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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
TO THE CAPITALIST CLASS.
BY Rudyard Kipling.

BY Rudyard Kipling.
We have fed you all for thousand
years,
And you hail us still unfed,
Though there's never a dollar of all
your wealth
But marks the workers dead.
We have yielded our best to give you
rest,
And you lie on a crimson wool,
For, if blood be the price of all your
wealth
Good God we ha' paid it in full.
There's never a mine blown skyward
now
But we're buried alive for you;
There's never a wreck drifts shore
ward now
But we are it's CHASTITY crew.
Go reckon our dead by the FORCES red,
And the factories where we spin;
If blood be the price of your accused
wealth,
Good God, we ha' paid it in full
We have fed you all for thousand
years,
For that was our DOOM you know,
From the days when you chained us
in your fields
To the strike Of a week ago.
You ha' eaten our live and our babes
and wives,
And we're told it's your legal share,
But if blood be the price of your law
full wealth,
Good God, we ha' bought it fair.
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TRADES
COUNCIL
n E w S

The announcement that General Or
ganfzer !. w. Bruce. OF the North
western Association of Plumbers and
Steamf.ttars. and Charles Perry Tay-
Ior. secretary of the WASHINGTON
State Federation of Labor. would
speak drew a large attendance at the
Trades cornell meeting Wednesday
evening About fifty extra chairs we're
brought .r and occupied.
via. p~.s.ss,+ F~a6 X Ovarnan
.aI1a5 III. ,-aa+trg p, orda~ i'm +ba an.
s.ro. ~ president Francois
Credentials ,.aro received from, 10.
cal r.,ton n, 90 If tho Transfers
for pro+1a~ ,foCoruac, succeeding
prott.~ prsot. oe dalaqata IN the
rorr,- s--r, .,.t orgori7ation Broth
orc r1 ~ vsrrerraunt Albert Gaufir
and o. North we're seated as dele
.,-.y Gran, tta Cioar Makers Union
roo,r zaS
rba election of officers was laid
oy.- Fan sro+bar uaek and all othe,
.or-irs nrsinass was disnosad of a,
,rtcl,f,- &c nossibla
A.. soor &c tho routine businass wa,
dis,osed If vice President Overmap
,ct,rg Oh ,frrnar called unon G. p. Tay
Tar os Tacoma who gave a stirrine
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
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Vermont and Kentucky were the first
states to make manhood suffrage legal
by constitutional provision.
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THE SELF-GOVERNING
CAPACITY OF WORKERS
BY GEORGE D. HEBRON

The ignorance of the working class
and the superior intelligence of the
privileged are superstitions sup
erstitions fostered by intellectual mer-
cenaries, by universities and churches,
and by all centers of privilege. And
the assumpting of superior intelli-
gence on the part of the privileged is
not warranted by a single historical
experience.
The arrangements and miseries of
mankind are precisely due to the ig-
norant and arrogant rule of superior"
classes and persons.
The mental and spiritual capacity
of these classes is a myth; their So
called culture but thinly veneers their
essential savagery, their social rap
acity and impudence.
The system that divides society into
two classes can bring forth no true
knowledge, no living truth, no indus
trial competence, no fundamental So
caI decency. 1t can only continue the
desolation of labor and increase the
blindness and depravity of the privi-
legged. So long as some people own
the tools upon which others depend
for bread, so long as the few possess
themselves of the fruits of the labor
of the many so long as the arts and
the institutions and the sciences are
built upon exploited workers, just so
long will our so-called progress be
through the perennial exhaustion of
generations and races, just so long will
successive civilizations be but voraci-
Gus parasites upon the spirit and body
of mankind.
And it is to destroy the dominance
of the privileged class, to eliminate
classes from society, that the radical
labor movement comes, and if it be
true to itself, it will make no COM
promise with the superstitions and in
stitutions of privilege. It will affirm
an effectual faith in the seIf-governing
capacity of the workers-in the wis
dom hid in the heart of the co-opera-
tive man.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
EARLY VOTING QUALIFICA
TIONS.

The ballot did not come to Ameri-
cans instantaneously as a gift. I'm
der the government that prevailed be-
fore the constitution was adopted
voters were required to own land or
personal property and to pay taxes.
One state placed the property quail
fications at $3.50; another at $500; in
New York it was $500 in Massachu-
sets, $500. In Connecticut the voter
was required to have property that
brought an income Of at least $35 a
year; in other words, he had to be
an exploiter Besides the property
qualification there were religious
qualifications in many states. In
South Carolina the voter had to be-
lieve in God and a future state. New
Jersey, on the other hand was eX-
ceedingly liberal with the ballot at
the start, exempting neither women
nor negroes. The sole requirements
were age limitations and the posses
sion of property valued at $3.50.
There were many restrictions in the
various colonies concerning the hold
ing of office. No atheist, free thinker,
Jew or Roman Catholic could be gov
ernor of New Jersey, New Hampshire,
Connecticut or Vermont. Any rich
Christian might become governor of
Massachusetts or Maryland, but no
one else. In one state the governor
was required to be Trinitarian; in
other words the law specified that he
must believe in the Bible, in God, In
heaven and hell; another provided
that in addition to being a believer
he must also be rich. In one state he
was required to have an estate of
$500; in another, $4,000; in another,
S25, 900 and in a fourth, $4,000. A
senator in Massachusetts was required
to possess an estate worth $4,000,
and representative $1,000. Candi-
dates for the New Jersey legislature,
the Maryland senate and the senate
of Delaware had to possess real es-
tate valued at $4,000. Senators in
North Carolina had to own at least
500 acres of land and ten negroes;
in Georgia 25O acres Of land and be
a Protestant. In four states no min
!ster or priest was eligible to civil
office
Later the qualifications for voting
and holding office were greatly broad
ened. Religious qualifications were
generally discarded when the consti-
tuition of the United States was adopt
ed All the states lessened also the
property qualifications, though this re-
striction exists in many states to this
day. New Hampshire went so far as
to discard the poll YAK qualification.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
JACK LONDON SPEAKS
TO YALE STUDENTS

This revolution is a revolution of
the working class. How can the CAPT
talist class, in the minority, stem this
tide of revolution? What has it to
offer? What does it offer? Employ
ers' associations, injunctions, civil
suits for plundering of the treasures
Of the labor unions, clamOr and com
bination for the open shop, bitter and
shameless opposition to the eight-hour
day, strong efforts to defeat all re-
form child labor bills, graft in every
municipal council. Strong Hobbies and
bribery in every Legislature for the
purchase of capitalist legislation, bay
onets, machine guns, policemen's
clubs, professional strikebreakers and
armed Pinkertons-these are the
capitalist class is dumping in front of
the tide of revolution, as though, for
sooth, to hold it back.
The capitalist class is as blind today
to the menace of the revolution as it
was blind to the past to its Godgiven
opportunity. 1t can not see how pre-
carious is its position, can not compre-
bend the power and the portent of the
revolution. 1t goes on its placid way,
prattling sweet ideals and dear NOR
alities, and scrambling sordidly for
material benefits.-A Address to Yale
students.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16

/ He made a searching analysis of
|present-day economic conditions, and
asserted that there were no problems
before the workers which cannot be
solved The first step toward the So
luton of present-day difficulties is or
ganization; organization on both the
political and industrial fields He dis
agreed with those labor leaders who
contend that the political power of
/ the workers is secondary to economic
organization. Labor, he insisted, must
gain political control of the state, so
that the enemies of labor may not be
able to nullify the work of the union
through their control Of the judiciary,
the police, and the militia
Brother Bruce spoke elOquently Of
the true meaning of freedom" which,
he declared, should insure freedom
from industrial tyranny, from enforc-
ed idleness and poverty He declared
that faith and enthusiasm are prere-
quisites to any real progress and true
happiness. The workers. he said,
must understand the real meaning of
life, so that they may intelligently Co
operate and organize to the end that
their lives may be made enriched and
gladdened that they might have life
more abundantly
The address was enthusiastically
applauded especially his remarks on
the ned of international solidarity of
the workers, and of cIass-conscious
political action.
After the audience was dismissed,
meeting of the newly elected com
mittee to work with Brother Taylor
was held and definite work was map
ped out for the next two weeks of
trade union revival"
The following officers were elected:
President. Robert Bepler vice presi-
dent, F. K. Oyerman; secretary, NJ. T.
Altman. The first meeting of the
committee viii be held next Monday
evening at the Labor Temple and ac-
tive work begun at once. Already a
committee has been delegated 10 Sc
cure the high school auditorium for a
mass meeting to be held July 3d. and
the city park for August 8.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
WILL GET WAGE RAISE.

A new wage scale providing for an
increase Of 3 cents an hour was
agreed upon after d conference be-
tween representatives Of the Wor-
cester Consolidated and Springfield
Street Railway Companies and the
street railway mems union.
II provides for minimum wage Of
g cents an hour and maximum Of
81 cents.
Virtually all street railway employees
in central Massachusetts viii BE- ar.
fected II the agreement is ratified by
the men tonight.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
A NATIONAL CRIME

How supinely we consider the con-
ditions of poverty that exists on every
hand. Because it has always existed
among us we listlessly conclude it
must always continue. Some think it
is a divine condition imposed upon US
for heavenly purposes. Others regard
it as a regrettable, but relentless and
inevitable result of our social organ
ization.
Both these classes therefore see no
way of escape and because of such
false reasoning they do not bestir
themselves to discover remedy. They
are resigned to the ravages of an in
durable malady. But is it incurable?
That is the greatest problem of our
times.
Is it divine? Is it incurable? EN-
phatically, we say it is neither divine
nor fnescapable. A certain remark
of Jesus, by reason of it's careless in
depreciation, has lulled many foolish
Christians into the first error of
thinking it would be striving against
heaven to try to abolish poverty. THE
poor We have always with you" This
is simply the statement of a deplor-
able condition evident all around. IT
was not a prophetic word intended to
teach a continuance of the condition.
Many other sayings of the Great
Teacher point in the opposite direc-
ton, to an abundance Of life and
opportunity instead of to penury.
But what shall we do? Sim
ply look for the cause and then re-
move it. That is simple, surely. No
work mean no pay. No pay means
no food, no clothing, no shelter-pov'
erty with it's attendant sordidness.
If we can cause poverty by organ
izing for destruction, we can just as
successfully cause affluence by organ
izing for construction.
Every nation is organized for war
Every nation can just as easily be
organized for all the arts of peace
and with unthinkable beneficial re
suits. Soldiers are gathered to
gether, clothed. fed drilled, in all mil
itary practices. transported hither and
thither over land and sea, furnished
with all necessary equipment, at any
cost.
So, every nation should be organ
lied industrially instead of continuing
under the present chaotic, jungle
methods now prevailing. The laissei
faire idea has prevailed already too
too long. 1t must be quickly super
seeded by industrial organization.
Then will the abolition of povert!
be an accomplished fact. Then, ant
then only, can we laugh at adversely
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16

ORGANIZATION is the only way by
which workers secure a voice in the
conditions and terms under which
they work
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AND THE EXPLOITING
OF THE WORKERS

On most cases active competitors
have common interests. The com
peting nations Of America and Japan
have one tremendous common inter
est 1t IS the maintenance of the
peace Of the world"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16

Sir Walter Scott once gave an Irish
man A shilling, when sixpense would
have sufficed. Remember, Pat" said
Sir Walter, you owe me sixpence."
May your honor live till pay YOU"
WAS the reply
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
WHERE'S THE COMET?

Oh, Superstition gets a jar
That makes its grim adherents
sigh,
With wars fierce terror spread afar
And not a comet in the sky!
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-11

ONE MANS OPINIONS
BYN. D. COCHRAN
Crime and Criminals. - 1 notice
some of the candidates have been
preparing crime statistics and telling
the voters all about crime. Harrison's
opponents say we have more crime
than ever, and Harrison's friends say
we have less crime and need more
policemen.
The fact is that it makes very lit
tie difference who is mayor so far as
the crime is concerned. But it does
make a difference whether there are
many or few out of work. It makes
a tremendous difference whether
there is much or little poverty.
It makes a difference whether the
weather is mild or bitter cold. And
it makes a mighty big difference
whether wages and the cost Of living
are high or low.
Men and women don't get desper-
ate on a warm body and full stom-
ach. There isn't the slightest temp
tatiOn for Ogden Armour, Julius RO-
senwald, Cyrus Mccormick or any
other multi-millionaire to pick a
mans pocket, smash in Peacock's
window and steal jewelry, nip some
body's diamond or break into and
rob house. They don't need to-
They can get all the money, all the
clothing, food and shelter they want
without stealing it.
Bread would come just as easy to
them if the price were so cents a loaf
instead of 6. They don't have to
worry in fear that their families will
starve or freeze to death.
No workingman becomes desper-
ate enough to break into juail if he
has steady work at decent wages and
can take care of himself and family.
No working girl is tempted to go
L 4 -
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salary enough to support her come
fOrtably and allow enough to have
decent clothes and a reasonable
amount of pleasure.
Vice and crime are intimately asso-
ciated with poverty. 1 am now talk
ing about vulgar crimes-the kind
people go to Jail for. 1 don't mean
the moral, but legal crimes - the
kind rich people. commit-the crimes
the law doesn't recognize as crimes.
Men don't go to Jail for exploiting
men, women and children, and get
ting the last ounce of labor out Of
them for the smallest possible pay.
Men don't go to Jail for buying fran
chises, for specializing IN food, for
increasing the cost of living, for
stealing their neighbours wife or Sc
ducing his daughter. They are re-
spectacle crimes - respectable be-
cause committed by respectable peo-
pie - that is, by people who go to
church, pay their grocery bills, wear
good clothes and hire the best law
yers, dentists, surgeons, physicians
and pastors.
There Is more vice and crime IN
hard times than in good times-for
there are more poor people in hard
times than in good times.
There is more vice and crime when
the cost of living is high than when it
is low, when work is plentiful than
when it is scarce-becaUse there is
more poverty when the cost Of living
is high and work is scarce.
Less policemen don't make more
crime, and more policemen don't
make less crime More criminals
may be caught when there are more
policemen, and less criminals will be
caught when there are less policemen
possibly. But the number Of police
men doesn't regulate crime. Poverty
is the barometer Of crime.
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manager and he did. Two days after
StalIings had signed to manage the
Braves, C. w. Murphy tried to get
him to handle the Chicago Cubs, of
feFing nearly double the salary Bos-
ton could afford.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-11

A STOCKING STANZA
Oh, winter winds viii blow, blow,
blow,
And what of maidens who, ] troW,
Have very little down below,
Nor have that little long!
New York Evening Sun.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-03

s Austria has the finest collection OF
orchids in the world.
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An aeroplanes sa1utes by dipping
and rising in the air.
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FUNERAL |: L
of Mrs. McIntire Will Be Held
ait Shinnston at 2 O'clock
Sunday Afternoon.

The funeral OF Mrs Martha j.. Mca
Intire. wife Of J. F McIntirc. will be
O'Clock Sunday afternoon and inter-
8lnent Will be at the Shinnston cemc-
terry there Mrs. McIntire died Friday
niornins. Her death was rather sud-.
den as she had complained but a few
days ard her friends did not know
that her condition was serious. She.
was IS years of age. The husband.
md one daughter, Mrs. Elmer South
ern. of Shinnston, survive. Mrs Nc
5IIltire was member Of the Baptist
church at shinnston and an exemplary.
EyEnmaT
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ENDLESS ARE
SUPPLY TRAINS
OUT o. TOWN
lin France, Where There Are
Feverish Activities at All
Times Since War Began.

yyAsHINGTaN, d. G. April -
Among all the places on the man Of.
Europe that have been made scenes
OF feyerish activity, none surpass AK
la-C happeile -Aachen the Germans call
IT,, says the National Geographic So
ciety's statement an the geography Of
The war for- today Here endless
supply trains start out over the fan
like system OF railroads to the front.
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DYSPEPSIA OVERCOME
Tone Up III stomach ssitll Hoods
ssarsaparilIa,

7. ~ ai 20"
s5s Siarsapa
When you bay dyspepsia your life
Is miserable Yon have a bad, taste in
yrIr mouth. > tenderness at the pit OF
your stomach. q feeling Of puff ful-
ness. headache, heart burn. and some
times nausea *
Dyspepsia IS difficult digestion
that is what the word means and
the only way to get rid OF il isl to- give
Eigor and tone to the stomach and the:
whole digestive system. Hood IS sarsa
tparilla. sold by all druggists. is the
one medicine which acts on the.
stomach through the blood and also
directly. Its beneficial effects are
felt at once Improvement begins Inn
Hoods SarsapariIla purifies the.
blood. makes the rich red blood that
is needed for perfect digestion, and
builds UP the whole system. No
other nedicins can take its place.
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Ask your ncighbor il lie has seen.
our cat.

and from the front converge the.
trains bearing their vast loads OF
wounded. converting the AK region
into a great hospital camp. "a
With the return OF spring more
fitting and more charming place could
not be chosen for the conyaIescence OF
the sufferers from the trench and
shell torn fields of Belgium and
Northern France. Aix-Ia-Chapellea Is.
set into the hills. surrounded with a
|superbIy green notched skyline, and
sheltered by ferraced forests, broken,
here and there, in pleasing variety.
sAix-la -Cnapeile is a place OF scenic
beauty. home or modern industry,
a city of churches and OF relics More
over. 1t is a health resort, and has
been such since the days of the dis
ease-W orried hivh-life Of Rome. There
are no better known or more oppres-
sfve curative springs in Europe than
the hot sulphur sprislgs of Aix-la-
EChapelIe. Perchance Charlemange
endured the healing Offices Of its
waters whenever his health became
impaired through his strenuous.
bloody exertions toward the CONVEX
sion Of the heathens.
Since the estab Itshment OF the
empire, Aachen mas sought to forget
and obliterate Its advanced age by the
adoption of a sleek modern dress. and
its large business of cloth. silk and
metal manufacture has won it prom
inent place in the scramble Of modern
cities for Industrial and commercial
renown. Yet Gharlema1ge was
crowned here. and here Is his tomb.
further, the modest cathedral near
the center of the town has been the
scene of the GROWING of thirty-flve
emperors and OF eleven queens These
facts must ever thwart Aix-la-
|Chapelle's efforts towards becoming
a thoroughly modern city
An aeroplanes salutes by dipping
and rising in the air.
Austria. has the finest collection or
Il
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ii CORRECTION.

The Omission price for that great
comedy success. he Prince
or Pilsen. which plays a return en-
gagement at the Robinson Grand
nj ght. as pub ished In an adj
vertiscment'i In Friday Telegram was
wrong The correct prices for his
play are 0c to S. IS s
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/, St,t.


tnlight as
S no arou
CIarks
of
day evening Mr. Holden n
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OHIO UNIVERSIT
DEFEATS 'VARSlT 4

4 to 8 score The intense and pierre
ing cold kept down the attendance,
but those who braved the weather to
SEQ the game witnessed an exciting
contest.
The game was a see-saw affair, the
two teams alternatingin the lead:
The visitors, however. managed to-
put over a tally in the seventh and
for the remaining three rounds Hen
derson held the locals safe. The
pitching OF Baron and Hendrickson
featured game. The two teams will
play here again today.
o efT ST. u. AB. r. 8. -;
q. n M..Potts, s. sb i. 5 4 q
RULER. 10 0s 2 10 % *Ot
Finsterwald. c.. !: o. o 12 t
s 0a o 2 d
Nice onnell, % o. 0 U
Chapman, lft.s... @ o. o. O o.
Schaffer. 2b .5.g.. a o. q o.
sHend rickson, p: % as y.
otals. "a 5 II. % q d 1s2 81
w. ". u 80 AB. r. IL. }. A. IL.
lHersey, M. ~. 10 Q
2b % "
fStonps, lf. -.
Simon. I b. 90. Q 2
Ayers, IF 9 & D o o
iBachman, rf.. Q
I Smith, 3b. 81. @ 9
EDillie, 3b ~. o. Y
Fidler, G.. :. e. ~ 4 @ y
MORROW, IS. .E. IN q
Barron. p. = .4sl i5Ss Q
Totals. 81 9 27:l !:
Ohio 10 % 10 10 OIL q 4 0----.t
w N. o o. q IS
Two base Bash.
Three base hit nrrow.
Sacrifice hits G. N. Potts, Leash-
ferwood.
i stolen bases Potts Me-
kConnRll. Simon, Bachman.
double pl Barron to Simon to
Smith. Schaffer to Finsterwa1d to
! fuller. s4s e
FIRST Oh balls . Il II ndrickson 2.
loft Barron 2. ~ Fl 81 *:
/ Il strucle on BY Barron 10. by
iHendrickson
Fassed bal idler
Tmpires ilson and Jones.
1 Time 00. 1888
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Boxing is taught in the state
schools of Australia.
Covent Garden is London's great
est vegetable market
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A1oRGANToWN, April For the
first time in many years West Vir-
gtnia suniversity's baseball team, lost
It's opening game of the season. when
Ohio University today won out by. a