The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1912, Page 4

seer spear eee q er SOF TELLING THE TR With this issue of The Star we begin a task from which any investigator might shrink. We begin drawing aside the veil which has hid’ an industrial horror from the eyes of the American people. It is not a task which we have welcomed, for it depresses every reader to the heart—the things we tell today, and shall tell in succeed- ing issues of this serial story of oppression and peonage. We should be glad if we could put the duty aside, in the comforting thought that whatever evils exist in the canning business, time will cure. But we cannot do this. We know that time will not cure it. ss Oppression of this sort grows worse wi time. It grows by what it feeds on. As profits pile up, the hearts of those who profit are hard- ened by their dividends, as was Pharaoh's of old by the profits made from the labor of the chil- of Israel! F aaaene but exposure will cure the evils— and therefore, we shall unshrinkingly tell the truth. Not all canneries in America tolerate H ABO we owe this duty of ¢ The canned fruits is second not even to sumers and producers. important. be purified if the ple, accept betterment such cost. The housewife, as the achievement of a wintry season. We must dispel thi cerned. Where There’s So Much Heat the Hague| Is a Poor Icebox ho initiated The Hague peace tribunal Sut the czar didn’t invent the notion. forth the idea of a perma- negrin and Greek had sucked milk. The rustling papers of up and went to ashes in flar Tt was the ezar w This was i? 1899, ae . eremy Bentham pr = oat “court in the 18th centu James vee oer it a hundred years after. David udley Field pushee a. in America, Dr. Goldschmidt helped in Germany, Sir Edmund Hornby advocated it in England, aided by Sir The idea was an old one, but the czar put it across, | And then came Andrew Carnegie and built a palace for) the court. Andrew specializes in buildings. He would rather | build a library and have it barren of books, than to buy} books and economize in brick and stone. — | Similarly, Andrew seems to have built a peace palace which hasn't a single bit of peace on its shelves. Well, perhaps we have been expecting too much of the|f nai ge ye peace tribunal, Perhaps it can stop war only when the | MAY wamee D o'clock Friday even- jes really don’t want to fight. It is a useful sort Of | ing Bethesda (0.) News. , and has settled several rows. When the parties yearn to settle, bit don’t like backing down, there is no better way! than to arbitrate at The Hague. It decided the controversy with Mexico over the Pious eae Pe a er course we never should have fought about that t settled) the case of Great Britain, Germany and Italy against the| Gott ae < o bo Castro government in Venezucla—but there was never much jf = 4 it a point to chance of war there. It decided a wrangle about house taxes |), bear about in Japan, in which ns! — Cg, oimyon <A “ - sy is with the Island Empire. m when the French} i allowed certain dhows on the Sea of Oman and the Red Pik igen oe pe Bg oy Boe sea to fly the hie flag, The Hague tribunal settled the | country. ta 1910 ae. put controversy about that. } 6,500,000 skins on In none of these cases was war very probable. The} ts under “ beagiam: while the partics cooled Off.| 4. two doren hens, assorted las nod work, too. and sexes. Apply Box 30, Herald Bat wl the blood of a people rises against immemorial office. — Advertisement fn Leth foes. The Hague tribunal is like a Carnegie library with-|>*i¢se (Can Herald. out books—a shell. Divs Pee, The Balkan war flamed into explosion before The EE rm eee en thay that will tribunal jurists could dust off their seats for a session. The cost $70,000,000, reason “ate ea lies rcpt fact that 7g parties to the war had, ea hated each other centuries. The Turks were still in-| waders. They were still barbarians. Bulgar, Serb, But when the time come the peace palace may become Mop = Where's the Water Wagon? There will be a meeting of the Cc. T. U, at the home of Mrs. Jie Ambrose Friday evening. All come and bring one All wishing to go on the Our idea of something for noth ing is Thomas F. Ryan's $460,000 contribution to the democratic party, The Japanese government's rail roads received $22,746.49 from Monte-| freight hauled in 1911. vv. AL ° Pa at LA a’ _} Dr.PRICE'S | “v"Baking Powder Has a dietetic value greatly beyond the conception of anyone who has not used it. It will make your food of a delicious taste, | a moist and keeping quality, and a diges- tibility not to be obtained from other baking powders or leavening agents. But more important than alf else, Dr. Price’s Baking Powder, being a pure, cream of tar- tae powder, carries only healthful qualities to the food—no alum, no lime phosphate. It is noticeable that the advertisements of the low priced (10c., 15c., 20c., 25c. per pound) ; nating powders give no information as to ingredients. The fact that such powders are made from alum is stubbornly concealed, their proprietors going so far as to issue prohibitory contracts against exposure in the newspapers. Is this because the alum people know that pub- licity would stop their business? Of course no prudent housekeeper would use an article of food in which she learned there had been concealed an unhealthful ingredient. wv Nai eyw'v, di =p,° (Wur ae a rn in _ a Ig Bi a, _unitinin where they are inhuman. t the food supplies of the nation to remain large- ly based on white slavery, disease, child exploi- tation and shame. We cannot, as civilized peo- is something that can be SE niereenemearets SS such conditions; that point we make emphatic. But so many violate humanity and decency that xposure. and vegetables of com- merce make up a larger and larger part of our daily food. The discovery of canning esses the discovery of the re- frigeration of meats and eggs in value to con- They are enormously And for that reason these industries’ must are vile, and humanized It will not do for of our food supply at she thinks of canned goods, may have in mind a clean kitchen, in which clean vegetables are prepared by a happy housewife, and sealed u with pride and joy in lean product which will make some table happy in a remote place or a at vision so far as these plague spots of the canning industry are con- nom a) in hatred with their mothers’ The Hague tribunal withered mes so fierce, Andrew's palace for the czar’s court might as well have been a crumbling ruin. s for negotiations—when there TTLED—the peace court and useful again JOSH WISE SAYS: “Judd cawn, on account of a misery in his back, ain't been abie to work for so long that Hose his hande have got r soft like a policeman’s.” 4 wie Tt fs estimated at 600,900 (pedestrians pass Mansion house, Londow, on a week day. The the heaviest foot traffic int world. The Place de Opera, Parts, hae the heaviest vehicle traffic, 63,000 vehicles a day An Austrian army officer hae to- vented a parachute which an jtor wears on his back. He pulls « jeord that explodes a bomb, the |foree of the explosion cauding ‘the parachute to open and ascend sev- eral hundred feet, lifting the avia- tor clear of bia machine before the [descent is begun, Land In the Louisiana rice regton was not worth $1 an acre 35 years ago. Its annual crop now is worth $75,000,000, “Rotchers Out for Sulzer,” says a New York paper's headline. To slaughter bim? Reveridge of Indiana returned $57,500 that was contributed to his fund in one of his campaigns. “What was the matter with it?” A Pittsburg woman beat her husband because supper was not ready when she arrived home. One would be safe in wagering that man never votes for equal suffrage, And the Next Day Some Lie in Bed Till 5 o’Clock It was not until after 10 o'clock that the last of the merrymakers left the club house, all declaring that such pleasant events as that of last night have a tendency to make the season entirely too short, ~—Rockford (IIL) Star, SAAAKARRREAAARERANE * * A Fine Illustration. * % When teacher came to the ® *% word “grewsome,” she asked & ® the children to write & son ® *& tence containing it. One littl ® * girl immediately went to the ®& * board and wrote: “I cannot * * wear my last summer's dress ®& * because I grew som * RARER Farmers {n Germany use the par cel post, especially to ship butter jand eggs. Special boxes are used for eggs and there is little loss from breakage. Misdirected energy— Holding a4 nonpartisan election when bosses select the candidates, folk, Talking in favor of civil service |)". : ‘Chewin’ tobacco and a tooth v} and then evading the cl p pervre brauh,” Galled beak tuner: i laws. Fining @ millionaire, * Closing the windows to keep from catching cold, A crusade against long hetpias, “gmithers {a something. of! a mechanic, isn't he?” “Something of a mechanict ‘Sry, he managed to get one of his own handkerchiefs in bis wife's trunk after she had packed it.” The rabbit, which is sugh 4 pest in Australia, was unknown In that country in 1867, when three pairs were introduced, Natural gas ia found in nearly places it is In marshes and small lakes and can’t be used, What has become of the old- fashioned man who used to take off his hat when women were in the elevator of a business block? Advanced Politics “What are you going to do next?” asked the anxious campaigners; “you have instructed the public on every possible topic pertaining to art, morals and poll economy.” I don't know ied the Indus. ltrious candidate e must keep the people interested somehow, I “H take the latest fad and & course of lectures on how eautiful.”--Washington Star, all parts of Holland, but tn most! ® And then act! Act so that an aroused public shall turn their whips to the shoulders of less employers, and make clean the that dot the great canning industry, there, the country over. And then think! Think of this: If this were a really free nation, would be no such poverty as that which these workers to accept such conditions, is a bigger question than the question of the hes rors of the canneries. Think of that, while act to remove the awful conditions, which ‘ass Instead, we must call up a picture of weary women, wet, cold or perspiring, with sore fin- gers, laboring for a pittance which is an ever more insistent invitation to shame. Children too small to work driving themselves as with whips to keep up with mothers and sisters and add to the daily wage. Nay, we shall show actual whips used to get work out of tots in the fields. In this picture are diseases and filth out of which come our food, and the death and degradation of many of those who prepare our food. If you wish to enjoy your canned foods, do not read this series. But if your nature re- " sponds to the call of decency, humanity and but symptoms of 4 a growing disease—the @i safety, read it. ease of poverty! , one 7 —— . . 2 [_epitor’s mai. | CERTAINLY — | | Editor The Star: It is always taken for granted that when a itting the high places. The papers! stated that Eldred, who commit “|NEXT THURSDAY $400 from the Dexter Horton bank, had been visiting the bright lights HOW ABOUT THAT a We Trust the People if!’ THANKSGIVING young man goes wrong, he has been h suicide after his arrest for taking of Tacoma and Everett. Not #0; he was to have been married next So was not a victim of dis NEW SUIT OR Eldred had lost his smal sayipgs OVERCOAT? through a speculats or a few hundred ric the moth around lights. I am not attempting to ex- cuse this young man, but sometimes when there is a mother or a eweet-| heart, (in this case there were both) the blow, perhaps, is not I ine graft ie pro y the dagvfing Better attend to it tomorrow. Come in and let us show you our union-made garments, They are made by men who work, for men who work and want to spend their money judi- ciously. We have the color that will suit your fancy—a style that will fit your fig- ure, and a price that will please your purse. Suits $18 to$25 Overcoats and Rain- coats $15 to $30 OPEN UNTIL 10 P, M. SATURDAY hard when the real cause is known and the public has been enlight- ened. . Why don't the banks pay their clorks salaries that fit their oecu-| pations? T responsibilities of | bank clerks are great. They must be well dreased, neat, educated and refined. Yet carpenters, plumbers and masons get more money. Th price of labor ts higher, but ha clerks’ salaries increased in propor) jon? The banks would rather pay! }30 per cent dividends than to in Tease their clerks’ salaries. A BANK CLERK. CLAIMS PROGRE Editor The Star: Clearbrook bas) for years been the banner repabli-| can precinet of Whatcom county| (now progressive) and the county bax long claimed to be the banner) county of the state, But at the re-| cent election Clearbrook (second precinct of Nooksack township) | Went into the progressive column) with an elegant spinsh and gave, every man on the ticket, from pres) | ident to wreckmaster, a majority of from 2 to 1 \0 26 to 1. For instance: | Taft 7, Roosevelt 90; Frost 8 Fal- Gately’s Way— TACOMA STORE, 1125 C 8ST, coner #4; Humphrey 11, Landon | Pay as You ; Hay 9, Hodge 101; and the same tio on ‘all the other candidates | Gee Some Pay excepting for assessor, which re) Without sulted: Republican 4, progressive) Paying 104, and county engineer, republican 10, progressive 104. The total rote More. jof the precinet fs 150. It is @ rich) farming community, the homes be-) ing seattered over several miles of terrftory, the town itself only con- | aisting of a depot, postoffice, two general stores and a shingle mill. showing we shall be happy and proud to take off our} bat to them and award such pre cinct the belt. In the meantime, | Clearbrook claims the championship | for being the most progressive pre | cinct In the most progressive state in the union. Respectfully, J. ©. NATTRAB8S, 715 EB. Holly st., Bellingham. WHAT SPOKANE NEEDS, Editor The Star: Interstate | Pair association of Spokane is going to ask for a law legalizing gambling at faire “to stimulate horse racing,” but in reality to stimuiate tying, cheating, hate and crime. If horse racing must be stimulated at the cost of real human tears, we can do very nicely without stimulation, Mr. Gambler. The backbone of vice is badly bent; now is the time to break it. The legislator introducing such a bill insults the electorate and de serves contempt and ostraciam from every decent world-wide source, Spokane needs a Daily Star, a Dr, Matthews, an Ole Hanson, and the Seattle spirit, chiefest of which mix: | ture is moral courage, to fling out the last lingering remnants of de grading vice syndicates. MINNIE B, FRAZIER. “BILL” SULZER, HE GOES A-HUNTING NEW YORK, Nov, 22.—"Hey, Bill, whatcha got in the handbag?" shonted a gang of stevedores here to Wm, Sulzer—governor-elect of New York—as he boarded the steamship Princess Anne for Nor- THE GREATER SEATTLE CLOAK AND SUIT HOUSE — Our First Tremendous and Bona Fide Sale ‘ The Entire Winter Stock of : Ladies’ Coats and S MUST GO AT ‘ $35.00 Suits Now $17.50 The governorelect is today on his way to Old Point Comfort, where he will make a short stop | and then proceed to Petersburg for a week's shooting, SEEK REWARD FOR SOLDIERS OF AIR| ROME, Nov. 22.—-A popular agi | tation was started In Italy today for | & series of rewards and promotions | for the army aviators who played an important part in Tripoli during the Turkish-Italian war. SERVIA READY TO | DO RIGHT THING Proms Leave | NA, Nov. 2: | notified Austria th all restr tions in the Turkish territory o tured by Servia have been removed, and that Servia is preparing to! make restitution to all who suffer-| ed at the hands of the Servian| troops. Civil government has been established. | GIRLS PLAN LONG HORSEBACK RIDE) TACOMA, Nov. 22.-Mabel Evans and Hazel Walker of “101" Ranch, with their famous horses “Reno,” “O Hell” and “Dammit,” will leave here Saturday for a ride to Port: land, which, they say, they will make in two and a half days, “Bus- ter” Evans rode “Reno” across the All up-to-date, in the very latest styles, beautiful mate- rials; choicest make; all sizes; without an equal; wonderful | 14 to 44. We can fit you all assortment. Don’t wait. ODDS AND ENDS Wool Suits, Wool Skirt $3.75 $1.65 Ladies, don’t miss this opportunity to purchase your Thanksgiving Of 4M mas gift at one-half price, This is the greatest offer'on earth, Seeing i ing. 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