Sword of Truth (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 22, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol 1, No. 22
SENTINEL, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 1913
W. W. HORNBECK, Editor
Oklahoma State Bank
The Bank that gives
satisfactory service.
Your business solicited. J. R. DeBusk, Cashier.
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White Slavery at the Capital.
The Coming Nation.
Pretty soon Washington will be
turned into a picnic ground for
wild Democrats Who want to see
Woody Wilson, the open-minded
wonder, inaugurated with ex-
travagant Jeffersonian simplicity.
In view of this fact, and in view
of the lovely pfen pictures which
the Chamber of Commerce of
Washington is sending broadcast
over the country explaining all
about the civic purity of our Cap-
ital city, the following extracts
from hearings before a Senate
Committee will be illuminating:
Mrs. Munroe was asked as to
the extent of improper houses in
the city:
"There are, and within one
block of the White House," she
said, reading from notes, "four-
teen in the same block with the
first precinct station; they almost
surround the district building,
thirty-one being near it; ten are
within a stone's throw of the
House office building."
H. W. Kline, superintendent
of the Gospel Mission, described
the particular sections of the
city considered to be "red light"
district*
"I have been in the slums of
Chicago, of Buffalo and of other
, cities," he said, "and I have
never seen anything to equal the
row of pest houses south of
Pennsylvania avenue and border-
ing the Botanic Gardens."
' 'How far is that from the Cap-
ital?" asked Senator Kenyon.
"Not more than three minutes'
walk," replied Mr. Kline.
Henry M. Pringle, assistant
superintendent of the inter-
national reform bureau, was the
first speaker.
"What I have to show of the
conditions existing in Washing-
ton is not the result of an exten-
ded investigation, but of one
hour's inquiry," he began.
On Delaware avenue, near its
crossing with the Pennsylvania
railroad, he said, he found
eighteen buildings making up a
"red light'' district. He also de-
scribed a visit to a hotel which,
he said, was used for improper
purposes.
"How far is that from the Cap-
ital?" asked Senator Kenyon.
"About five minutes' walk,"
replied Mr. Pringle.
And there you have it Inci-
dentally, the Department of Jus-
tice is engaged in "suppressing
the white trade." It is also "re-
storing competition." Bunk.
. Socialism Triumphant.
App**] to re«ton.
The spread of modern Social-
ism is the marvel of the modern
world.
In every land on earth Social
ism is seizing upon the brightest
minds and laying hold of the
people's institutions.
Socialism is born of the op-
pression of the masses and spring
full-fledged into the arena to
fight for their emancipation.
Socialists are sometimes called
dreamers, which they are. But
they are also philosophers and,
what is better still, they are men
and women who have the courage
to risk and the will to do.
They are the most truly alive
and the most infectiously-optim-
istic people in the world. They
are full of the joy of being.
They are militant to their finger
tips. Their hearts are in the
struggle and their souls aglow
with the light of dawn.
They fight but they do not
hate. They oppose wrong ideas,
vicious prrnciples and brutalizing
system. But they have no mal-
ice toward any one.
Socialists above all others re-
alize the divinity of human na-
ture and the possibilities of so-
cial development
Socialists are resolved to bat-
ter down all the obstacles to
freedom, to remove all the causes
of poverty, and to set the whole
world free.
He Stubbed His Toe.
Jabs from Eye Opener
You will always find the poli-
tician falling on the money side
of every question.
With a total of 104,122 votes
to their credit, Socialist candi-
dates for congress in California
polled 20 per cent of the total
vote, which was 707,776. This
is a remarkable showing and
bears testimony to the fact that
we are shortly going to carry
California for Socialism. —Ex.
The fellow who talks of the
iniquity of confiscation makes no
kick about how the wealth cre-
ated by the workers of America
has already been absorbed or
confiscated by the few who do
nothing. — Ex.
In ancient days men risked
their lives to serve the gospel,
but today the gospel is being
brought to the service of man.
* • •
The thief, the robber, the
drunkard and the hooligan are
not men who have done wrong
but are men who have been
wronged.
• * •
Socialism is based upon the
materialistic conception of his-
tory or a clean recognition of our
historical development.
• • •
He who curses a thing that is
wrong, curses not in vain.
by HORATIO win8low.
The President had stubbed his
toe. "Appalling!" shrieked Con-
gress, "we must have a Congres-
sional Inquiry at once."
Thereupon a Committee con-
vened and for 84 days and 6,00b
typewriten pages they pursued
the subject of Toe with especial
reference to Stub-Toers and Toe-
Stubbers.
They put shoe manufacturers
on the stand and orthopedists;
bad boys who put pricks in hats
and the choleric old gentlemen
who kick the hats. They looked
up six-toed people in the country
districts and spent eight hours
examining the Mexican Toeless
Marvel.
They also conducted an inquiry
into the nature of Stubs, includ-
ing Reserved Seat Stubs and
White Oak Stubs, and there was
even a strong movement to sum-
mon Governor Stubbs to Wash-
ington.
They examined and re-exam-
ined and recalled and examined
again until the evening of the
85th day when they announced
their decision.
"We have found," they said
very ponderously, * 'that the Pres-
ident stubbed his toe because he
brought it violently into contact
with some toe-stubbing sub-
stance."
What a rejoicing there was in
this outburst of unspeakable
wisdom!
Bells were rung; cannons were
fired; prayers were offered in ev-
ery church fur the good health of
these frofound representatives of
the people.
The Congressmen swelled their
chests gently so as not to break
any additional buttons.
"And now," they said, "now
that we have proved what we
can do, we shall appoint another
Committee and examine into the
High Cost of Living."
Appeal Short-Cuts.
Ths spies are still in Girard,
working a graft while pretend-
ing to seek one.
• • r
Work for all means leisure for
all.
• • ••
Socialism will save the home
from the grip of the landlord.
• •
Socialism will not end private
proberty but private exploitation.
• • •
Our fathers faught for the
ballot and we use it to enslave
our children.
• * •
Someone suggests that capital-
ism is legitimate because it had
a "paw" and a "maw."
• • •
Marriage is a failure under
capitalism because when the
means of life are short life itself
is a failure.
• • •
A prayer for success in battle
soumds to an enlightened man
more blasphemous than down-
right swearing.
You are expectcd to be content
with a living wage, but your
master doesn't pretend to be
satisfied with a living profit.
Robbery wants all ft can get
• • •
The wealth of America has
not just drifted into the pockets
of th£ few. You rammed it in
there by your vote.
The First National
:BANK:
Capital and Stockholders' Liability $50,000.00
Operating under the supervision
of the United States Government
F. A. Mosher, President. M L. Mosher, Vice-Pres.
J. W. Lambright, Cashier.
Will Try to "Come Back."
by law. We guess, just for fun,
that the supreme court will up-
hold the constitutionality. It
needs popularity just now, and
the white slave traffic is not very
popular with the public at large.
BY LUCIEN SAINT.
Already Republican politicians
are planning ways and means
whereby to get themselves back
into power after four years of
Woodrow Wilson. This is the THE COMING NATION
idea;
The Democrats will revise the MOVE TO CHICAGO
tariff. The manufacturers, most It having become evident that
of whom live in the north and the magazine which they had
are Republicans, will watch very ' Planned could not be produced
closely for a chance to make it ^'th the mechanical facilities
appear that the tariff has hurt \ available at Girard, the publish-
them. When that chance comes. ers °f the Coming Nation have
AAtf <irlt At ^ J_.ll _ /IO/II/Ia/] 4a ma 1.L . a
Optomism Doing Stunts.
Socialism stands for a chance
to work and then a chance to get
the full social product of your
toil.
We need the capitalist like a
dog needs fleas-to keep us
scratching.
You can't eat unless you get a
job and you can't get a job un-
less you eat
The owning class is the ruling
class. How shall the people rule?
Let the people own the trusts.
• • •
Say, stop and think. Do the
Democratic - Republican politi-
cians treat you as good after the
election as before? If not, why
not?
If more time were spent in re-
moving the causes that drive men
into crimt and less time spent in
punishing criminals, this world
would be a safer place in which
to live.—Ex.
Says an exchange: The suicide
totals for the last year in the
Uniued States show again an
alarming increase over the fig-
ures for the preceding year.
With the percentage of sui-
cides increasing twice as fast as
the total population increases,
with the pauper population in-
creasing four times as fast with
the number of the insane increas-
ing seven times as fast, with all
the statistics of crime and tuber-
culosis mounting upon us, it is
easy to see how surely this is a
happy nation and on what good
grounds the optimists go about
assuring us that all is well with
us.
When they have exhausted the
glories of these records they
might dilate for a while on the
manner in which the bourgeoise
of our great cities celebrates the
arrival of a New Year. A pic-
ture of one of these occasions
compared with a fine old orgy in
the latter days of the Roman Em-
pire would be a splendid subject
for a Chautauqua optimist and
popular on the circuit I com-
mend it to his prayerful atten-
tion.
"We give you work," says the
capitalists. "We," the work-
ers, might say, "give you the
fruit of our work, but we will
not do it always. Some day we
will give you work."
• • •
The tenant farmer sells his
cotton for $40 a bale, gives a
"third and a forth" to the land-
lord, then buys back a part of it,
manufactured into cloth, at $800
a bale. Yet he can't see how he
builds the cities, enriches the
landlords and starves his children.
Socialism will so change the
economic status of woman that
her love relations with man will
be completely changed and she
will marry whomsoever she loves
instead of marrying the guy with
the most legal provender.-Ex.
Socialism is not going to de-
stroy a single thing that is good
-it is only going to add to the
good we have today.
Teach the ignorant as much
as you possibly can; society is
culpable for not giving instruc-
tion gratis, and is responsible
for the night it produces. This
soul is full of darkness, and sin
is commited, but the guilty per-
son is not the man who commits
the sin, but he whe produces the
darkness.
• • •
Exploitation.
The primal curse is in this
word, exploitation! Exploita-
tion of class by class, of man by
man. This has been the central
fact in the struggle of the centu-
ries. It is the central and com-
manding fact in the modern
world.
In ancient times the masters
exploited their slaves; in the mid-
dle ages the barons exploited
their serfs; in modern society the
capitalists exploit their wage
workers.
Exploitation; it is always ex
ploitation. Every slave system
in history has been corner-stoned
in it Without exploitation no
human being could live out of
the sweat and misery of another,
and no class could keep another
in slavish subjection.
Socialism was born of exploita-
tion and the Socialist movement
is the first in history organized
to put an end to exploitation and
to free ths whole human race.
say, when the dull season ar-
rives and a shut-down would nor-
mally be in order, they will set
up a cry that they have had to
shut down because of the horrid
tariff, «nd then they will await
results. The results will be great
for the manufacturer, and hell
for the worker. During the idle-
ness of the machinery the man-
ufacturer will be selling his sur-
plus and talking about the G. O.
P. and how nothing like this
could ever happen while the G.
O. P. was operating. Meanwhile
the workers, men and women,
will be living grandly on their
surplus earnings, or else looking
for jobs elsewhere, and gradu-
ally fooling themselves into think-
ing that after all the G. 0. P.
wasn't so bad>
decided to move that paper to
Chicago in the early part of Feb-
ruary. This will make possible
many improvements that have
been long planned. The press
work and illustrations and gen-
eral typographical appearance
can be greatly bettered with the
facilities available in a large
city.
The Coming Nation has grown
rapidly since the election, and
its position is now assured. The
publishers propose to strengthen
every department of the maga-
zine, and to make its appearance
in Chicago the beginning of the
publication of a Socialist organ
that shall be the equal in every
way to any magazine now pub-
lished.
A new serial by J. Kenneth
Then when the surplus of goods Turner, with the scene laid in
is used up, the mills will grind the Mexican Revolution, is an-
cheerlessly away, and at election nounced ift an early issue of the
the Republicans will be returned.1 magazine.
So the wheel of life goes igno- Bouck White, the author of
rantly around, God help us. Let "The call of the Carpenter," has
us wake up and understand what promised a series of articles on
makes it turn, and how the hands! the "Immorality of Being Rich,"
of labor can turn it in their own ' which will apply the teachings
direction. i of the Carpenter of Nazaivfh to
~ ~ ^C,M8 fiifrht of today.
White Slave Traffic. In addition to these feature*
Lucien Saint in the Coming an(* tbe editorials by Charles Ed-
Nation, says: On the theory—a wan* ^usse" and cartoons by
novel one, to be sure—that the ^an Walker, Art Young, and
Federal government has as much °^he™, the publication in Chica-
power to protect people as it has Ig0 wil1 mark the beginning of
to protect cattle, the attorney- >1116 appearance of a large num-
general of the United States, in ^>er °* other articles of fiction
a brief, has asked the supreme'and Seneral feature matter that
court to sustain the white slave;have been arranged for.
traffic act as constitutional. It; The regular subscription price
was argued that since the su-i °*the Coming Nation is one dol-
preme court had upheld the con- jIar ^ year aru* arrangements
stitutionality of the law against have been made to furnish the
the transportation in interstate ■ Coming Nation and Sword of
commerce of diseased cattle, it J Truth, together with a copy of a
ought to be humane and wise neu book by A. M. Simons, the
enough to regard women as at et^tor of the Coming Nation, on
least as important as cattle.' 'VV^stin«: Human Life" for
"Will it be said," asked the At-
torney General in effect, "that . ~
congress, if it chooses to act, ,7 man arres in Wichita,
cannot protect the people of the Kfnsaf' *** hurned,y released
several states against the wrong- ,. en be foaled" on the po-
ful transportation of women and I L?e andlsa,d that they persuaded
girls—that the law affords no |h,m to throw eggs at a Socialist
greater security to cattle than |speaker ,at a meeting during the
it does to persons?" recent elect,on- Some more ev-
All of which is very interest-! ,ldence that the authoritiee are in
ing since it is an admission onl1®^® to COTnbat the
the part of the department of
justice that the supreme court is
the supreme legislative body in
the land; that nine appointees of
one man control the destinies and
happiness of an entire nation—
so far as they can be controlled
party,
How did it come that a special
train was waiting for days be-
fore the conviction of the so-
called dynamiters to hear them
to the Leaven worth*pri8on? Did
the master class have advance
information on the virdict?
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