The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1910, Page 4

i ; i | 8 BEAREEBE Published Co. Press Publishing of United The Star Member Daily by ‘ Speak Right Up, Insurgents! took a big forward step. In announcing that they would watch Taft's appointments to the supreme and see that men representing the peeple themselves a measure of public Today in congress the insurgents bench be placed there, they have service second only to their | work of getting the people to] think se ly about question ent. Go aws are a mighty important thing. It is more im portant to have good judges : The supreme court is the final court of appeals in this est laws of congress--it can country. It can set aside the wis nullify the most beneficent legislation The supreme court today is the strongest factor in the American governmental system ‘here are many who would fe farther and say that the supreme court is the government, | him rt it has the final right of veto This being true, there is no part of the work of William H Taft more important, under his solemn oath of office to serve the people, than to choose good judges on the supreme bench Yt President Taft has any doubt about the matter, let the _ conden on behalf of an awakened populace, remind him. y can do no better work. ; What the people need on that lofty tribunal is men who will see through technicalities to the spirit of the law—who will lecide with even handed justice between man and man will walk so straightly that people may regain their old faith in the justice of the courts, now so sadly impaired by weak and corrupt judges and by dollar laws. men trained in corporation offices, not railroad attor not men whose every impulse and feeling since g made neys, tion from law men of law who have lived close to 4 that in this United States men are more important than dollars God speed you, Murdock and Madison and Poindexter and a Follette and Lenroot and the rest of your band who have out so well If President Taft is in any doubt as to what the people ‘want, tell him in tones that will ring from the Atlantic to the Pacific. school has been the dness of pr Hands Off Mexico lor and the priest In olden days Mexico was ruled by the so Now it is ruled by the soldier and the capitalist. Whatever the re sult of the present revolution, the time will come when the part- nership of force and greed will be overthrown unless the United States steps in at the critical moment to save It. Nearty a billion of American capital invested In Mex! Some day the Washington government will get an appeal from Mextcan authorities to Intervene in order to protect this American investment. It will be the only possible way to defeat those who are fighting for progress When that time comes it Is to be hoped that the government at Washington will think not only of the billion which Americans have invested, but also of what the Mexican people have at stake. They are struggling for life, liberty and the pursuit of happi And that is worth more than a billion dollars. Hands off Mexico! ness And Steel Is Only One of Them That meeting of steel kings in New York last Wednesday was & very conspicuous object lesson. It decided to arbitrarily main- tain present prices. Fully 95 per cent of the steel production of the country was nted. This means that there is practically no domestic ce petition. The tariff protects against foreign com t “open shop” policy protects against equitable dixtribut f It fs thus a legally-fostered, competition-crushing trust for ¢reation of a dozen or more multi-milifonaire families —- ano generation of Carnegies, Corys, Thaws, Schwabs, Baers, and the like Government int ce means ting business. Attempt at equitable division of profits means socialism We repeat that it is a very conspicuous object lesson. It is a “lead pipe cinch” held by 1,000 people on 100,000,000 people. Before You Join the Army Tepr The war department has sent word to all the recruiting sta- tions that a lot of enlistments are needed hurry up quick. All right but young men yearning for military glory should first find out just why there were something like 4,000 desertions from the army last year, and 49,764 during the past ten years. OBSERVATIONS MISSOURI defeated prohibition by 214,125 majority, which is Pretty wet o> 3. “e DIAZ’S inauguration was quiet. They were using the guapow- @er for other purposes. o o KAISER WILLIAM has abolished Now, if he'd only abolish the navy— “eS ee | PEDESTRIANS urging law for life-saving fenders on automo- Piles. Tiresome thing, this everlasting kick of the pedestrian ° liquor fa the imperial navy o o o N. Y. JOCKEY CLUB raised $264,000 to fight that anti-betting legislation. And the club has unanimously forgotten how it was used 6 6 HALF-SISTER of Belle Elmore fights the Leneve gir! to gain possession of Dr. Crippen’s personal effects. Who got the mov- ing picture rights? a ee IN A POPULAR MAGAZINE of October, 1909, we find articles by Theodore Roosevelt, one Dr. Cook and Albert J. Beveridge Who are these persons? >. .O.*s CHICAGO HAS BARRED the classic opera Salome, because Mary Garden put too many wiggles into the death's head dance. Remembér, we said Chicago! +: & » BUY the Red Cross antltuberculosis stamps! Your pennies may save some poor fellow’s life Of . you won't know it Mut two-thirds of the good things you probably do are done with- cat your knowing it o o 9 NEW YORK LAWYER, Martin W. Littleton, upon his election to congress, withdraws from rich law firm that has r American Express Co., because, he says, he will fight for parcels post system. What a rara avis he'd be in Seattle bc ee LOUIS GLASS, telephone official Schmitz gang of Frisco, didn't instruct like this, convicted of gets @ new trial because the trial judge the jury as Glass wanted. Because of little thir Justice ts always pictured with a rag over her In the Editor’s Mail Short letters from Star readers will be printed in this column when they are of sufficient general interest. You may write about anything or anybody so long as personal malice is not your motive. bribing the 18 eyes Editor Seattle Star: 1 only wish; court gets out an Injunction, r dit thanks and pp ’ immediately, telling th ra nd able effort ard keep their t ff until e that is now runn’ a When the same people ask the ffort to fight r ets whereon the h oO ‘ y n the - of 40 da ch to prepare Hodge, who befor ¢ a) an * don’t you smile? te be @ tr ntere fthe| Furthermore detective agenc your support, that caused his elec i, ope through the mails, an tion, But afterwards, when ffer of reward for the return to began to cater to the Interests justice, of any poor, unimportant mend you for judgment in stay If the fugitive happens to be ing with the ple, regardless of| wealthy, however, and be blessed how it affected your friends or foes | w th pollt a! influence then the alike : i : sending the same offer for his| Our political situation ts, indeed, | return t | fee constitut crime becom! very interesti punishable by fine and imprison Por in e, when a corporation | ment wishes to collect, illegally, an ex Yet father is still wearing the scars he received in making thie a free and independent country. H. B. HUDSON orbitant fare for carrying {ta pas sengers, and when the people Ject and refuse to pay, the ob wise | who} ad | cited | | | Picturesque Old Character Is Leroy Landers, Who Is Held in County Jail Till He Will Tell Whereabouts of His Boy. Over in Pter county, where he fa well known, legal officers call 83-year-old Leroy Landers “the toughest old man on Puget sound.” They tell many funny stories about About the time that Landers de that wife No, 3 needed a bath, and drove her into the Sound at the point of a shot gun, and kept her there UN he degided the bath was completed About the time when the old man was nearly run down when the Sound steamer Fleetwood too close to bia little row boat, and how the old man responded with @ string of picturesque language and a fusiliade of shots through the pilot house. About the time when Landers got into a mixup with the law tn Oregon and fought the officers off til he had lost an eye and a leg. About the time four years ago when Landers, then 79, married a girl of 17, and had a series of bitter quarrels with his 40-yearold moth er-in-iaw But it's got past the laughing potnt for “this tough old ma: He's in jal now, grimly defiant of the law. He says he will stay til he dies before he will ender, For this last unfortunate mar riage with the .:-yearold girl has gone very wrong. For there was “THEN IT HAPPENED” Our Dally Discontinued Story.) “Baby, you are too near stove, ald the busy housew who was mixing mush for sup per Baby, you are too stove, Come away this she sald a few moments afi Baby, get down off that chair or you will pull the coffee pot over on you and scald yourself terrtbiy,” she said later. “When mother says anything she means it.” Evidently this bad alwa: impressed upon baby, for baby very deliberately grabbed at the oo pot and (The End.) FOR YOUR CORVENIENCE STORE OPEN SATURDAY Till 9 p. m. Retiring Sale A belated shipment of Guards has arrived and must disposed of same as the balance of our fireplace goods. These are iron and copper wire, ali Priced at cost to dispose of the tire shipment. First Avenue and Spring Street | been Spark sizes. THE STAR— | LEROY LANDERS. TUESDAY, DEC MBER 6, 1910. THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE # |After Quarrel With ‘A0-Year-Old-Mother-in-Law Man of 83 Fights to Keep Son From Wife of 21 STAR DUST Talking charity and doing char ity, In which class do you belong. pitt A Washington, D. C., parson din | located his jaw marrying Mise Wiadysiawa Lichadalejewskt to Joseph Chiopickl, What would he/ have done with our mystery story?) Doc Cook has confessed. fo would @ lot of others at two bits per word A Runtogether Limerick. An old stogle amoker named Can non, hurt the necks of the people he ran on. But the dems, will not fall to grab bis cout tall and tle a monstrous big can on. From 1910 to 2000 Baster will fall 20 times in March and 71 mes in April The telegraph companter of the country employ 30,000 persons, | Our Mystery Story. Kephlokigiopeletolagocssiral— (Conelnded tomorrow.) Little Commandments for Big Busin To Jobn D Thou shalt not steal.” A bluejay ts « crow If you! don’t believe it, look In the ency clopedia | “They Will Never Be Missed”—| Andy Carnegie} has croused the | . o1 times & baby—a bright Httle fellow past A FAMILIAR PHRASE Seetght to take| |S now, And grim, tough old Leroy just one more Landers ts going to fight for his trip across. baby to the last. derah Rern | Mrs, Landors—the Inst Mra. Lan hardt ts post-| dere—got a divorce = year ago in tively making | |Tacoma. The boy was awarded to her farewell her four weeks out of every five. | The father was to have him the | ifth week. | But Mra. Landers wont away with the boy for # visit to California| which lasted into months Whea she returned the old man got busy. | He hurried around and kidnaped | the boy and hid him safely away. | Landers was arrested and held till he would reveal the boy's! whereabouts, “You can hold me| till I'm dead,” he told the officers, | “Tve got that boy in a good home, and he is gotng to satay there | it my wi will agree to let these people adopt the boy, I'll tell where he la. But I won't let her keep him.” | And there it stands. Landers waa ortginally a ship carpenter, Several y * ago he | patented « logging jack which net ted him « nice royalty When bis left him, he charges, ahe took wonty-dollar gold ploces with In awarding the divorce to Mrs. Landers, the court decided that she must return $1,600 to ber hue band The old man bas a pleasant fire acre ranch on Vashon island Hat thie jail looks all right to he sald, looking around Sh Hodge's rooming house, | “Yes, the patter of the rainy ab] ways makes me #0 nervous I ean} hardly stand it. Papa laughd® at} me Papa is a standpatter, ten't lomes Since Retiring-Sale Began _ Since the beginning of our Closing Out Sale of our Retail Stock of Lighting Fixtures, Stoves, Hardware and Fireplace goods, we have sold Lighting Fixtures for 603 homes. stop advertising these goods, notwithstanding we have had both a day and night crew in the wiring room and have three extra day crews hang- ing the fixtures in the people’s homes We can handle your orders promptly now, and if your building is not ready for the Lighting Fixtures, such fixtures as you purchase will be marked with your name and held in our storeroom until you are ready for them. & Prices Culled Fire Screens Andirons, Basket Grates, Fi be are selling at abnormal 8. The stock must be so dui Balancing his books.” TEN EARS OF CORN jars re. place Goods (Tongs, Pokers, Shov. re. Id. in [In some instances these goods are marked below cost, and now, deed, Is an opportunity to trim your fireplace, en- in up tour of America. Jack Johnson haa suffered a nervoun collapse. Do you know that it fe against the Inwa of the United States for jan express company te carry “mall or mall matte ? And do you know)! that the law bas been violated for | 40 years and that the violation! | thereof cout the government! | 960,000 a day? } 1CnB GETTING Srwotnen Every pAY NET THEM $380 CIL BLUFFS, Ia 2 and Pierson of 2 City, In - a palr of mecha yoOune owws farmers. You O%f You sn. mer national hort! £ory be A cultural congress had a corn ox hibit here. The two Silver City men exhibited 10 earn of corn and after having realized $275 on them fn prizes. they sold the 10 | or at the rate of SSKINNEY A, NUFF, THE ViIL-) ' LAGE CUTAWAY. $105. Bt |/910.50 an ear f for Chandeliers FURNISHED. In fact, we were compelled to Our salesroom looks better today than it did the day we started the sale, as we have never in the past been able to show one-third of the stock car- ried in our wareroom. voree The fact that so many people have already taken advantage of this opportunity must be con clusive proof to you that the prices are very low and the fixtures first-class in every respect. There has never been a Chandelier sale like this in the history of Seattle From Our Other Departments From the Heater Stock Complete assortment of six popular pat terns In wood and coal Heaters to select from—all sizes in each patte to the following closing out prices $ 5.50 values for ., $10.00 values for .. $15.00 values for .... Come early and select your heater PORTABLE GAS AND ELEC. TRIC LAMPS and square effects other varied with glass dome effects. A large assortment of art shades— 8 in ronnd A suitable Christmas gift Prices marked to sell out LZ. C. MILES & PIPER COL"Spriny’ street" Push sfune, By Mall, out of elty—t nonth Wash, Seattle, , an necond-clags matter, “I don’t believe Reno, Nevada, ts such a wicked town,” “No? Why not?” : “Think of the wickedness in the towns that furnish the a § wen.” BARGAINS —IN— Christmas Pianos h and Organs —AT— Bush & Lane Piano Company —DURING— THIS WEEK To those people who are contem- plating the purchase of a piano for Christmas we suggest that you in- }) spect our stock of high grade pianos that we are offering at the figures givenbelow. These instruments have | all been used or are shopworn, but we warrant them to be absolutely in first class condition, written guar |} antee with all. Remember, that | with every one we give a stool, searf and free delivery. : Investigate our system of selling and you will appreciate the fact that | itis the best offered the public in Seattle, j PIANOS 1 Weber Piano ... 1 Iverson & Sons Piano . 1 Stedman Piano . ... 1 Brinkerhoff Piano. . . 1 Furlong Piano . . . 1 Thielin Piano . . . . 205.00) 1Wer. sk 1 Kohler & Campbell Piano 230.00 1 Bush & Lane Piano . . 335.0 iPlayer Piano . . . 475.0 1 Estey Piano . . . . 245.0 1 Kimball Piano . . . 230.0 ORGANS 1 Mason & Hamlin. . . 1 White & Wileox . . . = $31 150. EEcs $55.00 30.00