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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE

The Everett Morning Tribune has
been rewarded for it's faithful service
to the capitalist class and the mill
owners of Puget sound in particular.
Last Saturdays edition contained
seven and quarter pages of lumber
company advertising and one and a
quarter pages of Hartley advertising
out of total of 16 pages.
When, however, one considers the
lickspittle service rendered by the Tri-
bune to- the master class it is indeed
poor reward, aye, it is even a poorer
reward than the wage slave gets after
years of faithful service in some ex-
ploiter's mill, mine or factory. Wage
slaves are not often required to lie
every day in the year for their mas
tiers, but an editorial tool that does
not lie that often is indeed rare
animal. But when both are of no more
use to the capitalist class they are
thrown on the scrap heap.
And the scrap heap is not far dis
tant for Mr. Tribune editor.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
TO OBSERVE MINERS DAY
FIRST TIME SINCE 1918

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-For the first
time since September 81, 1913, min
ers' Day" will be observed by the min
ers of Eastern Ohio. 1t is expected
that fully $4,000 workers, besides
thousands of women and children, will
participate in the demonstration.
Miners Day" this year will mean
more than ever before to the coal dig
gers and their families. For the dem
onstration will mark the end of the
long-drawn out strike of the thousands
of miners in this field. Almost all of
them are back at work now, and the
families are beginning to breathe
slightly freer now, despite the heavy
load of debt that lies upon most of
them.
And the celebration will also mark
the end of the long months and years
of starvation that the miners went
through, of the suffering that was
borne by their views and children. For
the mine owners in the protracted
struggle sought to break the spirit of
the workers by starving them out
Yet despite the fact that the proverbial
wolf had actually invaded the homes
of the strikers, that many were rend-
cred homeless, that some of the child
rem and women died of actual want
the unionists remained firm.
1t is going to be not only a dem
onstration of solidarity, but also one OF
jubilation and joy. Joy, not so much
at the mere fact that strike is we'll
nigh over, that once more there is
bread in the cupboard and the child
dren no longer hungry, as at the larg-
er gain that the miners made: the spir-
it of union loyalty and the undyinq
devotion to a cause that the hard work
ing miners showed in the face of the
most disheartening circumstances.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

The official organ of the American
Society of Equity is The Organized
Farmer, with H. G. Tank as editor.
j. P. Tummulty, private secretary to
the President, sent the following tele-
gram:
Washington, D. c., Hasa, July ID, '16
H. G. Tank, Wausau, Wis.
'The President expects to sign the
Rural Credits Bill at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning July 18th. He has invit-
ed number of gentlemen who are in
terested to come in at that time and
he would be glad to have you present
if it is agreeable to you.
~. P. TUMULTY, Sec"
~. P. Tumulty, Sec, Washington, DC.
"Please say to the President that
had Congress passed Rural Credits
Bill favored by the real farmers of
America it would have been an honor
to be present when he attached his
signature to a bill of such vital i'm
portance to every citizen, as it is |
must respectfully decline the invita-
ton to sanction by my presence a bill
that is at it's very best a makeshift.
"H. G. TANK
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
TOBACCO FARMERS OF
KENTUCKY LIVE IN SLUMS

BALTIMORE, Md.-Kentuck's ITO
bacco Belt" slums, the oppression of
the farmers in the Blue Grass State,
and their extreme poverty, were de-
scribed upon his return from trip
through that section of the country by
Clarence H. Taylor, Socialist organic
err of this city.
Taylor paid a visit to cities which
were so far in the interior that &C
cording to him, "the farmers there had
never even been told that Socialism
would divide up, break up the home
or destroy religion"
Illiteracy is prevalent to an appall
ing extent among the tobacco belt
workers, Taylor said. At one meeting
he held, only six adults out of more
than one hundred were able to read
and write.
An experience in farm house, por-
traying the wretched conditions of the
inhabitants, is wildly described by
ldylOIs "a farm llOuoe III WHlCl Hc
spent the night, he said, was built en-
tirely of logs. 1t consisted of one
room, 18x14 feet, used as living, din
ing, drawing and bedroom, and SINH
lar room, used as kitchen. Taylor
says he got up from the dinner table
before the meal was over, on the pre-
text that he was not hungry, then
went to the village and ate at a res
taurant. If he had given his appe-
tate free reign at the farmers table,
he explained, the family would have
been on half rations for the next two
meals at least. And their rations, he
added, would not provide a satisfying
meal for any healthy man.
"The farmers in the dark belt to-
bacco country are up against it" COM
mented Taylor. when they want to
sell their tobacco they were told that
the prices were down on account of the
war. When they went to buy the ne
cessities of life, such as sugar and
coffee, these had gone up on account
of the war. That war is some equal
izers for the farmers, indeed"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
BY George K. Kirkpatrick

ny ''ui bN W.
Socialist Candidate for Vice President
In the year 1916 we elect the issue
Let me explain:
In the case of new movements for
big fundamental things there is a
most important stage, or phase, too
frequently discouraging - unreason-
ably discouraging. That phase we may
call the phase of electing the issue.
The issue must be elected long before
we can hope to elect the candidates
of a political party proposing and
promoting the new demands.
When the dimensions, vigor and
virility of a movement command the
respectful attention of tens of mil
lions Of the people; and when the per-
sonnet, the logic and the momentum
of the movement compel politicians
and preachers, editors and statesmen,
professors and publicists to respect
the movement; when from ocean to
ocean scores of millions attentively
and respectively inquire; what is
it ?"-and when bitter and potent enc
mics of the movement are forced to
cease from misrepresentation-sham-
ed and whipped into acknowledging
the dynamic and dignity and worth
of the Recommendation that move
ment is clearly in it's second phase:
THE ISSUE is ELECTED. The can
didates-none of them or relatively
but few of them-may be elected to
public office; but the question, the
issue, is elected-INTO THE PUB
Lie MIND. And that is a mighty
triumph. Infinite pains, infinite hard
work-infinite sacrifices-are neces-
sary to reach this goal, to reach this
phase-TO ELECT THE ISSUE-to
force the issue so deep, so high and
so far into the public's attention that
EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT
1T. EVERYBODY'S COMING TO
CONCLUSIONS - OR DECISIONS,
GUIDED BY RELIABLE INFORMA-
TON.
BUT this victory is worth all it
costs.
The promotion of the movement to
the next stage, to the election of the
party to the actual control of the
power with which to inaugurate and
operate the program and policies of
the movement-this next phase is far
pleasanter, far more interesting
and very much more rapid The in
creasing momentum is an inspiration
to increasing hundreds of thousands
of workers in the movement-and an
increasing inspiration to increasing
millions to hold up their heads with
hope and confidence. The public's
new attitude of genuine respect for
the elected ISSUE" for the issue
forced into the public mind-this new
attitude is profoundly gratifying and
a mighty stimulus adding vastly to
the movements momentum. The era
of ignorant guffaw, rotten eggs,
"rockpile" and ridicule is past. The
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
WAGES UP II PER CENT,
PRICES UP "a PER CENT

The capitalistic press is stirring up
great fuss of late about the "enor-
nous" increase in wages in many
trades since 1907 and at the same
time they are trying to point out that
hand in hand with these increased
wages went a reduction of the hours
of work. The very same press bases
it's arguments upon the statistics is
sued by the federal government
These statistics cover 676,571 trades
unonists, located in AZ cities and 80
states, and employed in the various
trades.
According to these satisfies the
wages of the organized workers-the
fact ought to be remembered that
only organized workers are being
taken into deration-increased
about twelve per cent from 1907 I'M
til 1912 and the weekly working hours
were decreased by three per cent.
Undoubtedly these achievements of
the organized workers are very en-
couraging, however, they do tell but
half of the story. The other half of
the story is being hushed up by these
same papers because it does not fit
their purpose.
During the same period, for in
stance, the prices of the means of life
were increased by "a per cent. This
shows that in spite of the increase in
wages secured the purchasing power
was reduced by about ten per cent
during the same period, or in other
words: In spite of the increased
wages the union men in 1915 could
only buy -tenths of the amount
that they were able to buy in 1907 OF
eight years ago!!!
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

The State is the instrument of the
ruling class. 1t has grown up with
the ruling class. 1t is really the ex-
ecutive committee of that class. It's
function is to conserve and protect
the interests of the ruling class, as
against the interests of any oppos-
ing class or classes in human society.
A ruling class implies Il class or
classes to be ruled. To rule is to
enslave; to enslave is to rob. No
other motive could prompt man to
set himself up as ruler and master
of his fellows. No other motive was
responsible for the cbattel slave
master and the feudal lord, and none
other has yet been discovered to sat
isfactorily account for the modern
capitalist. The state, with its organ
lied powers of repression, is incon-
ceivable except in connection with a
human society that is split into war
ring factions, through conflict of
economic interests. The advent of
slavery into human affairs laid the
foundation upon which the state, of
necessity arose. Slaves must be gov
erned, otherwise they will not remain
slaves. That they were first govern
ed by the master direct, his own vocal
powers delivering the legislative
chou shalt nots," and his strong arm
welding the club that enforced his
DEGREES, is perhaps true, and would
be quite in keeping with the crude
and primative beginnings of slavery,
itself. But from those small begin
nings slavery has grown to world
proportions, enmeshing all people in
it's net, and it's state has grown into
a police force that encompasses the
earth. The undisguised ruffianism of
the club has, long since given way to
the soporific influence of courtly
pomp, parliamentary profundity, and
blue papers, by means of which the
victims are ushered into innocuous
to their corporal substance. In case
they are afflicted with dangerous in
somnia, the club, amply reinforced by
the bayonet, lies Immediately in the
background and instantly available
In other words, the hand of ruling
class ruffianism now wears the vel
vet glove, but the glove is easily dis
carded whenever any rough work is
necessary.
The ramifications of government
extend down into and encompass even
the most sacred private affairs and
relations of those over whom it's pow
ers are exercised, the enslaved work
ers. It's thou shalt not" stares the
exploited producer of wealth in the
face from the cradle to the grave, al
ways prohibiting him from appro-
plating anything to himself outside of
the pittance that the market of his
ample for his material and spiritual
we'll being. And this pittance is to be
obtained only by surrendering his en-
tire life force to his masters, irregard-
less of the amount of wealth that the
expenditure of that life force may
bring forth. 1t requires no very keen
perception to be able to discover that
the higher person is in the scale of
wealth, the less does government in
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
WE ELECT THE ISSUE THIS YEAR

Ielephantine pomposity and superarro-
gance of eminent egoists in opposition
die-suddenly evaporated. The lead
ers, the high and mighty Of the oppo-
sition, must discard their masks and
toe the mark-they must discuss the
issue fairly; they promptly become
ridiculous if they decline discussion,
and if they do discuss the issue they
are promptly made ridiculous by their
demonstrated ignorance and impo-
tence against a movement that cuts
with the blade of logic and bombards
with the artillery of facts.
Thus it has been-and will be
with the Socialist movement. For
40 years-slowly at first, rapidly re-
cently-the Socialist movement in the
United States has been increasing it's
power to command attention and COM
pei respectful, in 1912, with almost
a million votes counted and admitted,
and with more than a million votes
actually cast-with a million and a
quarter or a million and half but for
the progressive party in the field, fl
nanced by plute, headed by a politi-
cal pirate, loaded with specious pro-
misses and glittering pretensions, we
almost elected the issue in 1912.
BUT THIS year is our year.
This year we elect the issue.
This year the propaganda will
reach many millions more than be-
fore; this year we win-win our way
into the public mind, to the extent that
Socialism is hereafter to be a domin-
ant issue, admitted by everybody to
be studied by everybody-and accept
ed by rapidly increasing millions.
The million votes of 1912 will help
nightly to secure two millions in
1916; two millions this year will elect
the issue - completely - completely
force universal discussion, universal
study-and will help win 100000 in
1920.
Electing the issue is the acquiring
of IRRESISTIBLE MOMENTUM.
On with the fight! Two million
in November! will be a political
earthquake and volcano combined
forcing attention, forcing respect
and forcing the multitude to lift up
their heads and believe in victory
and will nightly urge millions to
hold up their heads in confidence and
determination.
The pie-counter statesmen have
trooped back to the fleshpots of the
old parties-and will not this year Sc
cure the respectful attention of null
titude who will now examine our mes
sage.
TWO MILLION votes will force the
word Socialism to the lips of scores
of millions. TWO MILLION VOTES
WILL ELECT THE ISSUE.
The candidate this year is move
ment seeking a dignified place in the
public brain, and not an individual
seeking an office.
This year we elect the issue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
THE STATE
By H.. 4. Kingsley.

''''tH''NJ'
tcrfere with him. The great dominant
capitalist interests of modern times
are above the law. This causes much
squawking among the lesser capital
lists and that fantastic and frazzled ar
ray of cochroach merchants and small
fry property owners all the way down
to the semi shirtless proletariat And
even out of this semi-shirtless mob
there ascends to high heaven torren-
tional flood of squawking protest be
cause such and such concerns defy
the law. Now it happens that these
huge capitalist interests that domin-
ate the field of economic activity to-
day are also in control of the mach
inery of the state, of government. 1t
is by control of the latter that they
hold control of the former. These
interests therefore become owners,
masters and makers of the law. 1t
is theirs, and as the creator is greater
than which he creates, it logically
follows that they must be above the
law They cannot be subjected to it's
limitations, any more than could the
biblical creator of the universe be sub
ject to the ten commandments that he
fixed up for Moses.
The slave masters of the ancient
world constituted the state of those
days. The big slave masters, not the
small fry. The latter were ruthlessly
gobbled up by their bigger fellows,
in spite of all their squawks of protest
and the big ones got bigger by the
gobbling. The feudal lords constitut-
ed the state during the middle ages.
The big feudal lords, not the petty
ones. The smaller ones got put out
of business by their bigger and more
powerful brethren and the big ones be-
came more powerful thereby. The
big capitalists constitute the state of
today. A mere handful Of men act
ually dominate the political and eco
nomic life of hundreds of millions of
people. They determine what shall
or shall not be enforced. They are
guided solely in their actions by the
requirements of the property inter
ests they control and those property
interests consists of, and cover moth
ing else than the ownership and ex-
ploitatioh Of human slaves. Because
of their dominant holdings in the
great controlling industries, such as
iron and steel, textiles, leather, meat,
sugar, flour, oil, coal, transportation,
ETC., along with the banking, insur-
ance, trust and loan adjuncts to the
great skin game, these comparatively
few men actually own and control all
the lesser properties, clear down to
the meanest and most humble slave
of the lot. 1t was stated upon the
floor of the United States senate not
long since that less than 100 men own
ed and controlled all the wealth with
in the Great Republic. This state
ment has not been successfully denied,
as yet. The large holdings are rap
idly absorbing the smaller and sooner
or latter there will be none of the lat
ter left. The state will then be in
even fewer hands than at present.
The real significance of government
may by that time become so plain
that an occasional slave will be able
to see it.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
NOT MENTIONED

Oklahoma, Nevada, Indiana and
Minneapolis appear to be the greatest
centers for Socialist publicity this
year. At least that is the conclusion
one comes to after reading the Ameri-
can Socialist and the Appeal to Rea-
son. But when the ballots are count
ed the state of Washington will at
tract more attention than all the
others combined because we will elect
man to congress and nobody will
be expecting it, outside of the par.
ticular district.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
SUNDAY. SEPT. 17TH

Don't fail to be in attendance at
the opening campaign meeting that
is to be held next Sunday in The
Forum. Good speaking, good eating
and good-wen you had better be
there to get the rest.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
THAT CAMPAIGN POSTER

The colored campaign poster of
Benson and Kirkpatrick is the best
piece of advertising for the Socialist
party that has yet been gotten out.
No Socialist should be without one.
Ten cents each from The Northwest
Worker.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

To get real meaning into the "voice
of the people" begin by sending more
Socialists to Congress, to give voice
to the things people really want.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

Most undertaking reformers never
reach that state of mind where they
realize that it is necessary to remove
the cause that made possible the mud
which they delight in raking.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

The New York medical fraternity
has agreed that infantile paralysis is
due to the unsanitary conditions of
the tenements. AS this is due to
greed and greed is due to capitalism,
it should not be a hard matter for
these learned gentlemen to locate the
remedy.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
CAMPAIGN FUNDS

The following comrades have sent
the amount stated after their names
to The Northwest Worker for the va
rious funds:
SpohomiSh Filin0 Foo
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

When the workers will no longer
divide the product of their toll with
the non-producer the class struggle
will no longer divide the people of all
nations.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

"Watchful waiting" may be all
right in some cases, but it will never
take the worker out of the trenches
of capitalism.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

Saying little by using many words
is the art that old-line politicians have
reduced to a science.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14
statesmen.

When politicians, statesmen,
writer's, pulpiteers and others seek to
becloud the issue with a haze of words
about a hundred and one unessential
things, bear in mind that for you, as
a worker, the real issue remains as
to whether the system of exploitation
is to continue or whether you are to
demand that it come to an end.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee. I'm
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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-14

A sample copy of this paper is an
invitation to become a subscriber.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-01

JEWS "BONDED" TOGETHER.
I'm the annual report Of Jake Loeb
as president of the Chicago Hebrew
institute he raises the question why
the Jews of this city don't warm up
with enthusiasm to the work of the
institute. He states:
I'VE should have more members.
Why haven't we? Because the Jews
of Chicago don't know the institute
We must have $500 members. How
shall we secure them? By making
the institute, its work and its mean
ing more generally known. Show
your fellow Jew that we are striving
to educate and guide the young men
and women here, that we are making
good Americans and better Jews. By
a common religion and a common
history we Jews are inseparably
bonded together"
Nowhere in this annual report does
Jake Loeb as president discuss the.
how and why of a big drop in its
membership. On the page where
Philip L. Seaman, superintendent,
reports registration in classes for the
study Of English it is shown that
membership dropped from 476 in
1915 to So in this year, and the num-
Der of Jews registered for lecture
courses dropped from POI to ia.
Though Jake Loeb states that I'VE
Jews are inseparably bonded to-
gether," he does not touch on the !
fact that the Chicago, Hebrew insi- |
tute has been split wide open !
through the secession Of a large
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-01

DlOCh VI ulcluDcIb VIII nave OIkdll@
lied the Workers institute. While
the Chicago Hebrew institute is run
ming at 1858 W. Taylor st. with a
registration of SO members in Eng
fish classes, the Workers institute is
running at 912 Ashland ay with 164
members.
As an organizer of the young Jews
who are lovers of liberty, the young
Jews who believe in The Promised
Land" written of so eloqUently by
Mary Antrim, Jake Loeb has to date
proven himself a failure.
When Jake Loeb choked off free
speech in the Hebrew institute and
was denounced by Jacob lie BOsky as
practicing the brutal, sUppressiVe
methods of the Russian Cars bu-
reaUcracy, he went definitely on rec
ord with an act that shows whether
or not he is a friend of all Jews or
only pal of the rich Jews exploiting
the poor Jews
It was this trait of tyranny, this joy
of always choking off somebody or
something, that was seen by the
young Jew who wrote the New Re-
public article mailing Jake Loeb as
an enemy of liberty through wreck
ing the merit system among public
school teachers.
From the day in June, 1915, when
Jake Loeb tried to put through a
seven and One-half per cent cut in
the salaries of all public school
teachers and on up to June p, 1916,
when he manipulated a wholesale
discharge of efficient teachers, his
record is easily the worst blOtch in
Chicago history that can be credited
to a Jewish public official.
Louis BTandeis, Walter Lippman,
Mary Antrim-these are the type of
Jews who throw a flash of glory on
the name of the Jews in America.
These are Jews who repUdiate the
bunk of Jake Loeb that I'VE Jews
are inseparably bonded together"