The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-01
DREAMERS

James J, Hill was dreamer who
made his dreams come true. Every
man who does something in the world
must be n dreamer, for the dreams
always come before reality lie had
an imagination that went just little
| further than that Of his contempor-
aries. He saw what the great north
ern tier of the western states could
become if their treasures could be UNI
locked And he found the key to UNI
lock them, - Everett Daily Herald.
So the Everett Herald has discov-
cred that "dreamers" and their
dreams amount to something after
all. James j. Hill was not Social
list, hence it was easy to dubb him n
dreamer and admire him 1t became
easy to call him "an empire builder"
because his activities were directed in
the development of the capitalist sys-
TEN.
The same type of men who scott OF
the Socialist dreamers' today also
scoffed at the dreams" of Jim Hill
in his early days, as also did the wise
acres of the time of Columbus.
But these men went ahead with
their plans just as the Socialists are
doing today. There are no more CON
tinents to discover nor empires to
build so that the capitalist system
can develop. SO what are we going
to do about it? The Socialists having
analysed the capitalist system of
wealth production knows that it has
reached the climax. To continue the
system we must find markets, The
present European war is the result
of the demand for markets. And to
continue the capitalist system will
lead to nothing else than continual
ton of slaughter among nations,
No system of production can con-
tinue unless the products can be dis
posed of The products of industry,
under capitalist production, must be
forced upon the market either by fair
means or foul. The higher the devel-
opment of the capitalist system the
greater becomes the volume of pro-
ducts, and the more completely the
worlds market becomes covered 1t
logically follows that the struggle be-
tween nations as well as between in
dividuals, or concerns, to hold on to
the markets necessary to meet their
requirements, becomes ever fiercer,
This expresses itself in the case of
nations. in the way of greater military
and naval establishments Sooner or
later there is such a terrific clash of
interests that armed force is resorted
to and blood and slaughter becomes
the order of the day.
The point has long since been
reached beyond which it is utterly i'm
possible to longer use the machinery
of production, under the rule of capt.
tai. The product can no longer be
disposed of. The worlds market has
its limits and those limits have been
reached. Capital cannot operate I'M
less it can grow. When the limit of
the possible market has been reached,
capitalist production will choke to
death upon it's surplus Of products,
that can no longer be disposed of be-
cause no further markets are obtain
able. In sheer desperation the vari-
Gus capitalist bands (nations) will
fight for their lives-and they are at
it now. Before this scrap ends it is
more than likely that every nation on
earth will be actually engaged in the
struggle. Even if they are not, they
will be pulled down with the rest, for
they are all linked together in the
capitalist scheme of plumber and
rapine, from which none can escape
The capitalists can no longer con-
troll the machinery of industry. 1t
has become more powerful than its
beneficiaries and owners. The same
is true of the machinery of war. Even
now it has gone beyond their control
The resort to war is open confession
of the inability of the capitalist class
to utilize its machinery of industry
and dispose of its products. If this
were not the case there would be nc
motive for the present war.
And so it must be left to the
"dreamers" to find a solution to this
vexing problem. The Socialists have
the solution in the collective owner
ship of the means of wealth produc-
ton. Our aim is to abolish private
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