The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1909, Page 4

BSTC vr Ro Ot eer IE Ro oR ea Membe f the Uatted Preas, i Mehed daily by The Star Publish- tag Co. AND THERE IS QUITE A DIFFERENCE e | >, to he} We hear much in the speeches of President Taft on th | necessity for “compromise here is great emphasis on that word, The evils of a tariff, the lax administration of the land | laws, all go back to the need for “a concession here and there, the necessity for “yielding yxething in working out a com-} promise.” We hear little of what is “right” and what is “wrong.” We beet nothing of the need for fighting for the right There is no suggestion that there are enemies of the common good or bad practices or bad men, against whom the man who loves his an endless war country and his liberty must we Oh, no! All are friends. Everybody really loves his neigh bor, and is anxious that his neighbor have as large a share of all good things as come to him. Differences are merely those of judgment. A “little yielding,” a “litle compromise,” will bring all things right. | It is the absence of any moral note which makes the presi 9 e f yredeces dent's speeches sound so differently from those of his predece sor, Roosevelt's speeches always struck a moral note Fairness ies of Roosevelt carried out. And thus are the poli the duties of the decent citizen were the texts from which he preached. There were “thou shalt nots” until his ene) mies sneered that he had rediscovered the ten commandments In all he said he preached the irreconcilable conflict which must go on forever between what is right and what is wrong. In this Roosevelt. The spirit of the Roosevelt policies was the neces-| sity for a never-ending war against the wrong. He un scrupulous wealth, merciless power and cunning gree it seems, lies the great difference between Taft and} saw as ene- mies of the common good. He believed in putting shackles on such powers. He preached the poor man’s right to have a voice nst the preda in government, and urged eternal vigilance aga tory rich. In place of which we hear now only talk of “compromise.” | If the special interests lay an unjust tariff tax upon the people, | the remedy is “compromise ;” if the railroad corporations grab} the people's lands, the remedy is “compromise ;” if a crafty tool | of a water-power monopoly delivers up the people's power sites, | the remedy is “compromise ;” if a venal congress flouts the} wishes of the people who elected it, the remedy is “compro-| mise. | Thousands of working people being at the point of starva-! tion in London, Mr. Sidney Webb, an English economist, is presenting an plan, at monster mass meetings, “to end unem- ployment.” | He thus classes the unemployed: (1) Men who lose jobs! through bad work, or the failure of their employers in business ;/ (2) men of the building trades, who become idle through finish- ing their work; (3) casual laborers who never stick to any-| thing long; (4) the unemployed who are unemployed because of drink, shiftlessness or other incapacity | Mr. Webb's remedies for unemployment are an elaborate system of registration of jobs, formation of reserves of labor for | towns, and labor colonies, but it is doubtful whether any of these measures could be successfully worked out. Under a paternal | form of government, when London has hard times, the towns are} very apt to have proportionately hard times, as one of the penal- “John Brown's body lies amoulder Fifty years ago today John ‘Brown made his name immortal | and brought upon himself death | 1859, he was hanged for murder and treason, and hia “soul went marching on.” Two years later the efvil war | which realiced what John Brown | only dreamed of—freedom for the slavee-—-began, and this war was in & great part bromght about by | [the exploits of the sturdy old abolitionist / Born in Torrington, Conn, May }9, 1800, Brown moved to Ohio with his father when he was 6 years old, He became a deal wool, visited Burope on busin: JOHN BROWN WON UNDYING FAME 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ing in ite grave, But his soul goes marching on,” by selzing the government armory | at Harpers Ferry, Va., December 2 and emigrated to Kansas in 1855. Kansan at that time was the center of freesoll disputes and a constant guerrilla warfare be tween slaveholders and abolition tuts, It did not take Brown long to side with the latter, To the neglect of his business UT ‘THE STAR—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1909. JOHN BROWN, Ferry under the This was th name @ central of Smith station for preparations for the armory sels ure. in the fall ot 1859, a Brown went here and there,| Suddenly speaking, writing and eventually | Wild ramor came out of the south leading a small body of men fm) that the armory had been seized the historic “battle of Osawata-|®% general insurrection of slaves in mie,” Aug. 30, 1856 [Virginia was rumored also. Col. His aon, Frederick, innocent of | Robert E. Lee, deasti to be the any part in bis father’s activities, |leader of the confedaracy, at that was shot down in cold blood by a| time & regular a pr, with pro-slavery preacher, and it waa to|4 foree of marr ot d the avenge the boy's death that Brown | sturdy “commander” of the .Har engaged the force of guerrillas pers Ferry revolutionists, and after due trial Brown was sen a skirmish in whitch several killed From that time a ealot against were on Brown was! slavery mourned less for his son than he | and mm gioried in his martyrdom He rented a farm near Harpers Para . samen tenced to be Throughout the trial, as he was ivooacy His addre “JUST KID hanged of his him a martyr. wen to the court “Wot yer got to do is ter stand up ter him!” “Aw, how kin I, when he keeps knockin’ me down?” He | accused, Brown preserved a dignity rights that elt letters to his family on the ove of hin doom are clussios of rew ignation to death “lam awaiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind and cheerfulness,” he wrote to his family three days before he was hanged, “feeling the strong as surance that in no other possible way could I be used to so much ad vantage to the cause of God and humanity, and that nothing that either [or all my family have #ac rificed or suffered shall be lost.” When his body, that later was to be the subject of a slogan that} |nerved armies to battle, was brought back to his home, it was laid out in the garret of the house he had yen too poor to finish when its building was started. | Benj. R. Brewster, a retired lum: | berman of Lake Placid, N. Y., wax a lad in Brown's household at the] time of the ill-fated armory seizure. | Sometimes of an evening he} would stand up and talk to his family,” Mr. Brewster says, in re-| calling the characteriatios of John Hrown, “One night | remember he said very solemnly to his wife and children that although the times | seemed discouraging, they should known ‘that the darkest hour came before dawn, the blackest clouds before the clearing weather,” intermixed with his intense re ) | | gious fervor was a belief in his power to commune with spirits which undoubtedly influenced many | of his acts. Among the supersts tlous negroes, whom he aided when every possible, Brown was little leas | than a saint, and thelr conviction that he communed with divine agencies was profound Even now, in many parte of the south, today ts being rved by | the negroes in memory of Brown and his martyrdom. j be sd HEARD ON THE STREETS A teamster driving a heavily | creat pet of the family About the aoe | REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, | 4 many of them in her family. Girls can have a splendid time at| | 4 matinee unless the show is any | good | A valuable thing about building { & house is you learn better than to | do it again | What a woman kes about mak ing her husband go to an afternoon toa ls how he hates to. A sure way to break a drought is have an evening engagement to ait in a hammock with a girl out under! the trees. | A woman t# a hero to stand s0/ j | | If a man had nine bath tubs in} |the house, he'd manage somehow ' [to keep all the family waiting till he came out of them. } | | | |} A man can stay out all night | without getting sleepy, but if he spends the evening at home he keep his eyes open after 9 jon the Betentiots have d Probably tt be cal apitalint American Tourist ie, I'm a strange an what part the very worst A searchlight | loveli@ht ina fda Times-Union. Bom ove the Dancin ¢ than Daught the music didly! Sponger got Only drunk kept putting his feat | on you?” nder the | Sloper's Maif Holiday ting bis fe I owas uf STAR DUST JON WINK BAYS: . air woman's eye. thing should be “How did your club dinner go off? | | eclded that Me-| Dallas News. | MR. SKYGACK, FROM Say, Mr rin these parts » 1 be? nna wir that, but Hobby—"Heut Jude Con-| | in it with the Flor present methor & adays is hugging met to er—They might Bomton Globe that fellow an usual. on me.” Yeu! table. A Misnomer, Firat Boarder tng m I couldn't sleep doing? ond Boarder (a 1 was Com deiphia Bu ing a Y you don't object to | singing in your room Old Gueat—You be when the mosquito can't hear the gi Customer—Yoa, bi hotographer—O. trick of, the trade effectivé than telling you t look | ploasant'—Meggendorfer Blactter A Game of Pattenee, | Office Boy—O! you ge? Have you « Dunne-—-No deck. I've Newark Star Hagtioe or Professor The things that will never The Politician—Th laughter site down at the plano and tries to kill a few night—Dut it's no | We folks out here in Seattle; must stop talking about New York. | If we don't, the “Big White! Lady” will get us. | | Right tn little old Long Acre square the “Big White Lady” was lerected the other day. There in }the midst of New York's tender }iotn she stands, 80 feet of virtue, made of eighty barrels of plaster jot paris | A society known as “The Asso ‘ciation for New York” put the ‘Big Lady” on the job, She cost | 95,000, but the association says \ she's worth It | “The whole country slanders! New York,” sald an official of the loaded truck stopped his horses in| middle of April he suddenly dis-| association, “and our statue repre front yesterday to wind them. of the Daily Star butlding | appeared and that An elderly | killing time the being the dog owners supposed sents ‘The Defeat fact, that's the of Slander.’ name of In the ties of centralization, and dumping the surplus labor on the| woman who was passing stepped he had fallen a victim to the dog | statue.” towns would simply spread the trouble instead of curing it. But to labor colonies, emigration, England and most all the| other great foreign nations must soon seriously turn for relief. There isva limit to the number of people land will s the limit has been reached, in England at any rate many, at present one of the most prosperous nations on earth, is over-crowded, and there can be no mistake in taking the kaiser’s extraordi to the necessity for territorial extension. ort, and Even Ger-| Y preparations for war as meaning his foresight as Now, we people of the United States are really deeply con cerned in all this. We have got to prepare to take care of a tre mendous flood of immigration fe ought to have stricter laws including the Japs. But, at bot tom, the real question with us is as to whether we shall permit for exclusion of “undesirables,” the hordes from abroad to crowd into the cities and become mere servitors or direct them to our millions of unoccupied, unculti vated m lands, and thus, by giving them a personal interest in the land, cause them to become independent and patriotic Of course all the altitudinal and » astonishing thing about the latitudinal lying is done for ad-| troubles of Cook and Peary is that vancement of geographical science nobody has been able to tind the and a few lecture tour side bets woman at the bottom of them Looking his Spain seems to be much more sue-} ular finish, y didn’t live up to over sanguinary cessful in shooting unarmed soctal. ists than winging swarthy Moroc | career nd spec He Boy” ce rts his name. ae | ; eS aaata King Alfonso is about as popular Next week the man who never with his dear subjects as Mr Furth | saw the fair will begin bragging | js in Renton about his misfortune. — Justice evidently isn't nearly #0 users This is the last but not the least} blind as the “freezum’ day of the exposition | pear to think —=-- ret Rivas cates ap-| Or FRED SCHAHFER. lhe their noses. “1 hope you're always kind your horse as she petted them “Yes'm,” he answered, try to be.” “That's right,” she said. “They make your living for you and de serve good care. Always be good them,” and with a final pat for} ch she crossed back to the side} walk The driver watched her till she had turned the corner You'd be surprised,” he said aa) gathered up his ines, “how! many people are inte ted im the} welfare of our horses. I'll bet I'm told a dozen times a day to be kind} to my team. Of course Lam. If I) didn't like horses I wouldn't be| driving them. Why, women even get out of automobiles to pet our horses and tell us to treat ‘em well } sit } And the dog came back. That| is the max of a story in connec tion with a lost, at 4 or stolen canine, A. little eight years} ago when the present owner of the} animal was sitting on her front] porch on 19th av. the dog, then only a puppy, came tearing down the street and when it reached the ch gave a Jump and landed in her lap Ever since that time, until the first of Iast April, he has been a POINTED PARAGRAPHS. If you must criticise your boas, do it inwardly The family doctor isn't necessar- fly a man of family a slow going man ts willing the growler. Among other high have the elevated express trains. Even the self-made man is sel dom wholly satisfied with his job. No matter what's the matter, some people think It doesn’t mat- ter. Money talks, but it doesn’t always make a satisfactory financial state ment Many to rush fliers we Even ona the aristocratic passenger leeplng car doesn't object to jout Into the street to pat them on | catcher. | Great was the surprise of the | very placid. to | family when the other evening, just |on the scenes that make the coun-| * ghe said to the driver “1% months from the time he dis-|try talk about New York. appeared, he trotted onto the porch | “{ always | Of his former home. ever did. salmon Alaska | Building at ask the Now he seems | kowned tas much one of the family as he| well, the “Why is William Jennings Bryan like a salmon?” exhit canne What's the Listen! M speak and then gets ¢ ask som 1 r “Dit you know, Adolf, dot ef you see a pin unt pick id up all der day you'll haf goot luck?” "Dott arrischkelt! I egult be stanting sight on a pin und neter see id ; la lowly berth Some people try to make the most of themselves and some others take antifat, — Chicago }News “Because he ON he bh he compari» juainted witt he: fam Jenning: non?) Judge—Who is that swarthy man over there? for the complainant or the defendant? Dailift fore nit of prion, the ing. in AY.-P., Van Horn, in charge of the | clergyman, the combined the answer? r. Van Horn will now . runs an ayone ac jon, If h the ha who Is, » Bryan Hither, i cquainted bite of salmon will apprectate | you are wnac bite of salmon “Why is Wil ike @ wal your honor, Alaska rises to|tant situation ry four years with | Im the daytime the statue looks | At night she looks | { taxicabs, tightly | women, wine-openers—| throngs of the whole | "Great White Way” pass in review | before her. “Broadway and 42d street is the mouth to hell,” said a visiting several weeks ago. So Big White Lady,” with her stands in an impor Dashing the 1 raised arm, | sult Abend. | “Hae George proposed to you yet?" 1 “O, yea! Rut it doesn't unt to jmuech. He hasn't mentioned it in his letters yet | The most fascinating trick a girl has is to get so tangled up with a man when she won't let him kiss her that it happens even more than jhe intended. Is he a witness ive ment in the whoie| There The plano was go- wt all last night in your room. What were you song writer) — lullaby Phila to me that the mosquitoes t 1 don’ ut where's the! that’s only deal more} wish to see Mr card? ere 62 times! Dodest are some My t's right of them every GARVIN’S CORNER] BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. 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