The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-04-22
THE HONOR OF THE NATION.

The commercial which demanded
Mexico could bulge President Wilson No. The
best they could do to start quarrel and let the quarrel bulge
the President.
party a
profit Nothing
distressed doY Why that the honor of the United
No gentleman you know, will fight money gen
temen simultaneously poekebook in the street and it
unthnkabe that they would quarrel about No. they would
simply simultaneously pocketbook and they would
bump each others heads in doing
Now gentlemans head bumped his honor is bumped
would apology If forthcoming they
will fight Not for the poeketboo of but their
honor gentlemen But incidentally the who wins the fight
wins the pocketbook.
Two cheap skates might ght directly the pochetboo but
This is slur against President Wilson. 1t
situation of hypocrisy 1t is ntmaton that he does not
look dreaded calamity that he secretly glad of
Nothing be farther from thoughts Gentlemen
who get into do not ke They haven't the slightest idea
rule that commercial reasons have dragged them INTO IT. They
uniformly that honor and honor alone the thing at
stake But the results uniformly the though they
fought outright for the pocketbook
President Mckinley gentleman He stood off the war
beyond the possibility of doubt that the commercial interests who
would profit by such actually blew the Maine But where
any get financial drop
each other foegone conclusion that ones honor will be
bumped
We avenged by killing Spanish boys
knew that there such boat and by killing thousands
uera insult by killing few thousand Mexican
youths who have been hepesy drafted into IIueras
do
fighting the working class families from which they Gomez will
ceeruly up purse
of the nation has been saved.
President Wilson blamed present
With all his schoomastery hghmndedness he is helpless pawn
hands of capitalism. The goodness and of any
individual deliver from the horrors of capitalist cvza
ton Nothing but part
a change.
It is interesting note by the in what our
honor has been bumped Several sailors and paymaser
mistake discovered But there official apology and
uea refused salute the American flag with twentyone guns
public expression o. contrtlon
There are by way many Americans who being
imprisoned illegally from time to time One Of Them in particular
not worth considering eyes President Wilson and his
gentlemen advisers And it is Colorado Mexico where her
Cabinet that Governor Ammons be required to fire number
Mother Jones belongs to the working class Also Colo
in the clutch of American capital far be- and there
patriotic commercial interests to rub honor the
The honor of the nation Piffle the people try
up this how much the working class is in
sultedY President Wilson care2'
They They think, doubt, that American workers
do They think they will let all their Injustice and
shot full of holes order to teach etiquette
There wouldn't be so much cry honor just
they sdenes cry while those who do the suffer
peace go the of And the punish
they will nflc will of course land uerta but
his wreched serfs against whom cannot possibly have grV
We are insued has done it. Therefore should
and legs off lot of Mexican boys who prob
In spite of the this honorable
pffe this President Wilson, tied down to
the ideals of his class not be able to stop it. But the Amer
lean working class stop it.
The very suggestion of for such is insult to
every member Of the working class If the workers have ne
enough to know when they nsulted the time to
make themselves heard Let the gentlemen know that they
have they want it, but that they will have do the fighting
themselves
If it is the Mexican pocketbook which fought over
those who will get piece of shoulder the guns If there to-
order to drill uera the art of eremonous fireworks
the gentlemen interested such tabeaux down and do the
drilng.-The New York Call.