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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
WHATl GRAFT IN EVERETT?
Surely You Don't Mean II.

Urged on by multitude of votes
that are to be cast in future elections,
and by the fear of recall, certain dig
nitaries of Everett are now crying
aloud for cessation of the gambling,
illicit liquor selling, prostitution, cock
fighting dog-fighting and prize-fight-
ing that are alleged to have been go
ing on in Snohomish county undis-
moral-wavers have begun signing re-
ceipts at the public payroll counter.
And 1t is said that lots of coin has
been received by various individuals
in this county for which no receipt
was asked or given. Ich ka biddle!
But it's funny just the same.
These pure souls that don't believe
in dividing up"-so they say-force
the industrious to divide up with the
lazy and good-for-nothing.
Dear! Deari
And here they come around them.
selves, sweet, orthodox souls, and
compel the Industrious and public
spirited to divide up with them-or
they'll squeal!
That high-minded and brilliant gen.
tleman, Prosecutor Faussett, has come
out boldly for reelection and the call
ing of a grand jury to investigate the
manipulations of certain of "our best
citizens" and certain other persons,
high in church and business circles
who have, it is alleged, been "enjoy.
ing large revenues from the earnings
of social outcasts."
Well! Well! Who would have
thinked it!
Isn't it so? You think it isn't?
WAIT.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
HOLY JOHNS EARNINGS.
VIII Pay Tax on 100000, 900.

The tax commission of Cleveland,
Ohio, legal residence of John d. Rookie
feller, called upon that Saving" and
wholly religious gentleman last week
and asked him to pay $12,690,000 taxes
on 5000 100000 of personal property.
Holy John d. considers this an out
rage
And so 1t is. The very idea of ask
ing so wealthy and influential a gen
tleman to pay taxes on a par with a
common hod-carrierl Who owns this
government anyhow?
Well, maybe his holiness is not
trembling very much, at that. He
still has in mind that $29, 100000 fine
of Judge Lands.
The working people of this great
country should rise up in indignant
Sunday school wrath against this i'm
pudence on the part OF a few poll
ticians in Cleveland, playing to the
galleries." and trying to put curb
Oh euleGpilSt anu ihllidlifC'
John d. earned that $900,000,000 by
industry and saved it by smoking &c
cigars, or going without them alto
gether.
Didn't he? Let's see:
Had you been born 5000 years ago,
dear reader, and had you been "lay,
ing by for a rainy day" ten dollars a
week ever since, you would by this
time be worth about $2,600,000. But
John D. has laid aside from his earn
ings the neat little sum of 100000, 900
in about fifty years.
Where did he get it?
Earned it," of course. Easy, isn't
t?
No, brother wage-slave, YOU VOT.
ED 1T TO HIM. That's how he got it
Every worker who votes a capitalist
ticket votes for such incomes-TO
THE OTHER FELLOW.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
TRUE SOURCE OF ALL
WEALTH.

In his book, "The American Gov
ernment," Frederick ]. Haskins says:
"Two-thirds of all the national wealth
is the product of invention"
Yes, and nine-tentbs of all the in
ventions are the product of working
class genius. Yet the benefits of in
ventions flow not to their creators,
but to capitalists, who usually rob the
inventor of the profits derived from
the product of his creative genius.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
THAT SCHOOL ELECTION.

On the first Saturday in March, in
all districts of the second and third
class in Washington, there occurs a
school election. However important
the November election may be this
March election is all important.
Did you know that every day lies
and misconceptions are being taught
in the schools, lies that are in the
interest of the ruling class? Did you
know that the average capitalist
minded teacher is as ignorant as
barbarian concerning life as it is
lived today? Did you know that she
is molding the mind of your children
to be sterile desert of conventional
pettiness just like her own? Did you
know that she is filling your child's
head with dreams Of war and murder
and profit taking and plunder that
will unfit him very likely for life
that is worth living?
Sound your teacher and you will
find, nine times out of ten, that with
all her palaver about nature study she
has no real knowledge of Darwin or
Wallace. The chances are that she
never heard of Marx or Morgan or
Engels. The chances are that her
knowledge of the universe is NOT much
ahead of that displayed by Milton in
Paradise Lost" In short, she is q
dead one intellectually.
Then over her there is the superin-
tendent. What is a superintendent?
Usually a teacher who has demonstrat-
ed his subserviency. Almost always a
weakling Intellectually, a boolish boob
with a political turn of mind. Slip
perry, fawning, cringing, two-faced-
that is about the breed, with here and
there a noble exception, and here and
there more ignoble exception. Petty,
officious, tyrannical to those who have
no influence, buying tickets to church
blow-outs from those who have in
fluence.
Yet, we who work are to blame for
this type of teacher and this type of
superintendent. For years we have
stayed away from school elections.
we have never created a demand for
some other kind of teacher. We have
trusted the superintendent to care for
us as we have trusted doctors and
lawyers in our foolish hours of dis
tress.
Did you know that reactionary
forces are now slipping into the
schools for the purpose of controlling
them? Did you know that in Sno-
homish county public schools eighth
grade examinations are being held in
Catholic academy instead of apub-
lie school building, and that this fact
is advertised in documents paid for
by the county?
Let every Socialist local in the state
of Washington nominate directors. If
there is no local where you live run
yourself. If you cannot run with
heavy shoes on run with rubber shoes
on; but run or get someone else with
brains to run Don't compromise with
anybody; but you may have to resort
to ambush.
But let this thought inspire you:
WE MUST SAVE THE SCHOOLS
FROM THE REACTION THE RIs-
ING GENERATION is OUR ONLY
HOPE EDUCATION is OUR WATCH
WORDl
J. e. SINCLAIR.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

FOES OF PROGRESS HATCH
INFAMOUS PLOT.
Arlington Socialist Teacher Suspended

Arlington Socialist Teacher Suspended
The Arlington patriots" assisted
by County superintendent Lizzie
Jones, have scored again in their cam
paign against Socialist teachers. On
Sunday notice of suspension was
served on Mrs Emma Sinclair by
that arch-patriot, George Lancaster
Mrs. Sinclair is charged with having
tuberculosis That she is in better
health now than she has been for
years is entirely beside the question.
Lizzie started to "get" her out of the
teaching business away last summer
when she was incubating the plot to
run out her husband, j. e. Sinclair.
II was then arranged that Sinclair
and then his wife would be disposed
of. The first chapter was a miserable
fizzle.
Rumors of the plot to get Mrs. Sin
clair reached her ears three months
ago: but not until Lizzie Jones sent a
maiden by the name of Kelley to the
school to examine Mrs. Sinclair did
she realize that her silence in the So
cialist movement was to be no safe
guard.
Knowing that any person designated
by Lizzie Jones could find tubercu-
losis anywhere, Comrade Sinclair re-
thn oil
examine her. Then came DR.. j. e..
Harris, bearing in his hand letter of
instruction from Lizzie asserting that
either Harris or the county health Of
ficer had to examine Mrs. Sinclair
and that nobody else could do the job.
This selection of physicians by ones
enemies is not very assuring, and
Comrade Sinclair refused to be eX-
amined by either of the two gentlemen
selected by Lizzie but offered to fur
nish proof that she was free from
tuberculosis and to submit to examina-
ton by physician other than of Liz
zie's selection.
On InuTSudy LII. I1dlllS Cdlicu uP
over the phone and asked Mrs. Sin
clair if she had changed her mind and
was willing to be examined by him.
But she stood pat.
Then the mill started. This worthy
health officer, although admitting, as
Lancaster says, that Mrs. Sinclair did
not "1ook" as though she had tuber-
culosis, ordered her suspension as a
teacher until satisfactory" evidence
is placed in his hands that she is free
from that peculiar product of capital
ism known as tuberculosis.
The school board, that can never
get in a hurry about any other bust
ness, Immediately got together and
adopted Harris order of suspension
most heartily.
Thus the spite of petty political
creature by the name of Lizzie Jones
has found a victim and the tools that
she uses in Arlington in the shape of
an illegal school board and a health
officer whose willingness to assist is
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY A
DATE OF GREAT EN-
TERTAINMENT.

The Woman's Committee has
set the date of the next entertain
ment for Sunday, Feb. %, at 8
%. m. A program is being ar
ranged. Of course one of our
famous suppers will be served
later in the evening. Tell every
body to tell everybody else to
come. All are assured a good
time.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
SHE SHOULD WORRY.

Mrs. Gertrude Lee, head of the dem
ocratic state central committee in
woman-suffrage Colorado. is not wor-
ried about Mother Jones Illegal inn
prisonment in Trinidad, nor does she
care a whether women and
children were ridden down by the
brute patriots" under Gov. Ammons.
She should worry
Mrs Lee Is a Democrat
But Mrs Lee belongs to the owning
class and IS in politics for the bosses,
not for the wage-slave element
What are politics between friends?
Neither Democrats nor Republicans
viii do anything for the working-class
that they are not forced by circum-
stances TO do
The Socialists alone stand by the
class which does the worlds work.
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNlTEi
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
Century Dictionary: "Socialis

Century Dictionary: Socialism is
any theory or system of social organi-
zation which would abolish entirely,
or in great part, the individual effort
and competition on which modern So
ciety rests, and substitute for it CO.
operative action; would introduce a
more perfect and equal distribution Of
the products of labor, and would make
land and capital, as the instruments
and means of production, the joint
possession of the members of the COM
munity."
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

For gold his sword the hireling ruffian
draws,
For gold the hireling judge distorts
the laws.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

But under the veneer of civilization
was the caveman who dwells within
the skins of all of us-the caveman
who cares not snap of the finger
for law and order, or civilization, or
society, or country, or flag.
These are acquired devotions. The
caveman loves only the rooftree, and
those that dwell beneath 1.-THE mate
and the offspring. In defense of these
the caveman will fight. In support of
these he will reach out with ruthless
hand and take what they need.
AS he stepped from the house Satur-
day night, the cloak of civilization fell
from him like a cast-off garment
The baby was asleep. In the morn
mig it would waken, hungry. There
must be milk. Civilization provides a
system of exchange and barter. II
you would have pint of milk, you
must pay. And the cayeman had no
money.
II was not his fault that he had no
money. Every day for weeks and
months he had searched for work.
True, he had relatives and friends who
would help il asked. But there is no
pride like the caveman's pride.
He had put his trust in society. He
had obeyed its laws. And now society
had failed him. In the morning the
child would be hungry. Well, he
would find food for II.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

OF Everett want What they claim they
want. they will again put Socialists in
the various city offices and get what
every city should have. and what Ey-
erett once got. an honest. efficient
Socialist admipls.ration.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
PERSONAL.

Comrade H. Menke, kindly write to
F. L. Hawley, Blanchard, Wash.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

The tramp is the complement of the
millionaire.-Henry George.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

Reason gains all men by compelling
Hill.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

All the evidence points to his having
been a good man. There was inbred
in him respect, inherited from gen
erations of English ancestors, for law
and order.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

of his
inquire eand digenys the
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

But IL is not wise TO defy society.
Avann. in defense of his life and his
property, slew the caveman. He was
justified
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12
A MAsrERLy SOCIALIST LECTURE

is doubtful ii who the OF
American fearfy ndct the and hold
up the present society contempt dcue Some
Rogers almost reasonable but there
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

California avenue. The robber was
dead
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-12

Avann ran out of the store. return
ing with DIR. Gustav Lewis. OF 66Ol
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
chauffeurs Are KICKING.

ga wealthy widow elopes with a
chauffeur" or can heiress elopes with
her fathers chauffeur" is a familiar
headline in the New York papers. The
chauffeur is a knight Grant. Surely
there was never a knight more Grant
than he. He is the wizard Of the
hammer and wrench. 1t is proper
that he should displace Vulcan in the
affections of Venus. If women once
gladly ran away with the coachman,
by reason Of the coachman's mastery
over that admirable beast, the horse,
how much more susceptible they must
be to the transcendant destinations of
the modern chauffeur.
There is nothing petty or squalid
abcnt the chauffeur except the strange
title. The 'chauffeur"-a stoker, or
man who makes a fire under a boiler,
1t is not merely undescriptive, it is
ignominous. The chauffeurs' union is
just getting on to what the title means
and they believe that since they have
been called upon to play the hero role
they should be known by something
fine and imposing. They suggest that
they be called the charioteer, or
auriga.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
WOMEN VOLUNTEERS


In stress and trouble the women of
nation are always to be coantasa
upon In Servia the women went to-
the front with muskets in their hands.
and they were as strong and as brave.
as the men on the firing line. In
this country few of our women es-
cape the weakening troubles peculiar
TO their sex.
For every disease or ailment of n
Womanly character, no matter hove
recent or how long standing, the one
sure, reliable remedy of proved meg
it Is DR.. Piere0's F'ayorite PrescripA
tioR.
1t is prepared from natures roots
and herbs and does not eoEtain a
particle of alcohol or any narcot-
&c. It's not a secret prescription for
its ingredients are printed on the
wrappe~.
Women are earnestly advised to
take it for irregular or painful peri
DDS. backache, headache, displace-
ment, catarrhal condition, hot fash
rs, sallow complexion and nervous
ness
For girls about to enter woman
hood, women about to become moth
ers and for the changing days of
middle age DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription should always be on
hand.
Write Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, ~. Y,
for free 1876 page book on woman's
diseases. Every woman should have
one.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
Guerrilla Warfare.

The term guerrillas is applied to
armed bands who, on the occasion of
foreign invasion or civil war, carry on
an irregular warfare on their own &C
count. This class of fighters belongs
peculiarly to Spain, where from 1903
to 1914 they were systematically or
gained against the French, whose op-
erations they very seriously embar-
raised. The country itself also suf-
fered from them. Many of them, par
ticularly MINIS band, joined Yelling
ton, and, after having undergone a
course OF discipline, rendered signal
service as regular troops. On the con-
clusion of peace large numbers were
organized into robber bands In most
Of the civil wars of Spain since 1920
guerrilla warfare, especially in the
Basque provinces, played prominent
part. In the Civil war of the United
States bands Of guerrillas committed
depredations on both Federals and
Confederates.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
PROMPT ACTION WILL
STOP YOUR COUGH

When you first catch cold (often
indicated by SneeZe or cough).
break it up at once. The idea that
at does not matter" often leads to
serious complications. The remedy
which Immediately and easily pene-
trates the lining of the throat is the
kind demanded. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery soothes the irration, loosens
the phlegm. You feel better at once.
"It seems to reach the very spot of
my cough" is one of the many hon
est testimonials. so cents at your
druggist. Ties, Thur fri ,& wkly.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
HUMAN LIFE GROWS in VALUE
Society Formerly Made Practically No
Provision TO Protect Its
Members.

The value of life has huctuated
greatly in the different periods of the
worlds history, writes Dale H. earn
nagey in Leslie's Weekly. To the
Spartans life was cheap. The highest
duty was to be a soldier; the greatest
honor was to give away life for the
state. Napoleon estimated the thou
sands of lives his conquest for a uni
versal empire would cost, and he
marched On sacrificing them. Life had
little value. Under Henry VIII death
was the punishment for stealing three
shillings; there were 253 crimes pun
ishabIe by death; 10000 people were
executed in his reign.
Formerly war, pestilence and fam
inc swept off humanity by the count
less millions. During the Thirty
Years war 100000 of Germany's
population were killed. The Black
Death devoured 25,0OO,O00 people in
Europe during the fourteenth century.
Three hundred and fifty famines have
swept over the earth since the begin
ming of history. Human life has been
destroyed like bubbles. Today all this
has changed.
Smallpox and yellow fever, for ages
the two dreaded horrors of mankind,
have lost their terror. The new dis
coveries in surgery have alleviated un-
told suffering. Formerly operations
were performed while the subject
writhed and shrieked with pain. To-
day anesthetics render the patient as
msensible as a mountain bowlder.
The leading physicians of the world a
few weeks ago cheered long and loud
ly DR.. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller
institute when he announced to them
that he had stopped the hearts of ami
mails for two and .one-half minutes and
performed operations on their valves.
Animals have played an important
part in the eradication Of human dis
eases. From the horse the antitoxin
is prepared that saves thousands of
children from death by diphtheria.
From the cow the vaccine preparation
for immunizing against smallpox is
made.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
Holding Court on Race Course.

Famed Ascot is legal as we'll as roy
al in being the only race course in
the world with it's especial court of
justice. When George " was regent
he was assaulted at Ascot, and when
his assailant was arrested. demanded
his instant punishment. Enraged at
the delay by the mans conveyance
to Windsor, the prince decreed that
magistrate should always be in at
tendance at Ascot for the swift punish
ment Of offenders. The indictable Of
lenses act of 1918 made the royal wish
the law of the land and during Ascot
week the chief magistrate at Bow
street was accordingly on duty in
the little court room opening on the
paddock to try and to sentence all Of
tenders within a minute or two Of
their arrest.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
Tooth Wasn't So Much,

Among the children seeking air and
play in Central park one day last
week the twelve-year-old son of an
the ringleader in sports with one
crowd, and felt his dignity was be-
ing stepped on by another boy who
later came up and tried to dictate to
the players. He looked for something
about the new boy which he could
ridicule, and noticed a gold tooth
which the boy showed whenever he
could.
Huh" shifted the Amsterdam ave
nue. boy, my father paints gas pipes
with that stuff New York Tribune.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-29
IN A RAIN OF SHELLS
RUSSIAN SAILOR TELLS OF HoR-
ROR OF NAVAL BATTLE.
Once Gunners Get the Range Every
thing Which the Projectiles Strike
Is Destroyed, While the SpIin-
ters Work Great Havoc.

At the battle of Tsushima, when the
Captain Semenoff was on the flagship
Suvoroff. He had no definite post, and
took notes until the sinking of the yes
sci. Extracts from his story are as
follows:
"The first shells flew over US. At
this range some of the long ones
turned a complete somersault, and
could be clearly seen with the naked
eye curving like so many sticks thrown
in the air. They few over US, max
ing a sort of wall, different to the or
binary roar.
After them came others short of US
nearer and nearer. Splinters
whistIed through the air, jingled
against the side and superstructure.
Then, quite close and abreast the fore
most funnel, rose gigantic pillar OF
smoke, water and flame. saw stretch
ers being carried along the fore
bridge.
Shells seemed to be pouring upon
us necessarily, one after another. 1t
seemed as if these were mines, not
shells, which we're striking the ships
side and falling on the deck. They
burst as soon as they touched any
thing-the moment they encountered
the least impeachment in their fight.
Handrails, funnel-guys, topping lifts
of the boats derricks, were quite suff1-
cient to cause a thoroughly efficient
burst
THE steel plates and superstruc-
! lures on the upper deck were torn to
pieces, and the splinters caused many
casualties. Iron ladders were crumpled
up into rings, and guns were literally
! hurled from their mountings.
"In addition to this, there was
| the unusual high temperature and
! liquid fame of the explosion, which
seemed to spread over everything.
actually watched a steel plate catch
| fire from a burst. OF course, the steel
! did not burn, but the paint on it did.
| "Such almost non-combustible mate
rails as hammocks and rows of boxes,
drenched with water, fared up in a
moment. At times it was impossible
to see anything with glasses, owing to
everything being SO distorted with the
quivering, heated air.
"A man reported that the after ur'
ret had been blown up, and almost
simultaneously there resounded above
us a rumbling noise, accompanied by
the sharp clank of falling iron. Some
thing large and heavy fell with g
crash; the ships boats on the spar
deck were smashed to bits; burning
debris fell all round us, and we were
enveloped in an impenetrable smoke
"The fore-bridge was struck b.
numerous projectiles. Splinters O
shells, which penetrated in large guam
titles under the mushroom-shaped roo
of the coming tower, had destroyed
all the instruments in it, and hat
broken the compass, but luckily tn
telegraph to one engine and the voice
tube to the other were still working"