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A WEAPON AGAINST WAR!
The Northwest Worker received a new shipment of 450
copies of "WAR, WHAT FOR?" last week, and is prepared to
fill orders as fast as they come in.
Remember ,comrades, that this is an unprecedented oppor
tunity to get your non-socialist friends interested in this re
markable work. It contains 350 pages and many striking illus
trations.
Don't foget the price—five for a dollar, postpaid. Single
copies, 25 cents, postpaid.
Order now, and get this effective anti-war propaganda into
t places where it will do the greatest good. You can get your
money back at this low price, as fast as you can talk, if you
only get busy. It is up to you.
What are YOU doing to CRUSH the rising war spirit?
The Claim of Socialism
To Woman's Vote
By Tracy D. Mygatt
"Why, i used to believe all those
■ iiiiniiii could i»' irnc, imt everybodj
laughed ;it me, io i began to think
they muni be right and thai i wai
wrong. And now you've given it ■■ill
iiin v to mcl"
11 was a young girl ipeaking, from
the cloaely packed throng of girls
about the agitator, and as the older
, woman looked at her kindling eyei,
and then beyond, over the grimy
smokestacks of the faotory town
where tiiii' girl was drudging away
her youth, her eyes blurred In ■ sud
ilc v mist. For this It meant to be a
Socialist: to bring back, for clespnlr,
faith; for blindness, vision; for lone
1 linrsti and misery, love.
FAITH, VISION, LOVE: DO THE
WORDS SOUND STRANGE TO YOU,
FRIENDS, WHO WERE TAUGHT
OUR CREED WAS HATE? Then
think tor ;i moment of thai little fac
tory girl, of the thouaandi upon thou-
Bonds like her, who come into Ihiw
world full of dreami, and whose
I drearoi wv broken, swiftly, Inexora-
bly, by the brutality of present daj
conditions; broken by brutality, and,
even worse than that brutality itself,
by the sneers and groans of the poor
fools about them who tell them It
must be so, that human nature can
never change, and all the other dreary
lies that would make of this world a
wilderness and of God a devil.
My friends, stop being deceived;
the misery of long hours, low wages,
child labor, unemployment, prostitu
tion, war, which you either bear
yourselves, or sec other people bear,
do not come through Qod's will; they
come because in the "business" world
the law of the wild beast, competi
tion, lias been substituted for the law
of lovp, and just aw soon ns wo put
love or CO-operatlon in the place of
competition we shall have the world
of which Socialists tell you, and not
before. For as things now are, less
than a tenth of the people own all
the wealth, and remember that
"wealth" does not mean, as you have
perhaps been tauglit, just gold and
dlu&onds, which you can get along
perfectly well without, but bread and
meat to feed your family, coal to keep
your baby warm, wool to clothe your
self in, land to live upon—things, in
a word, as vital and as necessary as
the very air you breathe.
Thus we see the necessity of a great
change in the government, which
shall make for us at last a "common
wealth." indeed; a change so great
1 and basic we call it "Revolution"; the
change, by the enlightened will of the
people, of this private ownership of
the means of life, into collective own
ership of the people, by the people,
for the people.
And here you see the reason for
our present campaign.
WOMEN SUFFERERS
Women, in almost every industry
Iwe have, both in their work and at
home, are equal sufferers with men
from the gross injustice of the pres
ent system; therefore, we want them
jto use that greatest weapon of de
fense, the ballot, that they may vote
Socialism in.
Rut Socialism will not come easily,
my friends; birth seldom does, you
know, and the old stepfather, capl-
tallsm, will not lightly sec liis placi
usurped. So you find uk, at every
turn, on the strei t corner, at your
jdoor, bringing you tickets to our lee
tures, copies of our press, always ar
guing, always pleading. "Socialism
will come at last," Homebody once
said, "because the Socialist la a prop
agandlst from Sunday morning to Sat
urday night!"
Don't you want to come and help
us? Hasn't poverty, or the ceaseless
struggle against poverty, the deadly,
gripping terror of that gaunt wolf at
your door, too, some day, who can
devour all you hold dear on earth,
filled your heart with pity and
strength to help free your brother?
You have no lime? oh, my friends,
■say rather the child in the mill, the
Kirl on the street, tin miner entombed
in needless disaster, have no time,
for your awakening alreadj they have
waited overlong. Yon have no
strength? Por your cowardice and
sloth millions are dying every day. It
will mean gtruggle and self-sacrifice ?
Yes, but it will also mean light to
them that sit in darkness and the
shadow of death; it will guide your
feet and theirs into the path of peace.
We Socialists ask for your votes
for our candidates In this city election
only if you wish to begin now, in your
own little corner of the earth, to help
in the world-wide struggle for a bet
ter, saner, safer, more practicable so
cial system. Intelligently used, your
ballot is a power for good!
"I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a
Soldier." Words and music 15c post
paid from Hodglns Music House, Col
by Avenue.
THE NORTHWEST WORKER
In This Our World
I3y Marvin Sanford
We are living In troublesome days,
lull of social unrest, full of itoitn and
portent of evil; a period marked by
the collapse or capitalist civilization
Individuals are disconsolate and
hopeless.
Nations are tearing at each others
throats.
War spirit Is rampant, Neither
orient nor Occident Is free from its
baneful effect,
The Great War is no exception, it
is n war of the rulers, altho fought
by subjects, without whom it could
not continue.
War spirit, its glamour and glory,
vanish as the Intellectuality of the:
people Increases, it is not likely that
the working olass or any nation bates
its counterpart In another nation to
such an extent Hint they will spill
each others blood on the battlefield,
And today they are the people who
hold the fate of war in their hands,
as Jean Jaures said, "There Is do
iron Imw of wages that working-class
action cannot bend, there Is no iron
standard of working hours that labor
cannot reduce, and there Is NO [RON
i \\v OF WAR THAT PROLETAR
IAN ACTION CANNOT BREAK."
An Inter nation war |g M ,[,
Sent I less, eSCUSeIeSS. The workers of
all nations labor for and With one an
other in the production of the world's
goods, War between them Is attro
cious murder; utter Insanity.
lint the rulers will have it bo. And
It ans the death of their syi tern,
Out of this storm, this aloud or evil,
tin's confused mas;;, ionics from the
rulers a cry of horror, a look of dis
may. They .see the workers in In
creasing numbers refusiig to be tar
gets; refusing to fight the wnrs of
their masters. They see the workers
laughing In the face of (he master
and telling him: "Fight your own
wars! Our war is against war; It Is
with your system. We wage war at
the ballot box anil in the shop, We
wish you no bad luck, other than to
see you forced off the back of hu
manity."
This menace increases as men be
lieve mere and more that wrongs
shall not be redressed through war,
but through the growth of democracy;
that the great fight is against social
injustice and capitalist oppression, and
that it is the mission j>f the proleta
riat to conquer the world through or
ganization for security and emancipa
tion.
This new spirit is becoming a liv
ing power, crippling and astounding
our foes, but it exists wherever a
man is fighting for his emancipation,
and it will spur us on to the keenest
of exertions and the strongest of ac
tivities, in the task of securing for
the world our great aim—the right to
labor and to live In freedom.
THE ARMY IS GROWING—THE
ARMY OF PEOPLE WHO HATE
THIS SYSTEM AND ITS POVERTY,
CRIME AND WAR, ITS BRUTAL
OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY, AND
IT WILL FIGHT ON AND ON UNTIL
HUMANITY FINDS PEACE IN THE
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.
A LAUDABLE EFFORT
We notice that among those who
have taken up the work of pushing
the Bale of "War, What For?" is Com
rade Thomas W. Williams, State Sec
retary of California.
A speolal effort ol tins kind on the
pari <if nil of the other Ktato secre
taries, with the assistance of our
press, would do more to meet the jingo
situation than almost, anything else.
Bach secretary knows exactly the
conditions existing in Mis particular
i tate, and is therefore the ben! quail
fled to organize an effective cam
paign.
Comrades, let us co-operate with
our state offices and our pi-ess, there
by getting Into touch with all of the
departments of the organization, to
get this wonderful book into circula
tion, It is the work that is most
needed right now, and will still be
needed for years vet to come.
It should be mentioned Hiat Com
rade i>. B, Katterfeld, State Secretary
<ii Washington, since taking office a
year and a half ago, has put into clr
culation 1400 copies, selling them at
cost.
Anyone wishing to buy through the
state office should remember that
Comrade Katterfeld will mail five
copies, postpaid, for our dollar. Or
you may order through the Northwest
Worker for the same price.
No Local should be without at leait
five copies of this splendid anti-war
and propaganda book, so that its sale
may be pushed on any and every occa
sion. Buy one for your public library,
or for the school library. See thai
every editor, preacher, and school
teacher in your locality is provided
with a copy of "War, What For?"
C. E. Ogrosky, Glove and Bhoe Re
pairing, 2001 Hewitt Avenue.
The Socialist Propaganda
Is Vindicated
By Morris Zucker
i Wr.v Frequently it is the experience
of the Soclallit propagandist to have
the oorreotneii or bin facts In the In
dictment against the capitalist lystetn
challenged. We have often been ac
cuied of overstating and grossly ex
aggerating the extern of the oardlnal
evils of the capitalist system, and thli
not only by our adversaries, but equal
ly iib well by many of our Socialise.
But now It appeara that even the
most rabid among us scarcely put
the chargei strong enough. And where
before we bad nothing but the mere
■entimental assertion of enthuilaitic
advocate!, we now poiseu the facts
gathered by a United State commis
sion which Investigated the matter in
a logical, scientific and thoroughgoing
fashion.
Who among our conscientious pro
pagandists dared gel up on a platform
and declare, without any mental or
spoken reservations, that one third of
the American workingmen were In a
poverty-stricken condition? Surely
none. And now comes the report of
Mils commission, backed up i>y the.
facts garnered trom every nook and
oranny or this broad land, and not
only asserts, but proves, such a con
dition tO exist.
Who among our self-sacrificing and
energetic suffragists could square
their conscience! with the declaration
that 87 per cent of the wives and
mothers of workingmen aro forced by
stress of economic circumstances to
' help "keep up the house"? in this
I fact there is not only a terrific In-
J dictment against the present system,
but also a most stinging jolt to those
antls who claim that the husband is
the breadwinner and the sole support
■of the family. And our smug capital
-1 ; ists and hypocritical preachers have
the lie thrown in their faces when
they speak so sanctimoniously about
[the family relations .and family ties.
; SOME STARTLING FACTS
When one stops fully to consider
land weigh the awful importance of
I j the statement that $500 a year, or $10
I j per week, is the average income of
.one-half our wage-earning fathers;
, j that less than $15 per week is the
\ wage of two-thirds of the adult male
' workers, one no longer marvels at
; London's "people of the abyss," or
shudders when he reads the amazing
j revelations of Marx in his chapter
lon the "Working Day." Bad as they
are, they do not compare with what
, must be the present state of our work
ers, with the cost of living sky-high
on the one hand and the increased de
mands which a higher "civilization"
' exacts on the other.
Think of that most awful, most un
speakable tragedy in the statement
that nearly half of our working wom
en get less than $6 per week! That
,is almost unbelievable. Is it the wan
ton brutality, or the wanton stupidity
of the people which makes them in-
LETTER OF APPRECIATION
Everett, Wn., Sept. 21, 1915.
Northwest Worker.
Dear Comrades.—Permit me to pat
you on the back a little for the splen
did work you are now doing in push
ing "War, What For?"
One ounce of energy devoted to cir
culating this book NOW is worth
many tons of resolutions when the
dogs of war are loosed and it is ever
la itlngly TOO LATE.
.My first book order upon assuming
the duties Of State Secretary last year
was for 500 copies of "War, What
For?" Since then the State Office has
sold many hundreds of additional
copies, And yet there are thousands
Of people In the state, yes, hundreds
of thousands, that have not yet read
this book, and that do not yet under
stand. They are a menace. A men
ace that will overwhelm us when the
crisis comes. Our supreme duty now
is to enlighten them. In this task
there is NOTHING equal to "War,
What For?"
Hence I say "Bully for you." Keep
it up, and more power to you.
Yours in revolt,
L, E. KATTERFELD,
State Secretary. !
FORD STRIKES HARD
"If I were to live with the future
generations of Europe I would urge
the people to repudiate the debts that
are being piled up by their govern
ments in this war." —Henry Ford.
The Czar wants it understood that
if there is any more running to do
he is going to do it himself.—Kansas
City Times.
"War, What For?" is for sale by
The Northwest Worker at 25c, post
paid, or 5 copies for $1.
capable of grasping th< terrible sSk-
Dlficance of thli fact? Barely a rev
olution would result If they but only
understood!
IT IS THE SOCIALISTS' DUTY TO
MAKH THEM UNDERSTAND.
When a Roosevelt comes out to ad
vino a workingwoman who has seven
Children, and whose husband is out
of work, to disregard this "temporary
inconvenience" and "keep right on
raising children," I'd like to raise
Roosevelt by the scalp until he'd rec
ognize what this fact, means — that
babies of the poor die, three times as
fast as babies of the rich. When read
Ing of the terrible Inquisition one can
hardly find words to express his loath
ing for the unspeakable brutes who
would pour molten lead down a man's
throat to make him recant. Well, in
my opinion, such a punishment is far
tco easy for those soulless men who
would advise women to raise more
children after they had fully grasped
the above stated fact.
Or:( out of every twelve corpses in
New York receives burial in Potter'!
Field I'.ut enough of this sicken
ing slory, this worse than horrible
nightmare. I believe that all that is
necessary |g to put these facts before
the people in the most striking and
best possible manner. If this does not
move them, then nothing ever will.
Should the report of the, Industrial
Relations Commission be published
and distributed, it will undoubtedly
jgive a powerful stimulus to social re
forms find plans for amelioration.
BUT SOCIALISTS SHOULD BE ON
THE JOB TO WARN THE PEOPLE
OF THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF
SUCH REFORMS; THAT WHILE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF THEY
ARE NECESSARY AND PRACTICA
BLE, THESE REFORMS ARE IM
PRACTICABLE IF IT IS SOUGHT
TO WIPE THESE EVILS OUT OF
EXISTENCE. TO ACCOMPLISH
THIS, A COMPLETE REVOLUTION
IS NECESSARY, WHERE THE PRIN
CIPLE OF PRIVATE PRODUCTION
WILL BE REPLACED BY SOCIAL
PRODUCTION, AND PRIVATE OWN
ERSHIP BY SOCIAL OWNERSHIP.
IN SHORT, NOTHING BUT THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIALISM
WILL CURE SOCIETY OF THESE
EVILS WHICH, UNLESS IMMEDI
ATELY ABOLISHED, WILL WORK
UNCOUNTABLE RUIN TO THE
PRESENT GENERATION AND
THOSE TO COME.
As to the doughty chairman of the
commission, he has well earned an
undy:ng place in history. Readers of
Marx will remember how tenderly he
speaks of Leonard Homer, the chief
of English factory inspectors, to
whose efforts are due most of the re- i
forms and the principles of English !i
factory legislation. Frank P. Walsh j
is today functioning in the same fash- !
ion for America, and his good work
will give him the same undying im
mortality which Leonard Homer
achieved.
There Are Two Sides To Ev
ery Question—the wrong side
and OUR side. Whose and Why?
Read this paper with an open
mind, and get the correct an
swer, BASED ON INCONTRO
VERTIBLE FACTS.
Statement of Ownership, manage
ment, circulation, etc., required by the
act of August 24, 1912, of The North
west Worker, published weekly at Ev
erett, Wash., for Oct. 1, 1915:
Editor, Maynard Shipley, Everett,
Washington.
Business Manager, H. W. Watts,
Everett, Wash.
Publishers and Owners, Socialist
Party of Snohomish County, Wash,
Bondholders, mortgages, etc., none.
Signed,
HENRY \V. AVATTS,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 17th day of September, 1915.
PETER HUSBY,
Notary Public in and for the State of
Washington, residing at Everett,
Wash.
My commission expires Oct. 8, 1916.
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