The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
INTERESTING BUDGET OF
: WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
The Relations Between Employer
and Employee Is the Most Dis
turbing Factor in the Country
Oriental Directness

Oriental Directness
The Chinese mind has a peculiar
directness, choosing the shortest
route. Having decided that German
propaganda was slowly poisoning
celestial minds against the allies,
the Chinese government decided to
deport all Germans, which it is i'm
mediately proceeding to do. The
deportees are mainly business men
and merchants, but this bothers the
oriental not at ALL They will be in
termed in Australia until the end of
the war, thus most effectually ruin
ing the German propaganda machine
in China.
|. w. w.
Seventy members of the /. w. w.
were arrested in Seattle recently by
government operatives, and taken to
police headquarters for federal in
vestigation. The arrest followed a
picnic which was attended by 600
members of the organization, at
which they made speeches against
government authorities who were
trying to interfere with their organ
b ization. Some of these members
f>have been arrested several times be-
fore on the same charges.
Military service for these offend
ers is the proper thing. Such SER
vice might give them a proper re-
spect for their government, and an
appreciation of the needs of the
country for faithful service and 10y
atty in war times.
Japanese Appreciation
"The Russian collapse and Ameri-
can entry are the two wonders of
the war;" says the Tokyo Yorozu.
"Both were most unexpected How
things will ultimately turn out in
Russia is difficult to say, but as re-
CARDS America there are many
things for which we can not but be
lost in admiration"
The Yorozu appeals to che Japan
csc to awake to the seriousness of
the situation and the German men,
ace as America has.
Taxes
Taxes which destroy the source of
productiveness kill the goose that
lays the golden eggs. If individual
incomes are taxed to the limit,
sources of subscription to Liberty
Loans are dried up, and if corpora
ton incomes are dealt with In an
arbitrary and indiscriminate manner
by congress, it will be impossible to
! raise a proportonate amount in taxes
, from the same sources next year.
Taxes should be levied to encourage
production, not to bring on distruc
ton of industry.
The war has created two big in
dustries in this country which will
survive and flourish in peace days,
and those are shipbuilding and air.
plane manufacture. Mr.. Hurley of
the shipping board predicts that
America will be the Mecca of the
shipbuilding trade. Britishers
hardly agree with this prophecy as
cording to Fairplay, which says:
"America will be great, no doubt,
but this country (England) will be
the Mecca for some time yet"
A Delusive Remedy
Dr. Elliot says increase of wages
is a delusive remedy for labor
troubles holding that it defeats it.
self doubly. The cost of living
neutralizes the wage inmeasa for
all the increase and more is spent
without benefting the worker, and
then there must be more disappoint-
ing increases, and renewed unrest
interminably.
"When the families can be sup
ported in the previous accustomed
maner of living" says Dr.Elliot,
workmen in considerable numbers
yield to the temptation of taking a
!. vacation of one or two days in the
/ week, thereby diminishing the total
productiveness of their trade, or in
creasing the cost of its product. In
such cases high wages exert dis
tinctly demoralizing influence on the
workman himself and inf1ict loss on
the community"