The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 4

Member of the Sorippe Northwest League of Newspapers Published Datly by The Star Publishing Oo, Phone Main 9400 E ASK you to look at this man’s face and remember him. Because he, an American citizen, is the victim of tyranny than which there is no worse example on earth. Tyranny — that makes people despair of the courts. Tyranny of the sort that often drives a freedom-loving people to revolution. The man is John R. Lawson of Colorado. He was a mine striker, an intelligent leader, who fought John D. Rockefel- ler with all his brains. John D. Rockefeller has now sentenced him to life imprisonment at hard la- bor in the penitentiary of the state of Colorado. JOHN R. LAWSON Why John D. did not sen- tence him to work in the Rockefeller mines we cannot understand, [Outbursts of Everett True] Took HERS, JENKINS RYBODY IN THIS NEIGHBOR HOOD KEEPS HIS BACK YARD NEAT AND CLEAN, AND YOURS ALWAYS LOOKS Like A BSaTTce FIELD! Alc You GQTTA Do 'S MIND YOUR OWN BusinSss— AND YOUR CaSB iS THE FIRST I SHAW TAKE UP IN THE UNG OF A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING The Ruling Passion | “Oh,.a mouse. Miss Wilcox told “Do you regret, my good man,” us all about mouses.” the judge, “having killed the, “That's the boy! trian with your golf ball?” you spell mouse?” = “Yes,” said the confirmed player, It was then that Arthur gave ith tears in his eyes; “I do. If| promise of being an artful dodger. he hadn't got in the way, I'd have He paused meditatively for a mo made that hole in one less than| ment, then sald Now, how do bogie.” —Judge. “Father, | guess I was wrong. It ° | wasn't a mouse teacher was telling Their Future \as about. It was a rat arper’s “Young man, do you know what | Magazine. e8 of little boys who use bad | ha age while they are playing Of Course irbles?” “Yes, sir. Bill, wot’s a centenarian? Dinged if | know, but they must be a sickly lot—they’re always dyin’. ee Likely The barber told me a funny story this morning. Iilustrated with suppose? “Tell Me the Secret” Play golf.”"—Judge. ee Easier to Spell Young Arthur had been attend-| ing school all of six weeks, and his) devoted parent thought it was high | time he should find out how things | were running. So he asked: | “And what did my little son learn | ebout this morning?” They grow up ay) | | comic cuts, I P ys mW 7 e CP iyp i et fous muffins? Mine are ahoays 20 dry, “I make them tas you do, only I use KC Baking Powder, yl the batter thi . en ile =, in they fall. i ong well, sot must be the kus the baking powder. To make muffins, cakes and pastry ricl ind moist, yet light and feathery, a modern jowder must be used—one that will give off wen a8 well as in the mixing bowl, . KKG Bakinc Powper is really a blend of two baking powders, one of which Starts to raise as soon as moisture is added. The other is inactive until heat is applied. This sustains the raise until your muffins, biscuits or cake is done. K C Baking Powder costs less than the old fashioned quick acting kinds, yet you need use no more and it is superior to them in every way. « = Try a can at our risk and be convinced, double acting baking leavening gas in the | | | | STAR—THURSDAY, LAWLESS TYRANNY IN COLORADO COURTS INSULTS WHOLE U. S. During the coal mine troubles of over a year ago, when the strikers were fighting armed thugs, called mine guards, from the slums of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, there was a battle one day. John Nimmo, a guard, was killed. Joke R. Lawson was indicted for his murder. At the trial it was proved, AND, THE PROSECUTION ADMITS IT, that Lawson was eight miles a when the battle and the killing occurred. But the judge, a coal company attorney named Hillyer, who was appointed judge by the gover- nor to “get’’ Lawson, overrode all rules of fairness, permitted drumhead court-martial tactics at this trial and compelled a verdict of guilty against Lawson, lhe fina] deviltry of Hillyer, j., is now before you and the whole world. While the supreme court of the state was reviewing the case and before a decision had been reached, Hillyer insisted on sentencing Lawson to life imprisonment at hard labor and refused bail pending appeal of the case. We believe every American citizen, every man, woman and child in America who believes in liberty, should read Lawson's statement when the rotten court asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Here SAY PARDNER CAN \ NOW THAT You NOU HELP A Feute our wn ALrene piece | OF chance f ~ } OW | Guess) can} STAKE You To A JIrney pe ®, me ts and Gertie . - GEE, GER, HERE COMES STEVENS vO HAND US SOME CHAT TER. STAND THAT HICK LET'S DUCK | JULY 22, 1915. A Married Man’s Troubles THE NICKEL, WHAT ARE YOU Gone ‘To PUT YoU HEP OUTSIDE SPEED UP, KiD! PAGE 4 is what Lawson had to say, standing erect before the unjust judge: “it ls plain,” Laweon sald to the court, “that nothing | can say or do will change your fixed determination to start me down the dark path of imprisonment for life, “First of all, in the name of the courts of my country, which | reepect, | protest against your right or power to pass any judy ment against me. It is undenied in this case that you were ap pointed to t ench this spring for the trial of myself and«my . fresh from the employment of the very coal operators jo and the country, Including the Rockefellers, who have d and engineered these prosecutions, Ou are 80 deeply prejudiced against me that my case was a travesty of justice from the start. Today the supreme court of Colorado, In Denver, is reviewing your conduct, and yet you re fuse to walt another 24 hours for the guidance of that court's de cision. “Second, you refused to permit the Jury to be drawn from the reguiar jury box provided by law, and you ordered an open venire, This method exactly adapted to procure what none wae surprised to discover—a hand-picked jury of coal company partisans. “Nothing was to be permitted to stand in the way, and it Is significant that even a jury 60 selected refused to convict me un til a bailiff selected by you, according to affidavits on file in this court, tortured # juryman with manufactured reports of the dan Gerous Iliness of the juror’s wife, and as a final stroke warned the jury that under your orders that jury would have nothing fur- ther to eat until they gave thelr verdict. “May | ask whether judicial travesty Is not the right desorip tion of such proceedings?” PATROLMAN KUSH is learned yesterday First ave that some varieties of Pickerell bite on not a fisherman, but Wel, | CAN'T BUY Ko H AUTOMOBILE, BECAUSE BECAUSE |'D NEED A ( CANT AFFORD HO — CAN'T BUY NO STeam YACHT CREW TO RUN By mall, out of elty, one your, months, $1.00; B5e per month months. By carrier, oty, 260 = mo tered at Beatties, Wash, postoffire ae second clase matter you noted the propaganda of the ministers ; against the greater navy movement? In most instances we believe the churchmen are sincere jn their purpose and in their beliefs, tho mistaken, Now comes Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco and says: “Peace at any price is not a policy the Ameri. can people will accept, and to maintain peace with honor, the nation must be prepared for defense, Peace with honor is strength; without honor it is weakness. Our peace-at-any-price party would fade away in a situation that required surrender of national honor for the sake of peace. * * *# “I believe the clearest thinkers of the country and the men who have direct knowledge of the policies of the nations of Europe and their disposi. tion toward America and commercial and colonial development in the New World, agree with the greater naval policy and that they do so entirely uninfluenced by gain that would accrue to many facturers of guns and ammunition and builders of hips.” BELGIANS CELEBRATED a day of yesterday, and from all reports there was and fireworks ndependence plenty of noise By Allman So - lavess LL BUY A SCHOONER AND 3 ls WANDLE IT MYSELF — fe] KEEP MUM AN’ ILL HI HOLLER’S AMBITION—A TALE OF PLUCK AND LUCK—(A MOVIE) ALMOST HI HOLLER, TIRED OF COUNTRY LIFE, WHET Ww STARTS FOR oe SHOULD TURN ” BACKOR § KEEP ON! NO | HES A BORE! The OTHER NIGHT HE YAWNED ME NTHREE TIMES WAHWLE [1 WAS TALKING TO NAYBE HE WASNT YAWNING, STELLA WE MIGHT HAVE BEES) TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING TO yOu! , —— WHATS THAT | A CHILD'S | HEAR? T WMEET | THIS IS THE HAPPENED UFE! TO BELONG O THE ‘a 8AN FRANCISCO, July 22.—Col. Roosevelt hasn't a bit of sympa- thy for the administration's attitude toward Germany. The colonel made that mighty plain in the speech he delivered here Wednesday afternoon, Roosevelt day at the fair, to the largest audience that ever heard a public address in this city. Roosevelt talked for more than an hour and a half, and was con stantly interrupted by applause. He deviated often from his prepared manuscript. Once he happened to glance up and see a half-dozen photographers lined up on a step-ladder, snapping pictures of him. “Get down there—quick—quick-—-quick!" he yelled, The photographers scrambled down. “That, my friends, is what Uncle Sam should do,” he sald, with a arin; “get what he wants without hurting anybody.” Having panned the pacificists, read those who would sing “I Didn't! | fact that tho a republic, Switzerland maintains an efficient fighting urged @ greater standing army, universal military service and an effi Raise My Boy to Be « Soldier” out of the great American family, and client navy at “fighting pitch,” the former president gave himself up to viewing the wonders of the big fair today | He requested that his program while here be so arranged that he! could devote two full days to visiting the various palaces and foreign buildings. Col, Roosevelt has lived up to his reputation as the country's most strenuous citizen on his visit here. He has dodged his secretary and official committees to make flys ing automobile rides, escort Mrs, Roosevelt on shopping tours, and even visit the exposition incognito, “Movie” operatorg were on the job to catch every move of the colonel yesterday, He posed for them before the Pniisted Men's club, and when he thought he had been “filmed” enough, said: “Gentlemen, cease firing!" He refused to hold a shovelful of dirt during the process of plant- ing a tree, that it might be filmed in detail, When the request was made he snapped, “I will not. The next thing I know you will want me to use my hat.” While addressing the army and navy men, denouncing the pactf- icists, the colonel suddenly turned to Gov. Johnson, grasped him by thie coat lapel, and exclaimed: Governor, I believe these people are getting what I am trying to tell them.” | In bis speech he unmercifully flayed the pence-at-any-price advo- cates ONLY FIGHTING NATIONS LIVE “No nation ever amounted to anything If its population was com- posed of 8 and poltroons, If its sons did not have the fighting | edge, if n did not feel as the mothers of Washington's con-| tin-ntals felt, © mothers of the men who followed Grant and Lee| felt,” Roosevelt said, “Men who are not ready to fight for the right are not fit to live in a free democracy. | “The only women fit to be wives and mothers tn a free republic) fre those who feel that their sons are not ‘sons of theirs unless when their country calls, their souls are eager and their feet jubilant to! answer the mighty trumpet note which announces that the hearts of men are being sifted out before the judgment seat. Only men fit to Join In singing Julla Ward Howe's tremendous ‘COL. ROOSEVELT FLAYS PEACE-AT-ANY-PRI Battle Hymn of the Republic in time of ware 10 serve the republic ae it should be serv Roosevelt declared the pacificists were trying to “Chinafy” the United States. He scored the advocates of peace at any price and) declared that we had failed to profit by the lessons of the present/ European war | also fit in time of Col CRIMINALLY REMISS | “We have been culpably, well nigh criminally, remiss as a nation) in not preparing ourselves during this past year,” the colonel declared. “and if with the lessons taught the world by the dreadful tragedies | of the last 12 months we continue with soft complacency to stand delpless and naked before the world, we shall excite only contempt and derision when disaster ultimately overwhelms us.” | Col. Roosevelt pointed to Belgium and China as the best examples) prepared the country might never have been invaded. He pointed to} Switzerland, also in the path of the warring nations, but cited the) force, prepared to defend herself. | WORSE THAN BELGIUM “Belgium was unprepared and because of her unpreparedness has paid the most frightful price in blood and misery,” Roosevelt said Some day or other it may well be that we shall have to pay on a ten-fold greater scale the same price for exactly the same reason, and {f such should be the case, remember that whereas the action of Bel- sium excited warm sympathy, our misfortune would excite nothing but scorn; for a rich and boastful people invites ridicule if whether from sheer silliness and shortsightedness or from soft timidity or from | gross and gr dy devotion to the material benefite of the moment it) to defend Ite own rights with its own strength. | @ at any price, non- | resistance, universal arbitratlon people are now seeking to | Chinafy this country. | “While the best people of China are endeavoring to raise | the new China to a position of international respect, well mean- | Ing people here are doing thelr best to reduce this country to | the level of impotence to which the old China sunk because the | moral fibre of old China has been eaten into by the doctrines | of professional pacificists.” | Roosevelt inuded the work of G Vanama canal. He declared that had he not taken the action in 1903/ “in exactly the shape I took it,” the canal would not have been built) for another half century, and, referring to the subject of defenses, said: “The building of the canal nearly doubled the potential efficiency | of the U. S. navy, as long as it is fortified and is in our hands; but ff} left unfortified, it would at once become a menace to us, “Our battle fleet should always be maneuvred as a unit and kept as a unit. We should remember that the Pacific coast is our home| coast as much as the Atlantic coast and it would be well to establish as part of our settiéel naval policy that every second or third year the entire fleet should be put In the Pacific and thelr maneuvred tactically and strategically exactly Is done In the Atlantic, } “Pacific and Atlantic alike are our home waters. We claim no exclusive or predominant right in either; no right hostile to any other | nation in either; but we claim that in each we have the same right! that any other nation has, in one Just as much as the other—no more | and no less, | “Preparedness against war does not invariably avert war,” the colonel declared, “any more than a fire department will invariably avert joethals in building the | fact as offering an excuse for unpreparedness. “It would be just as sensibie if, to take the same views as regards military preparedness. “France was not prepared for the war in 1870. better prepared in 1914. The unpreparedness did not avert war in first case; it merely rendered it an overwhelming and shameful ster. In the other case preparednes: a merely stood as a barrier against h disgrace and disaster.’ “China offers a perfect parallel to the condition to which in the doctrines of the ultra-Pacificists would land us." 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