The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-24
SOME DREAMING!
AN EPISODE IN THE TRAGEDY or
CAPITALISM
lRy one Of the Cast.


has gone dry The saloon was an aw-
full nuisance. The cause in fact OF
much misery.
have known q man to come in
from the harvest fields, with six dol
lars and eighty cents in his pockets.
and after he had rented room, got
bath, shave, a suit Of clothes, and
a clean handkerchief do you know
that on account of these dreadful ga
looms that man was actually broke
inside of two weeks from the day that
he struck town.
Broke--he wandered up and down
the streets of Spokane In the biting
cold of the inland winter he was
hunting for a job, until he was worn
out with the strain Then he began
to look for something to eat and a
place to sleep All to no avail. When
he had money he was slave; now
that he is broke he Is bum.
Conventional morality had robbed
him of the necessary courage to take
Therefore he did the next worse
thing, he went TO a Gospel Mission.
Here he was offered coffee and" as
reward for enduring the prayers
and the preaching, as we'll as the testi-
monies of the ones that had already
been saved from common sense.
He now hears brother tell how
good he was at his mothers knee !
then how bad he became when he left
home; and then after taking a dose
of Missiona Lunatica how good he is
now.
Next, some old lady will arise and
tell the crowd how bad she was once
how good she is, twice as much as she
ever was And to man who is not
absolutely starved. SO that he has
some idea of age, the cause of the
boosted goodness is very very evil
dent The holy show goes on until
the spieler suddenly implores you to
get saved. Come to Jesus just now
Our man is there f. the first time.
He sees the joke, but needs the cot
fee-and. He stays.
At last the prayers are over and
the crowd is lined up for the coffee
and. OF course our man is lined up
on the side of the sinners, duly sep
arated from the saved. Dividing the
sheep from the goats, as it were,
They call the saved sheep. / do not
know why they call them sheep I'M
less it is to substantiate what the
sheep-herders tell us that the sheep
is the stupidest animal in creation
Thus our man is found amongst the
goats. A Christian whose duty it is
to see that he is kept in line, as a
neighbor next to him says; Weren't
yuh here last night?"
yes"
You can't come tomorrow unless
you get saved"
Alright"
OF course he viii say alright" no
matter what he does Though the
sinker is small, and the coffee has
paralysis. yet he needs it, 0 he needs
it, every hour he needs it, and he gets
it only once a day even If his luck is
good. 9.
He viii be there, no doubt. And he
will get saved if the weather is cold
enough the temperature has re-
markable effect on the flow of Gods
grace
The name Of our man is !. NJ Broke.
The Christian now approaches
Broke; Your first night here, eh?"
Bobbing motion OF the head, indicat-
ing affirmation
The Christian observes that Broke,
unlike the others, does not have the
customary newspaper in his pockets.
Newspapers are used by the unemploy-
ed in lieu of beds, Large capitalistic
dailies are always in demand regard
less of date, as bedding for boes. You
do not know how good they are until
you have tried them
The Christian addresses Broke:
You have no paper, seer"
mo"
q will give you one after service,
it will keep your clothes from being
soled by the box car floor"
"T- H-A-N-K-Sl"
BE sure to get back here tomorrow
and get saved and if the wind is
cold enough he will After stormy
night in a box car Broke is ready for
anything.
British-German Friendship Society