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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

and certain actions and institutions"
Another boys says, "Why. Pa has "A list
of over forty cities right now where
men, women and even tender young
girls are now in Jail some suffering
with dubbed heads, backs aud breasts
because they attempted to speak on
the streets and even i'm hired halls -
A timid little girl speaks mp and says,
"Ma was just reading last night where
most of the working girls in our cities
were paid SO low wage that they
could not buy the necessaries of life
and had no protection whatever and
we're lured and even forcibly driven
into lives of shame, and that some
times II was found that the city Off
cials, large business men and people
high up in church and social circles
were the promoters of that sort of
traffic in the girls of our country"
Or boy gets up and says, 81 saw a
piece i'm the Seattle Star telling about
a college professor who has just writ
ten book i'm which it states that the
whole constitution was gotten up by
bunch of land grabbers and slave
holders together with smugglers and
pirates to enable them to successfully
rob the working class of America.
These are but a few of the trials
and disappointments that a teacher
has trying to instil capitalistic ethics
and patriotism into the minds of class
conscious worl1ingmen's children.
The state manual says to keep a
magazine table, encourage pupils to
read the newspapers, study cartoons
and current events and have pupils
bring and donate their papers and
magazines. One invitation is enough
for the socialist kids they will bring
in the Appeal to Reason, The Com
| ing Nation, Rip-Saw, Melting Pot, New
York Call, International Review and a
lot of others. Why, they have even
been known to fetch Solidarity" and
THE Industrial Worker" to the school
room.
These difficulties of teaching are
stated merely to show how unfit the
writer is to get out a socialist paper,
and then you have to be so careful OF
what you say; your certificate might
be taken away and then you would
loose the soft snap of teaching school
or perhaps you might offend judge
or a policeman and a summer in jail
is not nice way to spend vacation,
although some say it's not so bad in
the winter time. So dear readers
what is lacking in the paper this issue
you may lay it to the extreme timidity
and nervousness of he acting editor
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
BRITISH COLUMBIA BRUSQUE
NESS.

The Canadian government, which
has an edge" on us at many points
in the administration of law from
the standpoint of justice, recently
met the |. w. w. agitator, Joseph
Ettor, at the British Columbia line
and refused him admission into the
country. When requested to state
their reasons for so doing, the Off
cials made short work of their an
swer. They told Mr.. Ettor that their
reasons were purely their own, and
that they were not in the business of
making elaborate explanations to UNI
desirable citizens.
The attitude of this and every
other government should be one OF
extreme consideration and helpful
ness to every man honestly trying to
earn living, and of firm discipline
to all others. And the country should
draw a rigid line of distinction always
between an honest working man and
a professional loafer and agitator.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
WAR AGAINST METROPOLI-
TAN MAGAZINE.
Bruce Rogers

Travelling on an eight months, ~
ceum tour under direction of the So
cialist party in the state of Washing
ton l am encountering in many social
list homes and reading rooms a publ
cation calling itself the Metropolitan
Magazine and the socialists are con-
graduating themselves on having a
new champion in such pretentious l1v-
cry.
Whatever may be the feelings of
the publishers of the Commonwealth
relating to publishing ethics, l never
theless claim the privilege through its
columns of voicing warning against
the bull moose balderdash of the Met
ropolitan and to point out that sincere
socialists should resent this new med
dlesome Matte with ever greater en-
ergy than they do the straightaway
capitalist publications.
The young man who edits it am
assuming that he is very young
man from the immaturity of his OBJ
servations-has an entire month in
which to do his little editorial stunt
and should at least do it accurately
In the current number he says edit
orally, among a number of equally
naive sophistries, that the breaking
I'D of feudalism came not because OF
an uprising of the serfs but BECAUSE
OF THE AWAKENING OF FEUDAL
CONSCIENCE! This statement ap-
pears innocent enough on its face but
in very fact it is poisoned arrow
aimed with great deadliness at the
heart of the labor movement.
Nobody, of course, contends that the
serfs had much or anything to do
with it but every one who knows
about it knows that the falling away
of feudalism came about through the
rise and accession to dominance of the
lbourgeoise, a class which is now and
always has been the most hostile
enemy of the working class for the
very ample reason that it is always the
more immediate antagonist.
The devastating effect of what the
Metropolitan is saying is simply to
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
A HOME SOCIALISM DID NOT
BREAK.

A few weeks ago l was stopped on
the street by a young man between
25 or 80 years of age who had been
nv neighbor in the workhouse. No
ticing that he looked very respondent,
| asked him what was the trouble.
He replied, "My wife and children are
gone and my home is ruined" He
then told me his story. He had been
sent to the workhouse for the second
time for drunkenness. The last time
for 20 days. He had at the time
good job with the railroad and was
also working when he met me. At
the same time it could be seen from
his appearance that he was not an
habitual drunkard. When he came
out from the workhouse, his wife and
children had disappeared. He ap-
pealed to the police to help him find
his family but was met with abuse.
He finally learned that one baby had
been given away and that his wife had
taken the other two and gone to Mon
tana to get work in hotel. He had
been unable to secure her address thus
far. AS he told his story, tears ran
down the poor fellows face and In a
voice checking with emotion he vowed,
81 will go to h, or l will find my
wife and children"
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SINCLAIR REPLIES.

The article on page one by ]. E. Sin
clair is in answer to protest OF four
or five members of a self-appointed
committee of public morals. The said
committee secured the names of forty
seven people, including themselves, as
a backing to their protest to the school
board for it's action in hiring Comrade
J. E. Sinclair as principal in one OF
the Arlington schools. The reasons
for this protest are found in the article
following. They are somewhat spec
ious and put one in mind of the old
fable of the wolf and the lamb. A
wolf one day was drinking from
brook, when a lamb timidly came to
the brook several feet down stream
from the wolf and also began to drink.
The wolf Immediately accused the
lamb of riling up the water. The
lamb replied that it was Impossible
to muddy the water for the wolf, as
he (the lamb was down stream from
the wolf. The wolf replied, 'Well,
anyway, you called my brother name
last week and l am going to eat you
for that"
Or, as when the accusers OF Christ
were refuted at every turn of their
argument, they cried out, He stirreth
up the people" Just so with the mod
ern high priests of Arlington.
The charges against Comrade Sin
clair are flimsy pretexts. They are
not afraid of what he will teach in
the school room but the influence for
the growth of socialism he will have
in the vicinity of Arlington. That Will
expose the Bull Moose con game that
is still flourishing to some extent in
Arlington.
The county superintendent has lis
tened to the mighty protest and re-
fuses to register the school contract
of Comrade Sinclair and the Arlington
school board.
She firmly believes that a man who
writes as Comrade Sinclair does is not
fit to teach in the public schools and
has taken the matter up with the state
superintendent, who in turn has re-
ferred he matter to the attorney gen
eral If the state superintendent OF
public instruction sees fit to revoke
Comrade Sinclairs certificate that VIII
settle the matter so far as the Airing
ton school board is concerned Inc
board will take no official action on
the matter until DR.. oliver, the other
member of the board, returns from an
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

The above clipping is from the
'Westerner" Magazine. Comrade Nc
Murray, of North Yakima, sent the
following letter in reply, which was
refused. At his request we print it
in our columns:
Sirs: l am subscriber to your
magazine, and l now notify you that
upon the expiration of my subscrip-
ton l shall not renew, neither shall
| speak a word for you, as you have
proven in your last issue MAY num-
ber), that you are undeserving of the
support or respect of any laboring
man who is not mental dolt too
indolent to reason for himself.
You attack Joseph Ettor because he
dares to be an agitator for better
conditions for the laboring classes.
The time will come when periodicals
containing such rot will rot in the
hands of their publishers, for want
of readers, for through the agitation
of those professional loafers and
agitators," the laboring class is be-
ing awakened from the mental
apathy into which they have fallen
by absorbing the mental opiates fur
nished by hirlings of the mercernary
plunderbund.
Were William Lloyd Garrison, Eliza
Lovejoy, John Brown and other agita-
tors of their day, now with us they
would be agitators still. They would
not allow themselves to sink into
slothful mental Incidence that says,
let things alone as they are. They
would be on the list of undesirables,
too. and as in their cases, so will it
be with the undesirable citizens who
receive the mud and muck OF re-
dictionary individuals today Time
will place men of the Ettor type above
those who befoul them with their
vitriolic vituperation.
I am a comrade of Joseph Ettor,
and am proud to be in the class of a
man who dared to be a man, for
which he was imprisoned by a law
less set of thugs, criminals and out
laws in Lawrence, Mass, charged with
dynamiting.
Ettor was acquitted as there was no
case against him, and then you dis
credit yourself by publishing to the
world your unfitness, to be a molder
of public opinion by your short but
foul article, which is an echo OF the
past.
| wonder if you know that there has
existed in West Virginia for a year.
a sample of your conception of law?
A private bandetti of paid thugs, con-
yicts and outlaws, trampling under
foot every semblance of law in the
interests of a set of anthropoids of
the Jungle, made soulless and heart
less by this profit system of which
THE Westerner" breathes the
spirit.
FRANK G. McMURRI,
500 South Second ST., North Yakima,
Wash.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
BURNS NOW HOLY STRIKE
BREAKER.

The following gem is culled from
capitalist newspaper anent Burns, de-
tective and operator of strike-breaking
agencies:
Rome, June 13.-William J. Burns,
the famous American detective, was
highly pleased with his audience with
Pope Plus. The aged pontiff gave the
detective his special blessing and com
mended him on his great work in the
cause of justice"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
THE MILITIA.

The militia-that disgusting institu-
ton fostered by the capitalist class
and kept together through the ignor-
ance of the workers-has made a repu-
tation for itself that win never be for
gotten by the working class Of Buff
falo.
After last weeks experience it is
pretty safe TO say that our local regi-
ments will have a good time obtaining
recruits. Many young men, buncoed
into the idea that the militia is only
a good time with nice headquarters
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"The Merchant calls it PROFIT,
And he winks the other eye;
The Banker calls it INTEREST,
And he heaves a gentle sigh.
The Landlord calls it RENT,
AS he tucks it in the bag;
But the honest old Burglar,
He simply calls it SWAG."
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
SOCIALISTS SWEEP NAUGA-
TUCK, CONN.

In the municipal elections just held
at Naugatuck, Conn, the socialists
carried the entire ticket in a hotly
contested fight.
The highest vote cast was 500 for
A. b. Cross, Jr., for mayor. I. X.
Hogan. the democratic candidate, re-
ceived 664 votes and w. c. Had, re-
publican, 241.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

eastern trip. Mr.. John Morris and
VIM. Grim, other members of the
board, are both red-card socialists and
can be depended upon to do the right
thing in the affair.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
COMMENT ON THE WORLD s
CLASS STRUGGLE.
BY Carl Ulonska.
SPAIN.

The Catalonia Home Rule bill
passed the Spanish senate recently by
a vote of III to 81,
The passage of the bill was con-
sidered a moral defeat for Premier
Romanones and it is expected that he
will resign.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
CALL FOR GEORGE MEADoR

can anyone locate this man? His
friends in scottsyille, Kentucky, want
tidings Of him. He is supposed 10 be
near Everett
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

President Baer of the Philadelphia Reading railroad has
Secretary of War Garrison
facilities for the assembling the ety
burg celebrations ulye There only single track line for
the of the Undoubtedly this
element of danger essential battle
would romantic know if few Of the old
battle of onehaf their
death in a railroad accident in a modern wreck.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

of the mothers pension law the
Of this city, which handled the of large
number may dsband it's organization An of
organization declared yesterday that the mothers pension
perncous legislation because destroys all of need
official further asserted that the law would have the tendency
who been ddowed and de-
destroy the motive for charitable effort by
making society," individual along line of cold
along lines suggested by warmheared
interest n ohers.-Everett Herald.
words single fact. The
official Just plainly job Society that it not
necessary spend dispense 20 worth of charity
funds.
Thirteen have enacted in form another mothers
The which credited with these laws
Colorado Washington Utah. South Dakota,
Minnesota Nebraska Ohio New Jersey and Pennsy
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

persons sentenced the workhous Minneapolis
twelve members of the working class and fully
skilled workers. So those who think vocational
will solve the and unemployed problems just cut this
out md ponder it.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
NEWS AND NOTES =

Minneapolis policeman has been dismissed from service Tor
doyay the department lie had directed men, who had been
employment sharks to the chief OF pohce to
Inspector the labor commissioner and city attorney
From places the returned to the policeman saying
So despair he directed them to the
office Times socialist For this last act of
disoyalty he lost his job
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26

The question the primary for the continued
wealthy barons forced divide their
mme estates there will always be Instructions.
statement of s. K Bradford mining engineer at
Snaloa who forced to mining
nsurreconss burned the railroad bridges to
properties making impossible bring supplies to his
Mr. Bradford is visiting relatives in this cty-Seale PL
silence those who forever that
the capitalist press states economic truth
Angeles Cndustra Commission declares that So day
upon which wageworke subs Mrs Heye,
figures that $2317 day the
upon which she along Note carefully
parson of few of the items OF living
Bankers Wife. Wage Worker
.$lV4VO
Food and SERVICE including child,
Clothing 1890
Mrs Heye says very economical in regard dresses
$500 each and by careful buying them
for $4,000 In all probability Hey socialist but why
Angeles other city not socialist
of the Here items from
the commissions report:
GA of the employees less
day receive less than $3.50 day
of the employees less than So
day per cent? less than $3.50 day
male workers and fouseventh of female work
do not receive $500 per day"
Oneouarer children employed work for
that $500 day subsistence and
"a 90 is living wage
quite a number of that not just satisfied with
this of living and favor OF having bankers
with the workers and cut down their
will be left for those who living in
chronic state Of starvation
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Boost for the Commonwealth.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
Peanut Butter.

Roast the nuts. shell and take on the
brown skins. When making large
quantities. the removing Of the brown
skins is best accomplished by putting
the shelled peanuts on coarse towel.
covering them with another towel and
rubbing them gently until the husks
are broken or loosened, and then blow.
ing them OF with bellows- II you
use salt, dust them lightly with it and
grind at once. Mix to smooth paste
with half as much butter as you have
peanut powder. It Ii always we'll to
taste your butter and use its freshness
as q guide in the matter Of just how
much salt you should add to the pea
nuts. II any. Put the peanut butter
In covered glass jars or tumblers; keep
IN . cool place.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
Rubber az a PIaythIno.

The world owes something more
tangible than improved health to its
ball games. For it was its suitability
as a plaything that first led to the
use OF india rubber. One of Colum-
bus companions recorded how the ma
tives of Hayti played games with
balls made Of the gum of tree"
centuries before the plant and it's pos
abilities we're known in Europe. The
Spaniards in Mexico, however, used 1t
at an early date to waterproof their
cloaks. In view of the present wide
utility Of rubber, 1t is interesting to
note that it made its first appearance
ia England as curiosity for erasing
pencil marks.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
crsamed Salmon.

Make q cream sauce of two table
spoons Of butter. two tablespoons Of
dour and one cup Of milk. Into this
put the contents Of can Of salmon.
free from bones, skin and fat: beat
thoroughly, season with salt and pep
Per. add two, eggs beaten. Stir con-
stantly till eggs are cooked. and servs
at ouoo.
The Keota news., 1913-12-12

,
BY the great stove In the Kitchen
Gilbert Arnold obediently swallowed
the hot drinks Judy prepared. and
tried to answer the good old souls
questions.
He had travelled day and night since
that memorable afternoon when they
had told him that the guilty one had
confessed. and that he was free man.
He thought of Mary Crawford, and
something told him that the woman
who once loved him had been worthy
of his trust.
"Massa Gilbert" Judy was saying,
"Missus will want to know you 10
come. and If you is thoroughly warmed
Ill go tell her."
Judy" the man said. where is
your mistress
"In her sitting room. Massa Gil.
bert"
And you say Barbafa will be home
soon? Then your mistress is alone!"
Yes, massa."
Let me go to her, Judy, know just
where the room Is, for used to play
there when a boy"
The little woman by the fire must
have been dreaming happy dreams for
she smiled, in her sleep, and did not
start when she suddenly opened her
eyes and saw q tall form opposite her.
Gilbert" she said softly. "this
dream of you has lasted SO long to-
night, longer than ever before. But l
shall wake soon and then you will
be gone"
Something in the woman's eyes
made the mans face glow with Joy
unspeakable. Softly stepping to her
side he took her hands in his.
Mary" he said. Il am FREQ and
have come back to you and Barbara"
The light Of great happiness stole
into Mary Crawford's soul as she real
ICED that he was no dream.
Gilbert" she said. Barbara 10
happy. She is going to be the wife
of a noble, honest man and IL am
happy because she is."
Gently Gilbert Arnold raised her
face so that he could look into her
eyes.
Dear one," he said, you must be
happy because have come back to
love you"
ITO love me-" she repeated. "how
do you know that will make me
happy?"
Because you told me when you
woke and found me here"
She did not speak, but let her tired
head rest on his shoulder. Slowly he
bent his head down to hers.
How long have you cared for me
like this. Mary?" he asked.
II think always" she softly an
swered.
Copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Keota news., 1913-12-12
Close Buyer.

SIOoS 0Oy0Vs
A New York theatrical man was ap-
pointed receiver for small opera
house in an upstate town in New York.
He was anxious to sell it and so was
willing to take the first offer made.
He advertised the place, and after
waiting a week he was delighted when
an inquirer came in.
Say. mister" the prospect asked,
how much do you want for the the
ater?"
my friend" the receiver replied, Il
am extremely anxious to make sale.
and I'll let you have it for your own
price,"
Please. mister said the inquirer.
cant you do little better than
thatr
The Keota news., 1913-12-12

with you.
Money will be sent you regularly
from my banker. and 1t is my desire
that Barbara know nothing of my Inn
prisonment and that her life be all
sunshine IL possible.
Nov may God reward you and bless
you both until that great day when all
wrongs shall be forever righted
GILBERT ARNOLD"
Here we're written the following
words In feminine hand:
Il. Mary Crawford. promise to do all
in my power to make Barbara Arnold
happy. and do this for your own dear
sake. Gilbert"
Gently the woman pressed her lips
to the paper where Gilbert Arnold had
signed his name and then leaned back
In her chair with a tired sigh.
She remembered the day he went
away never to return. because of a
Misunderstanding that she in her
blind foolishness would not let him set
right,
Barbara and Judy had brought the
message. How we'll she remembered
that day when the sunshine Of a little
girls presence had filled the great
house,! From that time her life had
been one long thought of the child's
happiness. His little daughter that he
had sent her!
She was glad he had found a good
woman to comfort and help him. glad
to think he had known a few short
years of enjoyment and that her own
unforgtving spirit had not saddened
his life as it had hers.
OF his life now she could never
trust herself to think. Gilbert in
prison! She gasped at the thought II
his freedom had been at the price of
her own life she would not have hesi-
tated one minute.
Night had come, and yet she did not
turn on the lights. Day and night
were alike to her when thinking of the
man che loved.
Judy knocked at the door of the lit
tie sitting room. When it had been
opened she asked with the familiarity
of trusted servant: lis your head
ache better, missus?"
"Yes, Judy" was the answer. "and
Is Barbara home YETI"
mo, missus. she just sent word that
she would come home little later
with Massa Arthur
very well, Judy, have supper ready
when they come. and Judy
Yes. missus."
Tell Barbara I'll not be down to
supper tonight, but not to worry. a. l.
feel much better
Yes, missus."
And Judy disappeared from the door
and hurried down the long hall.
Slowly Mary Crawford went back to
the arm chair.
Barbara is 80 happy" she mused.
"and Arthur is 50 noble and true.
There Is no one that l would rather
give her to./But 1t is SO hard and 80
soon, too, only next week and l shall
be all Alone"
"All alone," she repeated. but Bar
bara must not know that / care so
much She must be happy, and lit
makes no difference about me. ! will
keep my promise for your own dear
sake, Gilbert"
Slowly her eyelids closed. and SO
still she sat in the arm chair with her
head resting against the cushion that
one would have thought her asleep.
She must have been asleep an hour
later. for when the great brass knock
er on the front door echoed its signal
through the house. she did not move.
Judy opened the door to admit tall
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