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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917
THE MARKET.
I WROTE a poem In heart's blood,
I told the truth In song;
I took it to an editor.
"No good." he said. "Too losg.”
1 cut It down to half Its length;
I left the best verse out;
1 sent it to another man.
He wrote: “It’s good, no doubt.
But not quite what we want just now.
I think if I were you
I d study life then try again.
And only say what's true!”
I sent rimes on some patent soap,
(And this way madness lies)
With this result: "Inclosed And check.
Tour verses won the prize!”
— Mary Starbuck.
THE MODEL FIGHTER.
Now emulate the busy bee.
To farm and battle spring.
He gathers honey all the day
And also has a sting
-Selected.
“SABOTAGE"
Sabotage, as practiced by the kais
er in his violation of American neu
trality for nearly three years, is a
term which explains scores of inci
dents which occurred in various parts
of the country but which seemed al
ways to vanish into thin air when
thy were investigated. The kaiser did
not desre that his agent, “pull any
rough stuff” but ordered them to do
whatever they could to injure his ene
mies, without actually killing Ameri
cans and rousing the wrath of the
American people.
Former ambassador's official cor
respondence, in the hands of the Am
erican officials, is proof of the brutal
Prussian doctrine that “necessity
knows no law.” A system of sabotage,
by which munition making was ham
pered at every point, through strikes,
through “break downs” in machinery,
and even through “accidental” explo
sions, was carried on under the di
rection of the Germany emoassy ai
Washington. The German government
was adroit enough to order its agents
not to wreck or undermine railroad
embankments lest an investigation
of the trouble bring about unpleasant
revelations. It was a cunning scheme
but it was a gross insult to the Uni
ted States.
The word sabotage came from Ger
many. During the peasants war eight
or nine centuries ago, the poor peo
ple, who rose up against the bishops
and nobles, carried a sabot, or wood
en shoe, on the top of a pole as their
standard. Sabotage in the modern
sense is associated principally with
the syndicalists and direct actionists
who try to defeat "capital” by every
device short of murder. As worthy
associates of the I. W. W. whom they
financed, the German autocrats have
employed the I. W. W. methods in
this country.
A terrible indictment of the Ger
man government’s persistent under
hand attacks on the United Statet
when it was at peace with us, has
been drawn up by the American state
department from official German rec
ords; yet it occasions little surprise
in this country that a nation whicl
would make war on women and chil
dren Is capable of undermining e
friendly neutral.
PROFETEKRS
The western farmer who holds bad
tala wheat from the elevators and the;
market because he is unsatisfied with |
the official price and hopes that some
thing will happen to enable him to get,
more is Just as much a profiteer as'
(he unscrupulous manufabtU'rtr' who
would cblh an unjust advantage but
of the nation's crying necessity.
The workingmfeh who at this criti
cal moment In the nation’s history—
critical for him as well as every citi
zen—declines to submit to the mach
inery provided for the purpose of
forcing compliance with his demands
wlly-nilly is just as much a profiteer
as the man who gets a big government
contract and tries to fill it with in
ferior material.
Get rid of the idea that the re
proach "profiteer” can only be level
ed at certain men of large capital en-;
gaged in industrial enterprises or fi-i
nance. Profiteering is not the mark of |
any special division of our social or
ganization. It connotes a certain state
of mind. It means the wlllngness to
put one's self-interest absolutely
above that of the nation and to seize
every possible chance to forward it
without any consideration of patriot
ism whatever.
The fact that the government has
adopted more stringent measures to
prevent profiteering in some cases
than others—the further fact that
there are possibly certain forms of
profiteering that can hardly be reach
ed by government action—does not
alter the character of the act. The
profiteer of whatever sort, of what
ever rank and condtlon of life, is mor
ally the same and entitled to the re
probation of a patriotic public.—Cbl
I cago Herald.
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THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI j
The main thorn in the side of the
Kerensky government in Russia isj
not the German but the “Bolsheviki.";
Immediately following the revolu
tion little was heard of this group of,
radicals because it possessed no par-!
ticular power, but it has gained
strength during the past few months |
and now controls the councils ofj
workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates of |
both Petrograd and Moscow.
The term Bolsheviki was used for
the first time in 1903, when the Rus-j
sian social-democratic party split in!
two and the majority, led by Lenine, j
the radical who was banished from i
Russia for a time by the Kerensky
regime, accepted this name. The
meaning of the word, which is Rus
sian, is “the majority.” The Russian
information bureau In New York
points out that until the present war
the Bolsheviki, including Lenine, re
ally represented a part of the Rus
sian social-democratic party and could
be recognized as socialists of the Mar
xism school differing from other Rus
sian social-democrats only on ques
tions of tactics.
Lenine and his following have been
changed remarkably by the war. The
Russian government claims to have
information that Lenine was in the
pay of the German staff. When thej
arch radical reached Petrograd and i
made his first speech prominent Rus- j
sian socialists told him the point ofj
view he represented was not social- ■
ism but “anarchistic deology.” The
Bolsheviki are anarchists, in prac
tice if not in theory, and this, it Is i
asserted, accounts for the growth of I
their power in a country just emerg-!
ing from a tyrannical monarchy.
The writer for the Russian informa
tion bureau says that Kerensky is not
less socialistic than Lenine, and that
a vital difference between them is that
Lenine would establish a socialistic
state immediately while Kerensky
sees the follow of such a policy in the
face of a foreign war. The Bolshevik!
are the knd of revolutionists who dis
credit the revolution more than any
counter revolutionists.
That a clash between Kerensky and
the Bolsheviki will come is now pre
dicted, and unless the hyper-radicals
are eliminated disorder will follow
and the fruits of the revolution will
be lost. The hope of the situation is
in Kerensky’s appointment of a coali
tion cabinet representing at least 95
per cent of the people.
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Hays Ample Transportation Will be
Provided for Getting Coal to
Tide Water Tills Year
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 26.—
Secretary Lane, in a letter to Sen
ator McNary, said the reason the big
operators were slow to invest In the
Matanuska coal fields is because they
have doubts whether Alaska coal can
compete with the coal of the Pacific
Coast states or compete with Calif
ornia oil. He said that if plans mater
ialize that the government will have
provided ample transportation from
Matanuska to tide water before the
close of the season.
GERMAN'S SHOT FOR
REFUSING DUTY ON SUBS
LONDON, Oct. 26.—Reliable re
ports received here by way of Hol
land indicate the growth of a strong
disinclination on the part of German
seamen to serve on submarines. This
news, the authenticity of which is
not doubted, Is to the effect that sev
eral seamen already have been shot
for refusing to perform IT-boat duty.
The shootings are said to have occur
red prior to the mutiny in Wilhelms
haven.
Kerensky is 111
PETROGRAD, Oct. 26.—Premier
Kerensky is slightly ill and has been
confined to his bed since his arrival
at general staff headquarters at Moh
ilov. He is reported to be in no dan
ger. He telephoned today to Vice
Premier Konovaloff, saying that he
was much pleased over the condi
tion- of the army in which there was
a much better feeling.
Sweden to Arm Ships
COPENHAGEN. Oct. 26.—The
Swedish naval authorities have de
manded from the government in a
confidential letter 6,500,000 kronen
for use in arming merchant vessels,
according to the Nye Dagligt Alle
hande of Stockholm.
Ready for Air Reprisals
LONDON, Oct. 26.—The morning
paper suggests that the government
Warm Beddings
ready for the
First Cold Nights
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Plenty of them! All the
soft, fleecy kinds that are
warm without being heavy.
Comforts in pretty colors
and patterns, filled with
pure white cotton or down.
Blankets of many kinds,
cottony part wool and all
wool, all priced as low as
possible.
S. Blum and Co.
Good Goods.
is ready to begin carrying out repris
al air raids on Germany. This belief
is based on the assignment of Lieut.
Sen. David Henderson, director gen
jral of military aeronautics, to spe
cial work and the sending of Major
Seneral Brancker. director of air or
;anizaton for the army, to a command
abroad.
Anacortes Poneer Daed
ANACORTES, Oct. 26.—George
Langhear, sr., a pioneer of Anacortes,
who passed away Tuesday, was laid
lo rest yesterday morning. Mr. Lang
hear was 73 years of age at the time
of his death. Which was caused by a
malgnant cancer.
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WHY send out for your printing when we can
furnish you with anything needed in stationery for
the office and store.
A dollar kept at home is a dollar saved to the com
munity. If you send for your needs your neighbor
will follow your example and we all suffer. The town
that is up and coming is the town with an abiding
faith in its future, and how can you maintain your
faith in the city when you buy all you eat and wear
outside?
Beers, Sawbuck & Bunk have busted more towns
than they have built up, and you never saw a dollar
of youi* money ever come back to you.
When you send your money outside to the old re
liable printing houses of Seattle and Tacoma you
maV get a cheaper job in every sense of the word,
and yoti may also have to pay a higher price for it.
Location notices, both quartz and placer; warran
ty deeds, mill site location notices, proofs of labor,
quit clai mdeeds, amended location notices, and all
kinds 6f legal blanks at The Prospector Office.
We sell a good quality of typewriter paper at $1.50
per bofc, a better quality for $2 and the best Crane’s
Japanese Linen for $2.50, legal size.
Why not let us print you 100 calling cards in the
latest style type, for $150.
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MINERS RKKl'SE TO
WORK H'll.l. DAYS
HELENA, Mont., Oct. 26.—A re
port submitted today to Governor
Stewart by State Labor Commission
er W. J. Swindlehurst and F. J. O’
Donnell, inspector for the state health
department declares that coal min
ers in this state make from $6 to
$12 per day, in short hours, and can
not bejnduced to work long enough
to get out the amount of coal requir
ed to meet the demand. Of the situa
tion at Klein, Mont., the report says:
“Because of the liberal contract
which the men have secured, the op
erators claim, the men are able to
make from six to eight, ten and ev
en twelve dollars a day in from four
to six hour’s work and that it is im
possible to keep them in the mine af
ter they have earned that much, al
though they are expected to work a
full eight hour day under their agree
ments."
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