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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
THE AMERICAN FLAG

The Socialist Party does not need
to protest that it loves the Ameri-
can flag. 1t is not society for the
preservation or destruction of flags.
1t is an organization to achieve po-
litical conquest for the benefit of
the working class.
Flags and symbols are but an in
cident to its program, and while we
shall always carry our colors when
the occasion requires, we shall not
forget that it is more important to
hand a workingman a Socialist leaf
let or paper than it is to wave a
red flag in front of him, and that
it is a ridiculous proceeding to
snatch an American flag out of his
hands just because it has been mis-
used by the capitalist class.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
EVERETT PRISONERS
ANXIOUS ABOUT MOONEY

Robert Minor, famous cartoonist
and Treasurer and Press Agent of
the Workers Defense League of San
Francisco, was in Seattle last Sun.
day TO speak at a great meeting
demanding the release of Tom
Mooney. He stated that, when he
Went TO visit the 70 prisoners charg-
ed with the murder Of jefferson
Beard, the first question they asked
hi" was, How are the chances for
Tom Mooney" The boys ia TAI,
are not so engrossed in their own
troubles that they forget the other
big struggles of Labor. When Eliza.
beth Gau'Iey Flynn went to San
ttahcisc" from Seattle she visited
the boys in jail there charged with
n.rNer by the San Francisco Cham.
Der Of Commerce. And the first
question they asked her was. Glow
are the Everett boys?" Here is
the Solidarity Of Labor behind the
barsl
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
SEVEN BILLION
DOLLARS THROWN
TO WAR GODS
Gigantic Burden Put ON Amer
lean People by Bill Rushed
Through House

Without dissenting vote, the
House of Representatives decided to
place upon the American people the
heaviest single financial burden in
the worlds history, by authorizing
the issue of $7,000O0O00O in govern
ment securities for war purposes.
Socialist Congressman Meyer
London was the only member pres
ent who did not vote for the stu
pendous measure. He answered
present to the roll call.
Party lines and differences of
opinion, which resulted in so votes
being east against the declaration of
war, went down before the whips of
the House leaders.
The bond bill accomplishes these
results:
1t authorizes the issue of long
term bonds Of the government, at
3i9 per cent interest for $5,000,000,-
900.
1t authorizes the issue of one-year
treasury certificates at the same
interest rate for 100000 900.
1t gives the Secretary of the
Treasury and the President wide
discretion in the details of the bond
and certificate issues.
1t authorizes the loan of $3,OO0,-
100000 of the money raised by the
bond issue to the enemies of Ger
many, provided the loan is made
while the United States is at war
with Germany.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
POLICE READY
FOR WAR TIMES
Machine Gums Placed in Police
StatiOnS--l2,000 Men Armed
10 The Teeth

Police Commissioner Woods
scheme for the preservation of the
peace of New York in war times
went into effect Tuesday
Every policeman in Greater New
York possesses rifle now. In every
police precinct machine guns are
awaiting immediate usage. The police
are in constant Accommodation
by wireless. Wigwag squads are
on constant duty ON the roofs of the
great office buildings and towers
The subways, the elevated struc-
lures, the banks, the municipal coun-
ty and federal buildings are guarded
by heavily armed policemen. Banks,
office buildings, telephone exchanges,
telegraph offices, water gates,
wharves, docks, ferries, bridges, car
barns, electric lighting plants, gas
tanks, the theaters and concert halls
in short, virtually every corner is
under guard as the result of this, the
most remarkable scheme to protect "A
municipality in modern times.
At 8 o'clock yesterday morning
1900 uniformed men and detectives
entered upon this armed plan of city
defense. From the New York Ed
son company the police department
obtained $50 motor trucks in which,
IN case of serious riot or call from
one precinct to another for rein
forcements, policemen and rifles and
ammunition may be transported
speedily. Three of these trucks
were assigned to each inspection dis
trict and one to each police station.
The rivers are being patroled by
the speedy launches of the harbor
squad and even speedier power boats
lent by private individuals. Austin
D. BriXey, 80 Church street, lent
the police department his "Speed-
way military cruiser" 48-footer,
that will be on duty in the North
and East rivers throughout the war
The bridges are guarded as never
before. The system of flood-lighting
the bridge piers and arches was aug
mented last night by additional arc
and flale lights. Cooperating with
the police are the special guards en-
ployed in the freight and train
yards of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad and the New
York Central and Pennsylvania sys-
tems.-New York Call.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
MINISTER SAYS
GOD FIRST AND
is HOWLED DOWN

An attempt by the Rev. E. F.
Weise of Bridgeport, Conn.,, to in
jet pacifistic note into the New
York East conference of the Meth
odist church Friday threw his audi
ence into an uproar.
Five hundred ministers at the SEES
sion in st, Marks church, Ocean
avenue and Beverly road, Brooklyn,
howled him dowa after he had de
ivered the first few sentences of
his speech. Mr.. Weise said:
Il don't want TO lose my soul. If
l have to choose between my coun-
try and my God. have made up my
mind to choose God. ana an Ara
erlcan, but Christian first"
"Sit down" Shame on vow
Traitor" were hurled from every
part of the hall. Bishop Luther S.
Wilson, presiding, said he condemned
Welse's remarks, but mast let rim
proceed. Continued protest, how
ever caused the Bridgeport clergy
man to sit down.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
NEGATIVE DEBATERS
SCORE MOST POINTS

Compulsory military training
proved itself an unpopular subject
with the judges in the Washington
State inter scholastic debates last
year, if the returns made public by
Arthur Wilson, assistant superin-
tendent Of public instruction, can be
accepted at their face value. In five
districts out of six 35 debates were
won on the affirmative side Of the
question to rs won by teams argu-
ing the negative. Negative teams
made record more than 100 per
cent. better than affirmative teams.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
PAINTERS DEFY
NO-STRIKE LAW

Three hundred union painters in
Denver, Colo, walked out without
asking permission from the industri-
al commission which operates Colo
radios cant strike" law, and after
four days on strike won all their
demands. The new wage scale is So
per day, increased from $3.50.
Denver, Colo, union carpenters
have just negotiated an increase of
10 cents an hour by direct negotia-
tons with their employers and
without paying any attention to the
cant strike" law of the state The
commission is having hard time
to get the workers to take it seri-
ously.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
OMAN OFFERED
GIRL BIG BRIDE
Another Witness Comes For
ward to Acknowledge Prose.
cution Frame-up

The sensational developments in.
voving Frank c. Oman, the star
witness in the Mooney bomb-plot
case, in frame-up to send Mooney
to the gallows, came to climax
when Estelle Smith, the prosecutions
leading witness in the Billings case,
swore to an affidavit setting forth
that Oxman had offered her a big
sum of money to give false testi-
mony. Billings was convicted and
sentenced to life Imprisonment chief
ly upon the testimony given by Es-
telle Smith. Mooney was convicted
and sentenced to hang chiefly on the
testimony given by Oman. Now
Miss Smith, a former prostitute and
later police tool, comes forward and
charges that Oxman offered her a
big sum of money running into five
figures, to give false testimony that
would send Israel Weinberg, another
of the bomb defendants whose trial
starts this month, to the gallows.
The exposure made by F. E. RE
gall against Oman and the confess
sion of the two Edau women, threw
bomb into the camp of the plot
trainers and they are now confessing
in order to save their own dirty
hides. Read the testimony given by
Estelle Smith in the pamphlet en-
titled "The Frame-up SYSTEM" sold
by this office for ten cents. 1t con-
tains 20 photographs including Miss
Smith, the Edau women and Frank
Oman.
Miss Smith swore that when Ok
man asked her to say she had seen
Weinberg at 721 Market street and
she replied that she had never seen
Weinberg in her life, he said: eff
you will testify and testify right 1
will see that you get sum in five
figures"
She further swore that she imme-
diately gave full account of this
interview to District Attorney Flick
ert and Captain Duncan Matheson of
the bomb bureau.
She further swore that when she
asked Oman whether District Attor
ney Fickert had sent Oxman to her
he said:
'No, the men higher up than Flick
er sent me to you."
In the Billings case Miss Smith
testified that Billings had gone to
the roof of the building at 721 Mar
ket street with a suit case shortly
before the preparedness parade pass
ed. Her testimony was regarded as
the clinching evidence against Bill
lings.
The Smith revelation followed
closely on the amazing disclosure of
the attempt of Oxman, whose testi-
mony brought Thomas J. Mooney a
death sentence, to induce F. E. Rig
all to perjure himself in the Mooney
casee.
Miss Smith told this story to At
torney Thomas O'Connor, represent
ing Weinberg and who played an
important part in the unearthing of
the Oman letters. She later volun-
teered to make the affidavit.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
PROTECTING AMERICANS

The first duty of a modern gov
eminent is to protect it's citizens
from starvation and want. A gov
eminent has to perform this func-
ton in some manner, for it is no
longer possible, with our large pop
ulations, for each family to produce
its own necessities. A failure to
perform it adequately is far more
serious than a failure to protect
citizens abroad.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
FREE SEEDS

We have a number of packages of
vegetable seeds at this office and
will be glad to forward a package
to anybody dropping US post card.
Each package contains smaller
package of the following: Carrot,
Cucumber, Lettuce, Radish and Tur-
nip.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26

Salt Lake City, Utah.-The Salt
Lake Federation of Labor has en-
dorsed the principle of national
strike as protest against the con-
viction Of Billings and Mooney and
the proposed conviction of Nolan,
Weinberg and Mrs. Mooney. 1t has
also instituted boycott against all
California products until such time
as the victims Of capitalistic greed
and conspiracy are set free.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN
SOCIALIST LEAGUE

All members Of the Women's
Christian Socialist League are re-
quested to attend the meeting to be
held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
in the home of Mrs. Schuch, 1921
Rockefeller. Matters of importance
will be acted upon at this meeting
and you should be there.
REC. SEC'Y.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
STRIKE AS PROTEST
AGAINST MOONEY
SENTENCE

Strikes ranging from one hour to
10 minutes will take place in hun
dreds Of cities throughout the Unit
ed States on May the first as a pro-
test against the Mooney sentence.
Moneys attorney has asked for a
retrial on account of the new devel-
opments and should this be granted
it is quite possible that the strikes
will not take place.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
HURRY WHEAT TO EUROPE

PORTLAND, Ore.-Beginning i'm
mediately and continuing for at least
two months, 100 carloads Of wheat
will be shipped daily from the Paci-
fic northwest to the Atlantic sea
board for export to Europe.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26

dock he noticed several automobiles
loaded with guns and rifles rushing
to the Everett city dock He went
to the Great Northern railroad
bridge, where he could get a clear
Continued on Page 3D.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26

|. w. w. DEFENSE FUND
B. E. Thomas, Hill City, Ores so
Martin HORT, Everett................ so
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26

Renew your sub today.
Your dollar for renewal will help
| whole lot.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26
CHORUS:
'Tis the final conflict, etc.

Toilers from shop and field united,
the party we of all who work;
The earth belongs to Us, the people,
no room here for the shrk.
How many on our flesh have fat
tened! But IF the noisome birds
of prey
Shall vanish from the sky some
morning, the blessed sunlight still
will stay.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-26

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
BOYS ESSAY ON EDITORS.

A schOOlbOy was told to write an es-
say on editors, says the Fallbrook
California; Enterprise, and this is the
result:
Don't know how newspapers came
to be in the world. l don't think the
good Lord does, for He amt got moth
ing to say about an editor in the BIZ
BILE. | think the editor is one of the
missing links you read of and stayed
in the bushes until after the flood and
then came out and wrote the thing up
and has been here ever since | don't
think he ever died. | never seen a
dead one and never heard of one get
ting licked. p
If a doctor makes a mistake he
buries it, and people dassent say
rOthin'.
when the editor makes mist IKE
there is big swearing and a big fuss.
but if the doctor makes a mistake
there is funeral, cut flowers and
perfect silence.
"A doctor can use word a yard
long without an-one knowing wat it
is, but if an editor uses one he has to
spell it.
"Any old college can make a doc
tor but an editor has to be BORN
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
JUST PERSONAL COURAGE.

IL was fine tribute paid Senator
MARITIME the other day in the Senate
Senator MARITIME goes back to New Jer-
sey after serving six years. Senator
Kenyon of Ia, one of the really 'big"
senator's. said that Mr.. MARITIME had
'COurage'-a great quality, lamentabiy
lacking in these decadent days. Has
Senator MARITIME courage? If-so4- then
ne is a great man indeed. Courage
real courage-is one Of the rarest
things to be found. Brains, address,
cunning, diplomacy-ye We have
these and a thousand other virtues and
characteristics in abundance But
cOurage-well, most Of us are time
servers. ExDediency, unfortunately
enough, is the God of most men and
they worship it as the Ancients did the
golden idol of Baal. We speak the
word that We think will please even
though down in our Utmost hearts we
know it to be lie How many of us
have courage to be big-to say the
words we really think and by saying
gain conviction instead Of cultivat-
ING false outlook by our unfairness
with ourselves and others. 81:
This matter of personal courage is
the biggest thing in life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
WOMAN DENIES
STORY OF RELATIVES KILLED

Mrs. F.. Hoppe, ST., writes the
Platteville News denying the story that
Of twenty-eight relatives in the war
nineteen had been killed. Mrs. Hoppe
says that only four Of the number
have been killed, although there are
twenty-eight engaged in warfare.
Their ages range from eighteen to
twenty-four years
She goes on to say that she has re-
ceived samples of egg, meat and bread
tickets and thinks this refutes claims
of starvation in Germany as people
would hardly send away means Of pur-
chasing food if they were suffering.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
BOSCOBEL POLICE PREFECT DOES
GOOD DEED AND is BADLY FNrRT.

Jacob Miller, project of the police at
Boscobel endeavored to help strang-
er find his overcoat in the Johnson
hotel last Monday night and in doing
so opened what he supposed was bed
room door. Instead it was cellarway
Mr.. Miller fell down stairs taking
everything with him and struck on his
nose. When Mr.. Miller came back to
earth good Samaritans were binding
up his wounds. The worthy project
thinks he will let strangers seek their
own wearing apparel in the future.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
SHACKLED.
T weren't civilized.

| wish weren't civilized.
I'd roam at large all undisguised
And paint myself with green and red
And wear some feathers IN my head
I'd loaf and fish and TAN my ease
Or run and howl and pull up trees
I'd kick convention in the Stats
And rend my foolish clothes and
hats
I'd burn my house with all it's junk
To counsels wise I'd answer:
Punk"
I'd lay aside all pomp and show
I'd scalp some people l know.
Yet I must act day after day
In discreet and proper way
And talk of the form and cubsist art
And wear the things considered
smart
And look as meek as Abners COW
And say Indeed" and Really
now!"
When, all the while, I long to be
A roaring savage wild and free!
Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
BOSCOBEL MAIL MAN
HAS VERY HARD FALL.

Mail carrier John Kicks, while max
ing his route Friday, had a tipover.
John has regular U. S. mail wagon,
all enclosed and as the sled tipped bot
tom side up, he was thrown into the
top of the rig, cutting an ugly cash in
his head, necessitating eleven stitches
to be taken. He will be laid up for a
couple Of weeks and possibly longer
During his enforced vacation, his dut-
les will looked after by that substitute
on whom they all depend, M. A. Robin
SON.
.-Dial-Enterprise.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
Frinstance, Our Henry!

We notice from the Mineral Point
Tribune that the farmers may have a
paid lobbyist at the capital hereafter
Personally, we are skeptical. 1t
wouldn't help much, perhaps even do
some harm, in putting this honorable
occupation on the same level with the
interests that maintain paid lobby.
1t is much better to elect farmers to
the legislature or men that you know
will stand by the farmers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
ATTEMPT TO ENJOIN TWO
CENT FARE LAW FAILS

Washington, D. c. (Special) -Appli-
cation of the Illinois Central and
twenty-seven other railroads to enjoin
enforcement of the Illinois two-cent
passenger rate was denied on Friday
by Associate Justice Clarke for the
Supreme court. The railroads, at
recent hearing before Justice Clarke,
sought writ to suspend the states
2-cent law pending their appeal to the
Supreme court from dismissal of their
suit by Judge Lands of the Federal
district court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07

An old saying you can't keep a
good man down" is one of the truest
things in the world. Give a man hon
esty, industry, clean habits and a fair
ly good training and he will succeed
just as certain as the sun rises and
sets. In fact anything else would be
surprising Don't forget young man,
that you live in America the land of
opportunity. If your mind and body
are right you need not have the slight
est worry about the future you can't
keep a good man down."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07

Dean Cooley of Beloit college recon-
mends that students either stop cmok-
ing cigarettes or seek other schools of
learning. Now, why exactly, if.cigaY-
cites are not more harmful than 9th
9r forms Of smoking should there be
such widespread repugnance for
them? Why is it that lots of men who
occasionally smoke cigarette feel
ashamed to go down street. with a
pill" hanging to their lower lip?
Why do we feel sorry for a. young man
who has contracted the habit and feel
somehow that he is on the road to de
moIalization? The cigarette has been
proven to be comparatively mild and
inDocuous in its effect. Still there is
something about a coffin nail" that
VIII make it a subject of serious con
sideration in time to come.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
STYLE.

There is just one argument against
mail order buying that the writer has
never heard advanced and yet it
seems to us to be a very convincing
one. III fact to almost settle the ques-
ton at least SO far as wearing apparel
lis concerned
We have all heard the arguments
ABOUT home loyalty, about supporting
the people who help pay our taxes,
Iand the various contentious against
mail order buying that are absolute
ly true and good. Yet, somehow or
other they have failed to any great ex-
tent i'll keeping the dollars at home.
The mail order concerns use persuas-
ion, highly colored pictures, we'll writ
| ten talk and price argument, and in
many cases convince the absent buy
er that they can do the best for him
TOR her. AS result the order goes
through and the dollars leave our
community never to return
But there is an argument against
buying away from home that is a most
convincing one. Nearly every man,
woman or child wants to look we'll
They want the things they buy TO
wear; to fit them properly and be of
such a mode as to conform to their
personality Right here is where the
mail order purchase falls down and
falls down hard. 1t is practically i'm
possible for man, woman or child
to tell whether or not these vital
questions in regard to their purchase
have been answered unless they have
a fit and try-on
IN the home store the buyer has the
Obvious advantage of seeing what he
purchases and to look at it in a mirror
from all angles before taking it home
OF course the mail order house offers
the privilege of exchange but the de-
liveries are long in taking place and
there is no assurance that the second
trial will not be just as satisfactory
as the first Then there is another
Ony. 1t is almost impossible for any
one to tell how they are going to look
in a suit, hat or pair of shoes without
seeing them on the their feet In the
home store this advantage is most par
amount. The buyer has the advice Of
the merchant which is obviously dis
interested as he would just as soon
sell you one style as another and also
wants you to look we'll and be pleased
with the goods he sells you. The mail
order way offers you simply the pic
ture Of an athletic looking youth,
when the chances are, if you happen TO
be man, that you are neither young,
slender or athletic. OF course we
know that we all would like to look
like that picture, but it can't be done
and we. might as we'll get something
more suited to our personality and
peculiarities
And then of course the illustration
of the nifty looking girl in-the picture
hat summons up visions of what
might have been, but, alas!-more ma
ture years have their drawbacks as
we'll as their compensations, and be-
sides look at your fine family.
The answer is that style and harm
ony, good fit and good wear are only
possible where one can actually see
and try on what they are buying. The
purchase from a long distance can
generally be told block away on ac-
count Of its-antiquity.
Stlye! Don't pretend-we all want
to be i'll style. By trading at home
and not away from home we can near
est achieve it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
YOUNG CASSVILLE
FARMER HAS HAULING BEE

Arthur Fitch, residing on the Elwell
farm, had a sand hauling bee Satur-
day. He intends to erect a hog house
with concrete floor, besides laying ce-
ment walks about his premises and
making other improvements just as
soon as the weather will permit. Mr.
Fitch is a progressive farmer in
every sense Of the word-Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07

The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks Mr..
Bryan should be informed Not "a bad
idea and it might be further carried
out with few other luke-warm pat
riots.