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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-08-23

dy on all sides. The SerhouEmeSS OF
their crime was emphasized by
Judge Elliott, who. before imposing
sentence on the prisoners took oc-
casion to review the evidence and
to make some pertinent remarks
concerning the nature of the Of
Tense of which they were charged.
Il know of no offense against
community" said Judge Elliott,
more far-reaching nor more hurt
full than fraud against the elector-
ate. If we treat it lightly and per-
NIT 1t to 60 UNPUBLISHED it will
breed contempt of government and
lead to revolution and anarchy"
The Judge added that the men
willingly and wilfully sent in false
returns of the election, land the evil
dence showed that they knew the
requirements of the law and the
punishment attached to a violation.
Nov, whether you men sent in
false returns of your own volition
or your course was dictated by
some outside party" said the Judge,
there has not been enough evil
dence before the Court to decide
But all the elements go to show
that you sent in false and fraudu-
lent returns. In the face of the
evidence produced before the jury
1T is strange to me that you men
were not convicted of the first two
counts, SO that you could have
been given Penitentiary sentences.
The evidence was simple and posi-
tive, and that the jury should have
found you guilty only of neglect of
duty is hard to understand. BAL
timore News.
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School Board PROCEEDINGS.

On August 10th a meeting of the
School Board was called to order
by the president, John G. Mills, and
the other members present were
the following: Commissioners Muir
ply, Bradley, Spedden and Jones.
The minutes of the last meet
ing were read by the secretary and
approved by the Board.
A committee. composed of Luke
K. Hackett and others, was be-
fore the Board, and asked that
Wilson school, In Fork district, be
opened, upon which the Board act
ed favorably.
A committee from Cabin Creek
was present and requested the
Board to make certain repairs to
the school building at that place,
and the Board ordered that said
building be moved back from the
county road about Is feet and some
repairs be made to the building, out
buildings and fence. Mr.. Twilley
agreed with the Board to remove
said building for the sum of $40.
Mr. Robert Medford was before
the Board and asked that Harri-
son school be painted and other re-
pairs be made, but the Board took
no action in this matter further
than to ask Mr.. Bradley to investi,
gate the condition of said school
building.
The Board requested the Secre-
tary to give notice through the
county papers of the time and
place of the County Institute, the
day of opening schools, and that
no assistant begin teaching until an
average of forty was made, as re-
CURED by law.
The Secretary was authorized by
the Board to notify all teachers that
salary would be deducted for lost
time.
The Board decided that all those
persons who took the examination
and did not fail in more than three
studies may have certificates issued
to them.
The Secretary was authorized by
the Board to order 20 new desks
from Dulaney, Vemey & Co.
Lippincott's Book ON Agriculture
was adapted by the Board.
The Board requested the Secre-
tary to communicate with Miss
Unice Todd, relative to taking ex-
animation before entering upon her
duties as teacher.
Messrs. Mills and Marine were
continued as a committee to look
into the matter of Text Books.
Contracts to teach were accepted
by the Board as follows:
Davis School-Mary W. Hall.
Eldorado-Ethel Fletcher.
akesberry-Vivian Wheatley.
Neutrality-suspicious. Evans
Brookview-May Andrews.
Indiantown-Will Oliphant
Galestown-Anna G. Collins.
Oak Grove-Elhabeth Foxwen
Wesley-Theresa Murphy.
Cabin Creek-W. NJ. Williamson
Yates-Florence Webster.
Springdale-Lillian Meredith.
Pine Top-Nannie Howeth.
Reeds Grove-India Evans.
Steele's Neck-Edith Corkran.
Big Mills-Essie Dean.
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PARTY INSTRUCTIONS.

To Socialist Voters and Socialist Nominees for Office
Not only must the socialist party party absolutely
refuse to combine fuse with any other pot
cal organization but every socialist individual voter must
do the
UNDER NO CONDITION OR CIRCUMSTANCES WHAT
EVER MUST A SOCIALIST EVER VOTE IN A DEMO
CRATIC OR REPUBLICAN, PRIMARY.
He must never vote for republican democrat indie
pendent if there is nominee the socialist ticket
He must never work to influence any old party voter to
vote for old party candidate preference another
He must urge the election any particular
the socialist tickehe must work always for the entire
ticket.
WHAT NOMINEES FOR OFFICE MUST Do
Every socialist nominated for any office place
his signed and undated resignation from office in the hands of
the party officials and the fact that he has done should
stated to the public both by himself and the party.
He should let the public understand that of election
he will have personally determine what he will do
how he will vote upon matter of Importance but that
he must simply obey the instructions of the party.
He should make promises to what he would
of election except such made in the partys platform
In he is asked his attitude upon any question: he
should refer it to the party's committee for
He should make no campaign for himself He should get
out personal cards that do include the full ticket He
should write personal platform and make personal dca
ratons.
He should fully understand all times that the socialist
party is not trying to elect office but rs TRYING
TO PUT ITSELF INTO POWER
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must be done by yourselves. Through
all the years that have gone the great
majority of you have followed blindly
the so-called political leaders. You
have suffered yourselves to be divided
into hostile camps, to be pitted against
each other at the ballot box and to cast
your vote to support the system in which
you are but wage slaves.
The Republican Convention.
There were four national political con
ventions held this year which are en-
titled to our consideration on this oc-
casion When the republican convention
met in Chicago in June last, the rcgu-
lars, I mean; they call themselves the
straight republicans and if they are
regular and straight / wonder who are
and what can be irregular and crooked
When that convention met in Chicago
happened to be there. l visited the sew
eral first-class hotels where they were
lodged and I examined the delegates at
short range. 1 found that they consisted
of professional politicians, corporation
lawyers, capitalist bankers, society gen
tlemen, office holders, office seekers, and
that the working class was conspicuous
as usual, by their absence. 1t took but
a glance to see that the delegates who
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state the capitalist politician has no
Your economic master has nothing for
YOU You then realize, ii you are cap
able of single intelligent thought, that
YOU are left to your own unhappy fate,
you then realize as you could not pos
sibly do under any other circumstances,
that as working man, you have an
interest of your own, that it is not the
business of the capitalist or his polite
ians or his pulpiteer to do anything for
you but that if anything is done for
you it must be done by yourself.
No Socialist Leaders.
| am quite frank in admitting that it
is not within my power to do anything
for you and if there are any here who
intend to cast their votes for me under
the belief that | can do anything for
them they had better give their vote to
somebody else | am speaking now of
myself in the capacity of a leader. |
eral and | know great many of them
very well. A leader is a human being,
who, like all other human beings, first
of all takes care of himself. [ appeal
to you this afternoon to have less faith
in leaders and more in yourselves. 1t is
true that the socialist who is elected to
ig ~, 10 ho 6
to the workers but it is not in the ca
pacity of the leader in the ancient sense
of that term but simply as a repre-
sentative of the class that elected him.
For the first time in the history of
mankind the workers and producers are
organizing for the purpose, the conscious
purpose, the deliberate purpose, of over
throwing their masters and installing
themselves in power In this very vital
and important respect the present eco
nomical and political movement known
as the international Socialist movement
differs from all other movements in the
history of the human race. In every
preceding attempt of the enslaved worker
to overthrow their oppressor, in every
revolution of which history gives an ac
count the workers have been in alliance
with the intermediate class to overthrow
the ruling class and to install that inter
mediate class in power leaving the work
ers still in subjection
Ancient Slavery
The ancient world was divided mainly
between master and slave, and in the
middle ages there were lords, barons and
serfs. In modern society there are CAPT
talists and wage workers. The ancient
masters owned the bodies of their slaves
under the law. The feudal lords of the
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DO NOT VOTE SECOND CHOICE.

The capitalist doesn't own you under the
law. But there has been a very great
change within the last two centuries in
which another form of ownership has
been established which is quite as eff
fective in robbing, enslaving and de-
grading the workers as if they were the
property of the master class under the
law. No, the capitalists don't own you
They do own the machinery of produc-
tion. You can't work unless you have
access to it. You can only secure access
to that machinery by their permission.
You can only work on condition that
you turn over to them the lions share
of what you produce; and what is there
left for you, the workers, the producers,
in the aggregate? just to feed, clothe
and shelter yourselves and reproduce
yourselves in the form of labor power
so that under this system and the wage
contract you are exploited and you are
kept in servtude as if you were the
property of the masters under the law.
1t is true that you can sever your rela-
tion with one capitalist, with one master
and perhaps find another, but you cant
get away from all of the masters, and
as Marx said, Your principle aim in
capitalism is to find your particular
master" Now if you will tell me whose
tool you use 1 will tell you whose slave
You are.
These are harsh terms to some OF you.
Continued on Page TwoJ
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of the population able to consume but a
fraction of their product, it is but the
question of time until we have the in
eyitable results; and when the markets
are Quilted with the products of your
labor that your meagre wage will not al
low you to buy, you stand idle and help
less and see your wives and children
suffer in the midst of the abundance
produced by your own labor. You have
produced so much for your master that
he is unable to dispose of it and so to
protect himself discharges YOU You are
ont of a job and You wonder what is
wrong I can tell YOU in just a word.
You are getting in enforced idleuess
what you voted for at the preceding
election. When you are in that helpless
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STATE TICKET.

STATE TICKET.
Governor-Anna Maley.
Lieutenant Governor - A. II.
Barth.
Secretary of State-Frans Bos-
from.
Attroney General-Bruce Rog-
ers.
State AUDITOR. E. Arnett.
State Treasurer Minnie Parks.
Supt of Public Instruction
Frances G. Sylvester.
Land Commissioner-H. G. Cup
Piles.
Congressman-at-L Large - Alfred
Wagenknecht and M e. Giles.
COUNTY TICKET.
Representatives 48th district
R. j. Olinger and Mrs. Flora Bart
lett.
Representatives 49th district
w. G.. Grimm and Fred Ballinger.
State senator, 43th district-G.
". LlnuDerB.
County commissioners-J M.
Salter second district and r. w.
Thompson third district.
Auditor-W. E. Carr.
TreasureT-Mrs. Delnah Hebert.
Assessor-Frank Cort.
Sheriff-H. f. Leister.
Attorney-W. w. Smith.
Engineer-C. T. Freese.
Clerk-W. r. Parr.
Coroner-W. S. Keyser.
Supt. Of Schools Mrs. Mary
MCNAMARA.
Justice Of the peace, Everett dis
trict-Avin Davey and Seth Cros-
by
CoustAble-Joseph oftant
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(Stenographic notes taken and trans
scribed by Mrs Bruce Rogersl
Friends and Comrades. and Fellowwork-
ers:
This is something more than a politi-
cal meeting and there is something more
than political sentiment in this great
demonstration. Standing in this pres
ence | can hear and see and feel the
throb of the social revolution that will
sweep capitalism and the wage system
out of existence and usher in the work
ing class commonwealth and social re-
public. There is one fact in which we
may all find comfort, however dark our
skies may sometimes seem and that Is
that the great heart of humanity is
sound and beats true, and whatever we
may do in our blindness and our folly
to prevent it, the human race rises
steadily to higher plane and the world
moves resistlessly toward the light.
This is to be a historic year in the
United States; never before have so
many men severed the party affiliations
of life time Never before have old
established parties been so shaken with
internal dissension and rent asunder with
such conflicting tendencies, and never
since the Civil war has there been such
a realignment of political forces.
Who Controls Political Parties
Political parties are controlled by
those who finance them. The republi
can, democratic and progressive parties
are all financed from the same source,
they are controlled in the interest of the
same class; and whether the one or the
other shall succeed to power there will
be no material change in the condition
of the workers and producers in this
nation. The day has come for you work
-ers to realize that what is done for you
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The circulation of the Everett
Daily Herald IS over 1000 copies
daily, computed on the basis of
its recent report Of the attendance
at the Debs meeting. The Com
monwealth circulation is over o.
600.
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middle ages owned all of the landed
estates. The serf was not allowed to
own a square inch of soil under the law.
The ancient master could rob his slave
by virtue of his ownership of that slave.
That slave being his property under the
law what the slave produced was, there
fore, also his property under the law. In
the middle ages the feudal serf could
only secure access to the soil by sur
rendering to the idle feudal aristocracy
all that they produced except enough to
keep them in producing order
Modern Slavery.
You workers of today are not the
slaves your ancestors were of old nor
the serfs your antecedent- were In the
middle ages. You are normally free.
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NATIONAL TICKET.

President-Eugene v. Debs.
Vice-President-Emil Seidel.
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it is because he is remiss in his obliga.
tions to himself and to the party.
The One Issue
In this campaign. therefore, there are
Just two parties, there is just one issue.
The republican, democratic and progress
sive parties are three wings of one and
the same capitalist party; they all stand
for the private ownership of the sources
of wealth, of the productive machinery
of the nation, they all stand committed
to the capitalist system, they all stand
for wage slavery, they all stand for the
exploitation of the working class.
The socialist party is the only party
that stands for the overthrow of capi-
talism for the emancipation of the work
dustrial and social democracy in which
the workers who do all of the useful
work. who produce all of the wealth,
who make all the sacrifices of health and
limb and life to feed and shelter and
clothe society, shall be the sovereign
rulers, shall stand forth emancipated
from all of the degrading thraldoms of
the ages and begin for the first time the
march toward real civilization.
Former Visits to Everett.
1 have peculiar attachment for the
comrades and the people generally of
Everett. The first time l ever had the
privilege Of speaking hire / was gid.
naped, seized by committee of work
ing men when had nos the slightest
intention of stopping over here, and I
was taken to hall crowded with peo-
pie and there for the first time addressed
the people of Everett.
At later day and on an occasion of
which many of you remember, at half
past twelve, after the midnight hour, was
not too late for packed and overflow
ing socialist meeting. I wonder how
many republicans and democrats would
attend meeting under the auspices of
their party at that hour of the night.
On the several occasions that | have
visited here there has always been a very
large and enthusiastic and sympathetic
hearing; and in the fifteen or more years
that have passed since I first came to
Everett, have noted with great salts
faction the spirit of socialist sentiment,
the substantial progress of the socialist
party, until now you who have worked
so hard and SO faithfully during all of
these years, are on the eve of victory
that is going to be heard all around the
world.
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roflne.t aincss :.

r0finetN 1aS'lcss "a
Under the administration of the two
dominant political parties in this nation
there have been six prolonged industrial
crises during the last century. The first
came in 1919, the second in 1887, one in
1857, in 1868, in 1898 and the last in
1907. We have had the panic, so-called
under the republican administration,
under the democratic administration, we
have had it under high protective tar
iff, we have had it under free silver
and we have had it under the gold stand
ard. 1t doesn't matter which of these
two capitalist parties are in power or
what their policy may be. With all of
the wonderful productive machinery in
full operation and the workers and their
dependents who constitute the great bulk
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and that was true. Leaving that meet
ing a pretty thoroughly disgusted repub.
lican gentleman said to me: "If any of
the old parties were TO engage that
same house and offer to pay the people
to attend their meeting the same rates
that the socialists charge to get in they
would hardly have a eorporal's guard"
The reason is that the people know
what they want and they quite az well
know what they do not want.
Why These Crowds?
They have had quite enough of capi-
talist misrule and of the kind of speeches
that consist wholly of polished pati-
tudes and of rhetorical nonsense. They
have had enough of that and they know
enough to know that they have had
enough and they are turning eagerly to-
ward the meetings where the real is
sues are being discussed and where the
gospel of emancipation is being preached
They offer all of the inducements that
money tdl tOuIidHu 70 people TO At
tend their meetings. We, upon the other
hand, hold out no inducements whatever
except those that should appeal to every
man. to every woman, who realizes that
there is something radically wrong in a
land of bountiful abundance, land in
which there is the most marvelously pro-
ductive machinery on earth and yet
where millions of men and women and
children are suffering for the bare neces-
stiles of life. This is the actual condi-
tion. No one dare attempt to deny it.
Only those who are the beneficiaries of
the crimes perpetrated upon the people,
only do they or their retainers offer
apologies; and their sycophants are con-
tending, or at least would have us be-
leve they are, and are therefore opposed
to socialist agitation and to any change
OF the system.
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Modern Slavery.

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The Western Trip.

There has been a change of atmo
sphere here since my last visit and
would be conscious of it had | not beet
advised of it. The women now have
votes, they didn't have when l was here
before and this to me is a peculiarly
gratifying change. | feel freer than I did
before. For the last forty years I have
been doing what little l could to speed
the day when women should have every
right, every privilege, every opportunity
that man enjoys. / have often said and
say again that until that day comes we
are not civilized.
1t is gratifying to be able to report to
you here that all along the line that we
have Travelled from st. Paul to the coast
the meetings, without exception, have
been crowded to overflowing. Only
little while ago socialists were harm
less dreamers or insane fanatics or blood
thirsty anarchists. They have become
more respectable. Respectability is
largely a matter of arithmetic A little
while ago the smallest hall was too large
for socialist meeting but now the
largest auditorium is too small 10 hold
the socialists.
Night before last we We're at Butte,
Montana. The largest opera house i'm
the city was engaged. 1t was crowded,
every inch. Of standing room, within fiji
teen minutes after the doors opened and
the capitllist papers reported that there
were as many people who couldn't get i'm
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LIBRARY

WE CANNOT TRAFFIC IN 05k PRINCIPLES, VIZ
CAN MAXI NO COMPROMISE, NO AGREEMENT
WITH THE RULING SYSTEM WE MUST BREAK
WITH THE RULING SYSTEM AND FIGHT 1T TO
F1NIsH.-LErBKNEcHr, "No COMPROMISE"
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much in evidence, however, at the
head of the Jacobs ladder throughout
the visitors stay in port and the wat
erfront fraternity has been particular
ly curious to know just what it ali
means.
The Restorer has taken on 500 tons
of coal and will steam out of port this
afternoon bound for Esquimalt.
HILoNlAN BRINGS BIG CARGO.
During the past month there has
been little steamer traffic between Sc
attic and this port. The last two Am
erican-Hawaiian steamers came from
San Francisco direct on account of
delays in drydock and the necessity
of getting the big sugar shipments to
Salina Cruz, so when the Matson
steamer Hilonian arrived at Seattle
on her way from San Francisco to
this port she found as much freight
piled up on the dock as she could car.
ry in two trips. The Hilonian ar.
rived here this morning at 1880 o'clock
with her hold full and a good deck
load besides, Her total cargo was
5000 tons. When she left Seattle she
left 5000 tons on the dock.
WAlLELE HAS FAIR WEATHER.
The Inter-Tsland steamer Wailele ar.
rived in port this morning from XII
kuihaele and other ports on the big
island with 5000 bags of sugar, so head
of cattle and a small general cargo.
She reports smooth seas and splendid
weather on both the outward and in.
ward trips.