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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1913-06-19
Alter -Four Years Of Discouraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Upin Despair. Husband
Came 10 Rescue.

catron. Ky.-ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, ! could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. At times, | would have severe pains
in my LEFT side.
The doctor was called in, and his treat.
nent relieved me for a while, but / was
sooa confined 10 MY bed again. Alter
hat, nothing seemed to 10 me any good.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
uAsTING HUMAN LIVE.

or the people who live the United States ourls regular
receive enough keep Them as good physical animals
each year natural resources merhHn'W power anu
human energy sufficient 10 fully supply the needs oil every
human being I'M this country
In these the heaviest indictment against present
because There hunger and cold and ignorance do the
socialists ndct capam These things have always been aud an
indictment the world from its foundation
ndc capitalism for the misery Of today because that misery
unnecessarily and because misery maintained that capitalists may
profit Unavoidable suffering misfortune The continuance OF
suffering unnecessarily a crime.
The indictment against the capitalist class not because of its
roos living yachts butterfly balls or its sensccss de
bauccs Newport the Great White Way These things
indicate "reminiscences and hearcsness things almost INSOFAR
able from an idle, useless class of paratc
its Indictment the proudest boast OF the
capitalist class. -. .
cir i'm the management industry It has strued through its
c part ON the STAGE history the character of the and
careful manager industry and Of production. It's
ca poac like Aaock write books and deliver lectures to
prove that marvellous managerial brains of the capitalists when
applied directing and organizing industry have created
all the Fabulous wealth that this class absorbs.
When Kings and Mobiles Fell
cuda times did kings and mobiles plead
they protected those whom they pldeed
Their castle walls armor their
Fields of Gold justified reward for the pro
their peasants craftsmen and merchants The
special peac and retaners of that time spoke
quenv the subject Of the necessity OF the protection fur
Then there when the
discovered that their need for
the occasional raids of foreign soldiers the
eprraon outlaw robbers but against the punderng bunder
dNet behind walls wasted
they the toierS Shortly after
feulalism fell.
Today capitalist is unconscousy writing its in
pleads It's efficiency for existence
needs the capitalist order that
industry. Labor suffering OF the
incompetence wasteuness of this who
would have believe that history has especially designed for the
task of management than from greed corruption and dishonesty
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03

shown itself capable of building and
operating such complex machine as
the modern battleship.
And we want them democratically
operated.
Now why do socialists want us to
own and operate these Industries for
our own benefit instead of allowing
few to own and operate them for
their profit? Does not the question
answer itself? This is the reason.
The owning class under private own
ership is under a constant temptation
to do three things.
list. To increase the price of the
product, because that means more
profit.
End. To decrease wages to the low
est possible point, because that means
more profit.
3rd To adulterate the goods and
cheat on the quantity, because that
means more profit.
Under collective ownership no one
would have the incentive to do any of
these things because the people as a
whole would own and control. Can it
be doubted that the people would in
sist on having prices as low as posi-
BILE, wages as high as possible, and
goods as good as possible?
The wage-worker receives under
private ownership less than one-half
of what he would get under collective
ownership for the simple reason that
under collective ownership there
would be no individuals standing be
tween the worker and his earnings tC
absorb the larger part of them.
Whenever we, the people, shall de
eide to have our food, our clothing
and our shelter provided at cost, in
stead of paying over one half profit
we can do so, just as we now have
our education at cost, and our posta
service practically at cost
But, you say, am sure that my
employer doesn't get all the profit
that you say he does.
No, your employer does not get il
all. But did you ever stop to think
that your employer has to pay a profit
on the factory and land he occupies
called rent, a profit on the gas and
electric light and coal he burns,
profit on the raw material he buys
a profit on the tools, machinery ano
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03

A $1,000 Christmas tree for Vinkon
Walsh Mclean, three-year-old heir to
$1OO,O0O,0OO.
Fancy dolls, horses and lions set
in gold with jeweled eyes were the
gifts that graced the tree.
While Christmas was being cele-
brated in the Mclean Mansion at
Erie, Pa, a family of six existing in
misery and filth, were driven to sui
eide by starvation. Also during the
months of December, 125 babies
starved to death in Allegheny coun-
ty, New York.
What a contrast. Hail to the land
of mo classes"???
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
THE TWO SYSTEMS.


There are two systems and only
two, under which any industry is, or
can be, run.
One is private ownership or CAPT
talism, under which a few individ-
uals called a firm, or a number of
stockholders called corporation,
own buildings, machinery, tools, etc.,
which are used in making the pro-
duct
These owners, who are known as
capitalists, hire other men to do the
manual and mental labor necessary,
and give them part of the product,
which is called wages.
The owners or capitalists keep the
rest of the product which is called
profit.
The wages of the wage-earners are
determined by competition; that is,
when an employee is wanted, and ten
apply for the job, the man, woman or
child who the employer thinks will
do the most work for the least pay
will get the job So you see that UNI
der private ownership, wages cons
family tend toward the smallest
amount which the worker can work
for and keep alive on. The price of
the product used, to be fixed by com
petition also, but this is not, as a
rule, true today because the owning
class, which is not like the working
class, driven to a fierce competition
by the fear of starvation, have
learned that they can make much
larger profits by combining and a
greeting on the price of their product
than they can by competing, which
always lowers prices.
For the past twenty years this
country has tried to destroy cOmbin.
ations and restore competition, with
the result that the attempt has been
a complete failure, for the simple
reason that there is no known method
under the capitalist system whereby
tNb VI INNAAg mon NtlAl NC ~ t'N
from coming together in private and
fixing the price of the article which
they sell, and selling it at that price.
Let us now look at the industrial
system known as collective owner
ship, or socialism. This idea is now
partly operative in the publicly owned
postoffice, the public schools, the pub
lie roads and bridges (Which were
once privately owned, the police
system, the public fire department,
the public water works, and the Pana.
ma canal
The socialists want the same power
to dig the copper and the coal and
the oil wells that dug the Culebra
cut They want the highways made
of steel rails owned and operated by
the public, like the highways made
of macadam They want the mills
and factories that make the boots
and shoes. and clothing we must wear.
and the brick and lumber we must
build our houses off, TO Doe owned and
ope,ated ~ the same a0wer that has
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03

every other thing ne uses, and that if
The collectively owned land and fac
tory supplied gas, electric light and
fuel at cost and supplied tools, ma
chinery ana all supplies used at cost
did you ever stop TO think that this
abolition of profit would mean a re-
duction of the cost of living to you
of more than one half?
Now the socialists cannot accom-
plish this all at once. but want to
commence and carry on as fast as
possible the process of transferring
the various industries from private
to public ownership
How?
Well there are three ways:
LIST. Confiscate them, as we did
with the slave property in the Civil
war
End Buy them, giving bonds in
payment, to be paid gradually just as
we have bought our water systems.
Bird. Establish government fac
tories to sell at cost, which would
put privately owned industries, which
must make a profit, out of existence
When the people decide to have So
oiaism they will also have the oppor-
tunity to decide which method they
prefer to bring it about.
Meanwhile the number of believers
in collective ownership grows every
year, and the socialist party, the only
party which stands for this principle
invites all who believe in it to sup
port this great movement by the only
feasible method the expression of
their opinion by means of the BAL
LOT.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
NEW YEAR GREETINGS AND
RESOLVE.

Never to let the sun set upon the
day or stars fade from the night, |
do not something to overthrow wage
slavery, and to restore the earth and
the machinery to those who in travail
and sorrow do all the useful the beau
tiful and the necessary work of the
world Bruce Rogers.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03

study of classified statistics shows that half of the
adult males working the industrial sections of the United
States less than 5000 year, teeuarters paid
less than $3.50 annually and less than onetenh $1,000
Half of the fall below $500 year while nearly
nnetens receive less than $3.50 These figures
however they all gross DEMONSTRATING
poyment They should be reduced by perhaps 20 per cent
varying with the year the location and the nduryFrom
Wages in the L. S. by Scott Nearing of the University of
PennSy vana
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
F. B. Halves
1908 Hewitt Ave.
DUBLIN, IRELAND.

DUBLIN, IRELAND.
Being equally divided on the ques-
ton of costs in a laborer's suit, the
magistrates tossed a coin to decide
and the defendant won.
The lockers and local beavers of
Belfast, are on strike demanding that
only union men be employed on the
Wharfs.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03

Take the Milwaukee
for SnohomiSh and
when you get there
you will be near the
II. L. Atkins Co. De-
partment Store.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-03
Mr.. Jeffrey

an expert on AMATEUR PHO
GEOGRAPHIC WORK, is now in
charge of our Kodak depart
ment. Our policy is to make
your picture taking more pleas
ant and perfect Come in and
get acquainted. II costs you
nothing, and you will take bet
ter pictures.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Going After the Thugs.

Mai. Sylvester, it is stated. is giving
PERSONAL attention TO the work of the de-
aetives in an endeavor TO round up rob-
hers and murderous assailants who have
been figuring conspicuously in the police
reports OF the District for the past few
weeks, Something of this sort is highly
desirable eliminating in the murder of
~tockett, footpads and thugs have been
infesting Washington of late in alarming
numbers. This is perhaps merely the
normal autumnal or early winter out
break OF crime. incident to the advance
of cole weather and tine shutting down of
employment-giving works But what
ever the cause the fact remains and
something must be done TO demonstrate
that Washington is not proper field
Tor the operations of criminals. The fail
Gre TO apprehend the murderer of Stock
TT, although he committed his crime in
full daylight and almost in the sight of
witnesses, has seriously affected the pub
lie and since then other crimes have
been committed SO that the police docket
IS full of cases. Mai. Sylvester will have
the best wishes of Washington in his
endeavor TO work out results calculated
70 increase the percentage of public Sc
curity.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
The President and the Platform,

President Wilson'S reply to the suffra-
g1sts who called on him yesterday and
asked him to recommend to Congress the
extension of the franchise to women il
Illustrates the value of political platform
as buffer against public pressure. The
President took the ground that he is
not at liberty to urge upon Congress in
messages policies which have not had the
organic consideration Or those for
whom he is spokesman. For that reason
he says he is by his own principles cut
OFF from starting something" the Balti-
more platform being silent on the subject
of woman suffrage
This Is an interesting but not altogether
new use TO which party platform can
be put by an executive exposed to the
pleas and petitions of the public. II
places responsibility upon the party in
convention assembled. But at the same
time 1t puts premium upon a scru-
tinizing parallel reading OF platforms and
messages which may at times prove
embarrassing. provided it is found that
something has been started without the
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Washington's Game Supply.

Washington Correspondence y. Y. Evening Post.
Washington wants game for its Christ
mas dipper. and it has 1t, but how long
it will continue to have it Is q question
Of present anxiety. The biological sur
vey is doing what il can to save the
game supply of the Potomac River coun-
try. so that posterity may have Christ
mas birds, and birds for other feast
days also. The canyasback. the redhead,
the bluebill, and the other ducks of
the lower Potomac waters are diminish
ing i'll number year by year The law
does something to preserve them, but
it can't do all. Some day, after a Christ
mas feasting, the people Of the Potomac
may arouse themselves to the necessity
OF game protection whic, protects. The
Washington markets are filled with game
at Christmas time. Men sell 1t at the
street corners. They have strings of
duck and quail hanging from the shoul-
der, and they solicit trade, as the chew
ipg-gum, the shoestring, and the peanut
| man solicit 1t. These street statesmen are
gunners. They stand in "a sort of "a
| half-kneeling, knock-kneed way. showing
| that their legs have had close comp panion-
| ship with the punt, and that the shooting
| posture is second nature. When night
| is falling and the street seller of game
| gets cold, you can buy canvasback, red
| head, and quail at cut price.
Evening star., 1913-12-09

change it's point of view and adopt those
things which have always been cioee to
my heart
We may believe Mr.. Bryan is happy.
He ought TO be. The country-although
rry a minority vote-did adopt last No
yernber many of those things which have
always been close to his heart. More
over. it elected President a man he had
converted TO an acceptance of those
things 1t was Mr.. Bryan who. single
handed turned Mr.. Wilson from Cleve-
Iandism to Bryanism, and then bestowed
upon him the Baltimore nomination. And.
80 far. Mr.. Wilson in office has been
steering by the chart Of Bryanism.
But is Mr.. Bryan happier in seeing Mr..
Wilson thus perform than he would be If
performing i'm the White House himself?
He Is human. For sixteen years ne
pulled every string he could reach In an
effort to direct i'll person the Inaugural
ton and the carrying out of the Bryanite
policies The ambition was. altogether
honorable. and he appealed for aid to
many quarters. He did not ignore even
Tammany, and Tammany responded
Under both Prophet Croker and Prophet
Murphy, Tanmany did all 1t could by
Tammany means for the party ticket
Mr.. Bryan must have been bitterly dis
appointed at the refusal of the electorate
three times to accept his policies from his
own hands; and that feeling cannot have
been transformed into one of complete
happiness by the acceptance of them
from the hands of substitute He may
pe happy, but he cannot be supremely
happy. At Philadelphia he simply saw
the toastmaster's jolly. and went him one
petter
Evening star., 1913-12-09

initiative of the party convention But
after all the President is the custodian
of his own conscience in the matter OF
recommendations and disapprovals and
silenres, and the woman suffragistS are
likely to interpret his reference to the
Organic consideration of his party as
a polite excuse for present postponement
of the issue in which they are SO keenly
interested.
Although the democratic party will not
declare itself organically in convention
again during the present administration
it is quite possible that Mr.. Wilson may
find himself in position before the close
of his term to speak for woman suffrage.
Or he may find it advisable to declare
against it in some initiatory utterance.
No President can bind himself to strict
following of the positive or negative pre-
cepts of the party convention, for emer-
gencies arise between conventions and
it becomes necessary now and then for
Presidents to start something. The
reference to the Baltimore platform must
therefore be taken as an adroh way of
telling the suffragists that the President
is not at this time disposed to espouse
their cause.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Washington as Seapegoat.

our District committee reported and the
House passed two measures yesterday in
full performance of its obligation as ex-
elusive legislative guardian and protector
of the capitals welfare. One measure
mutilated the half-and-haH provision OF
the organic act by exempting from dupli-
cation by the nation under that act GER
tain large revenues of the District which
the United States has treated since 1875
as included in the equitable compromise
settlement of that year. In the 1878 COM
promise on the half-and-half contribu-
tion basis there were some items in re-
spect to which the United States should
have paid more than half. and some items
in respect to which it should. if they stood
alone. have paid less than half. And so
IN relation to the claims and equities of
the Washingtonian. There should be no
hasty. off-hand disturbance of this equita-
BILE compromise. If the settlement is to
be reopened and altered it should be done
carefully and thoughtfully, in full con-
sideration of the pre-eXisting equities of
the Washingtonian as we'll as those of
Tuce Sam.
IL is grossly unfair of Uncle Sam with
All the power in his own hands to elm
mate successively from his compromise
agreement and settlement of 1878 those
items in respect to which a full meeting
Of the District revenues on the half-and-
half basis was TO his disadvantage, and
TO leave untouched those items. like the
street Improvements for three-fourths of
a century. in respect 10 which far more
than one-haIf would have been equitably
paid by Uncle Sam. Washington INDUCES
H..
the Senate will take into consideration
both sides of the compromise before mutt
lating the half-and-half provision of the
organic act in the manner proposed.
The other measure confiscates from the
District revenues of today money which
Uncle Sam claims he should have col
lected from the taxpayers of 1s76-s, but
which he failed to do, though he had in
those very years the necessary District
funds in his control with which to pay
the $50 bond interest if he had obeyed
his own law. AS penalty for his own
blunders and law violations of 1865. and
for his neglect to collect the money. not
only from those who profited by it and
from whom it was due. but from success
sive District taxpayers for thirty-fiye
years. he will fine the taxpayers of 1913
million dollars. refusing to apply to
himself the equitable principle in which
the statute of limitations is rooted. The
Senate committee and the Senate viii,
it is hoped. give more attention to Wash
ington's equities in respect to this ancient
resurrected claim, with the grave clothes
still clinging to it, than was accorded
by the House District committee.
The net result of yesterdays action of
one branch of the Districts exclusive
legislature was by constructive legislation
10 promote wholesomely the welfare of
the District in no respect whatever; but
70 decrease off-hand and inconsiderateIy
the revenues TO be available for capital
upbuilding and maintenance by two mill
lion dollars, one million of which is to
he an annual and perpetual loss Surely
a proud record
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Mr.. Bryan and Happiness.

introduced for an address at a dinner
IN Philadelphia Saturday night as 1.-THE
next President of the United States" Mr..
Bryan put aside the compliment and
gently chided the toastmaSter. lie char
acterized the compliment as mere habit.
a.. indeed. it was. So many times i'm the
past seventeen years has that compli-
ment been paid, And many times il was
agreeable. But not now.
Nobody secs more clearly than Mr.
Bryan that il the next President OF the
ntted States-the man elected in 1916
= democrat, his name will be Woodrow
Wilson. He is doing his best TO bring
that 10 pass All that in him is-as ex-
ecutiNe and As orator-is at MIR. Wilson $
service: and if the administration scores
aud has its lease of power heightened
nothing Will be more likely than the re-
tention Of Mr.. Bryan in tine State De
partment. AS To 1920-but that is too dis
tant for purposes of speculation.
But if the POSTMASTER jollied Mr.
Bryan. Mr. Bryan retorted. and jolliee
the company. Take this from his ad.
dress:
II am happy. and I want YOU all 10 be.
iieve me when I say so. TO see those
things so near my heart being done BY
another-happier than IL l were in thai
place.
Il am.shappy to see a nation Of people
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Wall Streets New Morality.

From the Chicago News.
A definite step toward a more moral
Wall street was taken the other day
when the New York Stock Exchange
appointed a committee to consider meas
ures to protect the investing public.
One might call this an effort to substi-
tute more desirable apparel for the
ragged habiliments that have ceased to
cover the streets nakedness Wall street
has been losing a great deal of business
because it's garb is not presentable 1;
has suffered much from the New Haven
and Frisco exposures. Such indecencies
have caused many investors to fee hor-
rified. Now there are numerous offices
to let in lower Manhattan where once
were to be found prosperous brokers
and their busy clerks. Reform in the
New York Stock Exchange has been
due for long time. The desire for
blue sky laws that has spread from one
state to another and the general indis-
position to bite when offered the old
bait have indicated that investors are
tired of being fieeced.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Youth and Christmas.

What shall we give the little boys
To gladden. Christmas day?
They are too wise for simple toys;
They'd rather think than play
We're going to change their names from
these
Like Frank and Tom and Erred =
And call them "Solon,'' Socrates"
Or Solomon" instead
We will not give them picture books
And wagons made of tin
We know by their enlightened looks
Their smiles such things can't win.
Wen hand them volumes leather bound
With scientific terms
Which tell in language most profound
OF various kinds OF germs.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Wanted-Optimism.
From the Boston Globe.

All the success and all the noney
which have been showered on this fort,i-
nate country have gone to one type OF
man. namely, the optimists. There has
always been. however. another type OF
man, and perhaps he is a little more
than normally prominent just now, which
tries to do business on pessimism, bu,
it never pays. This is true Of all walks
of life.
Evening star., 1913-12-09

London's new lord mayor hints that
we may have the means of visiting Mars
before 213. Better get the question Of
Panama canal tolls settled before taking
up this possible source of interplanetary
argument.
Evening star., 1913-12-09
Holiday Formalities.

do you accompany your wife when she
goes shopping?"
'Once before each Christmas She's too
polite to tell me what she'd like, SO /
have to go around and make notes of her
expressions Of especial admiration"