The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-10-06
What Other Papers Say.
ACQUITTED FREEDOM.


San Francisco Star: Mrs. Rena
Mooney. rightfully acquitted Of
the preparedness parade murders be-
cause District Attorney Fiokert ut
terly failed to produce evidence that
would convince any fair-minded per-
son Of her participation in the crime,
must stay in jail because Judge
Dunno refuses to admit her to bail
pending the trials of others on the
same charge.
In this petty insistence on impris-
oning woman who has been &C.
quilted, knowing that she can never
be convicted on such testimony as
the district attorney presented (and
who did not dare put on the stand the
witnesses through whom he secured
convictions in the cases Of Billings
and Tom Mooney, Judge Dunno has
not added to his reputation as a jur-
list. Judges Cabaniss and Griffin, be-
fore whom other indictments against
Mrs. Mooney are pending in the
same connection, had consented to fix
her bail at $4,000 in each case, pro-
vided Judge Dunno would do the
same. This would have made a total
person who has just been acquitted,
after a full and fair trial.
Judge DUNES course adds meas
urably to the contempt for the courts
which is frequently expressed by lay
men. and so bemoaned by legal lum-
inaries and narrow-minded advocates
of certain brand of Flaw and order"
WILL SENATOR NELSON Ex-
PLAIN:
Four Lights: Senator Knute Nell
son; of Minnesota. according to a
press dispatch, was much outraged in
the senate recently by the proposal
made by Senator HardWiCk OF Georgia
to put an additional tax on big in
comes sufficient to pay $50 monthly
bonus to every American conscript
forced to fight in Europe THE
American soldier is not of such a mer-.
cenary disposition as this amendment
would seem to indicate" Senator Nell
son was quoted as saying, and de-
nouncing the measure as "humiliat-
ing to our brave boys" who were
caught in the CONSUMPTION net. and
as shouting at the plucky Georgia
as some statesmen! True. It would
40 some of our statesmen good. to
know just the precise cheap valuation
that "our boys place on them. and
While there is no reason to think it
would disturb either their sleep or
their appetites, it might take a little
wind out of their rhetorical sails and
to some extent relieve the Congress
sional Record and the country. And
now will the Minnesota statesman
kindly explain to waiting world how
he is able to bear the "humiliatinp
and belittling" experience of taking
$1,000 from the public excheouer for
serving his country in the peaceful
halls of congress for a few months
each year? How his proud spirit
must chafe under the necessity of
being placed in such "mercenary''
light!
MONARCHY MUST BE SWEPT OUT
Milwaukee Leader: The German
nation collectively is very efficient.
There can be no doubt about that,
But neither is there any doubt that
the ruling class of Germany is az
stupid and inefficient a class as there
is to be found in any country.
That this class could hold it's own
so long is simply a proof of the politi-
cal lmmaturlty of the German peo-
pie 1t is disgrace, to every man Of
German blood that Germany is still
controlled by a kaiser and a yunker
class, while even China has gotten rid
of her emperor and the Manchus.
The German Social-Democr in
It's great fight against capitalists and
the capitalist system. has overlooked
that the remnants of the feudal sys-
tenn. including the monarchy and
nobility, must be swept out before a
new and better world can be ushered
in successfully.
A person who Knows the theory and
the history of the Social-Democratic
party will not for one moment doubt
the intentions of the German Social
lists. The monarchy and yunker class
by the way, is responsible
for the Luxburgs and all the other
German 'diplomats' be put out
of commission Immediately after the
war. But it could do no harm if the
great German Social-Democracy
(both the majority and the minority
factions) would in some way give the
world once more positive assurance in
that direction.
NOT YET-BUT SOON!
The Western Comrade: The days of
CONSUMPTION are only beginning. The
young men first, the middle aged
next. Then, later, the older men will
be conscripted into industrial service.
Still later, property will be con-
scripted.
One would have thought after GEN.
turtles Of Christian teaching, human
life would have been considered more
sacred than property. But alas! prop
erty has been conserved by the strong
arm of the senate and lobbying force
VINO are working in behalf Of the
money powers and democracy!
That democracy which sacrifices
human life to save property is a
strange critter
The democratizing of property and
the aristocracy of the mob! Not vet
but soon!
DETERMINED TO WIN.
Little Falls Herald: LaFollette
should have confined himself to the
question Of profiteering and methods
of financing the war, and not talked
OF issues that are past argument. On
the matter Of excess DrOfits undo,,ht