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Regarding the report that a certain element have
concentrated their efforts on Olsen of Hot Springs fame (?)
We would only suggest that before appointing Olson
clerk of the court, Judge Bunnell should endeavor to get
a sight of the Hot Springs Echo published April 30,1911..
At ft3 registration booth for the unemployed in
San Francisco during Christmas week a comrade §tpod
by and asked the men as they registered how they had
voted. The overwhelming majority said they had voted
the Republican ticket and they admitted that they
were getting what they voted fpr.
Have the Telephone Company signed the Franchise
agreement? Is it true that the contract goes into effect
within thirty days after passage by the Council or so soon
as it is signed by the company? As we understand it, as
far as the city is concerned it is in effect now, but not so
with the company. On February 19th the thirty days
time is up for the company to sign and file their bond with
the city. We wonder!
The Council held up the demand of the $350 that the
School Board needed for the payment of local hills tc
merchants on the ground that fhey wanted an itemized
statement of what it was needed for. 1 here would bt
just as much sense in the School Board demanding an
itemized statement from the Council as to how the
council spends its money. When the city incorporated it;
there was an agreement with the U. S. government
that the city should provide the money to keep up the
schools in the matter of efficiency in the same manner as
the Government would if they did not allow the .city to
take a large part of the license money. The city of Fair
banks has agreed with the School Board that they shall
be allowed $17,000 for the year. The time for the city
to demand an accounting would be in the case of the
School Board exceeding their appropriation, and should
be required under no other circumstances.
CIVIC CLUB ALL RIGHT BUT NEEDS FIXING.
The recently organized Civic club has a worthy object
in view. Undoubtedly a large field exists for its activities
but the aim of the society may be defeated by itself.
Like all organizations it has admitted a few to its mem
bership whose presence do not harmonize with what is
expected. That political and selfish purposes somehow
show themselves. Through and back of these undesire
ables who have crowded themselves in the club may easily
be seen their husbands with one eye significantly closed
and a knowing leer upon their faces. It is as well that
personal and business cleanliness commence at home.
These women should retire and first sponge off some of
the soot from their husbands before starting upon the
, public. This seems to be the general impression. With
these few objectionables in the membership the game of
the society is coppered before it starts. The club is all
right. All it needs is a little fixing. Then we are for it.
m Jerome IC. Jerome, the famous British author and
•playwright, declares, “This war is turning us all into
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Current Comment
The Meeting pf Congress
and How They Do Things
There—They are gapping
Out Our Foggy Future.
The Congres* is again in ses.
sion. The most important busir
ness in hand is regarding 'he
relations of our country to the
European war, and the proposals
to establish a Merchant Marine,]
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The declarations in behalf of
neutra'ity and of a desire for
peace would have more force if
they had been coupled with a de
termination to use all the powers
of ,the American government to
prevent furnishing supplies and
, munitions ,pf war from this
country. So long as the United
' States furnishes horses, barbed
1 wire, blankets, submarines, and
; piovisions for the European war,
( this country is a party to the
conflict, and the blood of the slain
’ is on our garments.
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The proposal to establish a
national-owned merchant marine
would have been more satisfac
tory if it could have had the
lvowed purpose of delivering
Iraerica from the shipping trust.
The United States owns the Pan
ama Canal. If ought also to own
a complete coastal steamship
service from Maine to Alaska,
and it ought to co-operate with
other nations in an international,
public owned steamship service,
and these services should be
provided at cost.
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The Government makes no
such proposal. Instead, the pub
licly owned merchant marine is
to be a temporary device, to be
used for the express purpose ol
capturing for American monopo
lists, markets heretofore shared
between the British and German
monopolists, and then as soon as
the shipping service is made
profitable, it is to be surrendered
to American monopolists, instead
of being used for the deliverance
of the American people from all
monopolists.
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Markets captured now from
both Great Britain and Germany
wh'le they are at war, wjji need
tp be defended from both Great
Pritajn and Germany wtym jh.e
war is over, and ttys effort to
aecyre tberp now at pubjjo ex
pense for the benefit of private
jmonpptyists is simply providing
both trouble am} bloodshed fpr
the futpra,
Must Pay Damages.
Two hundred Connecticut un
ion labor members must pay
9252.J30 damages as a result of
the United States supreme court
verdict upholding P. E, Loewe
»pd Q?7 pi Pppbury }p the Dpnr
bury batters’ pase, Tbs decision
ends eleven yetyrs of litigittyn,
Will Fight -
Traction Company.
tfuffa’o Socia’ista are planning
to fight the street car company’s
attempt jto collect $108,410.14 it)
damages suit to have been suffer
ed an the car strike two years?
ago.
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AWAKE} AWAK$! YE HEeDLESS THRONG!
-000
Awake! Awake! Ye heedless throng,
And fill the sad old earth with song!
Awake! Awake! the land is thine,
To fashion in a form divine!
Qod’s country corps on earth shall be
The commonwealth where men are frea.
Top long the brunt of toil ye’ve bprn*?'.
Too long ye’ve cringed to king and peer—
Too lopg have lived the slaves of fear.
Arise! Arise! and stand as one,
And ye shall be oppressed by none;
Go forth and win the bloodless fight!
Up! Up! Ye scattered hosts, unite!
Are You One Of The
Socialists who Says
“Yes I am a socialist—been one for many years-ahvay
the ticket-but l do not belong to the organisation ” It y
■■“ that class, you should g,et opt of it The only Social,=t
always vote
ou are
ts that
count are the ones ;that pay their
Jittle 25 cent dues per month, and
:,iid in the work of the party organi
zation. These are tlfe fellows tnat
are making the Socialist Party the
great force for the common good in
America. The capitalist class won’t
finance our party and wo don’t
want them to. Its the twenty-five
cents per muutn fiom its thousands
of real Socialists that keep the
wheels of the organization goi ig.
Come on in and find out how we
run things. You will have just as
much to say as another. We havp
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you should
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