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Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05

Mr., r. r. LOnergan, superintendent
of the government schools IN the In
dian pueblos, left Wednesday for a
visit at his old home In Montrose,
Penn. before returning 20 Albuquer-
Que about the last Of August. Mr..
Lonergan viii spend some time In
Washington. New York ana Philadei-
phia ana will attend the Elks con
ventlon In Rochester,
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05
News from the University.

Or. Charles y. KIRK. prof"ss1r *
geology, has ieasei the N. y Angell
bungalow.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05

Afs. H. G. Roehl and ehildren have
gone 20 santa ~ ~ visit friends Tor
several weeks.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05

several members Of the faculty and
their families enjoyed n jolly Fourth
Of July celebration last evening on the
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05

Cement walks are being put down IN
front of The administration building
ana the two dormitorlpe. HoKonu and
Kwataka.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-07-05

Mr., w NJ. waning and family. sOss
South Fifth street. have returned
from a visit In Matteson. Ills.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
WOMEN COMRADES.
Boost the Lyceum Course.

Will the National Lyceum course be
a success this coming season? Up to
now it has only been a partial success,
for financially it has been failure,
miserable failure. AS a means of
propaganda it has no equal at the
! present time.
| We will all agree that in the past
money has been spent that could have
been Saved. There are no mistakes
until we make them. By making mis-
| takes we learn to avoid them. That
which seems most sensible to us at
present may look exceedingly foolish
one year hence. Then let us not lay
blame for past mistakes upon the
lyceum manager.
Had we all worked together as we
now realize we should have done, what
would have been the result? A finan-
cial success, of course. And who would
have claimed the credit? You and you
and you. And who gets the blame for
the lyceum's financial failure? The
manager? Please be fair, just admit
that it must be you and you and you.
The national committee at it's meet
ing discussed the National Lyceum bu-
reau for hours. Then it decided to
continue it for another season, it be-
ing our greatest and NOSE effective
means of educating not only non-social-
lists, but party members as well. But
it was also admitted that the success
of the lyceum depended NOT upon the
efforts of the manager, but upon the
united efforts of every man and WON
AN in our national socialist party.
Then let us remember our mistakes
so that we can avoid them in this COM
ing seasons work, and let us put forth
every effort to make the lyceum for
1913-1914 a bowling success. In our
propaganda and in our fight against
IGNORANCE we forget our small diff
ferences. We fight together for the
same goal, the emancipation of the
working class.
Let us build perfect what we have
started rather than tear down for some
other untried method of reaching
those we MUST educate. Let us use
our most valuable weapon, the Ma
tional Lyceum bureau to aid us in our
conquest. 1t is financially within the
reach of many locals. Let each agree
to take the course and then let us all
work hard for it's success. WORK, not
TALK. Women comrades, LET US
DO OUR PART. OUR part consists
in DOING ALL WE CAN.
HORTENSE WAGENKNECHT,
State Correspondent for Washington,
Box 491, Everett
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ARE YOU MARRIED?
TO THE MARRIED MEN OF THE LOCALS OF THE SOCIALIST
PARTY


the married members
order Oh they're just home wash
children bed Had basket full of sox to
Working overtime Perhaps you
children bed she might have
and with the local
neeting asked her.
old
AFTER and
One that hadn't been
chance
about the
think hadn't
friends Did
voted the Socialist Ticket they
allowed them by voting also for
them for
her going asked her go to
right Read
her every the idea that
that suggested such
thing protector You be good body
perfect Otherwise your wife would
want Socialism, begin
teaching wife to want It.
Socialist would be just
capable of thinking
would just desirable Her
Start teaching her and she
worker for the
better
joining the campaign for
wife is already Socialist
Give wife equal
cewithyo IN he the greatest
HoRTENsE WAGENkNEcHT,
BOY 4e1 Everett Wah Woman Stat
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only rough shanty and the home life
win often be in accordance with such
"A home. Children come one after an
other TO make the couple happy but
how often il turns out the other way!
The man as we'll as the woman and
children become slaves of the present
system. sympathy and harmony fade
away in the struggle for living, and
the home win only be n slave-pen-
and why? Because the working class
are too ignorant to understand their
own good. They keep on year after
year to make their masters more and
more rich. and so they become poorer
every day they live, and when they
become old they have nothing for all
their trouble in life And now in the
name of common sense and for your
own happiness, we socialists ask all
the slaves of the present system to
wake up from your deep and deadly
slumber of some thousands of years,
and throw off your chains OF ignorant
wage-slavery and be free.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10

Sweden. Woman has been the slave
of the human race from its early
foundation. She is also the slave of
economic conditions, being forced to
leave her home, to seek employment
in the various industries in order to
supply the necessaries of life for her
self and children, and in many cases
wages are so low that many thousands
are driven to prostitution as the only
way to escape starvation. Socialism
stands ready to set woman free. So
cialism offers the ballot to woman as
the surest means of protection. So
cialism will make her economically in
dependent that she may no longer be
driven by circumstances beyond her
control Socialism will abolish war,
and that should appeal strongly to the
mothers of the race. Socialism offers
every advantage to women; it will lift
her up and the whole race with her.
Come, my sisters, you can not afford
to wait. You need socialism and So
cialism needs you. Enlist in the great
est movement for the uplift of human
ity that ever shook the world.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
MY REASON WHY WOMEN
SHOULD BE SOCIALISTS.
BERTHA ZEITZ,
Secy.

Capitalist society is the destroyer
of the individual. Under the profit
making system we have only masters
on the one side and herds of dependent
toilers on the other, and in the great
industrial nations there is decreasing
NATURALIZATION of man. Indeed, it is
doubtful if there exists in the world
wholly developed individual. The lives
of those who have and who have not
are alike swallowed up in a needless
struggle for physical existence. Capt.
talism is a violent coercion of the in
dividual and the end thereof is social
disintegration and universal delirium,
for whenever industrial development
begin under capitalism there the de-
cay of man begins. 1t is the capitalist
increase that is making this world
desperate shambles and filling the
minds of men with despair as to the
human future. 1t is through capitalist
Capitalization that men are herded in
the dirt, the disease, the ugliness of
tenements, of factories and mining
shanties. 1t is through capitalism that
so many millions of children never be
hold the green fields nor anything but
the dilapidation, the barrenness, the
dumb and helpless sorrows of con-
gested industrial populations. And it
is socialism that will restore greenness
and gladness to the earth, that will
release children from the blight and
brutality of modern industry and give
them back the joys of life and put
flowers in their hands and their
cheeks.
MRS. MARY CAST,
Tenino, Wash
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FIFTY-NINE YEARS OLD AND
STILL ACTIVE.
Granny M. Rodman.)

II
Nothing insures the perpetuity of a
government but justice to those gov
erned.
The socialist party is the first politi-
cal party to declare for the FULL and
EQUAL RIGHTS of woman in national
and state governments.
Why should woman join the socialist
party?
Because it is the first political party
declaring for full rights of suffrage for
woman in the national and the state
governments.
I have always thought that the Sun
day propaganda meeting is an import
ant factor in our movement and have
chided those calling themselves social
lists because they don't feel and obliga-
ton to attend even part of the time.
The wife of our local editor Mrs. H. d.
Jory and her daughter, Mrs. H. d..
Stone, are members of the local. Mrs,
Stone works on the paper, as does her
husband. 1n6y are lOydl SOSlelio'S'
and attend Sunday meetings and the
business meetings.
I prize far more the glorious goal
which scientific socialism sets before
us than stopping by the way to con-
tend for inconsequential points that
don't help us even if we gain them. l
have said to different ones that it is
time to begin our campaign with the
view of putting up an entire socialist
ticket
| am distributing literature all the
time. l find the colored women all
want to vote and ready to read the so
cialist literature. Many of the colored
people take the local socialist paper,
and have done a good share toward its
support.
Comrade Jory and his family have
sacrificed everything for the great
cause. One of our best members re-
Gently left for Florida, one who always
went down into his pocket.
Here's hoping to have better pros
pect to write you next time.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
THE REASONS.
(By Mrs. Elizabeth Andrak of Local
Parkland)

(By Mrs. Elizabeth Andrak of Local
Parkland.)
There is every reason in the world
why women should be socialists.
know of no organization in which we
may express ourselves and work in
the interest of humanity as we can in
the socialist movement.
When we, the workers, get the full
product of our labor we will be rich.
Woman can be a wife and mother in
the full sense of the word, the same
can be said of man. Our homes will
be homes indeed; the children will be
delighted to come home. | am not so
sure that they are always delighted to
come home now, because when they
do they find their parents over worked
and always have something to worry
about.
We, the people, will be the govern
ment as we are in the socialist move
ment. We will make our own laws
and working plans. We will study and
teach the laws of nature instead of
the laws of man. And instead of
scheming to save a dollar we will be
scheming how to get the best out of
life when the dollar will be at hand.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
A START.

Bremerton, Wn., July z, 1913.
To the Woman's State Correspondent:
Dear Comrade- viii you please
send me all the information possible
in regards to the lady socialist study
clubs or societies?
The women of the Bremerton local
have started a study club. As yet
they have not organized, but will wait
for information from you.
We had our first meeting June q
at Evergreen Park, at which nineteen
persons were present. Several very
good papers were given, also two
little talks. The ladies' felt real en-
thusiastic over the idea of forming
club
Our next meeting is to be held July
II and we wish to organize. If 1t is
possible / would like to hear from
you before that time; also please send
us some literature If possible.
I remain yours for the revolution.
GLADYS A. LIBBY,
Women's Correspondent
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10

Mrs. Hortense Wagenlnecht, State
Women's Correspondent:
Dear COmrade-In compliance with
your request for something for the
"Women's Edition" I submit the en-
closed item. / am greatly pleased to
see this agitation for more women
members. I would like to hear the
plans of some of the locals for inter
esting the women. The women here
had charge Of arrangements for the
lecture by Comrade Snow on the 7th
inst. and handled it so well that there
were about two hundred people out
including the children. We opened the
meeting with a short program OF songs
and Rotations by the children, then
came the lecture, after which We
served refreshments. Later the floor
was cleared and the young people We're
permitted 10 dance for a short time
You win probably think this was con-
siderable trouble but it has gotten so
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10

Dear Comrade-I want to let you
know how we are carrying on the work
among the women of our town.
We elected a woman's propaganda
committee consisting of three lady
members. The local ordered 1000 as
sorted leaflets for women from the ma
tional office, which are being dis
tributed from house to house. The
latter part of May we had an enter
tainment, the program consisting of
music, singing, reading and recitations.
We succeeded in getting out a large
number of women to this. After the
program Comrade Mary Mcnamara
gave a talk on 'the public school sys-
tenn" The audience was well pleased
with the affair." Some women cannot
be induced to come to a speakers
meeting, but they will come to an en-
tertainment, and I think it is a good
idea to always have someone present
who can address them on some inter-
esting subject.
BERTHA ZEITZ,
Secy.
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WHY l AM A SOCIALIST.

Effie Armstrong, Local CharlcstonD
am u socialist because am a
mother. and through that connecting
link which nature implanted in the
heart of every normal woman. we so
oialist women can reach the mothers
when the fathers are inaccessible
An appeal to the children's interests
will stick and ranl,le, when their own
needs would be passed by as CAS- II
was, is now, and ever shall be" as
long as THEY live.
The recent proof given in Seattle
that white slavery is actually reaching
into our schools for our girls will open
many mothers eyes as nothing else
could, and the country school is no
safer than the city
When Jacob Furth was sentenced at
Bellingham to a years Imprisonment
for having dishonesty and deliberately
planned to ruin farmers and small
merchants that HE might profit by It,
he whined, I'm seventy; Pm too old"
and his sentence was revoked. Did
Mother" Jones in West Virginia
whine I'm eighty; my health will be
ruined" when she was sentenced to Jail
by the greatest travestry of justice
that ever disgraced a country? Not
much. Her defiant you may kill my
body, but you can't kill my spirit"
crowns her for all time A MOTHER,
fighting for her endangered children.
Let us do likewise.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
THE DIFFERENCE

(By Mrs. LanderhOlm, LaCentre)
Many years ago home in Sweden,
when l was a young girl, a lady Of
the higher society said to me in a con-
versation regarding marriage: "A
married life is happier than a single
life, if the man and woman sympathize
with each other, but if they don't, it is
better to be alone" That lady had
the experience of a happy married life,
and how could it be anything else?
Her husband was a good, loving man,
he had a big yearly income, a good
home, two loving children, several ser
wants, and she could order her coach
man whenever she pleased to drive up
right to the doorsteps with a fine team
and carriage and take her out together
with some OF her friends for a ride
Yes. even your writer had the honor
to make her company "a few times
What can a woman wish for more than
such a home? But here is another
view of married life A young man
and woman happen TO be acquainted
and are married. The couple belong
to the working class The man starts
ont working for wages and right there
turns their pathway into the dark
valley of misery. The home is often
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
PRAISWoRTHY WORK.
CBy Viola orReilly, Buckeye

(By Viola O'Reilly, Buckeye
The campaign for more socialist
women in the party which is now be
ing carried on is distinctly a prais-
worthy one. There are many good
reasons why women ought to be in the
party, but to my way of thinking the
best reason is because women are the
teachers of the world. Father is a
notorious philosopher, but when it
comes to teaching the Riddles, oh, WELL
you know mother seems to have the
knack for that. My observations have
taught me that the class-conscious
children come from the homes of class
conscious mothers. Very seldom in
deed do you find children of Indifferent
cause, Notwithstanding the fact that
father may be the terror of the lives
of his fellow-workmen as an agitator.
fully realize the drawbacks women
have in getting out to meetings too,
for where there are four small chill
dren as in most families, one of them
is usually sick or there is some rea-
son why mother must stay with them.
For this reason the men comrades
should arrange interesting discussions
for every meeting so the women would
feel repaid for making an effort to get
out. Once they become interested no
meeting will be dull.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
A VERY GOOD PLAN.
eliza Lamkin, Lyman.)

eliza Lamkin, LYMAN
] would like to tell through your
paper of a plan I have to reach my
women friends who have not yet seen
what socialism means to them and
their families, and who have no doubt
had their minds prejudiced against it
until they will not read socialist litera-
ture Gas I once was). l have en-
velopes addressed to different friends
and when I read a little article or
story, or news item even, which l
think might help to open their minds
to the great light of socialism, into the
envelope it goes of the one in my judg-
ment it will be the most likely to ap-
peal. And | warn you, my non-social-
istic friend, I am watching your con-
versation at all times to find an open
ing where something will fit in and
then will try to drive the wedge home.
And if you do not get many clippings
it is because my supply of those I
think will fit your case is short or
postage not plentiful.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
WHY WOMEN SHOULD BE
COME SOCIALISTS.
Tenino, Wash

Jessie S. Swope, Otter Greek Local,
Toldeo, Wash)
There are many reasons why women
should become socialists; in fact so
cialism should appeal 10 woman more
than to anyone else, because she is
doubly enslaved She must be gov
erned by laws she has had no voice in
making, if she has property she must
pay taxes. in many cases having moth
ing no say as no how much she shall be-
taxed or how the money raised by tax
alton shall be used Up 10 eighty
years ago women could vote no where
except t0 a very limited extent in
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
WOMEN WORK.
Aberdeen, Wash

Aberdeen, Wash.
Hortense Wagenknecht,
Everett, Wash.
Dear Comrade-I was instructed by
the Progressive Woman's Club" to
write to you in regards to our club.
1t was organized by Comrade Anna
Maley as a study club for non-socialist
women. In this way we are able to
reach women who will not go to hear
lectures or street agitators, and we
have succeeded in getting several to
join our local and number interested
in socialism. Although the club is not
connected with the local we are sure
we do better than if connected with it.
We meet every two weeks at one of
our lady comrades residences We
have a membership of thirty-three and
each one acts as a committee of one
and each endeavors to get one of her
neighbors to go as visitor. We serve
lunch furnished by the members of the
club. The collection is taken for the
purpose of buying socialist literature
If you think favorably of our club we
will be glad to receive any suggestion
that would tend to further the progress
of the club.
Yours fraternally,
MRS. ADA McGREGOR,
Corresponding Secretary.
716 First Ave
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
EXERCISE FOR WOMEN

According to Dr. Sargent of Har
yard the cure for feminine unrest ID
exercise. The girl who earns only
SO a week and falls into temptation.
says Dr. Sargent. does not go wrong
because OF her meagre wage. bat be-
cause of insufficient exercise. APP
parenuy there is nothing like a good
long days work iu "a iuudry or silk
mill TO stimulate q craving for dumb
bells iu tha evening
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-10
TO THE WOMEN VOTERS OF
BANGOR.
Matte Allison MARTINI


Some time ago there was a socialist
lecture at the school house by one of
our ablest speakers. Not woman in
Bangor, save myself, was there to hear
it. Some of your husbands and some
of your sons were there, but NOT ONE
of you When I saw two dozen or
more men there and only one woman
thought, is it because women care
less for liberty than do men, or is it
because they are prejudiced against
the socialist movement? Is it because
they think they know all about the So
cialist movement, or is it because they
believe what our enemies have told
them about it? Perhaps some good"
republican or democrat has tod you
we want to break up your home. Well,
he told you the truth for once, for we
would be glad, so glad, to see your
shacks and your log huts and your
tents torn down and give you the op-
portunity to build REAL house.
Did you ever see people work harder
than we socialists do to make homes
out of a stump patch? Did you ever
notice that there is but one house in
or near Bangor that deserves the name
and it belongs to socialist?
How many homes are there in Ban
gor where father, mother and all the
children are living together in comfort
and luxury? Can you say your homes
are unbroken when your husbands and
your sons and daughters have to be
away from you day after day and year
after year, in order to make a living?
Can you even say they are FREE when
they have to ask boss for job?
Oh, yes, l remember that old lie about
Gree love" too, but didn't think you
would believe it. I gave you credit
for having better sense.
You may believe it means dividing
up after all. Let me ask you ques-
ton. Are we not already dividing up
when we send our eggs and other pro
duce to Seattle and the transportation
companies and the commission men
rake-yes, TAKE such a "rake-off"
that there is hardly living left for
us poor farmers who work so hard to
produce it?
It is these grafters and the big capt.
talists who rob the wage-working class
of millions every year that we propose
to get rid Of How shall we get rid OF
them, do you ask? By taking the
POWER TO ROB away from them,
and giving the working class the
POWER TO KEEP what it produces.
Do you know, friends, that we are
the only political party that believes
in giving woman the SAME rights and
ALL the rights that men have? That
we are the only party that is trying
to abolish the liquor traffic and the
white slave traffic and child labor and
war?
Do YOU think I am telling you a
plain lie when / say these things. or
do YOU think we are dreaming? Well,
il may prove to be dream unless you
and the rest of the workers help 20
make it a reality.
Are any Of you willing 10 help? Are
YOU even willing to learn what social
ism really means? I wonder what each
of YOU would say to me if I asked you
why YOU were absent from our meet.
ing. OF course there are many ok
cuses you might make but would sou
tell me the REALLY REAL reason ?
DO you know. ladies'. ] sometimes think
you have allowed yourselves TO become
preudiced against us-that you would
rather believe what others say about
MS than 10 believe what we say. of.
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course some of you may have a really
GOOD reason for not attending our
meetings I am not saying that you
had not. But doesn't it look a little
suspicious and don't you think you
would have managed to come out if it
had been election day and socialist
ticket in the field?
MATTE ALLISON MARTIN,
Womens Local Correspondent.