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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
HOW TO AVOID DEATH I'm
THE NEXT BIG WAR
SALVATION BY IMITATION, BEING
A SUGGESTION BY PROFESSOR
GEO. r. KIRKPATRICK.

To avoid death in the next war
when the drums beat, and the horns
blare, and the flies screech, and the
flags wave, and the pro-war orators
and the pro-war editors and the pro-
war preachers and other prominent
people-and the recruiting agent
when all these thrill you and fill YOU
with hot-air and cunningly call you
to come forward now and be a manly
man, true to the flag, a fearless hero
and chesty "patriot'-a such a
time, at such critical time, PRAY
FOR ICE; keep cool; take a firm re-
straining grip on your natural dispo.
sitlon to be big, laundering boob,
and, if possible, side-step this care.
fully perfected opportunity to become
a victimized fool. Just calmly keen
your eyes, both eyes, glued to the
great majority of the best dressed and
most noisily eloquent men in your
community, and you do quietly as they
do shrewdly about enlisting for a,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
LECTURES HELD
DURING NEXT WEEK
CARRIE w. ALLEN

Sun, 8th, So. Bellingham; Mon, 9th
Anti War; Tues, 10th, Blaine; We'd
18th, Sumas; Thurs, 18th, Mt. Yer
non; Fri, 18th, Silvana; Sat, 14th
Edmonds; Sun, 18th, Everett.
EMIL HERMAN
Sun, 9Th, Ilwaco; Mon, 9th, Chi
nook; Tues, 10th, Deep River; Wed.
18th, Grays River; Thurs, 18th, Cath
lamet; Fri, 18th, Stella; Sat, 14th
Kelso; Sun, 18th, Ridgefield.
CARL ULONSkA
Sun, Sth, p. m, Mabton, 8 p. m.
Grandview; Mon, 9th, Sunnyside;
Tues, 10th, Outlook; We'd, 18th
Granger; Thurs, 18th, Zillah; Fri.
18th, Toppenish; Sat, 14th, Wapato;
Sun, 18th, North Yakima.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
THE FOOL

They said, "Why, It's hopeless. You
never can do it!
A piece of rank folly, you'll certainly
rue it,
There's not a scintilla of sense in be-
ginning,
There's not the remotest chance of
winning!"
They knew all about it, you couldn't
deceive 'em,
But he was a Fool-and he wouldn't
believe 'em!
He fought for his folly-and, swiftly
defeated,
He heard the T-told-you-so's" loudly
repeated.
They said, 'You are through, you are
done, you are beaten!
You've ordered your crow-and it has
to be eaten;
Your lesson is writ in the plainest of
writing"
But he was Fool-and he kept right
on fighting!
He hearkened to none of the talest
they would spin him.
He listened alone to the voice that
was in him;
He toiled with courage that would
not diminish,
Through pain and through failure he
warred to the finish,
But when he had won, and their praise
wasn't needed,
They hailed him hero-the Fool
who SUCCEEDED.
BY Berton Braley in Pearson's.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL
WATER AND POWER PLANT

T The Everett public is easy The,
will stand for drinking water" veal
in and year out that is not fit to wasf
dog in. And they drink 1t!
If the people of Everett have pro
tested against the dirty water tina,
flows every winter from their faucets
their objections must have been made
under their breaths. The present
writer has been heard from two OF
three times, out loud. But no one
seemed inclined to help raise hue
and cry against the plunderbund that
drink pure water In Boston. at our
expense. while we imbibe mud In
Everett
The Northwest Worker is not wor
ried very much over the huge profits
and extortionate rates obtained by
Stone and Webster from their private
ownership of such public utilities as
water, electricity, and gas-and such
that would stand for priv.
ate ownership of a city's utilities de-
serves to be gouged good and plenty
We can stand the gouging, if the rest
can. The amount of our wages is de-
termined by how much it costs to live
in Everett, anyhow. So we should
worry about how much the average
cost is. BUT WE DO OBJECT TO
SUBSTITUTING MUD FOR PURE
WATER! Hence these tears.
The workers of Everett are to have
a chance soon to vote on this ques-
ton:
Shall the people of Everett continue
their diet of Stone and Webster's
liquified mud, as a substitute for clean
water, or shall they vote the bonds
necessary to construct sanitary wa
ter system?
This is the whole question, boiled
down to the only point at issue: dirty
water or pure water.
Pass UP that corDoration-inspired
bunk abous "the cost" the "feasibil-
ity," burden on the taxpayer" etc.
And if the Stone and Webster plumb
erbund don't want to sell their made
quate system to the City of Everett at
fair and equitable" price-whatever
that may be,-turn your backs on them
and start building an entirely new sys-
tenn of your own Then their "hold-
ings" become junk
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
DIAMOND RING CONTEST OFF

Some time ago we started in to
give rattle ticket to the purchasers
of sub. cards in order to raise some
ready cash. The ticket entitled the
holder to chance on fifty dollar
diamond ring. The money has not
been coming in fast enough so we will
have to call the rattle off and sell the
ring to- raise the money. We are
sorry to have to make this move but
the money is needed badly Advertis-
ing has fallen off to such an extent
that we are almost up against it.
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tual immediate firing-line service in
the war for which they are cunningly
shouting. Then no cannon shot will
reach you and no bayonet will rip
you-and you will enjoy salvation
through imitation
| never wore a silk hat. but I have
learned some things by observing
those who do wear high silk hats. Do
you know why silk hats are so high?
Well, there seems to be a good deal
of wasted space in a silk hat-in the
part above where the brains ought to
be. My dear friend, let me give Won
a hint. The space is not wasted
that's where they keep the ice.
POSTSCRIPT: The ONLY EFFEC-
TIVE thing the ruling class permits
the working class to do against war
is to TEACH against war, and that
privilege is given to the working class
only during times of peace. The time
to prepare against war is in times of
peace; for when war is declared
Cars, Kaisers, Kings and Presidents
Caesars everywhere shout ISL.
ENCE" to all opposition.
THESE ARE PRECIOUS DAYS
! OF PEACE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
PR0LETARIA BILL ANSWERS OLE K.
FINGARS0N'S QUESTIONS

embodied in 1t or necessary to repro
duce it in a given state of society t.
be available for exchange and use.
If land cannot be commodity ther
the law of value is imperative. La
Dor is embodied in land directly ant
indirectly. The land on Mars is Of
no value to us because no labor Of
ours can effect it. Land cannot be
valuable anywhere If labor does not
first make tools and build utilities ant
cities. Labor must build and create
these things before the opportunity tc
exploit arrives and before loans car
be floated. True this is but the un
DERIVING situation. There are certain
forces that cause a seeming depar
ture from the above statement just
as there are certain forces that cause
a seeming departure from the law OF
gravity. Price may be under actual
value or 1t may be above it, but II
ever gravitates toward value which
Is determined as above stated
II | buy quarter of timber land ]
pay on the expectation Of putting la.
Dor to the timber to make lumber. AT
the same time the nearness Of this
timber to the utilities produced by
labor has determining effect on the
value must pay for. Space does not
permit further examples.
3. When we talk of exploitation
we are stating the name of the pro-
cess by which labor is robbed when
sold by the individual worker at it's
exchange value in wages, under the
wages system, to the exploiter who re-
'tains the entire product which when
sold at it's exchange value brings three
or four times as much as the worker
received for his labor-power in wages.
This is the underlying economic Sc
cret upon which the present capitalist
system of economics is built. The
farmer undergoes no such process as
=. IL
IAN individual producer. To state that
the farmer and wage worker are both
exploited is equivalent to stating that
the farmer and his hired man are both
exploited. Tarred with the same
brush from the same tar pot? Well,
we should say not!
Is it not about time we ceased
using ambiguous terms in economics
and begin to get the truth concerning
the farmer and tell the truth so we
can find our way into port? Use any
term you like to designate the farm
er's dilemma, but please do not con-
fuse with the economic status of the
wage worker. Such teaching can only
breed confusion in making the econ
Continued on Page Four)
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nothing but terminate for centuries
until the feudal system which succeed
ed chattel slavery had begun to fall as
a result Of new method of produc
ton and distribution through the use
of the FIRST power driven machinery
known to biologists and historians.
Think, II you can, what kind OIL
unions the workers could possibly
have had during these thousands oil
years before the use of power.driver
machinery when there was no rapid
transportation, and practically no in
ter-communication or education acces
sible to the workers; nothing MUCK
but extreme ignorance and isolation
The great machine industries that
are so organized and conducted as to
make possible an effective form OF
union for the workers, are Of very re
cent existence-within the lifetime OF
many of us!
Is there no sense of proportion
The workers have done remarkably
well in their organized development
up to date, thank you, when we con
slider that the weight of tradition and
perverted history, our education and
all the power of the master classes of
past and present have been against us.
ONLY THE EVOLUTION OF ECON.
OMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP.
MENT AND OUR DIRECT RELA.
TION TO 1T is IN OUR FAVOR.
Indeed, the law of economic determ-
inism must be reckoned with when
we talk of the unions of the produc-
tive workers in any age or condition
of servitude. Any primitive unionism
could not possibly do much but con-
tinue to terminate s(like potato
spending the winter in CELLAR
through these thousands of years of
primitive production, mental bedlam
and stark ignorance, (The latter two
still lirger) Fail';ssg No more so
than the wages system is failure
simply because it had to terminate
through few epochs of chattel slav-
cry and serfdom. No, not as much
so!
2. To say that land has no value
today is to state what is not true.
To say in the same breath that land
has a price is to fly counter to the
law of value. What is price but the
monetary expression of exchange
value on the average.
The presence of exchange value
would indicate that the object con-
tanning it is commodity. A commo-
dity is a product Of labor for sale or
exchange. It's value is determined by
the average quantity of social labor
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05

| Ole X. Fingarson, of South Dakota
asks for discussion that he complains
he could not get through private cor
respondence where there were ne
referees. He wants somebody tc
argue against the ideas he incorpor
ates in his article in case 1t Is thought
that they do not lead toward the SO
cialist ideal.
| 1t would seem best to point out tina,
any economic statement or theory that
runs counter to such social laws as
the law of value and the law of econ
omic determinism would be unscienti
fic, therefore unsocialistic. The fol
lowing quoted from his article in the
July 30 issue of the Northwest Worker
is very pertinent to the case in hand
Socialism has exactly the same
thing to offer to every worker, If we
but state it properly"
Why then, my dear comrade Ole, do
you not state 1t properly? The follow
ing statements of yours are certainly
not in line with the social laws above
referred to, viz:
"a "Unionism has been tried from
the building Of the pyramids and has
failed to keep pace with the growth
of machinery, etc.
CO Land has no value today, but
has a price simply in proportion to
the possible exploitation by means of
ownership. This price is the same as
an amount that could be loaned at in
terest to produce the same income as
the net rental.
CD 1.-THE farmer is one of the ex-
plotted workers. Since the COM
mon complaint is exploitation the COM
mon remedy must be emancipation
from exploitation. (The latter part
of that statement is mere ambigu-
Gus platitude. p. b.
ca 81 would begin with the very
thing that will interest the farmer
most-taxation. First, tax on unim-
proved values of land wherever stu
ated, etc."
Will offer the following comment on
the above statements, taken in their
order:
/. Four or five thousand years have
passed since the building of the pyra-
mids. A very great portion of the
earths population were at that time
in the status of savagery and nowhere
was there a higher development than
barbarism. Chattel slavery prevailed
where agriculture had developed, and
spread to other lands later on as the
process of filling the soil advanced.
The present wages system was then
but a social-economic germ that did
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
WHY SOCIALIST WRITERS
ARE "MATERIALISTS"
BY ISADOR LADOFF

Karl Marx was the first critical So
cialist He was the first TO meet the
classical economists, the defenders of
the existing social and economic
structure with all its canniballike bru-
tally, on their own ground and to fight
them with their own weapon. 1t was
and is still an heroic strife, the battle
is still undecided as far as actual con-
ditions are concerned, but the theore-
teal, scientific victory is undoubtedly
on the side of Karl Marx and his
school. Marx recognized the futility
of Utopian phantasma and sentimental
appeals from the part of a lamb to
in their own dialect and showed them
sharper and stronger claws and teeth
of logic and knowledge than they ever
possessed He considered the world,
or rather the historical life of nations
and the problems of individual exist
ence, from the standpoint of physio-
logical evolution according to natural
laws
Certain modes of economic activity
correspond to certain social stages of
development with certain political, re-
ligious, moral, literary, philosophical
and artistic features. With the change
of these modes of economic life are
closely connected changes in all other
activities of nation. That theory he
applied to the modern conflict be.
tween capital and labor and arrived
at generally known conclusions. Only
a superficial student of Marx and En-
gels works will not notice that below
the cool, deliberate, almost mathema-
tically precise, reasoning of the scien-
fist there is hidden a warm human
breast, heart aglow with love for
the human race and burning with
righteous Indignation at the injustice
and beastly exploitation of the weak
by the strong.
This love for the human race and
higher ethical ideals are the real key
notes to all of Marks and EngePs
scientific researches and political ac
tivity. The same is true in respect
to Lassalle and other Socialist leaders
of note. That they stepped forward
mainly and apparently exclusively az
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
STONE-WEBSTER INTERESTS
ARE OPPOSED TO CITY'S
BUILDING OF NEW
WATER SYSTEM

The Stone-Webster interests who
have been fattening off the earnings
of hundreds of thousands of Henry
Dubbs in this happy hunting grounds"
of powerful corporations, known as
the State of Washington, are opposed
to the construction, by the people of
Everett, Of new and adequate water
and power system.
Naturally.
Also naturally, they do not wish to
sell their own dirty-water system to
the city. They are satisfied with con-
ditions just as they are. And they
ought to be, considering the easy
money and E-Z-Marks they have had
to deal with up to now.
The Morning Tribune shamelessly
comes out against the interests of the
citizens of Everett by putting over
municipal water and power system
that the predatory interests are will
ing to pay for, in one way or another.
One would like to believe that no
one nowadays pays any serious atten-
ton to the daily papers attitude on
any public question, since they are
all known to be but the mouth-pieces
of the particular group of capitalists
and politicians whose interests any
one of them was established to serve.
None of them are entirely dependent
upon the dear public for support.
Back of the subscribers, and back of
the advertisers, stands some politician,
or several politicians, and back of all
of them stands the corporation which
the politicians and the press are paid
to serve. Everyone should under
stand this simple fact by this time.
Certain it is that no well-informed man
or,womar wculd accept the editorial
statements of any paper, run for pro-
fit, as disinterested utterance. The
policy" of any paper run for profit
is dictated by its owner, or owners,
or by some bank to which the paper
might be under obligations.
The policy" of our two local mouth
pieces of the Stone and Webster inter
ests has been, so far, one of 'let-sleep-
ing-dogs-lie."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05

economists was not their fault. This
was the only way to reach their pur-
pose in a time when all consideration
economic problems of gain, loss pro-
fit, rent, interest. Not the Socialists
created this grossly materialistic
spirit of our times. The Socialists
want to abolish profit, rent, interest,
this unholy trinity of our economic
system, in the name of the higher in
terests of the race. But in order to
combat that unholy trinity successful
ly they have mad to do it as econom-
lists.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
THE MAKING OF A SOCIALIST
CARTOONIST--- *.HENRY DUBB''

I In need of money, he managed by do
Ing odd drawing jobs, to pay for most
of the engraving out of his own
meager funds.
Il had the joy of seeing my first
Socialist cartoon appear on the front
page of the little old Appeal" says
Walker. II can say with all honesty
that never have l felt such joy over
one of my cartoons since that day.
| was new cartoonist, the Appeal
was a new paper, the Cause was young
and very, very new in that part of the
world and exceedingly unpopular.
This last fact added zest to my work,
which was literally labor of love-"
Walker, though still young man,
has had varied career. He was
born in Kentucky and, when about IL
years old, went with his parents to
Kansas City. Here he worked as a
newsboy, was employed in different
capacities in the Kansas City stock
yards where the beastiality and debas-
ing influence of modern society was
indelibly impressed upon his young
mind, and held position as clerk in
a book store. Then he turned to max
ing drawings for advertisements, his
subjects running all the way from
mouse-traps to Eiffel towers.
When he began to make cartoons
for the Appeal, Walker secured DO
sition on the Kansas City Times. He
held this post until his early twenties,
when he went to st. Louis to fill the
position of cartoonist on the st. Louis
Republic. Three years later he went
to Boston, where he spent one winter.
Then Walker went to New York.
where the New York Times, the Mail
and Express, Life, Judge, the Book
man, the New York Star, the Arena
Magazine, the Telegraph, the Twen-
tieth Century Magazine and other pub
locations made use of his cartoons and
caricatures. A few years ago Walker
became associated with newspaper
syndicate in Baltimore, Tor which he
turned out vast amount of matter.
During the last presidential campaign
he furnished the syndicate with eigh-
teen drawings a week, besides large
number Of sketches. In addition to
this, he continued to contribute to
Socialist publications. A breakdown
in health compelled him to discontinue
his strenuous labor, devoting his en-
ergies solely to cartooning for Social
list journals.
With the return of his health, Walk
er has again contributed to other pub
locations, but most of his time is de-
voted to lecturing on "The Adventures
of Henry Dubb" Through this me-
dunn, Walker has carried the mess
age of Socialism into districts which
otherwise would have been barren to
agitation. His method is clear and
logical, and through it's simplicity and
soundness leaves an indelible impress
sion. No method of propaganda in
recent years has been as effective as
Walkers illustrated talk. He is good
humored one minute, laughing with
his audience at some foible of So
ciety, and the next thunders truths
which shake the SNUG conventional
ity OF his hearers.
His philosophy is broad and uncom-
promising. Until the Golden Rule
becomes our Common Law and is OBJ
served by every man and woman, the
world cannot have justice, and with
out justice the world is unfit for the
children of man."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
By LOUIS GARDY

About twenty-five years ago, a blue.
eyed, fluffy haired youngster slammed
the dobr of the Appeal to Reason in
Kansai City shut behind him, walked
boldly|up to the desk where the editor
was busily reading great pile of
newspapers, letters and manuscripts,
and asked for the position of a car
toonist.
The editor shifted the big black
stogie which he held between his
teeth, looked up at the youth and
grinned. The thought of engaging a
cartoonist on a new Socialist weekly
which could hardly pay it's running
expenses struck the, editor as sadly
ludicrous. The boy sensed that there
was something hidden behind that edi-
tors grin, and his hope faded. But he
wanted the job, he was out of employ
ment, and if there was any reason why
he shouldn't have it, he was at least
determined to know it. SO he stood
near the editors desk and waited for
an explanation.
Mutual introductions followed. The
young cartoonist said his name was
Ryan Walker; the editor was J. A.
Wayland. Walker explained that he
was jobless and was seeking posi-
ton as an illustrator OF ADVERTISE
ments or cartoonist. He had heard
that little Socialist weekly bad been
started and, finding that it had no art
staff, fastened to enter his applica-
ton.
Wayland grew interested, left his
chair and sat on top of the desk. All
work was forgotten and an interesting
discussion opened. 1t was hardly
discussion, however, for Wayland did
most of the talking. Walker just SAT
and listened, asking question when
a point did not seem clear to him, and
watching the editor roll the stogie be-
tween his thumb and finger and ex-
anime the ashes in abstract study.
For over. an hour the busy editor talk
ed to the youth who wanted to know
many things.
For many years-indeed, since l
had been old enough to think over
things in general, had been discon-
tented with the prevailing social sys-
tenn, but had never tried to solve the
Walker says, in telling of
his first meeting with the pioneer So
cialist editor. 81 realized the great
wrongs existing in the body polite but
| had no remedy, being but youth.
Comrade Wayland not only pointed out
these wrongs, and million others of
which | had been ignorant, but he
gave a solution by which they might
be righted
Ills theory appealed strongly to me
and l forgot all about the object of
my visit, going away with my heart
Singing new song.
"A few days later l again called on
Comrade Wayland, this time full of
new desire. | wanted to make car
toons for the Appeal, lending my best
efforts to the cause which l had so
suddenly espoused. l was all enthus-
ed-as all young people are when they
have found a great object in life to
work for. The Appeal was not finan-
clally in a position to pay for pic
lures and found even the expenses of
engraving an obstacle. But we found
a way out of the difficulty"
Walker never tells how the problem
was solved Though himself sorely
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
SEPTEMBER LEAFLETS

Local secretaries are requested to
send in the money for their supply of
September leaflets right away. No
leaflets will be ordered unless the
money is forthcoming
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-05
EVERETT LEAFLET
DISTRIBUTION

Socialists of Everett are requested
to call at the headquarters Friday or
Saturday night and get a bundle of
leaflets for distribution.