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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

William McKinster, a young man
about twenty-four years of age, was
arrested last week by Sheriff Dun
can and Deputy Kincheloe on the
request of the authorities of Blaine
county. He was wanted by the Off
GERS of that county on charge OF
seduction, with promise to marry.
The alleged crime was committed at
Geary and information was given
out to the effect that the girl in
volved in the case has already be-
come a mother. The young man was
arrested at the place of Arthur
Campbell, two miles north of the
Stella Academy. Campbell is an I'M
Gle of the accused man. Information
as to his presence at the home OF
mis- uncle was secured through a
cousin who lives at Geary. Young
McKinster maintains his innocence
and claims that the offense was COM
mitted by one of the parties who
caused his arrest. Sheriff Lee Aiken
of Blaine county took the accused
man to Watonga last Saturday,
Cherokee (okla) Republican.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

Ente4pd as second-class matter January 6,
1911. at the post office at Liberal, Kansas
nder the Act OF March 8. 1879.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

Published every Friday morning
at Liberal, Seward County, Kans.
Subscription Price ST. Per Year
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

A. NJ. Wilbanks and sons passed
through town the latter part of last
week with number OF wagons
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
BY n. c. Evans

The campaign to take the little chill.
dren-the future men and women
from mill and factory, from sweat
shops, tenements and work rooms
grows more determined. Two million
little children, with aching bodies
pain in their hearts and dullness in
their brains, are toiling through the
long hours of the days and nights in
this beautiful, bountiful America of
ours. Why? That sordid men may
become rich that capital may have
dividends; because we are neglectful
of our children; because cruel men,
unrestrained, will sacrifice anything,
even the lives of children, in their
greed for gold. Instead of worshiping
our children we worship gold. We
hold gold in higher esteem than we
do our children. But we hear some
one say: 81 do not permit MY child
to be thus sacrificed" There is too
much of this personal Ownership" of
children. All little children are "our
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
CHILD LABOR

The evil of child labor cannot be
eradicted under the profit system. 1t
is part and parcel of the capitalist
mode of production. 1t can only be
intensified by the growing perfection
of machine production. Mechanical
ingenuity has taken the place not on
ly of the artisans skill, but of the
mans strengthen even woman's.
A child's attendance is all that is re.
quired as an adjunct to machines that
can do everything but think.
No manufacturer can hire adults
to take the. childrens places at the
machines, and successfully compete
with the manufacturer who continues
to work with child labor. He cannot
even raise the wages of children in
his factory above the scale adopted
elsewhere. An attempt to gain for
the little girls in the cotton mills of
Oakland, California, a barely living
wage ended in failure, because the
owners had to adjust their wage scale
with that prevailing in the democratic
South.
The alternative presented was,
work for what we offer, or we close
the mills" The children were liter.
ally starved back to their ill-paid
tasks. Patch the system up in one
place, and it breaks out in another.
Raise the wage scale uniformly thru
out the United States, and our com
petitor nations get the orders And
there you are. There is but one rem
edy for the evils of capitalism, of pro-
duction for profits, and that is, abo-
iition of capitalism, and the institu-
tion of a system of production for
USE!
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
GOOD MEN --- AND WHAT
THEY STAND FOR

bighted pulling out bastlng threads
or making artificial flowers under the
whip of brutal sweat-shop boss. No
little lungs will ever again be filled
with cotton lint or coal dust.
In that day no destitute woman will
stand on the brink Of the water, try
Ing to decide whether to end 1t all or
sell herself into prostitution.
No man will then cringlngly beg
some exploiter for job,-for a chance
to exc out an existence.
Compare this in your mind with
the skinny, petty, worried, hurried
uncertain method of living today.
| But have you heard your good
men" candidates say anything about
creating this new order Of society?
No, for they would not then be
good men"
They would be Socialists.
They would have the Socialists
hopes and ideals.
| The WOOhD tlANE OOm IL
THING AT STAKE BESIDES AN
| OFFICE.
They would be using the press, they
would be on the street-corners teach
ing those who do not understand, the
underlying causes Of poverty and It's
attendants-war, prostitution, insan-
ity, hunger, disease, over-work, and
no work They would be teaching the
remedy for existing evils.
But they can do none of these
things.
Their only qualification Is that they
are good"
! GOOD FOR WHAT?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

Some OF the evidence before the
New York state Factories Commits
sion Ia burdened with horror,
It has to do with the sweat shops"
OF New York, and the women and chill
dren who work in those sweat shops"
and the things that are made In those
sweat shops"
II Ia an old story to trade unionists,
district visitors and settlement work
ers; but II is a new story to the pub
lie. 1t shows a condition that ought
to be done away with Mt once.
II Is cause In which there can be
no excuse for delay. No court will
cancef legislative remedy on the
ground that II takes away property
without due process of law"
Here are some of the cases brought
before the commission, and they rep
resent condition general to the 'out
side" work in the tenement house dis
tricts.
There are more than 125,000 women
and children doing Sweat shop" work
in those tenement houses.
In one district where 1872 Sweat
shops" were inspected there were
people in seventy-nine OF those places
suffering from contagious diseases.
In some of those sweat shops
were women and children engaged in
making monogram" cigarettes for the
"higA-class trade"
In one two-room apartment" nine.
teen men and women and children did
their work. ate their food and slept
when they were not working.
In the room of one tenement u
mother and four children were en-.
gagged in running ribbons through cor
set covers, In the same room the
father lay dying of tuberculosis.
In the room of another tenement a
number of women and children were
working on feathers. Four Of those
trying to work were actually suffer
ing from typhoid fever.
A young woman was found making
dolls clothing. She had to keep al
I it sixteen hours a day to maintain
| herself in subsistence wages" In
the room in which she worked and
slept and took her food her father lay
on a cot, dying of tuberculosis.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
What Non-Socialists Vote For

The case OF Mrs. Madilina Vitriani
was put In evidence as being typical.
Mrs. vitrinpa lives Mt 70 Sullivan
street, which Is the West Side dock.
tenement district of New York.
SHE HAD FIVE CHILDREN. THE
YOUNGEST OF THEM IS AGED
FIVE YEARS. THEY ALL WORK
EIGHTEEN HOURS A DAY. usU.
ALLY THEIR COMBINED LABoRs
BRING THEM so CENTS A DAY. ON
RARE OCCASIONS THEY EARN rs
CENTS A DAY. ONCE THEY EARN
ED 81.
THE CHILDREN IN THESE
"sWEAT SHOPS" OFTEN FALL
ASLEEP FROM EXHAUSTION AND
ARE SOMETIMES TOO TIRED TO
WORK STEADILY. WHEN THEY
ARE SLEEPY THEY ARE WHIP
PED TO KEEP THEM AWAKE
WHEN THEY ARE TIRED THEY
ARE WHIPPED TO speed THEM
UP"
THE WHlPPiNGs ARE NOT PUN
isHMENT. THEY ARE MERELY
AN INCENTIVE TO LABOR EFF
ClENCY.
1t seems incredible, but 1t happens
to be true. 1t Is true not only of the
cases cited here, but of an economic
condition that Is general among the
women and children engaged on "out
side work" in the Sweat shops" Of
New York, and all outside work Of
this kind Is sweat shop work.
The presentation of these facts
should produce an immediate remedy
Civilization cannot afford to invoke
the penalties that such a condition
makes inevitable.
The instance Of the women and
children working in the midst of con
tagion at the making of monogram
cigarettes for high-class trade" Is i'm
pressive. But that is because 1t needs
no Imagination to realize it's meaning
Thousands OF other cases may seen
more remote, but they are actually
just as intimate, and there is no goot
reason why civilization should keel
company with such industrial squalor
No reason, at least, excepting that the
working-class themselves stubbornly
vote against Socialism, the one anc
only remedy for such evils.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
SPEEDED UP

A man applied for job as a me
chanic and the owner of the garage
asked him if he had had any expert
ence "Sure thing" said the appli
cant. "Why, Pm the guy who used to
put part No 453 on all the cars in
the Ford factory" "How did you
lose your iob?" he was asked. Just
a little hard luck" replied the appli-
cant q dropped my monkey wrench
one day and by the time ] stopped to
pick it up ! was IS cars behind. This
made the foreman mad lie fired nae
and then ! got mad and quit the
works"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
IT RESTS WITH YOU

1t rests with you either to paltcr
continually with your conscience and
in the end TO say one fine day Per
ish humanity, provided can have
plenty of pleasures and enjoy them TO
the full, so long as the people are
foolish enough 10 let me- Or once
more the inevitable alternative, to
take part with the Socialists, and work
with them for the complete transfer
nation Of society. 4 vast and most
enthralIins task; a work in which
your actions win be in complete har-
rony with your conscience; an under
taking capable of rousina the nobIest
and most vigorous naturea.-Prince
Kropotkin's Appeal to the Young, p.
IS
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
"Suffer Little Children"

|own" in the broader sense. No man
no woman, is really childless. Get
away from self and selfishness, and
then you will feel an ownership in
and responsibility for, all children
This slavery of two million children
in the bondage of toll, accountable to
dividends, subject to gold, is a thou
sand times worse than was the slav
cry of the black man of the South. 1t
is worse because their slavery endan.
gers the future of the Anglo Saxon
race. Rob a child of it's physical vi
tally, let it remain in condition of
ignorance, and you rob the man OF
his high birthright to aid civilization
in it's progress. These little children
are needing you now. They are need
ing the help of every man or woman.
Yes, brother, they certainly are
And the Socialists alone are making
any really effective fight to remove
the conditions which make child la
Dor necessary, or economically profit
able,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
Continued from Page 1.

We Socialists know that the chao-
tic condition In which society finds
Itself today Is brought about largely
by lack OF understanding, by the
masses OF THE CHANGE BROUGHT
ABOUT by THE RAPID AND MAR
Vicious EVOLUTION OF THE MA
CHINE, UNDER PRIVATE OWNER
SHIP.
You ask: WHAT ARE YOU so
CIALISTS GOING TO DO ABOUT
TIP" First we will educate, educate,
and again educate, until we have gain.
ed political control Of the city, coun-
ty, state and nation.
We already have control Of many
cities
Sooner or later we will make Bv-
erett link in the rapidly lengthening
chain.
When we have gained sufficient po-
litical power, we will establish an In
dustrial Democracy.
Things will then be made FOR
USE. not FOR PROFIT as now
This will set the children free.
II will set the human race free.
1t will put men and women at work
for few hours a day, producing in
abundance everything that Is neces-
sary to develop the best that Is in the
race.
1t will put baby dolls and wagons
and hobby-horses and laughter, song
and music into all childrens' lives.
No baby ears will ever again be
broken by the whir of machinery. No
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
1.-THE CRY FOR JUSTICE"

We want to draw our readers at
The Cry For Justice" 1t is a re-
markabe book. It is different from
other Socialist books 1t is a fit
book for anybody's library and is in
fact library in itself No Socialist
that can possibly afford the price,
5000, should be without it. We can
truthfully say that no Socialist will
be disappointed in this book once hay-
ing bought one. 1t is a book you can
refer to every day and get something
refreshing out Of 1t is well bound
and contains 81 striking Illustrations
and 955 pages.-H. W. w.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

The lamented August Bebel was
among the first men to raise voice
in favor of complete emancipation OF
women. In the country of the "Haus-
frau" idea of woman's sphere, he led
the battle for her right to enter every
sphere Of human life, and did this re-
CARELESS of any objections that eX-
pediency might raise, To the Jubilee
Edition of his great book, woman
and Socialism," he added this passage,
defining the attitude Of Socialists to
the whole woman's movement:
Our goal then is, not only to achieve
equality of men and women under the
present social order, which constitutes
the sole aim of the bourgeois woman's
movement, but to go far beyond this,
and to remove all barriers that make
one human being dependent upon an
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
Two Famous Men on Socialism
H. G.. WELLS VIEW

Socialism is very thing indeed the form and sub
of ideal life and all the religion possess am by
of predesnation Socialist perceive help talking and
writing Socialism, and shaping and forwarding Socialism
of of growing multitude of witnesses who
shall continue does notn the larger how
generations testify 1t does matter except
individual how individually succeed fall what
bunders what thwangs encounter what fes and
nadequaes darn hopes and level personal mag
nations the dust We have the light We know what for
light gmmers dmly through in
the end prevail.
H. G. Wells, N. Y. Independent Nov 25 '06 Vol 81 900
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
DREAMERS
BY Ernest Crosby


I chose to be a dreamer
A dreamer whose dreams come true,
You may choose to fight II you like
To skirmish and strike
To worry and toll and build.
You may count the towns you have
founded,
The men you have killed.
You may fill the world with hustle,
And shout and scream;
You may jostle and hustle;
/ dream.
1 can see what is hidden from you
The army of man
Passing on in review
The fighters and workers and all,
From the rear of the van.
There they go with the banners and
streamers.
The best and the worst;
But 10! the poor dreamers
March first!
So | chose to be a dreamer
A dreamer whose dreams come true
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

Are you going to allow the trust
magnates, the bankers and the land
grabbers to retain possession of that
which you must have access to in or
der to live or are you going to get
up like men and women and take that
which is necessary to your well-betng?
When we say TAKE we mean that
you shall get control of the powers of
government and LEGISLATE these
natural resources into the possession
Of the men and women that do the
useful work of society,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
WHICH SYSTEM DO YOU
PREFER?
Under This System

Under This System
The men who make the fabrics wear
rags.
The men who build houses live in
rented novels.
The men who make the automobiles
walk.
The men who build the railroads
tramp between the rails, seeking
work,
The men who till the soil eat the
refuse and sell the hest so they may
buy some soil.
The men who work the hardest
have the least.
The men who have transformed
this world have legally no right in
the world.
Under Socialism
The men who work will get their
full product.
Every man can afford to own a
good home, clear Of all Indebtedness.
No man viii be enabled to live by
working others
Every laborer will be enabled to
travel and see the world
The world win be transformed into
a thing of beauty and will bring
wealth to those who made it.
The producer, the farmer, win have
the best of everything, and will no
longer be IN debt for the land he
works
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

has been invented through the genius
of man than in all the preceding ages
before, AS a result the cotton spin
ner and The cobbler have vanished.
Their places have been taken by the
machine tender. Boys and girls now
turn out as many boots and shoes in
day as the cobbler used to make in
several months, And a like change
has taken place in every trade. What
we want now is a change from private
to collective ownership of the greater
means of wealth production
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
100000 INFANTS
KILLED BY POVERTY

Government statistics show that in
families in which the breadwinner
gets $500 a year, $50 babies in every
1000 die before the age Of one year.
In comparing this with that of wage
earners who get $1,000 year we find
that only "a in 1000 die within the
first year Of life. IN comparing these
figures we find that 100000 infants
are killed every year by poverty in
the United States
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
OPINION OF GREAT NATURALIST

yet much influenced by the ndivduals teachings of
Mill and Spencer and the loudly proclaimed dogma that without the
of individual competition would inevitably become
idle and fall back into universal poverty that did not beow much
attention upon Socialism, having in fact much literary work
hand could But at length in 1882 views
changed ALL and have since been absolutely convinced
only that Socialism thoroughly practicable but that the
Of worthy civilized beings and that it, alone
for mankind continuous mental and moral advancement
with that happiness which arises from the full
faculties for the purpose of satisfying all their rational
needs, desires, and aspirations.
Alfred Russell Wallace, My Life Etc, Vol D. 2S5.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

United States capitalists in some
districts have formed themselves into
private associations in order to learn
how to shoot and other warlike ac-
complishments. This is the right sort
of preparedness" We hope if they
force the country into war they will
so and do the fighting,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
WHAT WE WANT

A century and a half ago labor was
done by hand, as it had been for hun.
dreds Of years before. The steam en-
CINE was invented and machine after
machine followed Steam and electric
power have made the development of
machinery possible More machinery
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

The Industrial Relations Commits
mission says that THE welfare of the
state demands that the useful labor
of every able-bodied workman should
as minimum be compensated by
sufficient income to support in com
fort himself a wife, and at least three
minor children, and in addition to
provide for sickness, old age, and dis
ability" That will take at least six
dollars day. Is that what you get?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
Woman and Socialism

other, which includes the dependence
of one sex upon the other. This so
luton of the woman question is identi
cal with the solution of the social
question. They who seek a complete
solution of the woman question must
therefore, join hands with those who
have inscribed upon their banner the
solution of the social question in the
interest of all mankind-the Social.
lists
The Socialist party is the only one
that has made the full equality of
women, their liberation from every
form of dependence and oppression,
an integral part of it's program; not
for reasons of propaganda, but from
necessity. For there can be no liber-
alton of mankind without social indie
pendsnce and equality of the sexes.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

For plastering or any kind of brick
laying, see Albert Rookstad, 1925 Pine,
Everett, Wash.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

Have your fall sweaters knitted by
an expert hole knitter. Socks and
WOODEN goods of all kinds repaired by
Mrs, Swan Johnson, 242o Walnut.
Prices reasonable. Phone Ind. 479.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

There Are TWO Sides To EV-
cry Questionable wrong side
and OUR side. Whose and Why?
Read this paper with an open
mind, and get the correct an
swer, BASED ON INcONTRO-
VERTlBLE FACTS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-03
THAW IN CELL
HEARD YOUNG
GIRLS SCREAM
Testimony by. Two Officers Who
Were On Duty at Police Sta
ton Where Thaw Was Held
After Killing White

New York, July 1.-THE first witness
to testify at the trial to determine the
sanity Of Harry X. Thaw that his con-
Duct was irrational, were put on the
stand today by attorneys for the state.
They were two Canadian immigration
officers Frank McFadden and Henri
Giroux. who took part in the forcIble
deportation of Thaw from Sherbrooke,
Quebec. into Vermont. They said that
when Thaw was told in the Sherbrook
iaiI that he was 10 be deported he
became violent. threw a bottle through
window and shouted that he was be-
ing Kidnapped Giroux described his
conduct as that Of a person danger
ously mad
Two police officers who were on duty
al the Tenderloin police station While
Thaw was detained there after his ar
rest for killing Stanford White gave
testimony to support the states con-
tention that Thaw had decisions on
the subject Of young girls. Both Wit
nesses said that Thaw, while in his
cell. said he heard young girls scream
ing.
While the reading into evidence OF
testimony. given at previous trials, IN
tended to prove Thaw's insanity was
in progress the court was adjourned
until Tuesday. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
is expected to take the stand as
states witness either on Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-03
Former President of
Mexico Passes Away
Friday Night
son TRIES IN VAIN
TO BRING SISTERS
Men Raised in Shadow
Of Diaz's Ability In
able to Reach Bedside

Paris, July 9, 7.40 P. M.-General
Porfrie Diaz, former President of
Mexico, died here at O'Clock to-
night.
General Diaz began to fail rapidly
about three weeks ago and while his
oea.h was NOT unexpected, owing to
lis advanced age and recent failing
health the crisis came suddenly this
afternoon. Porhrio Diaz, Jr., and his
wife were hastily summoned and ar
rived at the bedside only a few mo-
ments before the end. which came at :
o'clock tonight.
Col. Daz, in announcing the death
a his father, said he was unable to
state the nature of the malady. but
expressed the opinion that COM
p-ication Of diseases due to advanced
age was the cause
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-03
WILL GO BEFORE
JUDGE BARTLETT
Report That Gambler
Schepps Holds Secret
And Will Tell Cover
nor Whitman if He Is
Requested

New York, July 2.-That
Charles Becker, the former
New York police lieutenant,
now in Sing Sing prison under
sentence Of death for conspir-
ing to kill Herman Rosenthal,
had absolutely nothing to do
with the murder, was the state
ment made here today by H. T.
Marshall, an attorney, as COM
ing from his client Bridge"
Weber, one of the three self
confessed accomplices in the
plot. This followed closely upon
the heels of a story that Sam
Schepps, the gambler upon
whom the state relied during
the first Becker trial to corrob-
crate the testimony Of Jack
Rose, Harry WALTON and Bridge
Weber, the three informers,
held "the secret in the Becker
case and would tell Gov. Whit
man. should the Governor ask
him to.