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TUK UKVKM'K I'Ol.lt V.
The Revenue Bill is not yet an
accomplished fact, however soon it
may be. The question of paving
for the war 1ms worked up so much
of the legislative intellect that
some of them said really wonder
ful things. Senator James Hamit
. ton Lewis insists that if the rich
are not made to pay for the war,
an outraged people will make them
by a revolt. It was a very extreme
view and must have sadly hurt the
Senator from Illinois to have to
speak like an I W. W. soap boxer.
It may be doubted however if an
I W. W. soap boxer would have
any vain illusion on the subject of
an outraged people. The last in
the world to experience that con
dition of mind indeed are the Peo
ple.
However this may be we may rea
sonably be well sure that tli- rich
will pay for the war. Only for
sensational propagandism is it ever
urged that the poor will pay for it.
It is only a figure of speech em
ployed by a mind capable of believ
ing that blood can be taken from
a stone. It is not possible.
It is iuit ■ immaterial when it is
liaid. the expenses of the war will
be paid by the men who have the
money. The workers will pro
duce tin' wealth which will pay it.
but they have no kick as to that
for they have been producing the
wealth for all things before the
war started.
They provide by their lanor uu.
means whereby our old and honored
friends John D. father and son.
Andrew Carnegie and a host of
others have been cutting quite a
caper in the social, industrial, fin
ancial and religious world. And
they can afford to consider the re
venue question as nten who are re
moved from these trumpery troub
les which concern their betters.
The worker has no money to pa>
tor anything but for his own living.
He does manage to get by once in
a while with a few cents savings
for a rainy d; y. ilut if he wi re to
spend what he make-, in re. mably
decent living his b: • • r ’ 1 end
of the year would be in Die red.
So why should lie excite himselt
al,out this rev nue bill. Why should
he keep awake of nights wondering
whether they are going to tax ex
cess incomes or profits or news
paper advertising receipts? There
is really no good reason in the
world.
Let it oe once and for all clear
ly understood how it stand: in the
economic world. The owner of the
machinery or 'he lanu employs
John Doe or Richard Roe working
men to labor for him. He gets
V’hat they make during tilt' day.
rtdfts a sufficiency to clothe and feed
Hoe and Roe and to raise some
more .John Does and Richard Rocs
for thevaid owner. What is given
Doc and F-oe is called wages. It is
just enough fqr Doe and Roe to live
upon. If it is not and Doc and Roc
will fall by the wayside or at work
bccau.-.e it is not. -t is compulsory
upon the owner to pay enough.
Sometimes he does and sometimes
d>e »loes not. if he docs not state,
municipal or church charity orga
nizations step in and help, while the
owner who failed to pay enough
-suhsc.rrt.es to said charity to make
me Tor his short coming in :h
■wages (meation.
Will James Hamilton Lewis or
Lafollette cr any of them tell us
how the Dees and the Roes are go
ing to pay for anything outrda -
their own living expenses, let alone
“carrying the burdens of Hus "ar
expenditure-? It can not he dem
and it will not be done.
The question !s all muddled and
fuddled for the workers by ID- po
liticians. They arc now paying non
1-. ..tie-.- and chewing up the air
what time they make some voi. l
sounds for and against just be-1
cause tin'.' want everyone to uok j
at them There is a very real;
question which they are threshing
cut, but it does not concern the
workers a little bit.
This question is whether the little
fellow in business, in industry, com
merce or finance is to let the big
follow get by easily or whether the
big follow is to be allowed to use
the war as a pretext to swallow
the little fellow's wealth and to
shove him robbed clean into the:
rank3 of the workers who have]
neither money nor property.
It is quite a question. The little
fellows are not going to give up
without a struggle and they are
not going to lie wiped (iff the map
without squealing. They are doing
both. But they are also trying to
make the workingman think that
it's for them they are battling when
it's for their own precious hide.
And the workers are falling for
it good and plenty. They are gett
ing in many places all worked up
over it for you often find that It's
easier to get people excited over
which they have no con
cern whatever than over matter
about which they should most cer
tainly he anxious.
So they have a conglomeration of
middle (lass sharks in the guise of
reformers who suddenly feel that
they are suffering and sympathiz
ing with the workers in this mat
ter when they are suffering and
sympathizing themselves over it.
They realize their danger. They
know that they are to be stripped
clean and they dout like the war
expenses. The> want a peace imme
diately, some of them, or if they
can't get peace they want the ex
cess profits that t hey dont share
taxed to th-1 limit.
They dont say much about seiz
ing a!! property for the benefit of
the war; eliminating private owner
ship in industry for the nation:
they want a system of taxation that
will gorge on the richmen and
leave the middle class business
I men in any line alone.
Huy have some propaganda and
i it's good propaganda stuff, stuff
that you can get by with after a
j fashion, .f it wasn't for the fact
that so many senators arc such
sticklers for the privilege! ciass'-s
they can't be coaxed or cajoled or
! worried into doing as it is urged
they should do.
RUSSIAN IDKAl.S.
Charles Edward Russel who ac
companied the Root Mission to
Russia, to which mission he was
appointed by President Wilson and
which he very rightly as we think
accepted, h: s returned to tell Amer
ca about Russia. and although
abused for doing as he has done,
Russel is tilling the truth about
Russia.
He is telling us what people
wanted to knew and the Russia
that he saw and observed should be
known to all.
He tells us that Russia has no
dreams of world empire. He tells
us that Rursi t doesn't care a whoop
about the commercial conquest of
the world. He tells up that what
Russia wants is a democracy, a real
democracy removed from the realm
of impel ialism in politics or trade.
That will help ns to understand
something. That will -explain why
the Russian people are not so much
concerned about the war as about
building up their internal organi
zation which will realize their
ideals
It is peculiar to people who have
been spreading the idea that they
had all of them a Whiteman’s burd
en to pack, had all of them mis
sions to civilize and to assimilate,
to understand that there is a race
in this world whose ideals are so
vulgarly proletarian as noi to re
joice in huge balance sheets, tre
mendous exports. great financial
centers and enormous accumulated
wealth.
It would b*' very well to under
stand that Russia has totally dif
ferent ideas of democracy to Wall
Street. It is well to un lerstand
that Ru 'Sia is alive to ?he necess
ity of preventing any such a condi
tion when copper barons can at
their own swe»t will supend the
constitution aid deport work-rs
who ask for higher wages and
where such a condition did prevail
you could not persuade them by hook
or by crook that such was a demo
cracy.
Russia has a long row am1 a
hard row of stumps ahead of it.
But its workers are determined
men. above all men with a vision
It is the men with a viaion who
make the world progress. We owe
everything we are to day to the
men with vision. There'3 not on®
little political liberty however
small. however poorly enforced,
however frequently suspended, how
ever so often menaced, but we owe
it to the men in all lands who had I
the vision.
And we say it without fear ot
error that the only way this would
can be made better, now or at an>
time, is by the men with such a
vision. Always, today as yesterday,
it is woe to the men of little
faith—the cantankerous men who
have neither soul nor sympathy—
neither vision nor grasp of imagina
tion to stimulate reason, and to in
spere action, there men may indeed
as of old weep for themselves and
for their children.
Everything that the men with
ideals wish to be accomplished will
not be accomplished without labor ,
and travail. The Russian republic,
it would be too much to expect, will
enter at once into its own—prob
ably not for a considerable time—
not for many a year of struggle
with all kinds of reactionary forces
that are likely to hedge around
with impediment and obstacle the
design sought after.
But it is even now' enough to
know that in the east of Europe a
giant has arisen with a determina
tion that democracy will not be a
meauingless word, made barren ot
its great significance by useless re
petition. the husk without the
kernel. but a living thing to in
spire and to guide men's lives, in
their confidence and belief in their
fellow men.
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Bacon 43c. per lbs.
Applen, Gravensteln, good for
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Potatoes $4.50 per hundred lbs.
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