The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
LOCAL CURLEW RAPS
APPEAL TO REASON

Resolution introduced at the Cur.
lew, Wash, Socialist Local July 10th,
by Alfred Anderson and passed by UNI
luminous vote of IL members present.
Whereas, The Appeal to Reason,
published ut Girard. Kan, by Walter
II. Wayland and edited by Louis Kope-
lin, alleges to be Socialist newspaper
soliciting money and subscriptions
from Socialists for the purpose of ad-
vanclng the cause of Socialism, in
propaganda work, to establish the CO.
operative commonwealth. On the
10Th day of June, 1915, the said APP
peal did print on its front page, issue
! and mail to its readers as cabled news
from its correspondent in Mexico, j.
X. Turner, at heavy expense, an inter
view of the said Turner with man
named Vestuiano Carranza, who is
leading faction of the Mexican peo-
pie now engaged in civil war in Mex
leo, The Appeal says it is proud" of
having done this.
Whereas, The said Carranza is not
a Socialist, and the government and
system of industry he proposes to
establish is not even remotely con-
nected with Socialism, but lot of
bourgoise capitalist reforms. Said
Carranza Is a capitalist and plainly
says, at the close of the interview, he
intends to make it more advantage
Gus" for foreign capitalists to exploit
and rob the people of Mexico than is
now the case, and he particularly
wishes ito impress this fact on the
American people," thus showing he
lof Socialism, but is only endeavoring
to install his crowd of capitalists into
power. Instead OF being encouraged,
he, and all other capitalists, should
meet with all the opposition from So
cialists they can possibly give them.
and the action of the Appeal to Rea-
son in opening its pages to such a
man and spending the money contri-
buted by Socialists to aid his cause
to enlist sympathy and help from SO.
cialists and the American people can
mot be tolerated by any true Socialist.
Therefore, Resolved by unanimous
vote of the Curlew, Wash, Socialist
Local this 10th day of July, that the
Appeal to Reason in thus acting has
committed rank treason to the Social
ist party in aiding and abetting the
Establishing of this Mexican spangle
tail "Gineral's" capitalist scheme of
government.
We call on the editor and publisher
of the Appeal to Reason to show cause
why. they should not be expelled from
the Socialist party as proven traitors
to it by their own acts, and not allow.
ed to in the future in any way further
represent the Socialist party. The
Question as to whether this prevents
war is not to be considered. Aiding
the establishing of capitalist gov.
eminent and urging one set of CAPT.
talists to fight to keep others from
fighting is in no sense preventing
war, even if this was pertinent to the
question. Carranza believes in max
ing war the same as any other CAPT
talist does, and to exploit the people
of Mexico by the money and profit
system the same as any other capital
lists do. We can not see what So
cialists have in the least to do with
such man and his schemes except
to oppose and expose his nefarious
plans to rob the working people of
Mexico, all we possibly can.
We also call on the Appeals cor
respondent, John X. Turner, to say
why he is so solicitous and afraid the
people of Mexico will be turned over
to one set of capitalists for exploita-
ton, and virtuously refuses to accept
their brides, and is perfectly willing
to see them turned over to the mer-
cies of the Carranza crowd of capital
lists who unblushingly say they are
going to make it more advantageous"
for their schemes to secure profit
/ from the people and country.
If he would not accept the brides of
one set of capitalists, does he turn
around and aid the cause of another
set of capitalists to do the same thing
more advantageously" for nothing?
Go way back and sit down Turner.
Your attempt to put this deal across
is too raw. Well do we remember the
treachery of one of your tribe, the in
famous George Shoaf, and the lasting
injury he has done us. So inconsistent
and illogical is the whole thing, Turn
er must have intended his article for
"a Hearst paper and got his addresses
mixed, when he addressed it to a So