davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
The Socialist Propaganda
Is INDICATED

capable of grasping the terrible sig
nlflcance of this fact? Surely a rev.
olution would result if they but only
understood!
1T is THE SOCIALISTS DUTY TO
MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND.
When a Roosevelt comes out to adj
wise workingwoman who has seven
children, and whose husband is out
of work, to disregard this Temporary
inconvenience" and keep right on
raising children" I'd like to raise
Roosevelt by the scalp until he'd rec
ognize what this fact means - that
babies of the poor die three times as
fast as babies Of the rich. When read
ing of the terrible Induisition one can
hardly find words to express his loath.
ing for the unspeakable brutes who
would pour molten lead down a mans
throat to make him recant Well, in
my opinion, such punishment is far
too easy for those soulless men who
would advise women to raise more
children after they had fully grasped
the above stated fact.
One out of every twelve corpses in
New York receives burial in Potter's
Field But enough of this sicken-
ing story, this worse than horrible
nightmare. I believe that all that is
necessary is to put these facts before
the people in the most striking and
best possible manner. If this does not
move them, then nothing ever will.
Should the report of the Industrial
Relations Commission be published
and distributed, it will undoubtedly
give powerful stimulus to social re-
forms and plans for amelioration.
BUT SOCIALISTS SHOULD BE ON
THE JOB TO WARN THE PEOPLE
OF THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF
SUCH REFORMS; THAT WHILE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF THEY
ARE NECESSARY AND PRACTICAL
BILE, THESE REFORMS ARE I'M
PRACTICABLE If 1T is SOUGHT
TO WIPE THESE EVILS OUT OF
EXISTENCE. TO ACCOMPLISH
THIS, A COMPLETE REVOLUTION
is NECESSARY, WHERE THE PRIN-
cIPLE OF PRIVATE PRODUCTION
WILL BE REPLACED BY SOCIAL
PRODUCTION, AND PRIVATE OWN
ERSHIP BY SOCIAL OWNERSHIP.
IN SHORT, NOTHING BUT THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIALISM
WILL CURE SOCIETY OF THESE
EVILS WHICH, UNLESS IMMEDI-
ATELY ABOLISHED, WILL WORK
UNCOUNTABLE RUIN TO THE
PRES ENT GENERATION AND
THOSE TO COME.
AS to the doughty chairman of the
commission, he has well earned an
undylng place in history. Readers of
Marx will remember how tenderly he
speaks of Leonard Horner, the chief
of English factory inspectors, to
whose efforts are due most of the re-
forms and the principles of English
factory legislation Frank P. Walsh
is today functioning in the same fash
ion for America, and his good work
will give him the same undying i'm
mortality which Leonard Horner
achieved
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
WOMEN SUFFERERS

Women, in almost every industry
we have, both in their work and at
home, are equal sufferers with men
from the gross injustice of the pres
ent system; therefore, we want them
to use that greatest weapon of de-
Tense, the ballot that they may vote
Socialism in.
But Socialism will not come easily,
my friends; birth seldom does, you
know, and the old step-father, CAPT
talism, will not lightly see his place
usurped. So you find us, at every
turn, on the street corner, at your
door, bringing you tickets to our lee
lures, copies of our press, always ar
guing, always pleading Socialism
will come at last" somebody once
said, because the Socialist is a prop
agandist from Sunday morning to Sat
urday night"
Don't you want to come and help
US? Hasn't poverty, or the ceaseiess
struggle against poverty, the deadly,
gripping terror of that gaunt wolf at
your door, too, some day, who can
deVour all you hold dear on earth,
filled your heart with pity and
strength to help free your brother?
You have no time? Oh, my friends,
say rather the child in the mill, the
girl on the street, the miner entombed
in needless disaster, have no time,
for your awakening already they have
waited overlong. You have no
strength? For your cowardice and
sloth millions are dying every day It
will mean struggle and self-sacrifice?
Yes, but it will also mean liaht to
them that sit in darkness and the
shadow of death; it will guide YOUR
feet and theirs into the path of peace.
We Socialists ask for your votes
for our candidates in this city election
only if you wish to begin now, in your
own little corner of the earth, to help
in the worldwide struggle for a bet
ter, saner, safer, more practicable So
cial system. InteIIeentIy used, your
ballot is power for good!
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
BY Morris Fucker

Very frequently it is the experience
of the Socialist propaganda to have
the correctness of his facts in the in
dictment against the capitalist system
challenged. We have often been &C
cused of overstating and grossly ex-
aggerating the extent of the cardinal
evils of the capitalist system, and this
not only by our adversaries, but equal
ly as well by many of our Socialists
But now it appears that even the
most rabld among us scarcely put
the charges strong enough. And where
before we had nothing but the mere
sentimental assertion of enthusiastic
advocates, we now possess the facts
gathered by a United State commits
sion which Investigated the matter in
logical, scientific and thoroughgoing
fashion
Who among our conscientious pro
pagandists dared get up on a platform
and declare, without any mental or
spoken reservations, that one-third of
the American workingmen were in a
poVerty-stricken condition? Surely
none And now comes the report of
this commission, backed up by the
facts garnered from every nook and
Granny of this broad land, and not
only asserts, but proves, such con-
dition to exist.
! Who among our self-sacrificing and
energetic suffragists could square
their consciences with the declaration
that 81 per cent of the wives and
mothers of workingmen are forced by
stress Of economic circumstances to
help keep up the house.? In this
tact there is not only a terrific in
dlctment against the present system,
but also a most singing jolt to those
ants who claim that the husband is
the breadwinner and the sole support
of the family. And our SNUG capital.
lists and hypocritical preachers have
the lie thrown in their faces when
they speak so SIMULTANEOUSLY about
the family relations and family ties
SOME STARTLING FACTS
When one stops fully to consider
and weigh the awful Importance of
the statement that $500 year, or SO
per week, is the average income of
one-half our wage-earning fathers
that less than SIS per week is the
wage OF two-thirds of the adult male
workers, one no longer marvels at
Londons people of the abyss" or
shudders when he reads the amazing
revelations of Marx in his chapter
on the working Day" Bad as they
are, they do not compare with what
must be the present state of our work
ers' with the cost of living sky-hieh
on the one hand and the increased de-
mands which higher "civiIizationv
exacts on the other.
Think of that most awful, most IN.
speakable tragedy in the statement
that nearly half of our working wom-
en- get less than Sc per week! That
Is almost unbelievable. Is it the wan
ton brutality, or the wanton stupiditv
or the people which makes them in.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
A WEAPON AGAINST WAR !

The Northwest Worker received new shipment of
copies WAR, WHAT FOR? last week. and is prepared
fill orders fast as they come in.
Remember comrades that this is unprecedented oppor
tunity get your nonsoca friends interested in this
markable work 1t contains $50 pages and many striking illus
trations.
Don't foget the rrice-five for dollar postpaid Single
copies, % cents postpaid
now and get this effective antwar propaganda into
places will do the greatest good You get your
money back this low price fast you talk you
only get busy 1t is up to you.
What YOU doing to CRUSH the rising spirit7
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

C. E. ogrosky, Glove and Shoe Re.
pairing, 2oot Hewitt Avenue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

Statement of Ownership, manage
ment, circulation, etc, required by the
act of August "a, 1912, of The North
west Worker, published weekly at Ev-
erett, Wash, for Oct. 1, 1915:
Editor, Maynard Shipley, Everett,
Washington.
Business Manager, H. w. Watts,
Everett, Wash.
Publishers and Owners, Socialist
Party of Snohomish County, Wash.
Rondhoders, mortgages, ETC., none.
Signed,
HENRY W. WATTS,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 18th day of September, 1915.
PETER HUSKY,
Notary Public in and for the State of
Washington, residing at Everett,
Wash.
My commission expires Oct. 8, 1916.
Patronize YOUR Advertisers
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
FORD STRIKES HARD

'If / were to live with the future
generations of Europe I would urge
the people to repudiate the debts that
are being piled up by their govern
ments in this war Henry Ford
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

Patronize YOUR Advertisers
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

The Car wants it understood that
if there is any more running to do
he is going TO do it himself-Kansas
City Times.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

a Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a
Soldier" Words and music t5c post.
paid from Hodglns Music House, Col.
by Avenue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
THE MUNnrERs' PARADE

TIME Harrisburg Mummers Asso-
citation has invited several of
the Philadelphia clubs to come
to Harrisburg for the big New Years
parade now being arranged, and it is
to be hoped that the invitation will be
accepted. But there is a lesson in
this for the Harrisburg association
that should not be overlooked.
1t is only by reason of harmony
among those who, in years past.
made such wonderful successes. of
the Philadelphia New Years cele-
brations, that they ranked with the
Mardi Gras of New Orleans, that there
is any possibility of inducing any of
the clubs to come here at this time.
The Harrisburg Mummers have done
admirably during the brief time they
have been organized and they bid
fair to surpass all former efforts on
the first day of 1916, but if they are
to go on, year after year, with
success after success, each parade bet
ter and larger than the one preceding,
they must see to it that they work
together, and not at odds, as appears
to be the case in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE
oerturbed but Peaceful El Pas
By Frederic ]. Haskin

crowd of noncombatants seeking
safety over the line. Since many of
these immigrants must be classed as
undesirable aliens, a strict inspection
is maintained. At time of real dan
ger, as when Villa was moving on
Juarez, the national government es-
tablished a camp for refugees where
they were held under guard until it
was safe to send them home again.
Five thousand people took refuge in
this camp.
To-day there are two MeXicans in
Ell Paso to every American. The
peaceable nature of the MeXicans is
strikingly shown by the fact that they
have never given trouble of any sort,
even when the American government
took steps against Villa, with whom
most of them sympathize. The atten-
ton of the immigration inspectors is
directed toward wedding out the phys
ically unfit rather than the potential
disturbers. The bulk of the immi-
grants come in over a single bridge,
where the trolley line crosses from
Juarez to FL Paso. Here every pas
senger is sharply scrutinlzed, and the
apparently unfit are taken off for a
closer examination. AS the people of
Juarez are continually making excur-
sions into El Paso on business or
pleasure, it is sometimes hard to dis
tinguish between an undesirable alien
and an old lady on a shopping tour.
Once deported, city officers of Ell
Paso complain that the undesirables
find means to slip across in spite of the
most rigid guard, Ninety per cent. of
the police court cases in El Paso, the
pocket pickings and petty thefts, are
planned across the river and carried
out by Juarez Mexicans. These Grim
inals are known to every inspector,
and it is impossible for them to cross
any of the bridges. yet some of them
have been arrested on the American
side half a dozen times.
This same difficulty in watching the
winding and overgrown banks of the
Rio Grande has hampered the customs
inspectors in their fight against SNUG
Cling. Juarez to-day is the only point
where Villa can import munitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13

Smith should be given a chance TO
make good; that he was qualified to
give the people wise and helpful
administration.
Our Democratic brethren and those
who are the malcontents of all parties
would doubtless hail with joy another
political row in Pennsylvania. 1t
would be grist for their mill. Their
disappointment is pathetic.
Mayor-elect Smith is to be con-
gre tplated upon the clearness of his
vision and also his ability to dis
criminate between ambition and con-
structive administrative effort. Party
leadership is essential always under
the American system of government.
The mayor-elect of Philadelphia rec
ognizes this fact and is evidently de-
termined. so far as he may be able to
do so. to maintain a proper balance
between the so-called factions of the
party in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
His declaration on this point is the
concrete expression of many other
earnest Republicans throughout the
State at this juncture. Harmony and
commonsense must be recognized as
essential to party success, and Repub-
lican policies must prevail for the
welfare of all the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
AN IMPENDING DANGER

Undoubtedly. whether theoretically
desirable or not, the end of the pres
ent war will force upon the United
States the restoration OF a protective
tariff. The issue seems unavoidable
AT present we are as unprepared in
an economic as we are in a mill
tary sense. Our present customs
tariff neither protects nor produces
a revenue. Were 1t not for the war.
we should even now be closing our
factories, AS 1t is. the manufacturing
nations of Europe are engaged in a
conflict that absorbs their chief ener-
gies, giving US for the moment an
opportunity to manufacture, if we
please, what they would otherwise be
exporting to us, and at the same time
artiffcially stimulating a certain class
OF industries by the production of in
5truments of destruction Were IL
not for these two temporary accidents
we should probably at this moment,
under our present legislation, be clos
ing our workshops and discharging
our workmen.
say under our present legislation"
for it has no scientific relation to the
facts of international industry and
commerce. 1t is a piece of mere Con-
gressional guesswork, from which all
substantial evidence has been syste-
matically excluded. While other gov
ernments employ their intelligence
and exert their influences to encourage
the highest efficiency of industry, ours
applies a dogma that has repeatedly
been refuted to situation SO COM
plicated that few persons in the
United States fully comprehend It.
make no plea for any personal or
private interests, and I commend no
action that has these for its object
What / assert is, that there is at pres
ent no competent governmental au-
thority, based on exact knowledge and
expert judgment, engaged in the study
and explanation to the people of the
precise action that should be taken
by our government with regard to the
most vital interest of the country as
a whole.
But there is in our situation a more
fatal weakness than the absence of a.
scientific economic policy. Our cur
rent philosophy of legislation is spe-
culative rather than practical. At the
time when we should be demanding
expert knowledge and advice as the
basis of public action, the tendency
is to appeal to the inexpert, the pre-
occupied, and the inexperienced. to
decide the most important public
questions,-David Jayne Hill, in the
North American Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
CUTTING THE MUNICIPAL TREE

CUTTING THE MUNICIPAL TREE
THAT men are but children older
grown is we'll demonstrated by
the fact that big party of very
busy merchants and public officials
will lay aside duty during the midst
of the holiday rush and HE them
selves away to the winter woods to
participate in the cutting of Harris
burg's Municipal Christmas Tree.
1t needs no elaborate explanation
to prove that one man with a we'll
sharpened ak could fell the tree and
that two or three workmen could be
hired for song to haul it to the city.
But would that provide good excuse
for a dozen or more staid and digni-
fled citizens of the community to
leave work for an afternoon and give
them opportunity. under the guise of
public duty, to frolic unrestricted to
their hearts content in the bracing
atmosphere of the mountains in De-
cember? Indeed, no. Therefore, the
Christmas tree cutting bee that is now
being planned.
But let nobody get the notion that
the party should be called off. Far
from it. If anything it should be en-
larged to take in everybody who can
go along. The cutting of the Christ
munity event as the bringing in of
the yule log used to be in the days of
early England, and on those happy
holiday occasions the whole popula-
ton of the castle, from lord to low
liest underling, participated with
shouts and merry-making.
This call to the winter woods has
something in it beyond analysis
something that harks back beyond
our ken, but very real, nevertheless,
and just as urgent as the pull of the
open when Spring is afield, the sap
running and blossoming things be-
ginning to sprout. Every red-blooded
man knows it, and he is wise who
listens to it and throws off the dull
cares of every day life If only for a
half day or less to indulge it.
The forests are but a trolley ride
from the center of town. There
grow the laurel and the partridge
berries, the pine and the spruce, the
moss and the litchens that are so
priced for Christmas trimmings. The
air is full of tonic and the life-giving
tang of the wild.
1t is not what you will bring back
in the way of Christmas greens, how
ever, that will make the trip worth
while. 1t will be the memories and
the mental pictures you will carry
home to grace your Christmas fire.
To tramp the woods in winter is
wholesome thing to do, mentally,
spiritually and physically.
Don't smile at the Christmas tree
excursionists. Chuck" your job and
so along, if you can.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13

pert reports of conditions then can
not be made to apply to those of to-
day. The new board, working with
the school officials. must solve the
problem and it is big enough and inn
portant enough to demand earliest
attention. 1t Is the one great work
now facing the directors and there
can be no good reason for delay.
Not SO far back a high school loan
was defeated on partisan political
grounds. There can be now no rea-
SON for objection on that score. The
board as constituted to-day is able
and Independent. 1t owes nothing to
anybody but the public and any OBJ
jections that are raised to the build
ing of new high school within the
next year or two will have to be based
on other grounds than those raised in
the past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13

T<HIS metropolis of the Southwest
wishes to correct the national
impression that she is a war
center Although she is the gateway
through which war-torn Mexico i'm
ports everything from cartridges to
dictators. the city continues calm and
orderly as ever. Nevertheless, the
storm in Mexico has left its mark in
ways that are interesting to note.
Ell Paso is the city of the refugees.
A great class of Mexican society has
almost deserted the republic, and most
of them have come to FL Paso. They
are the landlords and moneyed men,
the friends of the old conservative or
der. Their estates laid waste and their
stock driven off, the men themselves
have retired with their families to
wait for better times Many of them
are still very wealthy in spite of their
losses, for Mexico was the land of
great fortunes. Like the upper classes
throughout Latin America, they are
people of cosmopolitan experience and
culture. Their presence constitutes
not a problem, but an asset.
The bulk of the refugees, however,
are of another type. Altogether. Eel
Paso has about fifteen thousand of
them in her city limits. and 1t is OBJ
vious that they cannot all be Castilian
capitalists. The great number of
low GI-CldSS htAlCdHS 10 u
problem, both political and social.
They do not become American citizens
hence it is supposed that they will go
back to Mexico as soon as order is
restored. In the meantime, Ell Paso
is trying to educate them, and espe-
cially to teach them English. The
whole lower quarter of the city, by the
river bank opposite Juarez. is given
over to them. 1t is a bit of Mexico in
the United States. The speech of the
streets, the signs of the shops, are
Spanish. Ragged little Mexican news
boys vend a dozen Spanish papers,
even the Old Mexican street hawker
has invaded the quarter with his stand
of cheap candy and it's accompanying
swarm of flies.
Immigration comes in waves. Every
battle, or prospect of fight, sends a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
NO FACTIoNAIIsM FOR SMITH

T<HOMAS B. SMITH, the Mayor
elect of Philadelphia, has de-
termined to give the metropolis
of the State constructive and wholly
consistent administration. He has al
ready demonstrated that he will not
be controlled or influenced in any un-
reasonable way by political leaders or
factions. His recent declarations up
on the subject of party leadership
have clarified the atmosphere so that
the newspapers of Philadelphia which
have been speculating as to the pos
sible attitude of the mayor-elect to-
ward this or that Republican faction
are now. according to Mr.. Smith the
praise due him for a manly and
straightforward pronouncement of his
purpose respecting the political fea-
lures of his administration.
When announcement was made a
few days ago OF certain important ap-
pointments in Philadelphia it was
heraIded throughout the State that
the mayor-elect had aligned himself
upon the side of one group of leaders
end in opposition to another group.
The impression was gained that we
were to have another Statewide con-
troversy over party leadership and the
domination of the Republican organi-
cation. Then followed a more def
mite statement by the mayor-elect in
which he made clear that he did not
intend to permit his administration
10 oe disrupted by factional politics;
that he proposed to be fair to all DO
litical interests and that under no
circumstances would he allow con-
tractor leadership to interfere with
the larger policies of substantial
achievement in the making of Phil
adelphia great city in all that the
term implies.
This ought to set at rest the specu-
letions about another row over Re
publican domination in Pennsylvania.
The rank and file of the party are
thoroughly imbued with the notion
that the time has come when party
leadership shall mean cohesive and
eo-ordinated effort for the welfare of
the State and not for the mere ag-
grandisement of individuals or groups
or individuals. With the elimination
OF the mayor-elect from any such
combination Statewide contest is
practically out of the question for one
side or the other. Governor Brum-
baugh, within twenty-four hours, is
quoted as having declared that Mr..