Seattle, finding themselves
excluded from the portals of then-eXist-
ing lodges, had the perspicacity to insti-
tute an order for themselves It filled
a want; had an excuse for existence
flourished in a night In every direction
the idea extended like conceutric waves
on the placid bosom of a lake. In every
town of considerable size was reared
the Totem of the Eagle The gentry,
men whose lives were confronted by
more p than an other symbols of pune
uation, enrolled i'm dr1yes. When felic-
itous advancement had been made. when
success was inlutiable. am hurrah invas-
ion was carried ou hy iuteIleetuals, re-
-neatahIes and professionals They were
There with the gladstone frolias and had
d.ug.doug c1utrivauaas 0n their fingers
that made the Swiss Bell Ringers look
like a baby with d rattle. Upon their
new surroundings they impressed their
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Hendace, Spain.-street gatherings
were forbidden to everyone in many
Spanish cities yesterday on account of
the railroad strike.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

l give herewith a sketch of MARKHAM
economics which might be better done
had l more time and less limitation as
to space, this last an important eonsid-
GRAFTON since l attempt to compress $500
pages Of Capital into five minutes
reading. I cannot refrain from remark
ing that attempts of this kind merit
more indulgence than those rhetorical
outbursts. however dazzling, which please
the ear only TO starve the understand
ing.
A product is designed for ones own
use therefore, in the yes of the user it
has use-yalue A commodity, under the
capitalist system of production. is dee
signed for exchanging. therefore. &c must
have ayehauge-value. and may have ana
usually has use-yalue It is labor that
ca-r.s nothing costs bgt labor THE aN-
paud.tme of labor power creates value.
Then value IS ergs.lIlized labor The
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11
Comments on the Worlds Class Struggle
Carl Ulonska.

with five years imprisonment any on,
forcibly preventing a deputy from at.
tending the diet, but this was disregan.
ed by the court.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

So Comrade Berger would trade the
initiative and referendum for old-age
pensions, and for insurance against un-
employment he would forget the recall.
We have always harbored the suspicion
that Berger's system was permeated by
the trade union germ and according to
the pathology of John Hunter 'two pro-
cesses cannot 60 on at the same time in
the same part of any substance" a fig
for old-age pensions if we must buy
them with our principles As Darrow
says "The workers don't need them
they don't live long enough"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

In a poll Of the Singer Manufacture
company's employees, in Elizabeth, n. j
the socialists received more votes tina
the other three parties combined.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

All Kansas and Oklahoma are seethin
with socialism. Muskagee citizens gay
Debs am audience Of two thousand. Tb>i
Is a stirring campaign on in both saate
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Melbourne, Australia.-The increase i
the number of strikes all through Aus
tralia has set all the ''iustice" machine
and claw and order" dispensers in mo
tion to devise ways of suppressing tn
labor movement.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Augusta-The militia is in full control
of the street railway strike today, fol,
lowing fatal clash last night. Great
Indignation is expressed by the populace
over the shooting of the strikers by the
militia.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

President Taft said of the bull moose
party that the progressive party is moi
united on any cohesive principle, and il
only kept together by the remarkall
personality of its leader Were he to d.
the party would go to pieces, for tn
cause of which so many glibly speak j
utterly incapable of definition in viev
of the crazy quilt character of the plat
form. huff sed.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

New York.-Telegraphers of thu
New Jersey and Seashore railroad and
the Trenton division of the Pennsylvania
have joined other photographers of Pitts.
burg and Erie, who are demanding 4
living wage.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Judge Kelly of Kings county, Ne
York, has issued an injunction agains
speakers of the socialist party The il
junction was made at the instigation {
the Cordage Trust company, of Me-
York That we are living in a FIRE
country has become huge joke.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

In spite of the fact that Govern,
Hiram johnson Of California, the bun
moose candidate for vice president, a.
dressed a meeting TO which the admi.-
sion was free, in Cleveland, Ohio, mon
than 6,0O0 persons paid to hear Eugene
V. Debs, socialist presidential candidate
speak. The audience at the johnson
meeting was less than half the crowd
that flocked to hear the only working
class candidate for president.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Fairhope, Alabama, one of the most
noted single tax colonies in the world
recently elected a socialist for mayor
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Twenty-one thousand people greet'
Debs in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Liverpool England.-A renewal of
labor troubles here is threatened, owing
to the refusal of the dock board to bring
the wages Of firemen and carmen IN to
the local standard.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Two socialist members of the Prus
sian diet, Deputies Borchart and Lien
ert, were fined $25 and $3.50 respect
lively for resisting the police when they
were ordered to clear the chamber dur
ing a debate on May 8. They wen
given the alternative of going to jai
for ten and five days The two deputie
made counter plea for the punishmen
of the police under the law penalizins
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

A straw ballot taken in the Lunkeu.
heimer brass works, Cincinnati. Ohio. re-.
suited: Wilson 1913, Taft 81, Roosevelt
As, Debs % and Chafin l.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

There are some $4,000 wage-earning
women employed in about 1000 estab.
lishments in San Francisco.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

own predictions of taste, education,
manners and habit of thought. The or
der was diverted from its original pur-
pose-to far loftier one, indeed-but
nevertheless it was diverted. Some of
the original founders were hailed to the
tapis and then dismissed; others were
refused reinstatement after financial de-
linquency-never was conquest of the
conventionalities over the innovating
spirit more gilded and splendid. I
wonder if anything like that will ever
happen or is about to happen to social
ism? I wonder if its rough working
clothes are about to be pilfered and
fancy dress substituted? l wonder if
there is no lesson harder for working
people to learn than if they would be
free they must depend on themselves
and not on higher-ups who would stoop
only through humanitarian Incentives
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Since DR.. Sun Yet Sen announced his
belief in socialism, many other leaders Of
the Chinese revolution have done like
wise.
Locals have been organized at Shang.
hal Wang Chang and Petchili, and there
is still hope that socialist party in
China will be organized The locals win
be affiliated with the international So
cialist party.
Unless universal suffrage is granted
when the next Belgian parliament meets
in November, 100000 Belgian working
men will 60 on strike.
The bulls in New York city have gone
too far. During the parade Of the In
dustrial Workers of the World and the
socialist party last Saturday, a red flag
headed the parade. As the parade moved
down one Of the principle streets a bull
tore the flag from the bearer and con-
fiscated it as evidence against the pa
raiders. At the end of the trial, Inspector
Schmittburger turned to the police as
sembled in the court room and said
"Ibe red flag has as much right to be
flown as either the German or the Italian
or the green flag of Ireland. They 1.-THE
socialists) can fly a yellow flag or even
a black flag if they want to-"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Now, if the cost of living mounts
more rapidly than wages, then purchas-
ing power is reduced; if purchasing
power is reduced the standard of living
declines; if the standard of living de
clines Lasalle's Iron Law of Wages re-
ceives verification; if the Iron Law of
Wages is to be verified at its ultimate
limit civilization is the cruelest engine
of oppression that ever starved babes on
mothers breasts.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

Why should a workingman who is sat
isfied with things as they are, take the
trouble to vote? We can have things
as they are without voting for them.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-11

GEORGE ALLEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
THOUGHT HEHADBARGA|N
Man Bought Eggs for Thirty
Cents a Dozen, But Eggs
Had Been Stolen.

A resident of South Washington thought
he had bargain yesterday afternoon
when he bought crate of thirty dozen
eggs for $6. 1t would have been bar
gain had not the eggs been stolen, as
the purchaser learned later in the day
when he found it necessary to surrender
the crate and contents without getting
back much of his money.
The eggs had been stolen from a deliv-
cry wagon of Capt. James F. Oyster
Pennsylvania avenue and 9th street, at
LIST and D streets southwest. Policemen
Harvey and Frye arrested William
Smothers and Edward West, colored resi-
dents of the southwest section, and
charged them with having stolen the
eggs.
Smothers. the police say, recently re-
turned from Occoquan, where, it is said,
he served sentence of eleven months
and twenty mine days for theft of articles
of food from wagons. He denies that he
was implicated in the theft of the eggs
yesterday
1t is hoped by the police that the ar
rests last night and others they expect
to make in the near future will put stop
to the annoying thefts. A number of
merchants have been annoyed by such
thefts. and merchants say the loss Of
few crates of fresh eggs at this season
is calculated to cripple the egg business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
Stag Hotel.-Advt.
Departmental Efficiency.

To the Editor Of The Star:
noticed the article in The Star Of
February i, by Mr.. w. H. Berkeley, on
Efficiency and Government Service"
and to which heartily respond, amen !;
but the half has not been told. 1t is a
burning shame that 1.-The man behind the
gun." who has faithfully performed his
duties for number of years and by close
application has attained high efficiency,
is not eQuitab1y and adequately rewarded.
For instance, in the chart construction
division of the photographic Office, Navy
Department employees there, who have
ing given ten and more years to this
work, are being paid the small sum Of
81. 400 per annum, when We know of
stenographers and typewriters in other
departments Of the service receiving sal
aries Of several hundred dollars in adj
vance of this.
The work is high class, requiring a
natural talent for the same. A college
education is merely an adjunct. The
real practical work can only be acquired
by contact with the grind of the wheel
of close application. 1t is necessary to
have a good knowledge of mathematics.
also to be versed in the languages, and to
acquire the long list Of technical nautical
mittee appointed by Congress to investi-
gate. reclassify and rerate the govern
ment employees, according to ability?
Some of us are quite heartsick waiting
for this act Of justice to be consum-
mated. Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK ]. s. BOWEN.
Silver Spring, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
ICE G0RGED AT PIERS.
Structures at Classic Shore and Co.
lonial Beach Damaged.

Letters received in this city from
Colonial Beach state that the new
wharf at Classic Shore and the freight
wharf at Colonial Beach have been
damaged by drift ice piling against them
in the past week. The wharf at Classic
Shore, which was built by a local real
estate firm about three years ago, has
been partially carried away, and a large
number of piles under the freight wharf
the ice. The wharf has not fallen,
though il is said to be in bad condition,
and considerable work will have to be
done to it to make it fit for service.
The main body of the ice, reaching
from this city to a point forty miles
down the river, has not yet begun to
move, and those along the river front
who know what ice has done in former
years are looking for damage to prac
tically every wharf on the river that
fore the ice disappears. Years ago when
heavy freezes were more frequent on the
river than they are now, many wharf
owners built the pierheadS extra solid,
and constructed the bridge potrion to the
shore of lighter material. When the
freeze came the planking was removed
and taken ashore and after the ice was
gone only the pierhead would be found
standing. The expense of rebuilding the
pierhead carried away. Then the wharf
was generally abandoned.
Between this city and Colonial Beach
the remains of twenty or more old
wharves can still be seen on any low
tide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
YACHT IDLER SPRINGS LEAK.
Police Boat Vigilant Saves Her
From Sinking.

The steam yacht Idler, which has been
lying at anchor in the harbor off the
foot of 10th street southwest for several
weeks, started to leak some time Friday
night, and yesterday morning was near
Iy full of water and ready to go to the
bottom The harbor police boat Vigilant
under the command of Sergt Passano,
went to the yacht and, putting a steam
syphon aboard her. pumped the vessel
out, saved her from sinking and remain
ed by her all day.
The 1dler Is a wooden hull craft and
IL is supposed that the calking was
worked out of her seams, and this, prob
ably with the bursting of some of her
pipes leading overheard, caused her to
fill rapidly. Last summer she was used
for special excursion parties to Colonial
Beach and other points on the river The
Idier formerly was the property of Col.
%. q. Staples and was used by him on
the ST Lawrence river at the Thousand
Islands She was brought to the Poto-
mac about two years ago, but for about
year lay in the Eastern branch, out of
service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
REPAIRS UNDER WAY.
Six Schooners Being Made Ready for
Service in Spring,

The schooner Lancelott, belonging to
Capt. Kendrick, which is lying at the
10th street wharf, is being overhauled
and made ready for service in the wood
and lumber carrying feet in the spring.
The work is being done by her owner
and master. who is putting on new rails,
calking the decks. overhauling sails and
doing other work necessary to put her In
good order.
The schooner Stefflns, lying at the 10th
street wharf Of the American Ice Com
pany, which is also being overhauied. is
approaching completion and will be ready
to resume service in the latter part Of
this month or early in March.
The schooners Bertha May. Eleanor
Russell and Maud S. are laid up at points
down river. and their owners are taking
advantage of the idleness of the vessels
to give them the repairs necessary to
put them in good trim for effective work.
They will also be repainted before going
into commission again.
The two-masted schooner Rebecca
limbs is at Alexandra for repair worx
to hull and to be made ready for lumber
and wood carrying service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
q. S. ARMY BOAT INSPECTED.
Steamer Swartwout Meets Tests
Prescribed by the Regulations.

The United States Army steamer
SWartwout, tender to the army posts on
the river and employed in service be-
tween this city and Fort Washington
and Fort Hunt, as a passenger and
freight steamer, was off the route for
day recently, to undergo her annual in
spection by the officials of the United
States steamboat inspection service. The
Swartwout was put through the same
tests of boiler, fire pumps and life-sav-
ing appliances as are given vessels in
commercial business and she met all the
requirements. Some minor repair work.
1t is stated. was recommended by the in
specting officers, and this will be done
as soon as possible.
Since the heavy ice has been on the
river the Swartwout has been making
but one round trip each day between the
fort and this city, but yesterday she took
up her two-trip schedule This, however,
is understood to be temporary and the
regular schedule will not be resumed
until navigation Is easier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
VALUE OF IMPROVEMENTS.
Permits for Construction and Re
pairs for January, S757 .054.

Permits issued for building construc-
ton and repairs during the month Of
January reached total estimated value
of SI57.954, according to the report of
Building Inspector Morris Hacker, sub
united to the Commissioners yesterday.
OF this amount, 1854. 24 was for building
alone. and s1oI $50 for repairs. The north
west section. with total of S216,614, led
in the building activities of the month.
the other sections in order being south
east, with s6o.7OO; northeast. with s44.-
900, and southwest, with $500 The coun-
tvs share of the building operations was
$327, 80.
With a total of $50, 1913. the northwest
section likewise led the other sections in
the amount of repair work done during
the month. Northeast. with $500, was
second; southeast, with 81, 103. was third.
and southwest with S92,, was fourth. The
county was represented in building repair
work to the extent of S34,59
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
Double Cycle Riding.
10 The Editor Of The Star:


read your editorial on double cycle
riding in the last nights Star and would
like to express my opinion on the SUBJ
Qect. You say il machine is equipped
with seat behind the operator, provided
with springs. handlebars and footrests,
it makes for public safety. / am an ex-
perienced rider and here is whese I beg
to differ with YOU. In complying with the
present regulation, the operator of the
machine Is completely penned in by the
h;tndieoars. making il impossible for him
to disnount quickly in case of an acct
dent and thus endangering his own life
as well as those around him.
The motor cycle Is being adopted by
business houses of every description,
and Is especially valuable for quick de-
livery purposes, and I'm this case il is
necessary to use luggage carrier Now
II the authorities would change the regu-
1ation and allow the use of a luggage car
rier for double riding the machine would
always be equipped for both purposes
and the operators and Passengers lives
would not be endangered by a lot of
unnecessary equipments, and both could
easily dismount in case of an emergency.
CHARLES II. GOODRICH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
GOING TO NORFOLK.
Temporary Duty for Lighthouse
Service Steamer Sunfower.

The lighthousAservices steamer Sunfiow-
Ell, from the fourth lighthouse district,
with headquarters at Philadelphia. has
been ordered to Norfolk for temporary
duty in the fifth lighthouse district, in
place of the tender Orchid, which is to go
out of commission for extensive repairs.
The repair work to the Orchid is to be
done at the shipyard of Mcintyre &
Henderson, at Baltimore, and is to cost
approximately $4,000. Several weeks will
be required to complete the work on the
tender. The Sunfiower will do the coast
inspection and supply work of the dis
trict.
William III. Rowe has been appointed
mate of lightship No. =, recently re-
placed on the Bush Bluff light station. on
the Elizabeth river, at the entrance to
Norfolk harbor.
Charles o. Peel has been selected to
succeed Barney F. Peel as assistant
keeper of the Harbor Island light sta
tion- E F. Peel has been transferred
from Harbor Island to the Hatteras inlet
station. e. o. Peel was formerly as
sistant engineer of the Cape Lookout
lightship.