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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

asked what war is, he faltered for q
word to describe it and then answer
ed, 1T is hell" 1t IS hell, and the
profit-mongers for whom it exists and
for whose aid armies and navies are
maintained, are devilish.
| never look on brook or river,
stealing through fertile lands, but
that I fancy they do not run with
wholesome water, but with blood and
! sweat and tears. I never look on
a great city, that wonder-picture of
mans creative power, but that see
its walls masoned with human bones.
When / would express my horror of
war, my hatred of war, | am silent,
because words can not tell it. But I
wonder how long the workers will
continue to march up to the yoke,
how long they will let the masters
inflame them with hatred toward
each other, how long they will go
out to red slaughter for the glory
of others and their own ensIavement.
Are we not all brothers? Then why
should some ride others, and why
should some have all and others
naught?
Are we not Of one blood? Then
why should we kill each other. max
ing wives widows and children or
phans, that we may enable the rulers
of men to feast the more? Oh, I'M
speakable barbarism! Oh, needless
suffering and foolish burden-bearing!
Awake, men of the world, brothers of
the world, from the old madness, and
stand with the light of a better day
clarifying the foreheads that have
learned to think and kindling the
hearts that have at last learned to
love in deed and in truth, and then
war shall be no more; for if the
workers shall cease to kill each 9TH
er for others gain, the monstrosity
of war will pass away like horror
of the troubled night
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
BETTER BE CAREFUL
SAYS S. w. MINERS

The South Wales miners appear to
be unqualifiedly against CONSUMPTION.
James Winston, president of the
South Wales Miners Association, an
nounced yesterday that resolutions
opposed to it had been passed by the
executive committee.
UNLESS the politicians of the coun-
try are careful" he said, they will
stop the South Wales coal fields and
there will be no coal for the navy. /
know what I am saying"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
Local Everett'S Choice

At its regular business meeting held
Jan. 18th, Local Everett No. 1 nomi-
mated the following as it's choice for
the following offices:
The following were nominated by
unanimous vote: For secretary of
state, Frans Bostrom; state auditor,
Emil Herman; insurance commission
er, w. J. Moody; United States sena-
tor, Maynard Shipley; congressman,
Jay Olinger; judges supreme court,
Nicholas Schmitt, Bruce Rogers, Char
lotte Jones, Mark Litchman.
For National Committeeman, Frans
Bostrom.
For State Secretary - Comrades
Bostrom and Herman tiled on first
ballot. On the second ballot Frans
Bostrom won by two votes.
United States Senator - Maynard
Shipley, Everett.
Congressman-Jay Olinger, Everett.
Judges Supreme Court - Nicholas
Schmitt, Seattle; Bruce Rogers, Sc.
attic; Charlotte Jones, Seattle; Mark
Litchman, Seattle.
Governor-Bruce Rogers, Seattle.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
War is Murder
In Uniform
By EUGENE v. DEBS

Douglas Jerroid once said that war
rs murder in uniform" That it should
survive to the twentieth century
would be an inexplicable mystery. if
it were not for the knowledge that
it Is mere adjunct to wholesale and
persistent robbery committed under
the organization falsely called civil
lzat1on. There has never been a war.
save wars of rebellion and revolution,
that had not robbery for it's motive.
In the olden days the warrior was
frankly freebooter, and his victim
was the man of wealth, the merchant
and capitalist. But since capitalism
has come to dominance, the victim is
not the merchant, unless he be for
eigner, but the farmer and factory
worker who produced the wealth that
was taken.
In the old days the conquered was
deprived of all and reduced to open
slavery. Of late years the victim is
despoiled of hope in life and of free
dom, just as of old, only now he is
made to believe that he is free and is
flattered with the hope that some day
he himself may become a robber. In
olden days they slaughtered with
sword and battle axe, in contests
which involved some risk, but now
they kill at distance, and bribe the
worker at $13 month to murder his
brother worker. In o1den days war
was matter of battles and sudden
spoilation, but now they not only
slaughter with the finest machinery
that human ingenuity can devise, but,
after the battle is over, they tie both
the victim and the conquering worker
to other machines that evermore
squeeze money from their bodies.
Oh, the horrors and terrors of war!
When Sherman, who knew of it from
having burned road sixty miles wide
through prosperous region, was
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

against the master class.
The old International is dead! Long
live the new International! Let the
resolutions of the new International
be our watchword. Let the enemies
of the workers go over to the camp
of the enemy and let the workers
carry on the struggle for emancipa-
ton without these traitors
Therefore we demand that these
two members of the N. II. G. resign
| from their position and call upon the
members to use their utmost vigi
lenge in the selection Of their Off
Gals.
Yours for working class supremacy
in a speedy revolution,
VIM. PARR UNDRY,
Rec Sec'y
JOS. S. LEWIS,
Fin. Sec'y
S. V. SADLER,
Chairman
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
MINORS PICTURES
ONLY EXHIBITS

AMSTERDAM Sixteen war pic
lures, by Robert Minor, Socialist car
toonist from the New York Call, were
the only exhibits from the United
States in the International Exhibition
of War Pictures in the City Museum.
The pictures are charcoal sketches,
made by Minor on his trip along the
French front.
Although the greatest artists of
Germany, Belgium, France, Holland
and other countries had pictures in
this exhibition, those by Robert Minor
stood out from the hundreds of others
as heart-gripping portrayals of the
tragedy and misery of the great war.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
HANDS OFF

LONDON.-"Hands off the work
ers' wages. Make wealth and profits
pay for the war;" is the defiant chal-
lenge to cabinet ministers and Brit
ish politicians by the executive COM
mittee of the British Socialist party
in reply to attacks on organized Ia
Dor for its demands for living wage
for all workers.
The patriots" who are gorging
themselves with war profits, bleed
ing the nation in its hour of need"
are the ones who should be forced to
pay for the war, the committee de-
clares, before the workers are made
to give up from their meager earn
ings.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
STRIKE REFERENDUM
ON CONSUMPTION

LONDON.-The National Fedora
ton of Miners voted to postpone ac'
ton on the proposal to call a national
strike against CONSUMPTION until after
the compulsion bill has finally passed
parliament,
District reports, however, showed
overwhelming majorities against the
conscription measures.
The executive committee voted 2
to 1 in favor of submitting the reso-
luton to referendum of all the min
ers. Their action is the most serious
move yet taken by trades unionists
in their campaign against conscrip-
ton.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
COST OF WAR TO DATE

AT the close of 1915 the war had
cost more than $4,000, O00, 900, ex-
ceeding by s50O,O0O,OO0 the total ma
tional debts of the six principal bel.
ligerent powers when the conflict
began. With the exception of about
100000 raised in the United King
dom by taxation, practically all the
expenses of the war have been met
by borrowed money. The end Of
1915, therefore, finds the fighting ma.
tions saddled with double the debt
they had accumulated in all the CEN
turtles preceding the outbreak of the
war.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
HOW IT HAPPENED

Denver, Col, Jan. II, 1916.
Northwest Worker,
Everett, Wash.
Comrades:
Some one put my name on your
mailing list a while back. You have
a good, clean-cut, orthodox paper. .
| hand you an order for 81 for a years
sub. Also, I enclose 10 sub cards
for the Appeal to Reason, which you
may use to help out on your paper
Faithfully yours,
CLAIMING SWEET.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
By GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK
(Author Of war, What For?")

| 'DetGnU our
A very handsome phrase indeed
But the seductive winsomeness of tn,
beautiful phrase Defend our civiliza
ton" does not confuse me-not in tn,
least. Suppose we should multipl.
the profits of prosperity by 10 ant
suppose also the workers should ther
demand that their wages and leisure
should be multiplied by so humble {
number as so that they might have
leisure and means for the enjoyment
Of "our civilization "-then the work
ers would swiftly learn, at the point
of the bayonet, that under capitalism
"our civilization" is most distinctly
not intended for the working class
no matter how abundant the prosper
ity.
"Defend our civilizations" The very
moment the working class proudly
shows It's class power and It's class
defiance to the ruling class every de-
structibIe element of civilization can
be saved, easily saved. The four big
gest, finest, best things in civilization
are the science, the literature, the mu-
sic and the fellowship of the world ;
and the first three OF these are al
ways, fortunately, safe, are absolutely
indestructible under all circumstances
they are beyond the reach of the
most fiendish destroyers. And as
for the fourth element, mentioned
here, fellowship,-all wars and the
class war are utterly destructive of
fellowship, the big, deep, information
al, human-racial fellowship.
l refuse to be confused.
Defend Civilizations" Civilization
has been my favorite study for TWEEN
ty years and venture to believe that
l can make a more correct and ade-
quate definition of civilization than
any wealth-stuffed snob have ever
heard of, can make. Civilization?
Certainly. But thefDrofit mongers of
this country, too stupidity british to
blush while they hurrah for their
banner year of prosperity dripping
with the blood and tears of crucified
Ignorance, too stupidity british to
blush while every five years they con-
script by poverty five hundred thou
sand daughters of the poor for the
Shiny trenches of prostitution, too
british to blush while they
sweat two million Sabotage children
into profits, too stupidity british to
blush when they beseech high heaven
for more Of the same sort Of blood
stained prosperity and civilization
these gold-lined savages and jackals
of capitalist "civilization" can not de-
fine civilization for me. Nor can they
for one moment confuse me in the
present crisis in the worlds affairs.
am for civilization, strong for civil.
lization-for the working class. That
is why / would shout to all the work
ers of all the world, unite and refuse
in the proud might of your class
unite and refuse to prepare your mas
tiers, to arm your masters, for the per-
petuation of your ignorance, your pow
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
PORTLAND LOCAL
SPEAKS OUT
Branch No.
SOCIALIST PARTY OF PORTLAND
OREGON

231H Oak Street
Portland, jan 9Th, 1916.
Walter Lanfersek,
Chicago, III.
Dear Comrade:
We, the members of Branch No l,
Local Portland, Ore, in regular bust
ness meeting assembled, unanimously
condemn the actions of Comrades
Seidel and George Goebel, members
of the national executive committee,
in voting No on the endorsement of
the Zimmerwald, Switzerland, con-
ference of Socialists from the neu-
| trail and bellegerent countries of Eu-
rope.
With the death of the old Interna-
tional we cannot understand the ac-
ton of these two members of the N.
E. C. unless they are also of the stripe
of the Parliamentary Socialists, who
are Nationalist first and Socialists
second, and are therefore influenced
by their sympathy for one OF the war
ring nations, who have gone over to
the ranks of the enemy and voted
monies to carry on the war for the
capitalist class and have betrayed the
workers to the trenches to be exter
minated and at the same time reduce
the workers power of resistance
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

I erty and your misery.
The yellow man" is a bogy mar
with which to brighten Chautauqua
audiences into Unanimous vote tt
keep the flag flying" and fight till
long after the last man Is dead in
the trenches. And as for the remand
err of the "danger-of-invasion" argu
ment it hopelessly destroys itself by
what 1t confesses, thus: The several
great Christian countries mentioned
as likely to invade our country are
surely just as civilized as our own
country, and If we are no more civil
lied than they are, then, with such
splendid temptations as Canada, Mex
ico-and Panama-we are Just as
likely to become invaders as those
other great Christian countries" are.
And If all this be true then it must
also be true that even the most ad-
vanced portions of the civilized world
are really managed by commercial
buccaneers, political pirates, bond
lusting thieves, a lot Of national and
international egg-sucking ruffians, all
of them keen for opportunity as mar.
auders cunningly masked as Chris
tan statesmen and great business
men," And if this is the situation
why indeed should the working class
have anything to do with preparing
these groups Of scoundrels-in-control
for ruling, robbing and raping the
world?
Danger of invasion?" Consider our
water barrier of two thousand to five
thousand miles, and then consider the
vast difficulties of the British Empire
in overcoming few Beers several
thousand miles from her chief base
of supplies; consider also the utter
defeat of the mighty Russian Empire
trying to fight the Japanese five thou
sand miles distant from her chief base
of supplies and with a railway con-
nection at that.
Danger that we shall become
Chinafied?" That is an argument in.
sulting even to the mind of a new
born babe.
Give the multitude justice and ev.
worth saving will be safe.
And without justice why should we
arm our unjust masters to shackle us
for another century of injustice?
A decision for preparedness will
throw the working class under the
boot and fist of the god of war and
of the capitalist classic cringe and
groan, helpless as sheep before
wolves.
I refuse to be confused.
Look at Europe and learn what
preparedness" prepares for. Look at
Colorado and Calumet and West Vir-
ginia and learn what preparedness"
prepares for. Look also, with very
special care, at the unholy brutality
and cunning of the assassins of the
sacred rights of freedom of discus
sion, and you must surely realize that
the preparedness" of militarism
leads straight on to the lynching of
liberty.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
PARAGRAPHS ON PREPAREDNESS

Why should chattel slave "pre
pare" his master for defending any
thing monopollzed by his master?
Capitalism rests on ignorance ant
bayonets.
Capitalistic preparedness" Is In tn,
ignorance of the workers and In tn,
bayonets for the workers.
The present cunning shout of tn,
ruling class for preparedness" is in
tended to perpetuate the ignorance
and guarantee the bayonets. ''Pre
Iparedness," as now defined and plan
ned by the capitalist class, deepens
and soldifies the workers Ignorance
and equips the capitalist state for
operating OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and ev
erywhere and under all circumstances
against the fundamental interests OF
the working class.
The recent and present swift
growth OF the great working class
movement of the world convinced
and now convinces the ruling class
that it must either confuse the issue
or be destroyed by the working class ;
that it must either confuse the issue
or be driven from the industries and
legislatures of the world by the in
creasingly conscious and self-respect-
ing working class.
Therefore, confuse the Issue; that
is, shout preparedness" and call 1t
patriotism" and the old, old trick
will be turned once more against an
other generation of the horny-hand-
ed, gullible, six-footers of the work
ing class.
AS long as the working class can
be confused and tricked into the pitt
full attitude and condition of political
infant and intellectual sucking, it will
be flattered, crushed and robbed in
times of peace, and will be flattered,
bed and robbed in times of war. In
the present war and in the next
war" and in the class war the only
thing the capitalist class sincerely
fears is a working class too cunning
to fight for a civilization which the
workers are shrewdly kept too ig-
norant and busy to keen1y, deeply and
enjoy-a working class
too cunning to bleed itself into pale
faced stupidity, licking the boot that
kicks it while it yaps patriotism and
wallows in it's own ignorance and pow
erty from which ignorance and pow
erty the working class can never es-
cape while the ruling class is "pre-
pared"
Let us refuse to be confused.
The supreme war is the class war.
And the supreme issue is-victory
for the working class in that war.
And in this class war why should
a wage-sIave prepare" his master for
the good things of a civili-
zation steadily monopolized by his
master who mocks him for his pow
erty and ignorance?
I refuse to be confused. I refuse
to build a prison in which I am to
be the despised, logged, starved and
ignorant prisoner.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

Lieut.. Gov.-Ed Maurer No. Yaki-
ma.
Secretary of State-Frans Bostrom,
Tacoma
State Treasurer-A. B. Davey, Ev-
erett
State Auditor-Emil Herman, Seat
tie.
Observation-Disclosures HUSKY.
Com. Public Lands-Frank Cort,
Everett.
Insurance Com.--W ]. Moody, Mon.
roe.
Supt. Public Instruction.. e. Sim
clair, Cowiche.
Presidential Electors-C. P. Morri-
son, Everett; S. Bonnivie, Everett;
w. G. Rave, Tacoma; Bertha Zeitz,
Snohomish; w. E. Anderson, Ever
EFT; G. H. Gilmore, Birmingham;
Mike Kronholm, Bryant.
STATE PARTY OFFICIALS
National Committeeman F. Bos-
from, Tacoma.
State Secretary - Frans Bostrom,
Tacoma.
State Elk Com.-Ed. Maurer, North
Yakima; Bruce Rogers, Seattle.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
GRIBBLE CONVICTED

A st. John, n. B., despatch says
Wilfrid Gribble, well-known Canadian
Socialist, speaker and writer, has
been found guilty" of using seditious
language, and has been remanded for
one week for sentence.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
HOOVER TURNED DOWN

Glenn Hoover of Seattle, who has
been getting speaking dates in the
state has had his dates postponed by
Locals Spokane, North Yakima and
Mt. Vernon on account of his repu
diation of the Socialist party in The
Seattle Herald.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
SOCIALIST MINORITY
AWAKES IN FRANCE

According to the international cor
respondence, an increasing number of
voices in the French Socialist move
ment demand change in the attitude
of the party majority on war ques-
tions. Several provincial Socialist pa
pers have endorsed the zimmerwald
conference and demanded recogni-
lion for it from the party executive.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
The Struggle Abroad
GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED
FORWARD

Forward" the organ OF the Scotch
Socialists, In defiance OF the British
censor, printed an account of the
meeting OF Glasgow trades unionists
Christmas day, which was addressed
by minister of munitions Lloyd
George. The newspaper said Lloyd
Georges reception was hostile. The
police seized the current issue of the
paper
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
NOTE THE DISTINCTION

The Socialist bases his conception
of the movement upon the develop
ment Of the working class, as deter
mined by the development of Capt.
talism, while the Socialist Imperialist
bases it upon the development OF
Capitalism. But Capitalism in itself
is capable of an infinite develop
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
BRITISH WORKINGMEN
AGAINST CONSUMPTION

Organized labor In Great Britain
stood solidly against CONSUMPTION.
Nine hundred delegates to the Ma,
tional Labor Congress in session at
Central Hall, Westminster, cheered
a resolution which condemned com.
pulsory military service. and by a
vote of 2,121000 TO $4,000 voted
down a modified CONSUMPTION bill
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

ment: the old theory of the inevitable
collapse of Capitalism is untenable.
There is no hope of revolution ex-
cept in the development of the revo-
lutionary roletariat.-Louis c. Fra
ina.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

Every strike that is on today is the
work of German agents-at least that
is what the capitalist press would
make you believe. Even if it were SO,
strikes cannot be fomented if bad con-
ditions do not exist
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

The Salvation Army also is con-
Quoting a campaign TO- preparedness,
PHILADELPHIA North American.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

j. Stitt Wilson has become con-
tributing editor of the Christian So
cialist, Chicago.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

We are in favor of Greater Pre-
paredness''-the kind that makes ev'
cry Socialist active during the presi
Dental campaign. What about that
campaign committee?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

Hurry along that renewal. If you
cannot renew let us know. Don't
keep us in the dark.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

Prof. Bowman of the Department
of history in the university at Seattle
is to lecture in The Forum, Sunday
evening, January Both. The subject
will be "The Labor Element in the
10th Century Revolutions" Admis-
sion will be free.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20

The Social Study lass held it's first
meeting Sunday afternoon The next
meeting win be held Sunday evening
at 730 pm.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-20
EVERETT ACTIVITIES

A successful card party was held
last Friday evening in The Forum.
The first prizes were won by S. Bon
nivie and R. Bonnivie and the BOBBY
prize by w. e. Anderson.
Another card party is to be held
Friday evening. Refreshments are
served after the game is over. The
game costs ten cents a seat.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-14
SEMI-FINALS REACHED
IN COLLEGE TOURNEY
Harvard Against Yale and Southern
California, the Lineup OF
DAVIS play

PHILADELPHIA, Sept "a Second
round matches IN the doubles and the
scmi-ilnalS Of the singles were PLAYED
today IN the annual inter collegiate ten.
MS tournament on the grass court,
here
Riker and Knox Of Princeton ID
vanced 10 the sem final round N the
doubles bv defeating LYON and Lar
mon, Dartmouth. 6-5, o.. In the other
second round matches Whitehouse and
Ptai'man Harvard, met Rowland and
Edwards OF the Pennsylvania univer-
Si'y; Gamer and llarte. Harvard. met
Hopkins and Ball. Yale: Warren and
Mccormick, Southern California. PLAYED
Blair and Holt. Cornell
1t was Harvard against Yale and
southern California in the semi-f finals
OF the singles. Gamer meeting Welrr Of
ale while Pfafiman opposed Warren
OF southern California