The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-06

while I thh do nolhlnR loI You thcir ~
nothing that You cannot do for your.
selves Tho power OF which | speak b.
latent within You. When You, the worl,
cr, here i'm Everett. In Washington. and
throughout this land. when you organize
aud apply your economic power your
political power there is nothing between
this earth aud the stars that can stand
between YOU and complete emancipation.
Ever since machinery has been applied
to- industry, ever since the industrial
revolution had its inception you, the
workers. have had to work It out. You
have had to throw aside your tools, de.
SORT your small establishments and be
recruited into groups until now you con-
stitutc the grand army that stretches
from sea to sea. You work together,
YOU strike together, you are locked out
together, You are enioiued by Judge
Uauiord together You tramp together,
YOU go to Jail together, You have had to
learn TO do all of these things together
How much longer are You going to wait
until You vote together ON election day 2
This world only respects as it is com
PEELED to respect and you should respect
yourself. Does the capitalist politician
talk to you working men in this way 2
Or does he call YOU the horny-handcd
sons of toll? 1t is about this season of
the year that he is so proud to stand in
your presence and tells you how greatly
he is impressed by your intelligence as
he looks into your faces. just think of
the sarcasm of calling the great masses
of the workers intelligent in their pres
emit stated He flatters your ignorance
SO that you may not become wise. The
socialists tell you very frankly that you
are ignorant, that you may become in
telligent. That is the difference. The
capitalist politician very adroitly con-
ceals the only issue in which you are
interested and exploits all of those in
which you are not Interested
The Tariff Question.
Here in this country they tell you,
some of them, that you are poor and
have to pay high prices for everything
because of the outrageous protective
tariff In England the same class of
politicians tell the workers that they
are impoverished and suffer because of
the free trade that prevails there. They
! J. oil ,-O,, about +b;s ,ron1orf, nation nd
it is a wonderful nation, then they talk
about Old Glory, then you feel as if you
want to take a fit to show that you
are patriotic American citizen, and
then they tell you that in this cam
paign they have a series of issues that
are of great interest to the people and
that if you will only restore them to
power once more they will revise the
currency system and they will lower the
tariff and regulate the trusts and do a
whole lot of other things that are of no
more interest or concern to you than if
they lived upon some other planet.
1t doesn't make any difference wheth-
err the tariff is high or low, it doesn't
make any difference how they regulate
the trusts and you we'll know how that
has come to be a joke with every think
ing man. The idea of a capitalist class
government regulating the trust when
we know that it is the trust that regu-
lates the capitalist government.
The Ownership of Tools.
It doesn't make any difference what
they do as long as you have no tools to
work with. They who do own those
tools will get what you produce and
that is all there is to it and yet that
thought ought to be enough. Why
should you, working man in full pos
session of your faculties, why should
you depend upon any other human being
! for the right to work and give to him
what is produced by your labor? Put
that up to any democrat or republican
and he will dodge it. Insist upon a di-
rect answer and he is helpless. Why
should the capitalist own the tool he
didn't make and couldn't use to save
his life? And why should not the work
ers who did make the tool and who use
it, why should they not own it? That
is workingmans question. They are
all working class questions
Political Promises.
can't boast as some people do that
have risen to a position of eminence;
I have remained in the ranks with the
workers, side by side with them and
there is where I belong and I am going
to remain. I am not leader any more
than you socialists are followers. We
are comrades and working together and
we are keeping step to that splendid
heart throb of the impending socialist
revolution.
Now the way to test the promises of
the capitalist politicians is by what they
did when they were in power. At the
very time the republican convention was
in session at Chicago and the democratic
convention in session at Baltimore. the