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P* Washington SocialistEntered as second o«la»a matter

March 9. 1911. at tho poatofflco atKverett, Washington, under the actof March 3. 1579.

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Published every Thursday by thePtv«s rommittee of the. SocialistParty of Suohomish County. 16U Callfornla St.. KTrrett. Wanh.

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"BARKIS IS WILLIN' "

INDICTED FOR TELLING THETRUTH ABOUT GRAFTING

MOUNTEBANK

MORE PERSECUTIONPhil Wagner. publisher of the Na-

tional Ripsaw, and the Melting Tot,

and Harry M. Tlchennor, editor of the,

lust named publication, I""'1 both

been Indicted by the federal Brandjury for circulating through the mall,-

"defamatory aud scurrilous llt<>ra

turo."This action was based upon a car- \u25a0

toon printed on th« front pane of the jMelting Pot In which th«< Hot. Ullly

Sunday was pictured as gathering In

the shekels while gathering In the

souls of sinners.

The succoss of this Inexpressibly

vulgar "religious" mountebank In ex-

tracting largo quantities of coin from |the public is a saddening commentary

on our ago. No stronger indictmentof our educational system could be

made than Is afforded by the vast

number of ignoramuses who are ready

and willing to fall for the utterly stu-

ped and asinine propaganda of hell-

fire and brimstone put over by this

evangelistic charlatan. With suchproofs of the Ignorance and bone-head-cdncsa of so largo a proportion of the

populace, we need not wonder wny the. ;progress of sound Socialist propagan-da among the workers proceeds so jslow With the shockingly low av-erage mentality of the public, as evi-denced by Billy Sunday's success In jextracting Innumerable coins of the Irealm from this too gullible public,

it is a marvel that Socialism, with its

scientific interpretations, makes any

progress at all.A contemporary remarks that:

"If you gave Billy Sunday $100,000

to preach from Gen. 1:26-28, Leviticus25:23, Neh. 5:11, James 5:1-5, Isaiah

51:64-65, or the Acts 4:43-44, he would

turn down the offer because he makes$200,000 every year by preaching from

texts that are "safe."

It's not that he wants the job, dear

no! but, says Col. Hartley, "If I

thought the republican party neededme," etc. Colonel, it does. It'll need

anything it can get before next elec-

tion day.

WHERE SOCIALISM ISSTRONG

In Alaska one person In every 118of the population is a dues-payingmember of the Socialist party. In ourown state of Washington only one inevery 352 of the total population pays

dues in the Socialist party. In Ore-

gon one out of each group of 515 per-

sona, and in Idaho one In 360 is a dues-paying member of the party. In Cali-fornia the ratio is one in each 453,and in Nevada one in every 133 ofthe total population is a dues-paying

member of the Socialist party.

In the foregoing figures it is to be inoted that Alaska stands first andNevada second in the proportion ofmembership. Wyoming comes third,with one in every 223 of the totalpopulation.

The principal reason for the highstanding of these three sections ofthe country, especially of Alaska, Isthe large proportion of men in the to-tal population. Alaska Is a "he" ter-ritory, Nevada and Wyoming are "he"states, just as we have In New Eng-land "she" towns. So It is not sur-prising that these regions show up sowell as compared with, say New York,with its ratio of one member per 850of the population, or with Pennsyl-

vania, with its one Socialist partymember for each 1,002 of the popula-tion. In the latter two states the pro-portion of illiterate aliens, and a largeservant and slum population, tend toreduce the ratio of dues-paying Redsto total population.

ATTENTION I

Comrades everywhere are urgentlyrequested to send in Information toEducational Bureau regarding schoolvacancies. Socialist teachers every-where are being persecuted andthrown out of employment because oftheir political belief.

The least we can do is to aid themin securing positions for next year.

Address communications to J. M.Salter, 1901 Rainier, Everett, Wash.

EEMEMBER THIS!

If the merchant you buy from is an

advertiser in the Washington SocialistTie is helping to pay production cost ofthe paper. It is more than likely thathe would be glad to know from youthat you read the Washington Social-ist and saw his ad in this week's pa-per. If you have not yet done so startnow to buy from Washington Social-ist advertisers and tell them you readthe ad in this paper. By doing thatyou will be doing something to sup-

port your own paper.

Dr. Robs Earlywine, Dentist, 205

American Bank Bldg. Both Phones

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Billy Sunday's ignorance Is only ex-ceeded by the abysmal nescience of

the hypocrites who put up the greater

part of the ready money for his theo-logical vaudeville.

BILLY SUNDAY HAS BEENCHALLENGED TO DEBATE

Billy Sunday has been challenged

by Prof. Scott Nearing. of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, to "championthe cause of the poverty-stricken, the',

Iunder-paid and the exploited" of

Philadelphia, to "tell the masters ofindustry and the takers of profit thatthey have no right to enjoy ease andluxury while their fellow men sufferthe pangs of hell on earth." Prof.Nearing adds: "The well-fed people,whose ease and luxury are built upon

this poverty, child labor and exploit-

ation, sit in your congregation, con-tribute to your campaign funds, en-tertain you socially, and invite you tohold prayfer meetings in their homes.These are they that bind grievous

Iburdens on men's shoulders thatmake clean the outside of the cup andthe platter, the devourers of the wid-ow's houses against whom Christ:hurled his curses. Here is Dives, yon-

der is i .azarus, and it is Dives whohas made your campaign financiallypossible. Turn your oratorical bril-:liancy for a moment against lowwages, overwork, unemployment, mo-nopoly, special privileges and the oth-er forces that 'grind the faces of thepoor.'" Sunday in a statement to!newspapermen, said he will not preach

along the lines suggested by Prof.Nearlng. Doth an ox know it's mast-er's crib? He do.

NEW YORK'S PLIGHT

Now comes Germany's philosopher

of blood and iron and openly admits ,that, as he saw things in the UnitedStates, he was not favorably impress- jed with our boasted democracy. Sayshe:

It is a peculiar fact that whiledemocracy preserves absolute freedom

of competition in its economic life,spiritual-minded demagogues meddle

most recklessly with private morals

and family life. What a contrast be-

tween the unlimited political liberty

and the monstrous temperance laws

of many states in the American

Union!Several times he finds in New York

City his most startling illustrations ofwhither democracy tends:

The populace of New York is arch-reactionary, and a barrier in the way

of all far-reaching reform. It con-cludes with the Tammany ring a com-pact of reciprocal connivance, for it

feels perfectly happy under the thumbof the brothel keeper.

A report made by the MetropolitanLife Insurance company, of New York,

to the mayor's committee on unem-ployment shows that there are ap-proximately 400,000 unemployed In

that city.

Eldem'a Grocery, 2709 I^ombard, cansupply you with staple groceries and

Scandinavian specialties. Phone inyour orders. Ind. 477 X.

TUB WAflDMteiMOIiUH

SHALL THE MAJORITY RULE?

The Socialist mayor of Star City,West Virginia, has boon declared 1n-.\u25a011,-.iM» to hold office. In it decisionhanded down by a judge of th MOBongalln county court. In tin- Hussion-l/od state of West Virginia, the deckHlon of tin' Socialist city council of

Star City that tho Socialist mayor

?toot, John F. HlßKlns, ni eligibleto hold the offlco that ho wan Blastedto. was reversed. Tho honorable (?)court declared that Mayor IIIukIm"didnot have the property qualificationsnocoßsary to hold office, which Rrr>

that th« candidates shall havo beenimiltd and paid taxoH on $100.00 ormoro of real estate or personal prop-

jerty,Mr. Hlgglns had his private library

MMtMd at $125.00 and although a

single man boarding with his mother,

the court, arbitrarily decided that It

was a family library, therefore un-

UIMMblt, and declared Mr. llu > m

ineligible tor office of mayor.

Following thiH mtsoarrtaca of Jus-tice, the city council unanimously de-

clded to Instruct the city attorney and

Col, ('. Win. drainer to carry the casoto the supremo court of appeals.

In th<> HMUtlflM Ul« working oIMIof this MCtIOO Bfs KusHlnnl/i'd W»ilVirginia is wondering If the ciipltuilHtclass really believes In majority rule,and whether they can ever be mire

that a Socinllst official even after be-ing regularly elected can serve. They

wonder if the henchmen of capitalism

will not always have some technical-ity that they can use to unseat any

Socialist whom they think is danger-

ous.The class conscious Socialist Sow-

ever has no doubts for In his mindflashes the declaration of principlesof the Socialist party of America, to-wlt:

AS OBOAR AMERINOERJUDGES THK GERMAN

SOCIALISTS"Tim Boclnllmt movement had It In

Its power to prevent the present unl-viTHiii disintegration! it failed," sayscomrade llerron.

I'm not bo sure about that. Thinwar Is ii big thing! A colossal thing.An nlinoßt elemental explosion. Couldany man or any set of men reallyhavn stopped a cataclysm of this sort?1 doubt It. Christianity Is a muchgreater moral force than Socialism.It lion hundreds of millions of faith-ful sincere adherents when wo havemillions. It has been taught for 2,000yearn. Like Socialism, It is Interna-tional and Its true goal Ik the brother-hood of man, yet Christianity couldnot stop this war. Why then be soHiiro that Socialism would have suc-ceeded ? ,

Could a coat of paint on MountVesuvius prevent an eruption? Wouldvarnish on a mountain Hide preventthe mountain tdlde. And what Is thiscivilization, with all its Ideals, but a

.flimsy coat of paint on top of millionsof generations of savages, cannibals,apes, tigers, sharks and worms. Aviolent shock, an explosion In thedepth of economic life: the flimsy

Crust bursts and men revert back toa former stage.

I agree with comrade Ilerron thatit was very foolish and moreover, a,repudiation of Socialist principles for

Itho derman SociallßtH to fight for the,kaiser or lor tho fatherland. What

'can the German worklngclaxH Rainfrom .inch a war? And have not theBelgium comraden even less to fight

for. "^helr country In invaded It latrue. "Their country," tho classicalhome of capitalism, as Marx called it,where labor was even more bitterlyexploited than It was in Germany.Their country, which did not even

Etthem manhood suffrage after

big general strike of a few shorts ago, a strike which was mostlyiced by the Teutonic barbarians,now must be patriotically exterm-

inated.

"In order to maintain their rule

over their fellow-men, the capitalists ;must keep in their pay all organs of

the public powers, public mind and !public conscience. They control thedominant parties and, through them,the elected public officials. They se-!lect the executives, bribe the legisla-1tureß and corrupt the courts of Justice. \They own and censor the press. They

dominate the educational Institutions. .They own this country politically andintellectually just as they own it in-dustrially." The Socialists of Russian-ized West Virginia, home of the drum-head trials, and the land where manymartyrs of the working-class sleep thepeaceful sleep of death, remembering

these principles do not wonder that aworking man elected by working menis prevented from holding office on atrumped up technicality.

Shall the majority rule? We do notknow.

CLARA ZETKINS INSPIRINGCALLI

By EUGENE V. DEBSClara Zetkin, secretary of the Worn-

;' en's International Federation, has is-

| sued a burning appeal to the Socialistwomen of all countries which should '| be read by every friend of peace and ;

1every foe of war in the world. The jprinting of this appeal in Glelchheit,the Socialist woman's paper in Stutt-gart, was promptly followed by thesuppression and confiscation of theedition by the military authorities.

Clara Zetkin rises to exaltation inthis internationally patriotic and pas-

sionate plea to her Bex. She states ingraphic terms the true attitude ofwoman toward war and in words ofliving flame she appeals to the womenof the world to rise in their powerand put an end to the atrocious mili-tary massacre of mankind.

We Hoclallsts at least who talk soglibly about evolution and the powerof economic forces should be verycareful not to make poor little Indivi-duals rcHponslble for human earth-quakes.

STRIKE SITUATION INEVERETT IS UNCHANGED

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The efforts of the Shull Mill Co. and

I the Jamison mill to run their plants

jwith strikebreakers are not being

| crowned with the success that washoped for, though they are putting up

; a bravado front. Judge Hell granted

ja temporary Injunction which prohi-bits the uh<> of abusive epithet! or in-timidation on the part of pickets, but

I the situation remains otherwise un-:changed. The unions are rendering

| the shingleweavers every possible as-

! liltance, financially and otherwise,and the men on the line ar determin-

| ed to fight it out to a finish.Everyone in Everett understands

that the present fight on the shingle-weavers is really but the beginning otan organized effort of the Employers'association to crush out every vestige

iof unionism in the northwest, in fact,on the entire Pacific coast.

The Socialist party of Everett will

Irender organized labor any aid within

Iits power to uphold the right of labor

jto organize in it.B own defense.

To much reliance on parchments

and too much credulity as to systems,mako us forget or overlook the un-written principles of action uponwhich rest the structure of everything, that endures.

Bargreen'e Golden Drip Coffee, Importal Tea Co.

And have our French brothers for-gotten the Commune? Have they for-gotten the weeks of horror when thearmy of Adolph Thiers besieged theirbeloved capital on the one side whilethe army of Bismarck drove the Com-munards back Into the burning cityfrom the other side? Was Frenchcapitalism more kind to the Frenchproletariat than was Prussian mili-tarism?

At this very hour when patriotleBritish boys are giving their hearts'blood to Great Britain, the capitalistsare utilizing the misery of the Belgianrefugees to cut down the wages oftheir English workers, and the Ger-man government is farming out Rus-sian prisoners of war to Germanmanufacturers for 20 cents per day,thereby increasing the misery of theirunemployed still more.

Yes, what are the Germans fightingfor? What are they all fighting for?these comrades without homes, with-out tools and without fatherland?

SOCIALISM NOT DEADThe international movement has re-

ceived a fearful blow. Our religionIk hard hit, but Socialism is not dead.It does not depend upon ideals thatmay be scattered or upon a faith thatsome begin to doubt. Some day thiswar will end. Some day the defeatedarmy of labor will return to shop andmine and take up the world's workagain and then these "heroes" of thebattlefield will be exploited and op-pressed as they were of yore. Theywill be paid low wages and forced totoil long hours by the men whosecountries they defended with theirblood, and the struggle for life andhappiness will force them to do whatthey have done before the war. Theywill rebuild their unions and co-opera-tives and reorganize their politicalparties, and because the economiccauses of our misery are world wide,we shall meet again?not to passjudgment upon each other, not to re-ceive penitent comrades in sack clothand ashes, as comrade Herron de-mands, but as comrades in arms, asbrothers in sorrow, to help and toheal and to reconstruct.

Some day there will be another In-ternational congress where the work-ers of these bleeding nations willgrasp each others hands once moreand raise their voices in the anthemof internationalism. In the meantimelet us, who are not involved, remaincalm and charitable lest the greatbrain storm should warp our judg-ment too.

The government of Austria hasput to death five Socialists, twobeing editors for carrying on afight against the war and militar-ism in general.

KIRKPATRIOK AT TMICALIFORNIA STATK SENATE

A mont dramatic im \u25a0\u25a0ilhk wan thatof Ceorgo n. Klrkpatrlck before th«Joint OOIDIDIttM of the hotisn and son-i«lm mi military affairs, Ihhl. week. Mrs.li-hhli! It Molle Ih torOttßg her entiretime to Hoclallnt MttiOfl at Haera-tn<'iito, and with dauntless persistencysucceeded In Kitting (lilh ln-iirint fortln> noted anti militarist. mlh wan notho much an oration an It wax a rerola-tlon.

IIIIIh are before tho legislature toHtretigthen tho military. Hills to grant

\u25a0pMtftl privileges to members of mlll-tlan, KOd to their organizations, andto grant favors to discharged soldiers.Klrkpatrlck showed their connectionwith tho Htrengthenlng of n militarismwhich, If unchecked, will become dom-inant. Mi. showed with deep strokes,and with burning realism, the effect oftho soldier's life on the common sol-diiTH the numberH of desertions, thenumber of Hiileldes, tho despair ofmany of those who are lured into theKervlce.

Tlii'ii he showed with cutting clear-ness) the awful tribute which Is exact-ed of the womanhood of the land, thewhite slavery which piles Kb work toHecure victims for armies. He quoted*from official reports which showedthat In Home instances this procuringof helpless girls wa» urged by armyofficers. He showed the cost of ven-ereal dIMMf?which Is rampant amongenllHted men, and the wrecks made ofthey who were once the flower of themanhood of the world. He spoke ofthe dead filling the trenches and thedepleted race which Is the necessaryresult of arming and of war.

The cause of It all? Among nationsIt la the urge for markets In which tosell the surplus that 1b not consumedat home because of exploited pay en-velopes. The polite references to"Hiiprnssion of riots" found in the mili-tary bills be explained as the intent toshoot down the unemployed when theunrest of hunger made them turbul-ent. He shamed the pretense ofChristian soldiers who stood for warwhen modern life and the position ofthis country made it easy to followthe "Prince of Peace."

Some of the papers said that themembers of the committees on mili-tary affairs all left the room duringthe speaking. If they did, It was an-other case of the thieves being lashedfrom the Temple.

There is nothing of the pleaderabout Klrkpatrick; he does not per-suade, or coax. He just stands thereand defiantly hurls the terrible facts.His words cut, and stung, and burn-ed. His speech might indeed be call-ed "the naked truth."

It was a scene that will stay longin memory?the senate chamber withits rich hangings emblematic of powerand of pride; the florid, self-satisfiedaudience and the speaker a fire-brandof protest?his pale, expressive face,the flashes of wit, and the strong blowafter blow that he dealt home?thenhis periods?terse, eloquent, witheringand compelling applause. And finallythe noble passion for world brother-hood and the characteristic perora-tion?"peace is patriotism."

PATRIOTISM ANDMILITARISM

Are to be taught to the children inthe public schools. Nothing betterillustrates the character and qualityof the members of the recent Wash-ington state legislature, and of Gov-once each week, to salute the flag

over the school house, and to join insaying, "I pledge allegiance to myflag and to the republic for which iternor Lister than their enactment ofa law that compels all school children,stands; one nation, indivisible, withliberty and justice for all."

"Liberty and justice for all." List-en to that from your children once aweek, say it yourselves often enoughso you won't forget It, and unemploy-ment, hunger, and nakedness will ma-gically disappear.

Good working men and women whovoted for old party and no party can-didates for the legislature last fall inthe hopes of something being done torevive business and to open up thejobs, who considered the Socialistnominees as too freakish and too radi-cal must feel grateful to think thatthe republic and the flag are secure,and that liberty and justice are in nodanger of bein^ exiled to Belgium orPoland.

Again, to reward those patrioticmen who were so frightened last De-cember by the Socialist menace to the ;Spokane schools, Principal Hart askapermission of the chamber of com-1merce school board to organize aRIFLE CLUB from among the Lewisand Clark high school boys. The pur-pose of this is, no doubt, to protect

the property of, and to secure justice

and liberty to working people!? TheSpokane Socialist.

CRUEL!

"He is a genius.""Who supports him?" ?Philadelphia

Ledger.

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