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PAGE TWO Washington Standard OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON CAGLE FRESHWATER Editor Member of the WASHINGTON STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION. 9nb»<-rlpl lon Price, >1.30 a Yrmr. DEFINING THE ISSUES AT HOME. As he was the first statesman to elevate demo cratic principles of diplomacy into a practicable policy, forcing every Allied government to accept revolutionary departures from the purposes that have generally governed nations at war, so Presi dent Wilson is the first responsible statesman among the Allied nations to interpret the deeper intra-national meaning of the great world conflict now raging. He set this forward mark in that recent remarkably clear statement to a delegation of New York suffragists, a statement in which he gave clear expression to the realization that this war means a strengthening and rejuvenation o£> our democratic purpose in the field of social and political progress here at home, as well as in the field of international relations. "The whole world is now witnessing a struggle btween two ideals of government," he told the suffragists, "a struggle which goes deeper and touches more of the foundations of the organized life of mei: than any struggle that has ever taken place before; and no settlement of the questions that lie on the surface can satisfy a situation • which requires that the questions which lie under neath and at the foundation should also be settled, and settled rjght. lam free to say that I think the question of woman suffrage is one of those questions which lie at the foundation. The world has witnessed a slow political reconstruction, and men have generally been obliged to be satisfied with the slowness of the process. In a sense it is wholesome that it should be slow, because then it la solid and sure ; but I believe that this war is going ao to quicken the convictions and the con aciousness of mankind with regard to political questions that the speed of reconstruction will be greatly increased. • • It seems to me that thla is a time of privilege. All our principles, all our hearts, all our purposes, are being searched— Marched not only by our own consciences, but aearehed by the world—and it is time for the people of the states of this country to show the world in what practical sense they have learned the leasons of democracy—that they are fighting far democracy because they believe in it and that there is no application of democracy which they do not believe in." So does he unmistakably repudiate that na tionalism that professes to see democracy fully aehieved in this country, and his meaning be comes still clearer when we call to mind his many efforts, even amid the feverish preparations for war, to extend the application of democracy to industry. For unlike that class of patrfots who appear to urge that we forget democracy at home for the period of the war, Mr. Wilson realizes that just because men are to die for the principle abroad, it is to have a new birth at home and be extended in its application more rapidly than before. V A tremendous and a far-reaching, .though bloodless, revolution is in progress in our own nation' It will not be consummated in this gen eration, perhaps not in the next, but it is forging ahead and will continue. Daily we are realizing It more plainly. "WE MUST ALL SHARE ALIKE." One feature of this steadily changing attitude of the public mind is that one which is particu larly emphatic now and will continue to become more urgent as the war progresses, the determi nation that no fne should be permitted tp get rich out of this war. The belief that many of those who are dealing with the government in this emergency are get tlgn "fat" out of their contracts is responsible for a great measure of the present industrial unrest, in the shipbuilding industry as well as the others, for the workers are trying to get what they think is their share of the reported liberal profits. The resultant demoralization, more pro nounced here on the Pacific Coast perhaps than anywhere else, serves to emphasize the need for a further readjustment of conditions, a readjust ment which to us looks inevitable if the industrial forces of this country are to be coordinated for the needed war work as they must be, and a read justment in which the government will of course play the chief part. The feeling against exorbitant war profits is not confined to the workerK in any single industry. It is not only a topic of very general discussion in all circles, but it is being talked by the men who THE WASHINGTON STANDARD, OLYMPIA, WASH.. FKIDAV, NOVEMBER !». IWI7. make up the army, the hoys who are going to fight < *ni <>f thi'iu. writing ' Confessions of a (Vnseript" in a reeeiit issue of the Saturday l-'vt ning i''>-t refers to it thus in speaking of the men in the !n w national army, tlie drafted men: ' They are watching the purveyors of war sup plies. I have heard them talking. It. runs like 'We nui>t all share alike in this thing. Nobody must make anything out if it. If we who are taken into the army give up our jobs and our homes to «lo the lighting, the men who stay at home mustn't get rich out of our necessities. The government must find a way to stop that.' That feeling is growing and hardening. It isn't making itself heard loudly, but one has only to listen to the talk of men who have been called to service to know how widespread it is." Our government is fast gaining the upper hand but it has a lot more to do. The ideal will not be achieved —avarice, as human nature is now con stituted, is greater even than patriotism, and there will be those on both sides of the industrial problem who will heed no other eall except that of avarice. But a great deal of the profiteering, the most of it, in fact, can be curbed and will be curbed. It will have to be, for "we must all share alike in this thing." DEMORALIZATION MUST END. Industrial conditions on the Pacific Coast par ticularly, tying the government's hands in the war crisis through halting the production of spruce for aeroplanes and the construction of sorely needed ships, cannot longer continue. That is so self-evident as to be trite. Demoralization must be ended. The successful prosecution of the war depends upon it. So we come to another feature of the revolution through which the nation is passing and it ift going to end in the" government, sooner or later — and let us hope sooner —operating the affected industries on its own account. It may be the first time the government has done such a thing, but it won't be the last. It appears now to be the only way out. We have tried individual contract ing between employers and employes in the ship building industry, for example, we have tried col lective bargaining and \ve have tried conciliation, and they have all failed to effect any stable basis. "We have tried to work the situation out through private business negotiations during the past eight months and the only result so far has been that we have not built the ships. We cannot go on as we have, and private con tracting having failed the only alternative is gov ernment operation, in a greater or a less degree. That will mean commandeering of the plants and their facilities as well as of the men, of the re sources find the contracts as well as the workers —and the war profits, "fat" wages as well as "fat" contracts. Once started, there is no telling where it will end. WRITE A SOLDIER OR SAILOR. Write a letter to your boy next Sunday, or if you have no boy or relative in the American army or navy, a letter to your neighbor's boy, and let him know you are thinking of him, that you believe in him, that you are backing him and you want him to make good physically and morally. Tell him to .make use of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. It's the boy that is lonesome and heartsick for a letter from home that oftimes falls. Let him know the home tie is strong and he will be proud, happy and anxious to make good and come clean. Tell him you are helping the Y. M. C. A. work and and he will appreciate it. Next week the Y. M. C. A. hopes to raise thirty-five million dollars for its work among the soldiers at home and abroad. It ne£ds your help and your subscription, and the soldier or sailor needs that letter from home. Visit Camp Lewis if you have not already done so. Go over there if only to see what a startling physical change has been made in that old barren prairie in the last four months, but go over there principally, if such things appeal to you as they do to most red-blooded Americans, to see the thou sands of sturdy, stajwart, earnest young men who are preparing there to "do their bit." Talk with as many of them as you can, learn how they feel, what they think, how they like it. You will come back a better American citizen, a better patriot, a greater enthusiast. "Most of the pacifist complaint," says The Public, the single-tax journal, "fails to dis tinguish between the fate of democracy and the fate of minority groups that oppose the majority in its main purpose. Democracies in deadly earnest are never patient with obstructive minor ities." And ours is fast losing its patience with those at home, contractors, employes, agitators, money-grabbers and all the rest of them, who on one pretext or another are delaying and obstruct ing the war necessities. Russia is out of the war this winter, Italy is fast being overrun —let these facts sink in until you realize how big a job we have on our hands. Then you will come to know that we can't do it by our usual boasting, by talking, by easy-going, undis turbed indifference, but that it will take action, aroused, aggressive, determined action, and a lot of it. and that it liar to begin here at home. IF BETTMAN IS ON THE LABEL, YOU'RE SAFE. Buy Boys' Clothes in a Men's Clothing Store Son wants to bo like Father. Ho wants his clothes to be mannish. Give him something with the least feminine touch to it and he'll scorn it. "Think I want to look like a girl t" he demands in dignantly. Buy boys' clothes here. Our Men's, Young Men's and Boys' lines are bought all on • the same basis good-lpoking, stoutly made, long-wearing as money will buy. BETTMAN'S Everything to Wear for Men and Boys. 9 ' ■* f WHAT OUR FITHERS READ ABOUT I IN THIS PAPER FIFTY YEARS AGO Prom The Washington Standard for Saturday morning, November O, 1867. Vol. VIII. No. 1. The November term or district court at Olympia commences by law on Monday next. The business at Vancouver, however, will detain Judge Hewitt until late this evening. He cannot, therefore, reach here be fore Tuesday night. Communicaeion with Swantown is now suspended, except by foot-path, the old bridge having been removed to make way for the new. The rainy season appears to have "set in" In good earnest, but im provements will go on in spite of the weather. Election reports say that in Kan sas female and negro suffrage are defeated by 8,000 to 10,000. Minister Dix writes to the state department that it is the impression of European statesmen that a gen eral war in Europe is inevitable. The Pacific Tribune will soon be consigned to the tomb of tho Capu lets. The odious features which it has exhibited for some time past have rendered it a stench in the nostrils of even Radicals. The materials, under an arrangement made by Sec retary Smith, are to be used in the erection of a newspaper to be called xhe Independent, in connection with the public printing of the territory. Guaranteed Price for Hogs. Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the meat division of the food adminis tration, following a conference of Maklnaws FOR MEN AND BOYS We contracted for our mackinaws nearly a year ago and as a result we are selling them far below the present market value. ALL-WOOL, WELL TAILORED GOTTFELB'S 211 BAST FOURTH BTRBBT. several days with the big packers of the country announced this week a minimum price of $15.50 a hundred Baked clean and sold clean Fresh every day .Blue Ribbon Bread ■ is the best you can buy , Try it once—you will always use it Bolster 4» Barmen Phones 48 and 49 FOURTH AND COLUMBIA STS. OLYMPIA, WASH. pounds for hogs at the Chicago union stock yards, "until further no tice."