The Seattle star. [volume], July 22, 1915, Page 4, Image 4

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WE ASK you to look at this man's face and
remember him. Because he, an American
citizen, is the victim of tyranny than which there
is no worse example on
earth. Tyranny that
makes people despair of
the courts. Tyranny of
the sort that often drives
a freedom-loving people
to revolution.
The man is John R.
Lawson of Colorado. He
was a mine striker, an
intelligent leader, who
fought John L). Rockefel
ler with all his brains.
John D. Rockefeller has
now sentenced him to life
imprisonment at hard la
bor in the penitentiary of
the state of Colorado.
Why John D. did not sen-
JOHN SL IAW3OSP
tence him to work in the Rockefeller mines we
cannot understand.
Outbursts of Everett,True
A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING
The Ruling Pssaion
"Do you regret, ray good man,"
■aid the Judge, "having killed the
pedestrian with your golf ball?"
• "Yet," Mid the confirmed player.
With tears In hla eye*: "I do. If
he hadn't got In the way. I'd have
made that hole In one leas than
bogle."—Judge
• • •
Their Future
"Young man, do you know what
becomes of little boys who use bad
language while they are playing
darbies?"
"Yes, sir. They grow up and
play golf."—Judge.
Eaaier to Spell
Young Arthur had been attend
ing school all of alx weeks. and his
devoted parent thought It was high
time he should find out how things
were running. So be asked:
"And what did my little son learn
•bout this morning?"
" Tell Me the Secret"
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR
LAWLESS TYRANNY IN COLORADO COURTS INSULTS WHOLE U. S.
"Oh. .a mouse. Mm* Wilcoi told
tla ail about mouae* "
"That'* the boy' Now, how do
you apell mouae?"
It waa then that Arthur gave
promlae of being an artful dodger.
He paused meditatively for a mo
ment, then *ald:
Father, I gueaa I waa wrong It
wasn't a mouae tem-hT waa telling
a* about. It wa* a rat."—Harper's
Magazine.
• • •
Of Course
Bill, wot's a centenarian?
Dinged If I know, but thsy
muat be a sickly tot—they're
always dyln'.
• • •
Likely
The barber told me a funny atory
this morning.
Illustrated with comic cuts, I
suppose?
During the coal mine troubles of over a year
ago, when the strikers were fighting armed thugs,
called mine guards, from the slums of Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York, there was a battle one
day. John Nimmo, a guard, was killed. Join
R. Lawson was indicted for his murder. At the
trial it was proved, AND THP PROSLCUTION
ADMITS IT, that l.awson was eight miles awa>
when the battle and the killing occurred.
Hut the judge, a coal company attorney named
Hillyer, who was appointed judge by the gover
nor to "get" Lawson, overrode all rules of fairness,
permitted drumhead court-martial tactics it this
trial and compelled a verdict of guilty against
Lawson.
The final deviltry of Hillyer, j., is now before
you and the whole world. While the supreme
court of the state was reviewing the case and before
a decision had been reached, Hillyer insisted on
sentencing Lawson to life imprisonment at hard
labor and refused bail pending appeal of the case.
We believe every American citizen, every
man. woman and child in America who believes in
liberty, should read Lawson's statement when the
rotten court asked him if he had anything to say
why sentence should not be passed upon him. Here
I A **f\rri**d Man's Troubles
Stella and Gertie
HI HOLLER'S AMBITION—A TALE OF PLUCK AND LUCK—(A MOVIE)
COL. ROOSEVELT FLAYS PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE ADVOCATES
BAN FRANCISCO, July 22.—C01. Roosevelt hasn't a bit of sympa
thy for the administration's attitude toward Germany, The colonel
made that mighty plain irt the speech be delivered hern Wednesday
afternoon, Roosevelt day at the fair, to the largest audience that ever
beard a public address in this city.
Roosevelt talked for more than an hour and a half, and was con
stantly Interrupted by applauae. lie deviated often from hla prepared
manuscript
Once he happened to glance up and sen a half doren photographers
lined up on a step-ladder, snapping plcturea of him.
"Get down tbero —quick—qulck™<jutck!" he yelled.
The photographers scrambled down.
"That, my friends. Is what Uncle Sam should do." he said, with »
grin; "get what he wants without hurting anybody."
Having panned the pacificists, read those who would sing "I Didn't
Raise My Bojr to Be a 8oMler" out of the great American family, and
urged a greater standing army, universal military service and an effi
cient navy at "fighting pitch." the former president gave himself up to
viewing the wonders of the big fair tod.iy.
He requested that hi* program while here be so arranged that ho
could devote two full days to visiting the various palaces and foreign
buildings.
Col. Roosevelt has lived up to his reputation ss the country'* most
strenuous citlxen on his visit here.
He has dodged his secretary and official committees to make fly«
log automobile rides, escort Mrs. Hoosevelt on shopping tours, and
even visit the exposition Incognito.
"Movie" operator* were on the Job to catch every move of the
colonel yesterday, He posed for them before the Enlisted Men's clubj
and when he thought be bad been "filmed" enough, said:
"Gentlemen, cease firing!"
He refused to hold a shovelful of dirt during (he proceed of plant-
In? n tree, that It might be filmed In detail. When the request wm
made he snapped, "1 will not. The next thing I know you will want
me to use tny hat,''
While addressing the arm* and navy men. denouncing the pacif
icists. the colonel suddenly turned to Oov. Johnson, grasped him hy tlio
coat lapel, and exclaimed:
"Governor, I believe these people are getting what I am trying to
tell them."
In bla *|»ecb he unmercifully flayed the p«a<-e.at*any-prlce advo
cates.
ONLY FIGHTING NATIONS LIVE
"No nation avar amounted to anything If Ita population wai com
posed of pacificists and poltroons, If Ita sons did not have the fighting
edge, If Ita women did not feel as the mothsra of Washington's con
tin -itals felt, as the mothers of the men who followed Grant and Lee
felt," Roosevelt said,
"Men who are not ready to fight for the right are not fit to live
In a free democracy.
"The only women fit to be wives and mothers In a free republic
are those who feel that their sons are not 'sons of theirs unless when
their country calls, their souls are eager and their feet Jubilant to
answer the mighty trumpet note which announces that the hearts of
men are being sifted out before the Judgment seat.
Only men fit to Join In tinging Julia Ward Howi'i tremendous
STAR—THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915. PAGK 4.
is what Lawson had to say, standing erect before
the unjust judge:
"II i* plain," Liwion eald to the court, "that nothing I can
•ay or do will change your fixed determination to atart ma down
the dark path of Imprlaonment for life,
"Flrat of all, In the nama of the courte of my country, which I
reepect, I proteet agalnet your right or power to paee any Judg
ment egalnet me. It le undented In title caae that you were ap
pointed to the bench thle eprlng for the trial of myeelf and my
aaaoclatea, freeh from the employment of the very coal operatore
of Colorado and the country, Including the Rockefellere, who have
preeeed and engineered theae proeecutlone.
"You are eo deeply prejudiced agalnat ma that my caae waa a
travaaty of Juatlea from the etart. Today the eupreme court of
Colorado, In Denver, la reviewing your conduct, and yet you re
fuee to wait another 24 houra for the guidance of that court'e de
cielon.
"Second, you refueed to permit the Jury to be drawn from
the regular Jury box provided by law, and you ordered an open
venire. Thla method wae exactly adapted to procure what none
waa aurprleed to dlacover—-a hend-plcked Jury of coal company
partlaana.
"Nothing wae to ba permitted to atand In the way, and It It
algniflcant that even a Jury eo aelected refueed to convict ma un
til a bailiff aelected by you, according to aftidavlte on file In thla
court, tortured a Juryman with manufactured reporte of the dan
geroua lllneee of the Juror'e wife, and aa a final etroke warned
the Jury that under your ordare that Jury would have nothing fur.
ther to eat until they gave thalr verdict,
"May I aeh whether Judicial traveety la not the right deecrlp
tion of euch proceedlngef"
PATROLMAN KUSH m not a fisherman, but lie
learned ye»terday tliat toitif varieties of I'ickerell bite on
!'ir*t ave.
Battle Hymn of the Republic in time of ware are alao fit in time of
peace to serve the republic as It should be served."
Col. Roosevelt declared the pacificist* were trying to "Chlnafy"
the Vnlted State* He scored thn advocate* of peace at any price and
declared that we had failed to profit by the lessons of the present
European war.
"We have been culpably, well nigh criminally, remiss as a nation
In not preparing ourselves during this pa*t year." the colonel declared,
"nnd If with the lessons taught the world by the dreadful tragedies
o' the last 12 month* we continue with soft complacency to stand
Helpless snd naked before the world, we shall excite only contempt
and derision when disaster ultimately overwhelms us."
< ol Roosevelt pointed to Belgium and China as the best examples
o' the effect of unpreparedness. He maintained that had Belgium been
prepared the country might never have been Invaded. He pointed to
Hwltxerland. also In the path of the warring nations, but cited the
tart that tho a republic, Rwitterland maintains an efficient fighting
force, prepared to defend herself.
"Itelglum wan unprepared and because of her unpreparednesti ha*
paid the most frightful price In blood and misery," Roosevelt said
"Some day or other It may well be that we shall have to pay on a
tenfold greater scale the aame price for exactly the name reason, and
If auch ahould be the caae, remember that whereas the action of Hel-
C.lum excited warm sympathy, our mlafortune would excite nothing
but scorn; for a rich and boastful people Invites ridicule If whether
from sheer silliness and shortsightedness or from soft timidity or from
gross and greedy devotion to the material benefits of the moment It
fslls to prepsre Itself to defend Its own rlghta with Ita own strength.
"The professional pacificists, the peace at any price, non
reslttance, universal arbitration psople are now seeking to
Chlnafy this country.
"While the best people of China are endeavoring to raise
the new China to a position of Intsrnatlonal respect, well mean
ing people here are doing their beat to reduce this country to
the level of Impotence to which the old China sunk heoauae the
mural fibre of eld China has been eaten Into by t*te doctrines
of professional pacificists."
Roosevelt i:i.nleil Hie work o.' fie.i, Goetnalt In building the
Vanaraa canal. He declared that had he not taken the action In 1903
"In exactly the shape 1 took It," the canal would not have been built
for another half century, and, referring to the subject of defenses, said;
'The building of the canal nearly doubled the potential efficiency
of the tf. S navy, as long a* It la fortified and la In our hands; but If
left unfortified, It would at once becomo a menace to ua,
"Our battls fleet ahould always bs mansuvred aa a unit and kept
as a unit. We should remember thst the Paclflo coast is our horr.e
coast as much as the Atlantic coast and It would be well to establish as
part of our settled naval policy that every second or third year the
entire fleet should be put In the Pacific and their maneuvred tactically
and atrateglcally exactly as Is done In the Atlantic, o
"Pacific and Atlantic alike are our homo waters. We claim no
exclusive or predominant right In either; no right hostile to any other
nation In either; but wo claim that In each we have tho same right
that any other nation has, Id one Just .is much as the other —no more
and no leas.
"Preparedness against war does not invariably avert, war." the
colonel declared, "any more than a fire department will Invariably avert
CRIMINALLY REMISS
WORSE THAN BELGIUM
>4/V ARCHBISHOP'S VIEW
XJAVE you noted the propaganda of the ministers
against the greater navy movement? In most
instances we believe the churchmen are sincere in
their purpose and in their beliefs, tho mistaken.
Now comes Archbishop Hdward J. Hanna of
San Francisco and says:
"Peace at any price is not a policy the Ameri
can people will accept, and to maintain peace with
honor, the nation must be prepared for defense
Peace with honor is strength; without honor it is
weakness. Our peace-at-any-price party would
fade away in a situation that required surrender of
national honor for the sake of peace. * * *
"I believe the clearest thinkers of the country
and the men who have direct knowledge of the
policies of the nations of L : urope and their disposi
tion toward America and commercial and colonial
development in the New World, agree with the
greater naval policy and that they do so entirely
uninfluenced by gain that would accrue to manu
facturers of guns and ammunition and builders of
ships."
BELGIANS CELEBRATED a day of independence
yesterday, and from all reports there wa« plenty of noi*
and firework*
a fire: and there are well meaning foolish people who point out tM»
fact as offering an excuse for unpreparedneso
"It would be juat ■■ sensible If, after the Chicago fir*. Chicago
had announced that It would abollah Ita fire department aa for Europa
to tak* the earn* vlawa aa regarda military preparedneaa.
"France »u not prepared for the war in 1S"0. She was Infinity
better prepared in I*l4. The unpreparedness did not avert war in tni
firat ease; it merely rendered it an overwhelming and shameful dl*
aaier. In the other caae preparedneaa did not bring: on the wM 1 ;
It merely stood aa a barrier against such disgrace and disaster."
"China offers a perfect parallel to the condition to which In practlc*
the doctrines of the ultra-Pacificists would land ua."
The colonel referred to what ha termed "that abject paclflcl*
song, 'I Did Not Ralae My Boy to J* a Soldier,'" by declaring It ahouM
have aa a companion piece on* entitled "I Did Not Ralae My Qlri to
Be a Mother."
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