The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1911, Page 4

a *-- Money or Men? In its appeal to the supreme court of the United S' a against the initiative in Oregon, the Pacif elephone & Telegraph company gets right down to the quick to the livest spot in the rising controversy between Money fand Men. It pleads: “The DESPOTISM OF THE MULTITUDE is as ar AT and complete as the ABSOLUTISM OF A D » The majority of the electors of Oregon is “the multitude, and their will, expressed at the polls after full and free dis cussion, is “the despotism.” What kind of “despotism” does the telephone monopoly believe in? THE DESPOTISM OF MONEY! To what does it appeal to .maintain the despotism of money? To the DESPOTISM OF THE COURT—nine men, any five of whom may, according to theory of the tele monopoly, overrule and overthrow the solemnly ex- will of a great state. Tn a world of law, of ordered liberty, some power must gale. In the last analysis, all else must give way to one st preme interest What shall it be, money, courts or MEN—the interest of the few or the good of THE MANY? Our fathers fought this battle out in 1776 with reference to POLITICAL RIGHTS; we are now fighting it out with reference to PROPERTY RIGHTS. wailed before; it will prevail again. P, S—If the people of Oregon owned their public utili- Yes, as they ought to, there would be no case before the court We are putting ourselves to a great deal of trouble (and some danger) in order to give a few enterprising gentlemen a chance to own and operate things essential to the life of all, The The Cause of Poverty | of The Cause of Poverty | ‘They are having a lively discussion In New York about tho cause of gorerty in a city that ia accumulating so much wealth People are Seoicking their heads gravely and asking each other the explanation of this social phenomenon “The multitude pre . It's really a poser, too, The nearest they have been able to come to it, the cause of poverty fim New York is that a great many people are charging considerably less = their services are actually worth, and, at the same time, handing tandiords, grocers and butchers more than they can really afford Picens that way to us, too! ‘The only remedy they have been adle to think of, so far, ls more gen fa) and ample charity. Hut it strikes us that the poor of New York are geen ‘all the charity they can stand to thelr employers, land ee” verchars and A pantie utility compantes right now. 9 [300 Per Cent Beef Profit| Per Cent Beef [300 Per Cent Beef Profit| Ed C. Lasater, president of the Texas Cattle Raisers’ association, mays that 309 per cent profit Lene eye somewhere between the produc ‘and the consumers of beef; that prices paid producers are decreas Witlie prices extorted from ‘consuteers are increasing “He and his fellows, owning together some 9,000,000 head of cattle, ore to find out who gets those fat profits. fe violate no confidence tn ere that vo suspect the packers. “STRIKES, tivods, wars—the jumping pulse of a feverish world! o i o @ — OF TURKEY, be prayed to Allah! Had to—bis fleet was go small. AGE of man ts fixed at 750,000 years ° somotimes we feel nearly that 28 ourselves. EveRY unity io eppunes’ to ph until war is declared. But the mo- asnt “Call to colors” eee ong ccs “wp and at “em!” SOUTHERN California Methodists formally ask thelr general confer- fence to rescind the church prohibition against cards, theatres and @eacing. The action was bear 56 oe sign of the times. °o - ADMIRAL SCHLEY was one - the beloved of the plain people.! le had the popular end of the Santiago controversy, because he was) when the battle was fought. Sampson played In hard | Boned accntine authority gave him credit for planning and executing | oe } } of the Spanish fleet. Schiley’s name will live in the history With Style and Quality Fall time is time to think of furs. We suggest that you make a selec tion early while our stock Is com- plete. We will take care of your selection until such a time as it ie wanted, In buying fors you should week the security of a reliable estab- lishment. Let us be of assistance and advice to you. WEYL CAN'T YOU 467 UP ON BURNING THAT PAPER TRASH WAME MY wire'S THs 13. MY OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE 'vrrerTrrerrrererieeeeerereis se ° READ THIS ONE TO MOTHER Last summer John Henderson of Beatrice, Neb. was short of hetp at harvest time, He told his troubles to a waitress in a row taurant. ‘What do you pay?” she asked. ‘Three dolfars a day and board.” he replied. “Tl go and bring five other girls,” she sald. That was the beginning. This year 1,500 Nebraska giris are working in the harvest fields. They follow the harvester and shock the wheat as fast as it in delivered from the platform. Women seem able and willing to do most anything these diys—except housework. steeeeteeeteeees seeeeeteetenae® eee eeeereeeene tee ee eee eene [think independent.” —Kvery- body's Weekly dust to Please Him. Two suffragettes were met to- gether, and the one had a grievance against the other. “tam told,” she sald severely, “that you allew your husband to! carry a latch key. fe it possible’) “Yes,” answered the other, with| an indulgent smile, “I do let the} poor boy carry a lateh key, | must! admit, But it doesn't fit the door. I just let him carry it to humor| er keep: him. He likes to show ft to his ing ther friends, you know, and make them! pocket RS OE eelenlentplenlaet u an CUT-RATE. SPECIALS = And Still, A suffragetto May fight and fight And still look ander The bed at night. Birmingham Age-iHerald. Ciasping yoor own hands togeth- hem warmer than stici to some other fellow’ 50c size Kilmer’s Swamp Root 250 size Lane's Family Tea 50 size Murine Bye Tonte ... $1 seo Lambert's ideterine 50° size Mentholatum for burns . 2he size Munyon’s Remedios $1 size Voruna Sc size Antiphlo- Satine for 250 size Brandret! 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EASTERN Outfitting Co. “Seattle's Reliable Credit House’’ eee Regardless of cost, for a few days we will sell you our best FRESH CHURNED CREAMERY BUTTER at the un- heard-of price of 31 c ib. We want you all to know that we have the best butter in Seattle. Can you afford to miss this? Not more than three pounds to a purchaser and none to dealers at this price. Edgerly’s 1521 First Ave., at Entrance Sanitary Public Market EVA BOOTH ANOTHER JEANNE v1 D’ARC, LEADING GREAT ARMY OF PEACE © When Evangeline Booth was bern Into the evangelist family of that name inst of the Booth family of actors, the world lost a histri- onic ati it lost more than that, pertaps. For Eva Booth might have become a famous poet if she had not entirely devoted her great gifts and her time to the cause of the Balvation Army, the mighty organi- zation establisned by her father. Bhe might have ranked with the Il- lustrious musicians and composers of the day, For she is all that—a poet, « mu- sician, an artint, a dramatic 7 der, Tall, majentic, graceful, still Under 90, she is the type that might well have fitted into the role of Jeanne d'Are of a former day, None an hear her speak without recog- ftxing the genius in her, Though she has carried her work to many countries, though she bas spoken fn the stums of London and New York, and in the wilds of the Klondi! in the early days of the tush, there is not the slightest mas cullne trace in her voice, It’s the ppealing feminine that jes in the alr are ment on oe ae eee to a lost In the fos, Me and You. Pard, I'll tell you what we'll do You love me and I'll love you Heart to heart and hand tn h We will wander down the land Storms that threaten, suns that shino— AM things shared mine— AH the stars and all the flowers Only, last when they are Ours; Nothing comes to one alone, Sharing makes the world you ow: SI love you and you love me Then life will be what it should be. just yours and No one seems.as yet to ha preciated the bill-board advantages of the bald-hoads Hoosting your own ne bh more than knocking the other fel- low's justeian, as well of the eloquent orator, There in little of the “hallelujah” Their Destinatio: Child--Mother, where do autotate go when they go on a “joy rideT™ Mother—Moat of them to the how pital, my dear.Judge. that of « Dickens and « Kipling. It contain jo exactness of the former and the poetry of the latter, Wonderful Power She spoke on “The Songs of a City” at the Moore theatre y 4 day. And ap you listened to “weet volee you could see her piling books upon books into one great “Did your hat “plow omer “It waa not my hat; it belonged and fi had « prety eateh iT” My wife saw mo chasli Houston Post one gigantic pile. Not one nook or corner in the en Ure universe escaped that thorough brought Into one central place by that wonderful eloquence. You see. the books that have had much suo- through neveral editions, ana books that you never have heard of. And there you can see it as plainly as you can see the majestic speaker the largest circulation and bas gone, through more editions than any) other, It's the Bible. “Bome day I'll write the history | of religious songs,” some one told Miss Booth, But it cannot be/ done. That is the absolute im-| pression you would have gotten if you bad heard her. She spoke of operas, and composers, and mu-| siclans. “But who could write the history | fi of ‘Rock of Ages’?” sho exclaimed. | And, indeed, who could? You could) appreciate the utter futility of pay-| ing on tribute to the tears, and |Jo7. aad pathos, and laughter, and the blood, and the life, and the | jdeath, and the immortality with) hh Miss Booth clothed the song. | An actress? Porhaps Booth may not pride bh on! ha title, But an actress she ts, | & star, an artist, who by ond have | been a Maude Adama her path had been led toward t ie ioaciignee instead of the poor alleys, where fellow beings want for food and MORNING WREN You akan, WHL & DREAMSTICK? Bargain Week — Large bundle of wall paper, 50 rolls for 50e. SS EEnnnmneaememmnnt MUHL—219 Pike 6t. EVA BOOTH. 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