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Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-30
Veteran Railroad Man,
Frank {. Haley. is Dead

Frank Edwin Higley, an employe
of the Burlington for thirty-hve
years, died at the home of his son,
Rollie Higley, 100 South Tenth
street. Funeral services will be
Wednesday afternoon at , O'Clock at
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-30

Johnson stole the articles from time
to time while employed as handy man
about the store.
Three others, Margaret Miner.
Hattie Harrison and Emmett Garner,
all colored, who also live at 281l
Charles street, are also held for in
vestigation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
The Ironic Significance of Labor's Pledge

conclude and announce in this crucial hour
determination to stand by the family,
determination not to betray it to the enemy;
they declare that duty to their own group
cause has been reconcied, for the time, TO
the ties Of country.
This brings US face to face with ques-
ton which peace did not give US strength
to put to ourselves; war asks it in our be-
half. In times Of peace we had talked with
labor by the historic hour; we had pettsd
labor, we had humored labor, always in rhe
effort to turn the corner before that dreaded
question would have to be met, always to
avoid that painful interview which we felt
must bring q fateful decision.
"Now, however, the question has been
formed; there is no mistaking the portent
of the Minneapolis conference, of Mr.. Will
sons admission, of our own easy respite
from anxiety We welcome labor's express
sion of loyalty because we had secretly dis
trusted it. The direction of labor, now that
we need TO longer whisper the truth, even
to ourselves, has been toward solidarity OF
interest outside the nation, opposing its own
prosperity, its conquest of power to that OF
the whole national group.
whether we like it or not, labor is less
of US than of labor throughout the world
For labor has, whether knowingly or unknow-
ingly. chosen to seek it's solutions through
liberty first and union when convenient,
through rights without the hampering par
alel of duties"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
The Marseillaise

We sons of toll, awake to glory!
Il Hark, bark, what myriads bid you rise;
Your children, wives and grandsires hoary-
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Shall hateful tyrants mischief breeding,
With hireling hosts, rufian band
Alright and desolate the land,
While peace and liberty lie bleeding
CHORUS
To arms! to arms! we brave!
TIL svengng sword unsheathe!
March on, march on, all hearts resolved
On Victory or Death.
With luxury and pride surrounded,
The vile, insatiate despots rare,
Their thirst for gold and power unbounded
TO mete and vend the light and air,
To mete and vend the light and air,
Like beasts of burden, would they load US,
Like gods would bid their slaves adore,
But Man is Man, and who is more?
Then shall they longer lash and goad us!
o Liberty can man resign thee,
Once having felt thy generous fame,
Can dungeons bolts and bars conhne thee!
Or whips, thy noble spirit tame
Or whips, thy noble spirit tame?
Too long the world has wept bewailing,
That Falsehood's dagger tyrants WELD;
But Freedom is our sword and shield;
And all their arts are are unaValllng!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

granted as the common virtues Which one
takes for granted in ones neighbors. The
republic without implied allegiance of its
constituted members was unthinkable.
"And yet, with all of this, We must confess
that in common with the rest of the country
our instructive reaction to the Minneapolis
meeting was a feeling of grateful relief; "e
were considerably easier in labor's procia-
nation Of faithfuness. This mitigation OF
our unconscious anxiety would be easily I'M
derstood if the gathering had been repre-
sentative of one of the groups among US
which, because of alien relationships or Of
contradictory philosophers, were automati-
caly made suspect with the beginning of the
war.
obviously, there is JOY when any who
have strayed from the path convince us
either of their repentance or of our error
concerning them. But labor is our very
selves. Daily we sit with it at freedoms
table, together breaking the bread of Amer
ica's aims and aspirings. To the labor
brother we have deferred since he was not
content with the size comfortableness OF
his room in the family residence, we have
made him la.terly the architect of desired
arrangements and have acquiesced in his
designs. Nothing seemingly could have been
more intimate or more confding than our
association.
"But suddeny-and the impulse is unrea-
soned-we find ourselves felicitating our
other selves, and for what? For that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

at least have the virtue of being mt the
outset free of the faint Of disloyalty. For
by its very creation it will be in protest
against the pro-Germanism of the old
party, and it will make its appeal to
Americans who share with the organizers
of the body the view that loyalty to their
own country is by no means inconsistent
with the acceptance Of the true principle
of internationalism, and who repudiate
with loathing doctrines which sane Social
lists look upon as subversive of civilization
and morality"
Credit for leadership in the new move
ment is divided among John Spargo,
Charles Edward Russell and other more
prominent Socialists, together with Samuel
Gompers, Frank p. Walsh and other
patriotic members Of the labor clement.
But probably no one has exposed the pro-
German element in the American Socialist
party so well as has John Spargo. In an
article on Socialism and International
ism" in the current issue of "The Atlantic
Monthly" he sketches the action of Social
lists in other countries since the war and
arraigns the American party, saying that
"it remained for the Socialist movement
in America to adopt a position so far at
variance with the historic Socialist posi-
ton He continues:
"The Socialist party of America is the most
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
hn Spargo and Samuel Gompers Join Hands for America

IN adoption Of anarchist a-nationalism.
Ignoring the assaults Of Germany upon the
fundamental rights Of this nsticn, 1t de-
elared our declaration Of war to be a crime
against the people of the United States and
against the nations Of the world 1t placed
our entrance into the war on q lower scale
than Austrias war upon Serbia or Germany's
upon Belgium: In all modern history there
has been no war more unjustifiable than the
war in which we are about to engage. IL
declared that no single government was to
blame for the war, and that the war was not
the concern Of the workers II made no dis
tnction between the Belgian workers hghting
to repel an invading foe and the German
workers fighting to subdue a neutral and
friendly nation. Utterly disregarding the
great moral issues involved, which are OF
fundamental Importance to any true inter-
nationalism, il called upon the workers Of
all countries to refuse support to their gov
ernments in their wars the Belgian as well
as the German! II warned the workers
against the snare and delusion Of so-cslled
defensive warfare and declared that the
only struggle which would justify the work.
ers in taking up arms is the struggle OF tho
working class Of the world to free itself from
economic exploitation and political oppres-
sion.' In other words, only the social rev.
olution justifes the workers in taking up
arms.
"This is the antithesis of historic Social
ism. In the circumstances any successful
propaganda in this country based upon this
doctrine would be worth many army corps to
the German military machine. Considered
apart from the existing circumstances, SIM
ply as a statement OF principles which should
guide Socialists, the resolution is remarkable
for its abandonment OF the principles of in
ternationalism which from the days OF Marx
have guided the movement. 1t places the
Socialists who accept it in direct opposition
to all uprisings and wars for national inde-
pendence. According to this declaration OK
principles, no people can be justified in arm
ing itself to repel invasion by barbarian
hordes. Such a doctrine is subversive OF
civilization and morality, and no movement
based upon it can ever gain the support OF
the best elements of mankind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
The Maine Election and Suffrage

for some years TO come. State legislatures
remain their only hope and the most pros
porous field for their Establishments"
But "The Times" is also of the opinion
that the suffrage effort is untimely, and
winds up its editorial with these words:
"When democracy itself is at stake, the
emancipation of woman is of the smallest
moment. 1t is the misfortune of the suftra-
gists that the question comes up again in a
year that finds the voters in no disposition
for sentimentaity and compliment, intent on
urgent dangers and duties, military and eco
nomic, irritated by the stress laid by the
suiTragists on their emancipation AMID
cruelty, starvation, death on land, death
from the air and water, and while the flower
of American youth is getting ready for It's
part in the tragedy of the world, these ex-
celent persons are going up and down the
country preaching their whimsey."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Miss Rankin Considered One
WI Of the Obstacles

And, further, the record of Miss Rankin
cited as an additional cause Of distrust:
Another thing which had some influence
against suffrage in Maine was the unfortu-
nate impression which Miss Rankin, the sole
Toman Representative in Congress, made
upon the people when she came to vote upon
'he declaration of war. Her failure TO meas
ure up TO what should be expected of Rep
'esentative in Congress on this occasion
preludiced many voters in this state against
extending the franchise TO women and was
TOT forgotten when the issue came to be act
"a upon yesterday"
Also, the example given by the women
voters of California and other Western
suffrage states was held to be deterrent
among the Republican voters of the FAR
NEST East, this view being thus expressed:
Not a few Republicans voted against
S.'fape because of the fact that the states
= '"" Nest which enjoy equal suffrage
"''' .ic states which contributed largely
/. y ''' reelection Of President Wilson. These
% believed that the women voters OF these
4 ~ rs9e states were easily led 70 believe by
u democratic orators that President VIII
So Iai "kert us out of war;" and that they
"''' swayod bv the fallacous argument
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

stances il might reasonably have been ex-
pected 10 keep to the old international IDEAS,
and IL Is probable that it would have done so
but for the preponderance in its member
shin of national groups whose sympathies
were naturally with the Central Empires, as
in the case of those Of German and Austrian
birth or parentage; or national groups OPP
nosed TO those of the Entente Powers, as in
the case of the Russian Jews and the Poles,
bitterly hostile to Russia, and the irish,
equally hostile to England. Largely, perhaps
by reason of the domination OF the move
ment in this country by German influence, it
has never appealed with any great degree OF
success to French, Belgian, Spanish or Italian
workers The small representation OF these
nationalities in the party membership prob
ably accounts for the fact that the policy
adopted by the party has almost from the
beginning conceded in a remarkable manner
with the interests Of Germany.
Germany protested against our inslstence
upon our indsputable right to sell munitions
TO belligerents. Her demand in the name OF
humanity that we place an embargo on mu-
nitions Of war was in reality a demand that
we revise international law in her interest.
Such a revision Of international law would
admirably serve to enslave the world to mil
itarism, for it would place the world in sub
lection to the nation best equipped with ar
senals. 1t was, in word, demand entirely
inconsistent with a policy Of true interna-
tonaism, yet it was urged by the Socialist
party of America as energetically as by the
German Foreign Office.
At the very time the German Ambassador
was urging that the government of the
United States warn its citizens to keep on
ocean going steamships the Socialist party
was making an identical demand and it
offered the excuses of Potsdam for the Lusi-
tania outrage as we'll as for the invasion and
spoliation of Belgium. For the ruthless vio-
lation Of those limitations upon warfare and
miltarism which constitute such an impor-
tant part of the fabric of internationslism-
such as the protection of hospital ships, the
immunity of non-combatants at sea, and so
forth-Potsdam and American Socialism Of
fered the same vain excuses and explanations
Never once was there any condemnation OF
Germany's conduct Even the deportation
into the worst kind of slavery of many thou
sands of Belgian workers called forth no pro-
test. When President Wilson was urging
Germany to respect the rights OF all neutral
nations, the official party organ, in big black
headlines, called him The Maniac in the
White House
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

which contributed largely to President WI
sons reelection. Such men remembered this
when they came to vote, and doubtless many
were influenced by it,"
Concluding, a ray of hope may be DIS
cerned between the lines which convey the
impression that the causes of defeat might
after all, be only temporary:
"The proponents of this amendment were
seriously handicapped from the start pc
cause of the conditions which existed. Inc
country is at war. Men have other Things
to think about now besides questions OF TINS
kind. Both those in favor of Suffrage ana
those opposed to it found campaigning an
ficult. They did not appear to be aOie 10
arouse great interest anywhere IN any OF
the meetings they held. The large MAJOR
ity of the voters seemed absolutely lndiher-
emit and apathetic. Under these clrcum-
stances, it is really surprising that such 4
large percentage of the vote was polied
"The New York Times" however, holds
out little encouragement, in the near fut-
ure at least, for the suffragists, and
after reviewing the vote and the condi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
THAT really happened at the Min

THAT really happened at the Min
INN neapolis convention of Mr.. Com
ners's American Alliance for La
.,d democracy? Has labor, allying it
0V v, 9TH American radicals" really COM
81. - 70 form party comparable to that
nv ~ England by Arthur Henderson? Or
,eu :, che patriotic ''intellectuals' of the
nA.u .r;rsn Socialist party set out to capture
n -. loval labor organization, hoping to
'"e ,,;Sate the many common aims of labor
'V roal Socialism for a drive on the old
"'~ S.;os at the next Presidential election?
P 20. With the Minneapolis meeting over,
A. Iohn Spargo openly talks of the
s w. of a new Socialist party, re-
w.. .norsted and vigorously behind the Presi-
|,.nt with Mr.. Gompers as prominent
\ "we arc going ahead with vast cam
Mr.. Spargo declared in an inter-
~ published in The Tribune. "Mr.
courers. Charles Edward Russell, myself
! "a MANY others will make tour Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Songs of the [. W. w.
CHORUS

CHORUS
On, where is my boy tonight?
Oh, where is my boy tonight?
He is on the head-end of an overland train,
That's where your boy is tonight.
His heart may be pure as the morning dew,
But his clothes are sight to see
He's pulled for vag, his excuse won't DO.
Thirty days." says the judge, you see.
Oh where is my boy tonight?
Oh where is my boy tonight?
The chilly wind blows, TO the lookup ne goes,
That's where your boy is tonight
81 was looking for work. oh. judge" he SAID.
Says the judge: IL have heard that before
So to join the chsin-gang off he's led,
To hammer the rocks some more.
Oh, where is my boy tonight?
Oh, where is my boy tonight
To strike many blows for his country ne
goes,
That's where your boy Is tonight
Don't search for your boy tonight,
Let him play the old game if he will.
A worker, bum, he'll never go right,
As long as he's a wage slave still.
Oh, where is my boy tonight?
His money is out of sight.
Wherever he blows, up against 1T he goes,
"23" for your boy tonight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
tons generally, comments in this fashion
on the actions of the Washington pickets:

at is no fault Of Mrs. Gait, or of the rea-
sonable sufrragists, the majority, hut the
'pcstering' which the suffrage Extreme Lett
has been and is still engaged in at wash
ington has concentrated public attention and
disgust upon that spectacle of feminine wis
dom, patriotism and political capacity. The
feeling aroused by it, however unjust 10
the saner aspects of the suffrage agitation,
is deep, strong and universal.
THAT feeling, in itself fatal to the exten-
sion of woman suffrage, must have counted
for something, for much, in the Maine YER
dict. but there is stronger reason. When
the nation is fighting for its life, when the
greatest and the gravest issues have stirred
il TO its depths, woman suffrage seems, nay
is, but an inpertinence and futlllty
when our young men are assembling and
training for battle, IL is natural that the
ability to tight should be exalted, that the
plea of woman for the ballot should fall on
deaf ears. Nevada and Montana, won three
wears ago. are likely 70 be the only popular
triumphs that the sufrsgists can boast OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16

TIME embattled suffragists have lost
their first engagement of the
Il present drive on the ballot. BY
vote of practically two to one against at
the recent referendum election the State
of Maine defeated the constitutional SUI
frage amendment. An analysis OF the
voting by sections does not appear to offer
much comfort to the suffragist party, as
the cause carried but one county and two
Of the cities. Nor did the soldiers votes,
on which the chairman of the party IN
New York is quoted as counting, lend the
ladies any aid; two prominent Maine regi-
ments answered mo" in rather larger
proportion than did the general electorate.
According to "The Portland Press" the
result did not come as a surprise 10 most
people, and, indeed, that paper was OF the
opinion that the surprise consisted in the
vote not being larger against the amend
nent than IL was. Among the reasons
for the action of Maine, as seen by lhe
Portland Press" was the natural con-
servatism of Maine people," and 1T init
mates that it will be necessary to carry
~ more extensive campaign of educa-
ion than was possible in the last few
, months. AS to general reasons, the local
organ thus refers to the hostility excited
~ the Washington suffragists:
. "Intensifying this natural conservatism Of
the people Of Maine there have been one or
two factors which seem to have contributed
materially to the defeat of suffrage. One'
and possibly the most potent influence
against it, was the action of the suffragists
IN Washington, which came into prominence
almost simultaneously with the submission
OF the question to the voters of this state.
Maine people, as a whole, entirely dlsap-
proved Of the action Of the women agitators
Tor suffrage in Washington. They did not
IKE the methods of campaigning which
these women adopted"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
following by Samuel Strauss af-
fords an interesting sideight on
the Socialist-Labor situation:

I'm the congratulatory letter which Mr.
Wilson wrote to Samuel Gompers for this
weeks conference of loyal labor occurs
sentence of amazipg suggestion. With all
my heart the President wrote, 4 want them
20 feel that their devotion to country is IN
no wise betrayal of principle, and that in
serving America to-day they are serving
their cause no less faithfully than in the
past
What is the meaning of this extraorGi-
nary acknowledgment? Are we 70 under
stand. through the President, new dehni-
ton of loyalty? Is patriotism matter OF
group expediency, and shall labor's devotion
to country depend on service or disservice
10 labor's cause? Or have we been com
plctelv wrong about the freeman's duty be-
fore his fundamental political engagements!
This whole proceeding, the conference
itself. Mr. Wilson's letter, the columns OF
newspaper commendation, has bafhed our
simplest conception of the individuals re-
sponsibility to the nation Are we to APP
Maud body of our constitutional brothers
for choosing, in the testing hour, what they
must already have chosen when they put on
the morals of citizenship? The circumstance
is indeed strange. We had thought citi-
zen's fidelity TO the state IN time such as
the, present was as much 70 be taken tor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
A Legitimate Exercise of the
n Provocative of Citizenship

at was quite proper that the party should
oppose our entrance into the war. That was
a legitimate exercise of the prerogatives OF
citizenship. But Socialist opposition to par
ticpation in the war by this nation did not
need to be cast on the same model as the
propaganda of the German secret service,
and to adopt the excuses and sophistries OF
German diplomats and statesmen.
Following the declaration by Congress
that state of war existed between this ma
ton and Germany, the Socialist party, at an
emergency convention attended by some two
hundred delegates, adopted resolution which
cannot be regarded otherwise than as a re.
pudiation of Socialist internationalism and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-16
Three American Senators Were the
L Real Captors of Riga

Even more pointed is the statement of
Charles Edward Russell concerning Riga:
"Riga was captured by Senators La Fol
lette, Gronna and Stone. When the Kaiser
gives out the declaration of victory he should
give full credit to these three men in the
United States Senate. They and the 'Peo-
pies Council and men like the Mayor of Chi
cago are doing more to prolong the war and
to slaughter American soldiers than all the
soldiers OF the Kaiser"
In short, the loyalty meeting, which
brought intellectual Socialists" and or
ganized labor men together on common
ground, looked forward, as one press dis
patch said, to new organization that
will take an overshadowing part in the