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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
HENRY FORD'S GREATEST
CONTRIBUTION
Admits Economic Basis of
Criminality
COULD TAKE "EVERY MAN OUT
OF SING SING"

For fifteen years we have been
teaching and preaching the truth that
poverty lies at the base of all criminal
ity, even that of the five to ten per
cent of Instructive criminals" in the
world We have proved this to be
true by innumerable evidences, his
torical. statistical, and psychological.
But the master class, as a class, and
their retainers in pulpits and univer-
sity chairs, and in the court rooms
and prisons, have refused to grant
that most criminals are in prison rath-
er for the faults of society as whole
tnen because of any inherent, ineradi-
cable depravity or meanness of their
own.
i<ow comes Mr.. Henry Ford, a
bright business man with advanced
views, man who knows how to play
the capitalist game of profit-monger-
ing to The tune of .$2S,00O,0O0 a year;
Mr.. Ford says, in effect, that crime is
due to poverty.
Emphasizing his contention that the
right work and justice would keep any
man straight, Mr.. Ford said he could
guarantee to take every man out of
Sing Sing and make a man of him. u
To substantiate this, he said there
were many ex-convicts now making
good" in his employ
In thus directing the thought of So
ciety to the causes of crime, rather
than to penalties for crime committed
Mr.. Ford has made most valuable
contribution to his age. Coming
from successful member of the ex
plotting class, Mr. Ford's candid ad
mission that good men are turned
into criminals by bad economic sys
TEN, through poverty, ignorance
etc., has high educational value
His admission has already gained wide
publicity, and publicity is half the
battle won in a struggle for human
advancement.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
THEY GO TOGETHER
FOR Capital Punishment;
AGAINST 8-Hour Day
sEATTLE's SENATOR PALMER A
REAcTiONARY

Had it not been for the votes OF
thousands of wage-slaves, E. II. Pal
mer, of Seattle, would not now be
serving the interests of their bosses,
at Olympia. Yet at the first oppor-
unity Palmer showed just whose In
terests he is out to look after. The
first Monday in February we find this
Hon. Gentleman introducing bills to
abolish the eight-hour day on public
works. Palmer is out for the rewards
that faithfulness to contractors, and
sub-contractors, brings. Why should
he worry about what the workers
want? He can get their votes any
how, just as Hartley, Of Everett, got
their votes-and their goats.
And last week we find Hon. Palmer
in the role of penal legislator, boosting
to restore the gallows in Washington.
Aid why not? What sort of man
would you expect to be boosting for
the death penalty and abolition Of the
eight-hour day. If not politicians of
the Palmer stripe? Watch, and you
will see him get his reward. later.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

George Bernard Shaw, in his char
acteristically sententious and epigram-
matte style, gives voice to his views
on the subject in this wise:
Criminals do not die by the hand
of the law; they die by the hands of
other men.
"The assassin Czolosz made Presi-
dent Mckinley hero by assassinat-
ing him. The United States of Amer
lea made Czolgosz hero by the same
process.
Assassination on the scaffold is the
worst form Of assassination, because
there it is invested with the approval
of society.
at is the deed that teaches, not
the name we give it. Murder and
capital punishment are not opposites
that cancel one another, but similars
that breed their kind.
when a man wants to murder a
tiger he calls it sport; when tiger
wants to murder him he calls it fe-
rocity. The distinction between crime
and justice is no greater Crime is
only the retail department of what in
wholesale we call penal law"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
GOOD TREATMENT OF EN-
PLOYEES PAYS SAYS
MIR. FORD

Questioned as to his company's rea-
sons for assuming so large a measure
of responsibility toward it's employees,
Mr. Ford replied
The knowledge that market-rates
OF wages were not sufficient for men
to care properly for self and depend
ents, and that the environment in
which it's employees were thus made
to live gave rise to mental anxiety
and physical condition that made it
utterly impossible for the human
agency to deliver all of the effort
that it was capable of in fulfilling the
best and larger functions for which
it was designed to work, at home, and
in the community"
Mr.. Ford is one of the pioneers in
the coming attempt at bridging the
gulf between capitalist and wage
slave through establishment of a ben
evolent industrial feudalism. His
plan will eventually prove abortive
through lack of general practicable
ity and the growing repugnance of
real men and women to being treated
as mere grown-up children, satisfied
with industrial servitude if the ex-
plotting capitalist be but kind heart
ed and content with a reasonable"
robbery of some twenty-five or thirty
millions of wealth yearly from his
grateful employees.
Ford has gained a place in history
rather by what he admitted than by
what he made or how he made If
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
A GREAT PRINCIPLE AT
STAKE

Commenting on the situation at
Olympia, the Seattle Star well says:
Whether these bills become laws
or not is of comparatively small i'm
portance. But when 20 senatorial
traitors and 70 petty politicians in the
house vote to cheat the people out of
the right of referendum, then bigger
and more vital principle is at stake.
If the referendum can be stopped for
the sake Of a cheap, peanut politici-
ans bill like the McArdle measure,
or for a demagougic measure like the
Renick affair, then it can be stopped
by the same fraudulent trick, on more
important measures"
The Star then gives the names of
the few senators and representatives
who voted against the emergency
clause. 1t also gives the names of the
20 senators who voted for the "trai-
torous" clause, and among these we
find Eyerett's labor CD representative,
little Johnny Campbell.
And why not? Has Campbell not
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
ANOTHER MAN FORGETS
THAT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
PREVENTS HOMICIDE
GALLoWs PROVES POOR
PROTECTION TO MINE GUARD
Policeman Five Feet Away
When Shots Were Fired

BUTTE.-Harry Robinson, a mine
worker and Industrial Worker of the
World leader, last Friday night shot
Thomas Monroe, a mine guard. He
fired five shots, hitting twice. Two
shots were fired while a policeman
had his arms around Robinson. Mon.
roe died Saturday. The shooting oc-
Cured on a crowded street corner.
Robinson, who Is vice president Of
the Butte Miners union, which re.
Gently seeded from the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, according to eye
witnesses, deliberately walked up to
Monroe, placed the muzzle Of re-
volver close to his body and fired
twice quickly A policeman who was
standing not five feet away, grabbed
him, but Robinson, wrenching his
arm loose, fired three more shots at
Monroe who lay writhing on the pave
ment.
At the police station Robinson said
Monroe had sought to shoot him so
he began firing. Monroe's gun fell
from his pocket as he collapsed to the
pavement. Robinson figured conspi-
cuously in the recent mine workers
tro1h1es nrincinal1y hecauaa of hia
radical utterances from public plat
forms. He publicly threatened at a
recent unemployed meeting that he
would be found inside of four walls
before being forced to leave Butte.
The gallows has never been abol-
ished in Montana, and capital execu-
tons are not infrequent. Human life
is much safer in Maine, Rhode ISL
and, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas,
where the death penalty is abolished.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
AS 1T Is DONE IN ARKANSAS

The organized labor forces of Ark
ansas have just formulated a com
plete substitute for the existing direct
control system. The new point of
greatest moment here is the proposal
to limit the power of the state SUI
preme court by clause which would
provide that no measure approved by
majority of the voters may be
amended or repealed by the legisla-
ture or be set aside as being uncon-
stitutional by the supreme court. An
other important proposal in this sub
stitute is to make the emergency
clause of bill more difficult of op-
Grafton by requiring a three-fourths
vote of all the members of both
houses to declare a measure to be an
emergency and therefore not at once
subject to being held up by referen-
dun petition. ALSO 1T WOULD BE
NECESSARY TO STATE THE
FACTS CONSTITUTING THE EN-
URGENCY. This Arkansas scheme
would fix the number of voters nee
essary to invoke the initiative at TO-
600 and the number for the referen-
dunn at 1000. No limit would be plac-
ed on the number of measures that
might be submitted at one election.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
THE REAL TRAITORS

That the wage-slave element voted
for these representatives of business
is not the fault Of those elected. The
workers voted for their bosses can
didates and elected them Having
voted against having their own repre-
sentatives in the legislature, they
have no right to call their bosses rep
resentatives traitors" when they vote
in accordance with master-class re-
quirements. THE REAL TRAITORS
WERE THE WAGE-WORKERS WHO
VOTED AGAINST THE WORKING
CLASS CANDIDATES-TH SOCIAL
lists, WHO ALONE STAND FOR
WORKING CLASS INTERESTS.
Another Traitor.
AS the Seattle Star uses it's pages
to boost for the candidates of the
master-class, and never works for the
election of candidates on the only
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
KIRKPATRICK GREAT"
is REPORT FROM
EVERY MEETING

The three Kirkpatrick meetings held
in Washington so far report that Kirk
patrick can't be beaten in his indict-
ment of war. At Spokane the largest
church in the city was packed to hear
him and every copy of "War-What
For?" on hand was sold and more
wanted. At Iona the business of the
town was suspended on the Saturday
evening Kirkpatrick spoke, and every
body attended his lecture. "And as a
speaker" writes the secretary, che is
hard to beat"
Don't forget to hear his terrific in
dictment of war and capitalism next
Sunday, February 21st, at the Peoples
theatre. Bring your friends.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
SHARPSTEIN'S THEORY
IGNORED IN OAKLAND
Killed Man and Wife
DIDN'T KNOW GALLOWS WAS
PREVENTIVE OF MURDER

Disturbed in their hazardous "en-
terprise,' last Friday, two burglars
killed Mr.. and Mrs Vogel, of Fruit
vale (suburb of Oakland)
The Vogels are believed to have
been called to the door by the two
men who seized them both, bound
their hands behind their backs, and,
when they made cutlery, beat them
to death with some blunt instrument.
The house was ransacked in an ef-
fort to find large sum of money,
rumored to have been kept secreted
by the Vogels.
One reason why the people Of Cali
fornia would not abolish the death
penalty by referendum last fall was
because, ."if capital punishment is
abolished burglars would just as soon
kill their victims, to prevent future
Identification"
AS matters now stand, with two
hangmen in the employ of the state,
burglars just beat obstreperous vic
Tins to death.
Moral: A better social system, or
silent tongue, would be better
safeguard than dozen gallows. A
brutal, murderous economic system
produces brutal, murderous men;
from the legislator voting for capital
punishment to the brutalized robber
who kills his noisy victim. Given the
right to kill at all, who is to be the
Judge as to when homicide is justifi-
able? Society kills to protect itself,
and the robber kills to protect him
self. Socialism will make either col
lective or individual homicide unnec-
essary.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
WERE THEY TRAITORS?

The Star characterizes this bunch
of worthless as traitors" also liars"
in that they knew well enough that
the McArdle bill is not needed in this
state for the Immediate preservation
of the public. peace, health, safety,
etc" We grant that they are con.
scienceless liars. all right; but are
they "traitors?"
WE SAY, NO!
Senator Campbell, Speaker Conner
Senator Sharpstein, and the other
brilliants among the aggregation OF
10S solons who worked to defraud the
voters of their right of referendum,
are not TRAITORS" To whom were
they traitorous? Did they not vote in
the interests of the capitalists who
permitted them to be elected, or who
actually caused them to be elected
Did they not faithfullysearry out the
wishes of those who paid their cam
paign expenses, and boosted for them
In the press and on the platform?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
NONE ELECTED or
WORKING-CLASS TICKET

Not one of these so-called traitors
was elected on working-clas ticket.
Not one of these 2x4 politicians but
is opposed to Socialism and the prin-
ciples of industrial democracy. AS
not one of these senators or repre-
sentatives was elected on the only
working-class ticket in the political
field (the Socialist Party ticket not
one of them was traitorous to the
working class. They were not trail
tors. They were true to the capitalist
class, on one or the other of whose
tickets they were elected.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
WERE They TRAITORS?
We SAY NO!
Honorabes at Olympia Serve Faithfully Class They Were Sent
Represent Not One Elected On WoNngcIass Ticket

working-class ticket ever in the field
the Socialist ticket, it has no right to
call men traitors" who serve wen
their political masters, the Business
Men.
That bunch Of 108 representatives
of Business should sue the Star for
libel.
The Seattle Star is itself one of the
most traitorous sheets in existence, in
that 1t makes bold pretence of serv-
ing the interests of the working class,
day in and day out; gains the conf
dence of the wage-workers through its
trained sob-squad, then betrays them,
at every election, by leading them into
the shambles of capitalist-class poll
tics.
OF course, we understand. The
Star, like every other profit-monger-
ing concern, needs the money"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
MURDERER FAILED TO CON
SIDER THE EFFICACY OF
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
AS DETERRENT
Mother and Child Slain

Last Monday the good people OF
Missouri killed a man by aid of the
hangman's moose, the operation being
performed in Kansas City. Failing to
recognize the fact CD so eloquently
pointed out last week by Hon. Sharp
stein, that threat of the gallows puts
a stop" to "these occurrences" Wes-
ley Robinson murdered his wife and
his 11-year-old daughter.
Resigned to his fate" Robinson
fearlessly mounted the scaffold and
was hanged. Now that "justice is
done" by means of this additional
homicide, no doubt murders will cease
in Missouri-until the next one.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
HERE'S A CHANCE
FOR HON. SHARPSTEIN
AND HIS PALS
Robert Preshaw Killed
WOULD GAILoWS' THREAT HAVE
SAVED HiM7

Wednesday morning, week ago, H.
ID, Lance shot and killed Robert Pre-
shaw, near Snohomish.
Doubtless Hon. Sharpstein and his
pals at Olympia who regard capital
punishment as panacea for crime
will add one more proof" OF the nee
essity for restoration of the gallows
in Washington.
The circumstance that Lance killed
Preshaw in self-defense need not be
considered-nor mentioned. Another
man shot down in cold blood'-that's
the way to put it when proofs" are
needed that murders are committed
"pcause there amt no gallows to scare
the murderously inclined"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

shown through his entire political
career that he Is "a damned good fel
low" and an open-and-aboveb board 2x4
political pork chopper? Has any one
ever accused this labor" politician OF
being anything but the most ordinary
kind of cheap politician Has he
not always trained with the same
crowd as does DR.. Manning, Hon. Hart
ley, the officials of Stone e. Webster
and, in wide sense, with the Rookie
fellers, Morgans, Carnegies, Goulds
Ammonses, and other labor skinners
and all-around reactlonaries? SO lit.
tie Johnny Campbell voted just as did
Hon. Sharpstein, Palmer. Phipps,
Boner, and others of the 20 senatorial
TRAITORS"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
20 SENATORS AND
70 REPRESENTATIVES AT
OLYMPIA VOTED FOR
MASTER CLASS BILL
Would Destroy Right of
Referendum
EVERETT's LABOR (N SENATOR
LITTLE JOHNNY CAMPBELL
ONE OF TRAITORS"

The same bunch of reactionaries
who "tremblingly" pleaded for restor-
alton of the gallows in this advancing
state, cast their ballots last week for
the McArdle land bill on the ground
that it was necessary to the "immedi-
ate preservation of the public peace,
health, safety, etc" Which simply
means that these protagonists of capt.
tai punishment are also advocates of
restoring to bunch of 2x4 pork-chop-
pers the sole right to make laws; for
know We that the votes Of these I'M
distinguished senators were cast for
the purpose of cheating the voters of
Washington out of the right to invoke
the referendum on this same McArdle
land bill, also on the Renich city fin
ance bill.
The constitution makes the peoples
right of referendum apply to all laws
passed by the legislature except such
laws as may be necessary for the I'M
MEDIATE PRESERVATION OF THE
PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH OR
SAFETY, support of the state govern
ment and it's existing public institu-
tons That provision was put into
the constitution for real emergency
cases, when the very life, health, or
peace of the state or any of its insttu-
tions would be vitality threatened. No
such emergency can, under any cir
cumstances, be ascribed to either the
McArdle or the Renick bill. The Nc
Ardle land bill is a political measure,
designed by the republican machine
to ruffle Governor Lister, who Is a
democrat. The general public doesn't
give a snap of the fingers about the
McArdle bill, one way or another. Yet
30 senator's and over two-thirds OF the
house voted to declare this PEANUT
POLITICIANS MEASURE necessary
for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, public safety
etc. The Renick bill purports to
change the system Of municipal fin
ance which has been in existence for
YEARS AND YEARS. Yet 70 men,
bers of the house had the effrontery
to declare it was necessary for the
IMMEDIATE PRESERVATION Of
the public peace and health"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
NEW YORK MAN
STAYS EIGHT PERSONS
Menace of Electric Chair Failed to
Deter

An inmate of a hospital, in New
York City, has just confessed to the
murder of eight persons, all in Yonk
ers, N. Y. Somebody page Mr.. Hon
Sharpstein and his five pals who be.
lieve that the fear of capital punish
ment stays the hand of would-be muir.
derers. California, Montana, New
York, Missouri all have retained the
death penalty for murder, and all
three have far more murders per 100.
900 of population than the state OF
Washington, or the other states that
have abolished capital punishment.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
HOW ARIZONA PROTECTS
THE INITIATIVE AND
REFERENDUM

By successful appeal to the voters
Of Arizona at the last election mo
vember -, one important change in
the initiative and referendum amend
ment of that state was actually car
ried into effect. That Is an amend
ment designed to prevent either the
legislature or the governor from ever
exerting the veto power against any
act that shall have received a favor
able majority at the polls.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

l told the president that his sec
rotary of war had just said that the
seizure of Panama was not in accord
ance with the law. Then Mr.. Roose-
welt said: Damn the law. I want
the canal built. Col Cocktails, dig.
ger of the canal, before the Chicago
University club.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

The man behind the gun-that's
you!
The man in front of the gun-that's
you, too!
Hear Kirkpatrick Sunday, February
81, Peoples Theatre.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
NOTICE.!

Comrades having Kirkpatrick tick
cts may settle for them at the office
of the theatre Sunday. All are asked
to come early,
CARL ULONSKA,
Manager Kirkpatrick Meeting
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

Far be it from us to doubt the Ger
man chancellor's statement that his
people love the Belgians, but we shud-
der to think of their fate should the
Teutons ever get mad at them.-Nash-
vile Southern Lumberman.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
GET IN ON THIS

On February LIST the German govern
ment confiscated all the wheat, corn
and flour in the country. Arrange
ments have also been made with the
municipalities to the effect that they
conserve supplies of meat and provi-
sions to prevent waste
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

Further evidence of the increased
cost of living is indicated by the
statement that those Terre Haute poll
ticians paid as high as 500 for votes
which formerly had standard mar
ket value of 50 each.-Nashville
Southern Lumberman
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS
CASE?
WILL HON. STARPSTEiN
MENTION THIS lNClDENT7
Kills His Father With Axe

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.-War-
rem Dusenberry, former district Judge
at Urovo, Utah, was probably fatally
injured today by his son, Grover, who
struck him down with an axe in the
back yard of the family home. Dusen-
berry was chopping wood in the cellar
when a quarrel occurred. The elder
man laid down the axe, going into the
back yard. Grover picked up the axe,
striking his father five times in the
head with the blunt end. The son fled
but was captured.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
KIRKPATRICK DATES

Feb 81, eve. Seattle; %, Tacoma;
20, Olympia; "a, Aberdeen; rs, Ho-
GUAM; 26, Chehalis; 27, Vancouver:
20, Charter Oak.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
DIN'T HE KNOW?

Didn't that boy Grover know that
right across the bay, at both San
Quentin and Folsom prison, the lean,
grim gallows awaits murderers? Why
did he neglect to be inundated?
Didn't he know that capital punish
ment is a sure cure for crimes of
violence? Didn't he know that Hon.
Sharpstein will be upset by this glar-
ing evidence of the futility of capital
punishment as deterrent of crime?
If two gallows within twelve miles
of San Francisco can't stay the hand
of the murderer, how can we expect
one hangman's moose to prove effec-
tive for the whole state of Washing
ton?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
ACETATE AND EDUCATE

II you can afford it order a weekly
bundle of this paper and distribute
them among the residents of your
town. Here are the bundle rates:
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
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