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Show ' HEROES OF WAR AND PEACE. FROM THE PUEBLO COURIER. ' j ' 1 i , HOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. SANTIAGO SURRENDERS. Tba Pueblo Courier, Pueblo, Colo. Ol'R rich men must do their duty or ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Just as we go to press, Sintiago de Cuba is wrong for the government to issue perish. I tel! It in America without a fight, an outcome most will surrenders we not you, Ay, that is a story that takes one's breath, bonds, no matter if they are in small denom- tolerate vast wraith in the hands of men devoutly to be desired, certainly. So far as How the men rowed out in the face of death; inations, and no matter if they are first pur- who do for the nothing people Bishop Spain is concerned, the war is about over. Rowed as calmly as fishermen may chased by the common people. It will not Spaulding. There is no longer any danger fron that Who.htul their nets at the break of day. be long before they are in the hands of the is to be sought source. The next But never was fish net hauled in the weather professional money-lenderSocialists in Germany are making great closer home. Certaindanger History anyhow. it is there are a that That rifle and cannon and shell together shows that where a public debt is in the gains, as witness the election returns there. few who are not ready to close the war, from Rained on those sailors who drew from its bed shape of bonds that are held by the home Emperor William is indignant thereat, and the fact that The wise sea serpent and crushed its head. they have not had bonds enough people, the debt is never paid. The invest- proposes to make war on the Socialist. He and everything in their power will he Heroes of war are they Song and story ment is so desirable to those who hold the has caused employes of the government who yet, done to complicate matters and to prolong Shall add their names to the list of glory. bonds (and they are always the influential voted th- - Socialist ticket to be discharged. the war with Spain or some other nation. If Rut where is the story and where is the song people) that they dout want them paid. Kansas Agitator. this gang of pirates can be throttled and shut For the heroes of peace and the martyrs of We are opposed to bonds, no matter who wrong? Heke is something for those who believe off from iurther depredations and the Cubans holds them, and be the denomination ever be given their independence, the war has They fight their battles in shop and mine; so small and the interest ever so low. Bonds that crime and insanity come from drink, to The) die at their posts and make no sign. think about There are So, ooo insane per- been a very good thing. The only criticisms mean slavery, pure and simple. And the living envy the fortunate dead sons ia United States. The congress of phy- that we have ever indulged in have been on As they fight lor a pittance of butterless bread. THE POPULAR LOAN. sicians recently held, declared that most of the manner of raising revenue. Could we have had an issue of 400.000.000 of in herd like beasts a slaughter pen; They Say, you fellows, out there at the steel the insanity is caused by the growing hardlive like suffer and like cattle men. They greenbacks instead of bonds, works, and you fellows in the smellers; and ship of making a living." The Appeal to feel would we much like lumping the set horrers of very such a the life, Why, by you in the mines and in the ditches and on Reason. whole thing and saying, Amen. Like a merry seems the battles the grades you fellows who are working strife; Corporations are organized to secure from 12 to 14 hours a day and getting in pay And the open sea, and the open boat, The meanest, measliest, stinkingest plutospecial privileges and avoid personal respon as high as $1.50 per diem for it say, did And the deadly cannon with bellowing throat, sibility. They have no legitimate place in a crat on earth Is a $15 plutocrat. you know that Uncle Sain wants to sell you free Oh, what are they all. with death thrown in, some a When business government. gets too government bonds at par that bear Give men an opportunity to employ To the life that has nothing to lose or win large fur ordinary management by an indithree per cent, interest? themselves, and there will be no need of The life that has nothing to hope or gain clerks with the high collars, and vidual or a limited partnership it should be Say, you But labor and beds of pain? Equity. conducted by the whole people. Chicago public emoloyment bureaus. you butchers, and bakers, and cigarmakers, is where Fame, your story and where is your and printers, and barbers, and masons you Express. Slavery is slavery, no matter whether it song Fur the martyrs of peace and the victims of fellows who dont have to work for no $1 .30 Under the present system of taxation a be the result of owning the physical body or of the things needful to sustain that body. will be glad to take it when forced a day, but wrong? portion of the public revenue is derived from to do it say, you fellows, did you know that taxing the value of land. Under the Single The tramp and the millionaire are both Uncle Sam wants to sell you some govern- Tax we aould derive BRING US OUR FREEDOM. all revenues from that leeches on society. The one begs his living, ment bonds at par that bear three percent, source. This would relieve FROM THE ARENA. improvements the other steals it or, rather, torces it from interest? and all the products of human labor from the The century passes as a broken dream people which is one and the same thing. business men who are just eking taxation. It would Say, you the That lades into the darkness ere the dawn! encourage production The San Francisco Star states the cue The hopes it cherished and its griefs are out a bare existence you fellows who would of wealth in all of its forms, and discourage let go if you only could, and who the gladly gone holding of land out of use. Pittsburg fairly when it says that the United States will be forced to the wall pretty soon say, Kansan. As spirit shadows on Times silent stream! does not need nor want any alliance with The outcry and the anguish of it seem did you know that Uncle Sam has a lot of Great Britain or any other power; that we Like echoes on dusk hills like lights upon bonds to sell and is one of the principles of enlightened are the likes of you is It giving big enough to care for ourslvr3. The haunted borders of oblivion the first chance, knowing full well that you statesmanship that a generation of mankind Pale will o' wisps of a disordered scheme- As between the proposition to annex has no right tu bind the generation that havent a cent to spare? O thou New Age that comes! welcome Query: If the common laborers cant buy comes after it. For instance, we denizens of Hawaii or any other islands to our territory, thrice bonds (and they cant); if the skilled the earth today have no authority to decide and one to divide the United States at the the e More welcome than the birth of our youth! laborers cant buy the bonds (and they the fate of our remote descendants to the Mississippi, we would favor the latter. It Of the expected a us nobler nobler twice Bring cant); if the numerous small merchants cant extent of making laws for them or of pre- may be treason to say so, but it is an honest portion Than ever yet was given unto earth buy the bonds (and they cant), then why scribing rules for their conduct or their life. opinion withal. Bring us our freedom bring us love and call the bond swindle a popular loan? Posterity shoud and will rule itself. New truth. The great Inve which England is manifestIt is not a popular loan never was intend- York Twentieth Century. ed to be such. Even those small amounts ing for America at this time is simply wonA RADICAL. of franchises AfTVitxs Ownership public derful and aot so wonderful, either, when will able take that the people are be forced to ROBERT F. GIBSON IN THE ARENA. usual vindicated itself Labor as on Day, we come to think that it is that same sort of into the banks in a very short lime. when an ran on a track railway away engine love which a frugal dairyman has for the cow lama Radical, and this is my faith ; Men are called anarchists because they ex- near Brooklyn and, dashing into a train, that gives him th: most and richest milk. The aim and hope of all true citizens Are justice and real happiness for all. press the desire that the benefirs and the bur- mangled about a hundred people. Of course, Some are content I know not why to sit dens of the world be equally placed upon the nothing can be done about it. 1 here wili be Two things are needed to carry on war Among the sleepy worshippers who fill inhabitants wish to goodness the usual stupidities in the shape of official men and morey. For the first the governthereof. We The gilded jsmple of conversation, and picks up tli- - best men it And sitting, awestruck, there they think they there were more such anarchists; and by the investigations and thrte months hence a re- ment goes out find can and says, Come along, I need serve. way, the reason this epithet is applied so oft- port will be solemnly made to the t ffVct that for the second it has a different hut I am too busy for idolatry. en is because the plutocrat and his tool see there was an accident and if the engine had you, From an Exchange. plan. I carry in my hand a naked sword, their present sinecure passing away from not escaped nobody would have been hurt. The same was true of the last war. Do And pity, roused for one, Krays not my hand of the increase of agitators for There is probably no such exhibition of bruWhen prompt, sure blows mean freedom for them because krow that the amount that has keen all. tal incompetenbe and rascally greed to be you to justice a score. paid as interest on the bonds is many times That is my faith, and I am not afraid Did you ever think long enough to get found anywhere in the world that can com- more than that paid as pensions to soldiers? To face my Maker when my name is called. with the private management apd ownthrough your head the fact that business pare houses are not established for the purpose ership of our railways. How any one can While you remember the Maine, don't PHOTOGRAPHS. of supplying the people with the articles suppose that government ownership would forget that gang of bond thieves who have BEST CABINET PHOTOS. $1 OO PER DOZEN. result in a worse system, or that a worse sys- robbed and are still neressary for human existence? We mean robbing you under the In order to advertise our new parlors, we that clothing stores are not to supply the tem could be possible, passes comprehension. guise of patriotic measures for raising reveThe very class which can best afford to pay nue. Once more do we chance will make best cabinet photograps for $1.00 people with clothes; grocery stores are not being monotfor is the very one which need pay nothing fare thirty days. per dozen, onous by reminding you that every cent paid kept open for the purpose of supplying groALSEEN & CO., owing to its influence with the magnates who as interest on bonds is stolen from the laborthe ceries the to meat markets, people; dry 69 East Second South Street, own the lines. Consequently the poor must ers of the nation, and that without even a Salt Lake City, Utah. goods stores, harness shops, hardware stores, exorbitant rates in order tQ make good shadow of warrant in reason or candy stands, etc., are not for the purpose of pay justice. When we get through whipping the life furnishing the people with the articles car- the loss incurred through the rich The only out of Spain and have succeeded in scaring ried therein. No! Far from it. They are run thanks the people get for their complaisance The phenomenal success of the United is after the of a to all the rest of the world out of about seven solely to make privilege hospital going States in war ought to open the eyes of the profit out of the people. Huw the we us Twentieth it smash to seems that The periodical might up. growth, think him years much, people to a realization of the fact that we you, a clothier (we speak of come to the conclusion that we have the as a clothier, not as an individual) cares how Century. ate, after ail. a great nation. It ought to cause us to take courage that, possibly, some right to say how much silver we may put ragged or naked a boy or a man walks the Every year we hear the same old clamor into a dollar, the Carlisles, Clevelands, streets? How much, think you, a butcher, will again be clothed with the tendency of Americans to go to day our Congress against notto the to coin money and to regulate the contrary baker or grocer cares how hungry the people Gages and McKinleys Europe. The clamor comes from people who power value thereof, and of foreign coins, as it withstanding. might be, if they have no money to buy their do not stop to think before It speak. they before the days of goldbugism. Daxifi. Webster once said that God wares? None. They are in the business to cannot be too often repeated that to spend a used to have bemake difference a money profit. What short vacation in Europe is a positive benefit grants liberty only to those who love it and Again do we remind our readers that not that and the postoffice system: A to the resident of this tween it one issue of the are always ready to guard and delendit. Naturally, country. day is involved or will be is established in each community should not be made a fad or cause one to settled That is to say that it is all right to trust In postoffice by the present war. Spanish title may for the sole purpose of furnishing the people the Lord, but a more important matter is to spend too much time abroad. When an be driven from North America, but the rule with a means of communication, and all are American goes to cities like Paris and Lon- of the keep your powder dry. God may be able and the in benefits. individ its No participants equal don he gets a very valuable lesson in the the railroad to burn wet powder, but he has not demonmagnates, which is a thousand ual or company here demands a profit for strated it. principles of Socialistic government. He sees times more brutal and inhuman, is still in this necessity. Why cant we have clothing, better pavements, better streets, belter public full force and eiTect, and the Uniied States WATSON I AN WISDOM. dry goods, shoe, meat, hardware and other sendee. If he asks the reasons for this, he and not even Cuba itself can improve condiTom Wat pod's Paper. stores with the one purpose of furnishing the learns that it is the of the result to is prominence who tions much until that rule is broken compromise The man willing these necessities? Just stay with this of Socialists in people when affairs. Then conmunicipal principle by fusing witn a party he cant proposition long enough to understand why he returns and hears uneducated and unculThis is The Chicago says: elect to obtain votes in to order sistently join shuld be charged a profit because there tured men you denounce Socialistic ideas, he our war, not Cuba's. We have to take all him to office is no better than Mark Hanna are clothes and food in stores and you need feels ashamed ol himself. Our narrow pro- the risks, bear all the burdens and do all the who buys votes with cash. them. vincialism and t crudity stand in fighting. If we do this, we must reap the Tiif. American people have cherished for RErKESENTiVE government has proven a the way of such great reforms as muuicipal benefits. As a result of the war, Cuba must years the delusion that they were the rulers failure. Representatives fail to do the work ownership and the referendum. When we come under American control, and under of the country. They are now discovering for which they are chosen. Direct govern- see with our own eyes what these things conditions that will make our control lastexwho men select is do to can that all they ment by the people through the plan pro- have done for European cities, we get a little ing. By watching the Republican papers, ercise unrestricted power over them. will is see that a majority of them have of the conceit taken out of us. We no longer you posed by the Initiative and Referendum Ik you think there is any difference be- the only remedy. When the people lule think that God made the United States and quit talking of this war as a war of humantween fusion and just try to ex- there will be neither slaves nor masters. never made anything else. We perceive that ity, but claim that it is a war of conquest. The starving Cubans have been forgotten by plain it and see what a tangle you get your- Now, tke masses are slaves. The Chicago while we know an awful lot we have no monKansas Agitator. them. of opoly self into. Express. progress .Twentieth Century. s, ! 1 go-roun- d ill-pa- id -- ! ever-welcom- love-chil- d ! bond-thiev- land-grabber- Inter-Ocea- half-taugh- n es |