Ex-Mayor Lunn
SpoaksIn N. Y.
Iu a inii-s nae«tirg held in Neir I
Turk Cry a fe* ca n atr • to discus*
tee piob.aoi oi the c.-u., cned, Hr.
Lunn, tii- touner Sjji >Iirt mayor
•if Sh;:,<- t.d , j:—•• i he man
rut oi i juj .0m) :* p. biniy Jes
tiian a vvtes ir in -n*rv -1 in. Bui
v hen ll Ust nis Hu n in 1S JO, he!
»** : rox u n i y ih.ea necks
Jrutn - -a.luij. inat illustrates j
310 W Ju.-dl .1 1 S Il> changed.”
He t ii. -jl r l':. .i ._ u number of
0 ai. i .:s ia i.,- i.,y. i Hey le-,
ii u r it..' in u i.i i usstou said
Luc., ;n.:t “ut. y i v tae grace oil
Gcil all Ca, . i v. ’
“i lu.d t ilea, ne co timed. that'
the grace of i. i «n u enough to,
fei d a mil b i mar, b t th - v in- i
sir ed It war. 'O-nteom’ 1 taiil, j
*'-f yon umk u. an thi s rests of |
f eiai , v oh btd uniy in the
1 r '• ' t <i . v,' ml! -eiv prompt
ly have you a rres e i. ’
Death of Well
Known Writer
1 i a < ovu.unieatinn r>cd vei hy
Mri.Lcui Mo. r w Lewis of tlii? city
fr. ru ( cr_e D. Herron, the we!! j
Li. own American j>o;i Hi-t writer
new i.v n> in Italy, fie 1 e ,s is giv ’
• nrf the death tf h e wile Carrie
Lane II rrou. In s taking if her,
Air. Urmia says: "Her love was |
i ot r itietaii.g in my Lfc. i. w as my ]
li e—my life and con-eeri ti m to
the br-si tli it I know, i iv.-ry kind
< : bimiaii service, not only was but
is, a.id shai. ue tu.eveiQi re. ’
V.'IL'iT CAPITALISM MEANS
Medi.ation of a Do tor.
Ai hal a cur-td feasor.! Nobody
Fitk! Not even a cog l as a coid
A Druggist.
Everybody’s in good health in
this La stly to.vn!’
A etavedigger.
If wa c u d inly h .\e a little Cho
Jei . x eouio give my’ daugoter a
dowry.
A Military Man.
Twenty years of peace! Its the ru
in of my career
A Jr.^-e.
.f it weren’t for the criminals wfcat
-U' uld we do?
A Merchant.
If I ran succeed in drivi-e ray
n-ighbor in'o bankruptcy, I’ll get
all his trade!
A Fa-mer.
Such a cal mi’y! The country has
produced so much that the market
is glut ed. B.cesei be the years of
-mill crops.
A Lawyer.
Oh, such a stupid town! jsobody
wants to pro-eoiite anybody else.
A Policeman.
If it weren’t* for the robbers I
should Lave to sie.il for a living.
Junior
Suffragettes'
The Juuiir p.uxilliary io the Na
lion a'; Woman Suffrage Association
has be<*n f.Treed In New York and
one Las been started in Connect;
cut.
Subw*ibe to THE FREE PRESS
Guess Who I Am
i Are yon racking your brain to
'And nut who I am? Are von ex
changing opinion* with your ne gh
b rs i-nd partners? Are you put
ting up any money as t > wno I a.n?
Well ke-p on gu-t-sing. Tee
st-a:cn tor trut.n is worth morjthan
tbe mere finding of truth. I am t :e
voice speaking out o. the past. I am
tbe iconoeUet of today anil the co
ming con tructiye force t ie f i
ture. Anyway I am anything and
evorythtng yuU want to make out
of me.
I am the guy—the guv that be
lieves in arl the g oh things of life
I am the guy tnat is » -iug to Ore ;k
up the‘ homo’' the ome with’1' >ur
teeu small children around an oil
stove crying for brtad"’•jammed in
one of tbe overcrowded tenement
housef-’reez.ng and dying the slow
death of starvation. Tub "bui. e'’ of
tbe uiiner-a r.irty, lousy, ov- lvrow
ded baukhouse, with lioles in the
rcof and fifty-seven different varie
ties ot stinking s-icks banning a
round an outworn stove—The'home’
of “French Ami!e’'-the guardian of
our present morality fn the restrict
ted distret Then there i- another
kind of heme that will get badly
hurt in the skufiie ar.d a lot o!
those will have to go.-I mean the
k nd of home where "Mr. Man
thinks he is the Lose and general
overseer.
As a matter of ‘act all the ‘hcm»s’
that are nothing but hovels dig
outs or throw-ups are tils "come,"
I am going t > br-ak up.
Talk about breaking ‘homes’ 0.
go on you are joshiug-wher# are
the ‘b'lines'-the h ian s of thousands
-yes in ilions of wi In g working
men and women. Let u? not on’v
break-up these “homes'’ but also
hum them-sret rid of all the disease
breeding places-the slums- the pro
duct ii thi- gtonou* iwentietu con
t tury civiliz* ion—and—1 t us hive
l h -u.es that ar-- \v rthy the name.
Perhaps s .me of \ou may disu
I agree witn me ou minor points. But
I that is y -or bl. seed privilege ail . I
. «oaidu.it d,[.r veyou of it f 1 had
t; e power. A pompous old t .low
- e ailed at cay otlice some time* a. o to
lUforiu ine ihat I wa* r<idtcall
w oupoiev ry ubhc qu-sti >n. He
-etij.ei to thin-s that 1 u .d com
mi tee. an unpardonable trim* in
daring to differ with him. 1 asked
him to be seated and whisded for
•the devil-t.be printer's devil, the on
ly kind we keep i-i the office of the
Free Press I told him to pr care
tor me a sitc-shootea sledge ham
mer <nd a bo it.
Mv visitor became greatly alarm
ed,
h-what ar° you g-goin. ta d-do’
“Dc?” 1 tepiied, “d.'m going to
-hoot up the printers, smash th«
press and throw the type iu the ri
ver. \Vhat in the name of the
great Jenovau is the use o’ me priu
ling a p.p»r ii 1 c&n’t please you?
Mr. i'uu.positv euh«ided some
what ana I proceeded to talk Un.
ted St ites to him.
“Y u Bay I ru wrong. Perhaps I
aim; but how iu H—I think I saiu
Halifax did you find it out? Who
installed you as in’allibls pope in
the realm ol intellect and deal .red
- it rank lolly to run counter to t e
| ideas that roost iu your nice fa
head?”
He was one of those egotistical
mental microhes or iuttllcctual ani
' maloulae, who immag ne that a
man muA be ..Uug li he d.e..crctg
with th*m. And the woods are so
full ot th;r c'a»sof fellows that ti e
fool kl.tr has liecome disc uragt d
and jnmjied his job.
Tae average human Ik ad, like
an e_g-or rather an onion-ab
sorbs tne davcr of eurroandit cs.
It i chief y a matter <>f envfrop
oiri. ihnner we grow up Catholic
or I’r. ; -’.ant, Republican or Demo
crat, l'i.-grsssivea or Singio t.Xers,
Sue.a!.ct, or Di.ect Acdonists. And
yet ae adhere to opirions we hive
inhumed im.1i tt,l the tenacity of a
logt a . one. r Ike, the appie pe.i,
Vr ' 011 liu;iar bill \\c a,some’
tuat (-ur nith political .-.ml cur
creed religious are founded uj
oar r-asor, and they a: • rcuiy
made tor u- by social conditions oc
11 'v'>'ch we had littlle (onto.!.
'Ve eAen SUC"C3 1 i„ humbugging
ourselves into the beleif thalvTa a.e
the- n- .pie and wisdom will die
wi'h us, when the fact is our heads
are loaded with "out of mte Jum
be.-’ —onr every idea meu ded by
barbar.ans who were in tne none
yarn before Me hnsaleu was born.
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More Pay For
Teachers
The organiz ition of school te ch
jers now nunrb-rs over two million
members and the American Fefer
.ion ot labor demands higher wagee
fer them.
JOB PRINTING
AT THE