The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1923, Page 16

DEBS DECLARES COOLIDGE 1S POLITICAL ACCIDENT Socialist Leader tional Prohibitio: Also Declares Na-! n Cannot Be En- reed Is Cheertul BY 8. B. GROFF ‘That President Cc from obscurity to th has been largely the result chance or accident, and that na tional prohibition in its present form is nonenforceable and will how of its own weight Laside two rs—these were the high lights of opinions voiced Monday by Eugene Victor Debs, spokes- man for the Socialist party, in Seattle, on a speaking tour Displaying a vast fund combined with a winning and a tremendously keen insight (n to modern problems, of humor versonality:| Debs talked at length to a Star reporter Monday on Various questions SAYS HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH COP STRIKE “Coolidge’s rise to fame dental. He ver chusetts ¢ men’s str ago. Th had, branch of the ef Labor, fun started. “The strike was finali % threat to bring milit ton as policemen. Co: credit, but the Boston city tration did all the work Tisé was rapid after that. He wa elected vice president and of course Harding’s death made him pre Prohibition? ‘In its present fo it cannot be enforced. The time coming when light wines and beer Will come back. Prohibition is a piti ful farce in the large cities. It is an easy matter for a stranger to visit any of the larger cities and buy any Kind of liquor and any quantity This is true of all parts of the country.” SOUL FREE OF ALL BITTERNESS Debs, at G7, is not old. Althoug' he has suffered intensely p! and mentally during the last few years, Debs has emerged from it all prison and bitter icism, with soul refined and freed of bitterness His jong term in Atlanta federal pris. On for speaking his thoughts during the wer, his loss of citizenship, these things, he says, are all forgiven “If I were to try Bent me to, prison,” Debs remarked, * *] would turn them all loose. They Showid have perfect freedom in ‘hich to voice their own feelings, ‘and what was in their hearts. “President Harding told me after my release from prison, that m adminis. Coolidge’s the men wh Debs radiates alism of his construction and the life of tho nati sulvation of the country at he believes. He urges cla and : large, sciousness, all branches of bring about a nev Debs’ me of hi of inia, Gov of Debs, th without pas laid be Hatfie to end left t had sect the to his program. taur friend of the governor and 1} gained from him the ad jon, have an immense respect for you Mr. Debs. You are so different Hfrom the man J} had been told that gover made s cone fis AR | The E Bon ed Chinese Lines and Colors Give Exotic Brilliance to These Fine Autumn Frocks Mea Wedne The New Charmeen, Imported Poiret and Crepe Satin Frocks Pictured, Express the Smartest Influences of the New Season HEY offer gracefully the newest manners demurely and end with an impudent grace, which is the spirit of youth itself. Presenting the New K Indo-Chinese Effects in Autumn fashion the long lines which begin so YHE brilliant flashes of against rich dark backgrounds—the gra- cious softness of fur trimmings—and that distinctive simplicity which is the essence of style. For a Pari both in Oriental colors street and informal dres and Malay browns, blue silk and woolen with Chinese colors, in embroidered or beaded, shades— fa- al- wear, dark and blacks fabrics. me LE vorites, and they are Oriental mot ways accented either Poiret Twill and lustrous Charmeen are the favored wools, expressed in MPORTED LOUNCES lined with contrasting color, and ripples are which th interestingly most of the sleeves slip down the the beautifully man-tailored frocks. Redingote lines* and wrap-around styles relieve their severity with splashes of vivid wrist and most of well well over the below collars sweep down the waist. REPE SATINS, brocaded crepes, satin form the foundation for the smartness of the Fall ilk frocks. Dray flounces, ripple lines and pleatings, all con- spire to make the mode graceful and very youthful. Embroid- ery and beading in bright shades form piquant trimming. nades of lacquer red, Paris brown, black, rose, gray Russe. moire antique and broche and Becond Floor—T he Bon Marche (3) | citizenship was a ‘matter could be attended to that }you were.” later” 1) Hatfield then judged by that that it would bejof the Labor Star and permitted Festored if my conduct was suchinim to again publish his paper, What it pleased the administration. |which had been suppressed for vig: | “But I could not retract or re-|orously attacking Hatfield's move cant,” Debs said passionately. “I|ments during the strike. | hays taken up the burden where RECALLS OLD TIMES I \eft off when the gray prison |{N THE NORTHWEST doors closed behind me. I have| Debs is not a stranger to os an Fs At least been honest in my con-| Northwest. His first. v Chinese “Pagoda, yictions. Yes, I am deprived of my| tle was in 1890. the Val 9 EE eke ana for} town then that it ls now,” he re and “Coolie” Hats thousands of votes have/come to| Marked smilin) he tall leader Developed of richest Lyons “my party ag a result. jot the socialists spen r y often softly irred effect are “Ts days in the mining camps of ne Chinese ymby birds Wee cite pee” torte persons | West, and recalled memories of the others have ric me that |days of the gréat strike at Cripple ong, full tassels peer. wotes for the firet time were | o-ooy and at Deadwood Oriental charm With me, merely because I had) ye. were only y ue 5 Priced $15.00 to $25.00 Jost oan own.” [ments in Millinery Section—Third FloorThe Bon Marche Millinery American Adaptations From French Modes to quaint, so captivating rprint it moy seem to you universally becoming—to miss and matron released the* editor K So pleturenque, “Mandarin” “It was hardly such as flowers lend an ac embroidered and beaded tops two command. those days and. place |They were: Do not steal. Do. not cheat. Anything else was You could leave your gold on the table of any saloon and it was as safe there as in a bank. The on! law way that of the six-shooter. | You couldn't tell the difference be- tween the millionaire owner of a gold mine and the commonest miner. They were all dressed alike, pl Saeed acted alike, and ate from the san Supetior | plate. of our school and | “Them days is gone forever. Now how: easy it is |the rich owner lives in a palace. | He is the capitalist. The miner ts [just a miner, burrowing in the jearth by day and night, living in a |hovel, and producing all the owner's | wealth Debs is on a speaking tour of the Northwest. His purpose is to re torganize the socialist party from the jravaging effects of the war. He |fully expects a newer, finer and |much greater socialism to emerge | }like the Phoenix, from the ashes of all right at De Honey's New Ac Pike at 13th, accepted phraseology of the times EMPLOYES OF RHODES PICNIC A combined steamer tour and pic- with’ 500 guests of the Rhodes Co. here attending, was held Sunday aboard the steamer Balley Gatzert lodge, near Des Moines. ‘The celebration was the first annual picnic given by the Rhodes Co. to employes of the con- bank, | cern. and) The day was spent with a tour of |the Breemrton navy ward and the Debs cally attention to the flop «| Shilshole Ave: ‘Bonds |pubiie opinion from the republican) Bids Are Above Par |party to Cleveland's administration,| . Shilshole |as a striving to find a panacea. A | trict bonds lsimilar switch occurred at the elec- Itlon a g, bu is time fro! L. Calhoun Recalls Politics of 1895; Has Let-|democratie to republican policies. thot | ter From Socialist Leader Perera ga prt in an| x ai Molo yer cre! says: | issue. Among the first Seattle citizens; ment, inflicted by a petty autocrat “It enters what was once the Mahdky’ drested | Wigete’ V.| Debs wrote, ho would/most august tribunal the world had| * Joint offer was mado by Blyth, five timgs candidate for the|4ve to communicate with hi8|eyer known, accomplishes’ its ne | Witter & Co., Union National the ticket| ‘ends by totter furious purposes and retires, Yeav-|Balllargeon, Winslow & Co. {the past Hilinal Cadi sai |was L, Calhoun,” an. ‘employe of ing the temple of justice reeking) John HB. Price & Co., totaling $111,- | toward socialism,” he sa islands near Point Defiance park, at ea » ast "atin Debs Greeted Here by Friend of Populist Day it admi to ont Bes exidents, But they won't fight for] to our Beginners’ Clagk starting Thursday evening a 8:34, or to gur Advanced Clans, starting Monday evening at 8:30. for $t-0! each lesson, or 8 lessons’, begin- ners, $5.00; advanckd, $6.00. Plen- Mty of practice; no’ embarr ment: a few lessons you will be a dan Remember, Beginners, Thursday evening; Advanced, Monday evening. Private lessons, all hours, day and evening. UBLIC DANCES Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Melody Shop orchestra. More pep and enjoy- ment. Wednesday, special fea- ture night. Join the jolly crow Popular price: Phone EA ast- 0259. ; they won't die for it. | ‘l am opposed to war because is the negation of civilization. am opposed to capitalism because ave, improvement dis totaling $110,000 are} |worth more than par, according to two bids received by Harry W./Car- city comptroller, by bond com-| Debs | panies which wish to purchase the nic, breeds war.” Debs declared this in. the highly favored land. “Yet sands are forced to engage unending struggle from birth to} | death for a bare existence.” j whe Capitalism, he declared, is an} joutgrown — inuti n, “Al the| forces of change are now working] money power, | roll, . supreme court, and at Rhodesa expires,” Debs, | presidency on socialist “It becomes eminently vital at this |Juncture of our national affairs that Hardware Co,, an asso} third political party should be DEBS HITS WAR with more stenches than Coleridge] 972 for the bonds, The Dexter Ho t »| is Sen ie bi 5 onds, or "When Jt: comes. it wit beige ‘the he Beattl | discovered in the city of Cologne,|ton bank and Carstens & Barles, |advantage and benefit ef the work-| ciate of Debs in the bs otha cla: patton | ing clans stirring days] organized since while the people wonder, by what/Inc, also submitted a joint bid to. nd of all soclety as well.’ | of the people's or popuplist party,|have brought the country to ca eee human or divine, it can be/taling $110,583. Tho bonds carry One of the speaker's strongest, a verge of ruin,” Debs wrote in the | deodorized.” i . d ent interest. 1 sees was directed at the admis. | |when a political upheaval dumped} 4 cent interest. |Say Country Owned by Mi-|t:#tion of justice. Ho reterred to|many old officeholders rae EET _ nority That Won't Fight |" "And not all of Gn er | cantar ‘cos, adnietdisiee. f én 5,00 ave copy ol a s Acne Debs an enthusinstion ro,| about the appointment of @ mngl8 | obs tae: which was read at A Sale! Cut L eng ths of Fine e Woolens, Coatings and DressGoods lions together," he told his audience,| ‘roxas in 1895, and still porsesses “have sufficient influence to bring | i | the letter written by Eugene Debs an enthusiastic re-| : Sunday afternoon when he}? of these judges. a rally of the people's party at| the Arena in the interests Fort Worth, ‘Texas, August 8, rganization in this sta 1895. Debs at that time was in of the socialist party, it s@rang Jail for having caused the Ch ago) Smiling, graceful in his move-| arises involving your rail strike. He was a republican ments as a panther, healthy-ap-| you lose and was president of the American | pearing, alert, active, it was the) He referred to the recent supreme | Railway union, with offices in} same Debs—only a bit older—that| court decisions on child labor, mint: | Cleveland. . Lengths 1 40 to 56 had for 40 years flayed the existing} mum wage for women and others.) 4+ tie convention t 31 ly (@) e ar i 1 0 31/2 yds ° inches wide These splendid fabrics—and they’re drastically underpriced—include Forsioany were told it was to be a war to|penitentiary as a political pris allOts % Tet pe ahe te yas co TALE wag] nee! dutite And aftanctine wae, co 1 ot, manalion: ORIG, and. aleo tng and Huffmann’s Montera, Strelna and Melrose Suitings—Botany Dress Goode. ; for democracy, I did not believe it. “There were 8,000 prisoners). "aut It no ‘happened that. 1” waa| there," he sald, *and only one mile| CY: riestley’s English Coatings and other fine woolens. in, that war," (He grinned and|tionaire. He was in by mistake, He| Another speaker was United b crowd laughed sympathetically,)| was o stock manipulator who had| States Senator Simpson of Kansas, did not volunteer, 1 was con-| offended Rockefeller, But he bought | Who started the slogan; “You don’t ipted. And I'm stili waiting for| his way out. The man who got his| know how it feels to be a U, bonus. pardon is now head of our U, 8.| senator Simpson ix? now gressmen, writers of flaming edi-| such justice? No! | Voxnw toriais for particpation in the war,| Debs’ other Northwest dates are Krom Wia coll in the McHenry college professors, capitallats, | Bverett, Monday night; Taecoma,|county Jail, Woodstock, UL, Debs preachers. ‘They were for it, he) hae Portland, Friday, outlined his policies for the benefit wald, and they were not in it |of the convention, Stock phrase 1NO WAR DECLARED | are|of the. ingurgenta sparkle from [BY WORKING PEOPLE Debs! Jetter and he then, ax now, “No war,” he pointed was at Joggerheuds with the U ever boon declared by supreme court, socal order. and flayed Chiet Justice Taft, men-| wenkery was many. others who| department of Justice! And the man Gov, Marion Martin of Texas and] people. All, of them “Until | Tacoma, and with games and poat. ing at Rhodesa lodge. The party returned to Seattle thru the Wes passage after an all-day outing. | | | | | per party out) CET VAUDEVILLE 321: that when an issue interests that one of the eneral” Jacob EB, STARS: “OF FUTURE [Direct From way Su “4:i4| Senator 3 Murphy “9:68 440) Princess Radja! in her famous “Danee of Ch Lengths 1 to 844 yards, in widths 40 to 56 inches, of woolens suitable for .Fall suits, dresses, skirts and coats, All wanted colors, including black and white. In this splendid lot are French and Storm Serges, Poplins, Eponge, Bedford Cord, Jer- sey, Mohair, Tricotine, Chinchilla Coatings, Hopsackings, Velours and Tweeds, Third Floore-The Bon Marche He started ip on the subject of| tioning expecially his $10,000-a-year | Covey, who lator led his army on the war, “I was not. for war. I) legacy frorn be asercty { tgaaral to Washington, Coxey {is now was againat it," he declared, “We} Debs told of his Ife in a federal! oyna of large limestone quarries war who were not| who signed his pardon j« our chiet|Gov. Walt of Colorado were at} in ite" pad’ hin respects | Justice! the convention, Calhoun way edi BE ie ch to the Wi t profitecrs, con-| “You ask me, have 1 respect for| tor of the Industrial Educator of Henry B. Walthall in a’master melodrama “DHE WACK ON BARKOOM. Loon" Lake Washington properties being advertised in the Want A out, has}and muny times at bargain pr the working] Watch the Want Ads, and you will! §: have been find many good Investments, PIKE STREET—SECOND AVENUE—UNION STREET ren Any Time 100 the sentence of imprison: