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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
"FREEsT AND SWEETEST"

"The Advocate-General, the other
day, was DESTROYS of interesting us in
the defense of our" liberties, the lib
critics which we enjoy in this country,
the "freest and sweetest of home
lands" as we have so often been told.
thank the Advocate for his solicitude
over our liberties. We know quite
well what we must do to defend 'our'
liberties, liberties not graciously be
slowed upon us by your class, but
which our forefathers tore from you
by force ! have already shown you
how illusory become these political
liberties to us, so long as we remain
economic serfs, and dependent for
our morrow's bread almost upon the
within of that class which is master Of
the means of labor.
"But that in which these political
liberties are real and profitable to us,
no one in the world can snatch away.
In one of the most heated discussions
which arose upon the anti-patriotic
declarations made by me in the name
of the Socialist federation of IYonne
at a meeting in the TiVoli VauX-Hall
some months ago, several members of
my party urged against me the OBJ
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
IT'S UP TO US

"The Socialists and sympathlzers
with the movement IN any locality can
make or break any Socialist paper.
No editor or business manager can
make or break it. The members and
friends can make 1t by using their pur-
chasing power to bring advertisers in
to the paper and keep them there.
They can break It by NOT using this
power in the interest Of their own
press"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
EXPLOITATION THE SAME UNDER
ANY GOVERNMENT

"Mr. Adyocate-General, dCsist then
from flourishing the apparition of the
Kaiser before us, to whom it is indif-
ferent whether we are French or Ger
mans. To be victims of enforced
idleness or of exploitation, to he as
our peasants are, shackled with mort
cages or victims of the sheriff's sale,
whether under the French or the
German system, to be subject to the
requstions of French advocate
general or a German one, to be turned
inside out by French or German po-
lice, to be shot down in case OF strike
by French or German soldiers, what
does it matter to us, the countryless
ones?"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
AS TO OUR STAND

In stating the fundamental bases OF
scientific Socialism as he does in his
first letter. and declaring that accept
ance of and adherence to these prin-
ciples makes of one a Socialist, Com
rade Untermann is undoubtedly in
harmony with the majority of Social
list scholars, as we have previously
admitted. Nevertheless, we feel
strongly that fourth prerequisite is
to be added, namely, that very essen
tial factor which we call
international working-class solid
arity. Without this supreme test
of class as against national patriotism,
or international class solidarity, one
remains merely a believer in Social
ism, and falls short in the vital re-
spect of being Socialist. Merely to
have knowledge of the fact that all
human history must be interpreted in
terms of historical materialsm, the
class struggle, and to understand cap
italist method of producing surplus val
ue doesn't make of one Socialist. 1t
makes of such one merely student
having knowledge of the correctness of
the Socialist philosophy. Glass con-
seriousness, the deep feeling of inter
national class solidarity, this is the
supreme fourth element requisite to
the making of Socialist. And the
attainment in all it's glorious fullness
of this baptism" by the fire of inter
sm-international class solid
-arity-marks the real conversion to
Socialism, to membership in this sub
lime world movement for emancipa-
ton of labor! And again we declare,
dogmatically, if you will, that this
welding of the workers of the world
into a distinct class by the soul-fire
of international class solidarity is in
compatible with Socialist participation
in a captalist-class war which sets
Socialist" against Socialist" No
real Socialist can be induced to take
up arms against his fellow Socialists
at the behest of the capitalist masters,
not even to defend his country from
invasion.
Marx and Engles, at least, and
Herve, agree with US in this: that
internationaIism is a prerequisite of
workingclass emancipation, and so
taught.
In the Communist manifesto Marx
and Engles said:
"The Communists are further ac-
cused of wishing to abolish countries
and national spirit.
"The workers have no country.
What they have not got cannot be
taken away from them. Since the
proletariat must first conquer political
power must rise to be the dominant
class of the nation, must constitute
itself as the nation, it is so far ma
tional itself, though not at all in the
bourgeois sense.
National differences and antagon-
isms are today vanishing ever more
with the development of the bour-
geoisie, free trade, the world produc-
ton and the conditions OF life CORES
bonding thereto.
with the victory of the proletariat
they will vanish still faster United
action, of civilized countries at least,
is one of the first conditions of the
emancipation of the workers."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
HERVE FELL DOWN

We regret to have to add to the eX-
tract from Nerves immortal speech
that this cOmrade was carried off his
feet by the war mania and mob sug-
gestion when France was invaded by
the Teutons, and he became an anti
German, if not a patriot" in the
bourgeois sense, and is now whooping
it up for the Allies. Sorry! He was
sane when he made his great speech,
War is enough to make the best Of
us crazy But let us not forsake our
principles before we go daft.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
NO ABSOLUTE RULE


Socialist science, like any other sci
ence, must endow us with the ability
to work with reasonable predetermi-
nation of success. Only to the extent
that we succeed in improving the re-
preparing for anticipated emergencies,
shall we deserve the name of social
scientists. We must learn to foresee
and discount the extent to which we
shall be compelled, in the near and
more remote future. under capitalist
conditions, to devate from our "prin-
|ciples" without getting off the histori-
cal track. The first necessity to this
end is a full realization of the impos-
sibility of sticking to any absolute, or
pure, principle in the conduct of our
party affairs. Neither International
ism nor the class struggle asserts it
self without deviations; neither does
any other social or natural claw" of
development. That is the bottom fact
which few have thoroughly grasped.
Yet it enforces itself all the time. We
are compelled to, sumbit to it, and
while we submit we are continually
hampered by the objections of com.
rades who imagine that they are not
subject to it, and who therefore &C
cuse us of violating some sacred prin
ciple. In reality all of us, who sin
cerely try to follow scientific prin-
! ciples, stick to them as far as con-
ditions permit, and no further. The
comrades who demand more expect
the impossible and thereby violate
precisely one essential of Socialist sci
ence, namely, the historical method
This method teaches that Socialist
principles assert themselves through
fluctuations enforced by opposing
principles of development. Their real
ization is conditioned upon interac-
ton and interdependence with null
titude of other warning forces. They
may be better realized in proportion
as the Socialist parties gain national
and international power, but even the
greatest Socialist power can never be
absolute.
We are all subject to the jurisdic-
ton of the powers which we cannot
control. You cannot escape them any
more than | can, and the more you
will escape them. SO far as the past
and present is concerned, you have al
ready admitted that the facts do not
sustain you. Up to the present the
vast majority of the Socialists of the
world have never shared your atti-
tude on war and militarism AS for
the future, so far as capitalist develop
ment shall force the Socialist parties
to meet the same problem, you will
have to prove your case. | contend:
So long as the Socialists are dominat-
ed by capitalist majorities, the vast
mass of the Socialists will adopt the
same practical attitude towards war
and militarism which they have adopt
ed in the past and present. This ap-
plies also to internationalism and to
the class struggle. l shall demon
strate this in the following letters
Whether wars can be altogether
avoided after the Socialist internation-
al has become the dominant power in
the leading nations, is also an open
question, but l shall not touch upon
it in these letters, because it is too
remote to be of practical value for the
present generation.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

ing a Socialist. No longer shall we
be divided into Revisionists and Marx
lists; but into InternatiOnalists and
Imperialists; into true Socialists and
into mere Radical Reformers, the lat
ter fighting with the bourgeois mas
tiers for national capitalist-class domin-
ancy as a commercial world power
Limitations of space preclude fur
Their discussion on our part in this
issue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
PATRIOTISM A FOOLS TRAP Fl
WAGE SLAVES

"The nation for you, is a kindly
mother; for us, step-mother a
shrew, who detests us.
Patriotism is for you sentiment
natural and profitable; for us it is a
FOOLS trap.
I'VE may retain for the town or vii
Ilage where we were born, where we
grew up, where we suffered or loved,
a deep affection, natural and even
instructive feeling, which is in no way
akin to your love of country; but we
have lost all sentiment of love for
such countries of privilege and
iniquity as are the great nations of
today.
For us, the world contains but two
nations; that of the favored of for
tune, and that of the dispossessed,
whatever may be the language which
they speak, whatever the land which
gave them birth Our compatriots
are not the capitalists of this country,
who would massacre us if they could,
as they massacred the fathers of the
Commune; they the class-con-
scious proletarians, the Socialists, the
revolutionists of all the earth, who
are everywhere waging the same bat
tie as we for the inauguration of a
new society.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

Had our French comrades been for
years before the outbreak of the pres
ent war uncomprOmsing information
alists, as we are they would have re-
ceiyed the German soldiers with open
arms as guests of France, and the
war would have come to an end then
and there.
Better yet, had our German com
rades been real Socialists, ciass-con
scious internationaIsts, instead OF
mere believers in the materialist con
ception of history, the class struggle
and Marks theory Of surplus value, a
determined, uncompTomising stand
would have been taken at each
International Congress, for the last
decade, at least, and no invasion OF
France or Belgium would have oc-
cured.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
Letters to a Socialist Friend
CONTINUED from Page ~

Continued from Page ~
tribute 1t among different sections of
the capitalist class in the shape of in
dustrial profit, commercial profit, rent
and interest, and lead to the concen-
tration and Capitalization of indus
tries in such way that they must
pave the way for Socialism CD The
Significance of class divisions and
class struggles, leading to the con
scious organization of the modern
working class into national labor
unions and Socialist parties, which
strive for an international soidifca-
ton of all economic and political labor
groups, for the purpose of taking the
economic and political powers away
from the ruling classes.
All who accept and apply these mu-
tually interactive principles" are not
only Socialists, but scientific Social
lists, Marx and Engles first called
themselves scientific. or critical, com
munists The conditions that made
this advisable changed so radically in
twenty years that Marx and Engles
lated adopted the common name Of
Socialists, or Social Democrats.
Evidently, then, scientific Socialism
does not distinguish Socialists by their
attitude towards war and militarism,
but by their acceptance or reputation
of the above 'principles.'
However, opinions among scientific
Socialists have always differed widely
as to what constitutes violation of
these principles It was admitted
from the start that these could never
/ be abstract, absolute, inviolable rules.
They were confessedly conditioned up
on changing realities and, therefore,
variable in their application and real.
ization. To this day, scientific Social
lists have never come to any agree
ment about the permissible degree of
deviation from these principles"
The difficulty has never been with
what Socialists shall do when they
have realized Socialism. 1t has al
ways arisen over questions which deal
with the methods and policies of So
. cialists under capitalist rule and on
the way towards Socialism. This diff
ficulty, briefly stated, centers on this
problem: Where and when does a
question of policy, or tactics, become
question of principle?
You know, of course, that the three
aforementioned essentials, or prin-
ciples, of scientific Socialism do not
deal with things as they might be UNI
der a fully established Socialist re-
gime. They rather deal with the past
present and future development under
class rule The MARKHAM economics
and the class struggle policy apply on
/ ly to the prevailing class societies,
so far as the theory and practice of
Socialist parties is concerned. OF
course the historical method of study
and practice holds good in all kinds
of societies, but there will be no long
er any Socialist parties under Social
ism. Our theoretical and practical
problems fall altogether within the
scope of class societies.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
NO "FoREIGN lNVAsloNs"

"The belief seems to be that If we
should tomorrow become subjects OF
the Kaiser, all our political liberties
would vanish and with them the
right to speak our mother tongue.
What an idea, Perhaps you are not
aware. Mr.. Acknowledgement, that
universal suffrage exists in Germany
for the elections to the Reichstag;
that the labor unions are twice as
strong there as here; that the num-
Der of public meetings across the
Rhine is as great as on this side; that
the German Socialist dailies are even
more red" than the polite Socialist
journals of France.
you presume that that Kaiser who
in that German nation which you fig
ure to yourselves as politically back
ward, is no longer able to halt the
exercise of these political liberties,
you imagine that that Kaiser will be
able to prevent their exercise among
us, who according 70 your own state
ments, are still more disagreeable
chaps than the German proletarians
themselves. And should he succeed,
do you believe that we would not avail
ourselves of secret propaganda, the
most powerful and effective form of
al12
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

Mating Suit Cases, Ladies' Hand
Bags, Umbrellas and Repairing. EV-
erett Trunk Factory, 2815 Rockefeller.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

3oln, Neb, certainly is adding insult
to injury Columbia State.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

C. E. ogrosky, Glove and Shoe Re.
pairing, POOL Hewitt Avenue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

Order a sack of spuds from The
Northwest Worker.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

Manufacturing war-orders in Lin
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23

lection, for all the world like the Ad-
vocate-Gen eral himself, that If my
IDEAS spread on this side of the
frontier. the German Kaiser would
gobble France at a mouthful, annex it,,
and thereby put a finish to all our
liberties Let us follow up this fan
tastical hypothesis and see how soon
its impossible nature becomes appar-
ont
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-23
GUSTAVE HERVE ON
BOURGEOIS PATRIOTISM

In his immortal speech before the
jury Of the Seine district, when placed
on trial for reasonable utterances, In
December, 1905, Gustave Horve said,
In part:
Gentlemen of the jury:
81 left to my friend and counsel, M.
.afont, the task of defending my per
son; For myself, however,
reserved the more interesting work
of laying before you our anti-patriotic
belief, that belief which has mis-
takenly been dubbed "Herveism," as
II such propagandists as Yvetot and
the other militant trade unionists
who side with me, delayed to spread
their anti-patriotic doctrines until |
plunged into the fray This | say, not
TO lessen my share of the responsible
ity, but for the sake of truth, My
role has merely been to disseminate
certain ideas and sentiments which |
have seen spring up among the pro
letarian and peasant classes, and of
which am but the doctrinaire, the
theorican; and, for some time past
the standard bearer and the central
figure,
NEW IDEAS ALWAYS SHOCK
These anti-patriotic ideas are, at
any rate, sufficiently new among the
masses of the trade unions, Like all
new ideas, they shock public opinion;
they will seem shocking to you 1t
was that way with early Christianity;
1t was that way with Republicanism,
at the time when Republicans were
looked upon throughout the country
as bloodthirsty monsters, destruction
lists and ineendiaries.
'You are right indeed, to strive to
inculcate nationality, or flag-worship.
You are right, in order to prepetuate
the dominance of your class, to pro
pagate among the proletariat senti-
ment of patriotism which will blur
class antagonism, which will make
the sheep believe that they are the
same race, the same family, the same
nation with the wolves who devour
them.
But you must permit us, Mr.. Advo-
cate-General, you must permit us pro-
letarians, manual and intellectual, to
entertain entirely different sentiments
toward your nations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19

no less authority than Secretary Red
Held, that we can continue to export q
million bushels of wheat a day every
day until the new crop is available
and still eat as much as usual.
That being true, measures should
be taken to knock the props from be-
meath the artificial prices now pre-
vailing. This country will not stand
for siS-cent bread or smaller loaves
with our granaries teeming with the
crops of the biggest wheat harvest the
country has ever known. It is not
right that our people should be taxed
with high prices to put dollars into the
strong boxes of INSCRIPTIONS brokers
and spectators. President Wilson has
dwelt so much and so frequently upon
his desire to protect the people from
the operations of dishonest and grasp
ing businessmen that it is hard to un-
derstand why he does not take some
drastic action at once TO bring about
the readjustment in the wheat market
to which the consumers are entitled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
STORY RITEN'
BY the Messenger Boy
By the Messenger Boy

Last mite 1 ate some Limburger
cheese, mince pie and sour krout, and
took a bath, (the first time since
Christmas) before goin to bed, after
which l. wandered out into the garden
to hoe the pickel vines, which were
sailin away on a northwest wind
across the stormy sky, where the
golden sunbeams melted all the warts
of the pickles, and thowed the stems
in the garbage can.
While this was goin on friend from
Sibletown come along and visited n
merry tune in my ear, which buzZed
away and started a racket in the Gov
ernor's kitchen. whereupon the Ger
man ambassador took up his tin
hatchet and made sassage of the Bel
iums who screamed with delight and
shouted prayers for the Kaser.
The head flew off the ambassador s
hatchet and broke down Londen
bridge. maxim 10000 Irishers INNER
gate to Lebanon, where they dug for
gold to raise a emergency fund for the
widders in Mexico. The natives there
hollered for unkel Sam, who was bisy
putin salt on the tail of president
Wilson's coat, and urgin seckertery
O'Brien to demand Mayer Royel TO
apologize to the burjess of Steelton for
massackerin the bats in the Highspire
| of the Middletown of Enola.
Findin no success, the inhabitents
of Hardscrabil deserted their homes
| to the invasion of many, murmurin
purpil, punlSin vines, which dried uI
| the river and desecrated the holiness
of the Swiss cheese in the rum cellers
of the State Capitol where the fires OF
mite were burnin bright, and the winds
were wildly whistlin through the dark
and dingy dunjens of Lemoyne.
Then the Valley Trackshun Com
pany undermined the Mulberry street
bridge while Kernel Hutchisen stood
nobly by and heard the walls of the
women of the Eighth ward, as they
suffrajeted to declare their rights be.
fore the five commissioners, who SEN
them to the Y. NJ. c. A. where the
black flag was wavin.
At this signel, bumm fell from 9
zippilin into the rotunda of the capitol
upsettin the Lieut-Gov and scatterir
the newspaper men in the boilin wa
ters of Wildwood lake; all of which
proves that you're jist a fool for readir
such nutty stuff like this, which aint
fit for the first of APPEL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
THAT HERNDoN BRTDGE

w HEN the Chamber of Com
M merce trade expansion ex-
" cursionists visited Herndon
the other day the spokes-
man for that town called the atten-
ton of the visitors TO the need of a
bridge over the river at that point.
stating that while Herndon is a center
of transportation for the district sur
rounding it, it is greatly Handicapped
by lack of means of getting its traffic
across the Susquehanna. Forty-five
miles is the distance between bridges.
the speaker said, which is little less
than a disgrace, in view of the popu-
lation and the interviewer interests
of the communities thus separated.
State Senator w. c. Mcconnell has
introduced in the Legislature a bill
for a bridge at this point to cost
$250,00O.
Farmers and others of Northum-
berland, Union and Snyder counties
would certainly welcome the passage
of this bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
LIVING UP TO HIS NAME

OHELDON LIVINGSTON, of Iorcu-
pine, Wis, is living up> to his
~ name. Livingston lives four miles
from a school house. He has to
walk both ways. Yet in four years.
through rain and sun, wind and snow
and they do have some weather in
Wisconsin about this time OF year
Livingston made the trip. For four
years he has not missed q day. Like
Livingston of African fame hardships.
hard work and the wilderness have no
terrors for him.
Parents whose little boys make ex-
ouse to stay at home" rainy days in
districts where the school houses are
only block or two apart ought to
read this little story to them.
Young Livingston may not win the
renown of that other Livingston. but
1t is safe wager that any boy who
is living up so consistently to so diff
cult program as he has laid out for
himself is going to develop into a
pretty good citizen who will give ac-
count of himself in some sphere later
in life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
-es-E-Ss- a AS--A%--~--7-- - - -
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That Harrisburg mills are rolling
the steel for the Memphis bridge?
sTATING IT PLAINLY

a witness called in District Attor-
ney Perkins investigation of the short
circuiting of the Subway, in which a
woman lost her life and more than a
hundred persons were overcome with
smoke and fumes, described the situ-
alton as follows:
Then stygian darkness ensued. mo-
mentarily interrupted by htful CLEANS
OF weird electricity that rose and fell
with ghastly effect. Men stood riveted
TO the spot, women screamed i'm ab-
1ect terror, and pandemonium reigned.
TO increase the realism of living death
that seemed to be enshrouding the
sepuichral aspect of the place. a de-
monical guard of barbarous foreign
countenance, and accent in gutteral
tones, ordered the transoms closed. j
knew the end was nigh, and with calm
indifference devoid of hope awaited
the last gruesome' catastrophe
Mr.. Perkins withholds the name Of
the witness.-New York Sun,