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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
CONSUMER EVENTUALLY lYPAVSALL TAXES


Senate Bill %, introduced BY Senator w Lon John
Of Stevens County forbds anyone voting bond cleo
tons not owner of property The obvious inference
from the is that taxpayers are considered more
careful in voting bond issues than citizens who do not
help to pay these obligations.
But the assumption that only those who receive tax
receipts pay taxes begs most important question AS
matter of fact many sOcaed taxpayers are merely agents
who deliver the cash and file the receipt Most taxes are
in fact paid indirectly by those who purchase rent or
lease the commodity that taxed The real taxpayer is
the and he pays his tax when he pays
for the article that he consumes Whether the
tax is collected from the retailer the wholesaler the
rier, the manufacturer the producer of materials
it matters little, it is passed from any stage the
ultimate The real taxpayer then is not the
landlord who holds the reeep but the renter who pays
to the landlord the gross income that includes the taxes
not the farmer who raises the apples but the city dweer
who eats hem not the railroad stockholders the pas
sengers who pay the fares
It follows that the services of government which taxes
support not provided merely the stewards of prop
ery who present the tax check and receive the receipt
but for the whole people who really pay cost of the gov
ernment Ideally plan of government plan where
by all contribute to its cost and all receive it's benefits
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
STRIKER IS FREED
OF ARSON CHARGE

Charges that railroad strikers of
Arkansas had burned bridges and
committed other depredations fell
down when the circuit court of Scar
cy returned a verdict Of not guilty
in the prosecution Of George welch-
er. a striker. accused of destroying a
bridge at Letona on January IL.
The prosecution made every effort
to secure conviction, calling more
than 40 witnesses. but welcher was
able to prove that he was not near
the bridge when It was fired. His ac-
quittal was received with applause
BY the audience IN the court room.
A reporter recently testified that
the fires were started by burning
coal dropped from faulty fire boxes
of the locomotives.
Meanwhile the Arkansas mob still
rules with violence. mistreating
many OF the strikers.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
SILK HAT RADICALS
GREATEST MENACE

Violators Of law in high places were
classed among the most dangerous
radicals in the country by DR.. Albert
Bushnell Hart. professor of history
and constitutional government In Har-
ward university in a speech in New
York City,
The speaker used the word "radi-
cal' in the sense of those who want
a new deal' He defined "conserva-
tives" as those who say, Lets leave
well enough alone"
DR.. Hart pointed out that the feder.
al constitution contains within itself
full provision for its amendment, and
that the right to urge an amendment
Of the constitution is the constitu.
tional right of every citizen.
For every radical labor group, said
the speaker, there is an antagonistic
group of employers. The latter, he
said, set up governments of their own
in industrial towns.
.'In western Pennsylvania" he con
tinued," towns are frequently owned
by mining and manufacturing com
panies who don't permit anyone to &c
into the towns on election day
These are the types. of companies
that employ armed guards"
DIR. Hart criticized the Kansas in
dustrial court which attempts to take
from workers the right to strike
This law, he declared, would set UP
la system of peonage among the in
dustrial classes.
In referring to the radicalism OF
the courts the speaker said courts
are acquiring an authority not pos.
sessed by the Legislative or executive
branches of government, and that 1t is
in only recent years that the courts
are declaring laws unconstitutional
1--WE have a right to protect our
government and civilization" DR.
Hart said, "but we live under a gov
ernment Of law. Hence we must find
means under the law and the consti
tuition. We can't take the law into
our own hands. We must change the
law to meet conditions or the govern
ment must fall into the hands of any
one strong enough to take TO-
"If we are going to have a republi
can form of government we mus
have a government of law"
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tskate Federation Bailetan.) (
The injunction bill providing for a
jury trial in injunction cases, which
was introduced by Senators Landon
and Oman, was given a hearing be.
fore the senate judiciary committee
last week. The legislative agent of
the State Federation of Labor ap-
peared before the committee on be-
half Of the measure and was given a
respectable hearing. The bill has
been reported out to the senate with a
majority recommendation that it do
not pass. but with a minority report
signed by Senator Landon recon-
mending that it do pass. The bill may
get on the calendar during the pres
ent week.
The miners bill providing for a
mine examining board and the exam.
ination and certification of miners, in
troduced by Representative Garfield
of Gle Elum, was given a hearing last
week before the house committee on
labor and labor statistics. The bill
had been previously referred to the
committee on mines and mining, but
due to the known antagonism of a
majority of the members of that com
mittee to the measure, a successful
effort was made to have the bill re-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
SPECIAL EDITION OF
WORLD, SPLENDID

The greatest advertisement and
boost the Harbor has or will receive
for some time to come was that given
II by the splendid edition OF the Abb
erdeen Daily World. Copies of this
edition were not only sent all over
the United States, but also to foreign
countries as well.
Hundreds Of Grays Harbor scenes
are shown, which printed up with re-
markable clearness. Many people do
not believe all they see in print, but
when a picture is used as proof OF
any statement, as is the case with
the World, all shadows of doubt van
ish.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
INJUNCTION AND NINE EXAMINING BILLS
COMPENSATION ISSUE DECISION EXPECTED

Ifeffed to the committee on labor and
labor statistics.
Friday Hearing.
A hearing was held last Friday af.
ternoon on the measure and President
Flyzik Of the Miners Union and
President Short of the State Fedora.
tion Of Labor spoke on behalf Of the
measure. Messrs. Botting and Marion,
representing the Pacific Coast Coal
company. Mr. Hanley. representing
the Bayne mine, and Mr.. Wilson,
representing the CarbondaIe Coal
company, spoke before the commit
tee against the measure. The labor
committee has not yet made its re-
port, but majority report favorable
to the measure is expected to be made
this week. The fight on the indus
trial insurance measure is about at a
head and it is expected to 60 on the
house calendar this week All three
measures are in the hands of the rules
committee. The industrial insurance
committee Of the house has recon-
mended the indefinite postponement
of both the Beeler and Murphine
bills. The Beeler bill is the State
Federation measure, while the Muir
phine bill is the state administration
measure. A substitute bill prepared
fNnnf3nanH IN DaHo Civ
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LOS ANGELES IDLE
REACH THOUSANDS

THE police estimate Of the unem-
ployed in Los Angeles is $4,000" says
John s. Horn, secretary Of the Los
Angeles Central Labor Council, writ
ing to President Gompers on the out
of-work situation in the wetsern city,
"If this same situation prevails in
other cities that prevails in Los Ange-
les, you can see the absurdity Of the
shortage of labor claim" says Secre-
tary Horn, who forwarded local news
paper accounts of the Los Angeles
common council voting $4,000 to be
used to employ men at 50 a day to
dig a drainage ditch. Six moving pic
ture studios viii contribuate like
amount.
The Associated General Contract
ors' convention held in the same city,
as related in the last issue Of The
Labor Press, declared that there was
a shortage Of labor IN the United
states and gave the reason therefor
the restrictions imposed by the immi-
grafton act. How untruhtful We
mortals be.
That the number Of unemployed
runs into the thousands is indicated
by statements appearing IN the Los
Angeles newspapers. The Record,
published in that city, says:
According to hasty estimates
there are now from 1900 to 1900
men in the city who are unable to OBJ
tain work.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
IT MAKES = DIFFERENCES.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.-At q
convention OF 1000 members Of the
Pennsylvania and Atlantic Geaboard
Hardware association It was voted to
refuse to do business with mannfac
turers and jobbers who compete di-
rectly with members Of the associa-
tion.
No comment Is made Of this action
by forces that insist it Is q "conspir.
acy" when workers refuse to labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02

BOIsE, idaho, March by a vote
of "a to the state assembly passed
a measure to prohibit the leasing Of
lands in this state to Japanese.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
lame DUCK CLAIMS
LABOR IS OvERPAID:
LACKS INFORMATION

Senator McCumber, the lame duck
from North Dakota, made bitter at
tack upon the building trade workers
in the Senate recently and was taken
to task by Senator Brookhart OF
Iowa.
McCumber charged that plasterers
in Philadelphia were getting s33 day
and drew the conclusion that they
were making about $4,000 a year. He
called upon the farmers to go on
strike until labor was debated" All
the agriculturists' troubles, he argued.
were in large part due to the high
wages received by industrial workers.
Another case of playing both ends
against the middle. At least there is
no talk of the Harbor bricklayers
starting a bank or the employees In
the mills and camps either as far as
that goes.
Senator Brookheart endeavored to
pin Senator MeCumber down to brass
tacks and discovered that the latter
had no real information on the subject
he was discussing.
It was pointed out by the Iowa SEN
ator that building trades workers are
idle many days during the year. and
that the average earnings we're con.
siderably less than the sums stated by
the lame duck.
Earnings Of Workers.
AS showing more clearly what
workers are getting for their services.
Senator Brookhart quoted from the
testimony taken by the Senate COM
mittee investigating the oil industry,
which shows that the Standard OIL
company of Indiana, which pays the
highest profits and the biggest stock
dividends, paids it's $4,000 employees
who get less than $4,000 year the
extremely modest average Of $1,000 a
year.
'sWould the. Senator consider that
an excessive wage to be paid to those
msu3s asked Senator Brookheart.
The farmer, continued the Iowa Sena.
tor, will not be taken in by the wild
statements of Senator McCumber.
"The farmer knows" said Mr.,
Brookhart. that the gets only 27
cents out of every dollar the labor
ing man pays for his products, while
the laboring man gets only S5 cents
out of every dollar which the farmer
pays for the product Of labor"
poniln Fires 6roadslde.
Senator Mccumber's attack also
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For many years after It ceased
to be necessary to protect women
from savages-men were still in
a vastly greater majority than
women, and the women's value
thus was kept up. Even now in
many States of the United States
the males are good deal in ex-,
cess Of the females.
MANS SUPERIOR.
Thus it must be quite evident
to anyone who knows the rudi-
ments of deductive reasoning,
that it is perfectly natural that
every American woman instinc-
lively and unconsciously feels
that she is mans superior.
She may have the gentlest,
humblest character. and be under
some male in her own home-but
a subconscious sense Of the value
OF her sex must inevitably hold
her viewpoint in the abstract. .
This gives all American women
a self-confidence unknown in
any other nation. And their
sense of the value Of themselves
also affects the subconscious
mind of the men, who take them
at their own valuation. as Eng
lishmen take us English women
for instance at our own valua-
tion-but of that presently!
An American woman from birth
is an important creature in her
family-her brothers have to
treat her with respect and give
way to her when there is a ques-
ton of small sacrifices. Her edu-
cation is never skimped to give
the boys the best chance. Her
pleasures come first and the
brothers. second.
When she grows up she knows
she will have quite a wide choice
Of mates to select from. Humble
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American women have a keen
business sense, inherited from
their forbears. This enables them
to get the best value out of
whatever they may be sur
rounded by.
Englishwomen have very little
business sense; they have only
grit and patience.
Natural self-confidence makes
Americans expect-and therefore
receive-the attention and service
of men in a degree that no
Englishwoman can command.
American women in the Middle
West and the hard working CEN
tiers, where the luxury of the
great cities does not so much OBJ
tain, are probably the most prac-
tical common sense creatures the
female sex produces.
They turn life into a jolly good
thing, have their solid pleasures
after their solid work-they are
untroubled by too much ro-
mance-and when they are kept
busy should think they are the
happiest women in the world. The
condition of the lives Of the won-
en- of this class in Europe does
not permit them such pleasure or
contentment.
When American women are rich
md idle they are not so we'll
balanced as / Englishwomen or
we'll behaved in like case--because
of tradition again.
The subject, to analyze fully. Is
too complex and would take too
much space. So all these things
are but touched upon lightly, And
for a last word. American women
have the greatest natural sense Of
dress and smartnesssa English.
women greater Individuality,
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try. or to . large portion OF
them.
Judged by this standard of
leadership. Senator Borah upon
world questions possesses the
most marked initiative of any
Senator since Harding was i'm
augurated.
What are his politics? He
years the Republican label. But.
if you watch his measures, and
keep tab on his votes, you'd
never believe he was in the Re-
publican fold.
He plays a lone hand. He
seems to be an independent in.
a body of partisans. and occupies
a very lonesome position. He
seems to have no fear Of the hob
goblin of consistency, for, he is
as inconsistent as he is independ-
ent.
Strange to say, though he has
several times boxed the compass
on both national and interna-
tional questions, he is respected
for his courage, his spirit of I'm
putting good motives to others and
his freedom from bitterness.
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EOR GLYN TELLS HOW AMERICAN AND WOMEN DHFER

minded mates, too, to whom she
can show her caprices.
She has not had to, obey any
one very much, her father and
mother having left her free to be
her own mistress-much more
than in any other land. Even
among the workers, the same be-
liefs obtain.
This is not from arrogance, or
any falling in character, but, as
said before, it Is the automatic
result of disproportionate num-
bers, and new conditions Of life.
If the women of any country
in the world. even in the East,
where they are more or less con-
sidered as goods and chattels,
were to be transplanted to a con-
tinent where they became of SUI
preme value, because of their
scarcity, and had supreme Iiber-
-ty, gradually the same attitude
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of mind would develop in them
as is held by the American
women Of today.
This is the great divide be-
tween American and English
women.
The conditions in England and
highly developed European coun-
tries are different, and produce
a different effect. English
and German women, for hun.
dreds OF years, have been taught
to obey notwithstanding
even brothers! In the home
the girls education is often
scrapped, If the means are small,
to give the boys the first chance.
Girls have very little money Of
their own, unless they go out and
earn 1t.
The numbers are so dispropor-
tomato in the sexes that a girl
has very few chances to select q
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Ex-Soldiers Study Art

because Of the application Of art.
by those who are our keenfst
competitors.
In Manchester. naturally, first
place Is given to design in cotton
printing, and there is a large dis
play Of this work. The most
gratifying exhibit is by student
who won the national scholarship
at the Royal College OF Art.
Dress designing and embroidery
are a feature of this school, which
has won national recognition.
One difficulty of a school that
aims at. directing all its students
to an ultimate earning capacity
is to find commercial outlet FOR
the excellent work that is done.
In modelling the exhibits include
gracefully executed studies from
the nude, but for students in this
branch to go on to become inde-
pendent artists means much
study here and abroad and aeon
siderable outlay of money. Even
these students have found an out
let for their gift, and have dis
covered q market for motor-car
mascots.
Architecture is. experiencing a
revival. Eight students have
qualified and are now placed in
offices. Amidst. so much practi-
cal art the exhibition contains
two studies in marble cut with
great delicacy and taste by
student who is employed in his
trade as a wood carver.
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Ex-senator Wife Says Both
Political Parties Seem to
Have Lost Their Balance

wars actually in progress, or SIM
mering, is enough to warn any
sane American-so it seems to me
that we cannot trust ourselves
in the coils Of European diplomacy
and duplicity.
I do not want to appear too
critical for Mr.. Borah, but / do
feel that his talents would be bet
ter occupied IL his political phi
losophy were a bit more con.
sistent.
1914 is FORGOTTEN.
From the attitude of some Of
the statesmen on Capitol Hill you
would gather that they had for
gotten completely some Of the
things that made such a stir in
the world eight years ago, and
seem now just to have discovered
the Objectionable features of mill
tary occupation.
When France and Belgium
were suffering from unprovoked
assault-from ruthless invasion
these men were able to suppress,
their instincts Of compassion and
righteous wrath. but now when
France and Belgium are trying
to collect an indemnity from
Germany they cry out against
such cruelty.
Both parties seem to have lost
their balance. Men who seemed
to retain their poise in IL are
now agitated over the inevitable
consequences in 1928.
To turn from the statesmen a
momernt:
met Miss Harlan, private sec.
rotary to the Presidents wife,
very often. and have learned from
her of the steady Improvement
in Mrs. Harding's condition. She
now is able to go about the White
House most comfortably, and,
think, sees some of her home
friends.
SOCIETY BUSY.
The President takes time from
his busy life to read to her each
day, which is a great relaxation
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But today nobody could call
Lodge even a pilot. His knowl-
edge of navigation stops short
with composing different views
among Republicans when d. pa
tionak election ii .neaTs at hand,
and playing one International
group against another, and hold
ing before both the apple Of pie
through a Republican President.
Since March, 1921, Mr.. Lodges
ship Of state has rather been a
derelict barge on the sea, lurch-
ing first this way toward west.
ern progressivism and then that
way toward eastern reaction,
closing with a record OF patch.
work that pleases nobody. He
couldn't navigate the merchant
ships into the subsidy harbor half
as well as he can navigate a sub
marine in Boston harbor.
SENATE WON'T FOLLOW.
Lodge called in help to round
up the colts who got off the res
ervation, but the tr-umvirate
could not lasso the youngsters.
But the lack Of leadership is
not confined to the Republican
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is NEEDED i'm WASHINGTON, DECLARES MRS POMDEXTER'

for them both. They are very
domestic in their habits.
There has been no let-up in en-
pertaining since Lent began; in
fact, some Of the most delightful
events of the season have taken
place since Ash Wednesday.
Somehow / have not gotten so
far away from my early training
that can 60 to functions on Ash.
Wednesday and Good Friday. This
season we have had the Chicago
Opera Company in Washington.
/ love music. and know when it
is pleasing to me, but I am not
an authority, so I guess I had
best not try to give an opinion
on the performance.
Most of the audience, when the
curtain was down, seemed to be
interested in seeing who was there
and how they were dressed, but
when the curtain went up they
would settle down. j am sure
some Of the audience dropped off
to sleep.
1t was a brilliant looking audi.
ence when awake, and the WON
en- there. for the most part. wore
many jewels, which, with the
handsome dresses, made a bril-
liant scene.
JOHN HAYS DAUGHTER.
We were among the guests at
a delightful dinner given by Sen.
ator and Mrs. Wadsworth in
honor of the Assistant Secretary
OF War and Mrs. Wainwright.
and think there were about
twenty there. Mrs. Wainwright,
however, had to decline at the
last moment on account of a
death in her family.
You know Mrs. Wadsworth is
the daughter Of the late John
Hay, and she and her family live
in the historic home of her dis
tinguished father. There is a great
deal Of old-fashioned dignity about
the house. The Wadsworths have
an interesting family Of three
children. the Oldest, a daughter,
who was introduced to Mrs. wads-
worth's friends last year. The
others are boys in school.
There was a rush OF social
events just before Lent, but as
Fave said the coming of that sea
son has not tended to slacken the
pace. At one. of the big recent
parties justice of the Supreme
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With Pilots Rather Than Leaders, the Senators Are All
Star Performers; Borah Has Focused Public Atten-
Gon Upon Big Questions and is the Most Talked
About Member of the Upper Chamber; He Has
Twice Forced the Hand of the Administration

party. Mr.. Underwood lately re-.
signed his reputed position as
Democratic leader. He was called
leader" but his leadership was
fiction. The Democratic Sena.
tors did not follow him, at least
not so one could see 1t.
He opposed the filibuster on
the ship subsidy. and couldn't
carry half q dozen Of his party
associates with him.
Will Senator Robinson have
any better success? At least the
minority stood almost solidly with
him in the filibuster. Will they
do so on the next issue that
arises?
Inasmuch as we are coming 70