The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1911, Page 4

Siete ane “THE SEATTLE STAR Piones Private Rachange Main 9400 and Independent 441. of United Prone, Paplighed Daily by The Star Publishing 66. tat Seattle, Wash, poxtattice w id-clang matter 7S) conte per month bp to six months %. i out of elt} Bix montha One year The “Smart of smart New York is becoming quite aroused “by the gravity of the situation between capital and labor” as disclosed by the McNamara matter, Mrs, Belmont, Mrs, Alexander, Pierpont Morgan's daughter and others of the $o-called moneyed class have held meetings and listened to resolutions of this tenor E “That our country is in danger of becoming a house divided against itself.” Suppose that what Detective Burns, the excited district ttorn at Los Angeles and Indianapolis and the vengeful Diets of labor-crushing organizations announce in respect of * a nation-wide conspiracy of dynamiters is true, Suppose that, * gs these partics claim, there is an organization, SUPPORTED By * THE MONEY OF THOUSANDS OF WAGh-EARN- RS, for the purpose of blowing up shops and their workmen What does it mean? Does it mean merely an organization criminals willing to risk hanging simply to gratify blood ? If it does not mean this, what else can it mean than the inning of revolution, A WAR OF CLASS AGAINST LASS, a condition that the houses of Morgan, Belmont, Alex- ander, Gould and Vanderbilt, the privileged moneyed class, may well deprecate? Maybe some of the mesdames of this moneyed dass have read about that time, 120 vears ago, when a mone: class tore off the heads of gentlewomen, with their naked} a ds, in the streets of Paris, merely because the victims were _ aristocrats. Note the attitude of government and society while t se scems to be dividing against itself. Grand juries a bling at a dozen points, prosecutors threatening indictments yy the newspaper pageful, good citizens interviewed right and ft to denounce the confessedly guilty. AND NOT A WORD “AS TO THE UNDERLYING CAUSE. No lesson in it at all to those wlio greedily grab the loot of special advantage t Tf thousands of employed workmen are donating nioney to ‘ miting, there is the house already dividing itself against hd, sooner or later, ONE PART OF IT MUST GO WN. In our glorious country and age, the division should if at all, bloodlessly, humanely, intelligently, for, more erful and thorough than bomb, pistol or torch, there is to man, and soon must be to every woman, the ballot. Bloody revolution cannot come in our republic until the ple have LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE BALLOT. For Treason, we look upon that deal with the McNamaras on eve of election, and for the purpose of influencing the elec- as A HIGH CRIME AGAINST THE LIFE OF THE EPUBLIC. It was the Morgan-Gould-Vanderbilt-Rockefel- -Carnegie-Harriman CLASS using murderers to DEFEAT N INTELLIGENT, DISPASSIONATE EXPRESSION OF E POPULAR WILL. It was assassination of all motives of patriotism and justice, and only cowardice and the most dan- gerous apathy prevent its universal denunciation as such. Class consciousness! Well may the moneyed class get to- | gether and pass deprecatory resolutions! EARTH will cease its revolutions by the year 5,000, says Prof. Baver. No comfort in that for Madero. °o 0 @ NEXT year will be leap year, when those London suffragettes can do the proposing. Watch the parliament wilt! o © o ECONOMY’S the government watchword in Japan. There's a (Growing suspicion that she may 9 have to bite Russia's fingers in China. o 0° PERKINS, late Morgan's man Friday, says that an era of still more Jininy\ Caesar! they must be going to i ae as o o © : IN TEN years Uncle Sam's steel production has jumped from signe to 26,000,000 tons, much of the jumping being tu faror of Andy Carnegie and his “boys.” o ° ° LINCOLN STEFFENS says that that McNamara climax resulted i just one more kick for the under dog—labor. And It looks a little if Lincoln had innocently held the dog while it was being kicked, ee ee) MRS. J. LESLIE CARTER sat still at Los Angeles, while 170,000 Volts of static electricity went through her. It merely made her hair up. Fellows, it's hopeless trying to move ‘em when they can ‘Stand 170,000 volts of busy electricity. SEES, Article BY EDMUND NORTON. = we carefully study the single tax we will learn that it fs claimed No, 2, First—A fiscal reform, or a way for the govern: ment to get money when it wants it. Second—A soclal reform, or a way to 80 change social conditions that we may have a better state of society. of principles and getting possession of legislative) bodies, so that Fourth—It becomes a subject of constructive statesmanship, where its principles may be formu-| lated Into concrete laws that wil! be carried out by the executive branches of government. Now, suppose we just examine ft as a fiscal re- form, or a way to get money for the government. ‘of whether it is right or wrong, morally, we will take | ques’ ‘up later. ‘The single tax proposes to abolish every kind of tax in existence except one tax on the VALUE of land. What does this mean? It means that we would wipe out every form of tax in existence—tariff “taxes, license taxes, personal property taxes, improvement taxes, poll faxes, etc., and so forth. This sounds shocking and you might just @s well be shocked enough to wake up and take a look at it, for it is coming beyond a doubt. If all these taxes were put out of commission, you can readily see) that there would be nothing left to tax but laud. So we might have a land tax, or @ land-value tax. What is the difference? | A land tax might be taken equally from units of land—say an nere; just as we take a poll tax from @ man just because he is a man. If he bas but $2, we take it. If he has $800,000,000, we take only two of them from him. Some people think they think this is all right. We don’t, Say, we had a land tax of $2 per acre. That would, on land worth $2 per acre, take the total value of the land every year, like the _.. on the man. On the $16,500,000 acre on the corner of ‘all #t., New York city, it would take only the same ‘That looks about as square as the poll tax law, does Now, the Georgian single tax on the value of land alone, exclusive of improvements, would take, if the tax was 1 cent on the dollar—it ‘would take 2 cents from the $2 iand and 16,500,000 cents from the Wall) st. Jand. That is the difference between a land tax and a land yalue| tax. It seems enough of a difference for even a farmer to notice. So, the single tax fs not a tax on land, but a tax on the value of ian ad land value ry other kind of tax in the world would be Se SEEING THINGS A man in a very deep state of intoxication was shouting and kick-| ing most vigorously at a lamppost, when the noise attracted a naarby policeman. ‘What's the matter,” he asked the energetic one “Oh, never mind, mishter. Thash all right,” know she'sh home all right—I shee a light upstairs’ Magazine. the reply. “I —-Kvery body's A PANTOMIME CODE James T. Fields, of the firm of Tickner & Fields, wore a flowing beard, as many men of his time did. He was scrupulous in the care of it, and, in the main, managed it at the table with skill His wife was always on watch for him, too, when they went out to dinner together, They had a pantomime code and a few expressive eae senals, Should a bread crumb catch in the Floss, Mrs. Fields “My dear, there’a @ gazelle in the gard Chicago Evening Post. SEVERING OLD TIES Willie was sent ont by his mather to the woodshel t some stove wood out of @ pile of old rallroad ties, Oe Going outdoors shortly after, she found the youth sitting on the sow-horse, with hig head bo in hie hands, She asked her pre hy he bina ed pea, at his work. ‘ar mother,” he replied with much feeling, “ 80 very hard, to sever old tiew,”—Liyplncott's Magasing, "9 "8" MODEST REQUEST “Pat was an eccentric request you made of dat lady when yer asked her to Jacket wid trimmings. yer mean by ‘timmings,’ “Why, a pipe, a pi baceo a box of matches. What did pal’ AN UNKNOWN CELEBRITY Vice President Sherman went to Between acts the party, which oo coupled one of the boxes, went out toto the lobby. One of the friends of the vice president spoke to the doorkeeper. ‘Bee that man over there—that with the florid facet” he vieo proaident of the United Sates,” ‘You don't say!” that's the vice president. re in box A, Sond back word that the vice president is in that box and have the comedian kid him a little.” Sure, sald the doorkeeper. Fine id Now, let's aeo—what's his name? Oh, yes, 1 remember now. Paulrbanks.” — Saturday Evening Post, THE REASON County Commisstoner Hart ts not SHE WASN'T SKEPTICAL “Mebby youse wouldn't berlie ma’am, but I come good stock.” oh, I don't doubt it. Anyone thar tt has never been rat median "George Wash ington was the first American to make the fag FAMOUS.” Second Comedian—"Yos, George Col as the tiret make it PAY. Cook & Lorena. Floor Walker (to “Why don't you get married, Mu mie?” Cash-girl—“Say, you! The privt lege of handing my envelope over but Third—tt is a matter of practical politics. involv.) 10 some ae ing the making of parties’ platforms, the formulating \90°#"'t appeal to yours truly— jnix Maggie Pepper.” Jones (to star boarder) was that crash | heard room early this morning’ Star Be jer——"That crash? “What in Oh, THE STAR-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 | WHY NOT SMILE AWHILE? | This Seattle Boy Used to Chase Goats Up SYMPAT “De millionaires ‘troables, pard, give yer a smokin’ time dey have dodging taxes and) bpoenaes.” “Yes; they have al SOME GOOD STORIES OF THE DAY joker, but on the da: ! | man. Mr. Hart happer |through the office clork. young had on face said I understand he wae go on the street.” missioner would eat the curren trie wires,” will let me go just ¢ your hat” an easy mark for the professional| Jobnay, perched on the edge of EXPECTING TOO MUCH do you account for here? Predatory Pete—I le poverty. load of beer.” Jones—"A load of beor house Star Boarder—"Y to load."—Cook & Lorenz Mra. Nage—"I can" cash-girl)—“| your own fault that weolding. Why, eve been married we've ing. moon? word to yout” Husband—"Do 1 remember? You! bet your life I do. it your my life."—#hroede & Chapelle. Mr. Peevish—If some women on Look at de bard do dodgips As he passed one of the men she asked him if he | mother recalled hin promise and be the cireas parade, }with a serious expression on her | “They took all the animals into | the parade except the giraffe, and | “I wonder why?" replied the com “They were afraid explained woman —Portiand Oregonian. “Mamma,” said Johnny, won't ask for anything to eat” “All right,” said the mother, Do you rémember our honey NY have detr “Well, I ashamed to own It.” mort as hard a Walidogs wish I did. y of the ctrous;a very big chal of the kitehen, out ned to pase “There of the county | the house. and | added Magazine. not allowed to ] | whieh ts off the elec: | out.” the young “1 don't own tt, ma'am, The admonisting face But what's that to me,” toif (JUST WHAT HE WOULD Like “Please gimme a nickel, ma'am?” “Didn't 1 see you going out of « saloon & moment ago” “1 guess mebby you did, ma reckon you are not 1 only . became restless as parade he became the easy victim [savory odors came from the region & New York theatre some time ago. | of an innocent appearing young wo- At lant he blurted lot of ple and cake in of hin Bucens ANOTHER MATCH On the death of bis first wife « Uterary celebrity of the South erect e4 an elaborate memorial to her, on inseribed the sentiment the airatte | “The light of my life has gone ‘The late Bishop Wilmer of Ala bama pointed ont the memorial to a friend, who read the words and then as didn't “Yee You see, hie on "Get zine. Magistrate—tf your parents were uv purty|poor but honest, as you say, how your presence } inhertted only | dat give it to me in my and wouldn't Mrs. Inet) - lintroa: ol was the Peeviah (ber Yea, and if some voed to THEMSE 't help it. Ym always|ed of the acquaintance r xinge we've | ime. been quarrel | } Peastmist | t90~ Optimiat Il never forget about replied the bishop, he struck another mateh, as it were.”—Harper's Maga. chance at| men were | | LV ES, when It's|{n company, they would be agham: Gus Will | 4h, he's no good. Do you remember I sat a/folks are no good, and his ancestors every Saturday whole hour and dida’t «peak one! were thieves, and «0 ia he one, he'® Up against tt ‘on 4 tombstone says good things aA man when he's down.— But he married again, /“croo!” world, to be a real actor. “he 80 KIND OF HIM om “An' why did ye leave dat loaf of bread om de freight?” “Didn't ye hear me tell de lady dat} would make it go as far as possible?” muldn't dress #0} put oB auch | His (interrupting — bim)— Look bere, my man, you shouldn't that was somebody delivering a'ly knew what they look like’ and' Harry Beresford and Company “Bert Noobrood- er says he wouldn't own a nickelodeon even ef he got it fer gift, becauz t i) What Struck Him. The Hibernian method of state ment may be paradoxical, but tt often hits the truth exactly on the head. The following story is told of an old private who was wounded at the charge of Kassassin At one time after the war he was describing the part he played tn the battle—of the long wait with tense nerves, the advance, the trot, the gallop, the charge; how a rider two yards from bim fell dead in the saddle; how the men set their teeth to win “And what struck you most when all was over and you looked back on it?” asked a hearer. The old soldier paused for re- flection, then solemnly and with the utmost simplicity, sald: “What struck me mo sir, was the bullets that me."—~Tit-Bits. where he could- n't see th’ ters.” pic foretbly, missed Untamed. “What makes you so sure that was a wild turkey?” “The way it acted when I was trying to carve it.”—Washington Star. The First Thing. The schoolmaster said: “You are very slow, Georgie. Now, if you don’t answer the next question in ten minutes, I'll give you a taste of this cane, If you put forty eggs into an incubator and nine-tenthy Jot them hatched, what would you|ing those goggles and sprinkling The master had four when Georgie said “Well, firat thing, chickens about, I'd get a brick and| @ string and drown our cat.’ Bits. A Doubtful Tra one smal! colored bo “Deed 1 tun’,” rep! “I done dat las’ year.” “Didn't OY Santa come around?” “Maybe 80. done pass me up an t in's to my big brother. ton Evening Star Row," IF Rock’! LON cworRTH Auto-Suggestion, “f geo that old Bi motor goggles all the a car?” asked Wilks. “No,” said Jiggers case of autosuggenti you g’ineter hang you stock in’s up on Christmas Rve? T TWe FUNNY MAN NO SoowmR Took THE CENTER OF THE STACE THAN A VOICE CALLED OUT FROM THE.SECOND 1S WORTH MANY-MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, WHAT Is Nick WHATS BURNING? his bandkerebief with gasoline In-/ he thinks he com |Yeye the idea that he has one.” only counted stead of cologn« with all them Harper's Weekly Tit Reeth hhh * New Work for the Audubons. & \* birds |* allve to get * women's bats. * ® Houston Post. nsaction. asked y ied the other. MAYBE— if he did he! you never heard this o; wi day and now, tray, in desert plac red-wine moor, again in dying, the call— Robert 1 And a hero lover he, EFELLER ° But how about # medal lineas: | conductors, nkinsop wears | time, Hag he Ants carry times their own weight “It's merely | lon, By weay-| that heavy, “So are some husbands.”— | He classifies herote men That all the world may bee. But, Andy, you have missed |. We hate to question, sir are plucked #| © feathers for # * * * SOR meme eee Ree ee -| Blows the wind today, and the sun and rain are flying— Blows the wind on the moors to- Where about the graves of the mar tyre the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how! umbent tombs of the dead Standing stones on the vacant Hille of sheep, and the homes of the silent, vanished races, And the wind austere aud pure! Be It granted me to behold you Hills of home! and I hear again Hear above the graves of the mar- tyrs the peo-wees crying, And hear no more at all. is Stevenson, Carnegie, he is a Scotchman bold, one For the poor down-trod umpire? The acid test for true gentleman Belng polite to street car is from 40 to 50 Some men carry loads that seem Second Avenue; For 21 days and nights it rained 1t poured. It came down in drops / your fist | n when Harry O'Connor | made up his mind th couldn't \do any worse if he jactor, It was on the banke of the Columbia, and Harry came down there in spink and span uniform, a proud member of the National |Guard of Washington, Company 0. A problem of state devolved upon the guardsmen, The it Gorm: monwealth of Washington and the great commonwealth of Oregon had exchanged uitimatums, arbitration epieties, and soended the shrill note of war, The pulsating ques tion wae: “To fish or not to fish,” or something like that it was about fishing on the Columbia river, anyhow, Camps were pitched on both siden of the river, sentinels were appointed, and fires were built Things were pretty warm. Thea me the rain for three weeks raight and the, war atmosphere! oled. Those brand new uniforms | soon looked Ike relics of Coxey'’s army. And you realty can't blame those guardsmen if there was no} actual fighting, eon you? Think of the dilapidated uniforms So, when Marry O'Connor got back to that dear old Seattle town, he had fully made up his mind chat his future was before the foot lights, He thought it all out on the Columbia river, when he tried to pound his ear on a wet blanket, and used a couple of gallons of | rain for a pillow O'Connor went right after the honor. 's been about 15 years now. Me bid » fond farewell to the goats he used to chase off Second avenue when he first came to town right after the fire. Me cast a tact [9 look at the old schoolhouse, where he used to play tag with Billy In gils, Col, Case, and a few other ti tled ones of a later day. He gazed longingly at the Third Ave. theater box office, where he presided for a| tittle while, and sald good-bye to) the stack of lithographs, the gis- tribution of which he had oft super. intended. And he went out Into the cold, Now He’s “Villain” in Piay He played in stock in California HARRY O'CONNOR and in Seattle, too. Te played WIth | prec cn re cme guecneme eae ee Kate Pursell in the old Pike St *#ae# eek kk hethkh teehee eeeheeee theatre in 1698. Me was a member & of one of the first stock companies # HIS LEGACY ® organized by Russel and Drew. And | Did your uncle leave you anything in bis will?” t ince that time, he has from ‘time| * “Only a ttle responsibility,” returned to Beattie as a member of | w “What do you mean?” * real big compan He was seen “He left me an equity in a house he was buying on the in & here with Prederick Warde, An- drew Robson, and Chartes 0. Her man. Then he tried a little bit of vaudeville, and now hi ck again in Seattle in Myrtle Vane’ company at the Lots. And old-time friends say he's the best “VitlLyun” that’s ever demand. ed “de papers.” stallment plan, and I've got to pay $30 a month for twenty years # Detrolt Pree Press. * * [| errr tert hth hth hhh THE ORIGINAL SEXTET “I wonder who really made up that original sextet we hear o@ h about?” “The original sextet was composed of Helen of Troy, Sappho, patra, Mme. Du Barry, Lucretia Borgia and Delllah They were trouble makers,”"~-Kansas Clty Journal. i muel dustly Punished. “Why bave you discharged Rich arde? Do you think because he has reached the age of 45 that he is no longer useful?” “No, that isn't {t. When 1 was coming Jato the city on my car the other morning be got in front of it ata crossing and was so slow that in order to avoid running him down I bad to jose nearly balf » minute.” —Chicago Record-Herald A CRUEL QUESTION Skeezick’s car turned turtle, and as he sat gioomily contem; situation, Uncle Silas reined in his nag and stopped outside. “Turned over, hain't she?” he observed. “Yep,” sald Skeezick, shortly, ‘ant to set?” asked Uncle Silas. “Yes,” anid Skeezick. “I'll sell out cheap.” “What's your upset price?” asked Uncle Silas with a grin—tig> per's Weekly. CONSOLATION “So you are the father of twin: pose, “Yes; they look just like me, too.” rich’ “Oh, well, I wouldn't worry, Some children, when they get older, “Gracious, not They're too rich| don’t look at all the way they did when they were bables.”"—-Birmiag- that"—Chicago Tribune. bam Age Herald, The Burden of tt. “The Muntoburna belong, I sup to what you call the ‘idle lane.” Christmas Belles andj Christmas Beaux Are thinking—ones of the others—about that “kind remembrance” which marks ij] Christmas time as the most joyous of all the year. And there's nothing more enduring—-more appropriate—than something nice in leather, or an cmbbreliedl This store has been so long established and is so well known for the gen-%% uineness of its goods, as well as for the real bargains offered for the holiday season, that we know what to expect in the line of trade, and are fully prepared! THIS LIST WILL HELP YOU In selecting a present for father, mother, sister, brother, wife, son or daughter, ° sweetheart or iriend. We issue merchandise certificates for any amount, re deemable in merchandise at either store at full cash value. Let those whom you wish to remember make their own selections. Just send them our mer- chandise certificates, Gifts for Mea Traveling Bags Fitted Bags and Suit Cases oilet Sets in Cases Manicure } 5 ‘Gifts for Matron or Maid ] Hand Bags Hat Trunks and Suit Cases Jewel Boxes Tourists’ Medicine C; Medicine Cases Drinking Cups Flasks Manicure Sets Umbrell: Traveling Portfolios Writing Portfolios Dosk Sets Safety Razor Sets Traveling Photo and Picture Frames Skirt Hangers Sewing Sets Scissors Sets Ebony Brushes and Mirrors Playing Cards and Cases rames Umbrellas and Canes Thermos Botties Desk Clocks Jewel and Stick Pin Cases Whisk Broom Holders Vienna Horned Ink Stands Seals, Stamp Cases, Etc. Stationery Sets Coat Hangers Desk Pads Music Rolls Address Books Chatelaine Bags Collar, Handkerchief and Tie Cases Eto., Ete., Etc. Ete., Etc., Eto. iWarero beTrunks We have them in all sizes and styles— superb beauties in looks, and built for service 44 Buy Early if There Is Any Engraving to Be Done. We'll Look After It for You. Stoelting’s Trunk Stor Both Stores Open Evenings Till Christmas es