The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-11

some OF those unloniatn together. my
class. my friends. They say aDso-
luteiy nothing else but dAmnlng and
blasting and foamlng At Lloyd George
and AHauith and the trade unionista
Absolutely nothing else al all. And
you get some o. threr other chaps
togcsher. or their newspapers. and
ns exactly the same thing the other
way about. And yet we're all IN the
same boat. There's only one nfo--
only one living--and we're all 10 ~.
Come into Il tho same way and &c,
out OF IL the same way. and all up
against tho same real facts as VIC
are against the same weather. That
fire the other night In High Street.
All sorts OF people. every sort cf per.
sou. lent hand in putting u out.
And that frighsful railway disaster
az AlnKili: all sorts % people worked
together la rrscuinx. No one stopped
TO ask whether the passengers were
first class or third Wen. that's the
sort o. thing tina, gets me. Fire and
dinastrr--shoae are facts and every
body gets TO and deals with them.
And II there was a big war every.
body would get 20 and fight u. And
yet all these political and social
things arc just ss much fact. that
affect Everybody. and all anybody can
do IL TO shout and smash up the 9th.
or mans rights IN them. They all
do lt--tn everything. Religions az
bad as Rny--worse. Here's one Of
these bishops saying he can't counte-
nance churchmrn preaching In chap
els or dis@~nters being Invited TO
preach In churches because the
Church rnust stand by tho rock prsn.
ctpiea OF its creed. and In preach In
a chapel would mean politely not
touching on those principles. You'd
think heaven didn't come into the
business at all. And you'd think that
life doesn't come into the business
Of living ~ all. All smashing.
Wen. I can't stick shouting and I
can't stick smashing"
Nv
Something OF th~s. views he one
day expressed TO Pike. the editor OF
the Tidborough County Times. He
was taken into the County Time.
office BY business connected with an
error In the firms standing account
for advertisement notices and. en-.
counterfng pike outside his room. en-.
tered with him and talked.
Pike was n man of nearly sixty
with furiously black and fuxuriani
hair. lie had been every sort OF
journalist in Amcrica and In London.
and some years previously had been
brought into the editorShlp OF ths
County Times. The Press. bcsd.
based on the liberty OF the English
people and supcrbly impervious 20
whatever temptation 20 jump In the
direction the cat jumps. in. on the
other hand. aingulariy sensitive 10
apparently ineonsequent trifles In the
lives OF i,s proprietary. Pike. with
his reputation. was brought into tho
editorship Of the County Times sole.
iy because the proprietor late IN life
suddenly married. The wife OF the
proprietor desiring 10 share knight
hood with her husband, the prorrie-
tor. anxious 70 please but unwilling
10 pay. incontincntiy sacked the
tame editor who was bcguiiing an
amiable dotaEe with the County
Times and looked about for a Wild
editor. whom unaueationably he
found In Mr.. Pike.
The breath OF the County Times
became as the breath OF life 20 the
Tory tradition and burst from its
columns an the breath Of fiery fur
mace upon all that was opposed 10
the Tory tradition. The proprietor
felt that his knighthood was assured
as soon as the tide OF liberalism
turned: and the County Times, which
could not notice even n Baptist har'
vest festival without snorting fire
and birthstone upon II. said that the
tide OF radlcalism---it did not print
the words Liberal or Liberallsm--was
turning every day. About once n
week the County Times said that tho
ga. 80 radf~otfsrn "Irfffffafv turn cd