The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-20
ARoUSING MURDER SPIRIT IN
CHILDREN.
Boosting Boy Scout Movement by
Glarinq Posters.

Down by the postoffice, on Califor-
mia street on big bill board about
twenty feet in length, is a glaring,
multi-colored chrome relating to all
the lovely things Boy Scouts are not
organized to do. Baden-Powell, pro.
fessional man-killer, and inventor OF
the Boy Scout idea, showed only the
other day what he organized these
budding young man-killers for when
he offered the services of one thou
sand of them to the owners of Great
Britain for service in the present Eu-
ropean slaughter-house.
But you'n find no suggestion of VIC
lence and homicide on the billboard
decoy. oh, no. Like everything else
that the bloody hand of capitalism
touches, deception, hypocrisy and dis
similation characterize the whole
makeup of the seductive picture got
ten up and posted by the advocates of
violence and oppression. The terrible,
selfish brutality and lust for pelf and
power that actuates the costly allure
ments of this Boy Scout movement are
apparent only to the student who
knows the inner nature of things as
they are"
TO MOTHERS.
To the millions Of devoted mothers
of this nation we dedicate our services
in the effort to expose the inner mean
ing of the Boy Scout movement We
urge that the real end in view in the
making of Boy Scouts is not what is
represented by the scheming creatures
who seek to attract and delude both
mother and tenderly loved child by
pictures and literature purporting to
develop in young boys humane i'm
pulses and manly self-reliance.
Mothers, we cannot give you here
the uncontrovertable evidence upon
which our assertions regarding this
diabolical conspiracy are based, but
we shall return to the subject at brief
intervals, offering proofs of our con-
tention, which, briefly, is this:
The Boy Scout movement is organ
lied for two purposes only first, to
breed a deluded race of obedient and
trained strike-breakers, ready at COM
mand to help their "superiors" to still
further degrade and impoverish, by
brute force and murderous violence, |
the working class of the world reduc
ing them to virtual peonage, not to
say slavery. This has already been
done in Colorado, West Virginia, and
elsewhere. Helpless women and inno- |
cent babes have been shot down in |
cold blood that Sacred Property might /
be enhanced at the expense of Honest |
Labor. Such diabolical work was ac-
complished by men who had been well
taught to honor the flag" and "obey |
their superiors"
Secondly, the owners of America are |
getting ready not only for the further
subjugation of labor at home, but for |
wars of foreign conquest. Capitalism, |
monopoly, and expansion all necessi-
tate the opening Of ever new and
larger markets. This spells Imperial |
ism-begun under Mckinley, and soon
to be carried still further under the !
war-Ioving Roosevelt, who will prob
ably be reelected president in 1916.
Mothers, there is only one alterna-
tive for you if you wish to prevent the
mangling of your loved boys precious
body at the command of Big Business.
You must aid the Socialists in their
war against war, in their imperious
demand for the ways of peace and
their adherence for violence and blood
shed. You must aid them in estab-
fishing the cooperative common
wealth, brotherhood peace and plenty
for all who labor
The capitalist system is dependent
for it's very existence upon the heart
less exploitation Of labor, involving
class conflicts, bloody repressions,
despotism and war. Help the Social
lists to lay the ak to the root, for
bad tree can not bring forth good
fruit. Capitalism has fulfilled its mis-
sion. IT must be abolished, or the
world will be reduced to anarchy and
ruin.
The Boy Scouts are to be used in
the support of a system that can no
longer serve the ends of civilization.