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iWill The United States Be Plunged Into Hellish War? New York Banker Advises Revolt
feather Than War—Socialism, Civilization's Only Hope—-Vote For Peace And Plenty!
ADAM HENRY BARTH SO
CIALIST CANDIDATE FOR
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Adam Henry Harth. of Tacoma, can
didate for United States Senator, was
born in Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1569. Re
ceived a few years' training in the
public schools, and at an early age
was obliged to fight his own battles
His early schooling in the class strug
gle caused him to identify himself
with a mixed group of radicals, in
Dayton, Ohio. Later on comrade
Barth was selected as a delegate to
come to Washington with a view of
settling a Socialist colony. He was
accompanied by a group of 63. Barth
has now been a resident of Washing
ton for 15 years, and has been very
active as a fighter for better condi
tions for those who do the world's
work.
Comrade Barth, years ago, followed
the trade of furniture maker, but since
1884 has been a moulder, being a
member of the International Moulders'
Union, in which local organization be
has served *n every capacity from '
trustee to chairman.
Naturally, being a rebel, and a
strong union man, he has been iden
tified with strikes too numerous to
mention. He was one of the prime
spirits in the long-drawn-out-strike of
Local No. 180 Tacoma, which lasted
for 22 months.
Comrade Barth is married and has
four children, all residing in Tacoma. '
The confidence which the Socialist
party reposes in Comrade Barth is
shown by the fact that he has been
a candidate for mayor of his city three
times, commissioner twice, represen
tative once, supreme judge once. He
has served as chairman of the state
convention four times, and has been
I a member of the executive board for
.about six years.
I GOING UP !
THE SOCIALIST PARTY.
Snohomish County.
1908 Bnn
1912 4.054
WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER, 1914
Washington
1908 14.177
I'HO 15,994
1012 40,44.-,;
United States.
1000 9fi,931
1904 408,20
1908 424.488
1912 901,062:
Whole World.
1887 845.500'
1892 2.747.723
1903 5,952,494
1911 8,034,221
1914 11,000,000
Stop throwing your- vole away
—and vote for yourself.'
COMRADES, BE HERE!
On Friday or Saturday, be here, and
get your papers for Sunday morning's
distribution. More volunteers are
wanted to put out this issue of The
Washington Socialist. Don't, be back
ward. Do your share. You must not
expect to ride into th< ative
commonwealth on the brake beam.
Get busy, and work your passage.
F. (1. CROSBY.
P. 8. —Comrades who would prefer
to distribute their precinct on Friday
or Saturday, so they can take that
auto jaunt on Sunday can be accom-;
modated.— F. Q, I
The Nobel prize will have to be big
ger for the man who brings peace this
year.—Toledo Blade.
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS YOU HAVE A WORLD TO WIN.
NEW YORK BANKER ADVISES
REVOLT RATHER THAN WAR
DISARMAMENT ONLY HOPE OF
WORLD— PEACE SAYS HENRY
CLEWS.
'The people of all nations should
rebel iv. against their governments.
If necessary, to stop th«» war," de
clared Henry Clews. New York bank
er, In a statement added to his regu
lar weekly letter to the capitalist
press, dealing with the financial sit
uation. The noted financier hero al
llgns himself with the 1. W. W. and
the Socialists in declaring for Insur
rection at homo rather than war
abroad.
Says Mr Clews. In part. In his cir
cular letter of September 11th:
After the experience of this devast-
Ing and brutally cruel war on life
and property, no permanent peace can
be effected unless It provides for dis
armament of all the nations Involved,
and a binding peace compact made
batwwa them for a pro rata combin
ation of forces ample to police both
the land and sea of the entire com
bntants. also to Include all other na
tions. If that is accomplished as a
result of the war. then it will be an
important gain to humanity, and In
part some compensation growing out
of the costly and dreadful slaughter of
human life will be derived. If such
a settlement is not accomplished, then
recuperation with vindictive intentions
will be likely to bring about another
similar war In due course of time,
which may include our Continent and
the whole of Asia, thereby making a
greater deluge of blood and destruc
tion of property than the present up
heaval. The only possible gain that
this war can produce is what I pro
pose, as stated above, and the people of
all nations should rise, up and Insist
upon It. It is a question for the peo
ples of the world to solve for their
own protection, provided the various
governments will not accomplish that
result, as the lives of the people and
their interests are where the suffer
ing and losses strike. Why, then,
should they not make their voice and
actions sufficiently strong to over
throw the few that undertake to rule
adversely to their safety and inter
est?
Most Barbarous War World Ever
Beheld.
I call it the most unreasonable and
barbarous war the world ever beheld.
It came to us in so shocking and
striking a manner that it could be
likened to the Antichrist that the
Gospel has warned us to expect some
day. I look upon this European con
flict as an Antichrist war. What else
can it creditably be called, with its
brutal wholesale mowing down by the
most modern killing machinery, of
all kinds of human beings, compris
ing all religions without regard to
race, and without mercy, the like of
which the world has never previously
witnessed. The peoples of all nations
should rebel even against their gov
ernments, if necessary, to stop it.
DISARMAMENT
IMPRACTICABLE.
WAR INSEPARABLE FROM THE
CAPITALIST SYSTEM.
Not only banker Clews, but many
high diplomats in Washington have
given it as their opinion that disarma
ment by all nations must follow the
present war. It was pointed out at
the embassies of some of the belliger
ents that if the military power In all
the countries continue as strong as
it has in the past, it will bankrupt
the nations.
At. one of the embassies it was de
'l.nid that if the nations wish to de
relop great humanitarian and educa
tional schemes they must cease spend
ing the millions of dollars annu
for war. It was said that one country,
which until the opening of the war
had been developing its workmen's In
surance would be unable to pi ml an
other cint in this way if armament
t.axe" continue.
Those That Cheer.
"Who are the i people who are
ling?" asked the recruit a:- the
soldiers marched to the train.
d the veteran, "are
the people who are not going."—Puck.
GEO. E. BOOMER, SOCIALIST
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
Ceorge K. Boomer, candidate for
CoagTMl from the Second Dlwtrict, Is
a resident of Port Angeles. He was
born In 1-ewlston. Maine, 1st;::. At
tended a common school about three
years, and at an early age served as
a printer's apprentice, which occupa
tion he has followed ever since. Com
rade Boomer Is ut present editor of
the Peninsula Free Press, of Port An
geles. He has been a member of
the Typographical Union for thirty
years During this time he has been
in three strikes.
Comrade Boomer joined the S. L. P.
In the early 80s. Was candidate for
governor of R. I. in 1893. President
It. I. Central I^ibor Union for two
terms about '89. Delegate for seven
years. Joined the Socialist party in
Washington In 1901. Candidate for
governor in 1908. Later was asso
ciate editor Appeal To Reason. He
edited Colony paper at Equality,
Washington, and was associate, editor
of Seattle Socialist.
Having been a public speaker for
years, Comrade Boomer has had the
usual experiences In being mobbed
and arrested, for street speaking.
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY-GI
ERAL SAYS EIGHT-HO
LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIC
AL.
WORKERS SHOULD ADOPT NE
CONSTITUTION SUITED
THEIR NEEDS.
California in November will vo
upon an eight-hour law very simil
to the one that will come before tl
voters of this state. And in Californ
the attorney-general has given a
opinion In Which ho declares it. h
conviction that the proposed measui
violates the United States constit
tion.
The sweeping limitation of the hoi
of labor, he maintains, is an Infrinf
ment on the personal right of all, co
trary to specific provision of the n
tion's fundamental law.
It required 9,000 words for Califo
nia's attorney-general to explain t
Gov. Johnson wherein the. eight-ho
proposal is unconstitutional. Wo coi
havo done the job in short order;
wit, the eight-hour initiative favors t
working-class and may reduce masti
class profits. There you have tl
whole story in fourteen words. Al
you have a beautiful illustration of '
class-struggle.
The Socialists have a neat, ami
pedltloua manner in which to si;
these vexed questions about what
and what is not constitutional. 1
eighteenth of our "Political Demain
calls for "The calling of a conventi
for the revision of the constitution .
the United States."
There you have a ready solution of
present and future problem connected
with economic legislation.
The constitution of the United
States in an aristocratic document,
hatched In aecrei behind closed doors,
and drafted by a convention upon
whom no such authority had been
conferred by the electorate, much'less
by the common people of thin conn
try. (For prool of this statement see
"The Madison Papers.")
H now behooves the working < i
of this country to turn the tables on
the ownlng-claßß and draft a consliiu
tion hi the interests of the majority,
the despised wage-slave element. What
are t,-c workers waiting for, anyhow?
EVERETT. WASHINGTON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914.
OUR ONE AND ONLY
CHANCE FOR PEACE
CIVILIZATION S ONLY HOPE.
So long (in capitalism luhls, the
struggle for markets between compet
ing nations mutt Continue. Under
competition no plan nt universal dis
armament could bo worked out that
would bo accoptablo to all parties con
cerned—especially to the victors in
tin' war now devastating Europe. Such
a proposal Is Utopian In a high degree.
Civilization has, as Charles Edward
Huhhi'l has so clearly, and forcibly
pointed out, but one' hope. It were
desirable, yes, It Is absolutely neces
sary to the preservation of peace In
America, and elsewhere, that his elo
quent statement should take deep root
In the minds of the world's workers.
To quote:
Let the competlve KVHtem survive,
whichever way the present war re
sults It will assuredly breed other want
as gigantic or worse. From that con
elusion there is no logical escape. The
■MM causes will produce the same
results*, always, automatically, irre
trievably, as certain as night follows
day, as certain v the stars travel
their roads. No man may sow his
field with any faith that he can reap
it and no man can look forward to a
year of peace. So stands the terrible
fact that now confronts mankind. We
can shut it from our minds if we are
cowards, or try to forget It If we are
fools; but refute it or deny It may no
man living.
If then we are determined that when
this whirlwind of bestiality shall have
passed we shall not have another. If
we wish a condition under which the
structure of society shall not be blown
down, human Intercourse shall not be
destroyed, civilization shall not be set
backward, and the earth shall not be
bathed in blood, the one possible way
to that condition is to eliminate for-
HOP*, __
IN SOCIALISM.
London, Oct. 10.— Nation, the
organ of the English pacificists, says
today:
"There is but one substantial hope
of avoiding a second return of Europe
|to barbarism. That lies in setting up
in each afflicted country a reign of
modified Socialism. This partial re
organization may be effected by the
action of states and municipalities In
regulating employment and food sup
plies.
I assisted in casting down prejudice
and errors; their downfall brings light.
—v. Hugo.
THOS. JENSEN.
Tiiomaß j«ma, tha candidate of the
Bocikltst Party for State Senator,
89tb District) in a well known farmer
In the county, having lived here for
years. In addition to being one of the
pioneers of the county he is also one
of the piontsra or BoolaUftn In Wash
ington, having taken an active part In
Ihe Socialist movement for years.
Comrade .Jensen Is a member of the
grange and ban been an earnest work
er for Socialism among the farmers.
CARL PERSON IS AC
QUITTED OF MURDER.
TWO WEEKS TRIAL AT LINCOLN,
ILL., ENDS IN VICTORY FOR OR
GANIZED LABOR.
Comer-ford's Great Speech Stirs Logan
County.
By FLOYD P. GIBBONS.
CLINTON, ILL.. OCT 10—(Special
Correspondence)— Carl E. Person, sdt
tor of the Strike Bulletin was found
not guilty of the murder of Antone
Musser, the Illinois Central strike
breaker in a verdict returned by a
jury at the Logan County Court House i
Lincoln, 111., at 3 o'clock Sunday af
noon, October 4th.
Jury Cheers.
'he stillness of the sabbath after
n was broken at 2:10 p. m. when1
nds of cheering could be heard
a the jury room of the court house,
.yds of interested spectators were
iding on the streets looking • to-1 .
d the court house when suddenly
of the jurors sprang to the win
and shouted "We Win."
Statement by Person,
mediately upon the announcement
o verdict acquiting him, Carl Per
nade the following statement:
acquital pleases me most be- >
it vindicates me in the eyes of
whom I love, and justifies my
o efforts to serve my fellow
rs. |
trial compensates me in at least
ay, it has brought to the atten
>f the public that prosecutions
>t always begun in the name of
eople, neither are they always
ted and controlled by the state,
y case Attorney Frank Comerford
■d the issue at the pending of the j
. The issue was clear cut, and it '•
convinced twelve honest farmers
it was the Illinois Central Rail-j
I and not the state of Illinois that
ted my blood.
'c have reached the crisis in our
ustrial struggle. The appeal of
hour is to the manhood and cour
■ of the workers. My faith is re
in. We will win. We must win.
y only regret is that I have not the ,
>ility to serve better.
To every worker in the ranks my
learl beats a thankful message. I feel
inworthy of the loyalty and generosity
hat bai been shown me. The fight to
< ruin labor is doomed. Men, not dol
! iirs, will be tlie order of the new day.
CARL E. PERSON.
CAPITALISM DOOMED.
At a certain stage of development it
>ringi forth the material agencies for
its own dissolution. From that mo
ment new forces and new passions
spring up In the bosom of society; but
he old social organization fetters
them and keeps them down. It must
be annihilated; it is annihilated. —
"Capital," by Karl Marx.
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
How Comrade Kingery
Turned The Tables
On Reactionaries
STAND PATS AT OLYMPIA.
STARTED EIGHT-HOUR LAW IN
HOPES TO BREAK ALLIANCE OF
UNIONISTS AND FARMERS.
By B. P. MARSFT.
The "standpat" interests of the
state are trying to forget the origin
of the universal eight-hour day move
ment. To refresh their memory and
for the benefit of the voters general
ly, it would not be amiss to recite a
chapter in political chicanery. As this
narrative will show, it is a case of
"hoist with their own petard."
The legislative combine of farmers
and trade unionists had the standpat
ters In the last legislature very un
comfortable and they were looking
for some club to crack our joint forces
with. "We have it," said they. "We'll
introduce a universal eight-hour bill.
The union boys will fall for It as
j "eight hours" Is a battle cry with
them. The farmers will get sore at
the unionists, for there isn't a farmer
! in the state that believes he can oper
ate on an eight-hour basis. So. Mr.
Grass of King county introduced the
bill while the gang chortled with glee.
But their mirth was short lived. - The
farmers refused to fall for the bait.
"Make it eight hours from gate to
gate," they replied. Telegrams and
letters came pouring in on the legis
lators demanding the passage of the
bill. The gang became panic stricken.
They had to kill their own bill, which
they never proposed in good faith. The
committee reported back recommend
ing indefinite postponement and Grass,
the "eight-hour goat," sat silent In his
seat while his bill was done to death.
This story is not being related in
the columns of the standpat press. It
is buried along with many other pieces
of legislative trickery.
Legislative Frame of Bosses Helps
Workers.
What the standpatters began in
fraud the working people of the state
carried on in earnest and the Kingery
initiative bill is the outcome. Now
every organ of "special privilege" in
the state is shrieking in chorus
against "No. 13." The same howl that
has been raised at every attempt of
labor forces to secure remedial legis
lation is going up now. "You will
drive industry from the state." All
industrial history points one way and
that is the exact opposite to the con
tention of the badly scared opposition.
The Ford automobile concern gives the
lie to the wild assertion that the short
er workday will ruin industry. Here
was a great concern, millions of in
vested capital, underging the keen
est competition. At one swoop It rev
olutionized its industrial dealings with
its employes. What was the result?
Its working efficiency increased forty
four per cent, according to its own
published statement and the retail
price of machines lowered by reason
of that increased efficiency in out
put.
(Continued on Page 8.)
I have always supported the for
ward march of the human race toward
the light, and I have sometimes re
sisted a progress which was without
pity.—Les Miserables.
CARRY THE COUNTY IS THE WATCHWORD!
Big mass meeting to lie held in the following places:
Snohomish. October 31; Arlington, November 2; Edmonds.
November -. and .Monroe, November '-.
Adam 11. Harth. Socialist candidate for Unite,l States Sena
tor, will close the campaign with a monster meeting in Evereti
at the COLISEUM, NOVEMBER 2nd. BE TRUE!
AN OPEN CHALLENGE.
The Socialist party of Snohomish county challenges any or
all candidates of the Progressive, Republican and Democratic
parties to meet the candidates of the SociaKsi party in an open
debate to be held on November 2nd in the Coliseum ai Everett.
The Socialist party agrees to furnish the hall and pay all ex
penses and furthermore guarantees to furnish an audience of
at least' 2,000 people. An open discussion mi all questions is
enlightening and educational; it is also necessary. We ash the
candidates of the Progressive, Republican and Democratic
parties to meet the Candidates of the Socialist parly and show
what their parties have done for the working men and women
of Snohomish i ity. We will leave the decision to the voters
on November 3rd.
A. H. COBURN.
A. H. Coburn, Socialist party can
didate for Representative 49th District,
is by trade an interior decorator by oc
cupation. He received a common
school education and has also had
training along industrial lines while
earning his living in various ways. In
1895 he entered the labor movement
as an active participant as a delegate
to the San Francisco Building Trades
Council, where he served for four
years, two years of which were spent
on the executive committee of the
council. In 1899 he was the candi
date of the Socialist, party for mayor
of San Francisco. A class-conscious
worker, Comrade Coburn has fought
for years on both the political and in
dustrial fields for the betterment of
his class.
W. G. GRIMM.
The theory that the farmer does
not want Socialism is disproved for
W. G. Cfrimm, Socialist party candi
date for representative in the 49th Dis
trist, who is a farmer and stockraiser
and for a number of years has been
active in the Socialist movement hold
ing various offices in his local. Com
rade Grimm is but one of the many
farmers of no.t only Snohomish county,
but of this country that recognizes
Socialism as the only solution to the
exploitation of both the tanners and
the wage-workers.
The one Divine work —the one or
dered sacrifice —is to do justice; and
it is the last we are ever inclined to
do. Anything rather than that! As
much charity as you choose, but no
justice.—Ruskin's "Crown of Wild
Olive."
No. 197.