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A PATRIOTIC WOMAN'S APPEAL FOR FAIRNESS “Omaha, November 1, 1918. “My Dear Mr. President: “The papers contain your appeal asking people to sup- port you by voting only for Democrats at the coming elec- tion, so you may be unembarrassed by Republicans whose loyalty you question. You addressed ‘my fellow country- men,’ which, I take it, means me, though I am a woman, and I take it on myself to speak for my husband and my son, who are both wearing the uniform and cannot answer your letter, except as they are answering it ‘over there.’ That = is not a paper patriotism, I give you these simple acts: “T own and personally operate a large hospital. At the outbreak of the war I tendered the hospital, with all its equipment, facilities and nurses, to the government. My son volunteered and has been for months in the big-drive in France. My husband wasa surgeon with an extensive practice. He was past the draft age, but when the call came he gladly gave up his business and is now on his way to France in charge of a base hospital. When the Liberty Loan campaign was on he directed me to buy all the bonds his credit would stand, and we subscribed cheerfully and liberally to the Red Cross and the Young Men’s Christian Association. “To make sure my husband and my son might be ‘unem- barrassed’ in fighting for our country, I gave up my house and am living at my hospital, which, incidentally, has fur- nished for service eight of its staff and more than twenty nurses. ‘Do you think, Mr. President, it is‘ no sacrifice for a woman to give up her home and all that is near and dear to her? “Can you be surprised, then, that I am dumb with as- tonishment at your letter, which would have me believe that it is disgraceful and disloyal to vote for a Republi- can? “If my husband and son are good enough patriots to fight the battles of their country and risk their lives for us who stay at home, would they, if one were a candidate for congress, be less patriotic and less to be trusted because they are Republicans? “Tf I lived in a state where I could vote, would I be manifesting a disloyalty that would embarrass you if I voted for my husband as a Republican, believing he could serve his country as well at Washington as in France? “Inasmuch as the men I most love are fighting at the front, do you wonder that Iam disturbed by your appeal? Is it strange that I want to know what is the matter with them; that I want to know if they are not 100 per cent for Uncle Sam? “I thought you asked us a little while ago to forget poli- tics and think only of winning the war. “How, then, do you now ask us to forget what you then said, and follow your orders in politics? “Tn all candor, Mr. President, I ask you, are you playing fair? “MARGARET A. HENRY.” THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1918. WAR COMFORT UNCLE SAM T0 WORK WILL GO | CALL ON EVERY ONFOR MONTHS SEATTLE HOME | The vital service that has been| organizations that have ¢ for the United War Work ¢ nm more v | chairman of the that no patriotic Americ | the interests of t should reduce his Elford points ot manizations will «#till ha |} more than 2,000,000 men over & million in the army canto! ments until they finally r centive, the defeat of the kaln removed it will make t maintaining the moi men decidedly more difficult, he | to way'te'cas. Pl Fifth Avenue and Pine Street Uncle Sam will knock at the door of every home in Seattle this week, in an effort to find soldiers by t en Store Hours Tomorrow From 10 to 3 When the ® UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN. (Pald Advertisement—Paid for by Clyde M. Hadley, Secretary Wallace Mount Campnign Committee) Keep Our Supreme Court Inviolable! This is no time, and the Supreme Bench is no place for demagogues or selfish politicians. Let us sustain for all time the enviable reputation given our highest court by a former Presidént of the United States, who said: “The Supreme Court of the State of Washington is the most progressive Supreme Court in the United States. It has never declared any law of a progressive character to be unconstitutional.” Read This Workingman’s OpenLetter to Labor TO THE PUBLIC: Judge Wallace Mount has been on the bench of the Supreme Court of the State of Wash- ington eighteen years, and is now seeking re-election, being one of six candidates for the three places to be filled for the six-year terms. To know Judge Mount intimately is to be an advocate of his re-election. I have heard there was some opposition to him because of a certain opinion of the Supreme Court which he wrote relative to picketing. I am a member of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, Local 1148, Olympia, and a delegate to the Labor and Trades Council, and I put my union above everything else but my American- ism. As an American I believe in American institutions and that courts are to declare what the law is and not to make the law. I regret that the court found the law as it did in the above de- cision, but being an American and believing in American institutions and the court having said that was the law, to me then it is the law until changed in the regular legislative way. The Supreme Court may have been wrong in finding the law as it did, but we want human judges, and they would not be human unless they made some mistakes. The most excellent rec- ord of our Supreme Court is proof that, on the whole, it has been very sympathetic with labor and the common people. Judge Mount himself was a poor boy and made his own way in the world. His own sons, now in the service of their country, enlisted at the very outset of the war. They have always spent their summer vacations working at manual labor on the highways, in sawmills or logging camps to earn what funds they could to help themselves thru school. The Supreme Court of Washington has upheld the law prohibiting blacklisting; the law re- quiring street car companies to put vestibules on their cars for the protection of motormen; the initiative and referendum, the eight-hour law for women and all other eight-hour laws; all laws relating to the safeguarding of miners and laborers in mines, factories and mills and the first court in the United States to uphold the Industrial Insurance law. In practically all of these cases the parties attacking the laws were large corporations. It has been charged that seventy-five per cent of the courts’ decisions were in favor of corpora- tions. I am only a layman but any layman can easily investigate and satisfy himself that such a statement is absolutely false. In fact, the very reverse is the truth. Judge Mount, himself, has written many of these important decisions. He wrote the de- cision in the case of the State vs. Rossman, knocking out the grafting employment agencies. He approved the decision in the case of Larson vs. Rice, in which it was contended that, because of a contract with a young lady, she was not entitled to the minimum wage fixed by the Industrial Welfare Commission, but the court held the Industrial Welfare Commission governed. This is not the time in our history for experiments or for the advancement of demagogues or politicians. We must have strong-principled men for our offices and especially in our ju- diciary. It is better that we have honest men who are sometimes mistaken than to have a poli- tician or demagogue who is as liable to turn against us as to be for us. I know that any- body who is opposed to Judge Mount is not acquainted with him. I have known him for many years and I know him to be honest, fearless, upright, kindly-hearted, sincere and a true friend of the laboring man and all common people. Respectfully, - GEO. MUELLER, Oct. 19, 1918 P. 0. Box 584, Olympia, Wash. The Direct Primary Commission Form of Government The Supreme Cao iative, Referendum and Court of the )\ vrei.” ” WHY Horticultural Inspection Hotet Inspection State oO Regulation of Commission Merchants Kight-Hour Law for Women Kight-Hour Day on Public Works Washington | tron’ Industrial Insurance Law e oe 4 Has Upheld Prohibition Taw Light Law Railroad Commission Law ReElect Mount, Main, Mitchell PAGE 7 FREDERICK & NELSON SUPPORT IT. ne .. ® country seats ha o teen looted aad Looting of Ships’ Sreey eaele fiery. been Rages in Vienna) vicient demonstrations ana the ZUNICH, Nov. 4.—The garrison at | looting of shops continue in Vienna, ged support of the Sereate ee ream state, according Christmas mails dispatched from here today Melbourne general postoffice aggre of Budapest several ' gated 100,000 parcels,