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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
LONDON AND COLORADO.

Take three-fourths of the newspa-
pers of the United States and you will
find that they have expressed much
more horror over the mutilation of
picture by a militant suffragist in Lon
don than over the burning to death of
women and children in Colorado.
Here is a cold fact to which no at
tention whatever has been paid, and
yet it is a symptom Of a condition of
the utmost importance to every citi-
zen.
For what do you suppose is the rea-
son for this strange indifference to
murder and savagery in the United
States?
Even when we learned of the little
children trapped by the white Apaches
of Colorado, thrusting up their hands
in their attempts to escape until their
hands were burned from their wrists,
few of our editors seemed to care.
We have established in this country
crime known as accessory before
the fact'-useful for the conviction of
labor agitators and other persons I'M
desirable. How about accessory after
the fact?-Pearson' Magazine.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
Ole FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

country. Accordingly they poured
upon it their bitterest invective, in
the hope Of getting pledges that when
the commission should be established
there should be no batting of Wall
street.
The fact that the Democrats in
charge of the bill approved the Pom
creme amendment indicates that the
administration wished to reassure big
business. There will be no sharp rad
icalism in the rulings of this business
morality tribunal. One-sided competi-
ton will stay on the job. Monopoly
will be discovered and reproved only
after long and painstaking inquiry, and
not until the profits of monopoly have
been safely slowed away. In short,
the bunco game will continue.
1t is significant that when Cummins
proposed an amendment to empower
the commission to enforce a rule
against the ownership of stock in one
corporation by another corporation in
the same line of business, it was de-
feated by the Democrats and standpat
Republicans, 16 to SO. The Democrats
are going to have that work taken care
of by the federal courts, which is to
say, the United States supreme court.
They do not want it hurried by any
commissioners who might be sympa-
thetic with public opinion.
The Clayton antitrust bill and the
Rayburn bill, authorizing the inter-
state commerce commission to regu-
late the issuance of stocks and bonds
by railroads, are next on the program.
Their value to the logical evolution of
our industrial civilization may be
gagged by the trade commission act.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
THE EMERGENCY BILL.

washington, Aug. 10.-Only six
members voted against the "emerg-
ency" currency bill last week when
the Wilson administration at the re-
quest of the Chemical National bank
and others of the big New York spec
ulative group forced through a $780,
100000 issue of Y. S. notes. The pre-
tense, in the words of Leader Under
wood, was tinat there would be finan-
cial panic "such as we have not known
before" if the bill did not pass.
Two hundred and thirty-one voted
for the bill, six against it and five,
afraid to vote either for or against,
answered present"
Representative Lindberg, who is
near-Socialist, exposed the scheme in
these words: ut is rather strange
that congress acts so quickly to help
out the spectators in emergencies,
when neither the farmers nor the
wage-earners can secure legislation,
however urgent it may be, If it is OPP
posed by the same interests that seek
this legislation. Our finances are on
a wrong basis. I have so stated many
times here. The very fact that the
bill would not correct the financial
system. The system as it is promotes
speculation, and every few years
spectators get into tight place by
reason of complications of one kind
and other. Nine times out of ten it is
of their own creation. In 1907 we had
panic, when all the natural condi-
tons were the very best for good
times. 1t was of Wall street creation.
"The farmers, wage-workers, small
err business interests, and some of the
larger business interests that were
not under the wings of the money
trust magnates, were the losers. Now
we have a foreign war scare, which is
assuming immense magnitude, so we
are again asked to aid the spectators.
Already they have been buying stocks
in quantities which they had previous
ly sold to Euroue. They have used
the deposits that the plain people have
in the banks to make purchases. They
use that money, the peoples deposits,
to send abroad for the stocks. 1t is
paid in gold. Now they wish $780,
100000 and more of United States
notes to be issued to pay the deposit
ors if the depositors demand cash; and
if they do not, then for the reinforce
ment of further speculation"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
TIME TO MAKE GOOD
ernest Untermann.)

The chief financier of the Progress
sive party is still George Perkins, the
aspiring corporation man. Theodore
Roosevelt has made it known that any
one who wants to put Perkins out Of
the Progressive party must put him
out, also. In spite of all the emphatic
proclamations to the effect that the
Progressives of the Empire State have
done just this very thing and have
practically abdicated in favor of Stand
pat Republican bosses. Other Progress
sives in other states are preparing to
do the same thing. Governor Johnson
in California has gone on record,
through the mouth of his principal
sponsors, against the Universal Eight
Hour law initiated by the Socialist
party. One of the most reactionary ma
chimes of the Democratic party in
Louisiana has joined hands with the
Progressives of that state. The Pro-
gessives of Milwaukee and of the
state of Wisconsin have long forgotten
that they are supposed to be part
of that great stirring movement"
which is destined to free the poor.
Everywhere we see the leading Pro-
gressives making their peace with the
system that creates poverty and with
the bosses that benefit from the pow
erty of the masses. Nowhere has any
part of the Progressive party adopted
an economic program that would make
an end of the environment of pow
erty"
Mr.. Roosevelt is openly striving to
fuse the Progressive party with the
standpat Republicans and to become
the presidential nominee of the United
Reactionaries. 1t is now time for Mr..
White and for "the fighting men in
the Progressive ranks" of this "defi-
nitely radical party" to make good
their boast and to show that the at
tempt to divert them from their course
will really be $50 much the worse"
for Mr.. Roosevelt.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
ANTI-WAR IN GERMANY.
Beriners Not All Standing by kaisel

Berliners Not All Standing by Kaiser.
Paris, Aug. 10.-A special to the
Figaro from Brussels says that two
strangers who arrived from Berlin,
which city they had left with some
difficulty, declared they had witnessed
an agitation against the emperor in
the German capital. They said that in
the Avenue of Tilleuls they heard
Grief of Down with the emperor"
and Down with the crown prince!"
The Belgian government has printed
and distributed among it's soldiers de-
scription of the designs of all uniforms
worn by French and English troops.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
DOOM
(By c. E. Kline.)

Obviously the laboring people of the
world have reached a point where,
after thousands upon thousands of
years of continual evolution, they are
willing to give up all that they have
attained, in the way of enlightenment,
freedom and democracy, and go back
to that intellectual stupor Of mede-
ieval hell from which they have just
emerged. That their souls might
sleep in the deep oblivion of coma
Confusion of ignorance).
Incumbent with deceit, national
pride, false patriotism and all that is
born Of the self-loye and cupidity Of
the ruling class, they have lost sight
of that beautiful picture of higher
evolution, which science and philos-
ophy has held up before them. Dem
onstrating in it's rational way, that by
freedom Of thought and action they
could obtain their emancipation, and
in the atmosphere Of peace and lib
erty, transform this world Of misery
into a heaven of love and human JOY.
But alas! the brute is not yet tanned,
and the man sleeps, as it were, in the
tomb of ignorance, while peace and
good will on earth to man" might
reign in the glory of its holy spirit
War in all of its diabolical essence is
hurting the race to it's eternal doom.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

Just after the organization of the
new Progressive party, Mr.. William
Allen White wrote a personal letter
to the editor of the American Maya
zine. A part of this letter was pub
lished in the November issue of that
magazine, under the Pilgrims Scrip"
In this letter. Mr.. White declared
that Mr.. Roosevelt was "a mere Incl
dent to this new party; that "Roose-
welt is not the Progressive party;
that "the fighting men in the Progress
sive ranks of both parties are in this
thing and mean business and no man
on earth can divert them"
"The Progressive party is here to
stay as the definitely radical party of
this nation, and if any man tries to di-
vert it to his personal ends, so much
the worse for that man. The Progress
sive party is here to stay and l am sat
isfied it is going to have a place, per-
haps not a winning place, but definite
in American politics for the next thirty
years during a great stirring move
ment in our country, a movement to
change the environment of poverty so
that whatever of poverty is due to
environment may be removed. That
is the meaning and core of the whole
Progressive movement"
Thus wrote Mr.. White in the sum-
mer of 1912. Two years have passed
away since that time. We have had
Progressive governor in California and
West Virginia, Progressive judges in
various states, Progressive congress
man in Washington. Working people,
struggling for their lives against "the
environment of poverty" have been
dubbed, shot, burned, jailed, fined,
boycotted and blacklisted. But the
Progressive party, as an organization,
has not lifted one hand to speak and
act for the poor, although a few indi-
viduals, powerless to change the
party's policy, have protested here and
there.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
THEY'RE SPENDING QUAR-
TER MILLION-THIS Is THE
BIG WHY.
(From the Spokane Press.)

tfrOm tne spokane TreSS.)
The Stop-Look-Listen League is
spending more than $250,OO0 to kill
the seven initiative bills known as the
Seven Sisters"
Where is the money coming from,
and why?
Conceived in mystery, it is now
known definitely, however, that Ed.
Sims of Port Townsend is the direct
ing genius behind the league.
Yes, it's the same Ed Sims who was
the standpat whip and floor leader for
the reactionary forces in the house
last session.
And it's Ed Sims who raised the
false alarm cry that it will cost a
tremendous lot of money to pass the
Seven Sisters" and that it's mighty
expensive experiment to legislate d.
rectly by the votes of the people.
First, the Stop-Look-Listeners said it
would cost 100000. then 100000,
then a million, and now they're shout
ing it will cost two millions.
Will it cost the state a single penny
more, Mr.. Sims, to pass those meas
ures than to defeat them? No, not
one red cent.
And here is another point, and a
more important one. Granted for the
sake of argument that it will cost a
lot of money to adopt the initiative
measures, who is to blame?
You, Mr.. Sims, are to blame, you
and the standpat machine which
Speaker Taylor and you controlled in
the last session are to blame.
These are not new measures which
the people are to vote on and which
have the endorsement of the State
Federation of Labor, the Farmers
Grange, and the Direct Legislation
league.
They were up in the last session OF
the legislature. They came to your
rules committee, Mr.. Sims. and what
did you do?
You buried most of them without
letting the legislature take a vote.
You pigeonholed them in committees.
Had you given them a fair chance
in the legislature, there would not have
been any need for this great big ex-
pense that you pretend is bothering
you.
1t is only a pretense, anyhow, MT
Sims, and you Stop-Look-Listeners'
You are spending more money to de-
feat these bills than your proportion
ate taxes would amount to on account
of the cost of placing the Initiative
measures on the ballot.
The meat in the cocoanut is not
your public spirited interest to save
the taxpayers any money, because you
will not save them any, no matter II
the Seven Sisters" win or lose.
Your chief concern, Mr.. Sims, is to
kill the fish bill, which will make you
as head of big fish company, pay the
same rate of taxes that others pay fol
their property. That's where the col
ored gent in your case is hidden, Mr.
Sims.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Socialist Party Press Service.)
Washington, D. G. Aug. 10, 1914
Five men, appointed by the president
of the United States, with no popular
right of recall hanging over their
heads, are to be the supreme court of
business morality. That is the sub
stance of the federal trade commission
bill, just adopted by the senate.
Some 100000 corporations, and
large number of firms and individuals,
are to be subject to trial before this
commission if they indulge in unfair
competition Just what unfair"
competition may be is to be practic-
ally determined by the commission.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, Progress
sive Republican and chief promoter OF
the bill in Democratic senate, de-
clared throughout the contest over the
measure that unfair competition"
was more easily defined than was re
straint of trade" the evil which the
Sherman antitrust act is supposed to
be eradicating. Senator Cummlns
was challenged by old-fashioned stand
pat Republicans to say how rapidly
the new commission would bring COM
petitive business under full moral re-
straint. He could not answer.
One of the Western Democrats,
Thomas of Colorado, running for re-
election in a state that is radical this
year. ridiculed the attempt to make
competition fair"
Public Ownership If Necessary.
81 protest against the mention OF
the interstate commerce here as an
example of successful regulation, and
as model for regulating competitive
business generally" he said. 1.-The
interstate commerce commission has
merely tried, and has failed, to regu-
late the transportation interests OF the
country. Nothing will succeed but
complete control, and if control means
public ownership, SO be it."
Senator Lane of Oregon, whose
daughter is a Socialist soapboxer, re-
marked that he was not sure whether
this is part of devilish attempt to
delay for another ten years sane So
luton of the control of capital, or
whether it was the blind foolish
stumbling of men who did not know
what to do"
BY a vote of to 35 the senate ap-
proved the Cummins amendment to
the bill, providing that the federal
courts shall review the decisions of
the commission only on points OF law,
and not on general issues of fact.
The Democrats on the committee on
interstate commerce had agreed on the
Pomerene amendment, which would
have allowed the federal courts to
start any trial all over again if the
concern involved was dissatisfied with
punishment at the commissions hands
"Staqgered" and "Amazed."
A feature of the debate was the OPP
position made by such standpat sena-
tors as Brendegee of Connecticut,
Weeks of Massachusetts and Colt of
Rhode Island, who were disguised"
amazed" and staggered" at the idea
of giving to five government appoint
ees the right to interfere with every
business enterprise in the country.
They saw, what the Democrats did
not, that the commission would fail
to enforce fairness" but they feared
that popular clamor, such as that
aroused by the New Haven expose
would operate through the commits
sion to wreck some of the most com
handing business enterprises in the
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
SOME KIND WORDS.
To the Members of the City Central
Committee, S. P. of Everett:

To the Members of the City Central
Committee, S. P. of Everett:
Dear Comrades-We wish to con-
graduate you on the splendid crowd
of Socialists you brought to our place
Sunday, August 8. In the past ten
years we have had thousands Of visit
ors spend the day at our Lake Stew
ems home, and we must say that we
never had a better, or as good a crowd,
of well behaved, earnest, honest, good
citizens visit us before. We desire to
bear testimony to the splendid control
Socialist parents of Everett have over
their children. Not a single instance
of damage to fruit trees, or anything
else, was committed by Socialists, or
their children. What little damage
was done we have the ants to thank
for. If we ever had any doubt of the
wisdom of aligning ourselves with the
Socialist party, the splendid body of
Socialists from Everett, Granite Falls,
LochsIoy Hartford, Silvana and other
points who spent Sunday at our home,
would have forever removed any such
doubt. May the tribe increase is the
prayer of yours for the increase,
II. w. ILLMAN.
A. C. ILLMAN.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
notice.!

Next weeks issue of the Washing
ton Socialist will contain the an
nouncement of the biggest event of
the season. Something that will in
terest every Socialist in snohomish
county. 1t will be the first big step
toward carrying Snohomish county for
Socialism.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
DEBATE

Arrangements are being made for
debate to take place Friday, August
q between DR.. l. A. Lucas of Seattle
and John DeQuer, recently state or
ganizer of Idaho. AS this announce
ment came in late, we are obliged to
defer giving details until next week.
Watch for further announcements.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

Comrade Mrs. Eta Beers of Bryn
Mawr was a pleasant caller at the
Washington Socialist office last Thurs
day and left us a subscription to re-
member her by. Come again, comrade.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

The income tax has developed about
the only important crop failure of the
year-WashingtO Star.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

Watch for date and particulars in
next weeks Socialist.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13
STAYING WITH THEM.

"Some of your constituents are dis
agreeing with you" said the trusted
well, keep tab on Them" replied
Senator Sorghum; when enough dis
agree with me to constitute a reliable
majority, I'm going to turn around and
agree with them. Washington Star.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

Now that the colonel has indorsed
Perkins, Perkins will keep on indoors
ing for the coloneL-Columbia State.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06
The Quickest, Simplest
Cough Remedy
Easily ana Cheap1Y Made mt
Home. saves Kousss.

This plan makes pint OF cough
syfIp-enongh g last q family . long
time You couldn't buy as much or as
GOOD cough syrup for $3.50.
Simple as &c Is, it gives almost IN
slant relief and usually conquers an
ordinary cough. in "a hours. 11lS IS
partly due to the fact that II rs slliyg
iaxatiye, stimulates the appetite ana
has an excellent tQnic effect. IL ls
t6ieasaft to talSez+chi ldren Ike IT. An
excellent remedy, too, for whooplng
cough, spasnodic Group and br0nchlat
asthma. -.
Mix one pint of granuIated sugar Win
70 mint of warm water. and STIR 1or 2
minutes. Put 215 ounces OF Plnex n1ty
efhe SlIrar Syrup 1t keeps peTtectly-
take q .teaspoonful every one, TWO or
three hours.
Pine Is one of the Oldest and best
known remedial agents Tor the Ihro9G
membranes. Pine1, is most Yaluapie
concentrated compound OF Norway WI1lIe
nine extract, and is rich IN guaiacol ana
other natural healing elements. oSner
Preparations will not work IN TINS
combination.
The prompt results from this mixture
have endeared it to thousands OF house
wives IN the United States and Canada5
which explains why the plan has been
initiated often, but never successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfactton
or money promptly refunded, goes with
This. preparation. Your druggist has
Pinex, or VIII get it for you. Ii not.
send TO The Pinex Co., Fl Wayne, 1nd.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06

Nests of the white ant have been
found to have value as fertilizer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06

COLONIAL. HEIGHTS
We have 90 #. frontage
on Virginia street, Co
lonial Heights, that can
be bought at the right
price and right terms.
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PERSONAL.

]. A. Henderson is here from Wes-
N. Beidler is here from Buel1han-
Williab Hogg. of wheeling. is a
Gore guest. $3.50.
= c. 9. caste, OF Spencer, spent last
evening in the city.
e. r. Rinard, OF Charleston, - 2
guest at the Waldo.
W. r. Stevenson, of Wheeling, is a
guest at the Waldo.
A. B. Carter, of Parkerslburg, was
here Tuesday on business. i,
T. B. E. Spencer, of Huntington IS
here on a business mission.
tR. T Armstrong, of Sutton IS .
business visitor in the city.
l.. r. Ashcraft, OF Glen Falls, IS
a business visitor to the city.
Harold w. Pigott, of MorgantoWn'
Is here on a business mission.
Mrs. John p Candy is in Lewis
town. Pa, where she was called py
the serious illness of her mother
Mrs. e. Boehmer.
Mr.. and Mrs L. F. Ferguson, OF
Industrial, will leave tonight Tor
Florida, where they Will speno the
winter. $3.50,
John wesley Williams, of Marsh
Vile. is in the city visiting his son,
DR.. Jesse R Williams, at his home
on Hornor avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Anon have re-
turned from Washington, Pa. where
thew visited relatives for two weeks,
and have resumed work at their photo
graph studio in the Gore building on
Miss Roberta FLEMING, of Fair
mont who has been spending tne
Yuletfde season with Mrs. Charles
10. Findlay, will return this evening
to Washington. where she IS attenei-
ing the Mss MADEIRA school.
danghter, Miss Helene, and Mrs Rose
Caywood have returned from Fair
mont. where they visited Mr.. and Mrs
IT, G. Smith.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06
nnnpere % q cold.

Do YOU know that of all the minor all :
nnents colds are by far the most dangerous
r IA not the colds themselves that you need
to fear. but the serious diseases that they SO
often lead to. For that reason every cold
should be gotten rid Of with the least pos pos,
sible delay. To accomplish this you wl ll
end ChWnberlain's Cough Remedy OF great
help TO you. 1t loosens cold, relieves me me
1nnes. aids yexpectoration and enables, the
svstsTo to throw off the cold. For sale by
all Observation-Disclosures.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06
RITcHIE MAN DIES.

PARKERsBURG, Jan 6.-Charles
IS. Smith, of MacFarlan, Richie county,
who was taken Ill at his room at the
Commercial hotel, and who was re-
moved to st. Joseph's hospital, died
later at the hospital Monday morning.
The deceased man, who was 80 years
Old. was unmarried He was employ
ed as an organizer for the Modern
brotherhood of America and also had
private interests that he looked after
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-06
500 PER FIR ONT FOOT

We predict that not lat
er than two years this
property will double in
value. We base this on
the advance in other
properties in the last
two years close to these
lots.
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The regular annual meeting Of the
stockholders of the Merchants National
Bank OF West Virginia. will he held
at its banking house at Clarksburg. on
Tuesday January 10. 1914, at l I o'clock
m. for the election of directors for
the ensuing year and for the transac-
ton of any other business that may
properly come before it.