Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-25
UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA.

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Merrin, ILL.,, when innocent men were
shot down, hanged and drowned in
cold-b looded murder with a DELHI
erateness of purpose and with a
boastfulness that is without prece-
dent in the annals of America. It
rivals the bloodiest of Russian mass
CRIMES or those of Mexico, where
there was at least the semblance Of
governmental control.
More damning than the crime it.
self is the evident futility of the law
to cope with the situation after the
carnage, to arrest the ones respon-
sible, 10 bring to the scaffold the
boasting men who found their cour-
age in superior numbers, and whose
shriveled souls do not reckon of the
widows and orphans whose daily
crust depended on the poor devils
working in a coal mine, and whose
very labor was the only offense they
committed.
And significant is the statement
of the head of the miners in Illinois,
who said, after the massacre, that
he did not authorize the mine to
open, and the president Of the min
ersc' national organization who gave
the signal for the orgie of blood
when he wired that the men work.
ing at the strip mine were common
strike breakers" Both should be
hanged as high as Haymen. Whose
none was it? Who had right to
say whether or not it should open?
And who had a right to deny men
privilege to work in it?
The rock on which labor unions
will finally founder is that of
anarchy, the abridgement of person.
al liberty and the enforcement of
their imperial will with the torch and
machine gun. Men have not learned
that they cannot say, II will not
work and neither shall you" They
say by force of arms and numbers
now, but revolt within their own
ranks under such conditions are as
certain as the cycle of time. The
time will come when the shrewd
leaders will no longer be able to Or
der the men about like cattle. And
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Zythum is the last word in malt
beverages. Also in the dictionary.
The bald man has disadvantages,
but he never fails to shine in society.
The porch vines should now be
dense enough to conceal the ham
mock from the street light on the
corner.
Prayer alone won't deliver you
from temptation. Prayer needs the
assistance of little lively foot work
Another good way to preserve the
teeth is to refrain from making in
sulting remarks to hard-boiled egg
People who wonder who will win
in the coal strike won't wonder any
longer when they price coal next
fall.
The second baseman we saw yes
terday will come in handy when the
elephants are killed off and there is
no other source Of ivory.
If given her choice between brains
and beauty, almost every woman
would have brains enough to choose
beauty.
The chief objection to knicker-
bockers for women is that some fool
will be sure to call 'em masculine"
attire.
Among the delightful features of
summer is the fact that the saw edge
the laundry puts on collar soon
menlts.
The wet interests must, laugh
heartily at themselves when they re-
how long and bitterly they
fought prohibition. .-
This fad of having the teeth out
% cure everything isn't new. They
,egan that.experiment with the laws
ome years ago. ssa-
Just when we begin to be recon-
lied to the human race, we meet
nan who thinks he is hit with the
idies. E
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