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In Things Essential, UNITY In Things Doubtful, IJKKRTY In All Things, FRATERNITY
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CAPITALISTS
AS THEY ARE
(By K,t: Goddard)
The radical revolutionary So
cialists are the only group m
Russia who have been resisting
the Germans invasion. Don't loss:
sight of that fact. The capital
ists, big and little of that country
meet the invaders with open
arms and great sobs of unadult
erated joy. Remember that also.
So keep careful tab on those
editors and those lying sheets in
this country, who are reviling and
sneering at the Holsheviki and
their heroic efforts to maintain
the fruits of their revolution.
For the profit mongers of this
country are secretly in sympathy
with the German military move
ment against Russia, and there
is a reason why the hired brain
poisoners of the press and pul
pit should uphold the interests
of the group who slip them their
thirty pices of silver. It their
hojj-ateer masters are given a
severe jolt in the region of their
excess profits and surplus in
comes (which is liable to hap
pen) they will turn like a pack of
. Wolves and jackals and try to
destroy our present government
even during this war. If you
could sweep around the universe
and visit each and every system
where conscious life exists in any
■fornt. you would find nothing in
all creation lower and more d»a
picable than our own little j
crumb lickers, who have no God,
country or flap whi h [fl not ex
pressed in the jinple of the Al
mighty Dollar. These mental and
moral invef. ar.* human
leeche>, who hare neither t h>
heart of a (jorilla nor the
an insect. The whole rotten
profh «y?t». m of Capitalism ia
pertneated, hoi • • •■(•<! and held
together by these — the lowt I
iscum of the universe.
MARKETING
•ST. PAUL ft will be of in
terest to the farmers as produc
ers, as well as to the consumers
to know that the Marketing De 1
fi.irtment of the Co-operative
Wholesale is increasing its busi
ness steadily.
During the pa ii week five car
loads of potatoes have been mar- !
keted—three of them in St. Paul
and two in Chicago. >■~- car
of hay and one car of straw were
marketed in St. Paul.
The present manager of the
Market Department, Mr. Ott, in
order to get the best possible
price for a carload of hay that
had been shipped in by a pro
acer called on eight barns, every
brewery, and all the transfer com
panies in St. Paul. Imagine a
private commission firm going to j
that much trouble to get the best
possible price for a custom)
Among other sales at the !(.•
tail Market (which is maintained
by the Co-operative Wholesale,
while the trades unionists are or
ganizing ('i take charge) was
1,110 bushels if potatoes, 32
rvi«<s of eggs, and over a ton of
vegetables.
RUSTLE A SUIt Ok TWO FOB'
THE NKW.H, i
EVERETT, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918
FALSE REPORT
WASHINGTON, April I. The
first official word of the capture
of the strategically Important
it> i^( Irkutsk, Siberia, by the
Germans was announced in the
war department weekly summary
todaj
"In Siberia, the imj i i tant ■< uit
egk center, Irkutsk, has fallen
itito tin' hands of the enemy and
detachment, believed to
ly 20,000, is
n full possession of the town,"
■aid the .1 : .-nt.
The above misleading and false
report was sent out by Severn
ment officials and Roe* to show
that the lulininisti a 7 hi Is M
1 much to blame for misrepresen
; tations as the yellow, siurrillous
daily papers.
Those nun who captured Ir
kutsk may have come from the
Teuton race hut they are really
| not "Germans" anymore: they are
now Bohheviki. The administra
tion would have the people be
lieve that thy Kaiser had gained
■ foothold in Siberia. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
It really represents another vic
tory for the Russian radical.* over
the "old order."
The German prisoner!* captured
by the Russians have been con
verted to radicalism by the prop
aganda of the -1..11 Itcds, l.i'
tafn^Kiiren their « freedom. and
have voluntarily and whole- heart
edly enlisted in the cause of the
World-proletariats' Co-operative
Commonwealth. If any of these
i men should be captured by the
| Kaiser's forces they would be
immediately put to death. Even
if one of them should voluntarily
go back to Germany, he would
undoubtedly be interned, or shot
on suspicion, simply because he
had been, exposed la that Russian
"infection," which is so dangerous
to Autocracy and Militarism.
These arc the men who, under
the Red nag of the IJol.shevika.
have taken the Siberian city of
Irkutsk. Our administration is
">>>-! likely dumbfounded by the
demonstrated power of the Hoi
•■heviki IDEA, cannot understand
j or comprehend it, and have'nt the
moral courage to face the facts.
KIRKPATRICK
La t Sunday afternoon at the
m, Comrade Geo. R, Kirk
i k k:ivi- ;> lecture on "The
Hypnotism of th<- Working ClasH"
•'' a full him Nevei wt
Kirkpatrick heard to better ad
vantage, or better appreciated,
■"i thii occasion. Hi dra
mat Ie 01 atoi drew and held the
attention of the audience;
hi* humor evoked itoroii of ap
•■; his I;,,! could im.i be
' ogii ■■ .-i inescapable,
;t convinc «i The only thinfl to
be regi t»1 lid i that evei y work
ing man and woman In the city
could nol have heard him. li
doesn'l mattei about the othei
1 t:i ■ ' who could II tc-n to
! patrick and ' ill uppoi I the
pre i 1,1 iniquitous bj lim 11 In
deed hopi l<
Leathei 0 Is Tunica and Re
pairing at I <ii Irunk Factory.
2515 K< •!<•' r.
HO AN EKK(TKI)
alt- returns show thai
Daniel \Y. Moan has been
easily re-elected as Mayor of
Milwaukee. Hut Victor 1..
Merger was defeated for Sen
ator altho he carried Milwau
kee and the county of Mil
waukee.
HARVARD ORGAN
KNOCKS SCHOOL;
SUPPRESS PAPER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Follow
liT publil a' ion of an srtll !•• in
the Harvnrd Illstrated Magacine,
in which Prof, i' ' ■■■ In It Holl ia
accredited \\'': > ■ ting Harvard
'ims out "failures," rob hei
It ■: ■ 11' s am' Bpol . i an
me system for bi oe i< •
mm I, the fi rulty We Inc
led 1,200 copies of the matfa
sine. Th.> article created a sen
at :.p|. in •),;.! aiid the
lllu-t' ated sold like peanut al a
hall game until it.s suppression.
After all, a great tunny of the
student^ at our large universities
are eager to learn, and do not
take kindly or easily to the "can
ned dope" that the supporters
of the large Schools desire to
fevd the stodeiits.
Also these outbreak* serif to
iirprc-M- , . our contention that
schools and colleges We" utu-d by
the ruling c!n«Sft» to mold the
minds of ihi- students and the
rising generation to suit the
mien' view points and clans-re
quiremenU.
TELLS SOLDIERS
TO STRIKE
Refugee Belgian Socialist Appeal
Causes Comment
The following appeal recently
printed in the Belgian Socialist,
one of the refugee Belgian pa
pen that have 1 n published In
Holland Bince the occupation of
im tiy th<- German i, ii com
mented upon by ome Dutch !)<■«
pnpers aa Indicating thai there i
:in undercurrent of B<
among ( the Belgian proletariat:
"Th<- war policy "f the <;o\ ■
it leadii " the European
ing dan toward complete
■ i mination.
"Enough of destruction! Enough
<>f murder!
"Proletarian! In the trenches,
drop your weapon '
"Proletarians in the munition
factories, fold your arms!
"Proletai iani of all couni ile
neize the reini of pott er your
selves and dictate a universal
peace!
"It la better arid braves for
100,000 ..i 200,000 of vi to acri
I ice "Hi h\ e» tn European ca pi
tal for a Socialii i world peace
than for million* of human livei
to be '-> t ill thrown Into the laws
of militarism p»nd Impel ialii tn'"
'I'lii- iicm ii! 'i appeared in ihe
New York Timoi in the Ii ue of
Febi iiiu > 23rd; so, it Ii pre mm
ably nol leditioiu, although it
might make ■ difference who
prints it.
If you have nol yel read Kirk
Patrick's latest book, Think or
Surrender, tend i i cenl to the
I'" opoi ..i Ive Ne • ;■ M<j one w ill
be mailed you
MAN MOBBED
YAK IMA Frank s. Myers,
after suffering severe torment,
arrived In Spokane in ■ badly
shaken condition, too weak to give
the full details of the treati
I■• re< ed at the hands of th<
degenerate Yakitns mob. From
Yai.una on the day following the
mob violence ;< party who was
able ■• ■ ■ tl • ne, writes
■\ follows:
"Myers was dragged from hi*
■ i Offl at about 1 1 :S0 la. t nighi .
thrown mi" an automobile and
!;il ■ i, tO th'- outskirts of the rity,
.•.in'.- I,: clothing wns removed
.■• body, including hi
:■• •. was co ■
into which the mo!
There were bout BO in the
party and on their way out they
would top under trees to test
their strength, telling Myers i 1
was their intention to hang him,
to give him the same treatment
as rank Little. The night was
very cold and Myers must have
suffered terrible agony from th»
tar and the cold. When the mob
had finished their work they threw
Myers his clothing and drove
him out in the bitter cold far
from any human habitation where
he could secure aid in his dis
tress."
The Trades and Labor Council
of Yakima passed strong resolu
tions denouncing the brutal ac
tions of the mob and demanding
thnt Myers he returned to be
tried in case there are any
charges against him and the mob
be brought to bar for their un-
Inwful nctions. The delegates
from the grangers' organizations
supported the motion and concur
■ ! In th.- resolution, part of
which reads:
"Driving thii alleged disloyal
ist fmm Yakima can serve no
good purpose to our country, in
asmuch :is. [f guilty, he is :
by forced into other communities,
there to carry on seditious prop.
a:nri(i;i. and whether innocent or
s'uiity, thii exhibition of outlawry
- only contempt for law and
order and makei profession! <>f
patriotism by mob members a
byword and mockery."
Iri contraal to this attitude,
which Is the attitude of all de
element in Yakima, the
Yakima Daily Republic speaks
with high approval of the degen
erate actions of the mob, con
cluding one editorial with these
wordi :
"I w. W.i may as well heed
l 1'" v The Yakirnn Val
'•* to have industrial
peace this summer. There may
'.•petition of the Everett a'f
fair before peace is secured, but
We Shall have it when we get
tinough "
Thi« direct Incitement to man
murder by cowardi dodging In
ambuah aa was done In Everett,
ls wdrthj of the curs whose
hand are Boiled with the profits
11 have wrung from the men
women and children exploited
Ml"> robbed In the Vakima Valley
in the name of patriotism.
: " T BASCOM of Monroe
ntervlowing Mr. Edwards,
»n I w w We hope he was | n
tending to line up,
M C D.
Number 375,
CANADIAN WAR
CONDITIONS
A reader has just handed us
■* letter from a friend in Can
ada, which gives some interest
■'■ ■■' id* light! on the conditions
that exist in the domain of our
northern neighbor. It reads in
part M follows:
"There are all kinds- of crippled
soldiers coming into the city, and
most of them are pitiful sight*.
Of course, the worst of them we
never tee because they are unable
to walk around.
"The government has had very
bad results from its conscription
act. The conscripted army for
th" whole of Canada only amounts
to a little over 80,000. They fig
ured on 150,000 at least. Over
4,000 have been arrested for evad
ing the draft.
"A returned soldier was heard
to remark recently that "band 3
were playing and people cheer
ing when we went away but
when we • came back there wa3
rot a murmur." Some of them
thought they were heroes but
have apparently discovered that
they are not. All the returned
soldiers are organized. There
are radical organizations and con
• native organizations. One
bunch calls iUself the "Great War
Veterans" and the radical ele
r <>nt . calls itself '- the "Comrades
!of the Great War."" "^'^S.'^T**
"PATRIOTS" IGNORE *
NATION'S NEEDS
%
Subjection of Labor First Is Slogan
of flutes
BALTIMORE—Despite the gov
ernment's need of leggin and uni
form cloth, blankets, etc., the
plute mill owners of the Mt. Ver
non Cotton Duck Company refus
ed* to grant the textile workers'
demand for a closed shop. So
they walked out. «,
Rather than accede to the Amer
ican wage-slaves' demand for this
modicum of industrial democracy
and self-government the plutes
unpatriotically throw out of work
more than 2,000 operatives , who
Pre willing and anxious to supply
their government with the badly
needed fabrics.
The company is making good
money these .lays out of its work
for tha government, and ought to
!"• very patriotic. But subjection
of their employe* to their will is
more important to them than aid-
Ing our boyi in Prance, and they
declare they will "stand pat "
Such is capitalistic loyalty to
country!
PROSCRIBED
From a recent copy of THE
SOCIALIST published in Ifel
bourne, Australia, we loam that
THE NORTHWEST WORKER
is barred from entry into that
country by the censors. A long
list of proscribed newspapers,
periodicals, books and pamphlets
was given; but tin- list wa* in
complete, part of it having been
evidently printed In a previous
I ue which we did tn>t get. It
safe to presume that the CO
OPERATIVE NEWS i» on the
list, also. We do not see how we
couKl possibly escape.
