The Washington times., 1920-01-30

last using chloroform TO save men
from pain that God desired to in
nict was wrong.
About three hundred years ago a
Scotch lady OF rank. Eufame Mac
alyan. was burned alive on the
castle hill of Marlborough. Her
crime was seeking the aid Of
Agnes Sampson for relief OF pain
at the, birth of her two sons"
Now quite calmly we discuss "twi-
light sleep" alleged to eliminate
the pain of childbirth.
The sewing machine at first was
condemned "eternally" because
poor sewing women, unable to
earn q living, would starve to
DEATH" Improved machinery for
making cotton goods had to be
operated in fortified factories.
The English condemned it eter-
ndlly, on the ground that it would
put them out Of work. Instead it
clothed them, increased their pay
and increased employment.
Mr.. Gompers remembers the
sostility of printers, very intelli-
2ent men, TO the first typesetting
machines. Their imagination saw
;irls setting type for five dollars
\ week and printers starving. No
printer today would choose the old
wooden case.
The Russian idea of Soviet gov
arnment, with trades selecting
lawmakers and the old false, as.
sumption that the. masses rule.
which they never do, may in the
long run work as well for Russia
Us other governments have worked
in other countries. There is no
need to get excited completely,
finally and for all time" because
Bolshevist government kills its
enemies when it catches them.
Today the French government is
Juilt on a revolution that killed
enemies in thousands, men and
women alike. British government,
which for Enqlishmen comes near
est to free government, got its
tart when Cromwell decided to
ct along without Charles the
First.
AS for our own beloved country,
you think 1t started on an ab-
aulutely gentle basis, read Fiske,
nd other historians, Birth is
1ainful and bloody, revolution is
Ike birth of government: Don't
ilidge the baby finally, even the
Dolshevist baby, until it is washed
off, dressed up and starts growing.
Lucky Clemenceau, beaten for
he presidency, starts travelling in
Egypt. Fortunate he who escapes
from harness in old age, takes his
eyes from the ground to which we
are all chained, and for a. few
years looks at the sky above and
The earth around him. The major
ity of us come out Of that earth
and 20 back into it never really
seeing it. We live fastened to the
treadmill of our foolish desires,
needless accumulation or involun-
tary wage slavery. You can count
on your fingers the really free
men and women you know.
Rider Haggard says England's
middle classes are on the road to
ruin.
Working people, it seems, are
retting too much of what they
produce. Sad situation. 1t may
comfort the middle classes to re-
member that they have had the
buttered side of bread for a long
time.
Mr.. Kimball, Of New York, cir.
culates a little pamphlet showing
France in bad way because
mechanics and other workers get
so much that not enough is left
for profit on investment. to build
u new factories. How would II be
TO let well paid workers invest
surplus earnings in stock invest
ment companies owned by them
and let those companies build new
factories with workers funds
or would that be Bolsheyist?
Prcparedess Is important, but
ISN'T everything. For instance, two
days ago Glenn Young, successful
hunter for deserters. arrived In
Columbia, S. c., bringing eleven
prisoners. One Of them, Walter
D. Goss, had 204 rounds of ammu-
milton, brass knuckles, one repeat
ing rifle, one .4i-callber Colts
revolver, one SO ,caliber automatic.
He had not used the brass knuck-
Yes or fired a shot. To make prep
aration valuable you must bo will
ing TO fight. MI the ammunition
In the world wouldn't kecl an
american, italisn, English, Irish,
French or German army rom
overcoming tho hundreds OF mil
Ions y. water drinking vcgct'r-
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