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pie ever had in them. Not until we get all papers like The Day Book can we allow newspapers and the spoils politicians to voice our sentiment. Abe Holzman. at our door, the people are arising, the sleeping giant of the proletariat is awakening and facing fanvard as bright and promising as the morning sun. I can feel it in the very mar row of my bones. Jay Carey. THE PARADE. 'Now that tlie people of Chicago (some of them) have had their patriotic spree, they are beginning to recover their senses and wonder how any collection of profit-seekers could have made such fools of them. Their masters had them in line and cracked the whip of economic neces sity over their heads. They were just as blind to their interests as the scab is blind to the value of working class organization. Credit is due to the unions, Social ists, I. W. W.'s, Woman's Peace par ty, the A. U. A. M., Anarchists and other organizations that refused to participate. They see back of the fake. They see in this so-called pre paredness the sly attempt of capital ism to crush working class rebellion. They remember how the French rail road workers were forced back to their jobs .by the soldier's bayonet when they refused to work under in tolerable conditions. As the tiger uses its claw to rend its prey, so does capitalism use the army. Working people kill working people for the benefit of their masters. Labor First. SENTIMENTS. Of course, the munition trust and the press con trolled by' it want to scare the people with war horrors in an attempt to get great future contracts -from our government. The rain follows the sunshine, so will funerals follow the preparedness policy advocated by the National Security league. The people want Teddy, say the politicians. The people are voicing their opinions at the ballot box, just the opposite. The politicians and trust press have lost all the confidence the peo- -SHOULD MARRY HER. A man should marry a woman with a past if her health is not wrecked and she is not a moral degenerate. A girl who has made a mistake and suffered through loving too well or through poverty would appreciate a good home and kind and loving hus band and in turn would make an ideal home for him. This is the view of a man who has traveled this coun try to a great extent and has found that the average young lady who has been sheltered is thoughtless; selfish and sometimes ill-tempered, not the proper mate for any man in medium' circumstances. I have found the girl from the rural community more self reliant. I do not think that any man will make a mistake to take a girl who has suffered for a wife, but the past must be a closed book and never be brought up in fits of temper. This done, and there should be nothing to bar them from living happy and con tented. E. E. S. o o TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY - June 6, 1786. Father Gibault, a prominent figure in Illinois history, wrote to the Bishop of Quebec de scribing the barbarous condition of the country; according to his ac count there was at this time an al most total lack of regard for law and religion, and education was practice ally unknown. o o i HE DIDN'T A boy fell into a pond and when a man who was passing pulled him out he said to the boy: "Well, son, how did you come to fall into the lake?" "I didn't come to fall in at all," re plied the boy with some heat. "I came to fish." Ladies' Home Jour , naL