The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1912, Page 4

SN RON Ao ratte . » of the greatest orators and wits of all time, was a dunce in school, ue ‘world upon some of the men whom alma ‘ater blessed with her Labor Day is an important holiday, mainly because it ts significant of the increasing spirit of democracy. It means that, more and more, the men and women who do the world’s work are demanding and gaining their right to participate In the glory of the achievement. It is also a striking sign of the in ereasing power and independence of working men and women The day is coming when these toilers will claim in full their rightful share of the profits so long monopolized by their partners in business, the capitalists. We stiggest to the laboring men and women who marched today, as well as the larger army of salaried workers who are Mot organized, that this is an appropriate time to “take stock" of the conditions of the people of our land who labor for wages As a class we have made great progress, intellectually, in the past quarter of a century, thanks to public schools, inex pensive and plentiful literature, and free speech. As a class, despite the barbarous industrial conditions, we are probably better off physically than our fathers, because of medical and surgical scientific discoveries and the popular in telligence regarding the proper treatment of the human body. Are we in. better shape materially? Considering the mar velous development of the means to human comfort, the God- en resources of our magic country, and the efforts that we we made to take wealth from the ground and supply the Countless needs of humanity, we have NOT as a class made a ve-pound from ttle to any point in the ibiinse' seoree vf gp tage ‘Tacomas ratio, according to dis) tances, down to 9 cents, as shown in a rate schedule to become opera | tive under the new parcels post law, effective January 1.—News item. | A year ago The Star showed how it cost more to send a) package by express than it did to_send the same package by; parcels post to England. : | The session of congress just adjourned has accomplished | one big thing, anyway: [t has driven the opening wedge for the people in their fight against the extortionate express companies and their effort to have parcels carried at as reasonable a rate as letters are now carried. | True, the new rates won't put the express monopolies out} of business, but a reduction in rates may be forced | True again, the new government rates do not go into} effect until after next Christmas season, byt then the people al- ‘ways expect needed reforms to be postponed until the last pos- sible moment. es 3 But the great big fact has been established that the people} an in time successiully buck Wanamaker’s four famous rea- sons against a parcels post—the American, Adams, Wells- Fargo and United States express companies. All of which is) cause for a lot of healthy shouting on the part of the people of Seattle and elsewhere on this gladsome Labor day. hool and Life | The records of a Russian university show that Leo Tolstoi asa student was very dull and lacking in application, The plac- ing of this record in the pedagogic exhibition at Moscow was “opposed on the ground that it would encourage pupils to indo- . The fact is not so very unusual as pedagogues would have us believe. U.S. Grant barely passed his West Point examina- tion ; Daniel Webster was at the foot of his class; Sheridan, one What becomes ofthe brilliant men of the schools and col- leges—the studious fellows who always stood at the heads of their classes and promised most masterful achievement when they should get a whack at'life? ; Asa on we don’t hear much about them afterwards. ‘Their brilliancy seems to have gone off like a skyrocket in the commencement thesis and only a stick lands silently somewhere on the earth to tell that they have ever been. It’s queer. But it’s so. When two or three schools or college mates get together ten, fifteen or twenty years after graduation, and review the ess made by the various members of their class, they are $ure to experience surprise at the fantastic pranks played by the richest gifts. The qualities that promise so brilliantly in school are not always the qualities that count most in the world. The “dig” who crammed constantly and made his poor brain an over-|* stocked lumber yard seldom is the man who rises in actual life It is very queer. But thus it runs. How vast and irrecon- eilable is the difference between school and life! Observations THE HIGH cost of living at Newport: $100,000 for one Fish ball—New York World. WE SHALL have to put an extra “o” in Moses. The Colonel says his fight began on Mt. Sinai—Columbia State. IF FATHER NOAH had known T. R. was going to stand at Armageddon he would not have let the bull moose into the ark.—Houston Chronicle. MRS. BELMONT now has “Votes, for Women” printed on her checks. If the checks are satisfactory she'll find the sen- timent promptly endorsed.—St. Louis Republic. IF GOVERNOR JOHNSON gets the support of all the Hirams in Vermont, no other vice presidential candidate will have much show there—~New York Evening Mail. CLEAN YOUR LIVER AND 30 FEET OF BOWELS WITH “SYRUP OF FIGS” More Effective Than Calomel, Castor Oil or Salts; Gently | Cleanses the Stomach, Liver and Bowels Without Nausea or Griping. Children Dearly Love It, You know when your liver is bad, when your bowels are sluggish, You feel 4 certain dullness and depres- sion, perhaps the approach of a headache, your stomach gets sour and full of gas, tongue coated, breath foul, or you have indigestio You say, “I am bilfous or constip: 4 and | must take something to- Most people shrink from a physic —they think of castor ofl, calomel, Salts or cathartle pills. It's different with Syrup of Figs. Its effect ix as that of fruit; of eat- ing coarse food; of exercise, Take @ teaspoonful of delicious Syrup of Figs tonight and you won't realize} you have taken anything untl! morn- ing, when all the clogged up waste matter, sour bile and constipation Dolsons move on and out of your system, without gripe, nausea or weakness. Nothing else cleanses and regulates your sour, disordered stomach, torpid liver and thirty fe of waste-clogged bowels like gentle. | effective Syrup of Figs. Don't think you are drugging yourself, Be. ing composed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatics, it cannot cause injury. If your child is cross, sick and feverish, or its littie stotuach sour, tongue coated, give Syrup of Pigs at once, It’s really all that is need ed to make children well and happy again. They dearly love its pleas ant taste, Ask your druggist for the full name, “Syrup of Figs and Wilxir of | Senna,” and look on the label for the name—California Wig Syrup Company, That, and that only, is THE STAR—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1912. abor Day Stock-Taking: Whole Scheme of Political Life Is Changing success of our lives, and the sooner we recognize this fact ind act solidly to claim our falr share of material wealth, the bet- ter iv will be for all mankind. In the past 15 years, while men have been fairly succedsfal in organizing unions and associations for defensive measur against the minority in control of business, the greedy cw ot finance have invented new schemes by which to keegit majority of American citizens from their just share of the profi from labor. : The readers of The Star are familiar with the common forms of trust exploitation of the whole public, of jobbery in politics, of the gigantic and unweildy fortunes that a few men have built up for their own shame, dissatisfaction or destrue- tion, incidentally corrupting American ideals, The people who suffer from the increased cost of living, because their incomes have not kept pace with their enlarged family expenses, know from bitter, every-day experiences that materially they are not as well off as were their fathers and grandfathers, If they think for themselves they know positively that while they may earn 10 or 15 per cent higher wages than five years ago, the food they eat, clothes they wear, houses they live in, amusements they indulge in—all that they consume and have—costs from 20 to 100 per cent more, and, therefore, they are poorer They know that this is the new system of the merciless men who contro! the sources of the nation’s wealth. Nothing Serious THE ONE FLAW, “Yeu, ahe quarreled with "Toa “I suppose you are engaged to the|and returned all his presenta! || duke?" | “And be herat” “Well, nearly.” “Brery one of them. Why, “What's the hitch? Awaiting his|even went so far as to send her! father’s consent? haifa doxen boxes of face powder! he can't marry without aj with « note expinining that since ‘orable report from his | he first met her he must have taken! “EVEN AS YOU AND L” Ty Cobb, the baseball striker, was discussing the recent walterg strike with a Philadelphia reporter “The motive of it he sald. “Well, there was a dialogue, the other day, between a walter and his boss that explains the motive prety clearty. “The boss had just returned from Europe, and he was sstoni at the way provisions had increased tn price during his brief ats Butter, beef, milk, potat it was the same story all along the line, “"My goodness, Baptiste,’ he growled, “have you noticed how every-| thing's gone up? Ah, no, monsieur, not everything,’ Baptiste answered. “ ‘Not everything? said the boss. “Well, what hasn't? "My salary, monsieur,’ said Baptiste.”——New York Tribune. HOW MARIE DIVIDED THE CANDY. When the uncle of a couple of Brooklyn youngsters last called at the household whereof they form a part, he brought with him some pieces of candy, which were given to the Iittle girl to divide with her brother, Later the uncle summoned this child to the ving room and asked: “Marie, when you divided those five pleces of candy with your brother, did you give him two and a half pieces?” “No, sir,” said Marie, “I saw they weren't going to come out even, #0 | ate one before I began to divide.”—Lippincott’s Magazine, RRKRRRRERRRRERRERRARRE * * JACK LONDON AS A MUSICIAN Jack London, when on a recent visit to New York, was in- ® troduced to a musician in one of the popular Broadway cafes. * “Tam a musictan in a small way," sald London. “My musical ® talent was once the means of saving my tife.” * very much interested, * a a he asked. * * “There was a «reat fleod in the town of my boyhood,” ox- * plained London When the water struck our house, my father ® got on a bed and floated with the stream until he was rescued.” And you?” queried the musician “Weil,” smiled London, “I accompanied him on the piano,”— & Judge, ee ee A SUGGESTION. The costumer came forward to attend to the nervous old beau who was mopping his bald and shining poll with a big silk handkerchief. “And what can I do for you?” he asked. “T want a little help in the way of a suggestion,” sald the old fel- low. “I intend going to the French students’ masquerade ball tonight, and I want a distinctly original costame—something I may be sure no one el#e will wear. What would you suggest?" The costumer looked him over attentively, bestowing special notice on the gleaming knob. “Well, I tell you,” he said then, thoughtfully; “why don't you sagar your head and go as a pill?"—Lippincott’s Magazine. eeeeeee® ss. saee DROPPED IN ENGLAND. Mr. Hiram Jones had just returned from a personally conducted tour of Burope. “L suppose,” commented a friend, “that when you were in — you did as the English do and dropped your h’s?™ “No,” moodily responded the returned traveler; “I didn't, 1 did, as the Americana do—I dropped my V's and X's." | Then he slowly meandered down to the bank to see if he coulda't the mortgage extended.—Lippincott's Magazine. " { “Well, you see, one evening it rained, and so we sat In the “Year” “Well, ever since that we—oh, | don't know, but don't you thi r theatres are an awful bore?”—Cornell Widow. ” tk ~~ KEEPING HIS WORD. “How ia it that Rufus never takes you to the theatre any ap 4 partor) | } i | AGAINST FEARFUL ODO! She—My husband promised me that I should never hear a harsh word from him in all our married life, and I never have, He—H'm! How long have you] He—But, , 1 haven't told been married? you that my brother is a poet the genuine. Refuse any other fig syrup substitute with contempt, Sho-—Let me see, Bhe-—-Well, even that fact won't and four hours, change my opinion of you, Just two days They are not fooled by the pretended causes of this brutal high-cost-of-living cheat—stories of the shortage on the vast laing of the fertile west, the cheapness of gold, the greed of the farmer, the “excessive profits” of the retailer, the “extrava- gance” of the common people, overtaxing natural supply, and all such silly guff. The people who READ and THINK know that the increased cost of living, while other causes may figure slightly, is mainly attributable to the accursed predatory trusts, holding upwards of $25,000,000,000 of watered stock—thin as air, cheap as blue sky, mere printed slips of paper—on which LABOR MUST EARN IN ANNUAL DIVIDENDS some thing like a billion and three-quarters of dollars. Watered stock has two purposes (1) to permit the Morgans to grab vast unearned shares in industry and (2) to shield big profits. By covering their profits capitalists are able to tell their workmen they “can’t afford” to pay higher wages, give shorter hours, etc. Thus does labor carry the burden of watered stock with out hope of compensation or even fair recognition of its achieve ments in making fine profits from the real investments of capital, This scandalous big business scheme, and the amazing high tariff fraud now in operation, the latter protecting the capital ists, NOT THE WORKERS, and depriving the consuming public from buying in foreign markets when trust exactions are unbearable, are the true causes of the high cost of living No man can say what human wretchedness, despair, de MeKee Rankin, who is playing land affilcted, but stern old man, in |Magda at the Metropolitan this week, has to aseure little makeup for the part. The only thing he ae sures is the alr of palzied feeble ness, of which he has not a particle in real life, regardiess of the fact |that he wae 68 years old last Feb- ‘ruary and hae been appearing con- tinuously on the stage for the past 51 years, In bis stamina and vim as well jaa in bie acting, Mr. Rankin is truly the “Grand Old Man” of the stage. His power fairly bubbles to the | ce and enthralis tn hin dramat- fo scones with Mins Margaret Drew, fersh, young and beautiful, whois as & charming May morning to the| dark and grizzled December after- noon of the veteran actor | Rankin ts truly the dean of the | American stage, and in bis mor: jthan half century of treading th | boards he has appeared {n hundreds of roles, and so wonderful fs bis/| voles, his knowledge of “how to get | anything across the footlights,” his | SUCH A PRETENSE. the silitest over her 6)". RANKIN IS THE “GRAND OLD MAN” OF THE woman | ever knew.” “What has she done now?” | “Why, when she heard one of | those mechanical pianos playing Silver Threads Among the Gold’ | she asked Tommy Bloteh ff tt wasn't | |that mach home on his coat.” ja new song.” Most Ing OSH A\/1SE. 2 “During th’ absence of th’ editor of th’ eysport Weekly Whang a fly fell in hie inketand an’ then walked across a sheet of h copy paper. The printer found it, an’ thinkin’ it was somethin’ th’ editor writ set it up inter a long editorial on th’ Bull Moose party an’ other probleme of th’ day.” A Sure Sign. “You don't like corn on the cob?" “Not very much, but how do you know?" “You eat it so gracefully.”"—De- trolt Free Press, SREP E EEE EEE EEE * * * Difficult Lesson. * * Motormaniac—-What do you * *® think {s the most difficult thing * * to learn about an automobile? * *® Frankenstein—To keop from *& ® talking about it all the time-—— # »% Toledo Blade. * RRR RERERR RK RHER Maternal Frigidity. “1 know | keep late hours, mom- Pa he repentant young man, “but you've told me many a time that | was the ‘star’ of your existence, and so——~” “Not now, Percival,” interrupted the austere old lady, looking at him ‘over her spectacles; “you're my mid- night son.”— York Tribune. GOOD NEWS. _ age of aay | dramatic demeanor, that every char: | acter he plays adds a leaf to his laurel wreath of honor. The dean of the American stage is & marvel in the number of stars he has gisoovered, developed and made to shine with brilliance be fore the public. Mr. Rankin considers O'Neti his greatest prodigy, He found her in California in the days of the old Alcazar, and took her un- dor his sheltering wing and made of her one of the moat brilliant and successful actresacs this country has ever produced. Almost the same thing is true of Biknche Bates, who was also taken from a minor place in the Alcazar company by Rankin to tho highest place on the American stage. As a developer of stars, he stands supreme, without a model or a) shadow. Robert Hilliard and Wil-/ Nance 1 mestic unhappiness and death can be marked against this ac- cursed trust conspiracy during the past five or ten years. However dark and unsatisfactory present material cond tions affecting the majority of the working people may be, we venture to declare that the future—perhaps the immediate fu- ture—is bright. The change will come through politics. We believe this not because we have. unbounded faith in the power of any man or set of men to correct conditions, but because the American people are beginning to put into more practical ug the knowledge they have gained in this wonderful age of popu. lar education. They are no longer easily fooled. They strongly feel that they must act together for themselves if they are to have justice. Statesmen are springing up who are willing to fight for common rights and a return to the principles of direet democe racy, The whole scheme of political life is changing to con- form to the awakened and enlightened public mind. The re- publican party is on the rocks because its corrupt and antl quated leaders have failed to sense the new order of things, The vital issues of the very important campaign we are now ntering, concern the material well being of the original pro- ducers and ultimate consumers of the country, All this is proof of an approaching readjustment of the sys em which governs the distribution of wealth, We may be ooled in the men now before us as candidates, but we are not wled by these positive signs of a fast changing order. STAGE; READ THIS AND SEE IF YOU DON’T AG [of @ custom that has since become lan every day affair American compani: 10 show in London and | other English cities, | Rankin looks the part of the “Grand Old Man” of the stage | White of hair and mustache, wel | rounded, graceful, tgnition, of oak |derful voice, he has everything @ jmake him what he is. | . | Prayed For. | Parishioner (to locum tenens, | who, « few Sundays previous, was janked to pray for Lucy Gray)—Yer needn't pray for Lucy Gray no more, parson, | Locum Tenens—Ah! and fs the poor soul dead, then? Parishioner—Oh, no, sir; nothing ‘lke that; she won by over two lengths—it were a fine race-— Sketch. Nice for the Guest. Subbubs had taken Chumpleigh home to dine. Everything went well | | until they were seated at the dinner - | table, when Willle Subbubs remark. ed, “Why, pa, this is roast beef.” “Well,” said bis father, “what of ar" fre l2 I beard you tell ma at | fast that you were te | bring @ mutton-head nome. soar 8 evening.”—Boston Tram Helping the Cause, She-—I'm almost baked. I have been shut up in a close, stuffy room for two hours. He—What was the occasion of that? She—A meeting of our Fresh Air Society.—Lippincott's Magazine. Just a Little Scuffie, it was that Rankin got together » company Na vabew atin terrible fight going of stellar actors in “The Danites.” |°". They included W. E. Sheridan, lead |ing xo’ prevent a corporation gee ing man, E. M. Holland, Cora Tan-| trom crowding # thousand to invade with an Ameri- can company and the first with the ton Lackaye owe their rise in power and popularity to McKee Rankin. Another honor is placed at the there. to beat down ti English prejudice against anything door of the veteran actor. He was|American, and once again Rankin the firgt man who had the somata ner and others of beloved memory. eat The reerit vk into hie pocket."—Detroit Free few performanc It took but a| Press Motorcycles are to be adopted for the use of officers in the govern y |had made good and was the pioneer’ ment forest reserves in California. GREETINGS 72" GOMPERS A LABOR DAY MESSAGE TO AMERICAN WORKINGMEN BY SAMUEL GOMPERS. (President of the American Federation of Labor.) Most of our national holidays are associated | with crises in our country’s history, with deeds of men who decided great questions. To unite ia honoring their work and in contemplation | of their patriotiam means quickening of devotion to country, the nurturing of emotions of incalcu- lable value. Many of these celebrations are con nected »t:a the unusual, but one concerns Itself po wartly with the things of every-day life—Labor day. The emotions which le deepest are those associated with the common things of daily liv- inj he common life we share with our fellow- men. Those things whioh are so intimately {nter- woven with our existence that we gan scarcely tell where self begins and they cease are gen- erally valued crudely. To assign them their true value requires that we step aside from our egotistic viewpoint and regard these familiar elements ex- ternally, thereby to appreciate how essential is each minutest part to the whole of Ife, that im- portance is not absolute but relative, Labor day serves this function for organized labor, In innumerable ways devotion to princi- ples and organizations is revived—by the inter course of kindred spirits, the taking stock of achievements, the big, wordless inspiration and feeliug of power that grows as comrades march shoulder to shoulder and feel that they are typi- fying the common purpose, the common cause of t workshop and the uplift of humanity, It is a day that leaves the workman with a deeper appreciation of what bis union has done for him, a keener realization of the necessity of maintain- ing the organization and more conscientiously per- forming duties that repetition has made seem com- RRR KKH “Bobby, what was the preacher's text?” “Something about it being * * * Does Sound That Way. * * por da a It a day that reveals again the truth—that nothing touching human ex can be COMMONPLACE. si ae But the influences from the celebration do not stop with the organized workers. The day car ries messages to the unorganized tollers and to the general public. To the former its signif- |] cance arises from contrasts which serve as @ to their pride and ambition. The public is forded an illustration im concrete form of the Strength of the movemént and the principles for which it stands, Intellectual and emotional forces are most elu sive of measurement, yet It te certain that even the thoughtless, viewing the ranks of strong, earn- est men, marching onward with banners or high, | cannot but register some impression that will have its bearing in making up that intangible j] something called public opinion, To the opem |] minded citizens there drifts in a new realization of the great social force at work that the people may share opportunities equally with | mankind, in order that social justice Tt is a sacred trust you have, cxpeabind of labor, this bearing and lifting of the burden of the poor. Ours is a high calling that needs true, hohest, able men and women, to whom men count, but none too muel :|SICK HEADACHE, TONGUE COATED? IT’S YOUR LIVER! CASCARETS SURE | cooking school.” * * * ‘* easier for a camel to go through * * the Iowa needle thin for a*® * rich man to go to heaven.”— * * Chicago Tribune, * * * * RRR EK EKER EK His Business. Father—My daughter tells me you have all kinds of money, Suitor—Yes, sir, Father—May I ask what business is? | “Suitor—I'm a coin collector.— Judge, your Hope for Him Yet. Young Lawyer—1 haven't lost a case yet, Friend—-Oh, you'll get a client some day,—Life. “There is one thing that I have kept from you.” Explaining. “Tell me the worst.” “I can’t find any trace of the “I fatled to get a diploma at the| operation I want to see about in this book.” “Maybe that's because somebody has cut out its appendix.” “Come to my arms, dear one; I Jove you more. than ever.” You're bilious! You have a throb-, to harsh physics that irritate and bing sensation in your head, a bad|injure. Remember, that your sour, |taste in your mouth, your eyes hurt, | disordered stomach, lazy liver |your skin is yellow with dark rings|clogged bowels can be quickly under your eyes, your lips are| cleansed and regulated by morning parched, No wonder you feel ugly,| with gentle, thorough Cascarets; & mean and ill-tempered, Your system /10-cent box will keep your is full of bile and constipated waste|clear and make you fool ¢ |not properly passed off, and what/and bully for months, Get Cascarel® you need is a cleaning up inside.| now—wake up refreshed—feel Ike Don’t continue being a billous, con-|doing a good day's work— stipated nuisance to yourself and | yourself pleasant and useful. Cl those who love you, and don’t resortiup! Cheer up! CANDY CATHARTIC 10 CENT BOXES -ANY DRUG STORE ALSO 25 & 5O CENT BOXE: - WORK WHILE You SLELE