The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1909, Page 6

Member of the United Press, Fy dally by The Star Pablish= That Dangerous Foreign Element With what a complacent sense of superiority we read of the general cussedness of the “foreign element.” We use every inducement, every argument, barely short of kidnaping and shanghai methods, to induce Europeans to come to the United States. We support giant corporations and steamship companies, whose lifeblood is the steady stream of European peasantry. They come over in the steerage, spending all or nearly all for the passage, as the result of the earnest en , it’s really their deavors of the steamship agent, who tells them, “Ye true that you can pick up gold in the streets in the United States.” The foreigner finds that the closest he can come to picking up gold in the streets is a job in a coal mine, a factory, a mill He makes a bare living. He simply exists- as he did in Italy, in Russia or in Hungary. That was another thing the foreigner had heard, He and his neighbors and fellow work men can at least get together and talk things over and try to Can he? Well hardly, savit or a sweatshop But, anyway, this is a free country find out what's wrong with conditions. if the “business interests” unable to speak passable English he finds that there is nothing doing in the free speech line disturber, a conspirator, an agitator, a job he is also a hobo. Cossack for a policeman. An exaggeration? Not at all. In Spokane there are 350 half-starved and effectually clubbed “revolutionists” in jail for trying to speak on the public streets. Twelve others—two of them women—are in jail for “criminal conspiracy”—that is, for conspiring to break an anti-free speech law that was declared unconstitutional by a Spokane court. Little newsboys have been locked up and “sweated” by the police. The officers say the newsboys at- tended meetings of the “revolutionists” and “it was no place for them.” The “revolutionists” say the real reason for arrest- fing the boys was that they sold the Spokane Press, a newspaper that has told the free speechers’ side of the story as well as the official and “business interests’” side. The police are now threatening to arrest socialist leaders who are circulating an initiative petition, which has for its object the passage of a free speech ordinance of the sort in use in several large cities. A “prominent citizen” has offered to supply one thousand pick handles to volunteers who will “drive the agitators into the river.” Not all of these “agitatots” are foreigners by any means Many are American born, but enough are from abroad to make the phrase “foreign element” stick. Some of these men, it is true, are ignorant and violent and are beginning to “see red.” But many others are men of experience—even education. These are the leaders. They counsel continually “no resistance,” and that is the spirit which has ruled their side of the contest thus far. And so the fight goes on. Meanwhile we, who have enticed to our shores those “agi- tators” who are foreigners—because our masters, the great cor- porations, need them to keep down the price of labor—regard with fierce, patriotic hate the “foreigners who come over here to break our laws.” don’t like it He is an anarchist, an alien, a foreigner. If he is out of In short, he finds he has exchanged a - Mr. Hill's equanimity over the, It takes a long time to get down Switchmen’s strike may possibly be to the “Z's,” but Zelaya will get @ue to the circumstance that he his sooner or later. @oesn't have to live on $5.20 a day. | | Every day adds proof to the | theory that the only safe way is to Clews lead to the suspicion that “borrow” it. the man who broke into the grand jury room turned right around and broke right out again. MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS He Visits the Earth as a Special Correspondent and Makes Wireless Observations in His Notebook. Of all sad words: “Not to be jopened until Christmas.” THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE Gather In a cluster, Faithful Reader, and you, Pro Bono Fublico, and you, Old Subseriber Jhoarken unto the cutest that haw hiked down the Hector was a pup, You members of the Seattle Hundred Year club eliminate that {d4antle walk scheduled for Friday and cluster closer, It will interest you, all citizens in general. It's Just lke this Do you want to live at least 260 years? Surest thing you know, "bo, put us ‘hep,’" answered the world, ex cluding the life termer. Well, ‘twas ever thus, THE METCHINKOFF IDEA. "Tis likewise a Just ke and wrinkle trail since Het-en: matter py on thinking young, In other is,exerting your mind in fluence on your body, Another way is by sidestepping microbes, ala Joe Gans Now you have the White House recipe all done up in a brown pack age ready for mailing No, there no ala Schlatter Stetson-Dowile dope about this, it ts known as the Metchink idea. heard of Metehinkoff? No we need more school houses. Why, “Met” is a great Russian scientist, who believes that man can live at least 250 years. He didn't say anything about the women, but it's all right, girls, come on in, the water's fine, and you can live just as long as you like, for we couldn't get along without you MICROBE SATURATED LOVE LETTERS. Weill, all you must do to live that long is to keep the microbes that assall you on all aides out of your path, You get a lett Ing jast before breakfast be from your “only one,” and may teem with fervid eloquence of a love-sick heart, and you just yearn and ye to read it But don’t, you value your life, open it at the breakfast table. Don't, thrice don't. Pet That precious envelope ts simply saturated with microbes. os - it may ee ee in the morn} THE STAR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER | Don't open the letter at break lfast. Don't touch it even, The microbe laden missive will prob jably contaminate your hand, which jwill in turn communicate the mb crobes to the plece of bologna you are eating, and from the “hot dog” to your dining room, sometimes jealied In the parlance of my med feal chum, the stomach. Read the letter after breakf after you have destroyed the grap jnute and Mocha and Java. And, jafter baving done #0, wash your hands well in warm water, Sort of tepid, dontcherknow? ADVICE TO FOXY WILLIES Come over here, Handsome Har | ry, and you, Mollycoddle, and you, | Willie Boy, and take the cigarets | out your mouths and leten. Never roll your trousers up at the bottom, In the crease thie made there gathers all kinds af dirt——microbe bearing § dirt—an when uaralled on the Moor with « Se eee eee ee ee MR. JELLYFISH } YHar’s A GOOD /OEA ~ 4 SHALL DO AY cnRISTHAD SHOPPING LARLY, a PrN 137 DEC. 24m. a CHRISTMAS COMING BV e489 Christmas coming! Hear the clatter Of the children; what's the matter? Why this pent expectancy? Goodness me! what can it be? Christmas coming! Sleigh bells Jingting, TURTZEL, | Little girl and little boy; | Hide the toys and trim the tree, Soon we'll hear a shout of glee. Christmas coming! Snow and weather, Bere QOEN CRN IF SRE Be mm ee ee 16, 1909 By matt wrtidh, a ISTERILIZE THE LETTERS FROM YOUR _ MOTHER-IN-LAW AND LIVE LONG. TIME its microbes, be guessed at If ts your fortune (sometim misfortune, says Mra. Housewtfe) to possess servants, beware, lest they kill you with microbes, Make enh wear sterilized gloves when they cook for you or serve your meals, Have them boll their gloves after using. AVOID RAW FRUIT Don't eat raw fruit “A getta da booka fora yous wata yous tryina toa doa fila mya bigness,” bananas the frult vender, “Nothin’ like that, Vermispagetti, gently now." Microbes like to establish a habi tation on the akine of fruits, and they likea grapes especially weil, REWARD FOR THE FAITHFUL Anyhow, if you have listened well, and follow out the rules jald down, there is no doubt, but that most of you will live to a mellow age, say 243 or 226, the result can only cess STAR DUST JOSH WISH SAYS: “Ive just ¢ your husband, more?” “I suppose no, but a spectaliet tx treating him for melancholia, and you know that's quite expensive.”—- Chicago Tribune. joney that alls ft it, Mrs, High- See where a Tammany man we mistaken for a thief and killed. ft behooves Tammany men to wear thetr pionic badges. “Here's a job for Burbank.” “What? “Training o sprout its own Courter-Journal Christmas tree to ta." —Loutavilie William Watson may be a fool, but he has a funny way of showing it. 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Salesroom, You will fing it a pleasure to shop here—light, airy and comfortable, and attentive, courteous sttendants It con- venient, shop mornings. Stocks are all up and at avoided. Half price and less on Decorated Glane ameled flowers and wide gold over ed Compotes, Card Receivers, Bon Bon Dishes, Rose Bowls, Fancy Shape Nappies and Vases— We and G0c articles, DOW ....cccreeeeseess BBE 75¢ and 85c articles, . de $6.00 Vases and Clock Ornaments, now ...82.25 $7.50 Ornaments and Vases, now . $3.75 $8.60 and $10.00 Bric-a-Brac, now . $5.00 CHRISTMAS LABELS, CARDS AND BOXES Christmas Boxes, each . sevescveeeR@ to 808 Holly Cards, Labels, Seals, Tags, pkg 1 Obristome Stationery, in holly boxes and cabinets, it 25e, . 50¢, T5¢ and to v a Dolan piseel: etd $ ting 100 for . - BAY Visiting Cards, engraved, 100 cards and plate .§@ Silver and Gold-Plated Clocks, each— $1.75 (© 817.50 $3.95, $5.00, $6.75, $7.50 re, en- now Dol! Go-Carts Salesroom thelr best and the crushes of the afternoon are | ROGERS 1847 WARE REDUCED | $1.75 Rogers Bros.’ 1847 Tea Spoons Bin $3.00 Rogers Bros.’ 1847 Dessert Spoons | $2.50 Rogers’ Bros.’ 1847 Table Spoons | $3.60 Rogers | $6.00 Rogers Bros.’ 1847 Forks .. Bros.’ 1847 Hollow-Handle | Knives .., | $2.00 Rogers Bros” 1847 Oyster Forks - $3.60 Rogers Bros.’ 1847 Salad Forks. | $4.60 Rogers Bros.’ 1847 Soup Spoons ..... | Charter Oak Fannel and Vintage patterns | stock. Full line Gold-Plated and Stlver-Plated Cases, from, each ..... secre OE to | Pull line Silver and Gold-Plated 3-Plece Comb and Brush Sets; for $1.50 0 $7.50 Military Brushes, in neat boxes, per set— EAR ?S CONTRACT WITH HAMPTON’S, THE REASON A Foot There | “Why do jilted you a vampire? + Because I tent her ring and she vamped ————_ i The kind of mend te With the payment to Commodore | venture and hardship than that of | the kind he doesn't > ee Young and old are young together. | quite enough. nde Blactter, |obert BE. Peary of $50,000 for his | Columbus could have been—high as | he imagines it will is the price—is cheap. Jt Is beyond | think he has good own story of the finding of the/, merely financial valaati: | al e te pole, follows a lot of interesting | ‘ uation. — New Tort ae discussion among literary men. Dr, Johnson, it is remembered, wrote his great work “Rasselas” to pay the costs of his grandmother's funeral, Milton got $25 from a bookseller for his “Paradise Lost” and Poe probably $15 for his great- cof, poem, “The Raven.” he writer of one of the “six best sellers” today hands his butler more than wnat for a birthday present Literature is looking up, all right, the Hterary chaps agree High prices for literature began with Walter Scott, who, it is ftig- ured, drew about 9165 a day for his | “Life of Bonaparte.” Thackeray Jumped at $1,000 for his “Henry Es- mond Dickens and Victor Hugo both made good money, and when Bugene Sue drew $20,000 for his Wandering Jew" the literary word gasped But these figures look small now- ‘ide a jadays, Kipling probably gets the side door |tion, though Conan Doyle, the cre-| ator of “Sherlock Holmes,” holds the record in America for publica tion serfally Then Roosevelt, with his spectac ular dollar-a-word contract, made the other writers look easy-—until Commodore Peary came along and showed a contract with Hampton's | Magazine. which nets him $50,000, or about $1.25 a word, The thing that sent the bidding up into such figures,” said Ben B. Hampton, president of the Hamp: | ton company, “was that here was a} world’s > story, such as never > “ot had been printed before, It was billa-—New York Press an extraordinary romance to be told Once a senator ran and was POINTED PARAGRAPHS, for the first and last time. i elected on the, platform, Friends-I? w of the world’s heroes, dis- Geis Caeay wae tho Peale Have-Mnde-at Washington, but his! ers, explorers and fighters | hame has not been preserved in th © able to tell their own tales. in ag ve Dario and the press) chronicles of the recent Imagine what the world would | agent starte*er “rushing” again Sincerely, give today for the story of the long voyage and discovery of Columbus as told by himself. What an ac count it would be! “From a financial standpoint Co- lumbus’ own story would be in valuable were a manuseript found | today. Yet this last and greatest of stories, more teeming with ad- Frost and cold sets blood atingling; 4 Christmas coming! Old Kria Kringle | Christm With his pack and reindeer jingle | Down the chimney soon will come With the dolls and sled and drum. SAW YOUNG FARTA-BELING W/TH TUBULAR OBVECT, TRANSFORM FROTAY 4/QU/D — SPHERICAL FLOAT -F/423 TER BRIEF PERIOD OF EX- (STENCE SPHERES VANISHED SUDDENLY INTO TOTAL NOTHINGNESS Bleven thousand 8 coming! voted out of What that meant cembor? Yoars may pass, but still ‘tis trae, At the thought Love aprings anew, | Christmas coming! Magic season, j | Why ts it?) What fs the reason? | Why is grandpa growing young? Why the songs so long unsung? |Christmas coming! Christmas here! * With its joy, ite laugh, ite tear. You remember Joons long gone De were loonkeepers were elected to office, Surgery has been added to the Monroe doctrine. Zelaya is bulle- tined on the operating room black- | board for an amputation: Dra, Knox and Kimball Christmas coming! blinking; At the children's chatter winking; Kindly hands and watchful eyes, Fixing up a glad surprise Christmas coming! Oh, what joy. Old folke noo & man is trying to # the Arctic clrole. Where do_you suppose he'll bring up? Ji—Ohb, on the lecture platform, probably.—Yonkers Statesman, mee oe INTIMATE 4 “CORRESPONDENCE | | GR pe Batt a al z Maybe {ita i a late date to men- Ov FRED SCHAEFER. t t, but the secretary of state 4 out quite @ mensage on the day that Bill did, and it was lovely, too. “Dit you haf a goot dime ad Kockleffel's house party, 0 “Yess. We blayed bean bag In der kitchen, und id foll imam of boiling vater.” " rs “Vot dit dey sarfe for dinner?” Excetlent Eyesight. “Bean soup.” “ Patron—Garcon, there is @ hair in this tomato soup. Watter—You were vor to dis cover it-our cook is red headed, WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec. 10 You ask about this Nicaraguan war.” To tell the honest truth the only real interest I feel is drawn from a feeling of curiosity as to who has financed this other fellow Brother Knox and the opposition oe jparty seem to be in partnerships! Thoy talk of T. R. taking the fob | Now it was Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who|of digging the Panama canal, . All got the contract to collect the cus-\1 know ts that if he takes the job | jtoms of San Domingo. Who is in}he will get it done in time for the | on this? 1912 elections, and be ready to quit it by March 4, 1913 Secretary Wilson says the retwti | butchers make the enormous profit Now who told the secretary about | the retaflers’ buying prices? Was it the beef trust? | Western press through the mails You remember what 1 told. you about Taft's besetting sin. What he needs is @ strenuous person with a big stick right behind him all the time. | REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR TODAY'S STYLES TODAY Christmas Giving: The spirit of giving was demonstrated yestere” day, when we passed out thousands of dolls and horns to the eager youngsters Our showing of appropriate suggestions in both Men's and Women’s Apparel was appree a the proud parents as they were ushered throw our establishment They also received appropriate we distributed thousands of merchandise coupons to them BUY ON CREDIT It is the easiest way of all when you think of the convenience of it. Buy what you wish im either department, “pay a little down and a little at a time”; make the bulk of your paying come after the holidays ; Eastern Outfitting Co., Ine. 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Union St “*Seatile’s Reliable Credit House” Nearly every man can see all the beauty of married life till he gets into it | The more a man could do for the public the more he would want the publie to do tt for him When the average man doesn't make a show of himself in an argu ment, It's because nobody will give ‘ him the chance, ay | “A thousand marines are rush ting upon Nicaragua,” read the copy of the state department press agent when, in fact, the converted yacht | Prairie was hard and fast on a mud |bank in the Delaware bay. Speak *- ing of our shipyards, their avail: | jability, the reason they are located A man can get more excited over who discovered something that doesn't mean anything to anybody than over why he can’t pay his own His constituents are now asking Jonathan Bourne (a senator from in certain places, the influence of | Oregon) if he is still in favor of “a Penrose, the Juggling of Senator! second elective term,” |Hale-but why muddy the waters? le ager It's a perfectly grand war, of course, and we're going to take off our hats and cheer for “Little Phil’ reminders, and liars’ worth of Idleness is the master key to poy- erty We are apt to look uport” ¢andid friends as enemies. Trouble never tries to dodge peo ple who are looking for it A tragedy is a comedy tha® fails to make good at the box offfee. The yongges a man is the he knows About women—he we centuries. RATH e oem MAKING IT SPECIFIC. Ww A Admiral chosen for command of Secret Knox's war of Zelaya because of | his experience just after the Span-| ish war with a “revolution” at Blue fields. Kimball had been ptced on the retired lst, but he was called | back for this K-Z assignment Kimball SEATTLE INSURANCE Was | MAKE ‘Al CENTER, “Well, old man, we are living in a flat now.’ “Is it nice and comfortable? “I guess you didn’t hear me STOP PAVING TRIBUTE TO SAN I said we were living in a FRANCISCO, more thinks. a deaf man an invitation liven thing When a man begins to blgw in his money a lot of people get wind of it.-Chicago News. PILE WORKS BOTH WAYS, seldom over to take some | Help make Seattle an insurance center by doing your business 3.9 through Seattle general agents, Taft's measage, ) Telephone F. J. MARTIN, Matn two days behind, It| 1458; Ind, 827 late ie be sent 208 Columbia ALBERT HANSEN, Jeweler, First and Cherry, Optical Department. —T'm glad the minister left out the word “obey.” So am 1. Now you won't have to mind when I ask not to do your owe washing, President notice, was was too you to the Office at, 99@