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ONE MAN'S OPINIONS
BY N. D. COCHRAN
Hired Girls. . Frequently I read
"What some budding philosopher and
sociologist male or female writes
about girls finding employment and
getting a good home in domestic serv
ice. And now and then we hear
something from somebody who
knows what she is talking about
the intelligent girl who has tried it
out
And I don't blame any girl with
pride or ambition for wanting to do
most anything' but be some "other
woman's maid or cook or hired girl.
And I think that eery healthy wom
an wno has married a comfortable
home would be better off if she hacl
to do much of the work in her own
home.
I have been in homes where the
hired girl was better looking, better
natured, better capable of managing
a house than. her mistress; and I have
seen the girl forced to wear apron
and cap and use the back stairs, so"
tha everybody, including the girl her
self, could never mistake her for one
of the family.
Rich people, you know that is,
ignorant rich people want the but
ler, chauffeur, cook and maid to wear
the uniform of servitude, so they
won't be mistaken by guests or
neighbors for relatives, guests or
members of the family.
Most hired girls are slaves. They
have little or no time they can call
their own; theirbeaux have, to come
to the back door and visit in the
kitchen r their lives are not their nwn
k and almost hourly they are reminded
uj. me iuul nun. uueii puaiuon is me
nial. I think it speakr well'for civiliza
tion that "good" hired girls, are hard
er to find with each succeeding generation.
America first wer all all the
time.
THE PUBLIC FORUM
WATDYU MEAN. BREVITY. Mr.
Brevity thinks that space wasted
which tells him how he pays double
prices because of taxation, and haw
his wages are low because of re
stricted opportunity. With the tax
ing power I can pass most of the
money from the rich to the, poor;
then, presto, I can make it flow back
to the, rich. Abolish taxes, on pro
ducts, which double prices, and get
revenue from land value, because it
is every ent caused, by population;
'thus we increase opportunity and
wages. C. F. Hunv
A SOCIALIST SOLUTION. A per
feet analysis of the present capitalist
system is given by S. P. Cleveland in
an article entitled Humanity Day No.
2, but a very poor solution, one call
ing for a general strike. A general
strike, no matter how peacefully or
lawfully carried out, is sure to result
in bloodshed, and in the end nothing,
accomplished. We. know what hap
pened in Colorado when the miners
refused to work. The militia was
called out, resulting in the workers
being shot or burned to death. Re
member, in any strike you are deal
ing with the capitalists' chief tools,
the army, the militia and the police.
They are ready at a moment's call
to obey thevcommand of the master.
Now the workers in their blindness"
give through their vote the power to
the capitalist to control the army,
militia and police. The workers are
in the majority, and would, they only
stick together at the polls, and. disre
gard all political parties formed hy
and f or, the capitalist class, they could
by a majority of votes in a city get
control of the police; in the state, of
the militia, and in the whole United
States, the army.
Thus ,in control there would be no
more need of the general strike. They
could take over the nation's chleC in
dustries, such as the factories, the
raflroads, and the mines, and instead
