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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28
MEMORIALS TO
BE DEDICATED
Notable Ceremony forI Anniver'
sary.of First Inauguration

Washington u, G., March Is. Next
/ month, ON the occasion of the l25th
anniversary OF the inauguration OF
! George Washington as first president
OF the United States, interesting ever
cises viii be held here 10 mark the
! event. The most notable feature Of
the program will be the formal dedi-
cation of the memorial blocks provid-
ed by the states OF Colorado. Idaho
and Washington for the Washington
Monument The placing Of these blocks
in the monument will leave but three
states that are not thus represented
by memorial stones
The dedication exercises will bc con-
Quoted under the auspices Of the
Washington National Monument soCic-
tN. This society dates hack To 1898,
i'm which year il was organized tn
erect in the federal capital a monu-
ment. national i'm character, Go the
memory Of Washington. John Mar
shall the great chief justice. was the
first president of the society ON the
death of Mr. Madison it was provided
that the president of TN" United
States should bc cN-oiiicin president
and such has been the case ever since.
February %, 1889, the society was
chartered by Congress after having as
a voluntary association. raised by pop
uar subSCripti n the money 10 lay the
foundation Of the monument ana To
carry the shaft to 1876 feet in height.
During the period of the civil war and
reconstruction days the society con-
tinued its efforts To raise funds tol
continue the work ana % complete the
shaft but the condition of the times
and country We're not such as To give
encouraging results. 1t was not until
many years later that the shaft was
finally completed through the aid ofl
Congress.
States Contribute Memorials.
Many years ago the society ISSUED
an invitation to the various states. TO
the leading cities ana To lodges and p,
other organizations 10 contribute mo-
mortal stones To the monument The !
responses were numerous. as is evil |
denced by the many carved stones that !
adorn the interior of the shaft. For the ,
most part the blocks contributed bv |
the states and cities bear their respec-
tive coats of arms.
Foreign countries also were asked d
send memorial blocks for the monu-
ment and many of them responded. In
this connection there is frequently told
the story of the memorial block sent
by the papal states, at that time an in
dependent soveseignty The blocks ar
rived i'm the United States at a time
when race and religious prejudice
played a prominent part in politics.
After it's arrival in WASHINGTON, So the
story goes. the memorial from the
papal states was carted away i'm the
dead of night, presumably by repre-
sentatives of the anti-Catholic ele-
.nent, and dumped into the Potomac
River.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28
Mobilization Cost Money.

1t was on March i, 1911, that the
big expenditure began. 1t has never
ceased. although at times there have
expenditures.
ON Mqrch 6, 1911, following a confer
ence at the white house. the war de-
partment sent out orders to the several
corners &C the United States ordering
1889 men and 400 officers with ami
mails "a mobilize at san Antonio CFort
Sam HoustonO Tex. President Taft
signed the order and Immediately it
was transmitted to the several posts
at which were stationed troops. or
the following DAYS the mancuNer diVi-
sion started its wild rush for the Dor.
der. and i'm ten days there were 1900
officers and men on the border and at
Fort sam Houston. These troops re-
manned ON the border and at Fort sam
Houston the greater part of 1911. at
though Senior Madero became preSi-
lent OF Mexico in May 1911.
It wrs i'm 1912 that Generals OroZco
anG Salazar rcvoItcd against Madero.
\ few additional troopi were sen, t.
the southern department for duty ON
the border In February, 1913. another
division Of troops was hustled south az
the orders of President Taft To a point
where they could be within easy sail
ing reach of Mexico. The exact date
OF this movement was February 10,
the day following the Felix Diaz- Ber-
nardo Reyes uprising against Madero
and which resulted i'm Gen. Huorta on
Fcbruay 10, 1913, betraying President
Madero. At Galveston and Texas city,
! Tex, 1900 officers and men of tho
mobile army were assembled. The
force of mobile troops in the southern
department also was strengthened.
Since November, 1910, the United
States government has expended
through its state and war departments
alone and this does not include the
ordinary cost of maintenance of tic
army and consular and diplomatic Of
nccrs. approximate S3.jOOcOO II is
tn" purpose of the administration I,
+, keep the present military force along
the border indefinitely. 1t looks non
! from the viewpoint of administrator
officials. as though il will be necessary
| to keep this force on the border at
| least another year. So much discon-
! tent may arise among the officers and
men now serving, on the border he.
cause OF the long period they have
been as TO make il necessary, to pre-
ent there desertions. Co change
completely this force. This woul,
mean the expenditure of another ST.
100000 in transportation alone.
Some incidental Benefits.
There is much to be gained from 9
technical standpoint by Keeping tn,
troops on the borGcc. This, however
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

The tournament for the British anna
tour court tennis championship, which
is To- open at the Princes club in Lon
don on Thursday will have amone its
contestants Joshua Crane, Jr., Of Eos-
ton. Mr. Cranes bid for the British
the win mark the first appearance II
an American in the british amateur
competition i'm six years,
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28
AN EMINENT AuTHoRITY7


That eminent labor authority
John Mitchell told House COM
mIttee 20 the national capital yes
terd3y tlat Life and labor cou-
drus m Butte are much superior
r. life and labor conditions u the
Michigan copper neld.'-Buue
Day Post.
Nuw that eminent labor authority"
STR Mitchell spent but one day in th"
copper country ana only u,o days i'm
Butte. Yet nr prorrsscd To- know
,.aaea about labor conditions m both
districts TO draw a definite conclusion.
Vel. let's See. Mn. Mitchell admitted
+. The congressional iuyestiEatms
s,mm.tr, at IT'S Washington hearing
ina, Doc uad uo exper.en,, i'm mctaIu-
ferrous mmm- His experience has.
been entirely with coal mining lie n2-
m,uod further that be knew unthIus.
about the situation boa thr Michigan
mines prior ta the strike. that he had
not been UNDERGROUND u the Michigan
mines. that he had been down I'm but
one mine in Butte. whore DEE had not-
ed the efforts tu ycutfate and reduce
IN. temperature but which ac could
NOT describe. and thar Do. had not in-
v,-,gated the comparative cost II
rents or the cost OF living Ia Butte and
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28
Began With Madero.


None cf this vast sum was expended
in the ordinary maintenance of tn"
troops strung along the 1,SO0-mile Dor
der for almost four years and i'm tho
two giant military camps i'm Texas.
officials of the government say this
vast sum is infinitely less than what
would have been necessary had there
been armed Intervention in Mexico.
on October 10, 1910, Francisco Made
70 decided that thirty years of exist
ence under Gen. Porlirio Dia2 as pres
idcnt of Mexico had resulted in little
to break the Diaz rule.
With the assistance of Secretary of
War Garrison. Gen. Aleshire and Col.
Rogers of the United states army, it
is now possible to tell fairly well and
in a conservative way what Madero's
dreams and ideals have cost the Unit
ed States in money expended and dam
ages claimed. With the beginning OF
that revolt came the expenditure of
large sums of money by the American
government.
Until March, 1911, the expenditure
b. the American government consisted
largely of strengthening the mobile
force of regular troops along the
United States Mexican border In this
work and by the state department
there was expended between Novem-
Der, 1910, and March, 1911, something
ike $500. 600.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28
Expenditure Since November in
1910, .Isr'.$3,0O0,O00; Damage
Claims Of Three Hundred Mil
lions Have Been Filed

Washington, March 2N.-Thc contin-
ued revolution in MeNico, besides Ice.
ing ruinous To that country, is costing
the people of the United States enor-
nous sums of money. Leaving out the
large hut elusive item of the loss OF
trade and suspension ot business AMI
getting down To actual facts, figures
have recently been compiled showing
that the large sum of S3,500.000 has
been expended by the United States
since November 1910 because of con.
ditions in Mexico.
The damage To American property in
Mexico because of the successive revo-
lutions has been tremendous. \ state
department official estimated that the
total amount of the claims for dam
ages already on file i'm the state depart
ment as a result of the three years o.
revolutions is $500 100000 All this
of course, is aside from the three and
u hair millions already spent by the
nation. The question of claims will
be fought ont in the future.
That sum represents what has been
expended by the state and war de
partments alone aud tor the relief 81
destitute Americans in Mexico. the
care of Mexican refugees in the United
States and the maintenance of neu-
tralitY laws ana order along the Mex
lean American border. 1t presents al
so the extraordinary expenses of Dip
lomatic and consular officers in Mexico
as result of the Mexican troubles.
II is the amCdnt spent in eXtraordi-
nary servic" and would not have been
used haG there been no revolutions in
Mexico.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

sition ana Conference win open IN
New York city Saturday and contin-
ne for one week The exhibits will
show the increasing application of
scientific methods 10 modern cundi-
tons. and there viii he assembled dis
PLAYS of appliances, methods and pro-
ducts i'm the fields of Industrial me-
chanical. governmental education and
household efficiency
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

The first National Efficiency Expo
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

Scotland possesses only 3l,3S2 motor
Nohicles. including mntnrcvcles.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

Ulster has made quite plain that
there are two sides .o ur home ru,
question.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

villa seems to be Twins MP 20 has
advance notices.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

The trial of Pcrusia, who is charged
with the theft of Leonardo da NinotS
masterpiece the Mona Lisa from
the Louvre, is scheduled To begin IN
Florence the early part Of the week,
The famous painting Disappeared from
the Louvre Aug ~ 1911. and il WAS
not until two years later that il was
recovered i'm Florence. perugia. who,
nj the time of the disappearance If
che picture, was employed rs a work
man at the Louvre, was arrested n
Florence and is said to have confessed
to the theft.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-28

The Mexican situation and present
status of the Monroe doctrine viii b"
the principal subjects OF discussion at
"A national conference on the foreign
relations of the United states which
is To he held in Philadelphia on Friday
and Saturday under the auspices T
the American Academy of Political
and Social Scicncc. Those takins part
i'm the conference will include dele
gates appointed by the governors or
many of HE states and representatives
oft leading trade ANA industrial organi.
cations throughout the country
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03
CAPITALIST PAPER
PAYS JUST TRIBUTE
TO SOCIALIST.

Only few years ago even the mar
tyrdom of great soul like Jean
Jaures would have passed without a
word of regret on the part of the CAPT
talist press, just because he was a
valiant worker in the cause of So
cialism, Today it is different, as wit
ness the following tribute by the edi-
tor of the New York World:
with Europe tottering on the verge
of universal war, Jean Jaures died by
an assassin's bullet, the victim of a
consistent championship of the cause
of peace. For years he had stood at
the head of the parliamentary Social
lists in their protest against the mad
ness of militarism and the appalling
waste of big ornaments. He had
served as the political spokesman of
the working classes in their persist
ent plea that the domestic welfare and
social progress of the nation be placed
above the policy of revenge and i'm
placable hatred. BY the irony of fate
he preished at the very hour when the
brute passions of neighboring peoples
seemed about to triumph over COM
mon sense and the powers of reason.
"Jaures was one of the great orators
of his day. In the Chamber of Depu-
ties and from the editorial chair of
L'Humanite, he welded an enormous
influence by his powers of invective
and persuasion, by his broad human
sympathies and intellectual force.
Born in good circumstances, edu-
Gated at the Ecocle Normale Super
ieure and professor of philosophy at
Toulouse, by circumstances and train
ing he belonged to the narrow class
of intellectuals who regard the daily
affairs of the world from place apart.
But his warm southern nature and
emotional character led him into the
turmoil of politics and the ceaseless
work of journalism. By his physical
energy, his unflagging moral courage
and his devotion to principle, he was
recognized everywhere as a high
minded Socialist, determined in ac-
cordance with his theories to better
the condition not merely of the masses
of one country but of the civilized
countries of the world.
"Jaures was one of the few Euro
pean statesmen of the present day who
could i'll be spared"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03
NOW is THE TIME.

The awful slaughter of the workers
in Europe. merely for the sake of gain
ing new trade advantages for the rul-
ing class of each nation, is fast bring.
ing home TO the minds of our fellow
toilers terrible truths about the CAPT
talist system, and the imperative need
of its total adjustment.
So great is the resistance to new
ideas and conceptions TO the average
man or woman that 1t requires some
appalling catastrophe to startle them
from their habitual inertia.
Personal experience during the past
few weeks has convinced the writer of
these lines that men and women who
were not in the least interested in So
cialism only a few weeks ago are now
almost eager to hear something about
an arrangement of society under
which war and poverty would be things
of the past.
So long as things run along in their
accustomed channels, all talk of a rad
ical departure from the conventional
modes of life and industry is wasted
on the ordinary person-for they are
so very ordinary. But in the face of
some great calamity. like the CONVEX
sion of all Europe into a reeking
shambles, with a chance for this coun-
try also becoming involved. eventually,
even the average brain is shocked into
unwonted activity.
So now is the accepted time for the
most effective propaganda work We
should do intensive" teaching while
the minds of the people are stirred to
the utmost
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03
GIVE CREDIT WHERE
CREDIT is DUE

The occasional use of a news Item
derived from another paper and with
out giving said paper due credit, Is
perhaps justifiable. This is true of
some other kinds of material Any
way, It's often done.
But to deliberately purloin a lead
ing editorial from an exchange, change
one line, and then feature 1t on the
front page without giving the writer
credit for It, or the paper from which
1t was derived, is hardly fair. It's bad
form. It's not comradely
Yet this is precisely what the Ham
ilton Socialist (Ohio) did, in its issue
" August 2S, with our editorial head
ed "Arousing Murder Spirit in Chill
dren," dealing with posters relating to
the Boy Scout movement
In such cases, at least, let's give
credit where credit is due.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03

paid and are paying to preserve the
sacredness of the other fellows prop
erty, whilst we ourselves, the mob that
does the toiling and the fighting, gen
erously dispense with any sacred prop
erty of our own.
Look on Europe!
That comes from helping the exalted
ones, "the government" defeat and
Cypress and betray the really elect of
the earth-the Socialists.
Fellow worker, have done with help
ing your betrayers and despoilers re-
tard the progress of the only move
ment in the world that seeks to estab-
fish economic freedom, to exalt the
masses of all nations, and to bring
peace on earth, good will toward all
men who are willing to do their share
! of the worlds work
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03
THE PRICE OF SACRED PROP
ERTY.

Since the dawn of history and the
beginning of chattel slavery the prop
erty rights of the few have been held
more sacred than the human rights of
the many. Governments were insti-
tuted among men for the express pur-
pose of holding in subsection the many
while the minority (the "government'D
plundered and ravaged and murdered
the majority
At first the number of the despoiled
and subjugated would naturally not
be great, comparatively few men
and women captured in battle to be
used as domestic slaves, agricultur-
lists, and herders-"hewers of wood
and drawers of water"
Then the masters grew more cum
ming, more daring.
They could hold in physical bondage
only a limited number of able-bodied
toilers. A vast army of exploited
workers cannot be kept submissive
and cowed by physical force alone.
So the masters captured the minds
of the workers when young, shrewdly
lied to and deceived them, perverting
their egoism, and twisting and bend
ing their mentality to suit the selfish
purposes of "the government" the rul-
ing class
The mighty elephant can be cowed
and controlled by a weak and puny
man if caught when young and intel
ligentIy trained.
Man, too, is an animal, subject to
the same bluff and bulldozing and
hypnotic influence as is the puissant
elephant.
So the wiser and craftier among the
races Of men, or those who have been
more fortunately situated, having
greater educational advantages, have
taught the child-mind that property
rights are more sacred that human
rights; that the welfare of the FORUM
ate individual is of greater Importance
than the welfare of the "rabble'-the
latter being the express product of
their masters vicious selfishness and
brutality, their own system of missed
ucation and training.
Along with other astounding lies
they teach the plundered meek and
lowly that their poverty and ignor-
ance is wholly due to their own natural
depravity, incompetency, and all
around nodamgoodness. Being them
selves ("the government") paragons
of all the bourgeois virtues-the lat
ter designed especially to minister to
their ayarice and banality-they natur-
ally occupy by Divine Right the ex-
allied station to which just and
omniscient God has called them.
Great old game, is it not?
AS transparent to the wise and "un-
trained" as crown plate glass. 1t re-
quires long and searching backward
glance into the infancy of the human
race before one can comprehend the
psychology of what the masters call
"the mob"
And it's a fearful price we have
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-03
IF SOCIALISM WILL PUT AN
END TO WAR, LET US
HAVE IT."

For three years the editor OF this
paper has endeavorod, both by pen and
voice, to convince the people of this
country that the choice of voters Is
not between Socialism and capitalism
when they cast their ballots, but be-
tween peace and plenty, on the one
hand, and war and suffering on the
other.
Men and women who know anything
OF the horrors of war, and who can be
convinced that they must choose be-
tween war and the cooperative com
monwealth, would not be so silly as
to start up an argument about such
irrelevances as Gree love-" what are
you going to do with the lazy man?"
"agln religion" etc. Such rot served
the purpose of it's capitalist inventors
for a time, but no one but fool would
waste time on such bugaboos in the
face of such n universal devastation
rs war in our day involves.
SO we were not surprised to find the
following utterance from the conserva-
tive Springfield Republican:
'1f Socialism will put an end to war,
let us have 1t, and quickly..too; what
ever II may be, and no one seems to
know exactly, II can be no worse, and
may be infinitely better than a system
which can generate such a frightful
spectacle as the world now sees be-
fore Il in Europe" The correspondent
who closes his letter in that impress
sive style has undoubtedly given ex-
preston to an idea which has been
the gist of the thinking of many minds
in recent days. In the gloom of the
hour, forward-looking people newt
ably try to discern whatever of good
may come out of the strife and tumult,
and hope may even fasten upon any
thing that promises to put an end to
war.
Socialism, whether regarded as a
theory, or an organized movement, or
state of mind, never looked more at
tractive than now Considered mere
ly as an ideal, it has the inestimable
Temporary advantage of being able to
prove beyond any possible controversy
the cataclysmic capacity of the exist
ing order for upsetting the civilized
world Could anything be worse?
And the question may not confidently
be answered at this point in the I'M
folding of a stupendous catastrophe. If
Socialism in any form could be de-
pended upon to insure mankind
against such a prodigious backslide
into savagery as one beholds at the
center of western civilization, the case
would be instantly closed and millions
of minds would be made up that have
hitherto seen in Socialism nothing but
the perfectionist aspirations of vision
aries.
The higher Socialism means, in the
last analysis, the brotherhood of man;
but it begins by wiping out nationali-
ties and creating a political federation
of the states that may be brought
within the sphere of it's influence.
Socialism would create in Europe one
great state having no aggressively i'm
perialistic or militarist basis, and thus
it would obliterate those bitter nation
alistic passions which have been re-
sponsible for so many wars, periodical
ly drenching the continents soil with
human blood"