Confiscation
Large and Small
Diaz “confiscated” hundreds
of thousands of small peasant
holdings. Madero Huert-i and
others have “confiscated” thou
sands And never a word of in
dignation appeared in the press.
Confiscation of small estates, in
deed, has been the established
and respectable custom in Mexi
co for years.
But now that Panaho Villa has
announced the c nflscatkn of two
estates of several million acres
each, belonging to two powerful
Mexican families, confiscation
has suddenly become a highly ini
moral procedure, it Ins become a
crime. All Mexico and the Uni
ted States are shocked. Villa ap
pears nearly as vile a* Zapata,
who is *lso restoring stolen pro
perty to the people.
The New York Times reminds
.Villa that “his confiscatory pow
ers as applied to large tracts of
land, are about as legal and po
tent as tin fiat money he has hacl
printed.”
The Times may be right. Vil'a
may have to be reminded of the
difference between large and
small tracts of land. Under Taft
or Roosevelt he would surely he
reminded. It is barely possible
that Bryan may t»ke the Villa
.view.—The Masses.
Justice.
A Kansas City coal dea'er
cheated a customer out of 400
pounds of coal in the weighing
and was fined $50. The same week
a poor devil who stole 350 pounds
of coal from a coal yard in the
same city, in order to keep warm
was given two years in the peni
tentiary, and his needy family
left to struggle on without him
as best they could. Isn’t that a
typical example of our lawyer
kind of justice? Capper’s Weekly
The Soldier.
I, War is the trade of barbarism.
A good man never make* a
good soldier. The worst man al
ways makes the best soldier. The
•oldier js nothing but a hired, le
galized murderer.—Napoleon Bo
naparte.
Our Gentry.
It is laughable to hear dirty-fa
ced, sweat-begrimed workingmen
living in twelve-Jol ar rented
shacks, talking about “cur coun
try.” Why, you poor, deluded
boob, you are the lowest, siliest
slave that ever crept out upon
me earth, and disgraced the oth
erwise fair andscape with jour
presence. You luve no country
and no home in the true sense,
although you pile up mil
lions for the loafers that own the
tools that you must work with.
Vote to own the tools and step
out on the earth in God’s fair
sunsl ine, a free man. Then y.m
can boast of a country and liome.
Toilers' Defence.
° b t:, j a S»'3 <
Chicago policewomen are to
learn to shorn. That’s line. Per
haps the next strike < f waitres
ses can be made more interesting
by a few kindly homicides com
m tted by the <ady police. Alter
all the po ice must be able to use
guns; there is no precedent or au
thority for their ever using
brains,- Workers’ World.
Wilson Before
Rockefeller.
The President of the United
States, as the representative or
official agent of ‘JU.OOO.OOO of peo
pie, appealed to Ruckefeder to
settle the strike, but the king of
Standard Oil, who is the Presi
dent of Invisible Government, re
fused to pay any attention to our
chief magistrate, who i laced him
self in the role of a beggar. A
President with tte chatacteristic
traits of a Lincolu or a Jackson
■vould scorn to supplicate a mer
cenary pirate to settle a strike,
out would issue au order that
would put the fear of God into
the frozen heart of a callous and
shameless hypocrite.—Miners’
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Correspondence
To the lddidor of The Socialist
Bress.
I vish dot yon vill make in de
baper dis outrage. At de demo
gradig caugus ve gif to Dan ■Cal
lahan ten delegades vich is more
dan his share, (de big schtilf,)
limit ve take ten. Now I va"t to
gotoSkagvay myself to rebre
sent the Dried and Drues undt 1
arranche mitvun of our tei nod
to come undt I viU mineself have
made a delegade, ven dot big
Irisher ged up undt have vun of
his bunch made delegade undt
ven I holler va’ for Callahan haf
eleven and ve only nine de big
schtiif schlap my f»ce undt ma<e
names at me. I go by de distrigt
attorneys office undt vant 1 im 10
pinch Callahan. I dink \ e 1 vun of
flcial paste anoder it iss malfea
sance in offiice or someding vorse
bud de distrigt attorney vent do
noding, undt say I should go by
Pauli to get CaTahan pinched,
Vot go t iss dot! Callahan hold
him in hLs h‘mdt umU if Pauli
vont do vot Callahan tell him de
big schtilf vould fire him oud of
his chob. Besidtes vot goot vould
id to me do dot Callahan go by
Pauli’s chail, I could not ged
sqvure mit him in dot chail.
Cherman Demograd.
, We think our irate German
correspondent Jias let his feel
ings run away with his Judge
ment. In the first place why
should an expense that does not
belong the e he saddled on the
district attorney’s ofTiice, and as to
the assertion that Callahan owns
the City court, we are quite sure
that neither Dan Callahan or any
one else an dictate to Magistrate
Pauli,
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Resolutions,
Passed unanimously By Fairbanks, 0!nes&
! Cleary Locals
Whereas: There is being published in Fairbanks a papea
called the ‘Alaska Socialist' by one Andrew Knowles, a
former member of the Socialist party who was expelled
sometime since for party treason under Article 10, Section,
cf the National Constitution.
Whereas: The said paper was establishedsome mont-hs ago
by the said Knowles for the ostensible purpose of propaga
ting Social 1st doctrines and theories, but, judging from the
course he has pursued,really for the purpose of venting
his personal spleen by calumniating and misrepresenting
individual Socialists, thereby attempting to create dissen
sion and discord in the party and to impair its efficiency as
a political organization, and
Whereas: The said paper now being published as a so;
called independent Socialistpaper, so long as it is read by
one Socialist or Socialist sympathizer is a menace to the hair
monious progress of the movement, in that its editor and
proprietor, having been expelled from the party, is under
absolutely no control or restraint, and may indulge an
unbridled propensity for villificatjon .and .abuse without
fear of party discipline, and.
Whereas: The said Knowles in addition to having used
his paper to the fullest extent of his ability in attempting
to injure the party b/ fomenting strife and discord within
the ranks, has further dojie his utmost to injure the move
ment by imposing upon and victimizing those less informed
Socialists and other favorably disposed persons who con
tribute to its support under the mistaken impression that
they are patronizing a hona fide Socialist paper, be it
therefore
Resolved: That Local Fairbanks, Socialist parly hereby
announces to the membership of the organization and to
the public in general its'unqualified disapproval and repudi
ation of the ‘Alaska Socialist’ andthat we disclaim any res
ponsibility for the same, and in order that the Socialists as
well as the public in general may be informed regarding
the status of Mr. Knowles jand the attitude of the Socialist
party toward his publication called “An Independent So
cialist paper” be it hereby further
Resolved : that a copy .of these resolutions be transmitted
to every local in this Territory, that tbe same may be giv
en the widest publicity possible. . f
Adopted May 20. Fairbanks Local. N. R. King, Sec’y,
Concurred in June 13.. Olpes Local. jKmil Pozza >»
,, June 21, Cleary Local. L. Westenvick ..
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