The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1917, Page 6

AYRE we should have interfered when Belgium was vilely and treacherously outraged Maybe the Lusitania was cause enough, Maybe repeated violation of our sea rights would ve have justified us. Maybe Preservation of world-wide democracy is the highest of ideals Our conscience is clean but, today, at this writing, fises an appeal to American hearts that justifies and glori fies the sword that’s in our hand as nothing else can, unless America is a nation of cowards and ingrat« FRANCE IS DYING. |. HY are wear n of freemen? Why are we not autocracy’s “subjects Why are we not a domin fon, a province, the slave livine rights Why are We now able to aspire to such blessings as equality, lib erty and justice? Why is our country ours Go back over the. years of history and you find the answer- ANCE! That answer is written in the bloody footprints of freezing Frenchmen at Valley Forge. It is thundered by the guns of Admiral De Grasse. It is chronicled in the sacrifice and deadly risk of the common folk of France who put their savings into bread and powder that America might free herself and live free; that you and I of today might have the inalienat rights of liberty justice, equality, pursuit of happiness and worship of God as we see IH As we were dying, so France is dying. And France, not! . alone of all the world, failed <a; & URN back in your history to one of the last acts of that king whose head democracy got. There conference of Louis XVI. and four of his cabinet mem- } bers. The question discussed is, “Shall France help the us . is a i A ge so os i [imece te, TT: M f a Hi Johnson---Man of Vision : oc , am uncompromising warrior against by any oligarchy, Senator Hiram Johnson of California never recognizes the need of centrall authority, sees the need of @utocratic power, in order that this republic, democratic as it is Yet insure itself safety in war. His speech in the upper house yesterday is history-making, Was at stake. While little men parade platitudes and piffling philosophies of privilege at a time when humanity itseif trembles in the bal Johnson, given to common sense and practica! presents the true war perspective of patriotic, clearthinking © “Im time of national crisis, there must be lodged in one central the right IMMEDIATELY to use and direct every resource of " he declared. vues’ ie no dodging or hedging the facts with Johnson. Such ‘are autocratic. He admits it. The president of the United will, thru the food control bill, and thru other measures, have powers than any ruler on earth. Hiram Johnson Tealizes that. @emocratic and Hberty-loving as he ts, he still votes for it. Why? “Not because I like or because I want to,” he says, “but because ean be carried to successful conclusion only by concentration of 3 iAatocratic control? Yes; with a string attached to it—an uncen- press and a people unmuzzled. Autoeratic control for the bene bof the republic and the safety of the nation—not for a few individ. “Modern warfare,” said Johnson, “consists not alone of battles of Dut in service and sacrifice in every human activity " “War makes new conditions in all our lives, in our business, and ent of our democracy. Pre have heard "the slogan of late in relation to our commercial ” Johnson declared, “that business should be as usual There be no ‘business as usual’ during the war. There must be sacrifice profits, just as there is sacrifice of blood. “THERE MUST BE CONSCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: AND) WEALTH, JUST AS WE HAVE CONSCRIPTION OF OUR YOUTH.” continues, “and make possible thus an allied victory before a single macripted soldier has set foot in France.” ‘Can we not all agree with him, then, when he says: “This possible result is worth the effort!” Worth the effort? 3 ‘fice in material things as make sacrifice in men and then the sacr’ weil. the short cut to victory is ORGANIZATION.” i iS TRULY, A MAN OF VISION IS THIS SON OF DEMOCRACY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA {..E. D. K.’s.”. COLYUM GIVE THEM LAND! Editor The Star: Let the United States sell acreage, as Mr. Wm F. Chase says, in The Star of the THE EXPOSURE 16th, and sell to the wage earner and not for speculating. | Oar Manel) | ell it on 25-year terms, equip night I soak Pillow in tears. the At {him with everything to start with My and give him free transportation, In daylight hours | because the common wage earner I fight and fight of today has not got 50 cents with To hide my bitter sorrow, | which to start. And no one knows. | He has got no property to bor- It’s a short story. row money on. No money to pay 8 Henry has enlisted — |per cent interest. Have a free lo- No, no; don't misunderstand— | cation, not have it the same as It "Tis not from fear |was on he reservation, the man I shed the tears, who paid the biggest price to the For rather would I locator got the goods ‘That he died | The wage earner today, when his Than be a slacker. food bills are paid, his fuel, his I was bursting with joy | lights, his rent and the few clothes When he answered |he has to wear, and his family, ‘The call. 5 what has he left out of his month's 1 pictured bim in khaki wages at $2.50 a day? I hope the Tall, straight, square shouldered,|time will come when the wage Thick of chest— A soldier in his bearing. But I had not thought About those awful learner in the city will have | chance to take bis family out from the stuffed-up city into the open fresh air and let them grow Into Puttees, men and women of God's own na And how they would ture, and not of the groundless life Show him up. of the eliy vanity, so they will Heavens, ‘ know that there would never be How bow-legged he is any city if it wasn’t for the farm so Give the poor man a chance to Sherman of 11-|obtain something of his own, and linois, in a|Wateh him work speech in the| C, 8. SHEPARD, United States Lyman, Wash, senate, denounc-| ee ed organized |a- THE MOONEY CASE backing the food control) Editor The Star: It is with said that if it were passed | great pleasure I read your state- devastate farming and the|ment about the Mooney case, and machinery business and RUIN | I hope every BIG GRAIN EXCHANGES, union and s 48 lof the Dear FE. D. K.: Yesterday I en- those people a tobacco shop and said to! It is the duty , “Dunay mwa ung pahkay eepecially tho nonunion, shall appre * methods adopted to hang interested in the i welfar f their cause, to wateh me the up-and-down for|the press, and when those poor said: “You're in|people are acquainted, to give The doctor's of- | eredit to whom it is due. L ED DOWNING. “We may organize industrially and economically within a year,”| “america must make the sacrifice in dollars and creature com-| within the next year,” Johnson believes, “or she must thereafter | lover of fair play, | elate you for your manly exposure | of all union men, | A fundamental libertarian himself, grounded in the essentials of him take his way in the direction subjugation of the} of in| to contrast to those who would fiddle while the integrity of the have some to see and ask after in 1 applica-| Journey, and should be absent at | | | | | | STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1917. PAGE 6 American revolutionist The decision is a unanimous “No.” Why not We will tell why not First, it would not be seemly in autocracy. Secondly, look at the risk! The Americans have little powder, few guns, no navy and no factories, with mighty Eng land against them, Think of autocracy voting “Yes” on such an enterprise for the promotion of democracy! And the condition of the enterprise grew more des perate, steadily, In all New England there were only 17,000 pounds of powder Those old Revolutionary heroes melted up the works of their clocks, the dishes of their kitchens to make bullets. They tore up their Bibles to make cart- ridges. Bunker Hill was fought'on an allowance of one gill of powder, 15 balls and a flint to the man. Franklin suggested bows and arrows. Washington, in his despair, talked of national migration to the unknown wilderness west of the Alleghenies We were dying, and with us the hope of all that our God-given mission for humanity meant Liberty was starving. Justice was holding out her wrists for the shackles. Equality was a fugitive. THEN ROSE THE COMMON FOLK OF FRANCE AND REVERSED THE DECISION OF THEIR KI rom their savings they sent dying America eight cargoes of powder and ball in one six months of 1776. They hired for us trained officers. They braved England and sent us the armies of Rochambeau, the battleships of De Grasse. They bled and died with us in “JA (Continued From Our Last leeue) |least four days. CHAPTER XI It was a journey of stx-and-thirty Journey's End | hours. Daylight came, I rose at @awn.\ day morning the © BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE seesmomcnun ing my wardrobe for a brief ab sence. Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room | Looking thru the window, I saw/!on my master’s very lands. “ again: the thought struck It Whiteross: meet the coacp “In a fow more hours 1 shall succeed you in that track, cousin,” thought I. “I, too, have a ¢oach meet Whitcros: 1, too, there he would beyond the British aught you know, and then, Channel, him is there? His lunatic wife; and you dare not seek his presence. ~ « You had better England, before | depart forever. ¢ | urged the monitor. “Ask informa At breakfast I announced to Dt-| 10. of the people at the ins.” ana and M that I wi i > va ae abeuae at The suggestion was sensible; at |to act on tt. ing I fled from Thornfield; of them, field crossed—a lane threaded— jand there were the courtyard wi A peep, and then a long I looked with timorous joy to /a stately house. ruin. |told by what fate the Hall | kindled? jthis disaster? And oh! where, |meantime, was the hapless owne: lof this wreck? My eye Involuntar. fly wandered to the grey church | tower near the gates. Some answer must be these questions. I could find I returned. The host brought my breakfast into the par lor. door and sit down. questions to ask him. “You know Thornfield Hall, course?” “Yes, m m; I lived there once.” Not tn my time, I you are a stranger to “IT waa the late Mr. Rochester's butler,” he added. “The jate!” I gasped. “Is he dead?” Mr. Edward's | plained. I breathed again “Is Mr. Rochester living a |Thornfield Hall now?” I asked, knowing, of course, what the gn. awer would be | “No, ma‘am fath he oh, no! No one fi {living there. I suppose you are jetranger in these parts, or |would have heard what happened autumn—Thornfield Hall was burnt down just about harvest |time. The fire broke out at dead jof night. It was a terrible spec For 1 year’s freedom §)!**t from clothing ills— For 1 year’s confidence “ ” |tacle; I witnessed it myself.” that , your looks” Was it known how it ovte- are right— inated?” I demanded, | “They guessed, ma'am; they For 1 year’s assurance Bi) puosseg. You are not perhaps of wear and “no § aware,” he continued, speaking low, ‘that there was a lady jtie, kept fn the house?” | “T have heard something of it.” “She was kept in very close con- finement, ma’am; people even for some years was not absolutely cer. |tain of her existence. But a queer |thing happened a year since—a | very queer thing.” | I feared now to hear my own |story. I endeavored to recall him |to the main fact. “And this lady?” “This lady, ma’'am,” he an- swered, “turned out to be Mr. Rochester's wife! The discovery was brought about in the strangest There was a young lady, a a—e luna Michaels-Stern Suit $15 t0$25 Whether you’re seven- rrerrant) way teen and slim’ ee |roverness at the Hall, that Mr. Or whether you're Rochester fell in” “ » Bl) “But the fire,” T suggested. “Was seventy and “stout it suspected that this lunatic, Mrs. | Rochester, had any hand in it?” “You've hit it, ma'am; it's quite certain that it was her and nobody but her, that set it going. On this night, she set fire first to the hang- ings of the room next her own; and then she got down to a lower story, end made her way to the chamber that had been the governess’ and kindled the bed there; but there wea nobody sleeping nately “The governess We can fit you— We can please you— We can save you money. Do it today and be pre- pared for the “Fourth.” John Lindh Co. 1201-1203-1205 Third Av. Corner Seneca St. Robert J. Johnson A. E. Wilmot in had run away Rochester sought her, he never could hear a word of her; and he grew savace—dangerous—after he lost her. He sent Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper, away to her friends at a distance; but he did it hand. NE EYRE” I had set out on Tuesday jand early on the succeeding Thure ch stopped to }T busied myself for an hour arrank-|warer the horses at a wayside inn. On the sign of the tnn I read tn silt letters, “The Rochester Arms.” | My heart leapt up; I was already It fell Your master himself may be for | hel if he is at Thornfield Hall, who besides | fo no farther,”| and yet I could not force myself There was the stile before me—the very field thru which I had hurried, on the morn-| ere I | well knew what courwe I had re- solved to take, I was in the sees At last the woods rose; another! I saw a blackened | | The grim blackness of the stones had | fallen—-by conflagration; but how) What story belonged to had to ft} nowhere but at the Inn, and thither | himeecit I requested him to shut the 1 had some of “IL mean the present gentleman, | F ox | my you} it, fortu- | two month» before; and for all Mr. | )| SHALL THOSE WHO KEPT US A NATION NOW PERISH? the swamps of South Carolina and on the frozen reaches of Champlain. They looked on George Washington's perishing armies and said, “Here are our millions of savings, here our soldiers and ships, here our La- Fayette, our Pulaski, Beaumarchais, De Kalb. Rescue! LIVE, AMERICA!” A Invaded by brutal, greedy her all, money, men, her boys, her women--her all, but it is not enough From now on, she loses strength which she cannot re store. The gaps in her defense she cannot fill. There are no more francs in her cupboards. Her gray-haired men and boys in the trenches are her last. The wolf growls about her threshold. Another winter of agony, the last, approaches her, and she will have nothing. France is dying. We have money; billions of it. We have men; mil- lions of them. We have more power to rescue than the Almighty ever before entrusted to any nation Americans, shall France die? With complete power to save, shall we take our place in history as the vilest crowd of ingrates since the Crucifixion? Democracy? Ye Rights on the seas Yes But we owe France more. We owe her our national existence, our possession of rights of liberty, equality and justice. When we were dying, she alone of all Christen- dom came to us, raised our despairing head, strengthened our exhausted arm, sacrificed for us, dared for us, saved us. ND now France is dying autocracy, she has given her her could hear her a mile off somely, for he settled an annulty on | ¢¥¢8. | witnessed, and her for life | bad, was put to school off acquaintance with thru the skylight He broke | cent onto all the | roof, bermit, at the Hail.” “Then Mr. Rochester was home when the fire broke out?” “Yes, indeed, and he went up to t burning above and below, and got | scattered.” the servants out of their beds and! He shuddered 4 them down himself—and lay smashed on the pavement.” “Dead?” was he; “Dead? in in | YOU MONEY. Sell the Best ble at | | | at heel Make Me Prove It! Yes, come down and make me prove it! Take a look at these Suits, compare them with anything at the same price that you can find. They look good to a lot of peo- ple and they will to you. Plenty here to choose from—all colors and mixtures; all sizes for all shapes of men and. all the pop- ular styles. You can’t make a mistake in buying one of these—you WILL save money in buying one. In the lot are heavy weight Lester worsteds, the strongest wearing material procurable. Plenty of more expensive Suits if you prefer—beau- tiful hand tailored garments of the sort that are marked much higher in the aver- age store. Our prices run $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00. Have a look, When you buy one you save. SHIRTS SHIRTS 103-107 First Ave. So. || Went back to get his mad wife out nn nernnnnnnennnany’ {! of her cell. And then they called NEXT NOVEL } out to him that she was on the ‘ . » |) roof, where she was standing, ‘Robinson Crusoe waving her arma, above the battle: | seen it! By Danie! DeFoe }})ments, and shouting out till th I saw | dreaded he was mad. |her and heard her with my own|strength to ask what had caused several | this calamity Miss Adele, a ward he ™ore witnessed, Mr. Rochester's as the | wouldn't leave the house till every we heard him call ‘Bertha!’|one else was out before him. gentry, and shut himself up, tke a| We saw him approach her; and hen, ma’am, she yelled, and gave |a spring, and the next minute she Ay. dead as the stones|a way as to protect him partly; and if your post-boy can drive Uecs when all was)on which her brain# and blood were | but one eye was knocked out. and to Ferndean before dark this lter, the surgeon, bad to amputate\the hire you usually demand! “No—perbaps it would have been it MR. LOGGER— IF YOU WANT TO PLEASE YOURSELF AND GO EASY ON YOUR POCKETBOOK, GET YOUR FOOTWEAR FROM SCHERMER’S THIS TIME. YOU’LL FIND A LOT OF THE STANDARD KINDS DOWN HERE AT THE SAME OLD PRICES OF A YEAR AGO. THE FEW THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED ARE STILL SOLD HERE AT PRICES THAT SAVE IN FACT THIS STORE IS A LEADER IN SHOES -—- ESPECIALLY LOGGERS’ AND CRUISERS’ SHOES. I HAVE THE STOCK, THE VARIETY, THE SIZES AND THE SMALLEST PRICES. MAKE ME PROVE IT! BERGMAN LOGGERS 10-inch, spring heel, caulked; heavy double sole. ...$10.50 10-inch, plain heel, heavy dou- sole Sinch, sewed, Goodyear welt, CURRIN LOGGERS 10-inch, double sole to heel. .$10.50 10-inch, light spring 10-inch, heavy double sole with FELDER LOGGERS 10-inch, heavy double sole..... spring CHIPPEWA LOGGERS 10-inch, spring heel, caulked, Weinbrenner and Endicott- heavy double sole..... $8.50 Johnson makes, strong and 10-inch, light weight single uae) McKay sewed So py eigen ae ae phen Goodyear welt Work Shoes, sewed, double sole....$8.00 10-inch, light Pac, single sole, uit in Seattle 10-inch, heavy chrome tan Pac, Goodyear welt LOGGERS’ WATERPROOF at last year’s prices. . $4.00, $4.50, $5.00 and $5.50 LOGGERS’ ARMY CLOTH Waterproof I Save You Money on Under- wear, Hats and Everything CARL SCHERMER = OAR ANAL a HE dies. She dies, in the time of our plenty. Shame to us, eternal shame, if we fail her by a dollar or a | drop of blood! { We want something, at once, over in France to represent our heart, as well as our hand. j We want, over in France, a red-blooded § American; an American with the courageous impulsiveness of a Frenchman and the bull- ¥ dog tenacity of a Yankee; an American who sits not, but stirs always; an American who typifies courage, action and whole-hearted sympathy. We want Roosevelt over in France, right away. If he can’t be given an army, give him a club. fi He'll not be 10 minutes on French soil % before all France will know that we won't let her die; before the nation that rescued us ~ will glow with certainty of our willingness | and power to pay our enormous debt, more than a century old. better if there nad.” “What do you mean?” “Poor Mr. Edward!” he ejacu lated, “I little thought ever to have He is stone-blind.” dreaded worse. I had I summoned | flamed; he lost. the sight of also. He is now helpless, blind and a cripple.” “Where Is he? Where does Be” now live?” ; “At Ferndean. a farm he has, off; quite a desolate spot.” Who is with him?” “John and his wife; he have none else. He is quite As| ken down, they say.” he came down the great staircase) “Have you any sort of co at Inst, there was a great crash— ance?” i all fell. He was taken out from! “We have a chaise, ma'am | under the ruins, alive, but sadly| very handsome chaise.” hurt; a beam had fallen in such) “Let it be got ready it I had “It was all his own courage; he one hand so crushed that Mr. Car I'll pay both you and him directly, The otber eye in (Conctuded in Our Next tseue) — JEFFERSON LOGGERS 8-inch, Cruiser, Goodyear welt, double sole .......... 7. 10-inch, Pac, the practical, all- around shoe ... $10.00 MONARCH LOGGERS 6inch, Pac, single sole, $5.00 12-inch, Pac, single sole, $6.50 16-inch, Pac, single sole, $7.50 DAYTON LOGGERS &inch, Goodyear welt sabe 9-inch, heavy Logger with out- side counter, extra tap, $6.00 S-inch, heavy Logger, plain REG osnicas ss. ae senueee $5.00 WORK SHOES $9.00 heel, caulked, weight, caulked, $10.00 caulked, $9.00 heel, double sole to heel....$4.00 Weinbrenner double vamp Work Shoes, Goodyear welt, double sole to heel....$5.00 John Meier Union-made Work Shoes, Goodyear welt. .$4.00 Dayton Work Shoes, plain toe $6.00 $7.50 DRESS SHOES Beacon Dress Shoes in all styles and leathers ; Neolin and leather soles; Union made.... 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