The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1919, Page 6

By mai Roe pe per The Seatile Star per month; 3 months 1.50 e year, $8.00, in th tate { Siren Tauern ii Theale, “aes al STAR—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 80, 1919, PLEMENT CEE I On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise he Law of Good Fortune “I am myself good fortune.” This iine, by Walt Whitman, is the expres: st—not an egotist. on of 3 © Ft is of a man who assumes himself a part of all na That all nature is good, and to be a part of it is good} very animate and inanimate thing. he universe is the supply and exhibition temple of in all her expressions She gratifies man in the way of food and clothing for body from the fields; she gre ifies his nse of beauty g the numberless unfolding flowers of spring, in the trees, sea, the moon and the starry night. | His restriction is self- that he is all of nature rather than just a part * when he breaks nature’s laws and sets up laws n in hi fear denies himself by denying others the t to participate—he that falsifies the balance by deceit, upon others by contact or commits acts of re-| Fe p born of hate. n then becomes misfortune. n, true man, is a favored part of nature- expression of herself. 0 it man must give in order to aid in distribution is 's law of compensation and which controls all social, ws T political and individual affairs. refuse to aid is to restrict nature in her bounties ‘Tesults in the elimination of those who refuse. n’s misfortune i good fortune. in his failure to participate in scheme of things, to refuse to obey her law, the) ‘ has a never ending series of tests and in- seeks and finds all our weaknesses and is ever! us to the breaking point. rewards the strong by many and severe trials. is loud in her warnings and hard in her chasten- brings sorrow as a contrast and to intensify joy.) knows neither revenge nor pity. is birth, life and death, but it is all the cycle of . For death is but disintegration and decay | h bed of new life. The theory is that discussion will prevent war this in mind, each state's membership in the ex- council of the league has been increased. More more talk. "The People Should Decide estimates of when the peace treaty will be and by the Versailles conference center on { middle of May. Mean—what? For the United States | | | | ‘will mean this: The president will sail for home. ty itself will be brought back to the senate for ae it is ratified. of nations will it cannot become a real and binding con- But, more than ail, for the first time, the » meadorenee draft of Ge pu property. ere diseussion of the tentative league of na- outlined the president in February. But tra the senate can show in this crisis is to start the aps ep the e usual completed proposition soon to of doing international business in followed, congress will convene, and lengthy start in the senate. The house will not be _ According to our hidebound rules of whole, but the senate, alone and un- will proclaim its “yea” or “nay” talking. today that the bitterest senatorial de- the league of nations feature of the) ions are, also, that ‘party politics, rather| merits of the document itself, with the league included or excluded, will guide many of the in making their speeches and casting their votes.|"*% "rs" Ore | yy w the circumstances, isn’t it time that some of our d rwes of procedure went by the board? for the people to voice their own decision? Isn’tja bass drum. best way would be for congress to pass a special g for an advisory vote by the people of the whole . This would be constitutional. The chief objection lis method is raised by men who don’t think much of senat er pone goer eae is so jealous of its treaty , " olds ii so superior to the le would kill such a bill even if it were passed ng is a crisis coming. The best evidence of good to let the people decide for themselves. ball Af Lenine feels insulted about Hun threats to adopt ving scruples and t kultur. O, Was It Yesterday? BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE , he can get aiudect mane to cast aside it: If love be lunacy, surely heaven is a mad-house.) O, was it yesterday I drained a draught that same cup, from which her lips had quaffed, _ And turned the rim until that place met mine 4 Her lips had touched—and made the water wine? O, was it yesterday I sat me there Where she had sat in that insensate chair, ‘Whose arms had held themselves half way around ber And had not seized her and forever bound her? O, was it yesterday, tho parted far, ‘We gazed an hour together at one star As each had promised each? And in that tryst At was as tho our spirit lips had kissed. ©, was it yesterday this mad earth vaulted And kicked its heels at heaven and somereauited, And cracked its heely with laughter, as it lay Bprawled on its equinox? Yen, it was yesterday! When you have only laughter for your remembered follies, you are no longer young.) Copyright, 1919, N. B. A.) If three toots had accompanied the bomb in the ‘8 office, it would have been time for noon lunch. The bomb was on the bum, evidently, procedure, not| Meat has gone up, because of the decrease in con Life’s Darkest Moment. By Webster =AND WHER YOU RE THROUGH YOU COM RIGHT I AND TARE ar Na 7 ~ striction, when he in his greed} /- THEY TURN IT AROUND AT NIGHT For Rent—High grade apartments; 9 rooms, 3 baths, south exposure all day—Advertisement in Chicago | (1X), Tribune, ¢ oe 0 oF | Jett Davis, the king of the hoboes, is now manager | of boxer Jef? has had « lot af experience al boxer, having boxed all over the United States and also blind baggaged and ridden the bumpers ar You know, the Huns could have had their place in | the sun without the least bit of trouble if they had | an ounce of brains, All tiey had to do was | to tugn the clocks ahead two hours. eee Suggestions to everybody Why not write a some about the Victory Loan? eee MUCH THE SAME, MUCH THE SAME Ebert Ward and bride were given a bucket-bell- horn serenade Friday night, while visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Karl McLane. In some way these nocturnal frolics of our young people always remind the writer of Irving's “The Alhambra by Moonlight.” He speaks of heartng the “faint notes of « distant castanet and have pictured to myself some youthful cavalier eerenading his lady's window. A «allant custom of former days, but now sadly on the decline except tn the remote towns and vil- lages of Spain.” The beauty of thought, the charm of expression were Irving's in a high degree.-Wayne County (Mo.) Journal. eee sumption during Lent-or because of the increase ox pected now that Lent is past. Either reason is good enough for a packer. ee You remember the row caured by General Goethals’ opporition to wooden ships, don't youT What about it? Oh, nothing except that the government has just sold 15 wooden ships at a loss of $1,340,000, eee Be that az it may, Charles J. Swindells ts an attor. As for the Victory Loan, money talks louder than That if you have only a small\garden plot you will | be wasting space to plant whole rows of lettuce and radishes. These quick-erowing crops can be used to Oi) vacant spaces in the rows of other crops, or even planted between the rows. One good plan is to mix radish seeds sparingly with parsnip or carrot seeds. ‘The young radishes, coming up quickly, will mark the rows for cultivation, and will be pulled before the other crops need the space, When you plant early turnips, mix in a few lettuce seed. The lettuce will mature quickly, and will be benefited, if anything, by the shade which the growing turnips give it, Tomorrow JMORROW, May 1, will be the anniversary of the battle of Manila Bay, when the Spanish f} was degtroyed by Admiral Dewey. War against Spain had been declared on Apri 18, 1898. At the time the Asiatic Spanish fleet was at anchor in Ma nila Bay, and the Asiatic fleet of the United States was lying at Hong Kong. Dewey sailed with his fleet acroes the China Sea, and in the late afternoon of April 20 arrived @ff the Boca Grande, the strongly fortified strait connecting Manila Bay with the sea, Six fighting ships, headed by Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, two transporte carrying coal, and a revenue cutter comprised the United States fleet, The Spanish ontojo had eight fighting ships In the bay. e less powerful than the American ships, but were supported by shore batteries that equalized the forces. ‘The moon was hich and the night clear when the United States fleet steamed thru the 25-mile passage, They passed the fortified islands in the straits before the Spanish discovered them, and by midnight were safe in the bay, At daybreak, eight miles from Ma- nila, the Spanish fleet was encountered under the guns of the land batteries, Dewey gave the order to attack, and at 5:51 on Sunday, May 1, the battle be gan. At 7:35, after two of the Spanish ships had been wet on fire, Dewey gave his famous order to withdraw for breakfast, and the United States ships steamed slowly out into Manila Bay while the Americans drank their coffee, At 1116 the attack was renewed, and at 12:80 the Spaniards ran up a white flag, and the amazing battle of Manila Bay was ended. The American casualties were six wounded; the Spanish 618 killed and wounded, On May 1, 1893, the Columbian Exposition was opened at Chicago. In 1901, on the first of May the Pan-American Exposition was opened at Buffalo, and in 1904, on May 1, the Loulsiana Purehase Expo- sition wag @pened at St. Louls, In 1878, @n the first day of May 1cent postcards were first dueded by the United States government. | American masses may not be #o learned as the schol eet TL “yA REFORMATION OK KEVE Editor The Star; When the coytroiling power has | come into the hands of the ignorant masses by revo is, when the government has become democratic in control of an ignorant mase—it wit! soon become mobocratic, And then, if not taken ta charge of by a Caesar or Napoleon and for a time converted into an absolutiem with @ dictator at ite head, it passes to destruction as a natin. French revolution is a glaring illustration of this truth, In France the masses were driven by their greedy, vicious, exploiting ruling class, to a point where con ditions were economically unbearable, It was a quew tion of bread or blood, They rore up, beheaded their king, and took the reins Of government in their own bands, That is, a democracy was extablished. But this democracy In the hands of the ignorant masses soon became a mobvoeracy, and we had the chaos, crimes and crucities of the Reign of Terror—the rule of the mob. Wrance was saved from destruction by the gentur of the great Napoleon, who converted the government into & oneman power with hip imperial will at the head. Why did the democracy of France become the mob- ocracy of Murat, Danton and Robesplerre? It was because the pepple of France were incapable of self government. They had not the necessary intelligence and virtue. The preceding, 200 years of exploitation by the ruling clase had degraded the French masses into ignorant, selfish, vicious beasts. Their only in- stinct and impulse was a desire for vengeance upon their oppressors. Thus it has ever been. Ignorant masses never re volt until driven to it by physical want. They know only the physical and hence use physical force; and when triumphant thru forcible revolution, they re enact the scenes of the French Revolution, At pres ent we have an illustration In Russta. Put I have muck faith in the American people. I believe they will not walt until made beasts of and be driven to ody revolution, I believe we shall have reformation instead of revolution. I think we have reached a plane where the masses can mo: intelligently than heretofore deal with the problems of government We must recognize that new factors enter into the solution of government problems. Heretofore the masses have pot had the educational advantages that] we have. Railroad, stegm and electrical power, tele graph, telephone, the printing press and public schools—these things have spread knowledge among the masses. All have been very educational. The lution—that arn of Greece, but they are more intelligent—have more real and aceurate knowledge In the Instances cited the masses, when they came into power, had been made vicious and revengeful by years of oppression. When our American people end our present plutocracy and fh its stead establish & democracy, it will be by reformation and not by revolution; and they will establieh a just and en- lightened democracy which will not pass into a mob- ocracy The masses everywhere over the world are demand ing reform—a restoration of their rights as men— and the privileged rulime class is wise enough to know that concessions must be made and reforms granted if a cataclysm is to be averted. In the United States the masses—the common peo ple—seem intelligently aroused and the politicians who heretofore were satisfied with things as they are, are now harking to the protesting cries of the people. If we find political leaders who have the wisdom to properly voice in laws the true and reasonable de mands of the people, to the end that jus’ may be God grant it, and save us from volution Judging from what we see of the aroused political sentiments of our people of this nation, the people are about to take charge of their government. When they do so we shall not have an ignorant, destructive mob in control but an enlightened, virtuous people, administering under just and due forms of law a rational government. We shall have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and the United States of America, as a nation, will enter upon a career that will carry the nation to a higher civilization than has ever been attained by any nation on earth, ‘ And if the {deals of our president dre carried out: “The war drums will throb ne And the battle flags be furled In the parliament of n ‘The federation of thi orld.” M'DOWELL, Hanford, Washington, MARRY EARLY MOVEMENT w | PROPOSED IN AUSTRALIA | and perhaps a bonus to young mot the declining birthrate. In 1918 496 of 1,000 years of age. The 10 years was 642 to 1,000, Spare the rod and you miss half the pleasure of fishing, The} OLD ED HOWE’S OPINION | | | | | The leading Apostle of Common Sense |in the United States is the Sage of Potato Hill, Ed*Howe of Atchison, Kangas. No- body could possibly think of accusing him of being a crank or a theorist. He is so stubbornly practical and hard-headed that he leans over backwards. | It is interesting to \say about, prohibition. I find this in his Monthly, and recommend its reading to { those gentlemen who seem to have an idea that it is the preachers and women and Chautauqua Circles that have abolished the booze. Mr. Howe says: “Thousands of worthy men hate pro- hibition for no other reason than that they hate the long-haired men and short- haired women who have for years been objectionable in advocating the doctrine. To all such I say the success of prohibition what he has to is not due to the efforts of professional | prohibitionists. The common people, the [business men, have prohibited the liquor | |traffic in the nation because Whisky is a} fool. The majority of the people have a right to ob, yhen drunken fools are | necessary. BY DK. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) when they neglect their fam- ilies until they become public charges, and reader insane asylums and alms houses I dislike professional prohibi- tionists and professional propagandists of every kind. But if a man doesn’t know enough to behave himself, the majority have a right to teach him.” It should be borne in mind also that Mr. Howe livesgin Kansas, where they .have tried prohibition for some time. Speaking as a Kansan, he further says: “Men ofter say to me: ‘Of course I am not opposed to temperance, but I object to prohibition because it will lead to other ob- jectionable things.’ I live in a prohibition state, and originally opposed prohibition as violently as any one. After long ex- perience with the policy, I favor it; I know of no objection whatever to it. Whisky is an evil as certainly as burglary; it will benefit any community, state, or nation to get rid of it. 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