The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1912, Page 4

4 THE STAR—FRIDAY,(: OCTOBER 11, 1912. SEATTLE STAR “ain $100 National Piano Mfrs., 823 Third Av., Near Merion, One Block Below Orpheum Theatre and Opp. Central ba ed wire mews sebvice « i “ iaiwra 4 Mockhiser Spellbinding Campaign as an Advance Agente: inne Male 9400. BY FRED SCHAEFFER It’s bad enough to feed poor heathen Chinese with con- traband opium, but when an assistant weigher of customs at San Francisco sells ‘em SO opium tins filled with axle grease for $1,000, it's stepping right over the “limit. The Postoffice Appropriation Act passed by the last con- ss just before it adjourned included a requirement that pub fishers of newspapers file with the Postoffice Department twice @ year a sworn statement of the names of the owners of the papers and the names of stock, bond and other security holders owning more than 1 per cent. of the total; also the average number of copies sold or distributed to paid subscribers dur ing the preceding six months provisions of a@ further prov for which money or other valuable conside promised shall be plainly marked “advertisement not done a fine of from $50 to Many newspaper publisher Y unconstitutional, taking the ublic’s busi: Botaing its bonds or other sec So far as this newspaper i mo complaint about this law, law bars a paper from the mails. ion that all editorial or other reading matter Failure to comply with these There is ion is paid or li this is $500 may be imposed s are complaining that this law ground that it is none of the ss who owns a newspaper or controls it, through urities. s concerned, we not only make but are in thorough sympathy with the proposition that a newspaper is a public institution and that the public has a right to know who owns or controls it, Even if we had any doubt as to the constitutionality of this law, we should make no effort While this particular law to evade obeying its provisions. is crude, and to some extent ambiguous, and while we doubt whether it will prevent venal of unscrupulous publishers from fooling the public, it is a step in the right direction and we have no fears that it will lead to an unjust censorship « 4 newspapers. Taft Will Be Third Samuel G. Blythe, the not ed writer, after making an im- partial investigation of the presidential situation in every state except the south for the Satur just one definite and positive in third place. day Evening Post, has reached conclusion, That is, Taft will Blythe believes and his investigation undoubtedly shows that Wilson has at present a d Blythe apparently is afraid t Roosevelt. istinct lead over Roosevelt, but » say that Wilson will defeat He summarizes the Roosevelt strength impartially, al most brutally, and he concludes with the statement that Roosevelt will poll a tremendous big vote. Other political writers generally agree with @re sure of only one thing—Taft’s certain defeat. mowhere except in this state has a chance. tlythe. They In fact, is anybody claiming that Taft The standpat papers here, while holding out their false hopes of a Taft success, are doing it only in a desperate effort to save the s tandpat state ticket. Observations WOODROW WILSON is one Southerner the Yankees tmade run.—-Columbia State. HEREAFTER nobody is to be allowed after midnight on Broadway. This will enable the policemen to go home early. Washington Post. TROOPS of Montenegro ate battle yesterday at Ditchitch the Turks’ train, metaphorical! “and Turkey fought a desper- And the Montenegrins ran y speaking, into the Ditch, AT LAST “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp the Blood” can breathe more easily Cleveland Leader. APPARENTLY nothing can stay the increasing concen- tration of wealth. An aged Connecticut millionaire has mar- wed @ milliner—Cleveland Leader. NOVELIST GERTRUDE that Mr. Roosevelt has taken orders from ATHERTON publicly declares Pierp Morgan. Pause, Colonel, pause! No gentleman would admit a lady to the Ananias club, WASHINGTON found in the street. ber of the New York force— =: lice have a $1,000,000 check that was t may have been dropped by a mem- Philadelphia North American. IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL BaAltor The Star: You invite dis- tesion on “Who shall marry?” J. @ Williamson has been amply an- Swered by H. BE. Hudson. Here ts my answer to Dr. Matthews, he @ays, “Men should not be allowed to Marry unless sound In mind and , for the welfare of their off- and society.” I have no fault find with that statement, But I the doctor makes the com- mistake of most ministers. He with and condemns effects it getting down to the cause. are rightly told, in the churches, if people lived according to the of God, nature and health, would be few sick or insane. tracing up the cause, the minis- ’ That {s also true. So the has been preaching Individ- ness and regeneration of | for 2,000 years, And what has been the resuit? True, there; hhave been and are a few truly Chris- @ian individuals. Such are usually ed foolish and impractical. example: ehuroh has never produced a single ~ capo nation, Why? Condi-! mold the hearts of individuals jones. Christianity to triumph and %~ all fit to marry, conditions be Christian, Would you throw a child in a mud puddle and blame it for being dirty? JOHN HULSMAN. Port Stanley, Wash. Péltor Seattle Start In your ts- of October 5, one H. BE. Hudson es the belief that I am “flirt- with the impossible’ when | suggest that men should be re- quired to show that they have @arned and saved—while working ag manual labor—$1,000 before are permitted to marry. In contending that the Mr. “No body” pictured in The Star, would be about the only one to marry un- der the law which I suggested, I think that Mr. Hudson forgets that there is no human law which could fn any way hamper .Cuptid in the ing of his arrows; and, once let @ son of man—be he rich or poor—receive 4 love dart in a vital he will do anything but climb in order to win the lady of his shoice--unless he hag a “yel low streak,” and the law which I Tolstoy. But the | suggest would enable the young jlady to learn BEFORE MARRIAGE ‘if her lover h. “yellow streak” — if he was a “quitter” and afraid to |firt @ ttle with the seeming im- I know that the working le (collectively) ‘flirt with the Saran j sible” in trying to maintain a civ. ilixed standard of living—or even to collect an existence—and save for old age on their present aver- age wage; and it would not take long for the rich man's son to dis- cover this after his Cupid had picked bim off’ and he was In the harness, racing for the one-thou- sand-dollar goal and HIS ANGEL. |Lean picture him going home some Saturday with his hands cramped shape of the shovel handle and covered with blisters. He would probably button-hole his father and go at him something like this: “Say, Dad; It's a phys feal impossibility for me to pay my expenses and gave any money out of the wages I am receiving. Hore }f have only $15 for my six-days | work. According to our arrange- ments, I must «aie you $7 for my room and board. That leaves me only $8 to carry me over to another {bey day. I want to hear Melba and attend @ ball next week, and I need some new shoes and a pair of leath- er gloves, But that isn’t the worst: will be laid off next Saturday and work for the winter, besides, there are a dozen men for every all- winter job. Why, if I save any- thing {t will be necessary for me to deprive myself of all enjoyment and many of the most common comforts,” The rich “Dad” might be curtous enough to inquire how the other young men managed, or he might tell his son to solve the problem in his own way. It does not matter just how the rich man and his son would thresh things out between themselves, The point is that such a law as I have suggested—rigidly enforced—would bring forcefully to the attention of all citizens the need of radical industrial reforms; it would draw a sharp dividing line between the real men and the imi- tation men, and, as stated in my |former letter, it would insure to \the coming generations the right kind of parents. J. 8. WILLIAMSON. The gang that I am working with| ‘ there is @ general closing-down of|' wactonay | RODE THAT WAY THE WHOL DOTTE, EXPECTING EVERY M Baa). v This has been a strenuous day for me, with every one a crowded hour. My advance ting te drawing to a close, I've worked like a beaver, getting halle and re ceptions for Mockhiser for con- gress. So that he will find every- thing In appleple order when he arrives at the various towns to do his spellbinding. It will not be my fault if Mockhiser doesn't beat Biimley by ten thousand I was able to arrange Silo Siding and Stover for the tenth before noon, and then went on to Orping- ton At first the local politic 1 was some kind of a They became suspicious ne thought nco artist becaune | couldn't tell them what Mockhiser|to White Wyandott ¢\ery minute to be my laat on earth How could it 1 seon Mockhiser, I'm Finally 1 looked like, never even only his advance agent. got them convinced by |the jrode that way the whole distance showing | Just barely E DISTANCE TO WHITE WYAN INUTE TO BE MY LAST ON EA RTH Wyandotte. Now, I had to get to White Wyandotte to make arrangements I simply could not stay in Orping ton over night, Perish the thought! —~enpecially after sizing up the only hotel. I went down to the depot te soo if there would be @ freight i could take. There wasn't. Nothing would come by but a through express which sometimes hesitated but did not take local passengers. I in gered to see what it would do, but although it paused, they did not even open the doors, “Well, here's {where | take 4 chance for the bosor I was delayed at Orpington, |and glory of Mockhiser,” I thought to myse nd swung myself onto vestibule, There I clung. 1 expecting ev altve when I wan «till the tein halted there, and-! dropped off with nough strength ‘left to them my credentials from Mr. Roan, | crawl up town. Mockhiser'’s manager, and then proved to be fs th Th ath, Mockhiser’s date, had te a counter attraction in the shape of | a street fair, 1 got round that by making a deal to combine the at tractions, Then I found that all this had delayed me so that I'd missed the local train for White —— "KIND OF HIM They are now in the hands of their friends — % Teacher—Well, Earlie Slack, you tre late again this morning. When I bave a few momenta to spare 1 shall chastise you severely. Eartle Slack—Please don't hurry yourself, teacher, I can walt. Adivee of an Expert. Georga Washington Johnson stood before an avenging judge and realized that all the evidence was against him, It was the same old charge. “But,” sald the Judge with a per plexed frown, “I don’t understand, Johnson, how {it was possible for you to steal those chickens when they were roosting it under the owner's window, and there were two vicious bulldogs in the yard.” “It wouldn't @o you no good, Jedge, foh me to ‘splain how J caught 'em,” replied the successful culprit, “You couldn't do it if you tried 40 times, an’ you might git a hide full of buckshot de ve'y fust time you put your laig ober de fence. De best way for you to do is to buy your ohickens in de mar- ket."--Popular Magazine. Technical. Mrs. Jax-—What's the difference | Didn't we supply you with;omesiast between a kleptomaniac and the garden variety of robber? Jax—Merely a difference in the price of their lawyers.—Boston Post. By the way, Mockhiser ought ‘to .| be rousing them up at Razorback this evening. | wonder if he found every detail of my arrangements to Dis satisfaction, No messages from headquarters have reached mo at all. I'm dying to know ff T'm doing as well as expected, (Continued) See HE ESCAPED IN TIME “There has been a conflagration here,” said Guyer, looking at a tall butlding. “How do you know?" asked Dyer. “1 saw the fire escape.” According to Rules. Tweente Ann—-Ob, mum, I've falien downstairs and broken me heck. Her Mistress-—Well, whatever u've broken will be deducted m your wages.—London Sketch. JOSH WISE SAYS: Whang's gasoline pre: Pp When th’ edition wuz printed he found he owed fer 128 miles, which is more than th’ entire plant an’| good will is worth.” Apply at the Zoo. a Lady—1 am looking for a gover. ness for my children. Manager of Intelligence Office— woek? Lady—Yes. Manager—Well, madam, accord- ing to her report you don’t nded a) governess. You need a lion tamer. 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