The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-02-21
TheSoCiaIist Vote Grows
~ EDWIN ,. Brown

~ EDWIN y. BROWN
Ne.isee TOE Cerpersties COUNSEL
Year after year we see the good
results % the Propaganda of eco
ncmlc detesminism and social de-
nsecrsey
In the Seattle primaries Of Tues
DAY the Socialists were assured a
nominee for every office. had not
tie cbstruetiontsts tRed Socialists.
se-railed) exerted every energy In
fighting the real Socialists who are
representative OF the principles
euunciated By the national Socialist
party.
II must now be evident 10 the pso-
pie who the real Socialists are. and
those who are DESTROYS Of engaging
IN this glorious work of battling TOR
better conditions for the working
class. and their ultimate cmanctpa-
lion from wage slavery. should lose
20 time In laying their plans 10 .f-
feet harmony and consolidation Of
al the forces which make for soil
the Socialist party which has re-
eeiyed sanction and approval
through the peoples suffrage.
We have seen Tn this campaign
that education In a growth and not
discovery. and we arc bound TO
Acknowledge that education without
organization IL as barren 81 results
a. organization without education.
and that people may claim TO be So
eiallsts and yet have little real com
profession Of It's democracy and the
class struggle whieh Is Its impeiling
force.
We VOTE AGAIN.
once more will the great common
people vote for what they do not
want and get H.
The people want access to the
means OF life: they want TO abolish
exploitation and their social rob.
berry. they want the ownership OF
public service Institutions 20 vest IN
me collective people. yet they vote
the friends OF private ownership 81
the means Of life into public office
to exercise the tnoeiaJ governing
power and this governing power be-
Ing the political expression of the
economic Interests % the class In
power. the common people must not
expect relief from the friends Of
privilege
LET THE GOOD WORK 60 ~.
A the organization OF exploiting
instituttons reach ever and ever
higher stage OF development the
greater the economic pressure and
more tenslfied the struggle for ex-
lxtence OF the workers becomes. IN
I'll the common people are forced 10
recognize their material class inter
ests. and az the fact Of their ex-
pioitation becomes manifest 20 them
tnsy recognize the necessity OF or
ganizing their political power 40 a.
TO give expression to their eco
nSfnie Interest Thus we see that
q battle Is never lost but every
struggle IL neceRaary 10 better quail
ify US for the final victory.
Year after year do new recruits
sHeil our ranks, greater and great.
- do our numbers grow. less and
less u the majority vote iu favor Of
exploitation re Of good cheer.
you, one or two more such Victories
IN Seattle BY the exploiters % the
people Will witness the poiitfca I
supremacy Of the Socia ilHts. who
alone this day stand for progress
ana private rights.
In expressing my gratitude to the
soeialist voters for their confidence
y, me direct their attention more
fully 10 the principles for which 10
eialism stands. namely. that every
person should have the right 10
labor and enjoy the full fruits Of
their labor. this is the principle
npon which the public welfare
49, snd from which the instftu-
1g.H OF private rights emanate.
Wnlch are the rights 70 liberty. Sc 3.
.nrity ana property. But In the al
i4lnistration OF our legal iuptftu-
uons this principle Of the Law h Ios,
sarn,ri =. through the detail OF It's
~ 's,hlstration. for no person has
me flsnt to labor and enjoy the full
fruits OF their labor when some 9th
~ person or class Of persons own
the machines or tools Of wealth pro-
Huction upon which and with which
III rker ~ compelled TO work for
N order 70 live Therefor .
S.clahsin DEGREES that those forces
ot production which are social H.
lneif use are under the natural Ia v,
utHlSnated Tor social opnerahlD and
. .s,stno.Iatic management 70 the end
,naA ~feaith may be Produced for
~, ann not for. profit va say ex-
pioltatlon should be abolished
:. me Democratic management OF
~. soclal or collective owned Insti-
tutlons would return us Ia fIrs,
pr'hsipie, In that every person
Wouid have the right 10 labor ana
rrnjoy the fun fruits Of their labor
I'M winch are individual IN their
w-.--t.." uHo.r the natural law
narked for Individual ownership
mere ~ no such thing known or
contemplated under Socialism as al
NI"InS Up. The dividing process \.
capitaHst Institution now h.
vogue. as In The process az nrndt,r
~ labpr gets wages aud tho own
Iuh tNploiters ~ the iustitutlouf
.tpulfe TIC wealth created bv labor
thdi portion ~ lab0r'a produri
whl'n - In excess Of the amount IA
IhD1rS wages constltutaa sttrnttts
value, and We are compettcd NJ
recognize that our present capitaflei
society and Institutions depend up
on the exploitation OF wage slaves
me one grand scientific fac
enout Socialism In that the worLfng
eiafH cannot free Itself from ~
yoke o. exploitation without r., ~,
same time euancipaffnR tho .ars
from exploitation and eievstiug ma
klhd =" higher civilization.
Next week I shall write m srtt.
" ~ the primary law and how ~.
',i"llsi party can organize undo
y 70 that pork -chop-sfctv -burna am
PIN mead politicians cannot vtnfat.
l"'laliHt Parry principles with i'm.
tfnityt ana by their rouab-noet.
gnhrchiftic tactics drive the wort
ing class members Of the MARI
away In disgust
EDWIN !. BROWN.
ia First Az. Union Block.