The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
MR.. WOOD LIKED
THE DOCTOR DOPE
Carefully Evades Purport of
Apologist's Address
THROWS SAND OF "ECONOMY"
IN PEOPLES EYES

! In the Morning Tribune of January
%, an obscure individual, signing his
name Richard p. Wood, tries to lead
the people of Everett to believe that
the warp and wool of DR.. Manning's
reactionary address at the High
school, week ago, was merely de-
sire to show the workers Of Everett
the folly of wastefulness and improvid-
ence, and the advantages, on the other
hand, to be derived, under capitalism,
from economy, or living on standard
below ones income.
Now no one, of course, least of all
Socialist, has any argument to offer
against the intelligent use of money
earned, and the expediency, under ex-
sighted and provident among wage
earners laying away whatever portion
of their wages which, through self
denial, they can manage to hoard.
Manning is right in his assertion that,
under capitalist misrule, the wage
workers will certainly need whatever
they can save for the many "rainy"
days that are inherent in this profit
monger's system of industry for ex-
pIotation only. AS applied to the
occasional Individual, the advice of
Mr.. Richard P. Woods messiah is
well given; as applied to the workers
as class 1t is all rot, impossible Of
realization and viciousIy misleading In
It's false implications.
We do not, mind you, gentle reader,
allow our "class hatred" venom of
jealousy" and lack of desire for hon.
est labor" so to mislead us as to
rashly assume that either the tender
hearted DR.. Manning or his apostle of
content under the yoke, our benevol-
ent friend of labor, Mr.. Wood, really
know anything about why their ad-
vice cannot be followed by the wage
slave element as class; this would
be to impute to them at least an ele-
mentary knowledge of political econ
omy, which neither of them can Justly
be suspected Of possessing.
All we wish to point out here, to
any one who might guilelessly assume
that we are attacking the benevolent
CD doctors doctored lecture on the
point emphasized by the phi1anthropic
Richard P. Wood, is this: We are not
opposing Dr.. Manning's address on
the basis of the self-evident platitudes
with which his quack remedy for pow
erty was adulterated; we are attack
ing the nasty, poisonous nostrum
beneath his sugar-coated pellets of
what should be called, proverbs for
those destitute of money and brains"
A Discredited Policy
DR.. Manning and Richard F. Wood
are merely following the old trick of
putting over bunch of truisms, as
platitudinous as a fresh discovery
by Theodore Roosevelt, along with a
mass of pure-or impure-fabrication
and perversions of self-evident truths;
merely to mislead and deceive But
thinking people recognize this old, dis
honest method Il Of argument.IadrheS
theologians beat you to it, Doc, and
Dick. 8Y9 eanodq d}og
We can afford space here for just
one example of Richard p. Woods
Imitation of DR.. Manning's bunk.
Here. is the scintillant gem: instead
of spreading the gospel yof joy Tin
work 1t breaches the doctrine of
ishame in work 'ai'W 6s91l hai1 1o'
Says he further:
There is a certain tenomouso sec
ton Of the working class which should
be excluded from. the society of decent
and intelligent workers. 1t poisons
alike the working hours and the So
cial hours with the venom of Jealousy
and hatred; it inspires dfssension
where harmony is necessary for good
results; it fills the working class with
self-pity for it's ,so-called down-trodden
condition; instead of spreading the
gospel of joy in work it breaches the
doctrine of shame in work." ETC.
Presumably, the at" is the "venom-
GUS section" III I0k
Somewhat ''Venemous'' =
Now see here, isn't this state
ment Just bit "yenomous" itself?
Why not confine your criticism to the
facts at issue, seeing that you are so
much opposed to "a warlike feeling"
and SO strong on human love-" and
all that? Don't be "yenomous," Dick;
as you yourself say-"it warps the
character; biases the Judgment des-
troys honor; kills joy; chases hone
and leaves in its barren track moth
ing but desert in which no flower of
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