The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-07
THINKLETS
BY w. T.. REYNOLDS.

and The apologize for things as they
are. And it is true.
Capitalists ccnld not exist without
wage-earners" reply the reformers.
This, is also trua
The greater Truth is that neither
wage-earner nor Capitalist is neces-
sary in sane World. Both ought to
be, and can be abolished.
An industrial Republic, founded up
on social ownership of social neces-
sites will abolish the Capitalist (as a
capitalist) by making it impossible
for him to get THE benefits arising
from private ownership of socially
necessary raw materials and tools of
production, and will at the same time
abolish the wage-earner Gas wage
earner) by making it possible for the
worker to receive the social equivalent
of the product Of his labor.
Capital and wage-labor are two sides
of the same system of slavery.
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All hail king Mortgage-the great
est emancipation of them all. With him
around one is almost certain of free
dom-FROM property!
The Feudal Lord insisted upon the
Right of the first night" as his own.
The modern Land Lord goes him sew
eral better. HE insists on the right
to use the little daughters of his ten
ants as soon as they are able to toddle
to the cotton patch-and out of their
earnings the modern Landlords main
tain whole harems of young girls who
under modern methods are denied the
opportunity of ever having a marriage
of their own.
The high sounding phrases of the
politician do not 'fit-in' with the pitt
full reality whicheverywhere confronts
him. Yes, verify the lot of the politi-
clan is hard and we workers are MAX
ing it lot harder. On with the good
work.
The demand for equality among
equals is not limited to political rights
but extends to industrial needs as we'll.
On socially operated farm the seed
expert and the soil expert determines
beforehand the crop and the seed best
adapted to particular soil. On the
privately owned or operated farm, the
farmers guess on the seed and the kind
of crop, and then have to wait till the
crop natures Tor fails to mature) in
order to find out whether or not they
have made a good guess.
Social production in agriculture, as
in other fields of production would
largely eliminate the loss of crops and
labor due to too much or too little rain
in spots. Today the rain and the
drouth falls alike on the Just and the
unjust and it's rather tough on the
just who thereby suffer from Nat
ure's seeming streak of cussedness.
But Nature isn't cussed. When man.
kind lives up to her laws he will pros
per. Plans are easy to devise to use
Nature instead of suffering from her
laws. No one base solved scheme of
outwitting her. A mortgage is rain
and drouth proof!
The Capitalist can not exist without
constantly revolutionizing the means
of production and that has it's influ-
ence upon the relationship of the
whole of society. Under these condi-
tions it is some task to make ideas of
the worker "stay out"
The threatened railroad strike has
brought out one point good and strong
and clear, and that is the acknowledge
ment by the Capitalist class of the
Power that the Workers potentially
| possess.
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Heraclitus one of the earlier Greeks
(B. c. said Nothing remains, what
where and as it was, everything moves
changes, comes into being and passes
away. | merely quote this as the
reader may contrast that idea with the
lack of ideas of the modern school OF
stand political stagnation.