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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
MR.. WOOD LIKED
~ THE DOCTORS DOPE

(Cdstinued From Page /, Col. ~
Referring back, then, by way of ex-
ample, to one of friend Richard p
Woods secondhand misallegations, let
us examine the aforementioned bril-
liant.
Our complacent exponent of JOY in
work Gng others), alleges that the
section" which he so charitably char.
acterizes as "venomous," breaches
the doctrine of shame in work"
Shame of Being Worked
AS an integral of the "venomous
section" which breaches class con-
seriousness (the class hatred attribut-
ed to us is a "venomous" fabrication
of those whose noble lives leave de-
serts full of flowers of human love) +,
the writer begs leave to inform JUS
tice-loving public that we do not
preach "the doctrine of shame in
work" We show the shame of being
worked. And this is what stings la
Dor exploiters of the Manning stripe.
Both DR.. Manning and his apostle are
well aware of the fact that it is pre-
cisely the Socialists who insist upon
having mere profit-mongers and cou-
pon-clippers put to work at some USE
full labor, some necessary social serv-
Ice, or the creation of things beautiful.
We object to paying tribute to mere
owners, as such. For any real service
they render society we are willing to
reward them with the full equivalent
of their labor in worldly goods, or
willingly give them an ownership in
the means whereby we live, whether
that means be land or machinery or
a distributing agency Like DR.. Man
ming and Richard p Wood, we are
too we'll convinced that
There is never any real happiness
on earth that is not won by hard work
and honest endeavor"
So far from preaching "the doctrine
of shame in work." we are precisely
the apostles of joy in useful service;
so much so, that we are utterly OPP
posed to the supporting of a class of
parasites who wish to make money
work for Them" which is merely
covered way of saying, make the
workers work for you"
Incidentally it may be noted that
while Mr.. Richard P. Wood boasts of
having live1 rs years in this land of
opportunity he has not yet become
a citizen under the Stars and
Stripes"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM

At the risk of being charged with
exaggerating the Importance of re.
latively minor issue, | unhesitatingly
declare that the question before the
people of California, New York,
Massachusetts, Arizona, and several
other states. relating to adjustment
of the penalty of death, Is one Of the
most vital problems of the hour. Aside
from the all-inchsive question SHOULD
the Capitalist System. With Its Ex-
ploitation, Glass Antagonisms and
wage.Slavery. Be Abolished?" there
is not single issue before any nation
today that goes deeper into the very
heart Of the social problem than does
this grave question of judicial homi-
eide.
The question should Capital
Punishment Be Abolished?" is by no
means merely academic problem, or
a question only to be settled by mar
row specialists in Jurisprudence or
penology At the bottom, the question
of abolishing capital punishment is
not solely a pathological nor juridical
problem. 1t is a broad social question,
involving far-reaching issues inherent
in the very nature of our modern
economic system.
The attitude of the average citizen,
or legislator, on the question of the
death penalty is merely an expression
of his general attitude toward all So
cial problems involving class rule and
class antagonisms, and the stability
of the institutions which spring there
from. In other words, all the conser-
vative elements, all the forces OF res
action in society, religious. political,
and economic, are lined up on the side
of the hangman, irrespective of the
ethical problems in ,olved, or such per-
tinent questions as the efficacy of the
gallows as preventive of homicide.
Crimes of violence spring from de-
finite economic and social conditions.
In society where there is no OPP
r 60. III Ssssss - 9 :. nor
tation is unknowa. crimes OF Violence
seldom or never occur, and caLital
punishment is resorted to only in
cases where the price of blood" is
refused.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
SIDE LIGHTS ON LIBRARY
BOARD ELECTION

The deadlock in the city council on
the appointment of a member of the
library board was broken by Commits
sioners Clay and Kelley agreeing on
Mrs. w. J. Brier.
During the municipal election 1t was
freely asserted by the reformers that
Clay and Salter would work nicely to-
gether on questions of common inter
est. But once let the capitalist inter-
ests be endangered, and the way Clay
and Kelley play the long lost brother
act is indeed pathetic to behold. In
several issues of the Northwest Pro-
gress it was openly and unequivocally
stated that all literature distasteful
to the Catholic church was barred
from the Everett public library.
This action, of course, ruffled the
feathers of the good Protestant min
listers.
The Intelligent working class meyf
bers of either branch of the Christian
church paid no attention to the S6me-
what subdued controversy. 4
The ministerial association Proposed
the name of c. W. Anguish as a mem
Der of the library board, to fill a
vacancy.
The city charter provides that va
cancies on the library board shall be
filled by the mayor with the approval
of the council Mr. Anguish was not
the personal choice of Mr.. Clay, but
the wires were pulled and he nom
mated Mr. Anguish.
Kelly and Salter promptly voted
NO"
Commissioner Salter, all through the
deadlock, stood for the appointment
of Katherine II. Hodgins, whose quail
fications for the place were of the
highest; but she being Socialist
Clay could never square himself with
his crowd should he make her the ap-
pointee From an educational stand
point, Mrs. Brier may be all that could
be desired; but it remains to be seen
whether the lid of censorship will be
raised or held down.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
OPPRESSION AND GALloWs
FLOURISH TOGETHER

In the early days of the ancient re-
public of Rome, capital punishment
was virtually unknown. Cruel punish
ments, including the death penalty,
were introduced only after the as
cendancy of an oppressive military
despotism and the reduction of the
erstwhile free Roman citizen to econ
omic servitude. In all ages, and
among all peoples, oppression and the
gallows flourish side by side. The
Caste system and the death penalty,
as common legal measure for the
repression of crime, both originated
in India, and both rest upon economic
tyranny.
AS the beneficiaries of injustice
and economic oppression are naturally
reluctant to relinqulsh their despotic
power, they cannot, in the very nature
of the case, very earnestly desire,
as class, to remove the fertile source
of crimes OF violence Not being able
to remove the cause of crime without
resinuuishing their own class privi-
1eges, and not wishing to have atten-
ton directed to the real remedy for
criminality, they would remove the
effects.-namely, the criminal. The
convenient and highly useful dogma
of free will" the fiction of "Sin,"
and the delusion that the gallows is
a necessary safeguard of society,
these are the "Holy Trinity of all
oppressors, ancient or modern
And so we find today, that in all
countries of the world the great mass
of the ter-educated, well-meaning,
progressive elements, are in opposi-
ton to the gallows as means Of pre-
venting crime, recognizing in it's hidi-
Gus form not an instrument for the re-
moyal of the causes Of murder, but a
mere machine of terrorization, intend
ed to brighten the recalcitrant vic
tins Of social oppression into meek
and lowly submission to legalized rob-
berry and Christianized exploitation.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
THE WORLD HELPLESS
WITHOUT THE MOB

What would the boosted resources
of the country be to the soft-handed
gentry without the mob" to go down
into the bowels of the earth to dig out
the ore and the coal; to go into the
forests and bring PROSTATE to the
earth the mighty timber, and convert
it into forms of beauty and useful
ness? Let the masters beware how
they goad into anger that mighty
working-class army without whose
strong arms, skilled hands, and brave
hearts society perishes Of hunger and
thirst, walks in darkness, and the
worlds giant machinery becomes but
junkW-Blanche Deacon, in Shipley's
"The Call of Conscience"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A
MEANS OF DIVERTING
ATTENTION FROM
REAL ISSUE
DEALS WITH EFFECTS AND NEG
LEcTs CAUSES

When the state commits homicide
for the purposes is often pretend
ed-of emphasizing the supreme sane
tity OF human life. and in order to
deter other criminals from committing
murder, Il is but playing the role or
hypocrite, on the one hand, and In
dulging in useless, demoralizing sava-
gerry on the other. But there is meth
cd in the states homicidal madness.
The rulers OF society well know
that poverty and ignorance are the
only causes of grave criminality as a
social problem. Isolated rare cases OF
atavistic homicide might occur (for
generation or sol even were poverty
and ignorance abolished. But the
need OF policemen on every street cor
ner, and of thousands of jails, would
cease II the workers were no longer
robbed OF their products; and crime
as great social evil would automa'
tically become a nightmare OF the
past. The masters know this, They
know the real remedy for crimes OF
violence, But they don't want their
exploited victims to know that THEY
know the cause and cure of crime.
They cannot apply the cure without
giving up their own system of plumber
through means of wage-slavery. SO
while they cannot safely ignore the
crimes which their own robbery pro-
duces, neither will they give up their
depredations in order to abolish the
causes of crime-the crime of both
themselves and of their victims.
There remains, then. but one thing
for the ruling robbing class to do:
Blame the results of their own econ
omic sins on their helpless victims.
And when the victims manifest the
"anti-social" tendencies which the sys-
tenn supported by the ruling class pro-
duces, the said exploiting class roll
up their greedy eyes in holy horror
against murder" and loudly call for
the hangman to punish the criminal"
for being the victim of conditions
created by their own brutal greed for
pelf and power.
So long as the unthinking majority
have their attention riveted on results,
they cannot give due consideration to
causes. This is why the master class,
as a whole, favor the retention of
capital punishment in our archaic, I'M
scientific, immoral penal codes. They
must make a kind of pretense of
aholishing crime which aG@s not inter
fere with their own wholesale robbery
and murder; so they cling TO free
moral agency" and the gallows, back
ed by nearly ali of the reactionaries,
whose way of making living requires
the continuance of the dogma of indi-
vidual responsibility for great social
causes and effects over which the in
dividual, as such, has little or no con-
troll. 1t is the same old story of the
thief who cried in the crowd, stop
thiefl" stop thief" running after an
Imaginary culpiit to direct attention
from himself, the real criminal.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

No normal person would accept the
position of hangman if sure of steady
employment and a decent living at
less murderous work.
We have heard well-to-do exploiters
scott at the Sentimental" repugnance
of certain people to hangmans trade
They boosted that if no one else would
do the job" they would take hand
at it" themselves. And why not?
Seeing that they themselves helped to
produce the social conditions which
developed a murderer why not also
take a hand" in removing the eff
fects-their victims2 Their souls be-
ing stained already by the blood of
thousands of innocent men, women,
and children, why scruple at personal
execution of one particular victim of
their own economic system?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

Causing murderers to be hanged, or
Nxilled in the electric chair, is merely
Away the ruling class have of pretend
ing to prevent further crime while
they themselves continue to profit by
the conditions which produce Grim
inals.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

The pharisaical white people of the
South who are responsible for the IL
literacy and evil environment of so
many of the negroes of their states,
force their black victims to live the
lives of mere work animals, shut them
off from all uplifting influences that
come from culture, a good home, wife
and children, and freedom from unem-
ployment and poverty; then punish
them with terrible severity for con-
duct which is thoroughly consistent
with their brutalizing treatment by
the white ruling class The cure for
negro criminality is not the gallows,
but cessation of their exploitation and
degradation at the hands of the white
profit-mongers and crime breeders.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

Capital punishment acts as deter.
rent of crime only in the case Of the
person Killed by the state. 1t doespot
remove the systematic crime of mW-
derous exploitation practiced by the
capitalists who, at present, are the
state and hire the hangman.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

The white people of the southern
states, or elsewhere. have only the
crimes which they deserve.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

l will look straight out
See things-not try to evade them.
Fact shall be fact for me, and the
truth the truth Clough.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
BACK TO THE LAND

Do you want to swap city property
for land? l want or 8-room house.
Inquire at office of Washington So
cialist.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28

The end we aim at must be known
before the way.-Jean Paul.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
STATES AND COUNTRIES II
WHICH DEATH PENALTY
Is ABOLISHED

Michigan, 1s47; Rhode Island, 1852;
Wisconsin, 1853; Maine, 1876; Kansas
1907; Washington, 1913, and Oregon
1914.
IN EUROPE
Russia, 1853 fexcepting for political
offenses.)
Tuscany, 1865.
Finland (virtually) 1926.
Belgium (not de jure, but practically
1863.
Portugal, 1857
Roumania, 1863.
Holland, 1870,
Switzerland, 1874 excepting in a
few cantons.)
Italy, 1889. Code went into effect
in 1890. Capital punishment not APP
piled after 1876.
San Marine, t848.
Norway, May %, 1902.
No capital execution has occurred
in Greenland or Iceland during the
past century.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL
AMERICA

Death penalty is abolished in Brazil,
Peru, Costa Rica
Nicaragua, Guatemala Virtually,
and in five states of Mexico.
The testimony of authorities in all
the above countries is to the effect
that no increase of murders has re-
suited through abolishment of the
death penalty, The causes of murder
are economic and social and the rem
edy must be economic and social in
nature. --~----1 -.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
BURLINGTON MARKETS.


Wednesday. Aug. {, 1915
There is stIll little old hay being
brought in. but the new crop is rapi,lly
supplanting it. Sellers # tho latter are
asking 81" and so a ton. hut are getting
N' ana SIS. The quality is reported as
below the average. Fresh Vcgcta blcs are
down to rock bottom prices. owing to
IN" competition of home gardens Cucum-
h"rs are as low as two cents each at
som" stores. Shell beans are to be had
AT "lSht cents quart and new sweet
potatoes and new Spanish onions at
ei*ht cents a pound each. Dclawarc
grapes have made their appearance at
10 cents basket. Brown middlinus and
oats are "A triilc higher according to this
weeks quotations. Few ether changes
ar" noted. The following prices were
quoted for the Free Press by g. \. Par
h"r and +. +. Perkins, procers. r. T..
Howard. meat dealer, the burlington
Fruit company and the \. D. Pcase Feed
company:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
DEFENDS THE LUWLY SKUNK
L. =. biologist Says They Are Invaiu-
able In Keeping Down Insect
Pests ON Farms.

In bulletin on "The skunk" issued
by the United States department of agri-
culture, much is said i'm praise of this
universally maligncd creature. The biol
ogist of the department admits the skunk
is low-down animal for it cannot climb
a tree, but he has many good words to
say of it's work in clearing farms of in
sect pests He SAYS the skunk is the best
known enemy Of army worms, including
the common army worm. the whcat-head
army worm, and the famm army Worm
all of which are destructive To small
grains, corn and grasses. and cause
heavy losses every year.
Farmers know that where white gruhs
are PARTICULARS abundant I'm coruiiclds
there are many little round holes bur
roWod i'm the ground about hills of corn.
! These are made by skunks I'm their night
/ lY search for gruhs. During pest of
grasshoppcrs in Kansas ii was deter
mined that in many cases n largo proper
! tion Of the food of e>unks consisted Of
crasshoppcrs strawberry growers regard
The skunk with favor. although I'm its
eager search for grubs 1t may uprout
la plant or two or eat fcW berries
/ The skunk also enjoys May hcctles and
lJunc bugs which hatch from white gruba
Skunks have versatile appettcs They
feast ON the hop grub, cUtworms, crickcts
sphinx moths. sweet potato beetles. col
orado potato beetles, field mice and rats
If skunk takes up his residence near a
barn whore rats are. if not disturbed ii
will stay there until all the rats are
gone.
Two kinds Of tobacco worms which
also attack tomato and potato plants
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
FEDERAL LEAGUE
WILL START TEN
CENT ADMISSIONS

New York, Aug. flames A. Gilmore,
of the Federal League announced tonight
that the Federal League would try out 10
cent hleacher seat baseball in Newark.
instead of l5-cent baseball, as has been
reported
we have considered the l0-cent propo-
sltlon for some time" said Gilmore to-
night, and intend to try IL ont in New
ark ON the success made there. our fu-
ture plans in this direction will entirely
depend. business Just now is bad in
Newark and we recently have received
many letters from fans there SAYING they
would like to patronize cur team, but
could not AFFORD to pay the prices asked .
Commenting ON the new raid on organ
i2ed baseball, Mr. Gilmore said that it
was strictly I'm selfdefense
AS there is no telling when Judge
Lands will make known his decision" he
SAID we are forced To go after players
now, so as not to he left in hole"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
Ne AMERICAN
NOTE To ENGLAND
BEING DRAFTED

Washington, Aug. i.-Elaborate statis
tics have been assembled by the stat
department to rcfute tho British assumu
tiun that increased expectations from tn
United states TO holland and Scandinl
Wan countries indicate that some Of thes
goods are finding their way into Ger
many and Austria. The figures will n
included in preliminary draft bein
prepared for President Wilson If tn
I reply to the three British notes mad
public Yesterday.
A study Of trade conditions between tn
United States and neutral Europeal
countries have been made by the stat
department and Investigations d
Scandinavian and Dutch trade by IN
department of commerce. \ report iron
Consul General skinner at London ais
has been received on the foreign trad
of Great Britain for the six months end
ing June 81. II shows that exports to tn
Scandinavian countries and Holland hav
increased since the war began along tn
same lines as American exports to thos
countries
The state department will contend tina
there can he no more assumption tina
American goods going to these neutrs
countries are bound for Germany thai
that British goods exported there vii
reach Great Britain's enemies,
The London report showed that Will
Great Britain exports decreased material
~ in the first six months Of 1915 as com
pared to the same period of 1914 import
increased Re-eNports during June tn
first month during which the British or
der in council was fully effective. shows
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
John u. Kelley.

The body of John q. Kelley. vhose
death occurred In Rutland July y at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. ]. g..
Tree was brought to Burlington Thurs
day noon and the intcrmcnt was made
in st Josephs cemetery. The funeral
services were held Thursday morning
at nine o'clock at ST. Peters Church at
Rutland Mr. Kelley, whose death oc-
Cured after a long illness, was for many
years resident of Burlington. He leaves
one son and -four daughters: w II
Kelley Of Glcns rails - y. Mrs John
ston of Washington, -. G.. Mrs. pluc of
Glcns Falls. \. y. Mrs. Schoder of chi
Cago ana Mrs. Tree Of Rutland
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
LEGISLATORS IN
NEW YORK WILL
RECEIVE INCREASE

Albany, Aug. Against the vigorou
protests of William Barnes, Jacob Goui
Schurman and Edgar Truman Bracket
the constitutional convention to-day ad
Nanccd to the order of final passage
proposal To increase the annual salaris
of legislators from slOo to s. 500, to
gether with travelling expenses to an
from their homes each week. The vot
was los to IS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
HorsTE1N BREEDERS TO MEET

Tho first meeting of the Vermont
IIolstein Breeders club viii be held at
tn" Bardwoll House i'm Rutland on Au-
gust II. Dinner viii be served at one
o'clock The membership of the club
has reached 1873 and is growing rap
idly. 1t is expected that state Com
missioner of Agriculture +. :. Brig
ham, Cattle Commissioner F., l.. Davis
Governor g, w. Gates, Senators Page
and Dillingham;, congressman Frank
l.. Green" and Porter Dale, eN-GoVer-
nor w. w, Stickney, who is member
of the club, Judge Iiarland Il. Howe of
the United states district court, also
member, and other distinguished men,
who viii give inspiration to the work
of the club, will be in attendance
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
ATHLETIC MEET or HIGH SCHOOLS

ON Tuesday. september :, at the Rut-
land fair one OF tho attractions will be
an athletic meet Of tho high schools of
Vermont and eastern New York In addi-
tiou, ST Peters Athletic association will
give a meet open to all amateurs. Prizes
amounting to 500 will be given.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
Emery Reynolds.

Emery Reynolds died sunday night at
lo:lb O'Clock at the home of his dauph-
ter, Mr.. +. @. Mills. of llG south Wmoo-
SKI avenue Sunday was his sls birth
day.
BESIDES his daughter, Nj heynolds
leaves two sons Dr. r. Y. REYNOLDS of
Fairfax and Georgo H. of Milton a
brother, ;. L. Reynolds, of this city, also
Il half brother and sister, ,lcrhert g. of
GhllS3p Aud Ma Augusta Conant Of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05

county farmers associations representing
three States co-upcrated was held Tues
daN at the farm of y. y punkl"e X Sons
at South Vernon tn r'oeting was ar
ranged Jointly by the Franklin County.
Mass. Farm Bureau. the Cheshire Coun-
Y. y. -. Farmers association and the
Windham County. Vermont. Agricultural
society, tho latter being the host.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05
LOST CONTROL or Alto

While reaching for a paper being
handed To him from the rear seat Wes-
ley cole of Greensboro lost control of
his automobile sunday. The car turn
ed around and tipped over ON it's side
ana all tn" passengers were more or
less bruised
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-08-05

Somcrvillc, Mass. Mr.. Reynolds was
born in Grand Isle August !. 1891
The funeral will he held at the homo of
H. O. Mills, 40 South Winoosk avenue
at $50 q. m. Tuesday. with burial NJ Mil
ton.