The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1920, Page 6

She Seattle Star By mail, out of city, 500 per month; # months, 0; € months, $2.75; year, $.00,-in the of Washington, © per month, $450 for 6 year. Hy carrier, city, 1% EAR HAS BEEN EXPRESSED in sev eral quarters recently that the triple alliance, whose candidates received 40 pet cent of the mayoralty vote in the Seattle election, is likely to capture the republican , y nominations this fall in this state. If the alliance can cast 40 per cent as a body in the republican primaries, its candi- date will certainly win. And, because the Yepublican party is dominant here, the triple alliance candidates would very likely be | swept into office, dopesters declare. Assuming this to be the situation, and assuming that the triple alliance thus pre- sents a condition that must be overcome, how shall it be done? es FAR the republican leaders, spokesmen, and mouthpieces, journalistic and other- wise, have offered nothing. They have merely “viewed with alarm.” They pointed to the nonpartisan league’s success in North Dakota, where, similarly, | the radicals entered the republican primaries and captured the state. “It must not be al- lowed in Washington,” they declare. But how prevent it? The Star has the answer—IF THE RE- PUBLICANS OF THIS STATE ARE BIG ENOUGH TO ADOPT IT. | The answer is, nonpartisan elections in state and county, the same as now obtain | in the city. I : EN THREE CANDIDATES were in| the field, the triple alliance almost put fits mayoralty candidate first in the list in the primaries. Any little shift would have Duncan top position. But when the fight was narrowed down to | two candidates as the result of the city nonpartisan election system, the majority spoke up vigorously. There was no chance | for a minority to win under such a system. Now if there are six or seven candidates - for governor in the republican primaries, it is not unlikely that the triple alliance can- didate will win the nomination. He will | “then be opposed by a democrat. But if it 7 REPUBLICANS -|Do You Want to Save Party From the Triple Alliance? | publican party. is true that republicans will nevertheless vote the republican ticket—as they seem to be doing in North Dakota—the triple al liance candidate will be our next governor “* * UPPOSE the election were to be non- partisan. Then all the candidates for governor would run on the same basis as the candi- dates for mayor ran in Seattle. The two highest candidates at the primaries would have to run it off in the final election, And if the triple alliance candidate could win then, it would be only because he really had a majority of the people behind him. * * * mace NSHIP—that’s the solu tion to any rotten party nomination, whether it’s the triple alliance or a republi- can machine, Are the republicans of this state—is the republican legislature meeting today at Olympia—big enough to that in real nonpartisanship (as differentiated from the partisan “nonpartisanship” of North Da- kota) lies the only safe method of combat ing minority rule? ‘2 HE STAR, has been for nonpartisan elections for years. It was for non partisanship when a handful of politicians did the “picking of candidates” in the re The Star opposed “minority | rule” of that kind, just as it is opposed to minority rule under newer circumstances. The Star is for nonpartisanship because} it is RIGHT. The republican party machine! has always opposed it, heretofore, for self-| ish reasons. Perhaps NOW, when the party scheme of things would give an ad- vantage to a different group than the time- worn republican politicians, they may con- sent to see the light. The Star warns the republican bosses that if they continue the party system, the CON-|, TROL OF THE PARTY may soon be lost | to them, anyhow. With nonpartisanship, the state will at least have the advantage of a majority voice in the final election | Ten Pointers sonal guidance. For instance: habits of the rich. or games. and not meddle. sent to those who talk overmuch. 5—To look to nothing else except reason. 6—To love my kin, truth and justice. cumstances as well as in sickness. man according to his deserts. _ of the expenditure. | @ It is a hard job to behave well these days with politics, |tnis _ strikes and what-not keeping every one on edge. t C in the second century one Marcus Aurelius Antonius in| borwsing around Rome jotted down pointers for his per- 1—Simplicity in my way of living far removed from 2—To be neither of the green or blue party at the fights 3—To endure labor, want little, work with my own hands 4—Not to be led astray to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor to hastily give my as- 7—To learn self-government and cheerfulness in all cit- yo. 8—Love of labor and perseverance; firmness in giving to 9—To see things a long way off, and to be a good manager 10—To do what is set before me without complaining.| _ i Old stuff? Sure. But Marcus became boss of the Romans. | *¥°* MacMoyser must suffer |, ireetings! Want some poetry evenging? Look what Ned turns But back |!» | errors, Nature a 4 for booting a Still it's distressing to will | People so mill as one faultily turned at the is not | Freda is guiltless. It's Nature, of course Who Gets It? horse eee Edward N. Hurley, one-time ship the woodpile in this profiteering thing. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas asserts thousand miles away from his field. about $8.37. and the baker $42.10. and declares that the city hotel keeper gets paid $8.37. farmer is hardly the logical goat. food supply nor the prices. gamblers and gougers control pric alike the consumer and the produ It is refreshing to find in this day of accusation some one | !”« to come to the defense of the farmer, who, somehow, is fre- quently pointed at by the city man as the real person in ducer is jockeyed out of a part of his share, as a matter of fact, and he cites an example in wheat, The farmer raises shortage as the weapon. the wheat, and we eat it in the shape of bread, maybe a} +6 | Capper says that it takes four and a half bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour for which the farmer gets As it passes along the miller gets $12.70, And then Capper piles it on good four-and-a-half bushels of wheat for which the farmer was The consumer has,a real grievance, no doubt. Capper says: and markets, and rob|°*°eUme sele ping boss, says the “high cost of liv g peak has been r od But Squire Abner Harpt when he scales th next one jus js#till higher. that the pro-| sera ak he and that it'll be ab with a gun; others use a self. invented | r bottom dollar on| ndidate ix going to er bonnet into any | tows her new old political ring eee Europeans didn't get to know ‘ | Woodrow very well whil us $421 for this over there, judging from re ports in their newsp: vet that Mra, Wilson “has ruling the United States during Hines of the president.” the But the He controls neither the} cee Yea, the ines tax is a sort of ive service, “Speculators, | ” “JT hate the word prohibition, born member of the British parliament. She tells why. “Prohibitioin does not seem to me a good happened in America, because it was not the of an overwhelming majority of the people.” tion. matter; he prohibits. labels Pee ee : the whole nation! ew ea said Lady Astor, American-| club description of what has| SPRING arbitrary despotic government, but an act of velfdenial passed with the support There is that distinction between self-denial and prohibi-| An autocrat may cover his country with “verboten’” | signs; none of his subjects has anything to say about the But in such a democracy as this| every voter may have a hand in the framing of self-denial legislation. In the United States the majority, acting for! all the people, signed the anti-liquor pledge, made a resolu-| tion to abstain from intoxicating drinks, and as long as the 3 og Sg feel that way about it, the national resolution will it: Self-denial, not prohibition, They are selling Hog Island, of a late war fame. | see | || High-brow folks spenk of iilicit || booxo joints a8 “non-seeing swine.” oes And the Four L officialy boot-lmbing. r Clover Ladies against resoluted ruling by « Since the organization of the sal- vage division in the United States in April, 1918, more than $13,000,000 have been realized by the sale of waste war material, ' =DITORIALS — FEATURES || I a re ° rl | For what she is and for what she * Speaking of disarmament, England is going to spend | 84,000,000 pounds on her navy the coming year. Made her a kitten that looks like a|® | Some robbers do their hold-up work | THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, MARCIL 22, 1920. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise EVERETT TRUE By CONDO Wer, WHAT : ? Spook Stuff You COoMe FROM He } ROOM WOU BIT HERE¢ BY DE FRANK CRANE WIELDING 4 AFTER DINING IN “THE LORY, ‘ ) TOOTHPICK AND SUCK AIT f or It THROUGH “OUTe TEETH WITH [0 ~ | The world just now is being deluged by | that one is about to undertake a long jou é = ma a flood of Spiritism ney and meet a dark man, — ; 7 and distinguished names help along If spirits tell me that my sister in anothey he mania tate died at 3 M., what is the advantage f it? 4 i ; ee Saget Otis ¥ = , | But very much of this sort of thing ig +04 a 1 f fit yt? minut eatian y jes positively injurious. It causes morbid fear ae i Bip Oli ; L H ae ara ntist | Nereases the tendency to insanity, and e gravely announces the probability of spiritis- | Mates in misery. Worst of all, it upsets the normal, healthy functioning the mind, inducing its victin™ to depend upon hints, moods, and faneij Maeterlinck ibility of tie phenomena. M ingeniously on the po: eparating ny ft papers m the body, and even putting it! vither than upon the intelligent processesl c . My of reason, The ouija board, lineal deseendant of the |] jg mediaeval. It bears the same rela old planchette, is in vogue in society | tion to intelligent faith that astrology doeg What shall we think of all this? | to astronomy, cauls and amulets to medicine, Historically it is as old as the human] premonitions to foresight, suspicion to evie! race. As far back as record 1 men have | dence, pedomancy and chiromancy and neg" D WHY, THAT/S ALL poked timidly into the unknown and con-| romancy to psychology. THere'lu BE rc trued their fears as facts. It is the collapse of the mind. of or vr tt Spiritualism is older than religion, as| It is the childish confusion of the soul fini gnorance is older than knowl d panic Let it alone.* of uperstition is older than thoughtful rev-| For the strong it is of no use. 7 erence. For the weak—"“that way madness lies! Por i Witches have been peeping and mutter-| “It is this weakening of the sense of pea han inde since the Witch of Hider: onal responsibility,” writes Sir Williany stre Mis isle thing te quliten sarrett in “On the Threshold of the Une) spe he w g Paneete : ’ “that constitutes, in my opinion, the Che » one con ideration that proves this i peril of spiritualism. Hence your léee at's the use need to be guarded, with jealous care, alleged spirit communication has ever | even the level-headed should walk warily, ig advanced the welfare of the race je a and the excitable and emotional should haye Tp helpful invention, revealed a valuable truth, | nothing to do with it; for the fascination and advanced science, or explained a humbug. of the subject is like a candle to moths, it j Most of the spirit messages are piddling. | attracts and burns the silly, the creduloug, P They tell where to find a lost diamond, or | and the c 7 LET'S have lune olde’ 3 Football Sold for |,.22"""1."" j|Adverdeement 1 $2,125 in England IBERTY MARKET between Registered Dentists Our of the high rent district, per : po ; . Pike and Liberty Theatre THE MAN OF GOOD SENSE WILL NOT HESITAT Dr. J. Brown New Office gions 4 ORPHEUM. 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