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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-02-03
This is the 'Thornhill'' Wagon
the Wagon that Must Make Good

The best known materials-the labor
of master workmen-the aid of the most
ingenious modern machinery have been
employed to make the Thornhil1 wagon.
The wheels are made with excessive
care. For the spokes the manufacturers
use the finest hickory-machine driven
to insure the right dish. The hubs are
of oak, thoroughly seasoned and banded
with double refined sable iron.
The holsters are of the best white oak.
They have an iron plate at top and bot
tom, riveted through and through-mul-
tiplying their strength.
The 'Thornhill' has malleable front
hound plate that is braced to the hounds
at all points. This is an exclusive
'"Thorntill' feature. 1t prevents the
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-02-03

gears from ever getting out of line and
causing hard pulling.
"Thornhill' wagons are equipped with
long sleeve malleable non-breakab1e
skeins that insure light running, and out
last any other skein. Each skein is
fitted to its axle with Defiance ma
clline-infallibly accurate. This machine
insures the right pitch and tuck, makes
light draft certainty
The axles are of toughest hickory
the steel axles of the best refined steel.
The sides of "Thornhill" beds are
made of poplar 1t costs the makers
more-but it holds paint better and gives
better service.
Come in and see this wagon-sold
under binding guarantee.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
STRIKE SITUATION IN
EVERETT rs UNCHANGED

The efforts of the Shul Mill Co. and
the Jamison mill to run their plants
with strikebreakers are not being
crowned with the success that was
hoped for, though they are putting up
bravado front. Judge Bell granted
temporary injunction which prohi-
bits the use of abusive epithets or in
timidation on the part of pickets, but
the situation remains otherwise I'M
changed. The unions are rendering
the shingleweavers every possible as
sistance, financially and otherwise,
and the men on the line ar determin-
ed to fight it out to a finish.
Everyone in Everett understands
that the present fight on the shingle-
weavers is really but the beginning of
an organized effort of the Employers
association to crush out every vestige
of unionism in the northwest, in fact
on the entire Pacific coast.
The Socialist party of Everett will
render organized labor any aid within
it's power to uphold the right of labor
to organize in its own defense.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
SOCIALISM NOT DEAD

The international movement has re-
ceived fearful blow. Our religion
Is hard hit, but Socialism is not dead.
1t does not depend upon ideals that
some begin to doubt Some day this
war will end. Some day the defeated
army Of labor will return to shop and
mine and take up the worlds work
again and then these heroes" of the
battlefield will be exploited and op-
pressed as they were of yore. They
will be paid low wages and forced to
toll long hours by the men whose
countries they defended with their
blood, and the struggle for life and
happiness will force them to do what
they have done before the war. They
will rebuild their unions and co-opera-
tives and reorganize their political
parties, and because the economic
causes of our misery are world wide,
we shall meet again-not to pass
Judgment upon each other, not to re-
ceive penitent comrades in sack cloth
and ashes, as comrade Heron de-
mands, but as comrades in arms, as
brothers in sorrow, to help and to
heal and to reconstruct
Some day there will be another in
ternational congress where the work
ers OF these bleeding nations will
grasp each others hands once more
and raise their voices in the anthem
of internationalism In the meantime
let us, who are not involved, remain
calm and charitable lest the great
brain storm should warp our judg-
ment too.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
INDICTED FOR TELLING THE
TRUTH ABOUT GRATING
MOUNTEBANK
MORE PERSECUTION

Phil Wagner, publisher of the Ma
t,onal Ripsaw, and the Melting Pot'
and Harry M. Tichennor. editor OF tho
last named publication, have poth
been indicted by the federal grand
Jury for circulating through the mall
"defamatory and scurrilous litera-
ture."
This action was based upon a car
toon printed on the front page OF the
Melting Pot In which the Rev. Billy
Sunday was pictured as gathering In
the shekels while gathering In the
souls OF sinners
The success of this nexpressioiy
vulgar religious" mountebank In ex'
tracing large quantities of coin from
the public is a saddening commentary
on our age. No stronger indictment
OF our educational system could be
made than is afforded by the vast
number of ignoramuses who are ready
and willing to fall for the utterly stu
ped and asinine propaganda of hell
fire and birthstone put over by this
evangelistic charlatan. With such
proofs OF the ignorance and bone-head'
edness of so large proportion OF the
populace. we need not wonder why the
progress of sound Socialist propagan-
da among the workers proceeds so
slowly. With the shockingiy low av'
erage mentality of the public. as evil
denced by Billy Sundays success in
extracting innumerable coins OF the
realm from this too gullible public
II is a marvel that Socialism. with its
scientific interpretations, makes any
progress at all.
A contemporary remarks that:
III you gave Billy Sunday 100000
to preach from Gen. 1:26-2S. Leviticus
25:23, Neh. Sill, James Sis, Isaiah
51:64-65, OF the Acts 4:43-44, he would
turn down the offer because he makes
100000 every year by preaching from
texts that are safe"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
NEW YORK'S PLIGHT

Now comes Germany's philosopher
of blood and iron and openly admits
that, as he saw things in the United
States, he was not favorably impress
ed with our boosted democracy Says
he:
1t is a peculiar fact that while
democracy preserves absolute freedom
of competition in its economic life,
spiritual-minded demagogues NEEDLE
most recklessly with private morals
and family life. What contrast be-
tween the unlimited political liberty
and the monstrous temperance laws
of many states in the American
Union!
Several times he finds in New York
City his most startling illustrations of
whittier democracy tends:
The populace of New York is arch
reactionary, and barrier in the way
of all far-reaching reform. 1t con-
cludes with the Tammany ring COM
pact Of reciprocal conniyance, for it
feels perfectly happy under the thumb
of the brothel keeper.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
REMEMBER THIS!

If the merchant you buy from is an
advertiser in the Washington Socialist
ne is helping to pay production cost of
the paper. II is more than likely that
he would be glad to know from you
that you read the Washington Social
list and saw his ad in this weeks pa
per. If you have not yet done so start
now to buy from Washington Social
list advertisers and tell them you read
the ad in this paper. BY doing that
you will be doing something to sup
port your own paper.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
CLARA ZETKIN'S INSPIRING
CALL
BY EUGENE V. DEBS

Clara Zetkin, secretary of the Wom-
ems International Federation, has is
sued burning appeal to the Socialist
women Of all countries which should
be read by every friend of peace and
every foe of war in the world. The
printing Of this appeal in Gleichheit,
the Socialist womans paper in Stutt-
CART, was promptly followed by the
suppression and confiscation of the
edition by the military authorities.
Clara Zetkin rises to exaltation in
this internationally patriotic and pas
sionate plea to her sex. She states in
graphic terms the true attitude Of
woman toward war and in words of
living flame she appeals to the women
of the world to rise in their power
and put an end to the atrocious mill
tary massacre of mankind.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
WHERE SOCIALISM Is
STRONG

In Alaska one person In every 118
Of the population is dues-paying
member Of the Socialist party. In our
own state Of Washington only one in
every 352 of the total population pays
dues in the Socialist party. In Ore
gon one out of each group of SIS per-
sons, and in Idaho one in $50 is dues
paying member of the party. In Cali
fornia the ratio is one in each 453.
and in Nevada one in every 1873 Of
the total population is dues-paying
member of the Socialist party.
In the foregoing figures it is to be
noted that Alaska stands first and
Nevada second in the proportion of
membership. Wyoming comes third,
with one in every 223 of the total
population
The principal reason for the high
standing of these three sections of
the country, especially Of Alaska, is
the large proportion of men in the to-
tai population. Alaska is a "he" ter
ritory, Nevada and Wyoming are ''he"
states, just as we have in New Eng
land "she" towns. So it is not sur
prising that these regions show up so
we'll as compared with, say New York,
with its ratio of one member per $50
Of the population, or with Pennsyl-
vania, with it's one Socialist party
member for each LOOP of the popula-
ton. In the latter two states the pro-
portion of illiterate aliens, and large
servant and slum population, tend to
reduce the ratio of dues-paying Reds
to total population
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
PATRIOTISM AND
MILITARISM

Are to be taught to the children in
the public schools. Nothing better
| illustrates the character and quality
of the members of the recent Wash
ington state legislature, and Of Gov
once each week, to salute the flag
over the school house, and to Join in
saying, II pledge allegiance to my
flag aud to the republic for which it
ernor Lister than their enactment of
a law that compels all school children,
stands; one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for ALL"
Liberty and justice for ALL" List
en- to that from your children once a
week, say it yourselves often enough
so you won't forget it, and unemploy-
ment, hunger, and nakedness will ma
gically disappear.
Good working men and women who
voted for old party and no party can
didates for the legislature last fall in
the hopes of something being done to
revive business and to open up the
jobs, who considered the Socialist
nominees as too freakish and too radi-
cal must feel grateful to think that
the republic and the flag are secure,
and that liberty and justice are in nc
danger of being exiled to Belgium or
Poland.
Again, to reward those patriotic
men who We're so frightened last De-
cember by the Socialist menace to the
Spokane schools, Principal Hart asks
permission of the chamber of com
merce school board to organize a
RIFLE CLUB from among the Lewis
and Clark high school boys. The pur-
pose of this is, no doubt to protect
the property Of and to secure justice
and liberty to working people!-The
Spokane Socialist
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
BILLY SUNDAY HAS BEEN
CHALLENGED TO DEBATE

Billy Sunday has been challenged
by Prof. Scott Nearing. OF the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, to champion
the cause of the poverty-stricken. the
under-paid and the exploited" Of
Philadelphia, to tell the masters Of
industry and the takers of profit that
they have no right to enjoy ease and
luxury while their fellow men suffer
the pangs of hell on earth" Prof.
Nearing adds "The well-fed people,
whose ease and luxury are built upon
this poverty, child labor and exploit
alton, sit in your congregation, con-
tribute to your campaign funds, en-
terrain you socially, and invite you to
hold prayer meetings in their homes.
These are they that bind grievous
burdens on mems shoulders that
make clean the outside of the cup and
the platter, the devourers of the wild
ow's houses against whom Christ
hurled his curses. Here Is Dives, yon-
der is Lazarus, and it is Dives who
has made your campaign financially
possible. Turn your oratorical brill
liancy for a moment against low
wages, overwork, unemployment, mo-
nopoly, special privileges and the 9TH
er forces that grind the faces of the
poor" Sunday in a statement to
newspapermen, said he will not preach
along the lines suggested by Prof.
Nearing. Doth an OK know it's mast.
er's crib? He do
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
ATTENTION.!

Comrades everywhere are urgently
requested to send in information to
Educational Bureau regarding school
vacancies. Socialist teachers every
where are being prosecuted and
thrown out of employment because of
their political belief
The least we can do is to aid them
in securing positions for next year.
Address communications to j. M.
Salter, 1901 Rainier, Everett, Wash.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
SHALL THE MAJORITY RULE7

The Socialist mayor OF Star city,
West Virginia. has been declared In
eligible to hold office. In decision
handed down by n Judge of the Mon
ongslia county court. In the RussIon-
lied state of West Virginia, the deci-
sion of the Socialist city council OF
Star City that the Socialist mayor
elect, John +. Higgins, was eligible
to hold the office that he was elected
to, was reversed. The honorable (O
court declared that Mayor Higgins did
not have the property qualifications
necessary to hold office, which are
that the candidates shall have been
assessed and paid taxes on 10000 or
more OF real estate or personal prop
erty
Mr. Higgins had his private library
assessed ut s12500 and although a
single man boarding with his mother.
the court arbitrarily decided that 1t
was family library, therefore un-
assessable, and declared Mr.. Higgins
ineligible for office of mayor.
Following this miscarriage of JUS
tice, the city council unanimously de-
cided to instruct the city attorney and
Col c. VIM. Gramer to carry the case
to the supreme court of appeals.
In the meantime the working class
of this section OF Russianized West
Virginia is wondering II the capitalist
class really believes in majority rule,
and whether they can ever be sure
that n Socialist official even after be-
ing regularly elected can serve. They
wonder II the henchmen of capitalism
will not always have some technical.
ity that they can use to unseat any
Gus.
| The class conscious Socialist how.
ever has no doubts for in his mind
flashes the declaration of principles
of the Socialist party Of America. to-
wit:
"In order to maintain their rule
over their fellow-men, the capitalists
must keep in their pay all organs o!
the public powers, public mind and
public conscience. They control the
dominant parties and. through them
the elected public officials. They Sc
lect the executives, bride the legisla
lures and corrupt the courts Of justice
They own and censor the press. They
dominate the educational institutions
They own this country politically and
intellectually just as they own 1t in
dustrially." The Socialists of Russian
lied West Virginia, home of the drum
head trials, and the land where many
martyrs of the working-clas sleep the
peaceful sleep of death, remembering
these principles do not wonder that a
working man elected by working men
is prevented from holding office on a
trumped up technicality.
Shall the majority rule? We do not
know
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
MAKE 1T SHORT

Please use paper about 7xS in
ches for your contribution; and
write on one side only.
We can use but a small proper
ton of articles of a general nature.
Make them short; and don't ex-
pect to see them in print the week
following their receipt at this Of
flee. It may be months before we
can use them to advantage. THIS
Is NO REFLECTION ON THE
MERITS OF YOUR CONTRIBU.
TON.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
KIRKPATRICK AT THE
CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE

A most dramatic meeting was that
of George II. Kirkpatrick before the
joint committee of the house and sen
ate on military affairs, last week. Mrs.
Jessie y. Molle Is devoting her entire
time to Socialist meetings at Sacra-
mento, and with dauntless persistency
succeeded In getting this hearing for
the noted anti.militarist His was not
30 much an Grafton as 1t was revela-
ton
Bills are before the legislature to
| strengthen the military. Bills to grant
special privileges to members OF mill
tias, and to their organizations, and
to grant favors to discharged soldiers.
Kirkpatrick showed their connection
with the strengthening of a militarism
which, IL unchecked, will become dom
inant. He showed with deep strokes,
and with burning realism, the effect of
the soldiers life on the common sol
diers-the numbers of desertions, the
| hhhipcl VI bulClutb, Juo utbUdlT vi
many of those who are lured into the
service.
Then he showed with cutting clear
ness the awful tribute which is exact
ed of the womanhood Of the land the
white slavery which plies It's work to
secure victims for armies. He quoted
from official reports which showed
that In some instances this procuring
of helpless girls was urged by army
officers. He showed the cost OF ven.
ereal disease which Is rampant among
enlisted men, and the wrecks made Of
they who were once the flower Of the
manhood of the world. He spoke OF
the dead filling the trenches and the
depleted race which Is the necessary
result Of arming and OF war.
The cause OF it all? Among nations
1t Is the urge for markets in which to
sell the surplus that Ia not consumed
at home because Of exploited pay en-.
velopes. The polite references to
suppression OF riots" found in the mill.
tary bills he explained as the intent to
shoot down the unemployed when the
unrest OF hunger made them turbul.
ent. He shamed the pretense of
Christian soldiers who stood for war
when modern life and the position OF
this country made it easy to follow
the prince of Peace"
Some of the papers said that the
members of the committees on mill.
tary affairs all left the room during
the speaking. II they did, 1t was an.
other case of the thieves being dashed
from the Temple.
There is nothing of the pleader
about Kirkpatrick; he does not per.
suade. or coax. He just stands there
and defiantly hurls the terrible facts.
His words cut, and stung, and burn.
ed. His speech might indeed be call
ed 1.-THE naked truth"
1t was scene that will stay long
in memory-the senate chamber with
its rich hangings emblematic of power
and of pride; the florid, self-satisfied
audience and the speaker a fire-brand
Of protest-his pale, expressive face,
the flashes of wit, and the strong blow
after blow that he dealt home-then
his periods-terse, eloquent, whitening
and compelling applause. And finally
the noble passion for world brother
hood and the characteristic perora-
tion-"peace is patriotism.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS
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as a rule, of getting into the paper
the same week. Our copy is
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tions made, and, on rare occa-
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Thursday morning. Try to get
copy in by Saturday, or by Mon
day morning, at the latest!
MAKE 1T SHORT!
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
"BARKIs IS WILLIN'

It's not that he wants the job. dear
no! but, says Col Hartley. IF
thought the republican party needed
me-" etc Colonel, it does. It'll need
anything it can get before next cleo
ton day.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

The government of Austria has
put to death five Socialists, two
being editors for carrying on a
fight against the war and militar-
ism in general,
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

A report made by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company, of New York,
to the mayors committee on unem-
ployment shows that there are APP
proximately 100000 unemployed In
that city.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

To much reliance on parchments
and too much credulity as to systems,
make us forget or overlook the I'M
written principles of action upon
which rest the structure of everything
that endures
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

Billy Sundays ignorance is only ex-
ceeded by the abysmal nescience OF
the hypocrites who put up the greater
part OF the ready money for his theo-
logical vaudeville.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

! agree with comrade Heron that
1t was very foolish and moreover,
reputation of Socialist principles for
the German Socialists to fight for the
kaiser or for the fatherland. What
can the German workingclass gain
from such war? And have not the
Belgium comrades even less to fight
for. Their country Is invaded 1t Is
true. Their country" the classical
home Of capitalism. as Marx called 1t,
where labor was even more bitterly
exploited than It was in Germany.
Their country, which did not even
grant them manhood suffrage after
the big general strike of a few short
years ago, strike which was mostly
financed by the Teutonic barbarians,
who now must be periodically EXTERN.
mated.
And have our French brothers for
gotten the Commune? Have they for
gotten the weeks of horror when the
army Of Adolph Theirs besieged their
beloved capital on the one side while
the army of Bismarck drove the Com
munards back into the burning city
from the other side? Was French
capitalism more kind to the French
proletariat than was Prussian mill
tarism?
At this very hour when patriotic
British boys are giving their hearts
blood to Great Britain, the capitalists
are utilizing the misery of the Belgian
refugees to cut down the wages Of
their English workers, and the Ger
man government is farming out Rus
sian prisoners of war to German
manufacturers for 20 cents per day,
thereby increasing the misery of their
unemployed still more
Yes, what are the Germans fighting
for? What are they all fighting for
these comrades without homes. with
out tools and without fatherland?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
Az OSCAR AMKRIN0ER
JUDGES THE GERMAN
SOCIALISTS

The Socialist movement had 1t In
its power to prevent the present uni
versal disintegraton; It failed" says
comrade Heron.
I'm not 30 sure about that. This
war Is n big thing A colossal thing.
An almost elemental explosion. Could
any man or any set OF men really
have stopped n cataclysm of this sort?
doubt It. Christianity Is much
greater moral force than Socialism.
It has hundreds of millions of faith
millions. 1t has been taught for 1000
years. Like Socialism, 1t Is interna-
tional and It's true goal Is the brother.
hood Of man, yet Christianity could
not stop this war. Why then be 80
sure that Socialism would have sue.
ceeded?
Could coat of paint on Mount
Vesuvus prevent an eruption? Would
varnish on u mountain side prevent
the mountain slide. And what Is this
civilization, with all It's ideals, but q
flimsy coat of paint on top of millions
of generations Of savages, cannibals.
apes, tigers, sharks and worms. A
violent shock, an explosion In the
depth of economic life; the fllmsy
crust bursts and men revert back to
n former stage.
We Socialists at least who talk SO
glibly about evolution and the power
Of economic forces should be very
careful not to make poor little indivi
duals responsible for human earth
quakes.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

Eldem's Grocery, 2709 Lombard, can
supply you with staple groceries and
Scandinavian specialties. Phone in
your orders. Ind 477X.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

DR.. Ross Earlywine, Dentist, 205
American Bank Bldg. Both Phones
TBS
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01

Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee, I'm
perial Tea Co.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-01
CRUEL!
genius.

He is a genius"
who supports him?"-Philadelp
Ledger.