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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-08-03

ed. The people Of the Ninth District
know the splendid record he has
made and are proud of him.
~GlA
The candidacy Of James M. Daley
for Sanitary Trustee deserves success.
The Democrats made no mistake In
nominating him. The position Of
Sanitary Trustee IL big and respons.
ible one and Mr.. Daley is a man cap.
able to All the position and discharge
his duties in way that will be sat.
isfactory to the taxpayers. He served
the people Of Chicago in the city
council and his record there showed
him to be a man of force and indie
pendence. He IL lifelong Democrat
and has been faithful leader in the
party. He should receive the votes
Of all good citizens.
Joseph r. Bidwill, Jr., has made
grand record as Clerk Of the Circuit
Court and he deserves reelection.
II is clean, able and energetic men
like him that the people need in public
Office. He 10 entitled to the vote OF
every good citizen.
~eS>
The Democratic voters couldn't
have selected q better or more popu.
lar choice for County Commissioner
than John e. Maloney. He will be
elected by big plurality.
~SA
The election Of Arthur w. Fulton
to Congress from the Sixth District
| will send to Washington man well
worthy to represent the people. Mr.
Fulton is O man of ability and force
with clean record a. q public Off,
cial, q lawyer and citizen. As
member Of the city council from the
Thirteenth ward he proved himself
to be one Of the best aldermen Chi
cago ever had. He was an active
wideawake public servant working al
all times in the interests Of the PEG
pie. He made single handed cam
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-08-03

George c. Walker estate; secretary
and member Of trustees Of the Grace.
land Cemetery improvement fund,
with charge Of investment and super.
vision Of expenditure Of fund; in Chi.
cago thirty.four years; in ward eigh.
teen years; public school and West
Division high school; owns property
in ward; man Of integrity. character
and unusual force and independence;
experienced in important business az.
fairs; signed league platform"
Congressman Lynden Evans should
have little difficulty In being re-elect.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-08-03
POLITICAL TALK
Heard from tho Various Camps
During the Week About
Men Prominent In
Politics.
What the Leaders Are Doing and
What People Have to Say
About Than.

A definite working organization for
Illinois Democrats In the coming bat.
tie will be built up within q few days.
Each member Of the state committee
will name man from each county
in his district to form q special cam.
paign body. This committee will prob.
ably meet in Chicago early next week
ready to swing into the fray as soon
a. the plans Of the third party de.
velop.
Joseph F. Connery will give the peo-
pie an able and honest administration
40 County Recorder Of Deeds.
The Republican rank and file for
the Sixth District are o unit in their
support Of Arthur w. Fulton for con.
gress. His candidacy is q popular one.
Joseph q. Bidwell, Jr., should be re.
elected Clerk Of the Circuit Court. He
deserves this on his record.
Tnat Joseph y. Blana Will DC re-
elected to the Legislature In the Nine
teenth District II certain. He 10 one
Of the cleanest cut men elected to
public ONCE. ONCE with him 10 q
public trust. He 10 honest and fear.
less and 10 never afraid to express
his convictions. More men like Blaha
are needed at Springfield.
Joseph F. Connery deserves to be
elected County Recorder. He 10 quail.
fed in every way for the Office and
his election will give the people q
public official that they will be proud
Of. Mr.. Connery IL the kind Of q man
the people need in public Office. He
IL man Of ability and force Of char.
acter. He has had an extensive ex.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Commonwealth
Bid Successful
Secures the Printing of Bulletin
for Coming Year and Becomes
Official Paper.

The recently adopted state constitu-
tion required competitive bids from the
socialist papers of the state, on the
printing of the monthly bulletin, the Of
ficial report of the state organization.
This provision requires for the first time
an official paper.
The Commonwealth bid was the sue
cessful one, though the bids of the New
Era of Aberdeen and the Kitsap Coun-
ty Leader were not much higher.
The printing of the bulletin in the
Commonwealth does not establish any
other relations with the state organiza-
tion than that of vehicle for the monthly
report. The bids of the New Era and
the Kitsap County Leader as well as
that of the Commonwealth would have
entailed financial loss. The lowness of
the three bids was caused by the news
yalue of the bulletin.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Which of the Three Parties
Will Secure Your Vote?

water Other reliable statisticians show
that the workers of the United States
produce annually two and half billions
more wealth than we consume, but our
distribution of that wealth is lament
ably defective-is in fact grossly unfair.
The workers who create all wealth re-
ceive but about one-fifth of what they
produce. The speculating, non -produc-
ers get four fifths of it. In 1850 the
total wealth of the United States was
eight billions (s,OOO,OOOOOO), The pro-
ducers owned 62h per cent. In sixty
years the situation had changed. In 1910
the total wealth of the nation was esti-
mated at one hundred and ten billions
$4,000 1000 0OO,0OO). The producers
share had shrunken to 10 per cent, while
the non-produeers share had expanded to
30 per cent.
If we keep up this pace a few years
longer, we will have here, not a republic,
but plutocracy in which few enor-
mously rich men will rule Nation of
poor propertyless wage slaves. Now the
two old parties have no cure for the
fatal malady that has destroyed ancient
civilization and bids fair to destroy this
one. In fact, they ignore the existence
of the deadly disease, and like Bel
shazzar, the king Of Babylon, 60 on in
high reyelry while the destruction Of
the Nation is impending. Fortunately
fifty millions Of socialists in all parts Of
the world have diagnosed the industrial
malady and know the remedy that will
cure it, They say, let the Nation own
the trusts, operate them at cost Of
operation and pay workers the full value
Of their labor. Honest voters OF Ameri.
ca If you are tired at the insinecrIty
and inefficiency of the old eaptahstio
parties thon come and try the young,
yisoroas, progressive hoas,s soe5Asss
party
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Dublin Elects
Three Socialists
Jim Larkin, Editor of "Irish
Worker, and two Others Enter
Council.

Dublin, Ireland, July l-Three social
lists have been elected to the Dublin city
council, one of them being Jim Larllin,
editor of the Irish Worker and one of
the foremost socialists of Ireland.
Larkin was one of the leaders of the
recent strike of the Transport workers.
which tied up the entire trade of the
British isles. He, together with James
Connolly, former editor of the Harp, is
now building up strong labor move
ment in the Emerald Isle.
Two years ago Connolly left the Unit
ed States and began publishing the Harp
in Dublin. Since that time he has sue
ceeded in uniting the scattered forces OF
the socialists into the Independent Labor
party.
Larkin is the man who was denounc,
ed by the bishop of Sligo, when he Wis
tied that town recently on a tour of or
ganization. The bishop requested all
members of the church to refrain from
attending Larkin's lecture because he
was a socialist. The result was one of
the largest socialist meetings ever held
in Ireland.
Dublin, being a seaport town, has a
large number of people who are connect
ed in some manner or other with the
transportation industry, and when Lar
kin and four other members of the
Transport Workers union were nominal
ed for councilman, hot fight was start.
ed, resulting in the election of the three.
When it was announced that Larkin
had won, the workers went wild and
carried him on their shoulders to the
union headquarters, where he delivered
a speech on "The Workers, Who Are
Now the Top Dog"
Larkin's victory is considered as note
worthy, as he was subjected to much
persecution on the part of the Irish and
English steamship capitalists and suf-
fered term of imprisonment as a result
of a well planned conspiracy for alleged
of a section of the British trade
union act.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

the scenes of 1852 are again being en-
acted. The old whig party went to
pieces on the rock of slavery and the
two existing and dominant parties of
today are being wrecked on the reef of
special privilege. Between them there
is nothing to choose, but a young giant
is coming out of the west that will serve
as a cloud by day and pillar of fire
by night to light the pathway of human
ity. Though political parties may be
wrecked, humanity shall be saved.
I look for no results from the Roose-
velt movement. Already the office-seek-
.ers are beginning to desert him and
there will be but few to take their place.
For this there is good reason. A per-
sonality, however powerful, does not ere
ate great movement or great reform.
No party in this country has ever
amounted to anything when but one
great figure stood in the foreground.
The party and the idea must live in
the hearts of a multitude. It must be
grounded deeper down.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
by R. A. Dague,)

Written for the Commonwealth.
The National platform for 1912 of the
republican, the democratic and the so
cialist parties are now before the peo-
pie for their acceptance or rejection.
There is, today, but one great vital
fundamental and worldwide problem
agitating the millions of people of this
and of every other civilized country on
earth, and that is the economic or indus
trial problem involving the capital-labor
question, child-slavery, the wage sys-
tenn, the rapid concentration of wealth
into the hands of the few, and the pow
erty and enforced unemployment of the
millions of Industrious, honest working
people.
On these great burning problems
pressing hard for solution the two old
party platforms are either silent or so
smooth and diplomatic in language
that their meaning has to be guessed at.
Instead of the Chicago and Baltimore
seriously considering these
problems which so seriously affect the
toiling millions, they wrangled and
fought like the lowest bullies of the
5lums over candidates, and left the max
ing Of the platform to lawyers, repre-
senting the interests Of capitalism, who
so adroitly worked those declarations
that they commit the parties TO nothing
definite that is vital to the country.
Both of them, of course, make the tariff
an issue, but that has been used with
which to fool the people for the past so
years. All well.informed people know
hat the industrial problem is the all
important issue.
Senator LAFollette, a republican, says
hat the trusts now doing business in
he United States, are capitalized at
s33 ,OOO, 900, 900, and that 70 per ceat is
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

J. M. Salter, Snohomish county or
ganizer, is out rustling funds for the fill
ing fees for a complete county ticket
The filing must be attended to by Aug
ust 10 and the time is short.
Campaign funds for the socialist party
are collected from the working class.
Socialists do not go to the enemy, the
capitalist class, for the funds with which
to carry on a class war
Comrade Salter was formerly editor of
the Commonwealth, and has consented
to act in that capacity during the three
weeks absence of the present editor. He
will be in the office of the Common
wealth on the following dates: July %,
%, "a and 25; July 20, 80 81 and August
/; August 5, 6, and s.
Letters should be addressed J. NJ. Salt
er, PIG Commerce Bldg, Everett, Wash,
for the next three weeks.
Campaign contributions should be sent
at once, as some $500 must be raised for
filing fees
The funds sent win be used for the
education of the working class TO pre-
pare them TO assume political power for
the emancipation Of their class from
wage slavery.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

Half Million Dollars To Be Raised in One Day For
The Socialist Campaign

lar organization department now has
two organizers working in Alaska. A
special campaign has Just been started
to reach the seven hundred thousand
French speaking people in the New Eng.
land states. A special organizer with
four speakers under his direction has
been assigned to the extreme southern
states for the remainder of the year.
Through the woman's department, spe-
cial work will be done in the six equal
suffrage states and in the ak states
where women suffrage is to be voted
upon this year.
All of these special efforts will be
followed up and supplemented by the
National campaign committee, in har-
departments, wherever necessary and to
as great an extent as the funds of the
committee will permit.
The success of the entire plan for a
nationwide campaign of education with
free literature, of concentration in fay-
orable districts, of special work in all
sections of the country in accordance
with the special needs and particular con-
ditions existing in each section, the
whole national campaign, hinges largely
upon the success of the One Day Wage
Fund.
It's failure means failure clear down
the line.
It's success means twenty-five million
pieces of free literature, and more to
follow.
It means dozen men in congress to
hold up Berger's hands.
It means socialist representatives in
twenty-five state legislatures.
1t means two million votes and an inn
pregnable position in the political arena
from which we can never be stamped or
dislodged.
It means tremendous movement of
resistless force and volume which can
neither be side tracked OF destroyed
It means the triumphant march of a
united working class to complete and
final victory.
The active work and support of every
party member is required. Every man
is needed-Y0U are needed-put your
shoulder to the wheel and PUSH.
Do not postpone or neglect until it is
too late. Do not regret in the future
that you were not one of the great army
of hundred and fifty thousand work
ing men and women who raised in
single day the money to finance the To-
cal, the state and the National organiza-
tions in the most momentous campaign
in the history of the socialist party.
It all hinges on the One Day Wage
Fund, to be collected on July goth. "On
this day, the socialist party expects
every man to do his duty"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
DebS Speaks at
Lewiston, Maine
Shows the Development, Decline
and Future Obstruction of Old
Parties.

Every party has its mission and hav.
ing achieved its purpose declines. The
republican party under Lincoln was q
revolutionary party, and republicans
then were undesirable citizens" 1t
swept into power on the issue of abol.
ishing chsttel slavery; but it has now
become the party of plutocracy. The
Chicago convention was but an exhibi-
tion of its political degeneracy. No
power can save it from destruction
Roosevelt thinks to do so by giving it a
new name, and, strangely enough, ap-
propriated some socialist planks which a
few years ago he was denouncing as
dangerous doctrine" Why he has even
taken our flagl His is the red bandana
ours the crimson banner, the interna-
tional symbol of the red blood that flows
in the veins of all mankind in all the
races of the earth.
In centuries past, the many have
served, living in poverty and dying in
despair. The producer always has been
subject, although the time has passed
when the masters had the right to tor.
lnent and put to death.
The aristocracy believed, as the plu-
tocracy now believes, that its rule would
be for all time. Both were wrong. The
fcudal system fell and now on every
hand behold the inevitable signs OF
change! Competition, always destruc-
tive principle, is yielding to the en-
thronement of the new principle of CO.
operation.
We no longer have slaves, as in an
cient days; nor serfs as in the middle
ages. We have wage workers, nominally
free but who do not own the tools with
which they work and can only work as
they are permitted access to machinery
privately owned. We have in this coun-
try 6,S00,O0O workers in industry whose
average wage, according to late census
reports, is but $5l9 a year. Wages in
the last decade have increased 2l pei
cent, 20 be sure, but the cost Oh li,ina
has increased in the same time 40 pei
cent. Hence, the workers wages are not
as large, based on what they buy, as
they were ten years ago. Wages are
forced down to the point of subsistence
although expert commissions have re-
ported that no man could live decently
today on an income of less than 5000 a
year.
History is now repeating itself and
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
THE TRUE PRoGREssIvEs.

Backward, Turn Backward o Time
In Thy Flight" is the ever present cry
of the progressive democrat and the pro-
gressive republican.
Roosevelt, LaFollette, Bryan and VIII
son want to turn the process of evolu-
tion backward. Taft likes things as they
are and would merely retard progress.
Eugene V. Debs is the only truly pro-
gressive candidate for the presidency.
The true progressives are the MEM
bers of the socialist party, who address
each other as "comrade." and sign their
communications, "Yours for the revolu-
ton"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Aller For Congress
Leslie Aller of Tacoma Becomes
Candidate for Congress From
Second District.

Leslie Aller of Tacoma, member of the
state executive committee of Washing
ton, will be the socialist candidate for
congress from the second district.
A recent referendum of his district in
dicates that it is the wish of the party
that he should file for the office.
Comrade Aller is a printer and being
worker himself is well qualified to
represent the only political party of the
working class-the socialist party.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
New York Nom
mates Russell

Auburn, N. Y, July Charles Ed
ward Russell, magazine writer, was NOM
inted for governor by the socialist party
in state convention yesterday, and full
state ticket was put in the field.
The convention was harmonious. Tim
othy Walsh of QueeLe was nominated
for II state office, but Indignantly de-
clined when a mock attack was made
upon him as a "Wall street candidate.'
He is a reporter attached to the Wall
street bureau of the New York City
Newspaper. There was some opposition
to DR.. Charles H. Furman of Brooklyn,
who was named for state engineer, and
surveyor. He is a dentist, and prom
ised, if elected, to dig canal excavations
with the same skill that he filled cavi-
ties
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS.

The county committee of the socialist party must raise
$328OO pay the filing fees for the county ticket
working class pay the price of its emanc
patton We nowhere else for funds We have nothing
to lose but our chains and have a world to gain.
The working class is used to self sacrifice We ask
TO continue your good for socialism by liberal support
of the coming county campaign
Send contributions to J. NJ Sater Room 216 Commerce
Bldg Everett Wash WE NEED THEM NOW.
j. NJ SALTER,
Chairman County Committee.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Attack Tramp Colony.

The convention adopted resolutions at
tacking the proposed penal colony for
tramps as liable to develop under the
capitalist system into a strike breakers
colony, expressing adherence at the SEN
tence of all social democratic members of
the second Russian Duma to hard labor
in Siberia, indorsing Victor Berger's i'm
parchment proceedings against Judge
Hanford, expressing sympathy for Rob
ert Cochrane now serving nine years in
Auburn prison for completely in the case
where strike breakers ear was cut off
in the Buffalo seaman's strike, and di-
recting the chairman to send telegram
to Governor Foss protesting against the
detention of Ettor and Giovonetti for
their part in the Lawrence strike.
The ticket nominated was as follows:
Governor, Charles Edward Russell of
New York; lieutenant governor, Gustave
A. Strebel of Onondaga; secretary of
state, Carrie w. Allen of Onondaga;
comptroller, Olin Hoxie Smith of Sche-
nectady; state treasurer, Frank Ehren
Fried of Erie; attorney general, Henry
L. Slobodin of New York; state engi-
neer and surveyor, DR.. Charles H. Fur
man of Kings.
Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady,
was not placed in nomination for any
office, as it was said that he would be
nominated for congress in the Schenec-
tady district
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
Washington Mem
bership 7,146
Month of June Shows 7,146 Dues
Paying Members of the State
Socialist Party.

The state of Washington has passed
the 1000 mark in dues-paying member
ship The total for the month is the
largest in the history of the state.
There is now no question but that the
number will increase from month to
month as the campaign advances.
"This is our year."
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

It matters not whether, evolution is
cause OF effect, it is ever present. It
behooves us all to recognize its force
and to put ourselves in harmony with
its forward progress.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

Socialism does not demand equal pay
except for equal service. Equal needs
may follow centuries of equal opportun-
ity, but the first step is to get the equal
opportunity.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

freedom Of
is o
in Commonwealth the Indus
o. for the
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19

A hog quits when his skin is full, but
a capitalist wants to fin a vault also.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19


Frank Bohn will write a special :
campaign article for the Common
wealth. 1t will appear soon.
Watch for announcements.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
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Norris Hilquit will contribute
a special campaign article for the
Commonwealth. Watch for it.

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-02-01
BURN BUILDING TO KILL GERM
Only Way to Get Rid of Them, and
Occasion Was Made Good
Object Lesson.

A ramshackle building in Winston
Salem was recently burned at the re-
quest of the local Anti-Tuberculosis
league, because it was said to be alive
with tuberculosis germs and could not
be properly fumigated.
For days before the building was
burned huge placards announcing the
hour of destruction and giving rea-
sons for the burning were hung about
in prominent places. Among other
things the placards said: within the
past Is months two men who sold
fruit, ETC.. here have died of tuber-
culosis but unconsciously left millions
OF tuberculosis germs by careless
splitting. The building is so open that
it cannot be effectively fumigated.
The only practical means of disinfect-
ing is Dy fire."
At the appointed hour, while mil
lions of tuberculosis germs were be-
ing burned, 5000 pamphlets telling
how to prevent consumption. were dis
tributed to the crowd looking on.