The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-05-18

North Yakima, Wash, May 10, 1916.
Dear Comrades: There have been
SO many events of interest transpir-
ing in this ncighborhood during the
past week that ! must report the hap
penngs.
The non-partisan fungus sprung up
here and faded away suddenly. A
booster from Seattle came amongst us
with the message of salvation, which
was to be administered by non-parti-
san homeopathic = remedies. They
called n convention in the court house
and seven people turned out, includ-
ing spectators, so they told the public
that if the people wouldn't come out
to hear them they would speak on the
street. However, they failed to make
any further appearance, and we don't
hear anything more, except from the
labor unions, who have fallen for the
joke as usual.
To counterbalance the non partisan
fizzle, we have just endured two state
conventions of plutocrats. In the first
part of the week the left arm of Capt.
talism Democratic bourbons) con-
vened in our city, and of course spilled
a lot of vapid rhetoric that fell wide
of the isues affecting the dear peo-
pie" and Woodenhead Wilson was
proven to be the greatest man of the
age, so they went on record solid for
his reelection. The day they held
forth was the hottest day this year
in the valley. No wonder, when so
muct hot air was being turned loose
from the pent-up patriotic feelings of
those preparedness patriots"
Then the week was brought to
close with the atmosphere vibrating
with the noises crested by the right
arm of the Plunderbund. All the
Jackass party were exposed, and the
perfectly organized inner circles of
the Republican party got busy to put
over their schemes-sam old game
but they broke away from their ira
ditions long enough to slip in a Wo-
mans Suffrage plank to catch the
mothers who are weak enough to ac-
cept their big army and navy pro-
gram. Notice how they have bitterly
denounced Socialists for years upon
that issue. They are strong for the
worst enemy of labor this nation has
produced as their choice for president.
What spectacle to behold Teddy, the
trust-busting chameleon,
who denounced the Republican party
as everything crooked and vicious,
now coming back like a dog to eat
his own puke, and to see the editors
(notably the Yakima Republic) gag
ging over the awful dose that is be-
ing forced down them after they, too,
had disgorged such an unsavory thing
as Toothydorus. OF course, we know
they only pretended it all the time,
and played to the popular bunch, who
held the reins of power, for business
reasons.
At any rate, the other extreme in
weather conditions developed, as a re-
suit of all the disturbing vibrations,
and it gave the Republicans a rainy
and cold day, which was amply offset
by their fervor for preparedness for
patriotic purposes. A destructive
freeze swept down on the valley and
did great damage Saturday night, af-
ter the Roosevelt Chauvenists had
concluded their session of political ma
chinations. They have always been a
frost anyway.
The city was decorated in fiesta
regalia for the two bourgeoise fac
tons, and was paid for out of the city
funds. We wonder if they would be
so liberal on Labor Day, or for So
cialist convention
We have discovered another flunky
of the plunderbund here in the person
of a minister of the gospel, who
claims to be a Socialist, but upholds
the profit system. 1t was he who
opened the Republican convention
with a prayer to God to give these
politicians "unshackled hands," Any
one who hasn't got his brains balled
up with a mulligan of ethical obstruc-
lions can see that the representatives
of the capitalist class have had UNI
shackled hands all these years, and so
free has been their hands that they
have glommed about everything for
the master class, and have shackled
the laboring class with class legisla-
ton in the interest of those whom
they are representing. If we had about
100000 Socialists of that type we
would be weaker than we are, for we
would be delivered over wholesale to
anything the masters of our bread de-
manded.
AS to party activity over here, we
took in nine new members last week,
and have started the ladies to work in
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