The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1910, Page 4

} 4 4 } { { i { } Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Wotered at Seattle Wash, po# © Ae second-class matter THE ACID TEST ON TAFT THIS TIME—. IS HE FOR PLUTOCRACY OR FREEDOM? President (then Becretary) Taft went Into Oklahoma and advised he state to re ite “freak” constitution, which is a very demo: | math document, and adopt one of the old-fashioned sort ’ | PileiielieMiaiisiaMMeMaiieta tell He was opposed to innovations In constitutions when those ‘ funovations make far more power to the voter ane policeman should be the Is he opposed to innovations in constitutions when those inno a “y bol of bedi eg vations make for more power to the corporations? See ee meee This question wil) be put to the test when the New Mexico con cease in We enforcement: o om» goes to him and to con for approval it the the law. If every law on the astonishing departure from the old st a n re statute of this state i than Oklahoma's, Qaly It departs in the other direction he bain d to the letter It shows us something of the sort of government which the anareny ht result “ aystem would give if It could, For the system was in control in New | There ts no better calling Mexico, Every concession to progress and Itberty made in that doc in life than the teaching of ument was made for the purpose of covering the trap the railways and other corporations were springing on the voters. It makes amendment of this constitution almost {mposalble to learn thet t far more There will be no “tinkering” with the bosses’ verdict as to what important to prevent crime New Mexico will want for all tim It takes a two ls vote of than to punish a criminal, both houses of the legislature to submit an amendment to the con- | Kind words got better re stitution, and then an affirmative vote in the election of 40 per cent of the total vote at the last general election pan ; Bannick—An Honest It's hard to get two-thirds of one house on any hard-fought olicoman. | meas it’s four times as hard to get two-thirds of two houses at | the same time; and it's eight times as hard to get 40 per cont of ee ee | the vote on any measure that {s cast at a general election. The —e | absence of those who don't care counts against the amendment! You wouldn't expect this lan New Mexico for a while, No direct legis. | Sage exactly from a pol That ought to hold lation ther until all these obstacles are overcome. The rest of this constitution is as bad as this ant!.amendm jextract from Dr. Matthews clause. The corporations had the convention, and they fixed the |mons | But Bannick is am unusual »mmon people of New Mextco for generations—fixed them good | Policeman. Common peo New D for Hie Name ta Claude, st will Taft say about this constitution, so different from |, Claude sounds like a funny name at will Taft say . for a copper. But there's nothing | nstitution of the United States guarantees every state a | Claude-like about Bannick when he oS 1 pon eee |rets Into action. When he got or Is the New Mexican constitution that of a government Hean in form? Probably | in form if not to fi Probably [the restricted district 4 Taft will approve it. Probably he should—for the was as | through it like one of those vacuum] orderly and legal a p of villainy as was ever ted, and |Cleaner — things There «lumpy it stands as the expression of the wishes Taft | wasn't any district when he got was no backward when Oklahoma we ption [through They still talk about ft of what is pr n of r and {ft low Yeslor wa he is still mix acts P coking admis Also Bannick is the youngest man | sion, here's his chan for freedom. to reach a captaincy in Seattle If he doesn't sp the world be justified in taking ft as | he's only 33 1 and the first col lege man proven that he believes in pluto cracy, but not in freedom? It is the acid test on Taft in 3 to make both ends meet in competition repud- | de THE STAR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914 THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE © #0¢2 280° 38 Better to Prevent Crime Than to Catch Criminals, Says Captain Claude Bannick, Honest Policeman rr, Mail, out of city--30 cents for one month gy conta f MIKE—THEY LOVE HIM 59> 4 yor tHe Love or mike PRANCER AND DASHER DON" UPSaT me HERE! Th STAR DUST Why should the spirit of Morgan | be vain? ' —| ‘That's the subject of thie quatratn law-abiding eltizenship, “A polleeman’s first duty ts sults than the billy.” eee eee eee ee eee eee eee eS ee ee would you? Sounds more Ii ‘* ago t re a few y to Ket the job, And Ban - - w up from the bo ke this kK gr It happened made “ then capt Bannick, ade a sergeant, then captain | Nothing could be further from the CAPT. CLAUDE G. BANNICK ae ancnea t~. | When he's dead and under the sod z | Plerp’ll He as #tili as any clod = Blection returns in England atraggle in for a week or ‘more a Week of wnalloyed joy for the ” | |man who likes to stay down town G w kins bas quit J. P Morgan, carrying along a couple th dozen millions. Perk says he's go 5 ing into the uplift. Bew up your ' pockets, feller women, has Taft mentioned the gro bill to Mra. Taft cery yet? < = ] Speaking of retrenching on serub-| The best way to make money with a pen is to raise hogs Ly, Well, it isn't our fault, We told you to do your shopping early Doc Cook having confessed, we expect to hear from Ballinger any day Gov. A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota took his wife's name at marriage his own nam om being all fired too at To give a neat ur ste up-to-date appear une a few Short, thick is an indication Your sister's a long time mak ing her appearance,” suggested the | favored caller | “Well, she'd be a ie 6h! 6Upeeee ceeuueeres Cu sight if she came down without making it,” said loute ttle brother who is a tall. ‘slender, blonde young When I started, id the ecap-| ruth. man, with a flexible ppearance ike | (aia, I thought I d like to cap “Some of the most valuable men . = — oa | = red steel, came out here in| ture law break It wasn't long.) im the police department are tho: MA Meme your a \. 19 “fa course In football and | however, b 1 that I was | whose names seldom appear on the fF THE Aso PATRIOTIC) mathematics under Yost and other|*rong. While ¢ capture and} book of arre but who through akira bey yt The public should not hastily assume that Secretary Ballinger professors at Ann Arbor. punishment of crimina fa very their exercise of d plomacy and < ciety mere © oyster slide right off the shell has been vindicated by the report of the congressional committee. He didn’t land a job right away.| necessary, the most important judgment keep their beats clear of el ‘oto the mouth. That, as maay of He has been w ashed on one side, but biackened on the ot Nor for some ©. He read that | Work the prevention af crime | crime. ay ‘hem will tosist, is the one way te the committee standing seven to five in his favor they were bolding examinations for | and the tnattiling Into the public It has been my experience that ya at an oyster. No matter bow yum He ts entitled to be kno fter as the Plald Statesman | policemen one day and tried tt, He{mind of RESPROT FOR THE kind words prox tre differ with them—and thelr gins The report of the majority of the committee establishes the | needed the money. He passed both | LAW n th y. The Ide % at home do differ—they are gp lowest standard of official conduct ever set up in the United States. | physical and mental exa easily ‘The popular belief that the | ‘ust have his tempor the Baltimore elite | *baken in thetr opinion, The president appoin a man who had been the private attorney of a | walked a beat for two years, was Meeman'’s job is a fat snap. all times. | suppose a> fonal oysters on the gang of greedy coal grabbers secretary of interior to pass ss re ry ma » down in him bold _S _ 1. It’s no uscommorn The Japs have now set out to upon claims | ° Satara an nism for restraint P . oa winter months to see some|4iscover a pole. ‘This shows tat Of course the coat Iand was not actually turned over to the | THEN IT HAPPENED | Are You Weil informed? eo It every day. Take the|| (LEmonnoe eran ior town's leading bankers, law.| thelr imitativensns te a dies syndicate, That was impossible because of the outery started by | This game hesteitnn ibivest ® policoman in a riot, No|| \GiTAP weuLie CHILO a ad. scletanel: oo stand. 4% intellectual attainment. Glavis, supported by Pinchot, and finally taken up by an aggressive | (Our Dally Discontinued Story.) » wings “ what the provocation, ther r ‘ pose pte tos Poco lereerarearcnuperend and indignant public opinion ; ‘ y Y ing. A good maay readers find king hope that the a! ~ counter A‘. We refuse to take old Dr. Cai I Neither were the po sites withdrawn by Garfield and re | m2 that they don't know aa much os w me out is ms Mire into our forgiving arms until be stored by Ballinger, actually turned over to private corporations. The | they thought they did. Maybe we! “it should net be ee, The stand on halt | cates ie eee eee opi ame not stand for it, and the adminis n did not dare | have only half an idea of what 479 of citizenship should be high oO, = 4 f the dignified wg and the policeman shoul al The Ballinger case is not ended yot, It remains to be threshed these are highest type.” no: a egraae | Oe > S te Bn Out fn congress, which has the power to recommend the secretary's A clipper built ship From which it b aa or ‘ Even ff congress does neither, the protest against putting the Bulls and bears tn Wall at duty at headquarters ele! See lana pores A gyflawe Dyin gir" Tepresentatives of vast predatory interests in charge of public prop KR. 8. V. P.” on Invitations a day te Meo ' ms ipo Be copped ee reget ee erty, and making such representatives the arbiters between private A “selling race read trash 7 ve amey aiomes and Skinney 6" + poi the Vitiage jer Pe es an lett moke eet Se claims and public rights, has not been thrown away oe as sr carina caspereety nhc No future president will dare to challenge public opinion by cased ing 60-cent eggs in 60-cent but " ; rn rs rs? an rs a 3 = ter : . . 0 . . . . . 5 ° : + fe THE TIPLESS HOTEL Loe Angeles, Cal. charead faber WHI EE IT IN OUR AD, IT’S SO ; with tiowing up old Pappy Otl« — “the only New York hotel or apartment house in which tpping ts , i gtanee tial: “alas : absolutely forbidden.” tree h to labo ro and ‘ Furthermore this hotel makes a spe: ot “selentific home tate ts can tana iat Ge ae eooking”—whatever that may be aw hams outing tm the ‘ How this hotel manage wy. “4 : tee A beck With other hotels that depend on the general public to pay the | ‘Wages of their Nuokies, is a mystery. Perhaps it is the charm of the “scientific home cooking.” Perhaps tipping merely “fort | @en.” That is to say, per over whom the manag t i fhent has no control, is forbidden to take such ti that choose to do violence to the law of the house Getting better service than those who abide by the law At any rate, however the miracle is accompiished—the tip! hotel seems to be holding its own Here's hoping that it will prosper to bec on the way of hotel progress to change come a great voice thundering in a tip-cursed n to tip—the empl forthcomip« a flaming beacon |‘ metaphor, to be- wilderness OBSERVATIONS YOUNG Waldorf Astor squeezed The empire is saved into the British parliament °o 0 © LOUISIANA judge s a widow's kiss at $500, which is cheap in these days of hig cost of living oh BLIND men sometir Such a one startled a Cleveland fudge by roaring that th m was full of pink allegators. LOOKS as though t ome tax amendment would ca three-fourt the states, now say. Ine wave gave it an unexpected st ° 0 6 THEY tried to scare Arizona democrats away from the recall by quoting Joe Bailey. Didn't work. Arizona knows the kind of a democrat Balley ts ne WHEE! Los Angeles taxpayers are still putting up $204 Monthly to guard Gen, Otis’ house. Otis ought to be able to cancel his insurance policies. © © o SECRETARY DICKINSON went all the way to Man a bucket of whitewash on t friar lands seandal things be a to throw Can't these done by wireless? So: .@ ENGLISH women actually hugged in the streets of London. Blood is a r than w and we may enlist in the navy ourselves ° Oo GOVERNOR of Arizona that titution is “the w ° Let's nee, that governor was appointed Taft. Say, constitution must be a pea Let ‘er go! oa MORGAN gave $100,000 to the cause of world-wide church unity, and not one w sid @bout “tainted money But 5 haps some of it's going to get around to our church PRO-BALLINGER cx @ remarks that not an acre of Alaska coal land. nted to the Guggen heims. You bet there t ‘ and Pinchot. — IMPORTATIONS of h wels, autos, fine furs and different had Aldrich put his re 1 upward instead of on stock ings BRYAN telle the ats their first dut to 1 of the house so that comm I be « 1} , their y TAFT and the » nearer agreer on perm nent tariff comr an any ge That is to say, Ta agrees with th igure mn that subject They don't partic larly agree with bim. wera “7 oo ‘etur Angr pat t 00d a 4 ht but “7 id t ak the successful candidate's head becau didn’t know wh elected. He got awa scisamad ae; HOUSE of governors Is all but for direct prima Draper of Massachusetts alone oppo ® he ts “afraid rich men will rule.” He ts a multimiiiionaire boots last November. But it’s nice of him the rich no was licked out of his to be so frightened at j wi h the tread of red | for Continentals, The | prominent | them. mobbed the organ What kind of a joint is rnia, anyway? and resounded with the | street jah Redcoats. ers mes have changed since ‘76. The Redcoats were out cunning re rather eager to find them, at that The Continentals had selected a knob where they could fo their hiding in full view of a He loves best who loves firat sometim cloud | Those break tt body eager to find them r, John Oh, yes; the Redcoats found those wh (THE END) THE BEST CHRISTMAS MONEY CAN PRESENT THAT BUY ih IS A HONOGRAPH THE O PRESEN’ WILL GIVE JOY, PLEASURE AND HA EVERLASTING. THE GREATES' y RTAINER THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN EDISON VICTOR Machines Machines $12.50 $15.00 $22.00 $27.00 $30.00 $35.00 $45.00 $55.00 $65.00 That Money $68.00 $75.00 Can Buy $100.00 VICTROLAS AND AMBEROLAS $75, $100, $125, $150, $200, $250 $10.00 $17.50 $25.00 $32.50 $40.00 $46.00 $50.00 $60.00 AsLowas ) IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT ( AsLowas $1.00 |} US IN PRICES OR TERMS} $1.00 Down ANY OLD PLACE IN THE U. §. 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