Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, September 13, 1920 Page: 8 of 8
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Oklahoma Leader
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OKLAHOMA LEADER
Successor to The Oklahoma l^Hder (weekly).
Published every day except Sunday hv The Oklahoma Leader lo.
Enstern and Western representatives,
Frallck & Hates. New York and Chicago.
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Oklahoma City,
Philosophy of Joy
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY!
i: West Third Street
Okla.
.. O. Box 777. Telephone M. 7600.
Entered a« «econd class ir.ajlI matter June^ roat OBlce
at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Aft of March 3,
A PHILOSOPHY OF JOY
Not for the Fathers and Mothers.
From the New York American.
There coulln't be a nicer philosophy than the joy philos-
ophy, but who is to have the joy, and who is to be the philos-
opher?
Mr. Cox, democratic candidate, says that his running
mate, Roosevelt, emitted "philosophy of joy in his speech
endorsing the Peace League, with fancy trimmings on the en-
dorsement.
Mr. McCay's cartoon on the right shows an individual
getting ready for more joy, if the Pea^e League goes through.
He is all ready to march up the aisle for the wedding of his
second war bride.'
Do not think i; is imagination or misrepresentation to say
that profiteers reading "Pcace League" speeches are getting
ready to rent new strong boxes. Read from yesterday's New
York Times, supporter of the Peace League and friend of
profiteers and high finance. The quotation is from the Times's
Wall Street article written by a man who knows:
"WAR STOCKS.
"In some commission house offices they already
are beginning to speculate on another European
war, and, in the light o/ what happened five years
ago, there are those who see what they are pleased
to call the 'optimistic side.' In other words, they
are beginning to talk of big war orders and of great
prosperity for American companies which can
PRODUCE THE GOODS which a war-smitten
Europe will need. And the delightful optimists
who talk this way have only one concern; they
want to know which company is going to be the
Bethlehem Steel of 1920." The "Foolosophy of Joy" is joy for the politician and the
You know what Bethlehem Steel did when war broke out? profiteer and only foolosophy for the rest of us. But the
It went from about ten dollars a share to six hundred. financial Blue Beard must woo his war brides. If the "Fool-
Cut out this Wall Street paragraph, show it to your osophy" fools us again, then the profiteer can lead his 'bride
friends that think the Peace League means peace. Call their
attention to that charming line about American companies
which "can PRODUCE THE GOODS which a war-smitten
Europe will need." What about American fathers and
mothers who must "produce the goods" that Europe would
need from America in the shape of young men conscripted
for foreign war?
All the newspapers that are ordinarily republican, be-
cause the republican party ordinarily represents high linanee,
are now for the democratic party. This includes the Evening
Post, owned by a partner in the J. Pierpont Morgan Company.
They want a democratic victory because that means a Peace
League, and the Peace League would mean plenty of war,
and war means, as the Times says, "big war orders and great
prosperity for American companies which can produce the
goods which a war-smitten Europe will need."
Study that paragraph from the Times's Wall Street
column and study Mr. McCay's cartoon. Both are truthful.
War bride No. 1 is dead, now for bride No. 2. The dead
American soldier in the background doesn't count, there are
plenty more where he came from.
Peace League means war—WAR FOR THE UNITED
STATES. It means gigantic profits, for "American com-
panies that can produce the goods" sold to the government.
It means poverty and sorrow for American fathers and
mothers that "produce the (human) goods" that government
takes at $30.00 a month.
Vote against the Peace League, against war bride No. 2,
and against those clients of the New York Times that are
"beginning to talk of big war orders and of great prosperity."
■WAR|
bride.
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down the American blood-flowered aisle, gaily bedecked in her
war loan wedding gown and carrying a bouquet, of excess
profits. The merry wedding bells are a funeral knell for the
soldier. But we must have weddings, let the identification
discs fall where they may.
Copyright, 19:!0. bv Star Company.
More Truth Than Poetry
By James /. Montague
(Copyrlrfh 1920 The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
TIIE "HIMU M." KICKS.
NO HOPE.
Three hundred years ago democ-
racy started on a lopsided race to-
ward political freedom. To put the
case figuratively, with one leg tied
to the starting post it was trying to
reach the goal with the other, and
did not perceive what a poor figure it
Following up what we said about capital and capitalists,'
it is of the greatest importance that each individual should
find out where he belongs in the class struggle between the
vorking class and the capitalist class.
It is of the greatest importance because emancipation
from the existing social evils will come only when a majority
of the people have found their place and have begun to vote
for the interests of the many as against the interests of the
few.
The trouble with the Forty-eighters, for example—and
with other "liberals" and "progressives" is that they have
liazy ideas on this subject.
They still do not see that a struggle to a finish is going on
between two great classes—and that he who stays outside the
ranks merely prolongs the agony.
However, the Forty-eighters, "liberals" and "progres-
sives" have at least come a little nearer to the mental jump-
ing off place than those millions of conservative workers and
common people who are still the abject mental slaves of the
capitalist class.
. The proper place for these millions is with the working
class.
But they are still held in mental fetters by the capitalist
psychology. They vote directly against their own interest—
directly against the interest of their own children—directly
against the interest of the masses of the people. They assist
the capitalistic parasites to maintain their position and pre-
vent the social problems from being solved.
It doesn't matter whether you like the class struggle or
not.
We don't love it, either.
But, like Darwin, you must look facts in the face, whether
you relish them or not.
The class struggle is a tremendous fact of today. The
ivay out of the present difficulty lies in waging that struggle
to the end—to the point where the useful class'wins, makes
the industries collective, and abolishes the class struggle by
abolishing classes and the cause of classes.
It is the duty of each citizen to look into this matter—and
decide on which side of this struggle he or she belongs—and
then get in and help.
For the wage worker, the solution is easy. He belongs in
the working class.
So does the bona fide farmer.
So do the business and professional men—except those
who come under the general head of Big Business.
The vast majority of the people belong on the workers'
side of the struggle.
It is much as it was in the early Christian days. As
Leigh Hunt says, he serves God best who serves humanity
best. By joining with the workers, you serve humanity. By
joining with the capitalists, you serve Mammon.
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve!
NOT "LABOR" THIS TIME
Those who are haunted with the spectral midnight
HOW TO ELIMINATE "OUTLAWS'
The president of the C. B. & Q. talks gloomily. He admits
the railroad situation is very serious. The outlaw strikes are
principally blamed by the spokesman of railroad owners and
federal officials have been set at the job of finding the "reds"
who are deliberately "carrying out a campaign of sabotage."
The president of the Burlington declared that "roads shoulcV
make long term contracts with employes."
Yes. And the cost of living should continue onward and
upward. And government wage boards should continue to
•rive workers about one-quarter of the increase necessary for a
living wage. And government sleuths should manacle all
"agitators" who express dissatisfaction. And the injunction
should be generously applied against labor.
Thus will railroad workers be convinced all contracts
with the recipients of dividends guaranteed by law and public
purse should be sacred and inviolate.
When grandma's minister decreed
The minuet a revel.
Which, if persisted in. would lead
Directly to the Devil,
Although she hastened to obey,
Her teet she didn't fetter;
She knew that waltzing would display
Her ankles better.
When mother's parson aired the view
That hugging and embracing,
Which those who waltz are prone to do,
Is utterly debasing,
She vowed that she would dance no more
A measure so besotting;
And, her decorum to restore,
She took to trotting.
When dominies of yesterday.
In phrases tense and torrid,
Denounced the trot as too risque
And trotting folk so horrid,
And solemn resolutions drew
With horrified whereasing,
Girls saw that trotting wouldn't do,
And fell to jazzing.
And though the jazz may be a crirac
(As moral persons view it)
We know until the end of time.
The modern ir.aid will do it.
For while we look on her askance,
We know no way to stop 'er.
Because we cannot find a dance
That's more impvore-
THE WOLF.
See him? No but we know he's there.
Look! His print on the garden
bed!
Smell! That stench on the honest
air!
Hark! His whimper and stealthy
vvpm HPRWVH
Trust your senses. What need was making of itself In the process. I bought that "labor" is gouging^he hard-e'arned public, listen
you more? So far 250 years one-legged democ-
There's a Wolf at the door. racy pirouetted and postured in the to the tale of the extra dollar—or (JfNk OI the extra dollars
growing entanglements of an in- j __that we pay for anthracite coal.
Fight him? Yes, but a hopeless dustrial and monopolistic system ,. . „ , , , , ... . , ,,
fight; whose ethical basis-the devil takes It is this way. Everybody who knows anything about the
Weak our weapons and great his the hindmost!—was spnically ac- coaj expected that the president's anthracite commission
strength. cepted, by church and state alike, as , , , , OA .
Scraping, saving and work at night, the best means for securing progress would raise the men S wages at least .50 per cent. 1 he secre-
Wear our power to naught at in all mundane affairs, a gospel tary of labor, Mr. Wilson, had urged the men to please try and
length. which to this day finds expression in , .. , . , . , ...
Fight him' 'tis a hitter war the tag of patriotic reactionaries that be satisfied for the time being with a raise of .11 per cent.
With the Wolf at the door. i •capitalism is Americanism. Devil So the price of coal at the mines was raised by the op-
take you! You are seditious if you | . .
Grow? why. surely, he grows each think otherwise." erators last May by a sum sufficient to cover the expected
day; j No wonder the hiiyiieg—unorgan- raise of 30 per cent in wages. This sum was one dollar a ton.
Note the plentiful way he's ted. ized labor and unorganized woman- R , commission romps and raisps wso-ps nnlv 17
Higher prices and lower pay— hood—got left in the ditch. On ma- now me commission comes ana raises wages only Ii
These—what else—are his dally terial lines the industrial system de- per cent instead of 30. This increases the "labor cost" by
Ourbdeafen.es are wearing thin; 'Tree |Jowm"^™letarW suppWnS .'bout 50 cents instead of by one dollar. Who gets the^her 50
Some day . . . hell get in. . . in abundant quantity the underpaid cents?
-Touchstone In Maorliand Worker. labor of men^and^the unp^i.Mabor^f whQ e,ge bu(. ^ divine operators themselves who had the
t nt vi mors mi iii«iiioi> 111,(1 de"1*11'1 governed the life condi- occult power of penetrating the future?
• God was"perfectly free in the act "."for Sir MtiiM™ Te'horoeffthe The above calculations are those of Mr. W. Jett Lauck,
by which He created us. but having bachelor's wage, eked out by assist- consulting economist for the United Mine Workers. And
[^rCactU8toHperoXdusH wuh1' .h'e SS ^nda™ h£ now United Mine Workers themselves are going to try
means necessary for subsistence dreds of thousands of English homes to entorce on the rank and file this award of 17 per cent. Ac-
The land is the only source of this while England was "getting rich." rorA:na to Lauck thev will have a "fat rhanrp "
kind now known to us. The land. And Just as. eighty years ago it was truing 10 i^auiK iney will na\e a iat cnance.
therefore, of every country, is the ! an act of sedition against the state. Lauck estimates that there has been an output of about
common property of the people of p„nishahie by penal servitude for 30,000,000 tons since Mav 1. So that extra dollar on each ton
that country, because its real owner, the laboring man to combine in or- * • p uvnai un coul
the creator, who made it, haMrilns- der to secure a raise of wages, so it .'it the mine now makes*"the snug little EXTRA sum of $30,-
fe"ed It as a voluntary_ gift to them, was against nature and morality for 000 000 that Mr Consumer has paid for coal. One-half of this
terrain autem dedit tilus hominum women to seek tacilities toi escape '
ithe land He hath given to the chil- from the unpaid labor of the home, goes to the miners for the dainty little exercise of under-
dren of men). Now. as every indi- camoufUKe.lun.ierthe phase "do- ground digging. The other half ($15,000,000) is what the
vulual in that country is a creature mestic bliss, except on sweaied con- . ,
and Child of God, and as all HIb j dltions which helped still further to presidents commission serves on a tray as a gift lrom the
creatures are equal in His sight, any debase the standard of men's wages. American people to their belov-ed coal operators for their
settlement of the land of a country —The Freeman. , ... . r
that would exclude the humblest ^ sagacious skill in operating.
; man in that country from his share wii \t IS SOT CASXOT Now it's lucky that we know a few of these cheerful facts,
of the common inheritance, would HI. DESTROYED, , ... . , . , ,
be not only an injustice and a wrong g . cxtortionHtelv high rents for- Otherwise we might have still been haunted by the night-
to that man. but. moreover, be an d marriage to young lovers. Talk marish notion that our generosity had been diverted to those
impious resistance to the benevolent about 60clalll<nl destroying the home: hobpoblin, black-faced miners.
capitalism won't even allow the .
home to be made.—N. y. Call. But, as it is, we can toddle off to bed and blow out the
; candle with the sweet good night "thought" that our hard
My heart is like a singips, bird," day's savings have been placed in sacred vaults—in the
Postmaster General Burleson was nnflre(tnf(Jcs(
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intentions of his Creator."—Rev. Dr.
Thomas Nulty. Bishop of Meath.
It I SSI A\ CO-OPERATIVES.
More than 20,000,000 persons rep-
The new French loan is subscribed in one hour. The
French people will have to pay, with charges and premiums.
9.42 per cent on $100,000,000. The new loan is to discharge
part of the old $500,000,000 Anglo-French loan. When inter-
est rates are so high it is a sign that the risk is great. The
French nation is bankrupt.
resenting a population of loo.ooo.i 1,1earrt"to""remark when"informed" of pockets of rficse all-abiding, law-abiding spirits who ever know
are members of the Russian co-oper- , d(,riBlon „f the supreme court exactlv what to do with their own
ative societies, according to a report District of Columbia, restor-
issued by the department of com- |. second-class mail privileges- to j
merce at Washington. The report social|st newspapers.
states that the Russian cq-operatlve
movement celebrated its fiftieth an-
niversary in 1915, and shows that i . , . . ,.n no
li e recent growth of the movement cnip v.-as heard to O
has been phenomenal. In 1012 there more' 1-erris hath m r<1erei1. 8!cel1-
were in Russia 18.^82 co-operative
societies, with a membership of 5.-
760,00ft householders. The first of oaf*>'
A voice from the local democratic i
ALL KINDS OF QUAKES
The earthquake in Italy was terribly destructive. It calls
LISTEN TO rr ALREADY.
If money talks, this is going to be a garrulous campaign.
Speaker Sweet of the New York assembly, having suc-
ceeded in ousting the five Socialists from that body, recently
sought the reward of his virtue in the form of the republican
gubernatorial nomination, but somebody threw the switch on
his aspirations and he is now headed for political oblivion.
May it be, indeed, a Sweet farewell.
_. -0.nnn.000 householders. The total 1 llemi'lliber, I Hcllicniber.
capital of 1hese societies was 230.- I remember, I remember,
| OOft.ftOO rubles In 1918 It was these The far flung battle Mac.
societies that made the revolution The sumptuous Headquarters
T>nsflible and that fed them and dis- Of our Army on the Rhino,
now carry trihuted goods when there was I see a dozen sentries click
neither capitalistic business nor ma- Their heels in sharp salute.
chinery of the state to do these The Colonel and his polo stick
things The traditions of co-opera- tio forth to do their Moot.
tion remained warm in their hearts. Day after day th" sentries stand
- . . j ^ 4 wir- r tj . ; • With bayonet and gun.
Nobody is goirg to detect Y\ llliain Jennings Brjan in tne yR|k about Bolshevik financing. , And peace runs ram rant in the land
(act of giving too much money to anybody's campaign fund. iwhat about Ponzi? iAnd colonels have their fun.
^.,d%u?wn.0rn0mmu?mur8,d"i:n°:! forth the sympathies of the world.
ties the head that wears th. gut jt ig overshadowed by the labor news from Italy,
last year the number of societies in- I crown-
creased to 8n.uoi). with a membership
PROUD ACHIEVEMENT.
Our merchant marine is developing. It car.
about a quarter of our own freight tonnage.
INVESTIGATION PUOOF
Workers taking possession of factories—that is much more
upsetting—to some people—than an earthquake.
The disposition of the workers of all countries to take
'possession is causing the capitalists of all countries to quake
with fear. Not fear for their lives, but fear that they may lose
their ill-gotten gains.
Italy is too far away, and the news is too nebulous, for us
j tc comment intelligently upon it—save to say that, if the time
i for the turnover has come in that country, we hope it may be
jmade with a minimum of strife and hardship.
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Newdick, Edwin. Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, September 13, 1920, newspaper, September 13, 1920; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc149175/m1/8/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.