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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
ECONOMIC CLASSES

Another very important change
took place; there began the divi-
sion of modern society into
two distinct opposing economic
classes: the class of followers
and the class of tool-users. Up to
this time the employer had him
self been the working man. Then
he became the exploiter, and jour
neymen no longer worked side by
side with the workers but became
the owner of the machine and the
oppressor of the labor power
This development Is about com
plete. A large number Of the
smaller capitalists are struggling
In vain for their existence.
Can You Prevent Socialism?
Can you prevent Socialism? Can
you suspend the law Of gravita-
ton? Can you prevent the rivers
from finding their way to the
sea? Capitalism under which we
1--we evolved from feudalism. So
cialism is evolving from capital.
ism. Why the fallen capitalists
are the chief propagandists for the
Socialists movement! Every time
Rockefeller puts one of you lit
tie fellows out of business he
furnishes us with a recruit. You
only change as you are compelled
to change. AS long as you thrive
in capitalism you are capitalist
you are opposed to change.
You are not even open to convic-
ton. You would not even enter
tain suggestion. Now then, I
am here to say that even il you
are getting along in capitalism
you are not living. You are en-
gaging in a fierce, remorseless
and savage warfare Competition
that was a constructive principle
has become a destructive prin-
ciple. If you are a capitalist and
you are competing against other
capitalists you are trying to put
them out of business. This is the
basis of your alleged Christianity.
After you try all week to strangle
your competitor and put hls wife
and children on the street, you 20
to church on Sunday to be told
that you must love your fellow
men as yourself. How much can
you love the man you are trying
to devour? How much can he
love you?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
DEBS!
BY WALTER JUAN DAVIS

BY WALTER JUAN DAVIS
II is NOT his craft nor creed,
It Is not the winged word
That springs from his soul to his lips,
at need,
And, flying, Is felt and heard;
But something down In us all
That makes us respect the man
Who says unto great and small:
you've a right to do what you can;
You've right to preserve and keep
Such things as the gods gave you;
You've right to your hours of sleep.
And the worth of the things you do.
You've right to the million or dime
That your brain or your Drawn has
won;
But not in the length Of time,
In the light Of the moon or sun.
Have you right to a thing
That you steal or wiring
From me, or from any one"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
HE WANTED TO KNOW
DEBS TOLD HIM

And so Debs continued to show the
more or less bourgeois crowd present
as to just "where they were at" until
a leading democrat, from Oakland, a
lawyer, jumped up from his seat and
asked permission to put several ques
tons for Debs to answer. Contrary
to the methods of old party candi
dates, comrade Debs cheerfully grant.
ed the questions. Our note book
shows the following:
ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION
Mr. Jones: IF you find the con.
stitution of the United States stands
in the way of carrying out the Social.
istic plan, how will you get around
it?"
"That is easy. In the simplest
manner possible. We will not be
bound by a constitution adopted a
century and a half ago to begin with.
When Socialism comes into power we
will cease being governed by the dead.
When Socialism comes into power we
are going to abolish absolutely the
capitalistic state. We are going to
substitute for the government of men
the domination of things. | am not
certain whether we will have a SUI
preme court at all. Ninety-nine per
cent of the litigation that is in pro
gress is traceable directly or indi-
rectly to the private ownership of the
sources and means of life!"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
WHAT SOCIALISTS SAID
FORTY YEARS AGO

More than forty years ago the So
cialists of Europe declared:
1--WE are against all wars; and es-
pecially against dynastic wars. With
sincerest regret do we accept the I'M
avoidable evils of a defensive war,
and we demand that the recurrence of
such social calamity be made i'm
possible for all time to come by vest
ing in the people themselves the
power to decide over war and peace"
The proposition is here made to put
an end to war by democratizing war.
In all the history of the world the
people have never declared a war;
A constitutional amendment pro-
viding that no war shall be declared
except by a vote Of the people, and
that, as Allan Benson has suggested,
if war is declared they who voted
for it shall be the first to go to the
front, would put an end to war for
ever in this country
Women VIII Help Abolish War
Woman, although the most vital
factor in war and its most keenly
suffering victim, has always been con-
temputuously ignored when war has
been declared. Give woman the bal
lot on equal terms with man in every
state of this union and mighty adj
vance will have beea made toward
I driving the horrible scourge Of war
| from the face of the earth.
The earth is filled with it's bounties.
there is light in every brain and good
in every heart; let us rejoice that we
live at a time when old wrongs are
being uprooted and new rights being
proclaimed; when the night is pass
ing and the better day is dawning
when all shall join rapturously in the
divine anthem
PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD
WILL TOWARD MEN"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
Will You Help Rivet the Chains?

Do you want to boost for the CAPT.
talist class? Do you wish to fasten
tighter the manacles of wage slavery
upon the wrists of the workers? Then
there is one certain way to do it.
Neglect your own press, and invest
your occasional nickel in some Bull
Moose reform capitalist sheet Or
knock your own press.
Watch for defects with a magnify
ing glass, while forgetting that what
ever be the shortcomings of the So
cialist press as a whole, it is the one
big factor that is undermining the
system of wage-sIavery and exposing
the fallacies offered in defense of
capitalism.
We must turn upon this so-called
"ciyilization" the strong light of our
Socialist logic. We must treat it with
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
PEACE ON EARTH
BY EUGENE v. DEBS

(The hundred daily. papers of the
Scripps League embraced in the
Newspaper Enterprise Association re-
Gently asked "the fifty most repre-
sentative persons in the United States
to give their opinion-to tell in what
way they think we Americans can be
of most service in bringing back peace
on earth and good will toward men"
The following is Eugene V. Debs' con-
tribution to the symposium)
There never has been peace on
earth and good will toward men," and
we shall have to go forward and not
backward to realize that ideal. Civil
mentary state. 1t has taken countless
ages to bring us from the brute, the
cave-man and the savage to where we
are today The development has been
painfully slow, but steady, and will
continue to the farthest stretches of
time.
Thou shalt not KILL" is now the
law. But it applies only to individ-
uals-not yet to nations. To slay your
neighbor is murder, unless you are in
uniform. But when the nation Stays
it's neighbors and the killings amount
into the thousands, it is not murder,
but patriotism to be proud of, glorify
and rejoice over.
When shall peace come to earth ?
When the brute and savage shall have
died in us and we have become hui
man. In word, peace will come to
manized, civilization civilized, and
Christianity Christianized.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

The world is awaking and we are ap-
preaching the sunrise.
We cannot stop the European war.
We can and will intervene when the
time comes and do all in our power
to restore peace. To end the war pre-
maturely, were that possible, would
simply mean another and perhaps
even bloodier catastrophe.
Let us show the people the true
cause of war. Let us arouse senti-
ment against war. Let us teach the
children to abhor war
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
HOW DEBS JARRED
A DEVOUT DEMOCRAT

In the course of his stirring address,
comrade Debs took occasion to show
where the different capitalist parties
"stood, and why they didn't move
forward. Commenting on the demo
cratic platform and principles, Debs
called attention to the fact, well un.
derstood by all Socialists, that the
party OF jefferson" stands for an in
dividualism and competition in trade
which are out of harmony with mod
ern Industrial development. Said Debs
on this point:
Capitalization and cooperation
are the great forces of the age;
they are steadily paving the way
to the new social order that is
evolving.
At the beginning of this system
competition was the natural order
of things. Every man could COM
pete upon equal terms with every
other. Every man could virtually
employ himself, since work was
done with simple, cheap and prim-
tive tools, and these as rule
were owned and controlled by the
man who used them Man is
tool-using animal, and without
tools he is helpless, and soon re-
lapses into savagery.
So when every man used the
tool by which he was living, COM
petition was the natural order.
1t was then a constructive prin-
ciple. and 1t was properly said
that Competition is the life of
trade" Competition has run its
course since the machine took the
place of the hand tool. This
marks the greatest change in the
worlds history. When the ma
chine suppIanted the hand tool a
new principle was introduced.
NO Pi ''SiP'S Wdo III
stead Of competition. When the
machine tool took the place of the
hand tool the individual worker
had to discard his little shop
where he worked for himself and
where he lived the life of the in
dividualist on a low plane. He
had to desert his little shop, throw
aside his individual tool and be re-
cruited into an army--a co-opera-
tive industrial army. At this time
the small employer became the
capitalist as we understand him
today. 1t was at this point that the
modern capitalist was born and
the exploitation of the working
class began in its new form. In
this process the worker lost CON
troll of the tools with which he
worked. 1t was then that his
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

When comrade Debs was making
his memorable campaign in California
in 1908, the present writer was editor
of The World, a weekly paper owned
by Branch Oakland. but which func-
toned ut that time as a state paper
Representing the Socialist press, 1t
was our good fortune to be seated in
tn evast amphitheatre close to the
speaker, our Gene
a man at stands,
And Jest holds out his two hands;
AS warm a heart as ever beat
Betwixt here and the Judgment seat"
Although II was weekday after
noon meeting, between five and six
thousand people had laid off work to
so hear the great orator of the social
revolution. 1t was a great meeting!
At the conclusion of Debs' splendid
speech, the president of the univer-
sity, DR.. b. l. Wheeler, came to our
comrade and warmly shook hands with
him, congratulating him on his power
full address. For this honest recogni-
ton of true worth, DR.. Wheeler was
severely criticised by the reactionary
press, and movement was started to
have him ousted from the university.
But the movement" did not move
very far. Academic freedom" has
not yet become so glazing joke.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
Hear Debs Sunday!
FINAL WORD!
The Debs Meeting
A F I N A L w o
The Debs Meeting

PLACE-EVERETT THEATRE
TIME-Sunday afternoon January Oath
Ticket office of theatre will open at m
Lecture sharp
SEATSRegular seats 25c Soc ONLY 200
reserved seats Each ticket years subscription to the
Rpw fill out the post card attached the ticket
RipSaw St Louis Mo- Cards will collected at meeting
Socialists having Debs sale should settle for same at
the ticket office Of the theatre DO NOT NEGLECT THIS
All Debs workers asked to be promptly at D. M
BE THERE COME EARLY! DON'T CROWD! JUST BE
THERE! That's all
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

intelligence of an Everett audience.
The editor of this paper called him to
account for his stupid or malicious
Misrepresentation of Marx, and chaI-
Ienged him to debate with represent
tative of the Socialist party. The
doctor" declined and beat it" off
the stage.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

the contempt, ridicule and criticism it
SO well merits.
Will YOU, reader, help to do your
share? Yes? Then roll up your
sleeves and get, at least, one subscrip-
ton for the Birthday Number.
The response to this plan is meet
ing with the most encouraging results.
Remember that no one else will do
anything for YOU. you must do it for
yourself.
''The worlds life hangs on your right
hand!
Your strong right hand!
Your skilled right hand!
You hold the whole world in your
hand,
See to it what you do!
Or dark or light,
Or wrong or right,
The world is made by YOU!"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
DIR. MANNING's QUACK
REMEDIES GIVEN FREE
Rotten Mass of Fallacies and Mis-.
representations Offered
the Gullible.

A certain DR.. Manning abused the
privileges of the High school audi
forum last night with an hour and a
half of the most putrid mass of gar-
Ing falIacies and either deliberate or
ignorant Misrepresentation of facts
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

Mr.. Jones' 81 want to ask one
more question. / am here seeking
light Inasmuch as the constitution
must come from the people as the
sovereign power, must there not first
be change of the constitution before
there can become a Socialistic adj
ministration of the government"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
REAL SOURCE OF RICHES

Success (by law of competition), sig
nifies always so much victory over
your neighbor as to obtain the direc-
ton of his work and take the profits
of it. This is the real source of all
great riches.-Ruskin.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

Gorky says, "In order to triumph in
the struggle for existence one ought
to have much wisdom or the heart of
a'beast."
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

There are thousands hacking at
branches of evil, to one who is strik-
ing at the root Henry Thoreau.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
SOCIALISTS DO NOT WORRY

1.-THE Socialist movement says: we
do not care anything about what lies
beyond. We do know that wage slav.
cry is a crime, and we do know that
at certain times the workers produce
| more than their masters can sell they
are idle by thousands There are
millions Of tramps the products of
capitalism in this country Our jails
and penitentiaries are crowded with
them. There are 100000 fallen WON
en- in the United States Under the
capitalistic system prostitution is a
fixed factor. Four millions of chill
dren are working, and if there is a
crime that should bring to the cheek
of capitalistic society the crimson of
shame, it is child labor. And woman!
Under this system, if she is the
daughter of toll we know that
she is an economic mental. We know,
too, that she is political nonentity.
She is speechless, so far as citizen
ship is concerned.
ABOLITION OF WAGE SLAVERY
THE ISSUE
"At the bottom of all this lies wage
slavery. We do not care anything
about the minor questions they are
asking; what we have our minds cen.
tered upon is wage slavery, and when
we have swept into power politically,
as we are going to do, just as sure as
| stand in your presence, capitalism
Will fall, never to rise again We
will transfer the title of overseer from
the Rockefellers, the Goulds and the
Vanderbilts to the people in their col
lective capacity, Industry will be or
ganized upon a cooperative basis. We
Will take possession Of the socia,
means of production--in other words,
we workers will employ ourselves.
The chief function of the caiptalistic
government is to keep the worker in
subsection. That is why
81 have just been notified that my
train Is about to leave and must
stop, But l hope, my friends, to be
able to return here sometime in the
not far distant future and finish this
speech in Berkeley.
"And now let me say, you can hast
EN- this change, or retard ii If you
will, but it is coming just as sure as
the rivers find their way to the sea.
1t is coming and nothing in the world
can stop it.. How soon it comes lies
principally with you"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

perfectly operated under a Socialist
commissioner.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
DEBS IN THE FAMOUS GREEK THEATRE
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

economic dependence began; 1t
has been intensifying from that
time down to the present.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21

norance of the economic truths that
will forever abolish poverty is care
fully fostered in our public schools.
Comrades, let is make a mighty on
slaught on ignorance; victory that
will be an inspiration to the rest of
the world. Let us begin our advance
now Capture the schools of the state
and educate our children for a CO.
dustrial democracy instead of COM
petitive hell, and the Iron Heel of
oligarchy.
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