COMRADESHIP.
In a letter to the Editor,
Mrs. Martha B. Fulton, nee
Margaret Smeed, of Holsopple,
gives some account of her ob-
servations of the progress be-
ing made everywhere by the
Socialist movement, which sug-
gested the idea of our estab-
lishing a department in the
Commercial under the heading,
“Comradeship,” in which will
be chronicled each week men-
tion of instances that would
properly come under that
heading. Readers are invited
to relate their own experience
in furthering the interests of
the great cause, and to bring to
the attention of the Editor such
cases as may be brought to
their notice.
Forty-four co-operative
stores in Western Pennsylva-
nia, West Virginia and Eastern
Ohio are now affiliated with
the Tri-State Co-operative As-
sociation. Besides handling a
full line of groceries and house-
hold necessities, a merchant
tailoring department has been
established in each of these co-
operative stores.
At a recent meeting Local
No. 1787 United Mine Work-
ers of America endorsed all
candidates of the Socialist
Party for public offices, and a
resolution calling upon miners
to vote for the candidates of
the working class was adopt-|
ed.
Dr. Thomas McCarten, a
Sinn Feiner, has been elected
without opposition to the Brit-
ish House of Commons, from
the Tullamore District of
King’s County, Ireland.
The British House of Lords
lately took up the subject of a
League of Nations. So many
peers wished to give their
views that the day’s meeting
adjourned without all gaining
the floor.
In Denmark’s first election
under the new Constitution,
which permits women to vote,
the Socialist-Radical parties,
credited with keeping Den-
mark out of war through their
joint action in the Folkething,
elected 71 representatives.
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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
CIVILIZATION.
The Berlin, Pa., Record
stated in a recent issue that no
person who has ever sympa-
thized with a German should
be allowed to take a seat in
the Capitol at Harrisburg, and
several other of the ‘same
here” brand of capitalistic
sheets have taken up the cry.
The fact that the suggestion
came from Berlin has not cool-
ed their ardor.
In Conemaugh, Pa., one
evening last week, a commit-
tee, or mob, called upon some
Austrians and other foreign-
ers, asking them to contribute
money toward buying a flag
for the Municipal building and
for uniforms for the town’s
Home Guard unit. The first
man approached gave an un-
favorable reply, and he was
instantly knocked to the floor.
Other foreigners who failed to
“come across” were treated to
tar and feathers, some on their
own porches, others in the par-
lors of their homes, and so on.
The committee escorted of-
fenders to the borough lockup
where they were left over
night. The following morning
fifteen or sixteen feathered
{men faced Burgess Crum, who
imposed upon each a fine and
costs.
J. Edward Morgan, of San
Francisco, who was to have
addressed a meeting in El Cen-
tro, California, in the interest
of Tom Mooney, who is under
leged murder in connection
with the Preparedness Day
bomb explosion in San Francis-
co two years ago, was taken
out of town by a committee of
citizens who called at his hotel
just before he was to appear
at a theater.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Rep-
resentative in Congress from
Montana, was refused permis-
sion to speak in Deer Lodge,
Montana, where she was to
have delivered a Liberty Loan
lecture recently. A commit-
tee of citizens, headed by State
Senator Williams and one R.
D. Larabee, warned Miss Ran-
kin that she could not enter
Opposition parties, led by for-
mer Premier
elected 68 representatives.
Herman Wendel, a member
of the Majority Socialist group
in the German Reichstag, is
leading a movement within the |
organization of the majority,
or war Socialists, calling for
the repudiation of “the policy
of August 4th’ and a return to
the opposing of war credits,
declaring that the war policy
of his party has proved bank-
rupt.
‘Dr. Wilhelm Muchlon, for
years director of Krupp’s gun
works in Germany, who re-
signed immediately after the
outbreak of the world war as!
a protest against the actions of |
Christensen, |
the town, the reason given be-
Ing that she had expressed
sympathy for the strikers of
Butte during labor disturb-
ances there last summer,
At Burlington, Vermon, Ger-
man will be discarded from the
anguages taught in the schools
when they re-open for the next
winter term, according to a
statement made public by M.
D. Chittenden, superintendent
of schools.
The Committee of One Hun-
dred, an organization com-
posed of leading citizens of
Eugene, Oregon, has issued a
mandate barring the use of the
German language on the streets
of Eugene.
At Oklahoma City, Oklaho-
his country’s ruler, and who is| M2. the Republican State Com-
now an exile living in Switzer-| Mittee voted down a proposi-
land, has made public a state-|tion to subject the proposed
ment laying bare the plans of| Fair Election Law to a vote of
Prussian military leaders to | the people gt the coming pri-
lure the peoples of principal [Mary election, on the ground
nations of the world into a war| that the measure would, if
which, according to their plans. adopted, give Socialists eyual
would chloroform the Social-|Tights with Republicans and
ist movement and labor unions Democrats.
in embroiled nations. Dr.
Muehlon’s statement substan- |
tiates the charge of Socialists |, A young woman who came
who have held that the war| tC Columbia to take her degree
: save) Of doctor of philosophy mar-
was fomented chiefly to : : ;
the skins of grafters in high ‘led her professor in the mid-
places, by bringing about con-| © °F her second year. When
! she announced her engage-
sion in the ranks|>2€ ! 3 :
ment one of her friends said:
I thought you
ame here to get your Ph. D.”
“So I did,” replied Edith;
fusion and d
of labor. Because of his
mer association with the Prus-{
sian military which |
naturally gave him the advant-)
“But, Wdith,
leaders,
age of gaining confidential in-| ‘but I had no idea I would get
formation concerning
o f .
their | him so soon.”
much | John Eliot, the Indian Apos-
1is remarks, [tle drank water, and said of
ic sheets, ale ne, “It is a noble generous
|ligror, and we should be hum-
{bly thankful for it, but, as I
nember, water was made be-
fore ne
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for +h
10 tne
Bans
weight is
even by capitali
the allied countries.
When the working class |
now what they want, and |
know how to go and get it for
themselves, they never fail.|
They never have and they nev- | tries, in
er will. When they do not|themselves free from public
know what they want, of control by twining the laws
course they need guardians;|with millions of miles of red
ani they need oppressive guar-| tape. A lawmaker who tried
diars, too, in order that they|fo change private ownership
may be driven to rise up and do |to public ownership soon found
things for themselves.—Peo-| himself bound hand and foot
HTe’s Collece News. | by this red tape. But the war
| came along with a pair of
of | sharp shears and cut the red
Heht savine?” “I think so.jt2Pe to shreds. That pair of
> Y= rn i shears might be called grim
He stays out so much at night” Sly.
that I think he’d really prefer | Hecessl y-
1] re
Thre privately owned indus-
peace days, kept
“Is your husband in favor
not to use any daylight at all.
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LIEBKNECHT!
By Ellis B. Harris.
O’er the dross of war there teems
Your heart for humanity;
O’er the war lord’s insane schemes
Lives your mind of sanity;
From the miseries your voice
Rings out Truth in purity:
“FELLOWSHIP!” a true man’s choice,
For the world’s security.
Scorning gods, that MAN may make
Earth a joy, love laboring;
Not a realm for thieves to take
Life from workers neighboring;
Not to bend the knee to mites,
Deafly, blindly blundering, .
Shameless, heartless parasites,
Boasting of their plundering.
Damned be czars, and damned be kings;
Prostitutes of press and bar;
Pulpiteers—all creeping things—
So he spits yor where you are;
Hypocrites that pray and sack,
Tongues for Christ and fangs for lust
Tearing, rending, wolfish pack,
Tramping ethics in the dust.
Liebernecht, the super man,
Guiltless of a nation’s dead,
Seeking doughter that I am,
Still your Spirit lifts my head;
And I iift my hand to choose
Not a war lord’s hands of hell—
But 2 comrade’s, making shoes,
Martyred in a prison’s cell.
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WE RECOMMEND
Eber K. Cockley &
Herman GQ. Lepley
Por Representatives in (he
General Assembly.
A. Lindstrom
For State Senator.
Hon. L. S. [ellinger
| For Representative in Congress,
23rd Pennsylvania District
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PRISON LIFE.
By Eber K. Cockley.
No slip on the pillow and no sheet on the bed,
No one to come and kiss it when you bump your head,
No carpet on the floor and but little sunlight, ™
No lovers’ lane to travel in the cool moonlight. :
Not a friend to comfort you, son, no one to care,
You're just a dirty ; ail bird folks are all aware;
Though your thoughts be all at home wtih baby and wife
You are helpless to get there—such is prison life.
Prison life, you are helpless to get there;
Prison life, though your thoughts be all at home;
Prison life, you are helpless to get there,
You are helpless to get there though your thoughts be at home.
No key in the front door and no window to use,
No chimney flue to go up—you’ve a good excuse;
No avenues of escape are open to you
And your expiration time isn’t nearly due,
Not a friend to comfort you, son, no one to care,
You're just a dirty ja'ilt bird folks are all aware;
Though your thoughts bé al at home with baby and wife
You are helpless to get there—such is prison life.
Mr. Laboring Man, do not be deceived by the plute who
pats you on the shoulder and tells you to ave and work hard
now, to do all you can to win the war, that he means you shall
benefit by it principally. That is not the case. He is talking
about himself and his own safety first. He has an axe to
grind. He is concerned in having a free hand himself. Obey
give heed to what he says, but beware that after you have
helped to save his hide that your own will not be removed and
nailed up to dry. Be assured that the plute is not anxious for
| you to gain anything by canning the Kaiser. He and his crowd
| certainly need to be canned first in Germany. However, be
| warned while you are looking across the sea and while your
! mind is intent on avhat is occurring there, beware of the same
power which is busily engaged picking Your pockets at home.
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