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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
DEMOCRATIC FAILURES

Up to the time Of Cleveland's sec
ond term 1S9Sl. there had never been
AS many as $4,000 business failures in
the United States in any one year,
The record for 1898 was 1922. In
1896 the 10000 mark was again over
Tapped (15,0SS failures) In 1897 the
republicans elected Mckinley. and
there were no more years In which
$4,000 business failures occurred until
1905 under Roosevelt when there were
1880. The year of Wilson's election,
in 1912, was marked by 1882 failures,
followed in 1913 by 1852. With the
exception of 1908, under Roosevelt,
there were no years under republican
rule in which $4,000 business failures
occurred in one year.
MORAL: Whenever the republi-
cans see an industrial crisis approach
ing, they let the Donks imagine they're
beating the G. o. p, and then drop
their load on the Donk's back. Talk
about being the goat! What about
being the Donkey?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
STATES OF MIND

That incorrigible prig Dr. Charles
w. Eliot, tells us that happiness and
contentment are states of mind"
ergo, it is useless to bother about the
conditions under which one tolls. Why
bother about such inconsequential mat
ters as more or less wages, length OF
the work-day, speeding-up, etc, when
"the progress of civilization depends
upon universal, steady productive la
bor?" Why, "the unions seem to
think the less one works the better"
The very idea! To borrow the Tri-
bune's gentle thought about MacDon-
aid the street orator, wouldn't it be
a patriotic act if some one were to
take DR.. Eliot and-no; we refrain;
this is a Socialist paper; and "incit-
ing to violence" is strictly the prero-
gative of the patriotic law-and-order
press.
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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
INFANTICIDAL CAPITALISM

AS n result of the stupid majority"
insisting upon upholding the capitalist
system of society after 1t has proved
itself unfit to survive" seven million
men, women and children in Belgium
have been sentenced to die of starva-
ton between now and summer. The
adult majority" -- non-Socialists -
might well be eliminated, since they
have shown themselves to be unfit,
but 1t is hard on the 10000 helpless
babes who have had no opportunity
to make good" The good CD men
who are responsible for capitalism's
continuance, are now busily engaged
in trying to avert some of its horrible
consequences. A relief ship" Is to be
sent to Belgium to carry food to those
who shall not yet have been starved
to death, by capitalism, before Fools
Day, April l..
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
MORE SCIENTIFIC HERESY

In an address to body of scientists
at Baltimore, the other day. Harvard
professor, DIR. l.. ]. Henderson, de-
clared that his Investigations had led
him to the conviction that what was
called inorganic matter contained all
the potentiality of life and that the
old theory that life sprang into exist
ence and adapted itself to environ
ment cannot be maintained. 1t is a
pity we can't burn the professor at
the stake for excluding God from his
Universe" as the preachers said of
Darwin, but as the whimpering old
woman in Shaw's Man and Super
man" puts it, TITS very queer world.
1t used to be so straightforward and
so simple, and now nobody seems to
think and feel as they ought. Moth
ing has been right since that speech
Professor Tyndall made in Belfast"
The New York Call,
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
ON THE QUIET

Schh!!! Don't say anything, COM
rade farmer. Keep it on the quiet.
It's this way: a government expert
has found that cows give more milk
per ton of food. and bees make more
honey per flower, If the phonograph
is played near them. Records are
cheaper than 1.-The high cost of foods. y
Try it, but don't tell your non-Socialist
neighbor, or the news will spread all
around and the selling price of milk
and honey will go down. Keep 1t quiet
but can one keep monograph quiet
while the busy bee listens to its out
pouring of II Didn't Raise My Boy to
Be SOLDIER"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
DID SHE EARN IT?

"About sixty years ago the old John
Thompson farm on Manhattan island
was sold to William B. Astor at $4,000
an acre, and the buyer was looked up
on by many as a fool for paying such
a price for rocks and trees. Two years
ago his granddaughter, Mrs. G. o.
Haig, sold one lot of this farm, being
No. 374 Fifth avenue, 37xf00 feet, for
$4,000 which would figure the land
at the rate of s5,5oo,ooo per acre."
The real fool in this case was Meth
er Mr.. Aston, nor the person who sold
him the farm, but the people of New
York City who created that value of
s5,500,000 an acre and are allowing
Mr.. Astor's descendants to appropri-
ate it.
Because a few private individuals
are allowed to appropriate these val
ues the people who create them must
live in poverty and distress, the most
of them crowded into uncomfortable
and unsanitary tenements.
Mrs. Haig did nothing to earn that
$5,500,OOO, nor the $450,000.
QUESTION
If Mrs. Haig got $450,O00 which she
did not earn, did not others earn
$45O,OOO which they did not get? So
ciaIism will put an end to this sort Of
"dividinq up."
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
DEMOCRATIC MEMORIAL

And now they're trying to get the
democratic administration to take
over Grover Cleveland's birthplace Mt
caldwell, n. j., and maintain II as a
memorial. Grover Cleveland, 1t Will
he remembered was n Buffalo police
man. author of the phrase "innocuous
desuctude," and pilot of the celebrated
manic of 1S9Sta7 The latter was re-
vived by his Princeton colleague Prof,
Woodrow Wilson, and this section OF
II will be known to posterity as THE
democratic frost of 1887,
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
CAPITALISM'S FREE LOVE-

A wealthy Connecticut manufacturer
who was opposed to Socialism because
it would break up the home" and
lead to free love-" declared he didn't
care what people thought" of him
when he was discovered recently as
having two homes, one for Mrs. Vir-
ginius J. Mayo in New Haven, and one
for Mrs. J. Dudley" in Brooklyn. Miss
Lillian May Cook, who suicided at
West Rock, near New Haven, was a
file clerk in Mayo's factory. It's ell
how these people are afraid Socialism
will break up their multiple homes.
Like as not it would break. up free
love" multiple homes.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
AS AN EYEWITNESS SAW 1T

"a stood one morning at the back
door Of an army cook-camp watching
a group Of Belgian women grubbIng
through the trash-hesp. All these
women carried babies In their arms.
"'What are they dolngr ! asked a
sergeant.
"'Scrapng our condensed-mllk cans.
It's their only way to get milk for their
babies. have seen them run their
fingers around the inside Of can
which looked as bright as new coin
and hold them In the babies mouths
to SUCK"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
UNDER OLD GLORY

In the United States, even during
times of peace and plenty. with 63 per
cent of the tlllable land held out of
use, we murder at least 10000 infants
every year, by starving them. This
is putting it mildly. Miss Julia c.
Lathrop, in series of infant mortal
ity studies, recently completed by the
children's bureau of the Department
of Labor. declares that poverty-with
its attendant lack of proper nourish-
ment-is the great underlying cause
why approximately 100000 babies die
every year in the United States. Says
Miss Lathrop:
THE general indication from THIS
first study is that poverty is at the
bottom Of the high infant mortality
rate. There is a coincidence of under
paid fathers, overworked and ignorant
mothers, and those hazards to the life
of the babies which individual moth
ers and fathers cannot control or
avoid, because they must be remedied
by community action. 1t all points to
the imperative need of ascertaining a
standard of life for the American fam
lily, which must rest on such better
ment of conditions of work and of pay
as will permit parents to safeguard
their children within the home"
| POVERTY AND iNFANTiClDE
The Johnstown survey shows that
the deaths of babies are in inverse
proportion to the earnings of the ia
Their.
Babies whose fathers earned less
than $40 week died at the appalling
rate of 256 per 1000
On the other hand, those whose ia
theirs earned $25 week or more
who had what might be called an
ample income-died at the extremely
low rate of 81 per 1000.
The relation of the infant mortality
special feature of the study, and
suggestive, If not conclusive, data
were obtained. For instance, the rate
in the poorest ward of the city, where
the most lowly persons of the COM
munity live, was five times greater
than in the downtown section, where
the best conditioned houses are to be
found.
Let us not throw stones at war
stricken Europe while we do so little
at home, even in times of peace, to
save babies from death by poverty.
Socialists alone are graphing serious
ly with the problem of abolishing pow
erty and murder of the innocents. Re-
formers would remove the effects
while leaving untouched the cause
Capitalism.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
LAW AND ORDER" GUNNER
BEAT UP WORKERS

Two private detectives, Laird and
White, aided by two other unknown
men, waylaid two pickets, Place and
Anderson, Wednesday morning, and
brutaIIy beat them up, Place being
beaten almost to a pulp, Place being
badly bruised. These pIug-uglies are
the hireIings of the ShuIl Lumber Co.,
who believe (?) in Flaw and order
SO they say. We wouldn't be sur
prised If the workers of Everett would
have the last say-so on this outrage.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
MANUFACTURING
PATRIOTISM

And now we are TO have flag ex'
ercises" in every school in the state,
once week. enforced by law, as a
means of fostering patriotism. Well,
it's a good thing the legislators at
Olympia realize that something Will
have to be done to offset the evil con-
sequences of their work at the capital.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
THINKING OF OLYMPIA

In an address at the Monroe high
school, last week, Prof. Richardson, of
the State university, said
Don't despair of the United States
because she has grafters among her
people. The United States is far
more liable to be injured by the
acts of fools than by those who plunge
their hands into the public treasury"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
WHOSE FLAG?

The Argus-Star rises to remark:
Whose flag will be insulted when a
ship bearing cargo of Rockefeller
oil or Wall street cotton is blown out
of the water for attempting to sneak
through the war zone?"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
EVOLUTION
BY G. LANGDON SMITH.

When you were tadpole and / was
fish,
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide,
We sprawled through the ooze and
slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian
fen;
My heart was rife with the Joy of life,
For loved you even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we
loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in rift Of the Caradoc drift
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in lathe of time,
The hot sands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the
womb of death,
And crept into life again.
We were amphibians scaled and tailed,
And drab as a dead mans hand.
We coiled at eace meath the drip
ping trees,
Or traled through the mud and
sand,
Croaking and blind, with our three
clawed CD feet
Writing language dumb,
With never spark in the empty dark
To hint at life to come.
Yet happy we lived and happy we
loved,
And happy we died once more.
Our forms were rolled in the clinging
mould
OF a Neocomian shore.
The cons came and the cons fled
And the sleep that wrapped us fast,
Was riven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past.
Then light and swift through the
jungle trees,
We swung in our airy flights,
Or breathed in the balms of the frond-
ed palms
In the hush of the moonless nights.
And oh! What beautiful years were
these,
When our hearts chung each to each,
And life was filled and our senses
thrilled
With the first faint dawn of speech.
Thus life by life and love by love,
We passed through the cycles
strange;
And breath by breath and death by
death,
We followed the chain of change;
Till there came a time in the law of
life,
When DER the nursing sod
The shadows broke, and the soul
awoke
In a strange dim dream of God
| was thewed like an Auroch bull,
And tusked like the great Cave
Bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to feet,
Were gowned in your glorious hair
Deep in the gloom of fireless cave,
When the night fell DER the plain,
IL -. - - u.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18
TELL BERGER

The express companies are losing
more and more profits as the Parcel
Post system becomes better developed.
Here's tip for the stockholders: Tell
Victor Berger about it; maybe he'll
induce "the people" to purchase the
express business.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

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. 1t 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, 1915-03-18

When glaciers in Alaska spoil cost
ly railroads, and government competi-
ton in carrying parcels eats up the
profits from privately-owned ENTER
prises," shouldn't Socialist legislators
come to the rescue and purchase the
Improbable concerns as "a step in
the right direction?"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

Get your trunks, suit cases and
ladies' hand bass--or have them re-
paired at Everett Trunk Factory, 2s15
Rockefeller. Trading stamps.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

And the moon hung red DER the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain.
flaked a flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped it with british craft
broke shank from the woodland
dank,
And fitted it head and haft
Then l hid me close to the reedy tarn
Where the mammoth came to drink;
Through Drawn and bone l drove the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud l howled through the moon-lit
waste,
Loud answered our kith and kin;
From West and East to the crimson
feast,
The clan came trooping in.
Ger joint and gristle and padded hoof
We fought and clawed and tore;
And cheek by jowl, with many
growl,
We talked the marvel DER.
carved the fight on a reindeer bone,
With a rude and hairy hand;
pictured his fall on the cavern wall,
rhof ,toh do
For we lived by blood and the right of
might,
Ere human laws were drawn,
And the Age of Sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.
And that was a million years ago,
In an age that no man knows;
Yet here tonight in the mellow light,
We sit at Delmonico's;
Your eyes are deep as the Devon
springs,
Your hair is dark as jet,
Your years are few, your life is new,
Your soul untried and yet
Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,
And the scarp of the Purbeck flags;
We have left our bones in the Bag
shot stones,
And deep in the Coraline crags.
Our love is old, our life is old,
And death shall come amain;
Should it come today, what man may
say,
We shall not live again?
God wrought our souls from the Trem.
adoc beds,
And furnished them wings to fly;
He sowed out spawn in the worlds
dim dawn,
And l know that it shall not die;
Though cities have sprung above the
graves
Where the crook-boned men made
war,
And the ox-wain creaks DER the buried
caves
Where the mummied mammoths are.
Then as we linger at luncheon here,
Der many dainty dish,
Let us drink anew, to the time when
you
Were tadpole and l was fish.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

In 1914, to November /, 1890 per-
sons preferred suicide to capitalism,
though nearly all Of them had voted
for Just what they got
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

The Socialists are they who have
the intelligence to seek to remove
wars and famines and bloody anarchy
by eliminating their cause. Capitalism.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

During the past 80 years there have
ben 3,4S5 persons murdered by mobs
QynchedD, all of whose members are
bitterly opposed to "agitators" who ad.
vocate 90 "1awlessness and violence"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

Under the provisions of the Dick
Military Law, there were in the
United States, in 1910, 20,473,684 re-
serve militiamen-males from 10 to
A years of age. This means YOU!
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

The number of persons to family
in this country is growing steadily
smaller: SO in 1880; 40 in 1890; At
in 1900, and As in 1910.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

German kalenders for 1915.
Deutsher Kaiser, Garteniaube, and 9TH
err German kaIenders now on sale.
Also the World Almanac, at Hilps
Book Store, 1929 Colby avenue.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

DR.. Ross Earlywine, Dentist, 205
American Bank. Bldg. Both Phones
725.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-18

"Iniquity alone has created private
property.D-St Clement.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-16


forced her way in as they dashed
around the corner. furiously pursued
by the family car. the electric coupe
and the barking collie.
The luxurious limousine was speedier
than its pursuers, but not speedy
enough entirely to lose the family car
with the deserted groom 1t had gained
several blocks Roadway, however,
when It turned a corner and stopped
abruptly in front OF a house where
vivacious brunette and a large blond
woman stood peering eagerly out of the
window Only for an instant IL paused
The door opened. Out of IL sprang the
white mustached man and drew after
him the half fainting girl in the volu'
minous black cloak. He put his arm
around her and hurriedly forced her up
the steps. The woman with the high
cheek bones darted after her. She hes
itated a moment and vaguely recog-
nized the cloak; then she sprang after
the beautiful young girl.
The man with the black Vandyke
caught her by the arm and held her
back He spoke sharply TO the driver,
who was the treacherous Scatti, and
the limousine jerked forward just as
the door Of the house opened and the
beautiful girl was thrust inside.
The thick, wide man on behind .strug-
gled to get down from his uncomfort-
able position, but his cravat was caught
I'm the strap Of the tire covers, and, so
the well known and justly famous pri-
vate detective, Bill Wolf, stopped over
the tires, with his wide feet in the rack.
his arms around the rims and his head
held down, was carried swiftly away
from the scene of his sleuthing. The
black Vandyked man talked earnestly
with the high cheek boned woman fol-
an instant and gave her some money
hurried up the steps and let himself In
with latchkey, while the woman ran
down to the basement door and pushed
past the servant who opened It
At that moment the family cal
swerved around the corner and flashed
by. still pursuing the luxurious limou
sine 1t had lost this scene OF alight
ing through having stopped long enough
to take on the handsome collie, which
now sat ON the front seat with the
driver There was no installing thai
| luxurious limousine, with It's black cur
tains tightly drawn and a bit OF filmy
gauze futtering from the door and tn,
| faithful Bill Wolf still stopped on Ice
| hind.
So it was that beautiful June Warne
came into the boarding house of Mrs
! Russell.
June was ushered into the parlOT
where several of Mrs. Russel's guest
were seated. All were impressed p.
the beauty of the girl as she was intro
duced to them. 4 young man suggest
ed TO one of the three young ladies
present that they play a game o
| cards
June stood before her new acquaint
ances hesitatingly. She did not know
who they were, and yet she did not De
sire To offend them. Her chief though
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-16

ter-journalist, who has been spending
some days in Ocala. Mr.. Dixon is one
of the old-timers, who in the days be-
fore the linotype set many a news
item or editorial without copy from
the case. It is the best way ever de-
vised to incuIcate clearness and brew
ity In an author-when every word
means he must lift from two to a
dozen pieces of lead, he wastes no
time on fowery passages. Mr.. Dixon
was born in Alabama seventy years
ago and knows the Southland as well
as he does the printers trade. He is
high in his praise of the beautiful
country between here and Gainesville,
which he came thru in an auto the
other day-says that autoists who do
not see it miss one of the best por-
tons of Florida. He is now on his
way back to Lakeland, in which
pretty and enterprising town he
makes his home.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-16

W. J. B. certainly ought to give the
Arcadia Enterprise hand-out from
his next Chautauqua receipts. 1t is
the only paper in Florida and one of
the few in the country, which up
holds the secretary for his action in
lying down on his job. The Enter
prise with characteristic broadness
and liberality intimates that all the
papers that criticise Mr.. Bryan-and
that means practically all in the state
and vast majority of those of the
nation-are controlled by the liquor
interests or belong to the "Plunder-
bund press" Isn't it nice to be the
only good little boy in all this wicked
world Lakeland Telegram.
Perhaps the Enterprise man says
Me and Mr.. Bryan is a majority"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-16
Blood is DisoFdeTed,

The great experts in Chemistry and
PHYSIOLOGY now declare what has All
along been contended by the Swift Lab
oratory that the germs OF blood disorders
find lodgment in the intersfIces OF the It's.
sues.
And herein IS where s. S. s. goes 20
work rapidly. effectively and with won
derfully noticeable results.
This famous blood purifier contains
medicinal components Just as vital ana
essential to healthy blood as the nutritive
elements Of wheat, roast beef, and fats
and the sugars that make up our daily
ration
dent In 5. s. s which serves the active
purpose of stimulating each cellular PAM
OF the body to the healthy and iuGfcious
selection or Its own essential nmtrfrnent
That Is why II regenerates the blood sap
ply: why IL has such a tremendous 81.
huence in overcoming eczema, r.Az.4. LIN.
pies, and ell skin Affections.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-16

was 20 ger ner clomes ana Try TO pro-
cure some work that would provide
for her expenses
And as she PAUSED at entering the
c1ru EunIe rne uOUr 70 rne pzr1vr sun
denly opened. and in came Grin Cum
ningham.
In Mrs. RusseI's select boarding house
was now a strange combination OF
people. These were Gilbert Blye. the
maid. Marie; Orin Cunningham and
June, the runaway bride.