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In Things Essential, UNITY—In Things Doubtful, LIBERTY—In All Things, FRATEHNITY .".(■ per io]i\ ; .")(!(■ per year. PROSECUTED, SUPPRESSED, OR BOTH? These ;irt' difficult limes to edit a Free paper. We have ln-!d out, ■md have held our course, in the face of ureal difficulties up <o the pres ent time: bill there is no telling when (he heavy hand of authority (of ficial <»r unofficial) may fall on us. Open disrussion of vital political issues and industrial problems is not wanted at this time. A tree and fearless paper is a thorn in the side of autocrats, whether they l>c aristo crats or plutocrats or bureaucrats (or democrats.) The Co»Operative News is being watched by Federal authorities, »s by ■ flock of hawks. We wore in the office of I United States official recently and saw on his desk a copy of our paper which had three dif ferent articles heavily blue-penciled. On two ocaqsions, several weeks ago, two Federal Investigators came Into our office and "interviewed" the editor. About a week ago two pkiin-clolhcs men paid us a visit and went through the recent files of the paper, after which they each bought a copy of the issue that was found marked as stated above. Later in the same day "loyalty league** men came and bought copies of the same issue. It looks as if they were jjatherin^ evidence for an action of some kind, either against the paper or the editor. A short time ago we were in the office of a high Federal Prose cutor, and were questioned about a certain article that had recently appeared in the Co-Operative News. This man then said: "We are in vestigating the facts in this matter, and if we find that the article is not true, and our belief is that it is not, then we will prosecute the man who published it." Later the same man said in a joking manner that they were jjoinj; to put all socialists behind the bars, — Grim humor, we would say. IDAHO PROFITISM PLUMMER, Ida*— Mr. Herrick is a lumber baron of Northern Idaho, Mr. McCarter is also a lumber baron of Idaho, the same in kind as Mr. Herrick only les ser in degree, judged by his fin ancial rating. McCarter oper ates several camps around Plurn mer, and sells his logs to Herrick. These two lumber baron? are hav ing a squabble over the price of logs, so McCarter shuts down his sub-contractors O'Leary, Mc- Kee and Diekke and also his own camp pending a settlement of this industrial mix-up. Neither one seems to #ive a damn about Un cle Sam and his need of lumber to build ships during this war, no rot at all—they are too busy fighting a battle royal over the division of the profits. McCarter wants more. Herrick says leas; and in the meantime they have .^hut down three camps, thrown a bunch of men out of employ ment, slowed down production and •-ntly helped out the Devil's bsst bet—Brimstone Bill of G«r many. When the camps around here were short handed last summer cue to the men going on .strike for an eight hour day and better sanitary conditions the Daily (kept) Press threw seventeen dif ferent fits, accused the workers of every kind of crime on the calendar and especially of dis rupting and slowing down pro duction in order to help out Kaiser Bill of the Bad Lands. The workers only slowed down pro duction during their strikes. These two men have actually killed it dead in-so-far as these camps are concerned. Will the Daily (kept) P;ess bawl out these two men the same as it did the workers last summer? Oh! no. no, NO! —not on your life gentle Rhen sen. They know better than to feeding them or to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Use Clausens FAVORITE COF FEE 35c lb., 3 lbs. for $1.00. None better—M. H. Clausen, 2813 Rock efeller, Phone, Black 681. EVERETT, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 1-, L9lB Emil Herman Unlawfully Held On Monday, June 3rd, a hear ing was had before Judge Neterer on a motion made by Herman's attorneys for a new trial. This motion was denied as was ex pected; but it was a necessary preliminary to an appeal. There upon the Judge passed sentence upon the convicted man, condemn ing him to serve TEN YEARS in the Federal penitentiary at Mc- Neil's Island. Notice of appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals was forthwith given in open court; and it was agreed by counsel for both sides that the bond should remain the same pending the appeal, to which the judge assented. The amount of said bond as stated in a pre vious issue was Twenty-Thousand Dollars in cash, or Forty Thou sand in property. Although the bond was fixed outrageously high in the first place, yet there was no hope of getting a reduction, so we agreed to $20,000. The amount was after all of slight importance as we already had ac- ceptable suretieS to qualify for $65,000 i" property, after the val uations of their real estate had been cut down below actual value, and it was merely a matter of gettinj; them before the proper official to swear and sign. A> little later in the day we went to the District Attorney and told him we expected to have the bond executed and ready in two days as everything had been arranged, and asked him if they would hold Herman for that length of time, pending the filing of the hond. We were told to see Judge Neterer, which we did. The Judge said: "When I have pronounced sentence, the matter is out of my hands. It is then up to the Marshall and the District At torney." We then consulted U. S. At torney Reames, who is the high est in authority, and he agreed to have Herman held for the two days, necessary to secure the bonds. But in spit of that the un fortunate man was sent to Mc- It appears lh.it the master* are consistently following a plan where by active socialists throughout the country are to be disposed of one by one, under some pretext or another. This is borne out by the fact that recently one of the numerous federal Investigators was overheard to say, "Now, Peter Husby come next." The Co-Operative News has held a unique position through eight yean of its existence. Probably no other paper in the Socialist move ment has had a more dramatic and Interesting career, the history of which would fill a good sized volume. We are at present supported by hosts of teyal readers from all parts of Washington, Idaho and Oregon, not to mention numerous other friends in different parts of the United States. Morever, We are out of debt. Since Mr. Connor of the Everett Print Shop so obligingly put U3 through bankruptcy some years ago relieving us of approximately two thousand dollars indebtedness, we have strenuously persisted and have succeeded in maintaining the paper on a cash basis. The authorities can put us out of business for the present if they desire to, because they have the power, Hut we will come back to life again. He sure of that. We know that we have brought down upon us the wrath of the powers that be, because we have always persisted in telling the truth. That is why Comrade Watts is now in Canada. IJut, truth crushed to earth shall rise again. Likewise the Co-Operative News. Neils Island early the next morn ing. Reames says it was with out his knowledge, which appears to be true. The blame lies on someone else. We have found these to be the facts; The clerk of the Court made out the commitment papers in several cases, including Her man's and gave them to the Marshall. The latter took them to the Judge for his signature, saying to the Judge: If you want these men (among them Herman) sent over at once sign the papers; if you DON'T want some of them sent oy^r now, then don't sign until you do want them sent," or words to that effect. Judge Neterer signed the papers, including Herman's Commitment, knowing that we were appealing and were expecting to complete the bond within two days, knowing also that he had told us that he had nothing more to do with the matter. Arrangements had been made with Attorney Reames to have the sureties on the bond come before U. S. Commissioner Mansfield in Everett to sign the bond and oath and to be examined as to the value of their properties. This was a great convenience for the sureties, who would otherwise have been compelled to go to Se attle. However, Mr. Mansfield adopted the .same tactics that were employed by the assistant dis trict attorney in Seattle as to the sureties that we had presented for approval on the bail bond, in dicating that there might have been some understanding between the Commissioner and the District Attorney's office. Every effort was made to prevent us from marshalling sufficient sureties to cover the bond. One man's val uation was cut from $15,000 to $7,500, Another signed an oath that his property was worth $13, --000 above exemptions, but the commissioner said he would first investigate, after which he re fused to accept the man for more than $4,000. Still another signed oath that his property was worth $20,000, hut the Nabob would not with the understanding that the matter of his acceptance would be laid before Attorney Reames in Seattle. The bond as signed and execut ed was laid before Mr. Rcarr.es. His objections to the sureties were explained and corrected to his sat isfaction, after which the instru ment was 0. X.'cd by the judge and filed—with sureties thereon qualifying for $()5,000. After all these numerous legal formalities had been complied with and completed, imagine our surprise to learn that Herman was by this time well on his way to the Federal penitentiary at Leav enworth, Kansas. Being called on for an explanation of this high handed procedure the authorities offered as an excuse that, Mc- Neil's Island being overcrowded, it had been necessary to send Herman with 59 others to the larger penitentiary at Leaven worth. An order for Herman's release was sent East by wire, and an attempt was made to secure' his return at the expense of the gov ernment, but to no avail. We had to wire him a ticket and ex pense money, otherwise he would have been turned out on the streets. Tuesday morning June 11th, we received the following tele y-tam from Herman at Leaven worth as follows: "Money has h len received. Notice of bond has not arrived. Still being held." Now. the Marshall at Seattle says that he sent the bond and order by mail to the warden at Leaven worth on June Bth, at the same time sending a telegram giving notice of the bond and order. Still they are holding him. Socialism is steadily advancing ing. The march of socialization is positive, and nothing can hin der it. Number .°,85. CHICAGO TRIAL CHICAGO, 111. — The prose cution, in sweeping from east to west with its tornado of "testimony," has now reached the copper fields of Arizona. Hundreds of letters and bulletins of Metal Mine Workers Indus trial Union 800 have already been read to the jury and a number of witnesses have been called upon to testify about the stormy events of 1917 that the prosecution seeks to torture into "proof" of the imaginary I. W. W. conspiracy. Three of the first witnesses called gave evidence about a meeting addressed by the well known Socialist lecturer, Stanley J. Clark, who was indicted with the I. W. W. men because of his activities in raising funds for the wives and children of the strik ing Arizona copper miners. Two of these witnesses wore federal secret service operatives and one was the postmaster at EJeetra, Arizona, where the meeting was held. All three testified that Stanley Clark spoke to a small sized crowd from piazza of the school house on or about the eve ning of August 21st, 1917. The alleged "seditious" portions of the speech were said to be references to the conscription law and Lib erty Bonds. Clark is supposed to have made the statement "the conscription law is constitutional and the government had the light to make it. It differs from the other laws in that it was a mat ter of individual concern to each man instead of collective. If you think it right and want to fight, all right, but if you don't think it right and don't want to fight, lay down your arms and I'll join you. This war will not end when the politicians of the different governments want it to stop, but only when the Social ists of the warring powers clasp hands across the trenches where they ' are now fighting." The reference to the Liberty Bonds was that "they won't be worth paper they are printed on after the war because the Socialists will be in power all over the (Continued on page three)