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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
PHILOSOPHIC.

I'll never pile a million up
 know I'll never do it. lis just as well; I'd brim my cup
 With sorrow, running through it. Who knows with such store of wealth
 I might become so restive That I'd endanger my good health
 By courses fast and festive. E' 'en worse, alas, might soon acquire
 Such habits none would praise me And when I tumbled in the mire
 No hand would try to raise me. An, yes. Iris better I should plod
 Along. friends advise me, Than be the master of a wad
 That might demoralize me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Ground Hogs in Jefferson County

T have frequently noted the assertion immediate section of the country" said A. D. Mckinney of Inglenook, yesterday.
 Tt may be unusual to find them here, but I know there are some in Jefferson county. Last summer our train crew dug one out of his hole near Banner and one of the negroes carried him home and ate him.
 q know of another which was caught near Fulton Springs at about the same time. These two Jefferson county speci- mems were the genuine article"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

IL IS now possible to have a street pa- rade in some cities without first obtaining permit. Glad tidings for the individual who parades on the slightest provocation and finds the delay in getting q permit a great bother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

After a man has been taking some form of indoor exercise every morning for 10 years and finds after dropping 1t that he gets along just as we'll as he ever did everything the health expertsp say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Anniston has forfeited it's title, the Model City" by having six policemen killed in the discharge of their duty in the past sevenS months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
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BEGINNING THE DAN-LOrd, make me child of the day, not of the night. May my deeds and my presence bring light. May my face shine. May my message be hope and cheer. May my speech flower into song. Minister unto me, 0 my Father, In Christ's name. AmeB.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Another revolt is reported in Mexico. One more or less doesn't seem to maKe much difference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Maybe if women would promise to let the waist line stay putt so to speak they might have a better chance of get ting the ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
ALABAMA PRESS

Andalusia Star: If we can make 'em do anything in Alabama, perhaps we can make 'em stick to campaign pledges
 Montgomery Journal A daughter of the President did not have the privilege of naming her first child after the Presi- dent, but we may modestly suggest that there is plenty of time yet.
 Selma Times: Senator Bonner of Will COX county, in pressing his anti-Sunday amusement bill, declared that for 50 years his grandfather had not allowed the Kitchen stove to be heated on Sunday. Senator Bonner ought to be told that the best way to honor our grandfathers is to improve on their methods. If the sons had never shown any improvement over their fathers, mankind would still be killing their meat with stone knives and crunching it raw.
 Talladega Reporter: In Virginia a mans life was reported saved by a cork leg. That's the difference in two dry states. In Alabama they won't even al- low a man to have 8: cockscrew
 Marion Standard: MT. Spangler, car toonist of the Montgomery Advertiser, and MT Blackman, cartoonist of the Age-Herald, will now have to put their bear and tiger in pit and have a kill kenney fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

We will stay on hostile territory until the enemy is vanduished or has col lapsed," says the Kaiser, whose optimism is of the superior sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Thin skinned politicians who can't bear to see themselves caricatured in newspa- pers should eschew the strenuous game of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

From "Militarism and Democracy in Ger
 many" by oswald Garrison Willard, in
 the February Scribner.
 "HE army is a narrow caste with pro-
 fessional ideals of mediaeval
 ! character scrupulously maintained in the face of modern progress by the rul- ing clique. From its highest officers. its general staff. it's crown prince, as well as it's Kaiser, the army takes its tone as bulwark of the privileged classes, to whom anything that smacks of democracy is anathema. It is the chief pillar of the great landlords, the Junker and the aris- tocrats, as 1t is of the throne. When the Reichstag passed a vote of censure on the government because of the zabern affair, an almost unheard-of thing, the government simply ignored the vote. Doubtless the imperial chancellor and General von Falkenhayh, the censured ministers. smile today if they think or this incident, and reflect how completely the war has placed the Reichstag, the so- cial- democrats, and all the rest Of the civilians in their power.
 i There being no responsible ministry to fall in Germany, the fate of the nation
 
 also like to know what a story IS worth on general average.
 Answer in your paper & oblige a reader"
 Writing is fast becoming a more popu- lar form of human expression than talk ing. Indeed. there appear to be more de- voices of writing than of reading. Nat urs1ly. we deplore growing condition which threatens our very existence. It will he A sad day when all gentle read CTS turn rough writers.
 If inclination spelled ability, all talk alive persons would be good takers and writative persons good writers. The lat ter too often ignore the automatic and cruel truth that easy writing makes hard req ding-and the public Is internally lazy. Publishers consider the lazy public and have absolutely no consideration for the willing and facne writers. Even editors | are cruel to these wr1ters-cruel to the point of utter neglect, their sole record being for the lazy public, which is too often indifferent to the editors loving care and protection. To the general run | of writers our advice is not to write, and we see no reason to vary the advice in the case of our friend who has sought it above
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Tt Is safe to assume that nobody is be- ing missed in Mexico quite as much as ex- President Daz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Anybody can start a panic in England now by merely shouting, Look out! the Zeppelins are coming!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

What happened to the Dacia' may furnish an interesting chapter to contem- poraneous history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

One trait of the ground hog that com mends him to a great many people is his lcve of seclusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Hydro-aeroplanes are not vessels of war. declares MT. Bryan, who thus dis plays his profound technical knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

If a submarine that Is "blind' can do such tremendous amount of damage, what will it be able to do when it can see?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SLUSH AND MUD.

Is your sidewalk clear of snow. Mir Man? Then you ought to keep 1t so If you can. Get you out at peep of dawn, Put your spats and rubbers on; In an hour it will be gone Thy this plan.
 Nebraska State Journal. One thing makes us glad, and that's, MT. Man, That we need not put on spats: We would plan If our walk lay under snow, From when autumn breezes blow, To just simply leave 1t so, Mary Ann.
 Houston Post. Wed like to have you know, Mir. Man, That we never shovel snow. Though we can. Down in Dixie all we get Are the rains that make us wet And to stop them we've not yet Found a plan.
 ANXIOUS. Flight o'clock in the morning is rather an early hour for society bud to quit her bed.' T suspect she gets up early to see if the styles have changed overnight"
 SELF-CONvICTED You can't make me out liar.' shout ed the irascible man in the heat of an ar- gument. "I don't have to-" answered his op- ponent cooly. Your own words do that"
 CHOICE EDIBLEs. ''That woman keeps a cat. a canary and bowl of gold fish" : How heartlessH why do you say that?" Think Of the temptation the poor cat is exposed to every hour of it's life,"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Gaudy gold, hard food for Midas, I'll hone of thee.
 -Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
ON THE OTHER HAND.

T suppose jokes about married life are among the oldest in existence
 Perhaps so. Still, every day somebody discovers that married life is no joke"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

A ]. Eaton. Jr., and o. E. Young are the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in its cir culation department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

SOON WILL, THOUGH "Fansome seems to have found the road to happiness "Oh, yes. He's found it, but he isn't travelling it right now" 'No?" "It's the trolley line to the baseball park
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

No communication will be published without its authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03
ANXIOUS.

Flight o'clock in the morning is rather an early hour for society bud to quit her bed''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

Andalusia Star: If we can make 'em do anything in Alabama, perhaps we can make em stick to campaign pledges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

NUT ENUUGH CARDS, MAYBE.
 Twill nothing improve my gamer asked the impossible bridge player. in de- spairing tones
 Nothing, fear" answered her teacher.
 You think I, have my limitations, then?''
 Yes" answered the diplomatic teacher. "but I'm sure that's because a deck of cards also has it's limitations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-03

An author may be very poor,
 Or the possessor of some pelf, But when he knocks upon your door /He comes to talk about himself.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
UNPAID LABOR

The essence of the Socialist objec-
ton to capitalism, or the wages sys'
TEN, is that it forces the wage earn
err to do work for which he receives no
compensation. The employer buys
the workers labor-power for day, or
week, as the case may be. The
price of that labor-power is called
wages, another name for cost of pro-
duction" (of labor-power.) Say the
worker is to receive 50 for twelve
hours of his labor-power. All that he
produces of wealth during that twelve
hours belongs, legally, to the employ
er, the purchaser of his labor-power
whether or not it be to the value OF
the 50 or to 500. On the average, the
wage worker will have produced his
own wages (cost of his keep for a
day. within the first three hours OF
the twelve for which his labor-power
was sold. The rest OF the day he
works for nothing, and gets 1t. Out
of the wealth the wage-slave creates
and does not get, the boss derives his
expenses and his profits; some of the
latter being turned later into "capi
tall" income-producing land, machin'
cry, gold, or it's equivalent. SO the
wage-earner creates the very "capi
tal' through which he is later exploit
ed and enslaved.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
OUR WORK EDUCATIONAL

The Washington Socialist cannot, at
present, function chiefly as news
paper. Our work is primarily educa-
tional and agitational. The workers
will have a Socialist newspaper only
when they own and control daily
paper. And the workers will have a
Socialist daily in Everett as soon as
they deserve it; as soon as they are
worthy Of it. At present they don't
even deserve a weekly. This paper is
right now largely a donation by the
farming element to such Of the city
workers as have intelligence enough
to read it and help to support it. II
is the average town and city wage
slave who is the real Man With the
Hoe" not the rural workers and farm
owners.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

added to the army of unemployed
How long before red revolution would
wipe out the capitalist class if TO-
100000 of men were deprived of oppor-
tunity to earn their bread merely be-
cause they would not vote to kill?
Comrade Benson's argument holds
equally good with respect to a million
or so real Socialists who would refuse
to fight capitalism's battles, vote or
no vote. Given one million real So
cialists, there would be no need of
voting on war or no war. Let the
capitalists and their dupes kill off
each other. We should worry.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
ALLAN L. BENSON
ASKS PERTINENT QUESTION

1t Is said that if workingmen voted
against war when their employers
wanted war that their employers dis
charge them. Can a few employers
discharge a nation? Who would do
the work if the working class should
be discharged? Dare the capitalist
class discharge even half nation?
Under the Philadelphia resolution,
more than 100000 votes would be
cast on a proposal to declare war
Would the capitalist class dare dis
charge even 100000 persons if the
other 30,OOO,OOO should vote for war?
Do persons who make this objection
ever consider what it would mean to
the capitalist class to have 100000
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
WILL APPEAR IN DUE
COURSE OF EVENTS

There are a number of special con-
trihutions from our readers on hand
which are we'll worthy of publication
in the columns OF this paper and they
will appear In due course OF time. We
are doing our best to edit this paper
with a sole view to making IL attrac-
tive. newsy. alive. instructive. inspir-
ing. impartially utilizing the best ma
terial available to this end. The
shorter the article contributed, and
the more timely 1t is, the better Its
chances for early publication. Doubt
less sometimes we make mistakes;
most persons do. occasionally. But we
are working earnestly and conscienti-
ously to make The Washington Social
list q paper worthy of its name, and 1t
does help us to draw nearer the goal
when we find our efforts to make the
paper better and better" appreciated.
To win the approval OF comrades
whose judgment and opinion we re-
spect, because of their wide experience
and profound knowledge Of Socialism,
is more alluring, furnishes greater
incentive" to better work than could
any amount OF economic determin'
ISM"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
THE REASON WHY

A comrade wanted to know why
Shipley didn't publish more about
what IL going on ut the tEveretp
city hall" Cause he's too good an
editor, that's why, Ninenty per cent
OF the business of the city hall relates
to matters which concern only the
capitalist class. OF the approximate
ly) 10 per cent of city hall matters
which have any bearing on the class
struggle, or which affect the interests
OF wage earners, we publish full re-
ports, always. With a Socialist on
the Job as commissioner OF public
works, there is no danger of our not
getting the news" and getting 1t au
thentically,
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
WASTED LABOR

Wasted, or useless, unnecessary la
Dor is unpaid labor.
This is where the small farmer is
stung. Here is where even his i'm
mediate interests are identical with
the wage-slaves' interests. Both suf
fer because of the lack of ownership
in the best land and machinery for
wealth production.
The wage-worker who uses the best
machinery is robbed of the products
of his toll.
The small farmer who uses poor
machinery and cultiyates poor land
suffers equally with the wage-slave
but he is not robbed. He has not
with his inadequate means of produc-
tion created any surplus values
(wealth more than the cost Of his
elf-maintenance) to be robbed Of
Instead of working two or three hours
and producing the cost of his keep,
and then working seven or eight hours
more for nothing to pile up eight or
ten dollars of wealth for boss, as
does the average wage-slave, the small
farmer usually works the whole ten
or twelve hours to produce the ST.
leaving no surplus for him to be rob
bed of. He has wasted time, he has
done useless labor, because of print
tive methods, or poor land; but he
has not been robbed. He suffers as
does the wage-slave, but not for the
same reason, excepting that both are
victims of the same system, capital.
ism. Here is where their interests
are identical; they both need the co
operative commonwealth in order to
abolish both unpaid and wasted labor
This paper stands for the interests of
both farmers and wage-sIaVes in so
far as they are united in the effort to
abolish capitalism and to establish So
ciaIlsm, to found an industrial demo
cracy, in it's widest sense.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
ALL OF WHICH
REMINDS US THAT

a subscriber, of Bellingham, writes
81 noticed in your editorial column
that you say The Washington Social
list is published exclusively in the in
terest of the wage-workers of the city
county, state and nation
do you mean that literally? If
you do, can you expect to get support
from the farmers (who farm of this
country?
"Any organization that expects to
accomplish much on the political
field will have to take into considera
ton the farmers, for they can not do
any good to strike on the job, and
they nearly all have a vote"
The comrade is right. We must
have the farmer with us If we ever
expect to gain anything worth while
by the ballot.
But the farmer must come to US on
wage-workers' platform; he must
organize with US on prolitarian basis
He must accept the point of view OF
the vast numbers of wage-slaves who
own no land, who have no home, who
pay no taxes, and who have nothing
but their labor-power to sell. In some
cases the interests of the farmers, as
farmers, may conflict with the inter.
ests of the wage-slaves, as wage earn
ers. In such cases The Washington
Socialist would take sides with the
wage earners as against the farmers
in their (occasionaD capacity as EN-
ployers, or as sellers of commodities
The future interests of the working
farmers as Socialists are identical
with the interests of the Socialist wage
earners; both need the cooperative
commonwealth very badly; but, mean
while, as employer, or taxpayer, OF
seller of commodities, the interests OF
the farmer may be contrary to the
Immediate interests of the wage
workers, under capitalism. 1t was
therefore, with this thought in mind
that we declared this paper to be pub
Iished exclusively in the interests OF
the wage workers. Incidentally, OF
course, the paper serves the ultimate
interests of those who are far-sighted
enough to realize that by serving ex
clusively the immediate interests OF
the workers as wage-slaves, we serve
best the higher interests not only OF
the hard working farmer, but also OF
humanity as a whole.
A paper cannot serve two masters
If the working farmer realizes that his
higher interests are bound up in the
conquest of the political powers OF
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
|YOU---YES YOU! JOIN THE PARTY

You-as we'll as I-need this move
ment.
We need each other. Let's get to-
gether
All the powers of hell are against
us-to betray and belittle our move
ment-to befog and trick our move
ment and wreck our party;-to throw
down our movement; to get our party
into the ditch-and then laugh at us
for our failure. We are guarding this
party in every way we can-so that
the splendid organization will be
workers as soon as they wake up from
their present condition of humility and
timidity. One of our methods of pro-
tecting the party is to require all who
wish to help manage the affairs of the
party to sign pledge. You can vote
the Socialist party ticket without
signing this pledge, but until you do
sign this pledge and your pledge and
your application for membership are
accepted, you can have NO VOICE
WHATEVER IN THE control of the
party's methods, policies, tactics, con-
ventions, platforms and candidates.
And pledge is no hobby or whim; it
is very serious arrangement for the
protection of this movement. Here
it is:
81, the undersigned, recognizing the
class struggle between the capitalist
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
MOVE WITH THE MOVEMENT
(From "War-What For?" by Geo. R..
Kirkpatrick.)

Kirkpatrick.)
What's that you said? you are
too poor to spare fifteen or twenty, OF
twenty-five cents month for the
work." If you are as poor as that
the capitalists have just about knock
ed you clear out. My friend, you are
very much in need of industrial free
dom. Really-can't you spare about
one cent a day? Try it. If neces
sary economic on something else
but pay this one cent day. This Is
a working class movement, remember
and we need the cooperation of every
Socialist The dues are about equiv
alent to the expense of one cigar a
week A million Socialists giving a
million quarters a month would give
our party two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars a month for education
and organization. Think of it!
Do you think you and | can be con
sidered really worthy of this sublime
movement if we will not help our fel-
lows finance the movement? Won't
you help just little, regularly?
Come now, join the Socialist local
of your locality-come in and
Help MUILD this movement.
Holm DpnTECtr, tbic r,ovaroant
Help GUIDE this movement.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18

government by the wage-earning pro-
letariat, and comes into the Socialist
party to help raise the wage earners
into a position Of power and domin-
ence, rather than to make little
more secure and comfortable his own
position as small farmer. then The
Washington Socialist is published in
his higher interests. But it will serve
his interests as a class-conscious So
cialist, rather than as farmer.
Now, comrade farmers, If you see
any flaws in this logic, let us hear
from you-as Socialists.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
"All the News That's
Fit to Print
WAGE CUT NOT MENTIONED

VIII someone please explain why II
was that neither OF the capitalist
sheets OF Everett mentioned the fact
that when the $50 employees of the
Weyerhaeuser mill went back to work
last Monday 1t was on the basis of a
10 per cent reduction in wages?
Considering that one dollar now is
only equal to what 50 cents would pur'
chase few years back, maybe they
do not feel that the news of this (vir'
tuaD reduction OF 2S per cent In
wages paid is gift to print"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
Treat in Store!

Hear Geo. Robert Cairns, thir-
teen times across the Atlantic in
evangelistic work, and from Cali
fornia to New England and from
Minneapolis to New Orleans in
the United States.
At the First Baptist Church,
February % to March 7.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-18
A BIT OF HISTORY

Seattle had municipal ownership
long before there was any one to sug-
gest Socialism. Municipal ownership
may be said to have flowed upon the
town. 1t has always had a gravity
water supply. By the same token it
has always had, available with slight
investment, gravity power, light and
heat supply At one stage Of its
growth it had mule-power for cars and
a steam pumping plant for water, fuel
for which was so abundant and so
cheap it was not to be considered.
But Seattle knew all the time that in
the nearby mountains it had all of
these things it could ever require. In
earliest days, when strip of a viii
lage along the waterfront and before
it had any iron pipe or thing, some of
its thrifty pioneers had bored out fir