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Show 1 Absolute Pioof auita are taking the place That our kind ia given ua each day front of the READY-TO-WEAthe number of enita we sell. Although a number of the patterns have been closed, we can still show you as large an assortment as any New York tailor. MADE-TO-ORDE- Absolutely Guaranteed EtimidTailoringGo. H. J. Toller. Mgr . Street Twenty-fourt- h THE HAN AH SHOE CO. S OLE AGENTS (SwimpsiirSdDiw Four tlnwa the light half the eoat mt That's what electric lighting doqs. If yon question It, question us. Were only too glad to give information and ,tKd service along the lighting line. Thats why we are Men EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL AT ' j Commercial ElectricCompany 2278 WASH. AYE The Springfield Fire PHONE 362. & Marine Ins. Co. of Springfield, Mass. ASSETTS, 66,936,261.05. CAPITAL, 62,000,000.00. SURPLUS, 63,171,124.59. Losses paid since 1849639,478,834.66 Among which are included: ......... ............ 1862 Troy, K. 1B6S ....... Portland, Chicago, 1872 Boston, 28 8 Havwtlll, Maw., 2888 Lynn. Mass., 1888 Jackaoavlils, Fla., 1801 ... Paterson, N. J., 1802 Baltimore, 1804 Rochester, N. Ts 1804 Toronto, Caa., 1804 Saa Francisco 1808 8MM8Ma 1 M. a a a S Ia MIM'MIll a a Forristall, Agt. Bel 809 Phones Ind. 80 STAN DARD-EXA- S4.497.00 98,869.00 827,120.00 259,294.00 81.141.00 64JM.00 mhmi 4 M 78,262.00 88,119.00 440,000.00 14,000.00 98.480.00 1,612,9 79.89 Robt. G. Agee, Mgr. Offce IN 1 III I 4 i 444 55 FIRST NAT. BANK R Want Ads Bring Big Results 1 1 1 H 1 Hi 1 144 4 SUNDAY, 1 1 OF THE OGDEN LOCAL SOCIALIST PARTY JOS. MAC LACHLAN. CARL C. RASMUSSEN. GORDON G. IVES. Addraa, all Communications: "Editorial Committee, Socialist Party, Flret National Bank Bldg, Room 42. 4 III II 111 I I'll I I 1 144 II HH"H-4- THE DOCTOR'S FEE. "The Worlds Work" (or May contains as article by Edgar A. Pastas discussing the alleged extortion of tka average doctor. Hla conclusion ia that there la no uniformity of charges, but that oa the vhdle' the doctor ' seldom receives more than he la entitled to. Under ths present ijntcn where a maa is valued according to hla wealth. It is natural for the doctor to acept "thank you" for treating a work-- , ing mans wife, while the hanker la served with a bill for 8200 for the aame service. Naturally there la much Injustice connected .with euch a lark of system, but the doctor comes in contact with human nature when it ia off guard and as little as possible so we affected by commercialism; need not be surprised tbst the physician is usually the moot progressive maa thinker and charitably-dispose- d in the community. .The only relief apparent la the formation and elabors-tio-o of hospital associations where the patient pays n certain sum to be kept well. Instead of making It to the doe-tor-s Interest to keep him sick, and where the doctor haa hie living assured and la relieved of the anxiety and twnoyance incident to the asual practice. A Simple Question. Wa are not disposed to consider seriously the question ns to which kind of despotism could be the worst, that administered by a majority or by a minority. It would seem to n reasonable maa that neither would be bet. ter than either. The Wall Street Journal la correct in lie assumption that the minority despotism was possible because it was The majora "privileged minority. ity was the victim of this minority solely because of the special privileges which the few held as against the many. This spokesman for the men of Wall Street seem to fear tor (ha freedom of the few should the real power of the country once really get Into the hande of the many. It la clear how a minority ran use a majority to perpetuate the special privileges of the minority. That la perfectly familiar to the editors of ths Wall Street Journal. But bow could the majority win the direct control for the direct rule of the majority In Its own behalf and still preserve special privileges for any part of the people? The centuries of struggle for liberty and equality of opportunity for the ma-Joriiy against the power of the small privileged minority can never overthrow the despotism of the few without establishing both Industrial and political equality of opportunity for all. Including the minority as well as the majority. That will be the aaft of the tyranny by one class as against another, and so what haa the Journal to fear for its friends? But ths Journal speaks of "preserving the rights of the small miaority against the power of the fcreat maWhat rights does the Journal jority. have In mind? - Can It mean to preserve the special privileges which were the basis of the tyranny iff the minority n tyranny which must last as long aa the privileges are permitted to remain? Thera will be an rad of tyranny when all men are so related-th- at they cannot use the public power to get any advantage for themselves except they shall be secured for all not to put any burden on others which they do not bear themselves. But the trouble with this arrangement la that all tyranny and special privilege go out of existence together. The fears of the Journal are well founded. Equality of opportunity and Inequality of opportunity cannot exist together. The Water Trust at Warwhoopw "So far, said old man Duncan, "warwhoop slat never had a trust to come before and make Its home perme-neneOf course, this burg feels the effects nf some of em that are a long ways off, and you can find their trials round here eame as you can that of a big rattler where he's crossed th road. The only trust we ever had with Its head, tail, and body right In our midst was the water trust. It sprung up and growd like a gourd vine for a while, then it wilted like a ragweed. "It was the Jryest time I ever saw In these parts. Wfcrwhoop didn't have All the water used was any wells. hauled from Cat Creek, about a mile distant. But Cat ("reek went dry as powder. In all the country round there was only one place where there waa water in abundance. That place was owned by a nigger. George Washington Johnson was his nvme, and he waa what you might call light in the upper story. Yet, George Washington made his water trust pay as hensome dividends as Standard Oil, oonaiderin the amount of his investment, which proves beyond all doubt that it dont take brains to make a sure thing like a trust cough up the required lucre. "George Washington's water supply was a large spring about twenty feet across, haJf as deep, and fed by ever-lastiJets that made the white sandy bottom boll like a caldron. "At first, when the nigger began chargin for his water a lot o people began to howl like a pack o' gray loafers. Hes got no right to do it. they said. It's robbery, highway robbery and we won't pay for the water. So they told the darkey, but he only grinned and said: " Well, 1 needs de watah, leastways 1 1 1 1 1 Editorial Committal. 1 1 114 1 1 1 an of youns dm winter buy none, I kin uaa It punjr good myself. "But the people had to have water. Of course, they hid such a pious inspect for the property right that they wouldnt try to take to by force, besides Georg Washington threatened to have anyone prosecuted who took the waigr and refused to pay. Aooordln'-ly- . a shower of coins fell into George's pockets like sand through an hour-- "lt waa such aa easy thing that tha trust decided to raise the price of water. Never! said tha Warw hoopers. We dont care if the water does belong to you, you rant steal our money In any such way. Notwlthstandin that the spring showed ne signs of exhaustion. George Washington said that ths supply wasnt nothin' lilts equal to the demand and 'denrfore he's Jest gwla-te- r Jerk up de price notch or two. The people were furious. They called a meetin' and decided. In order to discipline the Impudent nigger, to place n heavy tax on the spring, as bein a valuable piece o property. So the tax was levied, (ben they stood around to watch ths pa soIn' of tha water trust They waited and watched in vain. Tha water trust continued to Sourish. George Washington Johnson paid the tax, and next day Jerked np tha price a aotch or two more to meet the deficiency In his cash. When nn offer was made to buy tha spring he put the price up to a point that made sent like a pauper. "The months wore on with narr a drop o' rain to oool the soorenin plains Down to the spring rushed nn endless stream o cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and human, and not a awaller went down a parched throat without somebody payin tribute for tha privilege. Nearly all tha people raged and roared agln this yoke that w,a gougin their necks more and more. They studied till their heads ached tryln' to think o some plan to get rid of It The socialist a there were not many of them In Warwhoop at that time-o- nly laughed. By their fruits ye shall judge them, they quoted. This thing Is ths fruit of your system, therefore your system U a rotten one. If the public owned the spring would there be any tribute to payft No, but you have said well have private owner-ship- . ' 8o be lt then; pay the tribute and whimper hot At these words of tha socialists the others only swore and would not hare It aa They said they'd arrange it by law. They'd go Into the courts. Theyd have the law on George Washington Johnson for extortion. So they went into tha courts, George Wash-lngto- u only grinned and connived with the lawyers and bribed the Judge and raised the prios of water to pay tha V' , coats. 1 Aa the papers say, lta no tollin' how and disastrous would have been tha ultimate effects of the water trust, if an Idea hadnt got to busxlu' round In my noggin. I owned a small piece o' land Just below the famous spring. One day I walked out there and tanked at tha spring. Then I looked at th lay o' mv land, went off and hired some fellows, came tack and fell to dlggln a well on my hours after the ground. Twenty-fou- r well was sunk It was half full vf water and there wasn't a thing In Georgs spring but mud and tadWashingtons poles. 1 had tapped hla supply. When the people found the spring dry, they nearly went mad. However, I soon shooed away their fears invited em over and toU em to help themselves free of charge. And every time you take a drink, I told 'em. I want you to swear you'll never vote agin for a system that makes a water trust, or any other trust, possible. Plutocracy's Inner Circle. ExBenator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, recently delivered a lecture on The Political Community of Interests," In The political comwhich he asld: f munity of interests to composed twelve men seven sene tors, four congressmen and tha president of the United States." Twelve mea who caa take any man In this house and send him to Jail it matters not whether you have committed any offense. They have the power, anJ, if you give them too much trouble they have the will to do It. . ... The postmaster can tonight issue an order withholding the mall of any person in this audience and never tell why he did It" There is not the slightest exaggeraPresident tion In these statements. Roosevelt has all the power of King Edward and more, too, and exercise his despotic prerogative more freely than any other president ever did. The only difference between a monarchy and a capitalist republic to the name. The working class Is the inferior class and equally enslaved in both. In the January Cosmopolitan Elisabeth Meriwether Gilmer give a sympathetically drawn picture of the OrWe, who feel Condinary Woman. tempt as well as pity for the woman who willingly slaves all her life away with no murmur of protest, must recognise H aa a picture pitifully true War-whoo- n' -- to life. But I and every agitator who travels up and down the earth unstopping deaf cars and removing scales from Mind eyes know another Ordinary Woman, and from the depth of our hearts we honor her. Freighted with the same weight of care, flinching from the same pinch of poverty, bending under the aame burden of over-worour "Ordinary Woman doea not find the supreme moment of her life when she haa educated her children above herself and lifted them above her sphere. Even amid g the toilsome, life of a workingmen's wife, her mind has retained some of its youthful brilliancy. Somewhere off in the dim and misty future uhe catches a gleam of a better day, grasps the idea that her machine-likdrudgery Is useless. Is a criminal waste of life, and instead of dumbly laying her life as a sacrifice upon the altar of womanhood in order that her children may be uited above her sphere, struggles with suporhiimanstrength to lift the sphere of all mankind, herself and heart-wearin- JUNE 23, 1907. - ' ! SOCIALIST DEPARTMENT I Wall Street Power. "For centuries the supreme question was how ahaU the great majority secure liberty and equality of opportunity against the power of the small privileged minority. The time may come wbm the problem will be reversed, and when the question shall bo how to preserve the rights of the small minority against the power of the great majority. Looking at It from every point of view, the tyranny of a despotic majority caa be more unjust and do more harm than the tyranny of a despotic minority." The Wall 81tract Journal. smart styles; made permanent by the very best material and skilled workmanship. Those 1 THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY. offers the ease of soft,.. pliable leather and the elegance of DEE-STANFO- RD 1 UTAIT, INTERNATIONAL R Fit. Style and Workmanship 3 45 14 M 4 44 R J. EXAMINER: OGDEN, THE MORNING 10 brain-dullin- children with It to a- higher and better plane. Who of us who haa trod the weary way dues not know her? That brave, strong, kindly woman whose greeting came to us like a ray of sunshine, whose parting followed' us aa a benediction. The woman who shared her home with tie. gave aa the best bed, baked for as the brownest biscuits and She sacrificed tha plumpest pullet. who remembers that home will fray, linen get soiled, buttons forsake our company, hose need darning and heart grow sick with longing for horn and loved ones. Bhe who is ever ready to serve, whether it be with biscuits or sympathy, soap sad water, needle and thread, or the loving words of courage that wa need. Commonplace., yea, and obscure and unknown, but we can never while we live have effaced from our memories the clasp t of her hand, or toe gleaming from her eyes aa she bad ua goudapeed on her Journey and said: God bless you, comrade, you caa do so much for our great cause and I so llule We so muck and they so little! I wonder how nianv of us are so puffed up In our pride that wo never atop to consider how many agitators would be touring the country U all these noble women, these commonplace women at the Socialist movement would cease to work with us. Not many I Imagine, but I KNOW if every Socialist woman in the United States were to cease their efforts la our behalf practically every agitator ia tha country would be wending hie weary way homeward In less than thirty days and possibly counting ties as ha went We don't see much of the Ordinary Socialist Woman unless - vs know where to lok for her; she is always in the background. Just one of the crowd often too modest to make herself known, but we would soon find an appalling loss if she were suddenly to disappear. Tom Brown and Jim Jours and Dick Green come to the front with the quarters, halves and dollars which keep us going, but It is Mesdames Tom and Jim and Dick who scrimp and save and stretch too contents of the pay envelop that tha quarters may be spared. Nona but aa agitator knows how many spring hats, new shoes and Sunday dinners that little pile of silver represents, or tha nubility, hero tarn and exalted woman hood that mads its gathering possible. The Ordinary Woman don't show np to any great extent among the names of those sending big lists of scubsclb-er- s to Socialist publications, but if she censed work the mailing lists would soon look worse than Teddys reputation ns n Square Dealer. It Is only when the great ledger of life, in which are entered the debits to ability and opportunity and tbs credits to useful service well performed, to opened up to our view that some of ua will realise how very small vs are compared with the unknown, ordinary woman, whose very existence we had forgotten. Sometime in the future I may be bale to write the story of The Hemnlea of tha Social Revolution. Telling the children of the future how the women of the past, work-worpoverty- - burdened, heart-wear- y with tha cares of wife and motherhood, lifted their eyes from grinding toil and thear hearts from weiring cares and built of their Uvea tha bridge that spanned tbs chasm of the Social Revolution and enabled all mankind to pass from tbe Jungles of Capitalism Into tha pleasant fields and meadows of tha Cooperative Commonwealth. Crime will exist as long as men profit by It Make conditions so that no profit will result from an act and men will nut commit that act. Remove the incentive to crime. Make it Impossible for any man to live without useful work and yon will have avollshed the conditions that make for crime. When men and women who have the Rood things of life only by having evidence that they have been aiding directly In producing the good things of life crime could Crime increases parch se nothing. more rapidly than population because the conditions are favorable to crime. Criminals get rich, honest men remain poor. Most crimen are committed according to law. Laws do not make wrong right, but cash purchases tow and immunity. The great salaries of today are paid not to the men who actually produce more or better articles, but to the men who can devise schemes to divert the streams of profit from one channel to another to capture the business knd profit of a competitor for hla Under Socialism the man employer. who. can maka two blades of grass grow when one has grown or who can contribute In any way to the increase or perfection of things that satisfy human needs, will be in demand; but those who dow waste time and talent In the men scramble for profit will find something better to do. Socialism recognises tbe value of ability; but the ability to produce, not the ability to change the flow of profits, ia the ability that makes wealth and will receive its deserved measure of reward and honor under tha same system of Industry that Socialism seeks to establish. soul-ligh- . 1 ? If strong Want Your Dollar-for-Dolla- r companies prompt business methods and courteous treatment mean anjthing to yon, you'll bring your Insurance to my office If yon are too bnsy to call, phone and I will be glad to talk the matter over with yon up-to-da- Remember that I also handle Real Estate, and hare a large list for yon to select from. Whether yon want a farm, city property or a building lot, call and see what I have to offer before yon bny - elsewhere. GEORGE A. HORN REAL ESTATE INSURANCE LOANS FIRST NVPL BANK l Phone Ind. 721 31 The R. S. Motor Bicycle m - - . n, THIS IS THE GREATEST .rf.. . A meeting of the German Seamens union, including the machinists and men doing duty on the dock, waa held at Hamburg recently and It was unanimously decided to go on strike at once. Tbe men demand pay for overtime and better treatment. Building contractors all over the northwest are crying for carpennters, brick and atone masons, plasterers paperh angers, electrical workers at wages ranges from $4.50 to 6.50 for eight hours work. Labor troubles are multiplying In Berlin, Germany. The bakers declared a general strike recently. Some of the bricklayers who are atm working on buildings where tbe lockout does not exist have decided to strike for an eight hour day. Japanesecannut become ckixens of the United States. This decision Is contained a ruling by tha department of commerce and labor, rendered in a reply to a letter from County Clerk Charles G. Keys, of Los Angeles. Cal. Richard K. Campbell, chief of the bureau of naturalisation, la the author of the ruling which settles this mooted question. Since the Workmen's Compensation set came into force in Great Britain the members of the hookers' union have received by way of legal awards for accidents 81854171.2$. ON THE E - If yon want something absolutely safe and sure ta take yon to your journeys end, come and see ua Our National Double Bar Bicycle leads all others. We are closing out our Baseball stock and yon get at it cost. Hare your Lawnmower sharpened and adjusted ac will be easy. grass-cuttin-g . H. C. Hansen & Son ivv E. F. BRATZ Real Estate Bargains In any part of the City and County. Loans on Improved ' City and Farm Property Promptly Negotiated. . Fire, Tornado and Plate Glass Insurance GENERAL LABOR NEWS. Belgium to a land of low wages. In Ghent the mlnlnum pay an hour for printers, roofers, glaxiers, painters 70 cents and boilermakers ia 7 cent for ten honra and of blacksmiths, locksmiths, carpenters, masons, plumbers and electricians 80 cents. MOTOR-CYCL- MARKET TODAY. 1 Written in Strong and Safe Companies at Lowest Rates. 410 25th Street Opposite Reed Hotel PHONE8: 420 AND 420Z. Your Expectations Will Be Realized : IP YOU BUY A. RACYCLE v- BICYCLE Also we want your KODAK business. Fnll line of EASTMAN A PREMO KODAKS and all supplies for the amateur. Spring is here and yon will want your bicycle put in order. Our repair department has been enlarged and prices are right T. S. HUTCHISON 306 TWENTY-FIFT- H STREET. |