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CHICAGO DAY BOOK ASKS
SOME PERTINENT QUES
TIONS.
Thin Ib what the Chicago Day Book
pays about Hearst and Ills fellow con
■plratori against Hi.- Mexican people:
Tin' rial purpose of I lie rich Ameri
riuiH who iihm' biTii turning every
tiU-k poulble to bring about a war
with Mezioo li inadi' clear by the cdl
toriali in tin- newspapers of W, it
iiciiisi. the bruen mouthpiece <>f mie
iMiii privilege.
1 don't know how mini nun will
give up their live*, gladly] although
l don't believe- any well man gives up
his lift- gladly. Many will enlist glad
ly; they will bo to-war gladly. But
only it tew, If any, of them will ex
pect to give up in:, life.
Very ten of thosu who will go to
war will know—perhaps they wouldn't
care if they did know—that buck of
all this war of conquest la the money
madness, the cunning greed, the des
perate avartoe of big gamblers who
have Invested millions In Mexico —
in.'ii who have bought Mexican laud
for a song, and expect to reap an enor
mous harvest by having this govern
ment pacify and police "barbarous"
Mexico, so that mineral wealth can be
dug from the mines and agricultural
wealth reaped fromtho soil.
Take Hearst, for illustration. He
owns va»t tracts of land in Mexico
that were bought tor a song. There
coildn't bo much profit in that invent
meat ao long aa the Mexicans wan at
war among thenaelvM. There can
and win be, however ason&otti profit
if tola country annexe! Mexico and
keeps a big army in that country for
many years to keep the peace while
ll.arst and his pals cultivate that
land.
Bvei7 American boy killed during
an invasion of Mexico may mean sev
eral dollars in Hearst's pocket It
may mean like profit for Harrison
Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times.
Every American life sacrificed In
pacifying and coiuiuering Mexico may
mean thousands of dollars in the pock
ets of the Guggenheims and Rocke
fellers.
When Hearst says these American
boys will give up their lives gladly to
add to the 'greatness and territory of
their country and to the permanent
welfare and happiness of the land that
is to be conquered," do YOU think
Hearst is thinking of any land but the
acres he himself owns?
Do YOU think he is thinking of the
welfare and happiness of either the
American or the Mexican people, or of
the happiness of Hearst himself over
more millions jingling In his own
pockets?
How are we going to make the Mex
ican people happy by killing them?
And how will we make American
soldiers happy, or their folks back
home happy, by sending them into
that country to be killed off by thou
sands by disease and Mexican bullets?
Suppose we do annex all of the
many millions of acres of land in Mex
ico, how many arces will YOU get?
How many acres will YOUR country
get?
Won't Hearst and Otis and Taft and
Rockefeller and Guggenheim and all
of hte others who have got in on the
ground floor, own all then that they
owned before they brought on this
war?
And suppose we do pacify the Mexi
can people, will we see that the land
taken from them by the favored Mex
icans and Americans is given back to
them?
If we are to be the great pacifiers
of this continent, why not pacfy Colo
rado, Michigan, West Virginia and
every other state in the union where
the poor are dispossessed of the land
and then held in industrial bondage?
Our forefathers, or somebody's fore
fathers, fought to free this country
from British rule. How free are we
now?
We say the union army saved this
glorious union—but for whom? Whose
is it now? How much of It belongs to
YOU?
Receiving a new truth li adding a
new sense. — Liable,
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DEATH.
( Bj Clurence ChuiH li I
Hi- lay dying on hit; bed that »:i •ut
expensive bed with the golden knoim
orowning the four postß of band
carved oak. Hlh check wax worth
rll i 111 <>11 r. of dollarn; he owned him
dredi or thousands of acres of Umber
Isiiklh, a hundred thousand men tolled
111 till iiilllh ami niineti, anil hewed lilb
trei lie was v Bid MAN.
Vet he wan dylllfl All lilh money,
all hll timber, all lilh mlneß and mills
mill mi n couldn't keep him alive*. The
greatest doctor! in the world couldn't
keep the breath of life in him.
Anil an lie lav there on Mint beautt
11■ I I>i'il, dyhu:, he thought of all he
bad done, and n wretched look of den
pair oama over bll withered fnce.
&ftef all thOM yeiirH of grab, what
had lie accomplished? Nothing!
The Mien who,tolled and iweated in
thy darkneu and dampness of lilb
miner; the women who were obliged
lo tonaka their homes and balden to
■lave In bin factories and shops; the
little children who had belli their poor
little backs over lilh looms; who had
had their young llvi-b stinted and de
formed, torn away from home and
:.chool, and the fresh air, to Bweat
'mid the grind and roar and rush of
thiH man's machinery; ah these it
weir, who, goaded on by the Iron hand
or want and hunger, had done It all.
They mult work to eat! And so he
became rich and "great."
And what had he done? What use
ful function had he performed In the
interests of humanity? NOTHING!
11l- ksiw now how empty It all waß.
He- had been a robber, a tyrant, per
hapH a murderer.
Th<> Krml dark cloud of death wan
closing in around him. Ha felt Deuth's
chilly flßfvn upon Ills forehead.
D.aih hi close, was wrapping the
folds of its terrible cloak about him,
smothering him.
Money! How useless! How dirty!
How awful!
The roar of machinery, the hack
hack of axes biting into the trees, the
moans of tired men, the curses of the
oppressed, the white slaves of indus
try; the wall of mothers, the cries of
little children —what a maddening,
horrifying din they made in his weary
ears.
The men who had taken their slen
der pay-envelopes at his mills and
mines and factories; the women who
had ground away day after day in his
sweat shops; the children who were
grown prematurely old in his service—
not one of all this great army was
here near his death bed. Beside him
now were only those whose hands
were itching for his dirty gold, whose
only love was the love for filthy lucre.
They drew near unto the old man
who was breathing his last.
"All empty! All empty—and—
vain," murmured the dying man.
Those waiting did not understand.
HOW MUCH OF "OUR COUN
TRY" BELONGS TO THE
WORKERS.
Very clearly and at a glance do cer
tain statistics gathered by the United
States treasurer show the arrange
ment of the society in which we live.
These figures indicate that:
20 people in the United Btaes pos
sess incomes of $10,000,000 or over.
200 people possess incomes of $1,
--000,000 to $10,000,000.
GOO people possess incomes of $500,
--000 to $1,000,000.
10,000 people possess Incomes of
$50,000 to $100,000.
21,000 people possess Incomes of
$30,000 to $60,000.
75,000 people possess incomes of
$20,000 to $30,000.
200,000 people possess Incomes of
$5,000 to $10,000.
While 500,000 people possess in
comes of $1,000 to $5,000.
Typical Wage Is $480 a Year.
Also and likewise 18,341,380 persons,
or three-fourths of the wage-earninfe
population, earn an income averaging
$480 a year.
There, wage-earner, are the facts.
Do your own figuring and draw your
own conclusions. Is it any surprise to
hear that two-fifths of the men in the
United States are not married be
cause they do not make enough to
keep a family? The answer to this Is
so easy that we will not give It to you.
98,000,000 PEOPLE IN UNITED
STATES ,SAYS CENSUS BUREAU
The continental United States now
has a population of more than 98,000,
--000 while the country with its pos
sessions has more than 109,000,000
people. Oregon has 783,279 and
Washington 1,405,865.
Estimates for cities under 100,000
have not yet been announced. Port
land is given 260,601; Seattle, 313,
--029; Tacoma,'lo3,4lß.
I have been long accustomed, as all
men engaged in work of investigation
tnusi be, to hear my statements
laughed at for years before they are
examined or believed; and I am gen
erally content to wa.t the public's
time. —ltu-kin's "0 own «f Vi'd
Olive."
Adventures of a Socialist
IT WAS a bright, sunshiny da.. M
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I COAXED
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PAT NOLAN,
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ORA GHASS tiii<)
• » •
CHARLIE OTT to desert
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CENTRALIA, and take a Rtroll
• • •
OUT INTO Urn country, along the
banks of the
• * *
CHEHALIB river.
AND SO AWAY we went, •
• • *
CHATTING AS Socialists are wont
to do,
• • •
GIVING THE Capitalist system hell;
• » •
WHEN CHARLIE spied a bird's nest,
» • •
IN WHICH were four, fuzzy little
"babes"
• » •
AND WE ALL sat down a few feet
away
• • •
AND WATCHED the mammy and
pappy birds
• • »
PACKING FOOD to those hungry lit
tle atoms,
• • »
ONLY STOPPING for an occasional
moment, to eye us or sit on a twig
• • •
AND sing a Hong to let us know how
bright the world looked to them.
• • •
"HAPPY BIRDS" said
• • •
ORA "they have no landlord demand-
Ing rent."
• • •
"NO," SAID CHARLIE, "There's no
fat capitalist sitting around
• • •
TAKING four-fifths of what they col
lect and calling it
• ♦ •
PROFIT.
• • •
ALL AT ONCE the birds set up a tre
mendous twittering,
• * *
AND WITH every sign of fear and
anger
• « •
WOULD DASH at the base of the
bush on which their nest was
built.
• • •
SUDDENLY Pat let out a yell and,
grabbing a stick
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MADE SHORT work of a snake
• • »
THAT WAS just starting to crawl
into the bush
• * •
TO MAKE a meal of the baby birds.
• • •
"THERE'S your John D. Rockefeller,"
said Pat, as he threw the
• • *
DEAD SNAKE out into the road,
» • •
AND, PRAISE the Lord, I'm proud I
killed it.
» • •
"PAT," said I, "That snake was only
obeying a natural law.
• • *
ARE YOU not ashamed of your bloody
deed?
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PAT LOOKED at me and answered,
• » •
"MY
• » •
CONSCIENCE
ACQUITS ME."
W. H. S.
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The minds of men and women too,
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But shall we shun the battle
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