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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
VENGEANCE OF PLUToCRAcY

Joliet, III. - Because he scabbed on
his own class. the milIionaires, William
Bross Lloyd. Chicago communist, was
framed up and sent to the penitentiary
here on criminal anarchy charge.
Lloyd made the assertion before COM
mencing his one to five years term as
a political prisoner of the state of Ill
inois. He entered the prison and was
assigned to a detention cell the night
Of Nov. Il.
"a certain group of very wealthy
and influential Chicago men arranged
the prosecution and sentence" Lloyd
said. because am one Of these plain,
bIunt-spoken fellows. A scab on my
class, if you want to put it that way.
Lloyd joined SIX codefendants who
had preceded him to Joliet while seven
others are in the Cook county jail in
Chicago.
His 'scabbing' consisted in member
ship in the now defunct Communist
Labor party and in his outspoken. be-
lief that American capitalism exploit
ed the people and should be abolished.
He wanted the dividend rims" and
the banker control over the United
States to go the way of czardom in
Russia.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
THE KICKBACK
OF PERSECUTION
(By The Federated Pressl

Milwaukee. Persecution of GER
tain race or belief win have the ten
dency to strengthen it and impede the
spread of tolerance and the advent of
world peace. in the opinion Of Isa
Kremer, balladist. Miss Kremer spoke
Of the persecution she had suffered IN
Poland on account of anti-Semitic
feeling, and said she wished no artist
to go through what she had to endure
because of race hatred. Speaking of
reports that Ignace Paderewski, the
Polish pianist, gave concert recently
in Toronto under police protection, she
said that the people should different
ate between Paderewski the musician
and Paderewski the politician.
Miss Kremer, who speaks English.
French, Italian, German. Yiddish, and
Turkish, and interprets folk songs in
these languages, said that the Negro
spirituals are Americas great music
treasures and that she plans to include
several songs of that type in her roper
tore before she closes her American
tour.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH WASHINGTON.

Washington. = Gov. Parker's APP
peal for federal troops to put down the
Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana viii not be
granted Immediately, it is held in Wash
ington, unless the governor can show
that the activities Of the khan are a
menace to private property.
Mere persecution of unpopular min
critics, assassination of friendless cit
liens and the usurpation of court func-
tions by the khan are not regarded as
serious enough to arouse the present
administration or call for the use Of
federal troops. All of these ordinary
outrages have been committed under
the cloak of patriotism by big business
in nearly every industrial state in the
union without calling for any rebuke
from Washington.
1t is recalled here that whereas the
of justice invaded the state
of Michigan to round up some alleged
communists in attendance at secret
camp meeting in the woods. the same
federal agency has not lifted finger
to thwart the long succession Of muir
ders, kidnappings. brandings. and burn
ings committed by the klan in 20 states
and right up TO the borders Of Wash
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
MIGHT is RIGHT FRUITAGE

New York. = European civilization
is going to pieces. said Hendrick Van
Loon, historian and author 1of The
Story of Mankind. in an address here
He declared that boIshevism is dead;
France is not SO wicked. but damnably
scared; that England is the only ray
of light across the water. and that Eu-
rope is falling to pieces. Van Loon
has returned from a three months tour
of Europe. Its not the monarchs
who should be shot," he asserted. but
the historians, with their insistence up
on what they term the correct scien-
tific attitude and their ever-emphasis
on nationalism. Their words are
'oaded.' They are worshiped as au-
thorities and followed blindly.
IF | had written my Story Of Man
kind three years ago | should have
been lynched. If | had published ii
two years ago, the American legion
would have called me unpatriotic.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
AMERIcANIsM u 0P-To.DATE
tBy The Federated Press)

Mexico City. Official notice has
been taken Of the death in Leaven-
worth federal penitentiary Of Ricardo
Flores Magon. political prisoner. by
the Mexicon government and by Mexl-
can labor organizations. Profound
protests have been drawn forth by the
barbarous attitude Of the American
government toward prisoners of opln-
ion.
Magon died Nov. 81. blind, physi-
caIly shattered. prosecuted by prison
authorities and prison doctors.
BY unanimous vote the Mexican
chamber voted to bring his body from
Leavenworth to be buried at govern
ment expense in his native soils The
speakers rostrum was draped in black
when Secretary Cana. the ag.arian
leader, eulogized Wagons services to
humanity and his fearless advocacy OF
Iibertarian ideas.
Deputy Luz Mena of Yucatan de-
clared the entire state is preparing a
protest against the cold indifference
Of the United States government to the
sufferings in prison Of men honored
in other lands.
Chief among protesting Mexican la
Dor organizations are the Mexican red
Grafton Of Labor, the railway workers
and the Red Labor unions. A cham OF
nationwide strikes to call attention to
the American outrage is being work
ed out,
Thousands of workers paraded the
streets of the federal district in honor
Of Magon the day following his death.
And what had been his crime against
The august American commonwealth ,
He had protested editorially as a pacl-
fist against every sort Of war in ms
paper, Regeneration. which was pub
iisbed obscurely in Les Angeles. he
offense was committed when the On
tied States was at war to make the
world safe for democracy and to pre-
vent American liberties from beng
Prussianized out Of existence by a
German victory.
He was sentenced in 1918 under the
espionage act to u years and day
His failing eyesight and other lntIrm,-
ties we're urged upon President Hard
ing in vain as grounds for clemency.
Atty. Gen. Daugherty branded this man
beloved by the Mexican people and
bonored by the Mexican government
as a dangerous radical. Magon was
allowed to rot to his death IN Lea
wentworth cell.
He was 48 years old. His brother
was recently ordered deported from
California.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
DOES THE SHOE FIT?
(By The Federated Press)

Pekin. = Singing cut the Christian
church as the enemy of humanity and
progress in China. the Non-Christian
Students federation has been o-ganiz-
ed in opposition to the Worlds Christ
ian Students federation. A special
protest is made by these Chinese stu
dents against the holding of the Chris
tian federation conference in Pekin.
The text Of the manifesto against
the Christian church reads in part:
I'VE oppose the Worlds Christian
Students federation because we want
to protect the happiness and welfare
of humanity. We now wish to publish
our real attitude so that the public may
know it.
I'VE know that Christianity and the
Christian church have created many
evils and committed many sins in the
history of mankind. This we are not
concerned with for the present, but
they are now still creating evils and
committing sins and will do so.
I'VE know present society is a cap
italist organization. On the one hand,
the property-holding classes who eat
without work, on the other hand the
properties classes who work but cam
not eat. Present-day Christianity and
the Christian church is the evil devil
who helps the former to rob the latter
class. This devil, namely the present
day Christianity and the Christian
church, is our enemy. We cannot but
fight decisive and deadly battle
against it.
'The capitalists of all nations, no
matter whether they are English, or
American, or Japanese, or French, are
taking steps, che after the other, to
rush into China to carry out their plans
Of economic exploitation. And present
day Christianity, and the Christian
church is in the vanguard of this ex-
ploitation. The various capitalist ma
tons who are establishing Christian
churches in China have as their object
nothing more than to tempt the Chi
nese people to welcome capitalism.
These nations who have established the
Y. M. c. A. in China have as their OBJ
ject to suck the blood and fat of the
Chinese people. Therefore, we oppose
capitalism end ct the same time we
have to oppose the present-day Chris
tianity and the Christian church which
supports capitalists and which cheats
the common people.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
A CHANGE OF HEART
fBx The Federated Pres,l

New York. = The revolution in the
Russian church-the return of the
church to the peoples conspicuous
proof of the economic Interpretation
of history. said the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, pastor of the Community
church here, in an address describing
the Congress of the Living Church,
held at Moscow, last August. The
church revolution. Holmes declared,
was revolution within a revolution,
purging of the church similar to the
purging Of the czarist state by the pre-
sent leaders of Russia.
He described private conference at
the congress. at which Archbishop An
TONNE with the face and bearing Of
one who had that minute stepped out
of the old testament" said: The peo-
pie are on top. Let the church be re-
turned TO the people" Then. as he
tore his vestments aside. he cried:
These are meaningless; it is the heart
that counts.
The Russian government. Holmes
declared. has proved itself friend to
the church by preserving church build
ings, and BY permitting the conference.
TO be held In a government building.
with food and lodging for the dele.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
THE FARM-LABOR
UNION OF AMERICA
by The Federated Press)

Oklahoma City. = Investigation of
the recent political gains of organized
labor in Oklahoma discloses an organ
ization fast growing to national impor-
lance which in little over two years
of existence number its members at a
quarter of a million and its prestige
greater than any single organized UNI
ii in Oklahoma politics.
The Farm-Labor union of America
is spreading through the cotton fields
of southern Oklahoma and northern
Texas and gradually reaching out into
many other southern states.
IF you scab at the ballot box, you
are scabbing on the organization just
as a member Of a union would be
scabbng if working on a nonunion
lob, R. L. Thurmond, chairman of the
Atoka county organization, declared.
I'VE throw ballot scabber out of the
union wherever we detect him, he de-
clared. In at least two Oklahoma coun-
ties and several counties in Texas eV-
cry officer from constable up Is pledg-
ed to support the Farm-Labor union.
The union takes in only bonafide
dirt farmers and is composed mostly
of tenants and farm hired hands. The
Oklahoma membership IS $4,000. A
national convention viii be held Dec.
8 = 60. e.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
NON-PARTISAN VICTORY
AZ H. Eederated Pressl

Grand Forks, N. D. = North Dako-
ta's state flour mill and grain elevator
has begun operation. $4,000 bushels
of grain having been bought for the
opening. One unit of the mill, with
capacity Of 1000 bushels daily. has
been put into use. and two more units
will soon be ready.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02

IT is WORTH YOUR WHILE TO
study our Pure Food Ads. and get a
sample crate for Christmas. Il
vour health IS worth anything, you
should eat pure foods. Llano Pure
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
FIGHT REACTION
AIRY CONSTITUTION
(By The Federated Press)

Springfield, III. - Illinois miners
will meet the Is cent per capita asses
ment for fighting the proposed new
constitution out of their district treas
ury. The Rockford convention Of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor vot-
ed the assessment on every affiliated
union man. The miners quota is APP
proximately $22.5OO. The state fed
Grafton IS organizing mass meetings.
circulating literature against the pro-
posed constitution and cooperating
with other groups opposed to the rati-
fication.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02

as undesirable citizens before the
case ended. The case was one Of the
early frame-ups engineered against the
organization Of miners BY Ire coal op-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
SOUTHERN FARM PRODUCTS.
On. L. Willett in Augusta Chron-.

icie).
The trade is Offering two cents
for beef on the hoof in this city
and does not want it at any price.
We are probably over-producing.
At any rate, the beef producers
declare that they are going to quit
the industry. Nobody seems to
understand the depression in beef
prices for the past several years.
The farmer can get ten times more
per pound for the quick growing
chicken and always easily sold
and four times more for the quick
growing and easily sod hog. The
hog carries truly a variegated
meat diet-the hog means high
priced breakfast bacon and ham
and pork chops and' bacon sides.
But beef is perhaps worth two
cents today for hide, hoofs, horns,
bones, tallow and its amnoniated
flesh as a guaao-worth as much
for these things as it is as a food!
And yet it is almost impossible
today to get a tender, juicy roast Or
a fender beef steak. Is our south
ern beef the equivalent Of northern
beef flesh and if not why not? In
Germany meat is largely sold in
sausage form.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
Automobile Fatalities: 1921.

Washington, Nov. 3.-The de-
,partmeh of commerce announces
that the returns complied by the
bureau of the census show that
during the year 1921, 10,l6S deaths
resulting from accidents caused
by automobiles and other motor
vehicles, excluding motorcycles, oc-
Cured within the death. registra-
ton area of the United States (ex-
elusive Of HawaiD, which area
contains 80 per cent Of the total
population, This number repre-
sents a death rate of lis per 100.-
600 population, as against 10.4 in
1920, 9.4 in 1919, 9.3 in 1918, and
Gin 1917. Between 1917 and 1921,
therefore, the death rate per 100,-
600 population from motor vehicle
accidents and injuries increased
about % per cent. In the 27 states
for which data for 1917 are avail
able the actual number. Of these
deaths increased from 6,O14 in that
year to 8.4s2 in 1921, an increase
OF 41.2 per cent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
Women's Mission
ary Union
Baptist Women Meet in CO.
lumbia in Annual Con-
ventiOn

Columbia, Nov. 8.-The annual
state convention of the Woman's
Missionary Union Of the Baptist
church is in session in Columbia.
The final session will be held
Thursday evening. Election of Of
fcers Will come Thursday after
noon. Several hundred women are
attending.
The first session was held Tues
day night. with a pageant by young
people, Worlds Comradeship at
Home and Abroad The pageant
was arranged by Mrs George z.
Davis, Mrs. w. j. Hatcher and Miss
Azile Woford.
One OF the principal addresses
Wednesday was delivered by Miss
Juliette Mather. young peoples sec
retary of the Southern Missionary
Union. her address being in be-
half Of the Missionary Union Aux
iliary. Another address of We'd
nesday was by DR.. c. e. Burts. of
Columbia, executive secretary Of
the denomination in South Caro-
lima.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
Sees Prosperity
Era For Country
Comptroller of Currency Girls.
singer Comments on Bank
Resources

Washington, Nov. 5.-All "chan-
nels Of commerce now appear to be
active" and there is every reason
! for the expectation that we are
now at the beginning of an era of
prosperity Comptroller of the
Currency Crissinger declared to-
night, in making public an analysis
of the September 15 condition of
national banks.
| AS compared with September,
last year. Mr.. Crissinger reported
an Increase in the total resources
of the national banks of more than
81, 900, ,000, 900 and an increase of
deposits of more than $4,000, 0,000,-
| 900. Continued improvement in
the condition of national banks Of
the country as reflected in the Sep
tember reports, Mr.. Crissinger de-
, clared, shows that our national
banks have very m a er al y
strengthened their condition dur
L ing the past year and are now in
Ia better position to respond to the
financial. needs Of our industries
than at any time since the begin
ming of the defation period
Total resources Of the national
banks September Is aggregated
ls20,92S, ,09s. 900, an increase of
s22O,089,00o since June, 1922, and
an increase Of 81 900 since
|September, last year. Loans and
discounts and rediscounts amount
ed to s1l,236, 900, 900, a decrease
|of S12,000,000 since June, and a
decrease OF s446, 900, 600 since
September, 1921. Cash on hand to-
tailed $685.. 100000, an increase Of
near s6.o00,00 since June, but a
decrease of more than $25,000,00
since September year ago. Hold
ings of United States government
securities aggregated s2,402,000,0o0
an increase of 117,00O,000 since
June, and an increase of s540,000,-
600 since September, last year,
while other bonds and stocks held
amounted to s2,289,000, 900, an in
crease Of nearly S12,000,000 since
June, and an increase Of $780,
00G, 900 since September last year.
The total deposits in the nat
.ional banks aggregated s16,59S,-
900. 900 in September, an increase
of $27S, G00. 900 since June, and an
increase of s2,o37, 100000 since
September, last year. Surplus funds
aggregated 100000, 900, a de-
crease of s6.00o,000 since June, but
an increase Of nearly 15,000,o00,
since September a year ago, while
undivided profits aggregated $685.
100000, an increase Of $4,000
900 since June. and an increase of
IS263,0o0 since September.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
Not as Bad as it Looks.
Dillon Herald).

North Carolina does not tax lands
for state purposes. Each county
makes its own levy on lands for
county purposes. Revenue for
state purposes comes from cor
porations, inheritances, incomes
and other sources. A Mr.. Everett
Of Richmond county, North Caro-
lima, owns q plantation which is
split by the state line, one-half be-
ing in South Carolina. The South
Carolina half is valued at $34,9S5
on which Mr.. Everett pays taxes
to the amount Of s1,014.57; the
North Carolina half is valued at
61,040.00, on which he pays taxes
amounting to $392.80. Quite a
difference. On the surface that
looks bad for South Carolina, but
it is not as bad as it looks. North
Carolina is a big manufacturing
state. 1t claims to be the richest
state in the south. 1t has more
millionaires than you can count on
the ends Of your fingers and toes.
IT'S revenues from incomes, inheri-
tances, corporation taxes. etc., is
large. South Carolina is an agri-
cultural state. Outside Of the
Piedmont it's manufacturing in
dustries are few. It's revenue from
incomes, inheritances, corporation
taxes. etc, is small. The revenue
for state and county expenses must
como from some source, and lands
are forced to bear a big share OF
the burden. Let US bring It nearer
home. Marlboro is the richest ag-
ricultural county in the state. Its
lands have high value. 1t has
few manufacturing plants. On the
other hand Richmond county, in
which the North Carolina half Of
the Everett property is located, is
honeycombed with railroads and
thickly dotted with manufactur-
ing plants. 1t has ten large cot
ton mills, in addition to the Sea-
board terminal at Hamlet. After
all it is not as bad as it looks.
Taxes must come from property in
one for NOR another. 1t is true
our tax laws need revising. There
are inequalities. particularly in the
system of taxing real property, but
real property is hard to reach,
while it is Il simple matter to ar
rive at the value of u corporation
or manufacturing plant. 1t is along
the.e lines the state tax commits
sion is working 1t is a slow and
tedious job. but give the commits
sion time. and it is our firm belief
that they viii work out the prob
lem to the satisfaction Of the tax
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
Congressman i'll his daughter
acquene stepped without hitch
daughter his right hand


Pear. The fruit is hard, keeps well,
and is our best shipper and best
Gamer and our best cooker. All
other pears here with us blight
and they get soft and are not good
shippers. The San Pear is not
especially indicated for a home
eater but mellowed up it does
fairly we'll; but the commercial end
of this pear is the end for which it
is Indicated. 1t doesn't require ex-
perts in growing or shipping for
either the pecan or the San Pear.
The south should make use and
bigger use of those crops which ma
itare made strictly southern crops.
n. l.. w.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11

Columbia, Nov. 8. Solicitor
Rydrick. of orangeburg, has an
nounced that he will move before
the supreme coure on November
o'7th, or as soon thereafter as pos
sible, for dismissal of the E. ~.
Mittle case. in which the Orange
burg man is appealing to the
United States supreme court for q.
new trial If the motion is granted
and the appeal dismissed. it viii
mean Mittle will after all serve his
nine year sentence. imposed for
the murder of j. H. Patterson sf
which he was convicted.
Mittle appealed to the state SUI.
preme court. and the appeal was
dismissed. He went before Judge
Mauldin and secured a stay of eAe-
cution. that he might appeal to
the United States supreme court.
Governor Harvey ordered him res
arrested. He went before Asso-
ciate Justice Watts and secured g;
stay, pending his appeal. and It
will. if the appeal is perfected. be
two years or more before the feds.
eral tribunal reaches his case The
position to be taken by the state IN
moving for dismissal Of the last.
appeal will be that no federal anes-
ton is involved, except those all
ready considered and passed upon.
Mittle IS now at liberty.