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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
j. P. MORGAN WAS WORRIED
OVER SOCIALISTS.

Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of a
chain of English newspapers, includ-
ing the Daily Mail, which is the yell
low journal of England, said tonight
that J. Pierpont Morgan, the financier
who died in Rome today feared the
socialists. The newspaper magnate
was recounting a conversation he had
had with the banker
Morgan recently remarked to North
cliffe that Lloyd George was a great
danger to the United States. He said:
Should Lloyd Georges socialistic
legislation make progress in your
country, we shall follow you"
HE had, l thought" said North
cliffe, "an exaggerated fear of the So
cialists, but those shrewd gray gilt
tering eyes had seen more than mine,
and he may have been right. He evil
IDENTIFY regarded English conservatism
as radicalism and English radicalism
as socialism,
Regarding Morgan's personal charac-
teristics, Lord Northcliffe says: "He
was a John Bullish sort of man, with
all the obstinacy, tenacity and bulldog
courage which we attribute to the old
Tory squire"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
SLAUGHTER OF THE WORK.
ERS.

North Yakima, April ia dump
car of cement went over the bank of
the Wapto ditch crushed and to
death Drakos Karajos Karoiahies, a
Greek workman.
Hans Heitner, the Greek consul in
Tacoma, telephoned Coroner Fred
Shaw in the afternoon, asking that he
hold an inquest to determine whether
the death was due to criminal care
lessness, and the inquiry will be held
Thursday morning at the scene of the
accident.
The accident occurred a mile above
the Matches power house. The hands
of the dead mans watch pointed to
8:20 o'clock. He was a native of
Crete.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
THE GOOD SOLDIER"
INV Lnrlt InndnnL

lIly Jack Ioud0nJ
Young Men. The lowest aim
I'm your life is 90 become IL sol
der The good soldier never
tries 20 distinguish right from
wrong He never thinks; never
reasons, he only obeys. If he
is ordered 10 fire on his fellow
citizens, or his friends, on his
uelghbors, on his relatives, he
obeys without hesitation. II he
is ordered to fire down
crowded street when the poor
are clamoring for bread, he
obeys, and sees the gray hairs
of age stained with red and the
life tide gushing from the
breasts of women, feeling
neither remorse nor sympathy.
If he is ordered off as a firing
squad to execute a hero or
benefaCtor, he fires without
hesitation, though he knows the
bullet will pierce the noblest
heart that ever beat in human
breast.
A good soldier is a blind,
heartless, soulless, murderous
machine. He is not a man. He
is not a brute, for brutes only
kill in self defense. All that is
human in him, all that is di-
vine in him, all that constitutes
the man has been sworn away
when he took the enlistment
roll. His mind, his conscience,
aye, his very soul, are in the
keeping of his officer.
No man can fall lower than a
soldier-it is a depth beneath
which he cannot go. Keep the
boys out of the army. 1t is
hell.
Down with the army and the
navy. We don't need killing in
situations. We need life-giying
institutions.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

Mr. Prcstuu's statements haFo Inn.
pressed me so that have collected
the best of lbcm TO put ia ms scrap.
book
cmuet tell you he advance what
no verdict viii De. ny tha time you
may have read o. In the dispatches if
son are Interested iu such news. But
mo- matter how Che verdict goes. the
poor people who lost thoir money will
not get Il back.
In Baynrd Veillor's play "Within
the Law" one of the actors puts II
thus. owe don't call them courts of
justice now; we call them courts of
law" And the audience applauded
with surprising vigor
w. II. WAYNICK
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

While on the subject of jokes it Will
not do to overlook the trial of jacob
Furth, millionaire banker of Seattle,
for conspiracy in the failure of the
Schricker bank of La Conner. At
present writing the trial is in progress
here, but before this item is in print
the case will be ended and some sort
of verdict rendered-perhaps But the
verdict matters little, since it will re-
store nothing to the persons who lost
their little all when the bank failed.
The law has become an interesting
subject to me, and | wish to reinforce
the suggestion made some time ago to
the effect that socialists should lounge
about the court houses and study the
thing at first hand. You are not eX-
pected to ever understand the law, be-
cause nobody can do that. However,
if you are patient, you can gather
thorough knowledge of lawyers and
their little ways, and that's where all
the fun comes in.
When briefly stated the case against
Jacob Furth millionaire banker and
capitalist, amounts to this: The Sc
attic banker is accused of extending
temporary credit to the LaConner
bank when knowing it to be insolvent,
thus making it possible to collect bal
ances due the Seattle bank Then,
again, the Seattle banker is charged
with bringing pressure to bear on
merchants and politicians to place
their accounts with the La Conner
bank By recommending the La Con
ner bank to these gullible depositors,
it was the object of the Seattle bank
to center enough money there to pay
its balances and after that the La Con
ner bank and its depositors could go
on a long journey.
That looks like a simple case, but
if you could have heard the lawyers
trying it you would think otherwise.
For example, Lawyer Preston, who de-
Tended Furth, consumed four hours
last Saturday afternoon trying to have
the evidence against Furth stricken
from the record to leave everything
blank and forget it, if possible.
Now. / am neither lawyer nor judge.
and 1 had nothing TO do with the case,
being only a spectator ] am trying
TO tell you, i'm simple Language, how
the lawyers acted and the way they
tried to- obscure the points. Air. Pres
ton said. For a quarter of q CEN
mry / have been connected with the
Seattle National bank as legal counsel
and during that time ] learned moth
ing but honesty from that body, hone
esty and liberia. banking methods.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
Comments on Worlds Class Struggle
Belgium.

News comes to us that Guillame
Brassuer, the veteran Socialist, and
one of the founders of the Belgium
Social-Democratic party, is dead.
Brassuer was also a member of the
old Marx International and was very
active in the labor movement.
A number of Belgian unions will
hold conference on May II at Liege
in order to organize national center
of revolutionary and syndicalist ten
denotes.
England.
The cabinet makers, chair makers,
and machinists in the joiners' shops
of London West are on strike for an
increase of I'D an hour and a re-
duction of the hours from so to 48 per
week.
u. S. A.
Last year there were S,215 derail-
ments on the United States railways,
1877 of which were caused by defec-
tive roadway while 3,847 were due to
faulty equipment.
Russia.
Since the middle of February there
have been in st. Petersburg nightly
raids on houses followed by numerous
arrests of workers and students. Be
tween 40 and 100 such visits are be-
ing made by the police every night.
For instance, on the nights of March
Sd and 4th, over 100 house visits were.
arranged which in most cases ended in
arrests. These raids are made in or
der to capture the members of the.
strike committee who it is alleged,
are at the head of the central commit
tee of the Socialist party of Russia.
All the prisons are filled to overflow
ing and persons arrested are being
lodged at the police stations
In August this year the An Russian
Cooperative Congress will take place
IN Kief
The number of women employed In
Russian factories in the year 1871 was
63S,3O0. the number of male workers
was 1.4l2,920.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

Chicago.-Five thousand painters,
paper hangers and decorators went on
strike. They want to 10 cents an
hour raise.
More Track Hands Strike.
Altoona, PA number of the track
hands employed on the middle division
of the Pennsylvania railroad and in
the local yards today joined the strik-
ers of the eastern division in their
demands for more money and refused
to 90 to work 1t is the intention OF
the officials here to ignore the strik-
ers as best they can and try to fill
their places after a few days.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
SOCIALlSM'S TASK.

The transformation of the crowd
into the people-profound task! 1t is
to this labor that the men called So
cialists have devoted themselves dur
ing the last forty years. A certain
hatred of Socialism, very blind, but
very general, hhs ragged for many
wears, and is still raging very bitterly
among the influential classes. Let it
not be forgotten that true Socialism
has for it's end the elevation of the
masses to civic dignity, and that,
therefore, it's principal care is for
moral and intellectual cultivation
Victor Hugo.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
Firms ESTABLISH DAIRY.

The Finnish Socialists of Fitch
burgh, Mass, are partly solving the
problem of the high cost of living
They recently established a dairy
plant, which is maintained and oper'
ated on a cooperative basis. The
milk rs sold at 5 cents quart while
the regular price at this place is s
cents quart. The next undertaking
of the Finnish local of Fitchburgh
will be the establishment of a CO.
operative ice plant.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
FOREIGN STRIKES AND
STRUGGLES.
Spanish Mine strike erows.


Madrid. April Although the
ZafraHuelva Railway company has
reinstatod eight men. whose discharge
was the cause of the Rio Titno mine
trouble. 400 miners have gone on
strike and $4,000 viii follow.
It is stated that the trouble was
fomented.. by agitators paid by a
French bear group.
The governor of Huelva is meditat-
ing in the dispute between the officials
and the miners in an effort to effect
settlement.
Strike Clash in Turin.
Turin, April As the result of a
clash yesterday between the striking
automobile workers and the carabin-
iers, five of the latter are in the hos
pital and fourteen strikers are under
arrest The row occurred at a DEM
onstration against the scabs The
strike has been on for several weeks.
Welsh Miners Ready to Quit.
Cardiff, Wales, April More than
$4,000 miners in South Wales today
handed in a months notice to quit
their employment, as a protest against
the engagement in the mines of non
unionist workmen. Failing an agree
ment between the men and their en-
ployers all the pits will be idle on
May 1.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
Denmark.

In the recent municipal elections
held in Copenhagen the Socialists
polled 55,164 votes and obtained 81
seats in the municipal council, the
Liberals polled 43,725 votes and Sc
cured % seats, and the Radicals 10000
votes and seats.
The Socialist party won in many Of
the provinces also, and in many towns
they have a majority in the common
council.
The membership of the Danish So
cialist party is 4S,2OO, while the ma
tional vote is over $4,000.
The 14th congress of the Danish
Socialist party was held some weeks
ago in Copenhagen, a strong resolu-
tion condemning the so-called boring
from within organization" known as
Syndicalism was adopted with only
one dissenting vote.
The congress decided that the ad
hesion to a syndicalist organization
is inconsistent with membership in
the Socialist party
Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has a board of agricul-
ture elected by. a representative from
each county. the Socialists elected a
delegate in 90 of the counties and
have four Socialists upon the new
state board composed Of ten members.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
(By Carl Ulonska.)
France.

France.
The women of France are organic
ing into Socialist locals.
The C. G. T., the Trade Union Ma
tional center of France, has published
a manifesto against the attempt to re-
introduce the three-year military bill.
Italy.
A special Trade Union Congress in
Milan decided upon the attitude to be
adopted in relation to the revision of
the Accident Insurance law They re-
quire particularly the extension of the
compulsory insurance to cover all
classes of workers.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

Frye, Bruhn & Co, owners of pack
ing houses, have become the greatest
humorists on the Pacific coast. Few
persons would suspect it off hand, but
it is so. Recently the big company
has fitted up retail market that sur
passes anything ever seen in Belling-
ham. 1t is located on one of the best
business corners of the city and fin
ished in marble and steel. Extending
across the front of the building is a
streamer bearing the legend, Eight
ing the Meat Trust" Upward of 20
small shops over town are not con-
WINGED by any such argument, but it
is impossible for some people to see
Joke. A number of socialists have
limited in a gentle way that the real
purpose is to put the little fellows out
of business, but that is likewise unbe-
lievable. All the same, small mar
ket is closed every few days, its bust
ness ruthlessly confiscated by the big
concern. Frye, Bruhn e Co. are fight
ing the meat trust by swapping up
these unconsidered trifles, like Autoly-
Gus in "The Winters Tale"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
ChehalIs County

Aberdeen city Elections.-Ihe com
biued vote for socialist candidate for
council was G27. Shutzler socialist
candidate from the first, was barely
beaten by % votes. Wilson in the
second was badly beaten by a major
ity of % votes and Thomas in the
sixth was showed under, the vote be-
ing: Sawyer, 300; Thomas, 122.
The highest individual socialist vote
was polled by V. T. Evans about $50,
for city clerk.-New Era.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
South Africa.

The political organization of the
colored races in South Africa is advo-
eating a bill prohibiting the sale OF
alcoholic drinks to colored persons as
is already in force in the Transvaal.
Their organization publishes a
weekly paper which battles for
equality, up to now they are, as all
'non-Europeans" there, without civil
rights.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
SOCIALISM AND ETHICS.

Pity for poverty enthusiasm for equality and freedom
recognition of social injustice and desire to remove IT. IS not
socialism Condemnation of wealth and respect for poverty
such as find in Christianity and other religions IS not
socialism The communism of early times it before the
existence of private property and it has at all times and
among all people been the elusive dream of some enthusiasts
is not socialism.
In all these appearances there is lacking the real found
capitalist society with its class antagonsms Modern
socialism the child Of capitalist society and It's class antagon
ismg Without these IT could not be- Socialism and ethics
are two separate things This fact must be kept in mind
Wilhelm Liehnecht.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
BELLINGHAM

N,vs and Views from the Common.
Ncalth's Correspondent
Tho second ward local has taken mp
the study OF the socialist claHsics at
the Sunday Afternoon propaganda meet
iues. Last Sunday was the first meet
ine of tho series and this program will
be continued, excepting dates when
our local is supplied with a state or
national speaker. The lesson Sunday
afternoon was confined to the preface
of "The Communist Manifesto the
speaker explaining how the hoo, came
to he written. the conditions that sug-
gested its preparation by Marx and
Engels siNty-five years ago, and why
the authors called II "rhe Communist
Manifesto" DO you know why the
book was not called "rhe Socialist
Manifesto? There was n reason, a
mighty good one at the time, and every
socialist should look it up in the pre-
face. It's worth while just now.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

gpa wo invite emigration with such
70 burdan2
lrs time taxpayers We're getting
halr eyes open and thorough exc
animation made OF "WIera our money
goes. o. Northwest Forum.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
County Notes
Benton County.

Benton county is in the same condi-
ton as Yakima county-TaXes eX-
orbitant, school taxes $500 per pupil
per month.
Our taxes on irrigated land for 1912
are 90 per cent higher than in 1911
The assessor put on so per cent and
the commissioners 10.
What are we going to do?
Shall we submit and bankrupt our
ranchers?
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
DIRECT ELECTION OF sENA-
TORS.

Tt is now i'm order to say that the
people will i'm future elect the u. s.
senators.
What good viii that do us?
The second chamber was, like the
English house of lords, meant TO De a
check on the people We don't want
q second chamber Abolish it
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
Switzerland.

In some of the Cantons of Switzer-
land school teachers are elected by a
direct vote of the people.
In Zurich recently many of the So
cialist candidates were elected in
spite of the strongest opposition.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

Our national lyceum meeting was
delayed half an hour Friday night by
a late train. The audience was pa
tient. however, the time being filled
in with brief talks by local comrades,
Bertha Rogers presiding. The lectur-
err, Mary l.. Geffs, reached the hall in
fine trim, and in the next two hours
every Doubling Thomas knew precise
" "What Socialists Want" That was
Comrade Geffs' subject, and | do not
exaggerate in saying that she made 1t
so interesting that the people com
PEELED her to talk half an hour longer
than she really intended, When the
crowd was passing out | noticed that
almost every man and woman carried
socialist book, magazine or paper
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

It is the duty and privilege Of the
people TO create a social and economic
so that the human race
may an develop intellectually morally
and physically 10 the fullest capacity
of each oue-A. W. Kicker.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
STOCK IN THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLISHING CO.

,wing locals have purchased share each during the
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
LIVERMORE DATES.

Saturday, April 19-Mukilteo.
Sunday, April 20-Ferndale.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18

Last year there were S,215 derail-
ments on the United States railways,
1877 of which were caused by defec-
tive roadway while 3,847 were due to
faulty equipment
Milford chronicle., 1913-02-28
MOTHER AND 8 CHILDREN DIE
PEE Dies In Vain Effort to Save
Her Little Ones.

The wife Of Howard Fisher, a car
penter. and three of her children were
burned to death in their home in
South Huntingdon, near Huntingdon,
Pa.
Mrs. Fisher had gone to a store
leaving the children, two girls and a
boy, ranging in age from six months
to five years, unattended. On her re-
turn she saw the house in flames and
tried to enter the front door, but was
driven back by the fire and smoke.
Then, frantically, she ran to rear
window and, although seized by TWO
men, succeeded in throwing herself
into the flaming interior in the first
floor In this manner she met her
death with her little ones whom she
was unable to save.
The husband was absent from home
and an eight-year-old daughter, who IS
deaf and dumb, was the only one
saved from the flames.
Milford chronicle., 1913-02-28
EYES OF A PORTRAIT.
Why They Seem to Follow Observers
Moving To and Fro.

Why They Seem to Follow Observers
Moving To and Fro.
The facf that the eyes of some por-
traits follbw the observer as he moves
to diTerpbt pnSliions has always been
hooked upon as triumph Of realism
Alfhnugh The phenomenon has been
exaggerated in some Instances. il is
not IA myih II the eyes OF the portrait
look at thp observer in II favorable pc
sitiuu hey will continue 10 do so with
in wide angle extending TO any stu
alton where IL view is possible. Con
trarily. Ii the eyes do not Intentionally
look M |lhp observer they will not do
so even though he take his station at
a point where The painted gaze is seem
ingly directed
Suppose HAT the portrait head is in
three quarter face tnrupd to our left.
with tbp r,p ps turned toward the spec
taIOr L we move 10 the right we do
not Obtain another view OF The head
that is We do not move into the profile
view That would he the case In real
life. We see the same three-qnarter
head. 1at lesSpned in perspective. The
picture itself is ON fat canvas and
becomes narrowed iu perspective. as
does any fiat Surfare heheld at less than
right angie. \ square seen at less
than right anglp tends toward the
projection Of an oblong Under these
conditions the face Of the portrait be
comes elongated propurtionally. 1t still
looks at the spectator because it pos
sesses all the drawing that was seen
In tle front view. narrow now because
viewed from IN acute angle.
This fact will be more readily under
stood by the spectator if he will half
close his eyes until unable TO apprecl- |
ate the surroundings Of the picture
and the acute angle which the painted |
surface bears to him The contraction |
OF the features will be apparent at
once The photograph of portrait at
an acnte angle would show the per
spective narrowing more plainly. II IS
this contracted portrait that is seen
upon moving to the right or left of It
Tbe principle would be the same If the
spectator take a station higher or low
er than the picture. except that the
head would then appear TO be widened
instead of narrowed Whatever the
position of the spectator, the eyes will
ook at him df they do so in the first
llacel because there is no other place
or them to look. -Harper's Weekly.
Milford chronicle., 1913-02-28
ORDER MORE TROOPS
READY FOR MEXICO
Two Additional BrIgadeS Sent
to Galveston

With nearly 10000 soldiers enroute
to or preparing TO leave for the mo
bilization camp at Galveston, Texas
President Taft reiterated his determi
nation not to bring on a war with Mex
leo by Intervention.
At the same time in fulfllment Of
his promise to lay the cards on the
tables" for President Wilson, orders
were written at the war department
for the dispatch of two additional bri-
gades to the Mexican uorder
The administration already reg rds
the killing of the deposed President
Madero and Vice Pr, lent Suarez as
a closed incident, in which this gov
eminent has no other interest than
that of human sympathy ami well wish
ing to the new government in Mexico
City
1t was even admitted in many quar-
ters that brutal as was the act Of the
taking off of Madero, his elimination
probably has done mach to simplify
the present situation and remove the
greatest menace to the aim of the new
regime to restore peace throughout all
Mexico.
The troops now enroute TO Galveston
or ordered to proceed there comprise
all those in the central department
commanded by Major General William
II. Carter, at Chicago
When all the troops under orders to
60 to Galveston have assembled there
the total force viii be about 10000
men. There will be between 5000 and
5000 infantry, about 500 cavalry and
about the same number of field artil
lery. To transport this force four
army transports are now enroute to
Galveston.