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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
CAPTAIN REFUSES TO
TRANSPORT DYNAMITE

Portland. Ore, Feb. because her
captain refused to load lis tons of dy-
Mantle for the west coast of South
America. the Japanese steamer Mis-
sci is lying idle at the Portland wharf
and her charter is costing the Dupont
Powder company $3.50 a day She has
been there since Jan. IA. The Japan
csc captain declares it was not part of
his charter agreement that he trans
port dynamite. though he intends to go
into the nitrate trade between South
America and San Francisco.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
To Electrify Wilder Branch.

N-NeNs' NdluWeliJ
The committee Of the Caldwell Com
mercial club having in charge the sell
ing of the Caldwell Traction Co.'S bonds
Tor the electrifylng OF the Wilder
branch received the following splendid
letter from w. II. Redway' now OF chi
cago, which Is good and self-explana-
tory;
Chicago, January Is, 1916.
Messrs' William L. Hasprouck,
w. Ii 'owden,
Walter Grlfhths,
Committee.
Caldwell, Idaho.
Gentlemen nave your communica-
ton Of the twenty fourth, inst, and |
am very much pleased TO have the hon
or of being thus addressed.
1uaqtiop Som ,JViead n u,l,as 30
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
Thirty INJURED
IN COLLISION ON
MICHIGAN ROAD

Flint, Mich, Feb. 5.-Crowded to ca
pacity a north bound local car on the
Saginaw and Flint division of the
Michigan railway collided head on with
an empty south bound special car near
Falkland. few miles north of Flint,
tonight. Thirty persons were injured,
several perhaps fatally.
A misunderstanding Of orders is said
to have been responsible for the wreck.
The north bound local, with more
than 100 passengers. was travelling at
an estimated speed of % miles an hour
at the time of the crash. The crew of
the special car escaped serious in
jury by jumping
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
kIND0KA PROJECT
HASPROSPEROUS YEAR

That the crops on the Minidoka pro-
ject this year under a conservative es-
innate amounted to $2.5OO,0OO and that
the estimate was not made upon the
present high prices of produce, is the
news brought here from the wealthy
southeast by Barry Dibble, manager of
the Minidoka project. who has been in
attendance at the Boise Maintenance
ard Operative conference. The crop
value this year. he states. is just about
half the entire cost of the project,
which he maintains is a most excel
lent record.
Mr.. Dibble states plans are being
laid to show the engineers who attend
the annual meeting of the Idaho So
ciety of Engineers to be held at Bur-
ley, a big time while in that section.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06
Hurt Twice in One Day.

San Francisco, Feb. 5.-This was an
unlucky day for Harry Whatford.
newsboy. An automobile bumped him
once. and then while it took him to
the hospital, got into a new smash up
which added to his injuries. Three
other persons were slightly hurt, too, in
the second accident.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06

Sometimes bachelor makes a
woman happy by not marrying her.
Villa seems to be Mexico's him of
hate.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06

Why not take the Capital News and
get ALL of the news7
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

Socialism is that messenger of
peace that has come to the world
with her hands unstained by human
blood-tuning anew the harpstrings
of harmony-implanting within the
breasts of the workers of the world
hopes of better day. Socialism is
that star of hope that has arisen out
Of the destruction wrought by the
black hand Of capitalism Socialism
is the happy reunion of the principles
of brotherhood and social democracy,
bringing together the workers Of the
world, uniting them into a political
party where comrades is the word
that inspires hope-there pledged to
bring about their own emancipation. "
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
Next Week Is
Lyceum Week

The committee in charge of the Ma
tlonal Lyceum Course, to begin Sun
day, March 26th, has designated next
week, beginning March goth, as LY.
CEUM WEEK. They request that a
special effort be made to sell tickets
and to arouse interest by talking the
matter over with friends and neigh.
bors.
Every one who has ever heard the
first speaker, George r. Kirkpatrick.
without single exception, says that
he is second to none as speaker
He is more than brilliant. You will
miss the greatest event in your life
if you do not hear him.
over $500 tickets have been mailed
out to friends and readers of The
Northwest Worker. Use these tick
cts or sell them. There are plenty
more. No day passes that someone
does not ask for more tickets. Let
us fill the Everett Theatre to the
doorsl
Remember that Ryan Walker and
Emil Seidel follow up Comrade Kirk
patrick, and that the course of three
lectures is only fifty cents. Any one
selling $3.50 worth of tickets
will be given one course ticket free.
SO get busy NOW. Comrade Salter
has already sold SIS worth
Don't forget that the Social Science
Club meets on Sunday afternoons at
2:30, 1912 California.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

I Statistics show that out of 10000
successful men in the world in al
classes, 5000 were college graduates
Even your self-made man isn't
satisfied unless his son can 90 to
college. - Chicago Tribune, March
10, 1905)
probably far more than 5000 of
the 10000 were high school or acad.
envy graduates.)
Now, what of the astonishing ma
jority, the more than seventy-five per
cent, who do not have opportunity
to discover and develop their tastes,
their powers and their special gifts
These must make the struggle for ex.
istence practically without education,
without maturing of their powers,
without enrichment of their minds
with knowledge, without the inspira-
tions, without the ideals, without the
grandly expanded life plans to be Sc
cured chiefly in the finely cultural
stimulating environment of the high
schools and academies and colleges,
and universities. These, my learned
gentlemen, must face the bitter COM
petitions, the strangling, suffocating
competitions of life unprepared, un-
armed.
No university, silently or openly
agreeing to strangling understand
ings" for CONDITIONED" gifts from plu-
tocratic filchers of the fruits of toll
no such university ever helped free
an economic slave class. No such
university ever even tried to do so.
And whenever in such an institution
some brave teachers have raised their
voices in criticism of despotism and
in defense of the hosts that sicken
in ignorance and poverty-such teach
ers have been silenced or promptly
driven from the university or college.
With no thanks to you, guilty pres
idents of universities, we of the work
ing class Will heW our own way to
freedom through the mountains of
prejudice and SANDER you have helped
build in the path of human progress.
|Servile assassins of academic freedom
of discussion, boss strike-breakers of
the professional nobility who strive
for the right to teach without toady-
ing, we expect nothing from you ex-
cept hollow mouthings and cruel
ISLANDERS. We know you.
And, fortunately, we also know
this: In the lower grade schools our
children matched your children and
the children of your masters, too, IN
BRAINS, matched them there till pow
erty kidnapped our boys and girls
and drove them to the mills and
mines and factories of the class who
pay your salaries for your cunning
silence or for your shameless SLAM
ders. And that fact makes us cna1-
lenge you to the battle of brains for
the rights of the brain.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
Il WILL NOT EQUIvOCATE! =
BY William Lloyd Garrison

(The following appeared in the first
issue of "The Liberator," on January
l, 1881, according to Upton Sinclair
in "The Cry for Justice" He adds
that the GLOWING pronouncement
marked the beginning of the anti
slavery campaign:
l am aware that many object to the
severity of my language; but is there
not cause for severity? l will be as
harsh as Truth, and as uncompromis-
ing as Justice. On this subject | do
not wish to think, or speak, or write,
with moderation. No! no! Tell a
man whose house is on fire to give a
moderate alarm; tell him to moder-
ately rescue his wife from the hands
of the ravisher; tell the mother to
gradually extricate her babe from the
fire into which it has fallen-but urge
me not to use moderation in a cause
like the present. l a min earnest
will not equivocate-I will not excuse
I will not retreat single inch-and
will be heard The apathy of the
people is enough to make every sta.
tue leap from it's pedestal and hasten
the resurrection of the dead.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
NATIONAL REFERENDUM

Comrade Allen Benson has been
elected by a majority vote to run as
president on the Socialist party ticket.
Comrade Geo. r. Kirkpatrick has
been elected by a very big majority
as candidate for vice president.
A second ballot is to be issued for
the election of a national secretary.
Those on the ballot will be Adolph
Germer and Carl d. Thompson.
A second ballot for national execu-
tive committee will have the follow
ing contestants: John Spargo, Anna
II. G. Creel and A. M. Simons. There
are five to be elected
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

perienced, and helplessly poor.
These-and millions of others in
factories and shops, and in petty rent
ed or mortgaged farms-have NO
SUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITY TO
PROVE their intellectual gifts-they
have no economic support while they
study. What message have you for
this host of helpless girls and boys
I whose intellectual eyes are burned
out by the blistering heat of the com.
petitive system? Stunned and baked
by the brutalities of the competitive
wage-and-profit system, these are
helpless, AND you KNOW THEY
ARE HELPLESS. These have no OBJ
portunity-they lack economic de-
Tense while they enrich their minds,
polish their pearls and prove their
gifts. You well know that a mentally
gifted child though keenly willing to
study may nevertheless grow up to
be a stupidity ignorant man or wom-
an. These ignorant children in the
mills and mines, competing against
profit-lusting employers, are strug-
Cling, gasping for the economic
breath of mere animal existence,
while you admit that even the bril-
liant and powerful young men and
women who already have high school
and perhaps several years of college
education need economic protection
while they prepare further for lives
of usefulness and honor and the
many deep pleasures of mental ma
turity Speak distinctly, pleace: what
is your message for the ignorant
youths whose ioyless lives are stuffed
and damned with poverty and toll,
whose hopes are stillborn, whose
souls shrvel in the fires of competi-
ton while you MOCK THEM?
More than seventy-five in every
hundred of all the boys and girls in
the United States never enter even
tne IlrSt year OF the high school or
schools of the high school grade
Now place that fact, that big, bald
fact, beside the following important
statement by the most profound and
productive student of human society
that the world has yet known, the
late DR.. Lester f. Ward:
"But really, for all except the rarest
cases, something more than a com
mon-schooI education is required to
insure success. A much broader view
of the principal branches of learning
is necessary to enable a person of
talent or even a genius to select a
career and pursue it successfully.
The great men of all time have had
this, =. All outside of that group,
whatever may be their native talents,
are excluded from candidacy to
achievement" - Ward: Applied So
GEOLOGY, PIP. 229-3O)
And this from President Butler, of
Columbia University:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
subscriptions This Paper Surprising Bmches From All the State Are COMING Dalv
Here Is The Vote

Secretary of State
James Grant, Spokane. KISS; Jas
Mcdonald, Tenino, 1863.
State Treasurer
Berle b. Foltz, Tacoma, 351; Mary
stevenson, Orting, xS26,
State Auditor
w. H. Elbe, Mt, Vernon, 556; Il, E
Owsley, 1888.
Attorney General
NJ. ]. Schwartz, Bellingham, X10SS
Commissioner Public Lands
II. G. Brockway, Sumas, *275; A.
%. Camp, Tacoma, 201; e. B. Caswell
Arlington, 169; Frank Cort, Everett,
500.
State Insurance Commissioner
f. ]. Mckay, Des Moines, 1888; ].
w, Sumner, Patterson, 1888; Magnus
Wickberg, Everson, 304.
State Supt. Public instruction
Ida Copeland, Birmingham, S1S;
Mary Mcnamara. Edmonds, 1923; F.
Sylvester, Olympia, *44S.
Presidential Electors
Bonner Bartlett, Edmonds, *409; S.
Bonnevie, Everett, 1927; C. e. Briggs,
Edmonds, 30; Allen Brooks, Algona,
1915; Helen Camp, Tacoma, 1850; c.
w. Deuel., Tacoma, IA; A. Copple,
Olympia, 1866; E. H. Fellows, Silver.
dale, 143; G. H. Gilmore, Birmingham,
161; w. w. Gray, PIT. Angeles, x237;
Ralph Halbrook, Outlook, 1888; Peter
Harrison, Boyds, 116; Laura House,
Spokane, 1889; H. F. Lester, Ed
monds, 1874; Mike Kronholm, Bryant,
1872; Walter Meyers, Colville, 230; G.
p. Morrison, Everett, *243; Mary
Nelson, Tacoma, 1880; W. c. B. Ran
dolph, Omak, lis; w. c. Rave, Taco
ma, 14o; c. D. Raymer, Seattle, 1867;
Peter Reding, Tacoma, III; Lalla
Rogers, Seattle, 1903; Allen Roush,
Orting. 101; Charles Starlight, Cur
lew, 1872; T. B. Shaw, Bellevue, So;
Geo. Stevenson, Orting, 16S; Kate
Sutton, Tacoma, x615; r. L. Taylor,
Centralia, 200; ]. B. Tidball, Eagle
Harbor, rs r. w. Thompson, Mon
roe, 215; j. NJ Ward, Port Williams,
II; Archie White, Meyers Falls, 161;
Bertha Zietz, Snohomish, 1902,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
SOCIALISTS
GAIN 800 PER CENT

The recent municipal election held
in Seattle showed a gain of 800 per
cent. for the revolutionary Socialists
over that of two years ago. Seattle
was in a very unsettled condition dur
ing the election and the Socialist
vote is very encouraging as it shows
a great increase in Socialists who un-
derstand their true position in human
soc1et yand who cannot be swayed
by Would-be good men
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
DISTRIBUTION SUNDAY

Comrades: We wish to distribute
the city with leaflets next Sunday,
March 18th. 1t is very important
that we get these all out as they are
stamped with a notice of the Kirk
patrick meeting. Everybody and the
cook turn out and help. Call at head.
quarters in the rear of 1912 Califor.
nit St, and get a bundle.
f. G. CROSBY,
Organizer, Local Everett.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

system that forces you to cringe and
| fawn before coarse-grained, lard-and-
tallow, morally barbaric millionaires
forces you to tease these Industrial
caesars for some of their blood-stain-
ed money for fellowships with which
you may rescue at least a few dozen
OF their mentally gifted but economi.
cally plundered and pauperized vic
Tins.
Have you no shame? Really, have
you forgotten how to blush?
Has the competitive system or so,
ciety so poisoned the well-sprngs Of
manly pride that you are become in
capable of Christlike Indignation, in
capable of hot resentment for the
merciless tyranny of masters who
force you to crawl and whine and
also force you to teach falsehood
and commit a social treason? Has
your intellectual serfdom morally
emasculated you?
Get up! Stand once erect! Show
us the soul-shine of men, defiantly
proud men, men too finely proud to
defend a system that perhaps robbed
their own fathers and mothers CT the
greatest thing in the world, a liberal
education. Show us men too noble to
mock their own families perhaps
their own uneducated mothers whose
gnarled hands in days gone by were
blistered and calloused with toll in
furnishing their sons economic sup
port while they studied in college
Come! Speak out, gentlemen. What
message of cheer hags you for the
vast majority, some of whom no
doubt are weak, many millions Of
whom are surely splendid, capable
average, and great numbers of whom
are doubtless magnificently gifted,
but many millions of whom are IN
THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE
CURSED OBLIVION OF FATALIS-
TIC PoVERTY-what message have
you for this mighty host whom the
coarse and brutal rudeness of the
competitive system robs of the privi-
lege of even the first years training
in the high school? What message
of cheer have you for the lean and
bOny little girls toiling in the cotton
mills of New England and the south,
competing, each pale, hungry, rag
ged child competing, aye, competing
with multi-million dollar corpora
ton? What message have you for
the tender little boys in the breakers
of the Anthracite Coal Trust? What
cheering message have you for the
multitude of little dust-breathng con-
sumptives who slave in the great de-
partment stores, each child, each
alone, competing against a gigantic
corporation? These, all these are
helplessly young, helplessly small,
helplessly ignorant, helplessly mex
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

(Those marked X are elected and
those marked will be submitted i'm
mediately for second ballot)
National Committeeman
Geo. Bartlett, Edmonds, 1872; C. V.
Boone, Olympia, 1903; James Grant,
Spokane, 1874; l.. e. Katterfeld, Ev-
erett,* 625; c. d. Raymer, Seattle,
172: Bruce Rogers, Seattle,* 1856;
Kate Sadler. Tacoma X, TAI; James
Sutton, Tacoma, 17S; Lincoln Wells.
Mt. Vernon, lis.
- State Secretary
Frans Bostrom, Tacoma AS; E.
Herman, East Seattle,' 500; E. E.
owsley, Colville, 81; C. d. Raymer,
Seattle, 100; NJ. ]. Schwartz, Belling-
ham, 1902.
State Executive Committee
A. H. Barth, Tacoma X, COS; c. V.
Boone, Olympia, sos; Aaron Fisher
man, Seattle, $40; A. H Hansen, E.
Stanwood, 352; Marius Hansome, Sc
attic, $50; VIM. F.. Johnson, Seattle,
20e; H. F. Lester, Edmonds, 215; Ed
Maurer, North Yakima,* $50; Mary
Mcnamara, Edmonds,* 491; ]. Olin-
ger. Everett, S01; ]. H. Price, Medi-
cal Lake, 270; w. c. Rave, Tacoma,
1872: Emma Sager, Anacortes,* SS1;
J. M. Salter, Everett X, GAG; August
Sarin, Seattle (Finnish) X, GIL; N.
Schmidt, Seattle, 1853; James Sutton,
Tacoma 4S2; Mary Stevenson, Ort-
ing, SAT-; Frances Sylvester, Olympia,
140; Leonard Tuuri, Aberdeen Gin
nish)*, 626; Carl Ulonska, Everett Y,
TO; w. H. Waynick, Bellingham, 31S.
POLITICAL TICKET
United States Senator
Willis j. Neil, Silverdale. 157; B.
Rogers, Seattle X, 619; Maynard Ship
ley, Everett, 395 ~ -
Congressman, First District
E B. Tryon, Seattle X, 101.
Congressman, Second District
A B. Davey, Everett, 40; Charles
Millward, Bayview X, 1902; ]. Olin-
ger, Everett, 1888; G. G. Severance,
Eyerson, so.
Congressman, Third District
w. F. Ferguson, Hoquiam X, 1872;
E. L. Percival, Tacoma, 14S.
Congressman, Fourth District
w. S. Kirk, Pasco, So; Samuel Ma
son, North Yakima, *54; Walter
Price, Outlook, *72
Congressman, Fifth District
c. H. Bungay, Spokane, *76; A. Gil
more, Myers Falls, 45; John NJ. Pow
ers, Marcus, ST.
Judges of Supreme Court
Peter HUSKY, Everett, x1O47; Kazis
Krauczunas, Seattle, 1864.
Governor
L. E. Katterfeld, Everett, 1852; j.
Sutton, Tacoma, $50.
Lieutenant Governor
J. L. Freeman, Tonasket, 1863; K.
Hodgins, Everett, 1920.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16
LYCEUM COMMITTEE
PLAN PARADE

Plans are under way for three auto.
mobile parades to advertise the open
ing of the Lyceum Course to take
place on Friday and Saturday even
ings, March oath and 25th, at eight
O'Clock, and on Sunday, the day of the
first lecture, before two o'clock. Eight
cars have been so far engaged. It
is hoped that there will be more.
The parade is to form about eight
O'Clock between Wetmore and Colby.
on California st. Do you want to be
IN it? There will be music and ban
ners. Milford Dougherty will per-
form on the megaphone. Any one
wishing to volunteer the use of a car
for the occasion, call up 47SZ.
All members of the Study Club
are especially requested to be there.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

The British debt, March 1, will be
close to $11O0O,OOO,OOO. Terrible! Al
most $24O per capita! AT this rate
it will soon reach the gross debt OF
New York City, which was nearly
$500 per capita, June 80, if reckoned
from the last general census in the
same manner.-New York World.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

And now England calls out the
married men, Albion is learning at
last the necessity of having real
fighting men of experience in a cri-
sis like this.-Houston Post
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

The Republican position on the
Philippine question is now clear. The
administration of the islands by the
Democrats has been so bad that it
proves the natives incapable of self
goyernment.-The Masses IN W
York;
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

Gasoline is naturally higher since
instead of one set of dividends and
officers to pay, the producers now
have to take care of sixteen SETS
Boston Transcript.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

Very few of the Republicans jump
ed upon the elastic frame of Mr.. Taft
because he did not rush into war
with Mexico,-Chicago Daily News.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

For twenty-five cents we will send
five copies of the Scientific Socialism
Study Course if ordered by a Local
or Socialist Club.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

We cannot print the news of Social
list victories unless we receive them.
Send in the news.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

Every dollar that you spend with
merchants who do not patronize our
paper is a blow to the Socialist cause.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

Comrade r. D. Hazen was elected
school director for the Freeland dis
trict
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-16

In Chicago, one of the largest of
the rs recognized charity organiza-
lions was called upon to help last
year more than 100000 families.
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Kirkpatrick, Everett March &c, 2 pm.
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Kirkpatrick, Everett. March 20, pm.
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Kirkpatrick, Everett, March 26, pm.
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Kirkpatrick, Monroe, March 27
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George r. Kirkpatrick's Open Letter
TO Guilty College Presidents

Dear Sirs.-Your catalogs are be-
fore me. In these catalogs you at
tractively set forth the advantages
to be enjoyed by young people who
attend your institutions. Among these
advantages are some specially liberal
ones which you hold out enticingly
and particularly to those young peo-
pie who, you say, are conspicuously
above the average in intellectual
gifts, to those graduates of high
schools and those college students
who have indeed already shown that
nature with unusual generosity has
equipped them for the struggle for
existence. These specially liberal ad-
vantages are in the form of free
gifts which you call "fellowships"
and Scholarships" and which yield
the recipients from 800 to $1,000 a
year, for one or more years. This
sum of money is to be used by those
who receive it in defraying their ex-
penses for a year and thus protect
themselves against economic want
and worry which they, GRADUATES
ALREADY, add still more training,
more knowledge, more equipment
more armor-for the fierce life-strifes
of the struggle for existence under
the present wage-and-profit industrial
system called Capitalism.
You thus propose to help those most
who need help least-those who have
already had much training and who
have also been discovered to be
above the average of those immedi-
ately around them in the race of life.