The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1909, Page 4

ome Bamber of the United » Pub Peket datiy by The Star Publion~ tag Oo. The Third Degree While the sellin may indignantly deny the details of Peter Miller's blood-boiling story, the infamous principle of the third degree” will stand no such negation, It is prac ticed in Seatfle, as it is in every city in the United States, ac- cording to the brutality or provocation of the police officers; it Is a recognized system of thief-taking, and frank police- men will tell you that without it one-half the convictions would be impossible. e ; Conviction is what the police seek; their business is like a game, and convictions are the points scored. Every man the police arrest, they honestly or dishonestly believe to be guilty, and they are impatient at the restrictions which the law places about defendants. The average policeman is as contemptuous of the laws regulating the defendants’ rights as the burglar is of property rights. These safeguards thrown around suspected persons by the law are just so many interferences and difficulties for the policeman. Crime in its very nature is secretive, and convincing de- tails difficult to The evidence, the sympathies of the jury and the wit of the defendant's attor- mey are all obstacles the police must overcome to win the game—conviction. This is what brings the “stool pigeon’ and the “third degree” The policeman is morally certain of the guilt of a prisoner, Circumstances, his past record, all things point to guilt. But there is that lack of legal evidence necessary to secure a conviction There are many links in the chain of evidence missing, which the police cannot forge without the assistance of the prisoner. Naturally, the prisoner is reluctant to convict him- self, and the inducements offered beginning with leniency, rapidly grow in the heat of controversy to assault. Prisoners seldom have the coolness of head to withstand the curses, jibes and insults, and too often furnish a provocation for such maltreatment. The “third degree” has put many a man behind the bars who richly deserves to be there. But how many have been hammered or frightened to the point where any fate is welcome which will free them from the torturing hands of the officers of the law! How many men have been subjected to the “third de- gree” and then turned adrift too cowed to make a protest! What chance has the penniless, friendless prisoner to be heard against the combined voice of the police depart- ment? The “third degree” exists. Have no doubt about that. It is no figment of a mendacious imagination. It is a hor- rible, brutal, savage reality. The “billies,” “come-alongs,” the “black hole,” “starvation,” cajolery, intimidation, loss of sleep, every ingenuity of physical torture is used to extort confessions, If not, why did the Seattle police department have a lobby at Olympia to prevent the passage of the Ole Hanson bill? It is wrong, cruelly wrong; repugnant to justice; abhor- rent to humanity. BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? secure, laws of into existence. him, With a few precincts still to be; ones originating with Patrick C. heard from, it is a moral certainty Calhoun, late “higher up.” that the moral uplift didn’t get any thing that was good for it yester-! Gay. While Mr. Bouilion’s announce | ment was no surprise to his friends, it was a severe shock to his enc Obviously there are a few people | ™!** in New York who do not believe! all the evil things that are said | about Tammany—or don't care. Some people play football, others become unduly interested in elec- | tions In Breathitt county. Those heart rending sobs on In Spokane at present I sees ona hear in pan Francisco are the stands for I Won't Work Ww. W. MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS ite Visits the Garth as a Snecial Correspondent and Makes Wire feces Observations in His Notebook. BAW MALE EARTH BLING | ANOINT WITH CREAMY SUB = STANCE STRIPS OF THIN MATERIAL BEARING HIGHLY COLORED AGAIN-AND-AGAIN DESIGN ~~~ PLACED STRIPS AGAINST S/DE OF COMPART - MENT AND CAUSED ADHESION BY DEATROUHLY STROAING with ene UIPLEMENT Mt OF OPINION SCHE: 0h & 70 /NCREASE WARMTH OF COMPARTMENT. | REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. | Precept never is, but always ix to The airship habit will take be, practice automobile income. Some men are willing to go to| he dentist is invited to attend church so as not to have to stay! many a swell gathering. home. A dimple in a woman's What a girl likes about a man {s| makes a dent in a man's heart the way she thinks she can make| If love wasn’t blind, Cupid would | him like her. |have lot more work to do. The man who knows enough to| Modesty 1s all right in women, get rich knows enough to let other | but in men it savors of hypocrisy. people do the shouting about it | And you can’t always judge the The average shirt-waist a woman! size of a man's head by the way it woars in summer ie #o queer it! feels geome as if she might be more| It isn't being kissed that a girl Greased by taking it off. objects to so much as the thought After @ woman has been married! of bis thinking she wouldn't resent to @ man 4 week she can imagine ft. “tf she was 4 good influence on his Some people would have to wor! POINTED PARAGRAPHS, an chin |than six years = an THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, ENGLISH ELECTION MAY Bou THE| HOUSE OF LORDS Remarkable Campaign Now at Its Height—Liberals to Wipe Out Ancient Upper House Which Has Long Been Obstacle in Way of Reforms Wanted by Masses—Tax Bill to Make Rich Bear Share of Burden. REMARKABLE TAX REFORM PROPOSED BY LIBERALS IN ENGLAND. Roughly speaking, what “Lioyd cue budget proposes is thie: To place so heavy a tax upon swollen Incomes as to compel the rich to bear a just proportion dodged To tax unimproved land #0 bh of the taxes they have hitherto eavily that it will be too expen sive for the holders to leave ft longer unimproved. ‘To tax the reversion of leases #0 heavily that it will no longer be possible for holders of city realty to reap an excessive profit by withholding it from sale. To tax Increases in realty valuos sufficiently to give the pub- He ite share in increases which, ments, It has at least helped to © To break up great fortunes b: by its enterprise and improve- Aune. y the imposition of death dutics sufficient to scatter them in the course of a few generations. BY CHARLES P. STEWART. (ty United Press) LONDON, Nov. 3.-—England ts on the eve of the most important national election in its bistory.| Elections in Great Britain do sot) oceur at stated times, as tn the United States. One ts held every time a government—or an adminis | tration, a8 an American would ox-) press it—resigns. | When a government comes Into) power, it does so on the strength) of a national vote, giving one orj AIINOAPY SNAPSHOT OF LLOYD GEORGE, TREASURY, RISING IN HIS PLACE IN THE "HOUSE OF COM- MONS TO DEFEND HIS RADICAL TAX BILL. abolition of the monarchy itself. The liberal party's contention has been for years that the house of lords effectually blocks and must always bigck the execution of the people's will as expressed at the polls, It is clear enough that this con tention is well founded. Suppose the United States senate were a hereditary body and that the sena tors enjoyed rights and priylicges dented to the rest of the people. The very fact that they enjoyed 9) bm nneenreeinarenesee ee bn ~ ae DIDDIF SN CHANCELLOR OF THE parties—liberals or conservatives —a majority of the mbers of the house of commons, The king selects the recognized leader of the majority as his prime minister and the prime minister chooses the rest of the gabinet members from among his political chief lew! tenants A Government Resigns. In the course of time, changing conditions are Mable to turn the} dominant party's parliamentary ma jority Into a minority, and as soon as {ft becomes evident, through| some vote in the house of com mons, that this has occurred, the government resigns and a new election is held, Sometimes a gov ernment resigns while still in a majority, simply because a crisis has arisen which makes the cab-| inet think the country entitled to| 4 referendum. In no case may a government remain in office more At the end of that| time it must resign, majority or no majority, crisis or no crisis An English Crisis. The present English government is Mberal and tts leader is Prime Minister Asquith. It has a large majority in the house of commons, and it has been in office only years. But a crisis has arisen which makes the cabinet belleve the country should be given opportunity to express its opinion at the polls, The liberals are doing a little preliminary can- vassing, spell binding and fence fixing in the hope that they may win the coming election, and as soon as this work ts finished, Prime Minister Asquith and his fellow members of the cabinet will re sign. This will probably be early in January, but {t may be earlier. The election will follow, Aboliah House of Lords, The central campaign issue will be the abolition of the house of lords. If the Hberals win and the lords are abolished, there will still be a nobility, but its advantage over the rest of the people will be purely social. A good many people Mite before his grandfather was overtime if they practiced half born. | What they preach,—-Chicago News, think that #0 great a change only heralds the nearer approach of the | streets of London, other of the great British political; these rights and privileges would | make the senators servatives, They anything in the extreme con. would oppose nature of progress or change, however destrable to the masses, because they would fear some curtailment of their own powers, Even though a prope {change might not seem, on ite fa |to threaten them, they would still| suspect and dislike It. Hands of a Few. England is a very rich country, |but there are much larger propor tlons of paupers or of miserably poor than in many countries which This is because England's riches are in the hands of so few—mostly | great noblemen One-tenth of its soll, for Instance is shut off from cultivation by multimillionaire land ds who want It for shooting preserves, The island has been settled and ized for centuries, yet countless fer tile acres are as wild today as when King Canute was its ruler. A million men—one-thirtieth of the country’s population—who, might support themselves comfort ably on these preserved acres, are unemployed and starving in the Manchester, Liv erpool, Glasgow and the other large towns. The cultivate are mere tenants and must pay whatever rent the nobil (ty demands. Ten Men Own London. City property is similarly Reld by a very few. About ten men are pro- prietors of the major portion of London, They refuse to sell it, but let it out upon long leases, and when these leases expire the land lords acqutre all the improvements their tenants have mado. The whole country is working for this little group of capitalists, These great fortunes are not seattered by division among the capitalists’ children when the capl- talists die, for in England estates descend generally not from father to children but from father to old- est son. For the four years that the Ib- eral party has had a majority in elvil. | farmers who can find land to | 1909 Shir pat as ‘socond-olhee the house of commons, it has been trying to remedy this dition, & ttle at a time, by the enactment of }lawa lightening the burden of tax ation upon the poor and putting more of tt upon the rich, The house of commons has passed these bills regularly an they came up, and just as regularly they bave been rejected by the house of lords. Finally, the Mberals resolved to jbring matters to a definite issue | ‘There t# introduced annually In the house of commons what English jmen call a budget—a measure cor responding to an American appro: priation bill, but considerably broader in Its soope, in that it not jonly makes appropriations, but specifies the taxes by which money |for these appropriations must be raised. Under the English constitution, | the house of lords may reject the | budget—though since the house of lords has done |} #0 Of account of the shocking f | nancial muddle ite rejection must involve-—but it may not amend it About Lioyd George. Chancellor of the Exchequer Lioyd George, a cabinet official | corresponding to the American sec retary of the treasury, resolved to | draft this year's budget in such a way as to embody the reforms the jitberals had been trying for four years to accomplish. He figured that If the lords accepted the bill, hia work of reform would have |boen wrought. But he did not much believe the lords would ac cept it. In the event of a rejeo tion, his plan was for the govern ment to resign and call a national election with ite vital tasues the! abolition of the house of lords. Without the house of jords, he ar. get what they wanted j The rest of the cabinet agreed to this plan. The lords have taken up the cage of battle, They will do one of two things, The chances are that they will throw the budget out bodily. A certain moderate slement among them, however, thinks it should be pasned to avoid the peirod of finan-| cial confusion which muat follow | ita rejection, but that it should onty | be passed upon condition that the cabinet resign immediately after ward, and that the election be promptly called. It te uncertatn| which of these elements will win. | Elther way will sult the iberais, | The lordw theory t# that the lib erals are determined to force a fight upon them and that they will| do better to fight now than to walt) until they are weakened by the! operation of ther enemies’ reform schemes, Indications seem to be! that the liberals will win, but it] ie not a certainty. Englishmen are| devout worshipers of ancient insti tutions and intensely fearful of | change, Many men who would un. questionably profit by a itberal vic- | jative ticket from mére stre habit and hereditary subser to the institutions they have known. STAR DUST Josh Wine Sayer of} | possess not a tithe of its wealth.| ft is generations || gued, the people would be able to/}] tory will surely vote the conserv-|ff BAILLARGEON’S | === = Special $37.50 Suit Sale f ‘Tomorrow we put on sale 200 New Suits, ranging tn | from $47.50 to $65.00, which we | vositively consider’ ) est values offered this season. They represent rn W and qualities in popular cloths, tweeds, the season’s best seller—“rough surfac latest in designs and trimmings, m “le that rycen highest efficiency in make and finish. Every size jy ithe 34 to 44 bust, and an especially strong line of sizey Pes 4, . | Special Sale Price $37.50 } 4 “wee | Dress Goods Sale The balance of the 3,000-yard Sale of Dress G ! ued on sale, 70% contin. 45 to 56-inch Ottomans, Broadcloths, Prunellag Man 7 Cords and Serges, qualities worth $1.75, $1.65 and $1. 7 | yard, marked down to . sbnteevs of 45 to 56-inch Striped Wool Satins, Shade St ‘i zr Fancy-Stripe Venetians, qualities worth $2.25, $1.85 “a marked GOWR 00 sccccccrccccececeses SLAs t Wool Dress Patterns, no two alike; medium and heavy diagonals and invisible plaid broadcloths: $23q@ @ Pe and $18.50 qualities marked down to...., Wash Dress Goods Specials |e: Costume Chiffon—A plain silk and cotton fabrie, with a beautiful luster, clowely resembling natal every popular shade is represented. Per yard ...6.....56 cecssee seesece # *t Ottoman Cloth—This specially nice fabric, & rized cotton, has all the ‘appearance a popular Ottoman silks; shown in 20 shades; also white and black. Per yard ..,,,., ot l] Cotton Eiderdown—A heavy, soft fleeced flannel, expecially adapted to sacques, eto.; Persian designs and neat, small figures. Per yard ....... . White India Linon—A very Interesting special in a 40-inch wide sheer and fine heavy me 20e White Indi Linon, marked for tomorrow's selling ... weeeeee 0 diel , M00 Dozen Ladiee’ Wine @wles Hometitched Handkerchiefs, Special Teast “ Per ‘Gaal Fast colors, colored figured hems, polka dot centers or pretty floral designs seat nice iday fancy work. No better handkerchief sold about us at 10¢ each. itu emanate oe \saniaipiaiaiiaebibndbiniinaiial : Ladies’ ‘Hosiery—Very Special Items This department offers you more than ordinary values tomorrow and the balanee <6 Qualities we are selling today promise to be 10 to 20 per cent higher for spring. Black Medium Weight Real Maco Cotton Stockings, full fashioned, —s pega morrow and balance of week, per pair .......... . i at 3c. Special prlee ‘ Black Real Maco, with white or split feet, full tuhtened; splendid. velnes Ladies’ Fine Black Cashmere Stockings; our regular 85c qualities. Special price ee We sell the finest and best imported Cashmere Hose to be found wade at the price at fery counter. Per pale .....+ssccsccccsedsvcccesecseseevonce . seeeee ook Children’s Black Btockings, feet made of fine, cure wool, legs a halt. eel and half-cotton; ag | quality for warmth and wear; sizes 6-7%, per palr, 25¢. Sizes $8%, $O¢. Sizes 99%. .,..ms| Again we have all sizes of Boys’ and Girls’ medium weight, triple knee Cotton Hose; a * beard wear; long legs, narrowed ankles, double soles, heels and toes. Any size, per on , a Men's Cashmere Sox—An unusually strong item in Men's Cashmere So: en grays, and an extra —, pure, seamless wool hose. Specially priced, per ai ees | Have You Visited Our Basement Section? i, Carload after carload of new merchandise is being placed ready for fis the coming holiday trade. i) $2.75—-lor Cut Glass Sick Room Sets; regularly priced at $4.00. a v $3.50—For 6-inch Cut Glass Basket; regularly $5.25. $6.50-—For Large, Tall Clout Tankard, 14 inches high, with 6 pin wheel stars; regularly $11.00. i] $5.00—For 14-inch Cylinder Shape Vase, with 8 whirlwind stars; reg- — _ 00. Another Large Shipment of Importers’ French ®) — [ber China Samples on sale at 1-3 the regular values A & ; ‘ “i Tho! | ner with a friend om enough to last. "tm till Then he bought 10 tripe, an’ he hated tips thunder that it lasted “tm the week, These good deal itke that to smokin’ ‘em, an’ e more'n one er two & Ga% both Sunday Herald, LEARN FROM THE ANIMALS T iE PERFECT EXERCISE BY W. R. C. LATSON, 6. 8, Ph. D, M. D. Written Especially for The Star. and taugh) of all systems of “phys- | ical culture.” Let the animals teach | you how to develop yourself physt- | A USELESS I ¥ cs os a th S S: . — as you could do in no o ner! rnis new collection ia Australian princess married a man aaa ss gued the inventor, “bas Somat - bred we ee o ‘ ~~ her carriage LIVING ON A LITTLE. jadvantages. When you el do. upposed that now the pum- a A ale , how will she get into her od ae ae a yu — pier ‘a q carriage? asi n ie, a Yankee lawyer, a in Willie Brook's story, "The Solar | kles like m bell; & ~y son,” sald 0 ’ | Sea , kb ave judgment Machine.” | whistle, and a penny 8 : we " Good tntontion “It probably doesn’t do me any| And when you don't drop tt : ¢ foh some o° de worst good,” I said; “but I'd have trouble | thing the box takes your 4 ay Washington quitting {t.” } . thanks,” said the Bato 1 Boldt helping t ket th He, 7% wouldnt, Smet. thie | oemy tice comer “i : vidiers are helping to market the e | of my en! x 2 | Kentucky tobacco crop. This ta the He took from his vest pocket the | of my entite - i | fed time the army has helped to — to a reat ay he ryan Hal. Hato reduce navy plug. an onned across ie Oo me. ne ak eo * “Ever hear how Bill Doolittle ived| He—My love for you MR luon "through tow *Fimitation on 10 cents a week! | boundless ocean, Ss h itations L Evidently what's needed is loss Miml- I confessed that Bill's economies! She ~Benctly pepe jon and more law had never been brought to my at-| He hat do Her: When a man starts to talk tention. Seb— With a good many he never stops to think “Wal,” said Biddle, “he took din-! salt-—Chips. Him And when a woman starts — —_— — p. she never thinks to stop.—Life. The place for us to accomplish Wrst Berne t is in the country,” ann DR. W. R. C. LATSON. Lepeatendanmmeel = Pr nt Taft. But not w a ae ou brand of tariff? revis Among the many things we may! =" =~ The Commoner “= does Ardup follow for a n from the instinct-taught ant- 4 a TRY Just now he ts following ota] mals Is @ system of exercise which oe Scadwell's daughte Thicago Trib- ely perfec q 1000 : Scadwell's daughter,”—Chicago Trib-| ig eat ly perfect—a aes Lincoln, Neb, Mar, 94, which develops every muscle sym- 4 Y | ot may Interest W J. Brys an tol motrically, which accelerates the ac- ‘Mr. Wright Lorimer, * ‘a res now there is @ Harmon presiden- Pid a vhicht kro tial b However, the Rows haa| tivity of every vital organ, whic : i three years to spread” *”* "**| makes the body erect and expanded, ‘Phe Ehepherd Ring Company. = lay - ich imparts strength, endurance, t—e as come out of A tea et Th ‘aterlbigeneyg ey he Pt pa animals there evidently are prolific] Which, last of all, requires practi 1 was attracted to your play when 1 carey eae Ot u enough for the most fastidious cally no effort of body or mind, the roto, if T find you playing in| /@&¥ing one refreshed and exhila-| Cite, “The Shepherd King,® and made up my mind thet the sun agatn without your hat, I'li| rated, Instead of exhausted. More- | om send you home”to ‘hed. if nat; {O%*! this wonderful aystem is adapt-| Mage 1 Bad @ change 1 would eee 1¢, That opportunsly Au Tigo stalled to the strength of anyone, pro-| | ot oO ptraleht Cl Tes hank leasure |Eatch the measles from her--Pale| viding exercise equally adapted to| ieee aptaasiieba testi on ee we Molo. : the most powerful athlete or the (mH Tt 16 @ powerful play, and 1 do not see how tt could or eps = mot delicate invaltd. 4 ) down’ to bed roc n | iat eA sees Sere fe, bed rock" "Wrnas in thie marvélous aystem “petter-put on the stage. It te etronger, 1 think, thar tah Any labor leaders to pat him on the/and how do animals exercise? The | : Ma * j Pack for his views upon unions. ercise of animals consists of/ Ben Mur, which te uplifting in tone, I was glad te 4 Speaker Cannon suddenly flops Stretching, yawning (which 1s merely | , Men over inip « friend of Jand water-|deep breathing with a stretch), cer-| @P y@u take bo atrong a etand in favor of clean playt ways. For an old man, Joe is some-| tain free shaking, swinging motion ‘ the otage * What acrobat of the body, and rolling upon the| %f YUP talent and ideale can do.great thinge for 2h hie: When shall wo get married?| ground, The cat stretching herself 0 She: Oh, yonnt why do you take/after a long doze by the fireside, Yours truly, U | gonde Tinotten, (2 *eftously?—File-] the horse shaking himself vigor- Puy ously and then rolling on the grass f His Answer. after a long day in the harness, the g Sa | Mrs. Boozem Wright—What doos|olophant tightly shackled relieving i, eC “local option” mean? his nervousness by the beautiful cir- ¥ do, Mr. Boozem Wright—It means if} cular swing so familiar to us—all you don’t Ike any locality where] these animals are teaching us les- there are saloons that you have the/ sons in the oldest (and yet newest, option of moving away, bepause most recently discovered