The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-11-20
TOO NARROW A MARGIN.

Running as IL does on a strictly cash
basis. it is absolutely necessary that
we increase our reserve fund at once.
We must raise at least two hundred
dollars in good hard cash at once.
This week collections on advertising
were unusually poor. The conse-
uuence was we were unable to get
cash enough soon enough to meet our
Immediate needs, and some eXasper-
ating delay in getting the paper ready
was the result. Time that the editor
should have spent as an editor was
used up in hunting money for the
paper. THIS SHOULD NOT BE!
The Commonwealth is doing useful
and necessary work. and every COM
rade in this state should rally enthu-
siastically to its support, and RIGHT
AWAY, at that.
BY the way. We shall follow this
plea for aid by quoting portion of
very interesting article which ap-
peared lately in the Minnesota So
cialist. Read it. It's good. And 1t
will do you good. Then mark it and
pass it on to that windy "comrade"
who hasn't yet found out that there is
a Socialist paper in this state. Or, If
he knows it, thinks it's published too
near home to be much good anyway.
YOUR DUTY AS A SOCIALIST.
''If there is any one thing that
there should be no need to harp on,
one thing that there should be no
need to BEG for, it is our Socialistic
press-our papers and magazines, yet
to the shame of Socialists, it must be
admitted that it's a case of beg or go
bump. If there is any other one thing
that will make a man feel red, make
him sometimes wish the scales OF cap
italism had never fallen from his
ewes. it is the stolid Indifference of
the so-called rank and file" OF the
movement, when one mentions the
party press.
The average Socialist rubs his
han0S, SQulTlS lODdCCO JuiSO CT q SA~N'
makes a spittoon look like Mt. Ararat
about the time the Creator Stacked
'up on the damp spell, and says: I'm
a rebel, am, an I'm in the fight to
stay." And he'll stay-right there
till hell freezes over. Nothing but an
earthquake or a dose of the itch would
cause him to make move-except
with his jaws.
"I have listened to a Socialist talk
Scientific Socialism like a college
professor, for half day, but let one
mention an immediate case of direct
action in the shape of sub-hustllng
for one of the party papers, or invite
the scientific comrade to recede from
a dollar bill, and it would take several
introductions to square you with that
Socialist (?). Well, he isn't class con-
scious. He isn't stingy, for he Will
cuddle I'D to a bar like it was long
lost brother, and finance an irrlga-
ton project that forces the breWerles
to put on an extra gang. He VIII
cough up four dollars per year for
capitalist sheet that is filled from
cover to cover with lies and liver cure
ads: divorces and dyspepsia cures but
ask him to pay dollar to Socialist
paper. and he almost throws catnlp
fit And if he does come through with
wheel he will tell the editor what
a hard time he had to coax that PUNK
ont of a capitalist, and warn the editor
that dollars are dadgummed scarce.
81 am not able to say as to what the
total paid up membership of the party
in this state is, but | do know thls
much, that not one-tenth of them are
doing one thing to help support their
state paper and the man that VIII SIT
around and bow-woy about Socialism,
while never giving sou toward the
support of the party press, hasn't got
enough Socialism in his carcass 10
stuff the orifice in a MOSQUITOES DILL
if il could be turned into solid mat
ter. To hear them talk of running
the government is to laugh. How the
devil do you fellows expect to run a
government, when you can't run tex
cept to DEATH a party owned paper'
"You swell up like poisoned pup
over the grand outlook for Socialism
in THIS state and then lay down and
let some other man make Socialism
possible. You whoop and howl Tor
party paper and then because tne
editor has intelligence enough to frame
thought and give it expression you
baoin 10 wall that he is too radical
o. tempora! o, mores! o. mush. Il
a bull dog had a grip on you "her'
YOUR brains are, you wouldn't thint
il too radical if some one kicked the
brute loose would you? Well that
where capitalism has got you no"