. Western Comrade . 00,000,000 a year! Get out and Avork for the EIGHT-HOUR LAW inCalifornia, Oregon and Washington. Dont let HenryDubb sleep. Prod him into activity. Urge upon every working man and woman tlie ne-cessity of registering in order to start the big strikeNov. ;?. riic time WHS never better to educate the is Red AVeek. Agitate and educate Hustle for tiie Eight-Hour Day. The Western Comrade 13 Sentenced For Death! By WILLOUGHBY SMART. HE AVERAGE American Citizen, with allhis hifalutin spread-eagleism is entirelydevoid of anything like true appreciationof the preciousnes
. Western Comrade . 00,000,000 a year! Get out and Avork for the EIGHT-HOUR LAW inCalifornia, Oregon and Washington. Dont let HenryDubb sleep. Prod him into activity. Urge upon every working man and woman tlie ne-cessity of registering in order to start the big strikeNov. ;?. riic time WHS never better to educate the is Red AVeek. Agitate and educate Hustle for tiie Eight-Hour Day. The Western Comrade 13 Sentenced For Death! By WILLOUGHBY SMART. HE AVERAGE American Citizen, with allhis hifalutin spread-eagleism is entirelydevoid of anything like true appreciationof the preciousness of human liberty—now, dont get excited, I know all aboutthose Fourth of July orations over whichyou get so het-up—they deal withglorious (and meaningless) abstractions;and it is the beauty of abstractions that, however ra-tionally ridiculous they may be, they are ratedacademic and respectable. But when it comes to the concrete—I might say themud of lifes realities—when some poor down-and-outer or some undistinguished Tom, Dick or Harry ofthe common highway commits or is alleged to havecommitted, some breach of the law, does your nicesense of value, in human liberty, render you sensitiveto the degree of severity of the punative methods ap-plied to the case? Do you so much as turn a (moral) hair or fancy yousee the Statue of Liberty smile when a local judge sen-tences some poor scamp to five years in a penitentiaryfor a sixty-day offense? Do
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