The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1917, Page 6

nee Bi ‘oat Germany's propaganda in the United States has been revived with a new object Having failed in her intrigues to prevent the United States from entering the war, Germany hopes to create dissension in the peace council, sooner or later to Thru a combination of ruthless diplomacy and the Neglect of other nations, Germany before the war en joyed free entry into all the ports of the world on equal DENIED meet terms with every other nation, WHILE SHI EQUAL INDUSTRIAL RIGHTS IN HER OWN COUNTRY AND HER COLONIES Over Russia she exercised an industrial mastery thru shrewd commercial treaties, which made Russia a business province of Germany Russia dared not abrogate these old treaties. Nearly all the import trade Of Russia was handled thru German firms and much of it thru German In Fra ileges wrung fro business men were : facturers, BUT FRENCH CAPITALISTS WERE ALLOWED TO PENETRATE GERMANY Free trade England and all her colonies were open to THE SEATTLE 18OT Sevemih Ave, Near ves NORTH WHRsTt orts ny enjoyed the most favored priv France in the war of 1870. German obbling up French trade and manu NOT Ger nee, | United Press Assect h News Service of Wash. Postoffice as Second-Class Matter, $1.90; year $3 per month up to 6 m nom ity, 2c @ arrier, Published Dally by The Stor Uabing ¢ change conmecting all “The government can have Armour & Co." “The government can have J. Ogden Armour STAR Ue OF NeEWsrarens STAR—FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1917. (oh itn acne a MBAR ne taanat isl eli la ec la™ Sinister Influences Behind German Peace Propaganda German business on practical equality with the natives, BUT GERMANY PROTECTED HER MANUFAC FURERS BY A HIGH TARIFF WALL German export corpora government so that they ¢ | their competito: | The “trust” in Germa fostered by the governme trade, The practice of sel enough to make up the d the German government anc people without a murmur. German men business IN GERMAN BOUGHT P¢ cans, BUT MEN WHO RUTHLESSLY HOLDINGS WITHOUT 1} the German monor making contracts inviolate s Since the war Germany and the allies have held se een 1... ID, IK's .*. COLYUM Tuk KINGDOM oF GOLD Mint told Gouta we've b Why do }_ ana 4 For after than cost, and charging the home COMPELLED or brother be ! tions Swere subsidized by the ould undersell and drive out not only leg German was to ny export ling products abroad at less consumer prices high ifference, was encouraged by 1 submitted to by the German and bankers were allowed to operate in the United States on equal terms with Ameri Y AMERICAN BUSINESS ITASH DEPOSITS WERE lO GIVE UP THEIR "ROFIT in order to preserve Germ has no law uch as ¢ in America has forfeited these advantages veral conferences to map out roly ny t Letters to PAGE 6 plans by which, after the war, Germany will be deprived of her special privilges and made to do business thruout the eet on equal terms This is what the Germans call the “economic block ade,” or the “war after the war.” They profess horror | at the thought, and every one of their peace feelers on the subject of “freedom of the seas” and “economic lib erty of all nations” is designed to prevent the carrying out of these plan At the same time Germany has said nothing about revising her own tariff laws or her atrocious patent laws, WHICH ROB ALL OTHER NATIONS and_ refuse adequate protection to foreign inventors, Much of Ger man “efficiency” is based on stolen patents of foreigners | Germany maintained many commeret outposts in | America before the war. A large and powerful group | of bankers in New York and the German steamship in terests are vitally interested in the restoration of German privileges after the war. It means millions to them So they are beginning their agitation to separate America from the allies in the peace conference. This group has powerful connections in many lines of busi | ness thru financial and racial affinities the Editor ° Letters to the editor will not | be published unless they are signed and address of writer given, | | If you do not want your | name published, say wo. We | will respect your confidence, but the editor must know your name Letters should not be more than 200 words long, and should be written on one side sheet, Use pen or type } } | | 1 | writer. o THE BUTTE AFFAIR Edt The Star | VIEW OF DE | Editor The Star lit be until our judges learn that A mother is a mother wife,” and all the days of her life While I do not believe in murder. | 1 have wondered how long it would be before murders would be jcommitted when men attempted to children away from their mothers—and | am one, of the mothers who haa lost he children thru the inbumanity of man Mra, de Saulles murdered ‘ her I have no|busband because he would not give | | SAULLES MURDER) (From a Mother) 1} How long will || “/ fathor is father ull he gets a new , BY LEW (Continued From Our Last Issue) That's enough about lessons, the Gryphon tr ted, in @ ver ided ton it the gam The Mock irtie elighed deeply nd drew the back of one flapper across his ey He looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for a minute two choked his » as if he had a bone said the Gryphon nd it set to work shaking him and punching htm tn the back. At last or something or “Alice in Wonderland” sses influence with many newspapers and haf? in the United States senate It posse: friends and retainers | The propaganda now in progress takes the form of She is charged with plots against She is charged with kee attacks on kngland American trade after the war ing millions of men from the front ‘The anti-English talk is the halmark® of pro-Ger- 7 manism. All these forces are consciously or uncon- sciously rking for the big German financial and steam- ship interests in the United States | heir newspapers, the German socialist crowd who dominate the ridiculous little socialist political machine the foreign language press and the ure all doing the work of the in the United States organization of pacifists an export “cartels.” President Wilson in his Flag day speech once and for all committed the United States against any German peace fakes Those program Spiration can usual Gern refuse to toe the mark to the American with treason and the source of their be found in the German financial Next Novel = Allison Pearls” ha EDWARD H. HURLBUT w are flirting 16 CARROLL made a memorandum ef the fact. | ter replied 1 keep them to sell,” the Hat-| “Of course twinkling ra d 48 an ¢ nation; “I've| with a T!” said the King sl |none my own. I'm a hatter.” “Do you take me for a dunce? | Here the Queen put on her spec |" P tacles, and began staring ee at|_ “I'm & poor man, the Hatter the Hatter, who turned pale, and | ¥e"t on. ‘and most things twinkled after that—only the March Hare saiA—" “I didn't!” the March Hare fo |terrupted, in a great hurry. fidgeted Give your evidence,” said the} King; “and don't be nervons, o1 Tl have you executed on the spot.” | «you aia!” waid the Hatter. This did not seem to encourage! «1 a, oe 6 witness at all; he kept shift- een ny !t!* said the March | thi A | net 18! coont to tir ine her her child. I wonder how many - : ing from one foot to the other,| ” These two otations are from remarks of J. Ogden), - Se 5 bed — the curved, bend mothers who read the article comd ‘he Mock rurtle arene ie aenien uneasily at the Queen, ne | OS ad fone By the King mour after a visit to Washington fea at Hutte, Mont. exeept such feel the heart throb that that little . an honed a the dis in his confusion he bit a large | “Well, at any rate, the Dormouse These are different sentiments from those we have come fault ax I would find with any oth-| mother felt when her hear and soul 1.n.4 jPlece out of hin teacup instead of| aid" ‘the Hatter went on, look: P¥o expect from the meat kings of the nation er individual outlaw. But the | mother heart felt whe eartand ““«come on!” eried the Gryphon euace utter ing anxiously round to see if he ore ; d we | no fault before which I stand aghast OWN flesh and blood, for whom 8bO J 14 taking Alice by the hand, it] Just at this moment Alice felt a/ would deny it, too; but the Dor q We hope Armour meant what he said anc we have and mystified is that the dirty act had entered the shadow of death to yo iag oft , * "1 Yery curious sensation, which puz| mouse denied nothing, being fast Preason to doubt him until he proves he didn’t mean it. of cows is being applauded, bring him forth ‘ “What trial in it? Alice panted | #led ber « good deal until she made asleep 4 “To think of profit at this time of national crisis makes by wlany a 4 patriot 1 who have been thru it eae as she ran; but the Gryphon only |0Wt What ft was: she was begin- ‘After that,” continued the Hat- me sick,” says William Pigott, our own townsman, who is my tfe's| Must the — od honor for 2 mide for bag Lar ghnoer cydiieg |Mnawered, “Come on!” and ran the] mane, grow larger again. And ter, “I cut some more bread-and 4 Wash ton next week to learn in which way the a 4 which Old Glory stands be vind|. dreamed of the lo a faster | sh ught at first she would get butter— peomg to Washington x wake ‘ Pace MH, the “Passerby cated by some spurious foree that UD in my neck, and frem that dream ee |p and leave the court; but, on| “But what did the Dormouse - ttle Car & Foundry Co. and the Pacific Coast Steel Co ‘| renames slinks at night behind the mask found mystelf standing in the mid- CHAPTER IX |second thoughts, she decided to re- ”" one of the jury asked. ' the plants he represents, can be of best service to the country rLO of fear? Of what are auch cow: dle of a cold Moor in midwinter, Wie tte tae Tout |main where she was as long as hat I can't remember,” said Je are looking for devotion to country, for lovalty to COFFE ards afraid, except the law for With hands clenched, swearing to) ua aes " a ee eeste| ee was room for her. the Hatter. 5 kind of Ifishness—in these days of ” n Ep . | Which Old Glory stands? Then Kill the man who separated me @ King end Quecs |__“I wish you wouldn't squeeze s0,"| “Yow must remember,” remarked ‘country, for a new kind of unselfishness ) a ©" the maudlin patriot who says cruelly from that little mite were seated on thelr throne when | said the Dormouse, who was sitting|the King, “or I'll have you exe trial. a ss “Well done” isafool and knows not, In my case however, being aj they arrived, with ® great crowd | nert to her; “I can hardly breathe.” | cuted.” And it is gratifying to see how largely our expectations for what he fights or why paychologiat of the highest type, I assembled about them all sorts of] “I can't help it,” said Alice, very | ( ‘ Cieouak BT met cestnhes, yealtsaiion What gave I. W. W's the breath Contr ‘that mad ulse, and in- little birds and casts, an well a5 | meekly; m growing.” | Contt Py eee com) a g yp soliecn aoe of Ife, except the right of free and stead turned to my philosophy for whole pack of cards. The! “You've no right to grow here,” P public utterance, a principle for comfort, which Is that somewhere was standing before them, | said the Dormouse. And be got ° which brave men fought and died? some time, we have sowed what we with a soldier on each |p very sulkily, and crossed over Insensate Hyphenism If “free America” bas found that are reaping, and to that end will side to guard hi: near the|to the other side of the court principle wrong, then let her pay the price, taking care to sow| King was the White Rabbit, with @/ ay this time the Queen had never It used to be said of the Bourbon kings of France th learned nothing new and forgot nothing old very largely true of the German-language papers in « cities—the Ortmann brand in Seattle. They cann try in which they are suffered to exist. rc and his henchmen. They have mistaken our eas American tolerance for license ; low that the first shock of worry as to their status . They do not do this by coming out with one bi smash, but by the none the less objectionable plan daily pecks and dabs. Here is the Illinois Staatszeitur ‘instance saying “Now a great cry is sounded in administration circle "Destroy world autocracy—enthrone world democracy.’ Th "Willa and we will not dethrone the world autocracy. feannot follow the administration with that slogan.” The truth is, of course, that this obnoxious sheet cannot DK. jwhich was visited upon those his-|of tes. If my ancestore wore justi follow the administration with any American slogan. Any ) oe ters to whom we now fe tn fienting over 8 few pounds ; : ism ; a < f, a homage. ea, how much greater—oh, how thing aimed at Prussian militarism, at German autocracy, at bes In advocating the abolition of! much greater—cause has the moth the kaiser, jars the Staatszeitung to the very te centers wase very, the Industrial Work-|er to FIGHT FOR HER BARY! 3 very time it lets out a snarl it gives a perfect example ee y wi. Ore Of the World are idealists, just! And will the world stfl! sleep on, And ev y c hich t 4 PY ‘allpeans: qa Why ts a dentist like an improv: | ay were John Brown, William Lioyd| while this little mother, who had of the insensate hyphenism which is bound some day om dent man?—B. M Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and|th Srick ae nee ‘ be | Feact to its own hurt ‘ It is but echoing similar expressions earn . he 4 ads a hand to! others whom we are now taught to| FOUGHT for her BARE, {s perhape Sby Herr Ortmann of Seattle uth existence revere, when they advocated the! put ont of this life? If so, Iam giad P selina abolition of chattel slavery. In| my philosophy atill holde rood—that ‘ ‘ " ee ie) ba oh Basra {man their day these men were reviled some day, somewhere, her life will : round the house, but 1 wish to and persecuted by the ruling class.|be filled with all that tx cood, for| unds oreign 1Ke ier the expense of calling in & just as the Industrial Workers are|ahe was nt leaat true to herself es arpenter to ome house today. The I. W. W., the Iiberators| Perhaps, as in m3 n case, when “Today weary mothers carrying babies, with older chit-|» ards in the kitchen floor and in-|of our day, can justly reaffirm! she was going thra the monthe be. lined almost 1e dust, eve be dren trudging along in _ ¥ jood hammer but m Is} + . fanatic: BEE Gf town. They were going to join their husbands wholare tooshort What shal’ I dot] gc We, Mere jfanaion, | seaitions Meowere driven out yesterday and the day before, but many of|—B. M Gales ab tha Dam arco: aoe fron ® them did not know just where to go. Trains were boarded| 1¢t ‘em grow thy tablets one of those honorable lat every town in the district by entire families of refugees,| why ought the conductor of a ramos’, We claim them all as our Peach adult carrying a bundle wrapped in a sheet, a pack of|rajtroad train who in collecting Bi, adthager pine ie nae PBedding or an old valise. Many refugees destitute of the fares a good prizefighter?— | deed, thought ma me tah oon Mecessitics of life are camped in the woods.” spiny he's there with the|titution. humanity and justice of 4 The foregoing reads like a report from Armenia, or Gali as ch jm ie wort) han law. & al up the ia, or Rumania, but it isn’t. It’s from the lead producing Pres ghet tees (eee et Me cea Fegions of Missouri, U. S. A. There's an “industrial dis | What kind of es move! hamed of carsl* turbance” over there jthe most rapidl | MARIE SMITH ; Peace hath its horrors not less than war. One of said|,7plephane and telecraph | com-| sane - hhorrors is the process of squeezing out 60 per cent profit|the streets. stasis ne for well-watered capitalization re a A ; Questions Mr. E. D. K. Cannot | newer | Chancellor Michaelis, the ne By the reactionaries and military made his maiden speech as government leader in the reic It ) Stag the other day was all stale stuff. Parrot-like, ‘repeated the old Ger forced into their hands. Without a blush he aped Bethman )) Hollweg in palliating the submarine warfare And then he spoke thi nce: “What our troops have accomplished in three years | unprecedented in the world’s history.” Their deeds are i 1 written in letters of fire and Blood on the pages of the world’s story | They will remain for all time to tell of Germany's shame ar of Germany's crimes. Nothing can ever out se leer wipe the recor DoYouKnow That the Union Dentists charge lees for first-c * work than any other dentists in Seattle? Their work is guaranteed for 16 years. Absolutely painless extracting. LADY ATTENDANTS, UNION DENTISTS 205% Pike Street. Over Owl Drug Store. The same They cannot learn anything of the Americanism of th anything of their old admiration and allegiance to the country has passed, they are resuming their un-American is a bigger order than ‘catch Villa’ ever was. We did not ath ° road Michaelis Speaks True Word puppet premier put up by atraps who surround the kaiser They are indelible at is ot y- in g. ng s at tend to do the work myself. I Why fs ft that a man fe always shot down while a town is always shot up?—N. B. Does the DuPont Powder Co. publish a magazine?—D, G One hand on a watch js called t ‘\the hour hand, and another 1s hej called the minuté hand. Why ts n lie about the sword having been the third one called the second n-|hand?—Billy Conner hich is considered the finest Swiss lace, Irish lace or shoe lace |—Miss Rose Budd te ae E. D. K.'s Household Hints of Moss will not form on a tin roof if it 18 taken off and dry cleaned ad throw aw an old electric d n. The blades can be used h horns Never thr away an old rubber collar, It can be cut down, or stretched, and used as a garter Goldfish will not sweat if kept In a refrigerator. a | “The war taxe says Congress man Kitchin, “will be pald by those who can pay, not by the poor,” |Hang onto the world, fellers! Kitchin'’s going to turn it upside down and if you're not careful you'll fall off. FALCON ILA ANE NESTED ail ‘ottie it at ite ving source. JESSY L. SUMROLIL CHAMPIONS |. W. W. Editor The Star Hardly a day Passes without some adverse com- ment upon the Industrial Workers of the World in the dally press, this comment ranging from accusa- tions of “German influence,” to statements that they are responst- ble for all forest fires Passing by the apparent tneon- sistencies that they are “rolling In German wealth,” yet are begging upon the streets; that they are “T Won't Works,” yet are able to tle jup the logging tndustry by with thelr labor power; that use violent methods, and yet strikes are won without co by “passive resistance,” 1 wish to call agtention to the fact that the campalen of misrepresenta tion Is of a r miliar to that these words of Wendell Phillips 4 | E. N. FURMAN Who trains his students to get Nutmeg can be prevented from| a salary. For over 3 years he} fouring By keeping it covered with) has been. building Business eee Ethies and Business Personal Ter @jity into the student from the on ally Conversation Hint | day of entry into the Busine fter eating green corn, ¢ : save the. cobs. ather can | | Course An individual school make pipes of them and jf | | for the ambitic || there are any left pr they can be used for fuel next . | | winter } Shorthand Bookkeeping perce @| Civil Service Business Ethics Northwestern Shorthand Reporting School Arcade Bldg. Elliott 1581 now what I will the future. What are we going to do about It lal? Are our judges—MEN who |could not ander any circumstances Tealire what it is to be a mother foing to continue robbing moth ers of thetr babtes, even for HALF the time? When the world awakens to real- fre that a babe belongs to the one | who broaght it tnto the world at the expense of her body, then not only are judges not going to take babes away from mothers, but when there fe & question of money, money ts go- Ing to be provided to keep those babes with their mothers until they reach the age of sclf-support. How many good moth are cruelly torn from their babes for lnck of a very few dollare? And in enlightened America! I wae b New England people had a war over a few pounds willingty reap tn My ltore her babe came into the world |her husband MAY have been off | having a good time with the bors Jand the girl. Porhape she wns left jalone in the awful struggle, Per. | after {t was all over, and the f her struggle the father be and prond, of with her t drove her to desperation knowing what had gone before. Oh | when we have over the ground ourse then how well we know every step of the war! My own babe. carried to her rich |relatives back Fant, where sho ta auch a “heantiful child"—nerer a kind word to the mother who nearly gave her life to bring the child tnto the world In going over thia tragic ease, let ro back and meditate very care | fully, and let na remember the Mas |ter's strict Injunction, “Judge not Jost ye be judeed." GERTRUDE E. FORREST. rea bean ar hot Sout mn WAGF SYSTEM MUST GO Féltor The Star: The wage syn tem Implles the economic existence of two classe under ft the work ers suffer; {f means no end of strife. Therefore, from the stand point of the workers, it is wrong and {t is right to get togethor and abolish the wage ayatem din lite place erect the co. ative |commonwealth, the rule of the pro: lotariat If history teache richt, we know that right and wrong are relative jterms, and It resolves into a aque tion of power, From the stand point of accepted law, morals, re ligion, ete, capitalists are consid ered right and Justified in their control and owner Jand exploitation |they have the | Our country and stolen and_d yet learned idges have de Jcreed that it was “le that it |was right. However, Ww concep. | tions of right and wrong have per meated the workers. To the work ers It Is right that they should have shorter hours of labor, which means longer lives, more workers employed, higher wages, more bread, better bomes and happier liv F. P. GRAHAM hip of industries labor, because to hire en ravag ustrial pir 1] tes, al READ STAR WANT ADS trumpet in one hand and a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the court was a table with a large dish of tarts upon it. They looked so good that It mado Alice quite hungry to look at them. “I wish they'd get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!" But [there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at every. thing about her to pass away the tim Alice had never been tn a court of justice before, but she was quite |plensed to find that she knew the me of nearly everything there. the judge,” she sald to . “because of his great wig.” » Judge, by the way, was the King, and as he wore his crown over the wig, he did not look at all comfortable, and It was certainly | - not becom « “And that's the jury box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures” @ was obliged to say “cre * you see, ause some of (s them were animals, and some were suppose birda) jurors.” "1 they are the hey red to Gryphe anything to pt | » fore the trial’s be | ‘ ‘re putting down thetr/ jnames,” the Gryphon whispered in reply, “for fear they should for |met them before the end of the} « ja at voice; but she stopped if hastily, for the White Rabbit erted out, nee in the court!” and the Ki on his spectacles and looked anx fously round, to make out who was talking Al ould see, as well as if! | ere Jooking over thetr shoul thet all the jurors were writ ing down "stupid things!” on thetr slate “A nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!” thought Alice. “Herald, read the accusation!” sald the King On this the White Rabbit ble three blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scro! and read as follows of Hearts ahe made some Knave of he stole those And ouite away! “Consider your — verdict | King said to the jury. “Not yet, not yet!” the Rabbit hastily interrupted. “There's a great deal to come before that!” "Call the first witness,” said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, “First witness!” The first witness was the Hatter ca in with teacup in one 1 a piece of bread-and in the other. pardon, your Majesty,” bringing these in quite finished my hen I was sent for.” You ought to sald the King begin? The them the He hand. butte rt he but tea un, “for 1 dn't have “When finished,” did you Hatter Hare, who h the court, Dormouse I think it was,” Fifteenth,” Hare. “Sixteenth,” use. "Write said to the jury; gerly wrote down all m their slates, and them up, and reduced to shillings and pence. “Take off your hat,” the King sald to the Hatter. “It isn't mine said the Hatter. “Stolen!” the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly looked at the March 1 followed him into arm-in-arm with the yurteenth of March, he said said the March added the Dor. 1 that down,” the and the King jury ea- three dates thon added the answer Alice began, in| |left off staring at the Hatter; and |just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the of- |ffeers of the court, “Bring me the (ist of the singers tn the last con- cert!" on which the wretched Ha ter trembled so, that he shook both | his shoes off. x “Give your evidence,” the King/are uscless in such cases, for th repeated angrily, “or I'l! have you!leave the source of the trouble, oe acid in the stomach, as dange peng tebe You're nervous | Sserer. ‘The acid must be baal ~ fred, and {ts formation prevented, I'm a poor man, your Maferty,” and the best thing for this pu the Hatter began, in a trembling|!* ® teaspoonful of bisurated voice, “and T hadn't. but fost be-| Rett nue ur stat ete acer sath gun my tea—not above @ week or| which not only neutralizes t! butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea— “The twinkling of what?" said the King. “It began with the tea.” the Hat- | which ordinarily cause distress may | be eaten without ger if the meal” is followed with a little bisurated magnesia, which can be obtained from any druggist, and should al- w be kept ay. 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