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-r'm--ty&'V?irx!K-t - by day and night Be thus in all thou dost, see, feel, think, speak divine ly bright." To open the redlight district would be a sin. Sin is a transgression of God's law. Transgressing God's law is doing anything detrimental to our own bodies, resulting in disease, hate, envy, unkindness, crimes and crim inality. John McGregor, 2631 Cot tage Grove A v. SAYS NIX ON WAR. Regarding Lusitania affair, will you please pub lish this letter. For humanity's sake let there be no thoughts of war. Didn't the passengers on board know of the raging war in Europe? If they did not why should this beauti ful and rich country be made deso late and why should our mothers and sisters be made widows and our chil dren orphans? I say, with millions of real true brothers and sisters, that it's insanity to think of war, and we'll be greatly disappointed in our Woodrow Wilson if he don't find a way to settle the differences without bloodshed. Here's to W. W. and no more war! E. G. NIX ON CARTER. In the present judicial campaign there is at least one spot that stands out where it seems to me that labor should take a de cidedly active part. The Republicans have nominated for judge of supreme court Orrin N. Carter, whose sole title to fame seems to rest upon his man handling of the street car men's in terest as arbitrator in their wage dis pute with the companies in 1912. That his actions were sufficiently ap preciated by big business is evidenced by the fact that the Democrats nom inated no one to make the run against, him. The Socialists, however, have nominateu a man to contend with Orrin N. Carter for the supreme court judgeship in the person of Frank L. Wood. Mr. Wood is a clean, able and intelligent lawyer and one who sym pathies, as. his membership in the Socialist party would indicate, are with the toilers. If there is any stam ina or backbone in the labor move ment they will take this opporuntiy to rebuke men of the Carter stripe, who persistently and consistently antagonize the betterment of labor conditions and wages and support a man who stands for decent treatment and fair play to the workers. L. P. Lindelof, Sec'y Painter Dis't Council, No. 14. TYRANNICAL LEGISLATION. We have so much unjust legislation now dealing with the sexual relations that I shudder to see any more. Some one mailed me an outline of a bill by Judge Goodnow dealing with illegiti mate children, which allows a moth er to name whom she may as the fa-' ther of her child. " She is tempted with $3,500 to per jure herself. She is tempted to pick out the man with the money, the in nocent party, and singleras a rule. Over half of all illegitimate children are fathered by married men. With' a drastic law of this kind we are in danger of breaking up half the mar ried families in the country and mak-r ing goats of all the single men who are available. This muckraking is of no use and should not become law. This merely ,' gives judges, juries, shyster lawyers ' and newspapers a chance to get rich0 on the misfortunes and mistakes of others. This dodging the issue is cowardly. These illegal children2 should be made legal by state act and fed at public expense. Collecting contingent fees for a l child is of no use. The state owes it1 to the mother who gives the state a "' soldier for war. The world owes it ' to the mother, who is entitled to at ' least one child by divine right. The illegal father, out of work and too poor to marry, is not an enemy of ' the state. He offers more to the pro- , tection of the nation than 80 per cent of the rich who live in wedtock. He , offers more than all the consumptives, L jt.a.JagttJPggaiB