The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-01-10
PRES. WILSON, WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?
the thirty-two members of the Ma
tional Defense Council:
Is This Report True?

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tional Defense Council:
Is This Report True?
SO President Wilson, in the name
of the American people | ask you
whether, in the United States, i'm
prisonment follows lawbreaking, re-
CARELESS Of wealth or poverty or
does Imprisonment follow poverty
and Sociaism--qute regardless of
whether one has broken any law?
In 19i1-12-13 the average net in
come of the Phelps-Dodge company
was $7442,399.
In 1916 the net income Of the
Phelps-Dodge company was 2l,974,-
263. The average incomes of Kate
O'EIare; of the three Fresno minis
tiers: of the Socialist editors and of
the "Wobblies" was probably less
than 81 900 per annum.
The Kaiser Pays Good Money for
glitter Ender" Articles. Many have
been imprisoned because, being pa
cifists they were held to be pro-
German. But recent disclosures in
Paris have shown, what was appar-
ent from the beginning, that the
Kaiser approves of "bitter-ender"
talk, and not of pacifist articles.
The German government gave Boo
Pasha large sums of money with
which to corrupt the French press.
This Germany emisary bought a
controlling interest in the Paris
journal and in the "Rappel" Since
1915 this German money has been
used to inflame the French people
by violent anti-German articles-the
German press spreading among the
German people this supposedly
French attack on German aims.
Now that we have official proof
that the Kaiser Is spending money
for militarist propaganda In French
papers (precisely as the Kaiser's
partner, Krupp, was proven to have
been sending money in France long
before the war us it not time. Presi-
dent Wilson, to begin arresting Roo
evelt, Root and other "bitter-endera"
while the pacifists are given y
rest?
Will the Phelps-Dodge official who
led the rioting, kidnapping and de-
portation, and who prevented many
men who had registered from re-
porting for examination under the
Federal Draft-will this rioter re-
tain his majors commission in the
United States army? Will James
Mclean, of Phelps Dodge Company,
remain on the National Defense
Council? Will Socialists remain In
Jail without charges against them
and then be thrown out without
trial?
Answer these questions you must,
President Wilson; for your APP
pointees, your Attorney General, Mr..
Gregory, and a multitude of United
States marshalls and judges have
already made their answer, and now
it only remains for you to either APP
prove or to reverse their decisions
America, Russia, England-indeed
the whole world awaits your answer.
Three important officials of the
Phelps-Dodge company have been
signally honored. Two of these Of
ficials, according to Mr.. Bruere,
were direct participants in the mob
which kidnapped 1885 men, mostly
Americdn citizens, many of whom
had registered under the Federal
Draft. |
President Wilson, let me ask you
another question: If the miners at
Bisbee had raided the homes of the
Phelps Dodge officials; had assault
ed these officials; had kidnapped
and deported them; had prevented
those who had already registered
from reporting for examination I'M
der the Federal Draft act-would
taking any action, then, when in
vestigation had proved the facts as
above supposed would you have APP
pointed one official member of the
National Defense Council? Would
you have appointed another mob
leader a major in the United States
army? and would you have permitted
a third mob leader to be given
charge of an important branch of
the Red Cross in France?
President Wilson, what is your
answer?
w. H. KAUFMAN,
Bellingham, Wash.
(The facts as given above are
from the PUBLIC and from the
NEW REPUBLIC, both staunch pro-
war and pro-Wilson papers.)