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A TOPSY TURVY WORLD
WHY THE PRODUCERS ARE
POOR AND JOBLESS
Oid It ovor occur to you. roador,
what a topsy-turvy economic world .
this Is In which we live and move and .
hare our beiiiK? Has the full tMW ,
of the absurdity, not to say traK<nly,
Of the present Industrial situation ever
come homo to you during a ponstvt*
moment, or "lucid Interval?" Here
we are, thirty millions of wase-slaves,
strong and alert, skilled, for the most
part, in many trades and arts; indus
trious, sober, palnstakiiiK and efficient-
We live in a country of unlimited nat- ■
ural resources, varied climate, of ■
superabundant land and woods and
streams and fish-thronged lakes and
oceans. Not a thing Is lacking for
man's comfort and enjoyment- but an
intelligent application of our labor
power to the natural wealth at our
feet, and on every hand. And yet
millions of willing and efficient men
and women are poor, hungry, home
less, and jobless.
Ex-President Taft, with character
istic frankness, said that he didn't
know why, nor could he suggest any
remedy. Other politicians are more
hypocritical and make replies and
apologies in harmony with the needs
of the particular bunch of commercial
or industrial pirates that they happen
to be retained to serve. Democratic
hirelings used to lay the blame for
social and economic ills to the repub
licans and high-tariff, monopoly, etc. .
Republican mouthpieces of Big Busi
ness will ascribe our prevailing hard
times to "tariff tinkering," "loss of
confidence" (they admit it's a con
fidence game), etc. But none of these
gentry will get down to business and
say frankly, with Bernard Shaw, that
the trouble with the poor is their pov
erty, and that the accepted social and
economic arrangement makes the con
tinuance of undeserved poverty an in
eTitabte part of the system.
The Socialist party alone dares to
state simply and clearly that there is
but one reason why the workers are
poor and jobless, and that reason is
that they permit the few to own and
control the land and the machinery
necessary to the life and happiness of
the many. And, by virtue of this pri-
rate ownership by the few of the'
means whereby the many must live,
the ruling class is enabled to live in
comfort and luxury off the irksome,
dangerous hard labor of the many.
They have brought this condition of
industrial serfdom about through their
control of the powers of government
and legislation. But the workers have
the ballot, the political and economic
itrength to capture these powers for
themselves, and legislate in their own ,
interests. Why not concentrate the i
potential power at the ballot box,
wherever and whenever we can, and
make a start in the right direction?
Why not begin right here in Everett, :
In the municipal election of November, ]
and place in control of the city hall j
our own political representatives, the i
Socialists candidates, J. M. Salter. ;
Katherine H. Hodgins and 0. W. Carr? J
What are we waiting for?
,
STARVING CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS!
In fifteen cities of the United States
a medical examination has brought
out the fact that of 547,909 school
children examined, no fewer than 29,- j
019 or between 5 and 6 per cent., are j
not only underfed, but are suffering j
in health from the results of under- i
feeding. Speaking plainly, thes? chil-1
dren do not have enough to eat. Using
a still "shorter and uglier word," they
are starving—for starvation does not i
always imply death in our present use '
of English. One may Blowly starve 11
all his life until death woulr; oe a re- 1 <
lief for uimself and a benefit to the '.
community. As a remedy for what the i
authors call this "m( nace of malnu- <
trition," feeding in school at the pub- 1
lie expense is favored by Edward F. ; i
Brown, executive secretary of the New I
York School Lunch committee. '
For the popular songs and best in
strumental hits of the day, call on or
address The Everett Music House
(Ft. D. Hodglns), 2936 Colby Avenue.
This reliable house also carries a full
line of violins, accordians, etc., at low
•st prices consistent with good qual
ity.
Patronize YOUR Advertiser*
SOCIALISM
GETS RESULTS
B) A M SIMONS.
Practically nil tho h(.-h» taken by
society lookliiK to Urn coniervatlon of
human life hava come only In response I
to the throat of working class revolt.
a chart of tha Socialist vote placed
sldo by ltd* with one showing tha M
tent to which iafety davloaa have been
adopted, factory legislation enacted
and Hi' sick and Injured in Industry
cared for would show that tho two
run sldo by side the world over.
Germany, with its 4,000,000 Socialist
votes, gives greater care to tho work
ers than any other country In tho
world, and tt has given that caro only
«ut. aad it has iltcii that cure only
since the Socialist vote began to bo
counted by millions.
America, with Us comparatively
small Socialist vote, gives less atten
tion to those things than any of the
Industrial nations. The sudden en
thusiasm for laws protecting human
life has sprung up in tha United States
only in response to and moved forward
aide by side with the rapid growth of
the Socialist vote and Socialist senti
ment. •
Those who enlist for the purpose of
mass murder and march away to the
strains of music are given a pension
when they return to compensate for
any injuries received. No year of the
civil war. the bloodiest In history, ever
furnished such a list of killed and
wounded as could be made up from
any year's record of the casualties on
the battlefield of American industry.
Yet It was not until the Socialist move
ment of Germany, Franco and Eng
land threatened to capture the powers
of government that those who control
the governments of the world over
made a suggestion of extending, even
In the smallest degree, the same sort
of compensation to those who pour out
their lives that the world may be fed
and clothed and housed that is now
given to those who ply the trade
of war.
In this country no voice was heard
In the American congress in behalf of
pensions for the veterans of industry
until Victor U Berger, the first So
cialist congressman, introduced such
a bill. The sound of his voice in the
halls of the American congress was
to the politicians of the ruling class
In America the warning of the im
pending revolt of labor in this country.
They were quick to heed that voice
and now are following the examples
of their German, French and English
contemporaries in the profusion of
their promises of legislation for the
relief of the killed and wounded in
the battle for bread.
It might be diplomatic for the east
to grant women the ballot in order to
keep the west, which is granting suf
frage, from attaining something of the
political power that rightly belongs
to It.
AN AMERICAN MONARCH
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Elbert H. Gary, the head of the greal
United States Steel Corporation, en
tered upon his 70th year on October 8,
having been born on that day of the
month in 1846. Mr. Gary began life
as a farmer's Bon In DuPage county.
Illinois. Today, as described by a
recent writer, he is "the obedient
I Caesar of an empire which owns more
land than the state of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Vermont; sup
ports more people than there are in
Nebraska; employs more men than
fought at Gettysburg; sails a larger
navy than that of Italy; makes more
i steel than Germany, and represents
1 more capital than all the banks in tho
I city of New York."
Judge Gary, it will be remembered,
j presided at the so-called trial of the
r Chicago anarchists in 1886 and was
I responsible for sending four innocent
i men to the Bcaffold for the crime (?)
of being anarchists, and fighting for a
universal eight-hour day.
BILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CROP
IS NATION'S YIELD
——■
WASHINGTON, D. C—A billion
bushel wheat crop, the greatest ever
grown In any country, has been pro
|duced in the i.'nicfU Statea this year.
Thu government's preliminary esti
| mates today placed it at 1,002,029,000
ior 111,000,000 bushels larger than
1912. Corn crop now approaching
maturity is estimated at 3,026,159,000
or 98,000,000 less than the record.
Both these totals are greater than the
September estimates.
Meanwhile, thousands of school chil
dren are slowly starving!
The Socialist Party is here to meet
new conditions. A great crisis is at
' hand. The economic needs of the peo
j pie have brought the need of the So
cialist party. The millions of workers
demand that the Socialist party solve
-the problem. Socialism has domesti
cated politic*—brought it right home
where it, of right, belongs. Socialism
will affect all the needs of the family.
i
HIGH IDEALS OF SOCIALISTS
LOFTY MISSION OF WORKING CLASS
A stale, therefore, wliicli is •Yuled by the idea of Mm
working class will no longer be driven as all states hitherto
have been driven, unconsciously and intuit their will by
the nature of things, and the force of circumstances, but it
will make this moral nature of tho state its mission, with
perfect/clearness of vision and complete consciousness.
Ni/thinf is more calculated to impress upon a class a
worthy and moral character, than the consciousness that it
is destined to become the ruling class, that it is called to
raises the principle of its class to the principle of the entire
age, to convert its idea into the leading idea of the whole of
society, and thus to form Miis society by impressing upon it
its own character.
The high and world wide honor of this destiny must oc
cupy all your thoughts. Neither the load of the oppressed,
nor the idle dissipation of the thoughtless, nor even the harm
less frivolity of tho insignificant, is henceforth becoming to
you. You are the rock on which the Church of the present is
to be built.
It is the lofty moral earnestness of this thought which
must with devouring exclusiveness possess your spirits, fill
your minds, and shape your whole lives, so as to make them
conformable to it, and. always related to it. It is the moral
greatness of this thought which must never leave you, but
must be present to your heart in your workshops during the
hours of labor, in your leisure hours, during your walks, at
your meetings, and even when you stretch your limbs to rest
upon your hard couches, it is this thought which must fill
and occupy your minds till they lose themselves in dreams.
Lassallf, Tin 1 WorkingßUtn'l I'rogram, pp. f)K :!>!).
WHAT STUDY OF
SOCIALISM INSPIRES
(By Prof. R. T. Ely.)
The ethical ideals of Socialism have
attracted to it generous souls and have
enlisted in Its ranks its best, adher
ents. It is these ethical ideals which
have inspired the rank and file of the
Socialist army with firry zeal and re
ligious devotion. It may be said, that
nothing in the present day Is so likely
to awaken the conscience of the ordi
nary man or woman, or to Increase the
sense of responsibility, as a thorough
course in Socialism. The study of So
cialism has proved the turning point in
thousands of lives, and converted self
seeking men and women into self-sacri
ficing toilers for the masses. The im
partial observer can scarcely claim
that the Bible produces so marked an
effect upon the daily habitual life of
the average man and woman, who
profess to guide their conduct by it,
as Socialism does upon its adherents.
The strength of Socialism in this re
spect is more like that of early Chris
tianity as described in the New Testa
ment. —Professor Richard T. Ely,
(University of Wisconsin), Socialism
and Social Reform, p. 145.
SOCIALISM AS A MORAL FORCE.
To its devotees Socialism is a re
ligion. It is a faith which brooks no
doubt. It has enlisted a passionate
ardor. . . . It is a living religion.
The faith, the zeal, are to its disciples
the deepest realities of life. Their
confession is no perfunctory assent to
a dead creed, no lip service, or cere
monial.—Editorial, Independent, vol.
55:397, Feb. 12, 03.
FUTILITY OF REFORM
(By George D. Herron.)
Let Socialists take knowledge and
warning. The possessing class Is get
ting ready to give the people a few
more crumbs of what Is theirs in order
to prevent them from taking the
whole. If it conies to that, they are
ready to give some things in the name
of Socialism.
Hut Socialism, like liberty or truth,
is something you cannot have a part
of; you must have the whole or you
will have nothing; you can only gain
or lose the whole, you cannot gain or
lose a part. You may have municipal
ownerships, nationalized 'transporta
tion, initiative and referendum, civil
service reform, and many other capi
talist concessions, and be all the far
ther away from Social Democracy. So
long as the foundation of society re
mains capitalistic, so long as there re
mains a single stronghold of the capi
talist mode of production, so long as
some people are able to own or con
trol tho bread and things upon which
all people depend, just so long will we
have the myriad horrors of the capi
tlist state —the sorrow and blight of
poverty and the idiocies and brutal
ities of wealth; the tyrannies of the
capitalist state and the shamelessnesa
of capitalist religion; the constant
baffling of the hopes of roformers anil
the reactions of Bpent revolutions and
enthusiasms. Industry must be so
clalistically born again, in its wholn
being and motive and action, before
society can see the co-operative com
monwealth.
It la all one to the capitalist, in the
last analysis, what names or terms
you have, so long as you leave with
him tho sources of industrial control.
THE NORTHWKBT WORKER
WHO IS THE PATRIOT!
Ask the next patriotic citizen you
meet what patriotism i«. He win
probably reply that It Ih lov<i for one's
country, Then ask him if you miiHt
lovo everything in the country bBGftUM
you happened to be born here. Should
you love thi! brothels mid HalooiiH ami
sweat shops? Should you love tho un
holy Institution of child labor; the
Kraft; the manufacture of adulterated
food; the doped milk that poisons
babies; the reeking tenements! t°e
vice and corruption and the million
evils caused by poverty? Socialists
hate these things so heartily that they
are doing all they can to destroy them,
and for this reason every old stiff who
loves his party better than bis coun
try is eternally yawping about the
Socialists' lack of patriotism. Who is
the patriot? It is the citizen who
strives continually to make his coun
try better, who would destroy any part
of his country that is harmful to his
countrymen, %nd who believes that his
country Is for his fellow man rather
than that his.fe'nov man is for his
country.
Socialism is a conscious endeavor
:to substitute organized co-operation
' for existence in place of the present
anarchical competition for existence.
] It is an attempt to lay the foundation
of a real science of sociology, which
shall enable mankind, by thoroughly
understanding their past and present,
to comprehend, and thus, within lim
l its, to control the movement and de
velopment of their own society in the
i near future. —H. M. Hyndman.
Before you attempt to find fault
with Socialism find out what it is.
It Is all one to the capitalist whether
you have a republican or a democratic
party, whether you have a Protestant
or a Catholic faith, whether you are
a Jew or a Mohammedan or a Buddhist
or an Agnostic, whether you have a
republican or a monarchial form of
government, whether you have, public
or private schools, whether you hay«
educated or illiterate Ignorance, he
will use them all for his own power
and Increase. Just so long as you
have a capitalist class employing a
working class, just that long will capi
talism reap not only the fruits of the
world's labor, but the fruits of its
ideals and aspirations as well, and
shape its arts and literatures, and give
voice to its pulpits and universities.
You may have any kind and number
of reforms you please, any kind and
number of revolutions or revivals you
please, any kind and number of
new ways of doing good you please, it
will not matter to capitalism, so long
as it remains at the root of things; the
result of all your plans and pains will
be gathered into the capitalist
granary. Thi>re Is nothing growing
out of the human soil, nothing grow
ing out of the human soul, nothing
springing from the human heart, noth
ing coming from the human hand, not
a prayer of sorrow or hope, not a joy
that leaps in the blood, not a noble
renunciation of an uplifted martyrdom,
not a communion of mighty lovers, not
a tear of the sweatshop mother over
the coffin of her child, that will not
ndd to the capitalist grist, so long as
labor is so directed as to drive the
capitalist mill. There is no way of
preventing or averting the fact hat i
the whole output of the. world's
thought, the totality of its line and
action, the fruit and fragrance of its
blossoming, will but add to the power
WHIRLWIND ORATOR
WILL SPEAK IN
EVERETT, OCT. 24
I'inai ftrntigMnenti have bees made
to bare Walter Thomat miiih, author
<>r "The Btruggle for Eflxlitenoe," and
known mi three continents as nn ora
tor of power ami eloquence, de
liver hiK worl I fumed addrefl on "De
mooraoy or DMpotltm." Tim meeting
will be held In I lie I'eople's Theatre,
Sunday afternoon, October 24th, nt
2 :w.
An mi orator MMIh Is said by many
to have no superior In power, logic
and eloquenoe.
Mills Ib the author of "The Science
of Politloi," which has reached a cir
culation of over sixty thousand copies,
and "The Strugßle for Existence," a
world-famed book now In its tenth
edition. Hoth of these books have
been used as textbooks In schools and
OOllegei, and "The Struggle for Exist
ence" has been used as a textbook for
Socialist Study Clubs more than all
other publications combined. If you
have read Mills you will surely want
to hear Mills.
MILLS, THE ORATOR
During tho past four years Walter
Thomas Mills has given one address
dally, speaking for 145 Sunday after
noons In Handel Hall In Chicago,
throughout the principal cities of Eng
land, Australia and America, before,
practically every college In America,
and over a thousand times In New
Zealand alone. Of his abilities, Debs
has said: "No living man can better
speak just exactly the right word at
the right time than can Walter Thom
as Mills." To this the leading mid
dle-west newspaper, the Colorado
Chronicle adds: "Neither Heecher nor
Ingersoll ever surpassed the address
of Walter Thomas Mills in the Denver
Coliseum."
Make sure that you hear Mills by
totting your seats early. Tickets have
been sent to the Socialist of Snoho
ihlkli county, and in Everett will be
on sale at the state, county and city
offices of tho Socialist Party, The
Northwest Worker, and from party
members. Admission fifteen cents.
SOCIALISTS NOT MERE
OFFICE SEEKERS
A man who has once become a So
cialist knows but one more object In
life—to devote himself to the noble
work of liberating the working peo
ple. And then comes the second part
of his duty—to show to those whom
he has converted by what the old
system is to be replaced. This Is
the new enthusiasm of humanity.—
Van Ness (quoting) The Coming Re
ligion, p. 131.
SOCIALIST MORALITY.
The morality Socialism teaches is
by far superior to that of its adver-
saries.—Professor Francesco Nitti,
(University of Naples), Catholic So
cialism, Preface, p. 9.
• of the few to despoil the many, so
: long as the private ownership of the
tools and sources of the common labor
i
continues; so long as the toll of hu
manity Is but for the profit of the
capitalist instead of for humanity's
common good and beauty; so long as
life remains what it now is for the
bulk of mankind —a bitter and uncer
tain struggle for existence, an ex
hausting and deadening game of
chance, a pitched battle from child
hood to the grave for the chance to
earn or keep one's bread. So long as
the sources and means of the people's
bread are privately owned, just that
long will the minds and bodies of the
people be owned. There can never be
such a thing as self-ownership of the
individual, with the freedom and fel
lowship that Inhere in self-ownership,
until there is a common ownership of
the world's bread supply. It Is upon
this socialized economic ownership
that the spiritual blossoming of man
depends.
It ought to be a sufficient Indict
ment of our present kind of civiliza
tion that it can stand only upon the
degradation of labor, the servility of
the intellect, the prostitution of the
state, and the hypocrisy of religion.
Our present kind of civilization stands
only because the people upon whose
backs it builds are not yet wise and
strong enough to get up. The mo
ment this blind and bound giant of
labor begins to feel his rightful power, .
the moment he begins to see even
dimly for himself, the moment he be- \
gins to shake from himself the cen- j
turies of enslavement and superstition
and exploitation, that moment will
man come to himself, and shed our '
civilization as an evil and monstrous t
disease. t
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1 Ply Superior Roofing $1.35
2 Ply Superior Roofing $1.65
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If the present system, Capitalism,
with its poverty, misery, jails, asy
lums, red-light districts, sweat shops,
electric chairs, child slavery and wars
is a system that you are proud of,
then by all means do not look around
for anything else.
Thursday, October 14, 1915.
A. BURKE, Prop.
EVERETT, WASHINGTON
The philosophy of one century is
the common sense of the next. —H. W.
Beecher.
Custom does often reason overrule.
And only serves for reason to the
fool.
- Karl of Rochester.
Phone: Ind. 577