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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27
Father SaindOn on Socialism

On Sunday September 18th, Father
Saindon of the Bayside Roman Catho.
lie church, announced that on the next
Sunday, September 22nd, he would
preach on socialism.
The Commonwealth does not fight re-
ligion or the church, as such, as re-
ligion is personal matter with the in
diyidual and is in no way an issue with
the socialist party. But an attack on
socialism is our business wherever it
occurs.
A socialist paper delights in giving
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1Comrade Chairman, Ladies' and Gcntlc-
men;
I claim credit for one thing only. I
have done more to popularize the Mil
waukee accent than any other man liv-
ing However, it is high time that an.
other accent he heard in the halls of
congress and hope You will see Your
way to put western accent in there.
We have n half dozen different accents
IN the house of representatives the
southern the western, the middle west
ern and the New England-but as far
as the working man is concerned. only
one accent.
Glasses in America.
The trouble is this, ladies and gentle
men: \ great many of the congressman
even deny that there are classes in
America They tell me SO every day.
They say, yes. there are two classes,
good and bad, and as rule the good
people are the ones who agree with these
congressman. But they deny that there
are classes. In fact, every one of you
who went to the public schools know
there are classes. L taught in the schools
a long time and the most important
pupil l have ever taught is now school
director of Milwaukee, Mrs. Berger.
They teach you that there is only one
class; that we are all of the same class;
the Declaration of Independence says so
but it was not true when that was writ
ten, and it is still less true today. You
look at yourself and look at your mas
ters. look at your wife and look at your
masters wife, look at his automobile and
then look at yours. You will find at
once that there are classes.
The Poor Man in Court.
Go any day into police court as we
have it in Milwaukee. Before l went to
congress, often walked in to listen
Cases like this are common. There is
John Smith. ollt Of a job. couldn't find
any work in Everett and walked on to
Seattle. or took the train-you know
how they take trains-but he couldn't
find any work and then he came to Mil
-waukee. busted and tired. Being summer
time, not having any money, he would
take up his lodging in an alley but you
see that is forbidden under the law in
Wisconsin and I suppose it is out here,
So big policeman grabs the fellow and
puts him in the lookup and the next day
the Judge very sternly says: "What is
your name?" "John Smith" ''Where
are you from?" Everett, Wash"
-''Good ways, isn't it?" "Yes, your hon
Or Don't you know that it is against
the law to sleep in an alley?' "Yes,
your honor, do" Don't you know
then, that you are going to be punished
for sleeping there?" yes, sir, your
honor, 1 know it." "Why didn't you 90
to a hotel?" ''Your honor, I didn't have
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27

they made money. What happened? :?
They introduced new machinery by which
the process of production was changed
We had terrific strikes but they lost.
Now this work. ladies and gentlemen and
comrades, was done by Germans, Irish,
English, etc. But they lost out through
the strikes and now this work is being
done by imported working men that
have been imported for that purpose;
work twelve hours and get two dollars
a day-ltalians, Greeks, Lithunians, etc.
mind you, two dollars a day of twelve
hours and they used to work seven days
in the week with every second Sunday
off. Under protective tariff, that hap
pened Now does it protect labor? 1t
protects Carnegie but not labor.
The Lawrence Strike
Now let us take some other strike.
You know about the Lawrence, Mass,
strike. l am not going to go into detail,
| investigated that. We found that the
average wages were six dollars a week.
We found when we investigated the con-
ditions of child labor that there We're
seventeen nationalities represented among
the twenty-five children there.
My wife told you how they We're pro-
tected. Seventeen nationalities, that is
how we protect American labor Let me
tell you, ladies and gentlemen and com
rades, that there is not another country
in the world where they dare to tell the
working men of the high tariff protec-
tion, only in this country. In Germany
the German manufacturers do not dare
to tell the working men it is there to
protect them. Only in this country, mind
you, they have so much respect for your
intelligence that they tell you that here
Free Trade.
But let me tell you, free trade would
not be any better. l told them in the
house that on the question of high tariff
and free trade the working people are
between the devil and the deep blue sea
the republican devil and the democratic
deep blue sea. They say if we have free
trade then things would be made cheaper
But they would be made in China IN
India or Japan, even in Germany. 1or
wouldn't make them. But you would b,
i'm the position OF the Texas man that
said that when hc went 10 Texas h0
could have bought a county for d pair o
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The Everett Speech of Victor L. Berger:

third is the chair industry. the fourth is
the sash and door industry. the fifth is
the milling industry aud the sixth is
beer. aud the beer is the best advertised.
Advertising pays.
High Tariff in Milwaukee.
Now Milwaukee is a highly protective
town We have the big rolling mills
there, Bay View, part of Milwaukee
Thirty-four years ago certain workers
in the big rolling mills used to make
from ten to fifteen aud even twenty five
dollars a day They worked hard but
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by Teddy Roosevelt. You remember. he
never went to the people for anything.
Teddy appointed him as Their of my
policies when there were no other poll
cies left but big bass drum and Teddy
had taken that to Africa. He never
went to the people. He is we'll mean.
ing but if he were a thousand times as
well meaning as he is he could never
get my vote. My vote win 90 for my
class If ! were a millionaire, should
vote for Taft or for Wilson or for
Teddy, it makes no difference. I don't
know Mr.. Wilson but | have read his
books. an a great reader of books.
| find he isultra conservative and the
things he has said about union labor.
about immigration. are something fierce.
But he stands for his class today.
am not repqting that stuff in the Mil
waukee Leader and any man who
doesn't knoF better than to vote for
him deserves all he gets.
RoOs"velt's Opinions.
Taft has ,, show and the trusts like
the democratic party fully as well as
they like the republican party. There
is only one difference, speaking seri
ouslT The republican party is conserva-
tive, wants'to keep up things as they
are wants to keep the capitalist system
as it is. Ihat is the republican party
1t is the conservative business mans
party of tie country. The democratic
party is not conservative. it is reaction
airy. 1t would like to go back about so
years before the war, if possible Oh,
no; they dent want to stand still, they
want to 90 backward. Now, my friend
Teddy, the bull moose, I will not even
say that he is dishonest. | want to
give him the credit that he believes at
the time everything he says. But no
one knows what he's going to believe
thirty minutes from now. He will be-
lieve that this is gray and in an hour
he will call you liar and say it's green,
and maybe tomorrow he will say it's
black and he has simply changed his
opinion, that is all. He doesn't know
where he is leading. All he wants is
to be Efesident 81 saf the United ststes
and anything thai might help him is
good enough for that purpose.
Class Honesty.
nlX- ~
socialist platform so he took fourteen of
our planks. We are not after the storm
and thunder, anybody can steal our
thunder. We want lightning, not
thunder, big noise. We want light
ming or enlightening. While L am speak
ing about Teddy and giving him credit
for sincerity, let me say few words
of my congressman. l have watched
them closely and I have always called
a crook crook. | have libel suits pend
ing now. But as a general thing these
congressman are educated men, cultured
men, and in a great majority honest
men, and the same holds good as with
Taft, they are honest to their class and
the more honest they are to their class
the worse they are for you. 1t is the
most honest congressman there that you
are to be afraid of. Joe Cannon is the
most honest man there; he said in the
newspapers when 1 first came there that
they ought to hang me up, something
like that. He expressed his Indignation
about Milwaukee going crazy. After [
came to know him, and we had dozens
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27

me so | walked over to the democratic
side and | met a gentleman from Texas
who, whenever he starts to speak, puts
himself in the position Calhoun and
Webster did seventy years ago. He is
very progressive, leader of the demo
cratic party. | said 'Will you kindly
tell me the difference between the demo
cratic and republican parties?" He said,
The tariff, why, the tariff" "Well,
didn't you vote for the high tariff when
we had the cotton bill up?" "Yes.'
Didn't the delegation from Alabama
vote for the high TARIFF so, yes
Didn't the Georgia delegation vote for
it," YES" well where is the diff
ference; why is the tariff the differ
ence?" He looked at me and said: '"Well,
there is really no difference"
The Tariff Question.
| will tell you, ladies and gentlemen
and comrades. there is one difference.
There is no difference in principle, but
one difference there is. One crowd has
the job and the other wants it, and that
is the only difference. Because all you
have to do is to compare the republican
platform with the democratic platform
as formulated under the guidance of
William Jennings Bryan, the peerless
leader of the democrats, to see that the
tariff has ceased to be the dividing line.
The democratic platform adds to the
clause about the tariff in such a manner
as not to interfere with the industries.
And the republican. party platform is in
/ favor of a revision, whatever that means.
One of them don't want to do much and
the other promises very little, so far as
the tariff is concerned. l will have
something to say about the tariff from
our point of view later on. There is no
difference, none at all. Moreover, what
has the tariff done? We have lived in
Milwaukee, in a high tariff town, for
Ithirty-four years. When You comrades
think of beer or of the socialists you
think of Milwaukee. While l admit that
Gus, 1 decline to include the beer. Beer
lis not the foremost industry of Milwau-
Ikee; beer is the sixth. Machinery is
the foremost. We are the greatest ma
chine town I'm the world. Milwaukee is
the seat of Ellis Machinery company
the biggest one I'm the country, the ma
..Ifua frU-r and fh.t- aufr,I.K- .IatIf iii.
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publicity to an argument against So
cialism. The Commonwealth secured
stenographer who attended the Bayside
Roman Catholic church ON September
22nd and took down. word for word, the
sermon against socialism by Father
Saindon.
This sermon will appear on the front
page of the Commonwealth in the issue
of October 4th-next week Help us TO
give it q wide hearing. We win de-
liver extra copie, at ~ cents each.
Order now.
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WANHOPE'S DATES.

September 27, Monroe.
September 2S, Sultan.
September 20, Goldbar.
September 30, Index.
October Lowell
October 2, Mukilteo.
October 3, Meadowdale.
October 4, Everett Fourth Ward hall.
Locals Organized.
September IL, Lakewood
September II, Trafton
September 23 Machias.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27
THE DEATH OF COMRADE
FREEZE.

Word has just been received of the
death of Comrade c. 7. Freeze of Ed
monds. No particulars can be secured
today but will be given next week.
Comrade Freeze was one of our most
faithful workers and was our nominee
for county engineer.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27

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them said: "Now we have adopted
these six planks and YOU had better
take a seat in our convention And |
said. "Gladlv, if YOU will adopt the
other 3S," and one of them means the
collective ownership of the means of
production. Yes. the one they can't
adopt, and for the rest I wish they
would steal them because can have
another 81 next year.
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lhaV respect ne Is DONG Us service
An appointed PRESIDENT
foror,eo bot,-eer tho ,artias MOI. bat,yeap
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27
A COMMONWEALTH
BARGAIN.

Send us ten cents Q0c) in
stamps. We will send you post
paid ten GO) copies of our propa-
ganda edition containing Eugene V.
Debs' Everett speech, the national
and state ticket and the national
platform.
Extra copies, 70 cents per 100.
Larger amounts still less.
Order at once
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Delivered in the Coliseum to An
Audience of Over 1000, Sunday
September y.

Ianv money" "Nhat! no money! Ten
dollar, and costs" "Nour honor. if |
had ten dollars could go to a hotel
well, if YOU haven't any money, YOU
20 to the house of correction
Now the man i, punished for not hoy-
ing any money to 90 to a rooming house
and then not being able to pay his fine.
The Rich Man in Court
Five minutes later another cop will
bring in another man, dressed in the
height of fashion. He didn't spend his
night in the lookup. lie had tried ont
his new 6O-horscpower automobile.
well, your honor, this gentleman al
most killed me, if had not gotten out
of the way quickly, and this is the see
ond time had to arrest him
'-Wel, Mr.. Gould, You know it is
against the law to drive faster than
miles an hour. How many miles were
You driving?"
20. maybe twenty miles"
80, no." said the policeman, about
forty"
Mr.. Gould. this is the second time and
| am sorry l have to fine you $40 and
costs
well, supposed l would have to Join
the automobile club sooner or later; here
are the ten dollars. See you later
Judge
He walks out smiling and probably
drinks bottle of champagne to cele-
brate his belonging to the automobile
club
Political Party Necessary.
And we have no classes in this coun-
try. One man for not having had money
enough to pay for lodging goes to the
house of correction for thirty days and
here is another man who almost killed
policeman and endangered the lives of
many more people perhaps-he goes free
You see the idea is not only that we
have classes in this country but the class
struggle is as old as civilization. 1t is
absolutely wrong and ridiculous to ac-
cuse the socialists of creating class
hatred And in order to do so we must |
have party, political party to give
expression to our needs and wants Just
like the proletariat of every other coun-
try to give expression to its needs and
wants.
More Socialist Congressman.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Fifth dis
trict of Milwaukee has done me the
honor to send me to congress as social |
ist representative. | say | am the first
but if | can clearly see the conditions in
this country we are going to have about
thirty-five next time. We will elect
two in Milwaukee and you had better
send one from here. We will send two
from Ohio. one from North Dakota, two
from Pennsylvania, one from New York
and so on.
Old Parties Alike.
The proletariat of this country are
awakening to the fact that we have moth
ing to hope from the two old parties.
Now l can't give you a witty story like
my comrade. Lena Morrow Lewis; | simp-
ly give you the facts as l see them
during my activities in the house OF rep
resentatiyes. | am going to tell You
story that really happened l was there
After having been in the house for about
three months, and ! rarely miss a session,
[ asked one Of the leaders of the repub-
lican party who is rather friendly to me
most everybody is friendly to me over
there-they like me personally, maybe
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SENATOR FALcoNER DOES NOT REPLY.

Senator Faconer led the bull moose primary ticket IN
Washington But to dread debate with socialist
Is that he nothing to say? Or that ne wants TO
campaign on the O. and be elected by political trades?
Alfred Wagenknecht socialist candidate for congressman
aarge has challenged Faconer to debate He has
not replied -, -,
Can it be that the Roosevelt brand OF bull moose Is the
result of the dreams of nature fakirs q?
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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-27
WILL JUDGE BLACK DEBATE?

Judge Black the democratic candidate for governor
Anna Maey is the socialist candidate for governor
Both live in Everett. 49,,
Both will be Everett November 4t the night before
election.
The socialist party of Everett has secured the Coliseum
for the night of November 4h and challenges Judge Black 10
debate Maley that time on the question Does he
democratic party deserve working class support? -
We will guarantee audience of $500 Does Judge BLACK
care to give them the democratic argument?
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VIZ CANNOT TRAFFIC IN OUR PRINCIPLES.
CAN MAKE NO COMPROMISE, NO AGREEMENT
WITH THE RULING SYSTEM. WE MUST BREAK
WITH THE RULING SYSTEM AND FIGHT IT TO
A FTNISH.-LEIBKNEcHT, "No COMPROMISE"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19
PARIS TAKES UP NEW CQlORS
Jade and MaIachite Green Are the
Latest to Find Favor in the Gay
French Capital.

While Paris has almost exhausted
it's favoritism for red, which has been
going on since last summer, 1t has
just begun it's enthusiasm for jade
and malachite green.
Both of these are lovely, bold tones
that need yelling on a number OF
women, or otherwise they would be
washed out.
When they are used without veil
ing the upper part Of the bodice is
made of tulle in white or flesh pink, to
take the shade of the green from the
face; and when a woman cannot wear
the unrelieved tone 1t is yelled with a
dark shade Of green tulle instead OF
black tulle.
On these gowns there is an oppor-
tunity to use many jade and mala-
chite stones as trimming and as orna,
ments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-19
Humorous Error Of Keeper That
Checked Naughty Millionaire
and His Obsequious Host.

Lord Decies, at a supper at the Ritz
Carlton following the New York horse
show. told a good story about an
American millionaire.
His first name is the sounding one
of Augustus" Lord Decies said. You
know how he travels-with what
retinue of Wallets and chauffeurs and
secretaries. Well, it was with even
prander retinue than usual that he ar
rived. at the opening Of the shooting
season. at a certain English country
house. He arrived, understand,
with seven motor cars.
"Of course he was treated on all
sides with the profoundest Difference.
But the head keeper called him by
his first name! Actually!
"The head keeper didn't seem lack
ing in respect; gave him a splendid
place, saw that he got lots of birds
and so on; but, all the time. it was
Augustus this and Augustus that
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tor told me to go to hospital. l did
not like that idea very we'll, so, when I
saw your advertisement in q paper, /
wrote to you for advice, and have done as
you told me. l have taken Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Liver Pills, and now I have my health.
IF sick and ailing women would only
know enough to take your medicine, they
would get relief. Mrs. BENZ. H. STAINS
Berry, Route 6, Box 10, Upper Sandusky,
Ohio.
If you have mysterious pains, irregu-
larity, backache, extreme nervousness,
inflammation, liberation or displace-
ment, don't wait too long, but try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound now.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, has been the standard remedy
for female ills, and such unquestionable
testimony as the above proves the value
of this famous remedy and should give
every one confidence.
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Thought to Do Him Honor

is your gun all right, Augustus" "A
ve:y good shot, Augustus Augustus
is your stool comfortable
THE millionaire flushed darkly and
glared at the old head keeper the first
time he was called Augustus But he
said nothing. And afterward he goi
used tc it. But his host happened to
appear, and, hearing the keeper say to
the naughty millionaire, Well winged
we'll winged, Augustus!' he took the
old chap aside and whispered:
why, keeper, don't know wha,
to make of you! Are you drunk, man:
The idea Of your calling Mr.. Va,
Golden by his first name like that!'
ellis first name, sir?' And thu oil |
keeper flushed under his tan.
Eyes! Augustus indeed! What d.
you mean by ft?'
"The keeper looked terribly dis
tressed.
"'Oh, SIR he stammered, hope
you'll excuse me. sir. I thought Au
| gustus was a titlc-a very high titll
like My Lord Duke Or Your Rxreaa
/ Highness. sir.''