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THE WASHINGTON SOCIALIST
Formerly THE COMMONWEALTH ,
Entered M seoond-class matter March it, 1911, nt the poftofflee
at Everett, Washington, under the net of March 3. 187!).
_ 1X1). PHONE 478Z
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LAND MONOPOLY IN THE
UNITED STATES.
lv the May-June number of the
Msjgta Ta\ Review, published In New
York City. \V. H Northrop shows that
the railroads of the United Suites own
no less than 200,000,000 acres or llt,<
600 square miles. That Is about equal
to the area ot the New England Stall's.
New York. New Jersey, IVnnsylvnnin,
Delaware, Maryland. Virginia. North
Carolina and South Carolina combined.
It ts somewhat less than half of the
area of Mexico. One out of every
eleven and a half square miles in Con
tinental United States belongs to the
railroads.
But there aro otlu'r lanil monopol
ists than the railroads. One-half of
the state of Florida is owned by 182
men whose combined holdings amount
to 16.990,000 acros. Two mon. Miller
and Lux, own an estate in California
of 14.500,000 acres. Tho Woyer
hauser estate owns 1,525,000 acres in
two states. The estate of the late
"Lord" William Scully owns 200.000
acres in Illinois. The Steel Trust owns
or controls hundreds of thousands of
acres of ore and mineral lands, and
so on.
If the federal government were to
compile a list of all large land holdings
in the United States, it would make
some of the big holdings in Mexico
look small in comparison.
In addition there are holdings in all
the large cities which measured in
acres, look small as compared with big
agricultural and mineral holdings. But
measured in value "they are much
larger.
There is the same need of checking
land monopoly in the United States as
there is in Mexico.
The Socialist party would not only
restore the LAND to the people who
wish to USE IT, but they think it to
be equally important that the people
shall jointly own, control, and demo-;
cratically manage THE GREAT IN
DUSTRIAL PLANTS of the nation.
POVERTY CAN BE ABOLISHED IN
NO OTHER WAY.
PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM IN
ENGLAND.
In 1904 the combined dues-paying
membership of the Social Democratic
party, the Fabian Socialists, ami the
British Socialist party, waß but 25,000.
Now the total number of members in
these organizations is 72,000. During
the #ame time the Independent Labor
party increased from a membership of
20,000 to its present strength of 80,000.
This gives a total of about 152,000
members of the working class united
for political action in the cause of
labor.
A summary of the recent municipal
elections in England shows a net gain
of 80 seats to the Socialist labor
forces. There were 494 candidates
nominated and 196 elected. Twenty-six
seats were lost and 106 gained. This
makes more than 200 working class
representatives sitting in municipal
councils in England.
PROGRESS OF INTERNATION
AL MOVEMENT.
The total number of dues-paying
members of the Socialist and Labor
parties of the world in 1907 was 1,805,
--174. At present there are more than
2,787,984.
Some encouragement, this!
In the organized industries in Great
Britain there are said to be 300,000
women who earn less than |3 a week.
In his annual report the head of the
New York state department, of labor
says: "The progress of the movement
for shorter hours is strikingly shown
by the fact that 20 per cent of the
state's factory operatives are working
less than fifty-two hours per week,
and 46 per cent between fifty-two and
forty-eight hours."
NEAR.
"He is one of those near-vegetar
ians."
"Wbat is a near-vegetarian?"
"He never eat« meal except when
be is Invited out."—Houston Post.
WEAKEST COG.
•■What's most, liable to pot broke
about your automoi.
"The owner," replied Mr. Chui
Washington Star. •
NOT SO IN EVERETT
BROTHER REYNOLDS HITS
STRAIGHT OUT.
Hero ares two paragraphs from Com
rude Reynolds' m paper. Truth;
liny are worth pondering on those
days:
"Tho only freo press wanted In this
country is freedom to say what WE
think and power to suppress what the
other fellow* thinks. Doosn't It work
out that way? Free press spelled
sup-press. Yet the safety of the peo
ple demands an absolutely free press.
But the people "ain't' demanding it!
Not yet!"
And Here's Another.
"Vice-President Marshall delicately
suggests that some, day lie will join
th© Socialists —If they will change
their position as regards power and
property. Well, Socialism seems to
bo quite respectable these days, and
no doubt, if Hilltiuit or Berger hears
of the vice president's desire they will
see to it that the position is changed,
for we must have the vote. For verily
it is the truth that there is more re
joicing In the ranks of the Socialists
over one vote gained than there is
mourning over the loss of the principle
sacrificed to gain it."
Anyhow, Comrade Reynolds, there
are a few Reds left, at least. Don't
be discouraged. One may forcibly
drive the sheep into the flock with the
goats, and vice versa; but the sheep
are still sheep and the goats are still
goats. Don't let the sheep "get your
goat." Cheer up, the worst is yet to
come.
NEW MILITIA LAW EVADES
CONSTITUTION.
Under the new volunteer army law
the boy in the militia is much nearer
being a regular army soldier than he
was. '•
If war breaks out, or Is impending,
the militia, under the law, can be
quickly made a part of the regular
army and put under the regular army
officers.
All that is needed is a two-thirds
vote of each company or larger militia
unit.
Then the militiaman finds he is In
the regular army for a four-year en
listment, subject to all the army dis
cipline, and equal in all other respects
to the regular.
It is stated by those who criticise
this law that it is an evasion of the
constitution which provides that the
militia can be used only to repel a
threatened invasion, and cannot be
sent out of the country in wars of ag
gression.
By the convenient fiction that the
two-thirds vote makes each member
a "volunteer," the militia boys cease
to be militiamen and become mem
bers of the regular army, who can be
sent anywhere for any kind of a war.
A CRISIS.
By general mlsgovernment we have
created in Europue a vast populace,
and out of Europe a still vaster one,
which has lost even the power and
conception of reverence; which exists
I only In the worship of Itself —
can neither see anything beautiful
around it, nor conceive anything vir
tuous above it; which has, toward all
goodness and greatness, no other feel
ings than those of the lowest crea
tures —fear, hatred, or hunger; a pop
ulace which has sunk below your ap
peal in their nature, as it has risen
beyond your power in-their multitude;
—who you can now no more charm
than you can be adder, nor discipline,
than you can be summer fly.
It is a crisis, gentlemen; and time
to think of it.—Huskln's "Crown of
Wild Olive."
The object of the politician is ex
pediency, and his duty is to adapt his
measures to the often crude, undevel
oped and vacillating conception of the
nation. The object, on the other hand,
of the philosopher is truth, and his
duty is to push every principle which
he believes to be true to its legitimate
consequences, regardless of the re
sults that may follow.—H. Lecky.
The question of education is for the
modern world a question of life or
death, a question on which depends
the future.—
UNITED STATES COMMERCE
CONFRONTS FORMIDABLE
COMPETITIOR.
Increase of Twenty Per Cent In Ger-
man Mercantile Marine
Since 1910.
"Inoraaalag prosperity" tor'ths Unit
ril Stati'H Ih a thing of the pant. nnlciiH
all Signs full. What with the develop
inent of doinenlle manufacture in
.1 :ii>:tit, China and India, and the sue-
OMBful competition of England and
Qtrmaay tor the trade of Mouth Aluer
lien, AuwtralUHla, und Africa, the for
eign tradu of tho United SlateH can
hardly he expected to expand In tho
future its It lniH In Ihe put On llu>
contrary, v DOSItITS d«CTMM In the
value of exports per capita must lie ex-
Willed, despite the i»r«- emluciico of
American manUfiMtUTM In certain spe
cial lines.
Germany anil England are both put
ting forth strenuous., and SW msliil,
efforts in getting !n ahead of the
United BtatSS In foreign OOUntrUl,
The Democratlo adniliilHlrntlon can
not he charged with reHpoiiHlhllity for
| tho prevailing hard timeH, nor could a
Kepiilillcnn administration create trade
and prosperity ulien no markets can
bo found for the product* which the
•rorktn create and do not get.
Times nro hard In Germany, and, In
i.i.t. every where else. Mill we nillHt
concodo tho Fatherland is giving the
rest or the world a hard rim in the race
for trade, and that the U. S. must soon
take a back seat, so far as rate of
trade expansion Is concerned.
Germany is placing 50,000 and 60,-
OOOton vessels In tho North Atlantic
•at the rate of two or three a year,
! Bays Mr. Frederic William Wile, in
tho London Daily Mail. A (icnimn
commercial invasion of New Zealand
ports is also impending, wo arc told.
German freight-vessels of the fluent
modern type have banished obsolete
cargo-boats from South American ser
vice, and the lion's share of trade with
Brazil and Argentina has already
fallen to Germany. Big Steamships in
groups of seven are being laid down
for the Australian and Far Eastern
trades with Germany.
Mr. Wile closes with the following
striking statistics:
"Figures, people say, talk. Never
have they told a more eloquent story
than the statistical record of German
shipping. In 1900 the kaiser's mer
cantile marine totaled 2,495,389 tons.
Today it Is more than double—s.oso,
-'OOO tons—and is the second largest in
; the world. The German mercantile
j marine is, of course, far behind Great
I Britain's tonnage of roundly 19,500,000,
j but it has increased 20 per cent since
! 1910, as against Great Britain's in
crease of 7.4 per cent.
"Including the 62,000 ton 'bigger sis
ter" of the Vaterland and Imperator
. . . and seventeen other ocean
going vessels now on the stocks |
(which include three 21,000-ton ships
for the South American trade), the
Hamburg-American line has a tonnage
lof 1,360,360, contained in 196 ocean
going vessels. In 1886, when Her Bal
j lin joined the 'Hapag,' as the Ham
burg-American line is called, its capi
tal was £750,000 and gross profits
were £125,000. Today the capital is
U 9,000,000, and in 1913 the line earned
; £2,926,050. While the recent general
meeting was voting to Increase the
capital from £7,500,000 to £900,000,
--000—it had been quintupled between
1897 and 1913 —a shareholder suggest
ed that at the present rate the com
pany's capital In 1927 would be £25,
--000,000. 'I hope so,' quietly rejoined
Herr Ballin, 'for we may be. sure In
that event that conditions will make
such a capital extremely useful.*
"The North Gorman Lloyd's ocean
fleet of 101 vessels accounts for gross
tannage of 982,857, Including two lin
ers of 28,000 and 35,000 tons soon to
enter the transatlantic service, and
fourteen vessels being built for the
Australian and Far Eastern trades. In
1888 the Lloyd's capital was £1,000,
--000. It Is now £6,250,000.
The Hamburg-South American lino
(controlled by the 'Hapag') owns a
fleet of thirty-seven liners, soon to in
clude two 19,000-ton vessels. The
rlama Line of Bremen, which concen
trates on India and the Far East, op
erates sixty-three ocean vessels with
a tonnage of 419,258, and is building
fifteen new ships. The Hansa pays a
20 per cent dividend, a striking testi
monial of the success with which Ger
,' man shipping is .at work on the other
side of the world."
"Prosperity" does not depend upon
President Wilson's administration, nor
I can it be produced by the Republicans,
or tho Progressives. What the mas
,; ters call "prosperity" depends upon
trade expansion, and this means of ob
. taining revenue for American Indus
tries is being relatively curtailed,
. rather than augmented.
Tinder Socialism, "prosperity" will
mil consist in robbing the workers of
their products and finding new mar
! eta to Bell the stolen plunder in, but
• in the generous consumption of the
; fruits of labor by the producers them-
M markets being sought
WASHINGTON SOCIALIST
As McSlarrow Sees It
I WAS -Mini' in Hi.' ii. P. hall.
• - • •■' •
discussing tiie power of the ballot,
• ..»..• .
WITH ii cunplu Of comrades.
« • •
one said,
• * *
"YOU taIIOWS arc.
• • ♦
A BUNCH or mutts."
%• • •
I WAS highly offended.
• • •
AND I order this rough-neck.
• • •
TO leave the hall.
• • •
ROUGH Neck said.
• • •
"LET us proceed in an orderly man
ner."
• • »
"LET us take a voto on it."
• • •
AND the ltough Nock voted tor him
■elf.
• * •
AND the vote stood.
» ♦ •
ON"E for him to leave. 1
• • ♦
AND three for him to stay..
• • •
AND i again
» » •
ORDERED him to leave.
• • »
AND the Hough Neck.
• ♦ •
DEMANDED "law and order."
» • »
AND tho two comrades.
• • •
DEMANDED "law and order."
• • •
AND reminded me.
• * »
OF "the power of the ballot."
• • •
SO WE took another ballot
. • • •
AND the voto stood. .
• ♦ •
TWO for him to leave.
• • •
AND two for him to stay. I
• • •
IT was exasperating.
» • •
SO we debated the matter.
• * *
FOR over an hour.
lr . * *
AFTER which.
• * *
WE balloted again.
• « •
AND the vote stood.
• • •
ONE for him to stay.
• • •
AND three for him to go.
• * *
AND the Hough Neck said.
• • •
I REFUSE TO GO.
• • *
WE were getting quite angry.
• • •
BUT cool judgment prevailed.
• • ♦
AND we took another ballot.
• • •
TO decide.
•• • ,
IF we should throw him out.
•• ♦ ♦
TH Hough Neck.'
• • •
DID not vote this time.
• • •
HE said.
• • •
IT was no use.
• • *
SO the vote.
• • •
WAS unanimous against him.
• • *
BUT when we arose.
• • »
TO eject him.
• • »
THAT pesky Rough Neck.
• • •
PUT his hand.
• * •
IN his hip pocket.
• • •
AND pulled a big gat.
•• * •
AND pointed It at us.
• • •
And made us put up our hands.
• * »
AND marched us out.
• * •
ONTO the sidewalk.
• * ♦
AND locked our hall.
• • •
AND put the key.
• * *
IN his pocket.
• * *
AND the Hough Neck said.
•' * ♦
"IF you fellows were not mutts."
only in exchange for products not ob
tainable at home.
yote for Socialism, the real and only
"Prosperity."
"YOU would Im vn availed yourselvef
• * *
"OF your OOnStltUtlOflal pitVilCgSJ,
B • •
"AND liare procured,
« • »
"GUNS of your own.
• » •
"THEN when you voted.
• * \
TO throw inn out.
• • •
YOU would have been.
• • •
"IN position.
• • •
"TO make good.
• * •
"AND I would have.
• • •
"WALKED out quietly.
• • *
"FOR I am really more afraid.
• • •
"OF physical violence.
• » •
"THAN any of you."
• • •
WE called him an Anarchist
• » •
AND a Direct Actlontst.
• • *
BUT ln> only smiled.
• » •
AND waved his gat.
• • *
AND Bald "March."
• • *
so we marched,
• • •
AND I went home.
«- • * »
AND pondered.
• * •
ON the "power of the ballot."
JOHN McSLAUROW.
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