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Member of the United Preas, Pub= Naked datly by The Star Publixn- tng Oo, ‘ SPAIN’S MARTYR—AMERICA’S MARTYR Common people of these United States, wherein all men are born free, sit up and take notice! appears herein, keep’ the case of your well in mind. Spain, poor monarchial Spain, the degenerate And, as you read what own Samuel Gompers Spain where? in millions suffer, toil and starve to support in luxury a class ere He wi He voiced the appeals and needs of the common peop dared to maintain that the common people were entitled to} God-given rights, such as equality before the law, dom in the pursuit of happiness, and freedom ot speech. ted through the “divine right of kings,” had a champion an editor and a professor, by name Francisco Ferrer. le. He justice, free thought and For these things the titled class hated Ferrer, just as the corporation class hates Sam Gompers, for freedom of thought and speech means freedom from privileged class. Last July there was a revolutionary outbreak in Bar celona. Common mothers of common sons objected to con tributing their children as powder food to preserve the inter ests of the titled class in Morocco, and there was bloody riot ing. That outbreak was instructive. It showed people that, with courage, they might be free the common The class seized Ferrer, professor of freedom. They charged him with inciting revolution against the privileged class, just as they charge Gompers with contempt of court. They locked up this so-called grand old “Tolstoi of Spain” in Montjuich fortress, where for decades offenders against the class have rotted, whence patriots of true soul have been led to death, often and often, and which has well earned the name, “Bastile of Spain.” They tried Ferrer, trial z*farce. It was by court-martial, hearing before a jury of his peers? No! did Gompers. They condemned him secretly. All humane Europe pronounces that Did they give him a No more than they On October 13 last the privileged class led him-out, stood him up against a wall and shot him. ‘The only thing for class to do with cour- age, patriotism and progress is to kill. Otherwise it grows, elevates men’s minds, strengthens men's hearts and kills class, executes and buries monarchy, title, “divine right.” So they butchered Ferrer, brainiest, bravest, noblest man Spain had. But his soul will go marching on. The United States class will not shoot Gompers. that doesn’t matter. The musket isn’t the principle But Listen to what Gompers said, upon his return to Washington from Europe the other night: “The imposition of a fine of one cent or of imprisonment for one hour for the utterance of conscientious belief and the faith that is within us is a denial of free speech and of a free press.” WHEN HUMAN FREEDOM IS AT STAKE, WHAT MATTERS IT WHETHER THE CLASS AIMS AT YOU A LEADEN BULLET OR A PENNY FINE? THE PRIN- CIPLE IS THE THING. IS THERE MUCH DIFFER- ENCE BETWEEN FERRER DEAD WITH A BALL IN HIS HEART AND GOMPERS JAILED BY A CLASS THAT FREE SPEECH AND A FREE PRESS WILL KILL? Perhaps it fs only a eoineidence | Among the indispensable factors that the state is paying a hotel in-/for the world’s happiness is not spector to prevent jist such trage- numbered his Majesty, King Lao dies as oceurred in Ballard this pold of Beigtum. morning. j Politicians —_—__— interested in Mr. will have to have considerably less | Hearst's candidacy for mayor of the peculiar failings of the par- rot. President Taft “carried out my should make all their plans for the Public sympathy for Prof. Ferrer policies” in Albuquerque to the ex-|in America stops when Emma Gold- tent of calling somebody a liar. |man begins to lament bis fate. PERCE Ee me Mr. to become a detective, but am in doubt as to the best locality in which to operate, one In which ser- vices of this charaeter are in most | proved method of disposing of it. G. KONE E. True: I have decided; Mr. True: popular song. demand. Please advise. YOUNG PINK. ANSWER: ANSWER bay = So aor : pe - Pall 7 ‘ Ze \oS. i : Dear Mr. T My son ha: he| Dear Mr. True habit of biting his finger nails you know of anything break him of it? PARENT. ans having big treet. ANSWER: LEATHER ANSWER MITTENS SEWED To sueeves ™* Esteemed Everett I write to Do | woman from Chicago. that will | ually being “kidded” lence, these smarties? I have just written a The title of it is “Dreaming of Thee, Sweet Thee.” Kindly acquaint me with the ap- SONG) 1 am a young Tam contin. about Chicago- How can I ab JANET. PROVE TL ask what will prevent men from starifig at me in public. Some are My Dear True: My wife is so awfully audacious, and vex me be«| busy with club affairs that my yond all endurance, Respectfully,|s0cks are never darned. All my MISS L, | kicking fs of no avail. Advise mo. idea: i Yours truly, 8. M. J. BB. / CARRY AN | , ANSWER oY AMMONIA * | CUT i PISTOL ¥% | HERES Sy ‘ 3 | WEAR HERS Business Bringers. Star classified ads. Buy or sell real estate, etc. THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE | CONAN DOYLE | DREADFUL CRIMES COMMIT. TED BY WHITE MAN'S OR: |» DERS—LOPPING OFF RIGHT) ® WRITES OF * HANDS FOK FAILURE TO|* What shall be done? ‘Thin is for the statesmen of Burope }® and rica to determine, America hastened before all the PRODUCE RUBBER THAT), fost of the world in 1884 to recognize thin new state, and KING LEOPOLD COULD TURN | ® hor recognition caused the rent of the world to follow sult INTO GOLD, | eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee } SIR CONAN DOYLE. (Following Is the second insta’ ment from Sir Conan Doyle's book, “Crime of the Kongo,” which was published simultaneously . in En land and America thie week. epecial permission, The Star is en- abled to print important extracts! from this remarkable story of civ ilization’s savage crime against un- civilization.—Editor.) BY SIR A. CONAN DOYLE, tt is upon the king—King Leo} pold-—-that the guilt must lie. Stanley and who later traveled alone in Africa. “In stations in charge of white men,” says Glave, “one sees strings til noon, and from 2:30 until 6.) # carrying clay water jars, tramping | * about In gangs, with a rope around | * the neck and connected by a rope, one and « half yards apart. They | * are prisoners of war. They are na-| * ked, except for a miserable patch | * of cloth of several parts held in| * place by « string around the waist. | * They form, spectacle “Mr. Harvey heard from orgy 4 writes Glave, “in 1896, that the/ state soldiers have been fighting | and taking prisoners. He himeecif had seen several men with bunches | of bands signifying their individual | skill. These, I presume, they must produce to show their success, Among the hands were there = } indeed, a miserable of men and women, and also of lit- tle children.” “In November, 1894," says Mr. Murphy, an American missionary, “there was heavy fighting on the Bostra because the people refused to give rubber. And I was told upon the authority of a state offi- cial that no leas than 1800 people were killed. “A ehief of a certain town was ordered to give up some fugitives. | Rath Writes Dad About Knocks and Knockers as He Saw Them in the Northwest. Monday, Oct. 18, 1909. Dear Dad: “You will like Ta coma, you will love Seattle, but you will settle at Everett.” Such {ia the slogan of the last named efty, Out here the “slo gan” te the thing. |} “Watch Tacoma Grow” is what “Do you catch the Seattle spirit?” asks the latter city's boosting mot-| to Maybe you do, and maybe you don't. But one thing you do catch before you have gone far—the echo of the anvil chorus. “The Seattle spirit!” exclaimed a man in the club car, (He was from | Portland.) “I'll tell you about the | Seattle spirit. I know a man that lived there once, and of course he died. What else could you expect? And of course he went where that kind of people go when they die. And, of course, when he got there, he started something right away with the devil. Beginning in some allusion to the climate of Seattle, the new arrival began to quarrel } with the devil about the tempera- ture the lower region Finally, in order to end the argument, it was proposed that they filp a coin | pocket of his tights and gave it a flip away |up Into the air, It was a terrible time coming down, but finally tt landed; but not on the ground, And jthey never knew which side was up. That Seattle man had grabbed it, and before they could grab hffn, |he was out and back again in Se. jattle looking for some tenderfoot THE WHITE TERROR IN BLOODSTAINED KONGO THE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1909. Rn out of slty—t yenr, i no ) 1 month, 256 wdeoln) BENE EEE eH IF WAR WITH BELGIUM, THEN LET THERE BE WAR—DOYLE eeeeeeeee 8 * But since then she has done nothing to control what she ere ated. . To bring the matter should act without delay. to be that, having prepared t the great powers, they should the whole evidence and ask tha meet to discuss the situation, Bu ult in the partition of the Kong Let suppose, howeve and that are deserted single-handed with that which al warning and a date must be fix our course of action up the quarrel, then so be it. that the powers refuse to act, n by Amertea duty, ae it has often been in the world's And what shall that action be? War with Belgium? On them must rest the responsibility for that, RRR . the British government vious course would appear ground by sounding each of then lay 1} eh of them t a Buropean congress should ch a congress would surely re 0 lands. Then it is our history, to grapple hould be a com mn tank A od, and then we must decide " im take SESE SESE SEES EERE SER ERE Ree Ho replied the fugitives had not been in his town. But when he! went to see the officer, he was) wounded, his wife was killed be fore his eyes and her head was cut off that they might possess the) brass bracelet that she wore | “The rubber question ts account able for most of the horrors in the Kongo. It ts collected by force.) The soldiers driye the people inte | the brush; if they will not go they | are shot down, their left hands be- ing cut off and taken to the com missary “These hands—the hands of men, women and children—are placed in rows before the com- missary, who counts them to see that the sold have not ee ee ee Civilization knows no paige TERRIBLE WHIP a guilt, no greater crime—than this) OF THE KONGO # | "Crime of the Kongo.” Let us take _- * |testimony. First there is a man} “The ‘chicotte’ of raw hippe ® named Glave, who traveled with! * hide, especially a new one; * trimmed Hke a corkscrew, ®) with edges like knife blades,” # | says Giave, in Sir Conan #) Doyle's book, “The Crime of # ® the Kongo.” “le a terrible ® of poor, emactated old women,| some of them mere skeletons) * Weapon, and « few blows ® working from 6 in the morning un-|* bring blood. Generally *. waet their cartridges. The commissary is paid a comm sion of about a penny # pound upon all the rubber he gets.” An old man was shot to death be fore the eyes of a missionary friend of the Rev, Sjoblom, while | the missionary was preaching to|f the people. The soldier told a lit tle boy, 8 or 9 years of age, to go |i] and cut off the right hand of the) man who had been shot, The man} was not quite dead, and when he |i felt the knife he tried to drag bis /H hand away. Tho boy, after some |ff labor, cut the hand off and laid tt by a fallen tree, A little later the/f hand was put on the fire to amoke |} before being sent to the commute |} sary. I think that picture of a child /f hacking off the hand of a dyi man at the order of the monster |i who would have assuredly mur dered him also had be hesitated to obey, is as diabolical a one ax even | the Kongo could show. A pretty |if commentary upon the doctrine of ij Christ, which the missionary was |i there to preach! WW Mr. Sjoblom, seeing a sentinel |i and & woman passing down a rond| with a basket of amoked han asked them to put out the hands that they might count them. “We counted 18 right hands, have boon struck. At the @|/0saed to men, women and chil # first blow he yells aborginably, a | ¢7#8 S | then he quiets down and is aw| ‘[t was in 1897 that the Kongo} mere groaning, quiveringw|COMpanies wore reorganized, the | body till the operation (s over, #| Belgium government, meaning the when the culprit stumbles @| *!"g. taking half their stock. The smoked, and ‘rom the size of the to of fi ae od, binwe na |hands we could judge that they be or 3% blown ® Victim is in a sibility after 26 # | Profits of these companies, at this away, often with gashes that Of course the Seattle man had/eq it's Mount Tacoma. Collier's none, #0 the devil took out a nice} Weekly-—a fine paper—-printed that red-hot dollar from the ® will enflure a iitetime.” *® A Belgian officer sald: “One *# can hardly believe how difft cult it ts to administer the *& chicotte properly. One should ® spread out the slows #0 that ® each shall give a frowh pang ® Then we have a law which ® forbids us to give more than 35 blows in one day. and to stop when the blood flows, One should, therefore, give 24 of the blows vigorously, but without risking to stop. Then, at the twenty-fifth, with a dexterous twist, one should make the blood spout.” The chicotte was used on natives who did not bring in #| as much rubber as the capita & ordered. * ** al eeeteeeeeeeeeeee seteeeeeeeee * ** * Sil ln a iin eine ete etal | ane about the glories of the California climate, “But it gets pretty hot there, doesn't itt” asked the Obio man. “Ob, yeo-—a hundred and twenty in the shade sometimes. But it's dry. You don't feel it.” The eastern man grunted. The) man from Calgary, Alberta, took a) turn | “But doesn’t it get cold up there?” asked the backseat man, | “Oh, yes,” said the man from | Calgary But it's dry, You) don't feel it.” Ik The Ohio man grunted again, The Seattle boomer cut in and told of the perfections of that climate and) locality. “But doesn’t It rain up there most |you read from your hotel window.|of the time?” asked one of the At night it gleams large in electric | listeners. letters. “Oh, yes,” cut in the Ohio man. | “But get wet.” rain. You don’t} a dry oe oe | A man with a settled alr of gloom | proved to be from Tacoma. “You heard, I suppose, how théy stole our mountain?” he inquired wearily. I had not heard “Why, Mount Rainier ts really | Mount Tacoma,” he explained. “It always was Mount Tacoma, The In dians gave it the name. Our city! was named from the mountain,, But | what did this Seattle bunch do! but work political wires at Washington | and get the name changed to Ral nier—some Frenchman—I don't know who or why. It was just to get the mountain away from us and pretend it was an attraction for Seattle, It's only lately we've got our mountain back again, We got Washington to correct the records, | and the real name has been restor name under the pieture only the | other day. But that's Seattle spirit. | Have to nail down the names tn} your geography, or they'll get away with them.” Isn't that a merry chorus? Sincerely, RATH Beaver—M this trolley time, ranged from 60 per cent to 700 per cent a year. How huge were the operations which were carried on under the ferocious rule of Capt. Lothaire may be guessed from the fact that the profits of the company, which had been 120,000 france tn 1897, rose to 3,968,000 franca tn 1899 & sum which ts considerably more than twiee the capital. M. Mille tells of a Helgium agent who showed 25.000 cartridges and re marked, “I can turn those tnto 25,000 pounds of rubber.” (The third inataliment tomorrow of the Dally Star's exclusive story of vir Conan Doyle's new book, “The Crime of the Kongo,” will be devoted to the author's further de- scription of crueities to the na- tives.) STAR DUST JOR WISE SAYS: ‘t this Ambassador Crane at a diplomat has to take ut in thinking? Seoul is in the grasp of cholera Where ts that boasted Japanese hy giene? A New Jorney doy to ha bitten aix t 1 times, tween the knee and catcher fi Boss Cox of Cinein reat theatrical mogul att The ch or dramatizing bm are consequent in now « nees ly much more stim King” Moree finds t that only 10 of t against him were th ment sustain showing him to bo otherwise # pret ty square sort of fellow. “The man who fatle in worth ten of the fellows who never try.” ts a h of modern philosophy.—Sport- ng Times. Mra. Harriman’s reputed fortune makes Mra. H. Green and Mra. i Sage look like pikers—in compart son, of course; merely in comparison at can think 1 a the 1908 vin hat Gaynor pe In debate. 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