The Washington times., 1920-09-01

Dying for an Idea.
American Samurai.
Women Living and Dead.
hiQht School for Cox.
, ARTHUR BRISBANE

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BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Dulce OF dsoorum est pro pat''o
aori.
"Sweet and becoming it is TO die
Jer ones country" said the Roman
>oet. !.
The French sing it in one OF
heir finest songs.
Mour-ir pour Ia patrrs, e'est 10
aert ls plus beau, 10 plus d'g"s
rsnUis.
How many men have died with
.hsse words in mind7
The noble d'Assas thought them,
vhen fifty English soldiers point,
jag spears at his breast warned
aim to make no noise. he criea
tut warning his comrades, until
ne spears stopped his voice. HIS
tame is spoken now, and he dead
hundreds of years, whenever they
all the roll of his regiment. The
,ldest soldier answers: Dead, ON
ae field Of honor"
Those old words are in the heart
II Terrence McSwiney, dying OF
Iunger in prison.
What good can he do BY starv-
~ himself to death| soma ask.
10 can do what millions Of other
iIrave men have done, PROVE
THAT HE is in EARNEST.
Better for Ireland that die" he
YAys to those that urge food upon
Aim.
d You will not easily put down .
cause for which q man is willing
ID, ,starve in q foreign prison.
A From the day when the first
English woman, too weak to stand,
vas carried from prison starving,
fecause the jailers did not dare let
her die, it was certain that women
would get the vote.
For everything worth while men
ind women have died. That for
zhich they will not die, they won't
ut. Ireland will have freedom
because Irishmen are willing to
lie for an idea.
n Mr.. Frank Curtis writes from
No $40 Main street, Medford 81,
Hass:"
"I suggest the following slogan
lor both parties:
"Vote For Cox in November,
Register for the draft in Deeem-
sbeT.n
II you registered for the draft
iast time, just cut this out with
Ihe following prediction: Elect
Mr. Cox and the League Of Ma
ions with its Article x, and you
yin register for the draft again,
Id soon as the European Council
links 1t needs you.
x Long ago when the Steel Trust
bas formed and big corporations
Isere always fighting their en-
ployes, this writer asked, "How
onx will it take corporations to
sSfm an American 'Sau1urai Of
,knk-paid workers standing be-
tween the corporationa and the
people and living on the people,
Is the Japanese Sanurai, the two
aword men, stood between Japan
Csc rulers and peasants ,"
\ The days of the American Sa-
mural are about here.
Railroad workers want six hun
3red millions more a year.. The
railroad owners do not fight; they
give the workers SIX hundred mil
ions, and then take FIFTEEN
hundred millions from the public
in increased freight and passenger
Yates.
II After a while, when you have a
lew corporations employing five
r,r ten million men at the highest
wages, and passing the bill along
o the public, with 100 per cent
'rofit added, you will face an in
iustrial Samurai system hard to
,cat.
You read about the fighting in
ireland and "a girl in a green
i;louse leading the Sim Fein fight
firs, a dozen yards ahead of them"
You read about the death of
William K. Vanderbilt in France,
:aeaving a hundred millions of dol
ars inherited: He leaves fifty
thousand dollars to a church, two
hundred and fifty thousand to an
institution founded by one Of his
lncestors.
At the same time you read about
Mrs. Nellie A. Black, also dead in
Europe, who also inherited a for
tune, two million dollars, from her
husband, a Chicago banker. Levy
Mayer, rising young legal adviser
X "big business" files the lady's
viii and shows that EVERY DOL
LAR goes to charitable institu-
ions, especially to help poor chill
lren.
Women certainly lead, in cour
.ge living, in generosity after
leath. ... ...
Mr.. Cox says "The man who
lays the League of Nations means
war is hypocritical, and he knows
IL" III Mr. Cox has read Article
and believes what he says, he
seeds four years in a night school
more than the United States needs