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that our old tactics was wrong Both
views are mistaken"
| am quoting Kautsky, not because
| subscribe to every word he says,
but because he is the leading Marx.
ian of the Socialist movement of the
world today and because he repre-.
cal views of Marx and Engels. The
fact that he sometimes differed from
them in special questions merely
proves how difficult it is to get all
the essential facts in such problems
arranged in such way that all can
agree.
1t is evident, then, that Kautsky
realizes as clearly as Marx and En-
gels did that we have only choice
Of the lesser evil in such situations,
and that we get nowhere by a mere
proclamation Of the absolute invio-
ability of internationalism. We must
study the situation from all sides,
calculate the most probable outcome
of the war and its presumable effects
on the national and international de-
Ivelopment of the working classes,
and take our stand accordingly. This
choice Of the smallest probable evil
will always involve us in conflicts
with our class-struggle attitude and
with our international unity.
Kautsky admits that national par
tisanship in war carries the danger
of international division in it's train,
but he contends that such PARTISAN
ship is very well compatible with our
international principle, so long as we
are moved by considerations of gen
eral working class interests. The
main question for us, in such stu
alton, is, in Kautsky's opinion:
Whose victory offers the best pros
poets for our cause. not only in our
own state, but in the world? No mat
ter what may be the answer, it never
can violate the principles of interna-
tionalism which rests upon the idea
that the interests of the proletariat
of one country are identical with
those of the prOletariat in another
country, that the proletariat cannot
gain any permanent progress in one
country, if it goes backward in an
other. But international solidarity
does not mean that the answer must
be the same everywhere. On the
contrary unanimous decision of the
Socialdemocracy IN case of a war has
very rarely been secured so far"
KAUTSKY'S PREDICAMENT
Here we meet with a popularity
of Kautsky which he shares with
Marx and Engels. He gets tangled
up in his own statements. In one
place he says that the victory or de-
feat of certain nation may signify
Ian advantage or an injury for the
working class of the defeated nation.
In another he says that the working
class of one nation cannot gain any
permanent progress, if the working
class of another nation is set back.
Right here is the cruX of the whole
question, and right here he fails to
give convincing reply to the prob
lem. This convincing reply has new
.er been given in any of the Socialist
discussions of the war problem.
Granted that the labor movement
of the different countries is so inter
woven that we cannot make progress
toward practical internationalism so
long as the working class of certain
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III
LOCAL NORTH YAKIMA
MAKES NOMINATIONS
North Yakima, Wash,
January Sth, 1916,
BONNER BARTLETT.
Northwest Worker,

lNOlIh L dhlIlct, w aOll'J
January Sth, 1915.
Northwest Worker,
Everett, Wash.
Comrades
Thinking the doings of the Yakima
Socialists might interest you Reds,
beg to report that at our meeting
last Thursday evening we had an at
tendance Of over sixty per cent. of
the membership, and ten outsiders.
The session lasted three and one-half
hours, with everybody interested and
taking part. We nominated candi-
dates for every office on the state
ticket, as follows: For United States
senator, Maynard Shipley; congress-
man, 9Th district, Samuel Mason, N.
Yakima; governor, L. e. Katterfeld.
Party Officials - State secretary,
Emil Hermann state executive COM
mittee, Carl Ulonska and Ed. Maurer;
Local North Yakima secretary, Ed
Maurer; recording secretary, Otto
Rettig; organizer, Ernest Mears; lit
erature agent, Frank M. McMurray.
The war referendum of Tacoma No.
1 was seconded. We voted almost
unanimously to suspend the regular
1916 state convention. A press com
mittee was also elected.
HERMAN To ECTIIpE
Emil Herman will lecture here Sun
day afternoon, Jan 23, at the court
house
Glen Hoover will lecture at the
same place on Preparedness, Mon
day evening, Jan. "a.
Two new names were added to our
membership, lot of supplies were
ordered from the state office for the
organizer SO when Emil Herman
leaves this part of the country we
will report several new locals or
dozen new members in this local.
Yours for 5000 paid-up members in
the state,
ED. MAURER,
Sec'y N. Yakima.
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The Cathedral Beautiful
BY CARL ULONSKA

To-day in America thousands of good wellmeanng c-
Vong active and eloquent protest against the
destruction Of the worlds cahedas
magnificent piles of marble, stone and granite towering
massive in their grandeur-inplrng soustirring That
protest timely and protest against
srucon of these vast piles respendent against
the destruction Of inheritance of the
RHEIMS ST. Paul and the Louvre but also protest against
Wanton destruction of the worlds
living and breathing You destruction oil
temples Of marble but cry against the wholesale
ton of the builders oil in
against the destruction of temple that breahes that
that dreams that loves temple whose shrine
heart and whose stained glowing
inspiration. cry against cruel destruction of the
worlds grandest cathedral the cathedral the nneHuman
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-13
BIRTHDAY EDITION

The Northwest Worker will soon
celebrate its sixth birthday. We are
going to celebrate it this time with
an eight or twelve-page paper, which
will be full of interesting articles of
general interest.
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IN TO WIN!
Edmonds, Wn., Jan. 10th

Edmonds, Wn., Jan. 10th.
Northwest Worker.
Dear Comrades-The Socialists here
are lining up for the, coming school
campaign. Vern Sill has been nomi.
mated for the one-year term and G.
H. Bartlett for the three-year term.
The prospects are better than ever
for their election.
Yours truly,
BONNER BARTLETT,
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Because of belief that they would
attempt to begin negotiations for
peace if allowed to enter England,
the British Embassy refused to issue
passports to Danish Socialist trades
union delegates who intended to visit
London
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I'm Only A Little Riddle
BY Ursula Buford Barry

BY Ursula Buford Barry
| am only kiddie, an small for my
age,
Yet, / works like a grown up for star
walton wage,
starts every mornin' beforsAit is
light,
An never quit working until it is
night.
1 don't get no play time, / don't get
no fun,
I don't get nothing when my work is
done.
want to get out in the sunshine
awhile,
An look at the flowers, an just try
to smile.
CHORUS
| am only a kiddie, but I want to
know
What for I am here to be suffering So
I wonder how it's, IL it's true He can
see,
That God don't take pity on poor kids
like me.
Me mother is sick, so she can't work
at all,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-13

Bill Nye said: 1T is the duty of the
great orator to howl for war, and
then hold some other mans coat
while he fights" The orators are
not tired yet
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CARD PARTY FRIDAY

card party will be held in The
Forum Friday evening, January a.
Bring along a friend and join in the
game.
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NEWS IN BRIEF

Debs is reconsidering the nomina.
ton for president on the Socialist
ticket So many kilograms have
poured into Terre Haute that he can
hardly escape.
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PARTY OFFICIALS

Oh, yes! The boss and his work
ers are partners. They do everything
ard he gets everything. They do the
work and he does them.
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DIFFICULT QUESTION

This implies that internationalists
may thereby arrive at vastly differ,
ent views, according to the varying
facts upon which they make their
decisions, The Socialist parties of
different nations may adopt conflict
ing views, and so may the Socialists
within the same nation"
Such situation will necessarily
threaten to split the international
unity of the Socialist movement. But
this cannot be helped It is all the
more difficult for Socialists to de.
eide themselves under such condi-
tons, as the class struggle principle,
which guides us in our work in peace
full times, cannot advise us in such
problems.
an times of peace, the natural at
titude of the Socialdemocracy as the
representative of the lowest strata of
the nation is that of opposition to ey-
cry government-until we have Sc
cured the strength to take hold of the
government ourselves. In times of
war, the Socialdemocracy finds itself
in the disagreeable situation of hav-
ing to support a government as soon
as we take sides for one of the bel
ligerents. If this is our own govern
ment, we are compelled to vote for
the war credits and thus assist the
same government which we refuse,
in peace, to support with one man
and one cent.
whoever does not remember that
war overturns many things, regards
this as a reputation of our previous
practice Some denounce it as a vile
treason, others consider it the begin
ming Of a new policy and a confession
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ED. MAURER,
Sec'y. N. Yakima.

Cut out the Advertisers Guide pub
lished in this paper and make good
use of it. We must keep the adver.
Users we have and also get more.
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An me father was killed at the fac
tory last fall;
We're five of us young ones, while I'm
only ten,
An all of us working 'cept little lame
Ben.
There's times I go hungry so mother
may eat,
An Bonnie have stockin's and shoes
on his feet!
While of'en the whir Of the wheels
hurts my head,
An / am so tired, wish I was dead.
The boss, he has children, I seen all
the three
An they never go ragged an hungry
like me;
They plays out a-doors, goes fine
dressed to school,
While l slaves my life out an grows
up fool
Won't somebody tell me, I've asked
it before,
Why some folks has plenty an some
folks is poor?
Won't somebody what's got a heart
that can feel,
Help us toilin' kiddies to get square
deal?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-13

There is one certain remedy for
Socialism, said the statesman, and
that is war! But will capitalism sur
vive it?
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LOCAL TACOMA NO /
NOMINATES TICKET

United States Senator-L. E. Kat
terfeld.
Judge Supreme Court-Peter HUSKY.
Supt, Public Instruction.. M. Salter.
Governor-Bruce Rogers, Seattle.
Lieut.. Gov.-Logan Ellis, Kelso.
Secretary of State-Frans Bostrom,
Tacoma.
State Treasurer-Mary Stevenson,
Orting.
State Auditor-Frans Bostrom, Ia
coma.
Attorney General-Bruce Rogers.
Commissioner Public Lands-W. E.
Patterson, Puyallup.
Presidential Electors-W. c. Rave,
Berle Foltz, James Sutton, A. E.
House, G. Duel, Frank Stone, Peter
Reding.
PARTY OFFICIALS
National Committeeman Convention
Delegate-James Sutton
State Secretary-Frans Bostrom.
State Elk. Com.-James Sutton, w.
G. Rave
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SYRACUSE, N. Y.-Ed H. Buche-
nau, prominent Syracusan, killed his
mother while in a fit of religious ma
mia. He was Bill Sunday trail hit
ter.
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SAN Observation-Disclosures news
from China, which has not been print
ed by the Associated Press, but is a
matter Of common knowledge among
the local adherents Of the Republican
cause, says, in effect, that the Social
lists Of China have started a revolu-
tion in five provinces.
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Allies Day in Sydney, Australia,
was a huge success. Men and WON
en- with children living in rooms turn
ed out to cheer the flags of the war
lords.
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at has to be admitted that up to
the present, while Labor governments
nave done much that was worth 40
my they have had no material influ-
ence on the daily lives of the work
ing class. THE Australian Worker
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Socialism will be the victor in the
European conflict, according to Henry
Ford, in an interview with a Call
representative. This opinion, Ford
explained, was based on his investi-
cations of the ever-increasing con
troll of industries by the belligerent
nations
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-13

Churchill has gone to the front.
Now perhaps we shall soon hear of
the Germans being gassed
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THE BALKAN QUESTION

IA live discussion followed in the
party press. On the side of the Turk
ish friends were the old and most re-
spected comrades, such as Lieb-
knecht, Marx, Engels, whereas only
young and uninfIuential comrades
were on the opposite side. At that
time I launched my first controversy
in the party press on international
politics-in opposition to the views
of our old leaders. The two conflict.
ing views were expressed in two
pamphlets, whose titles were signifi
can't One of them, written by Lieb-
hecht was entitled: Concerning the
Oriental Question, or, Should Europe
Become Cossack? A Warning to the
German People. The other, was writ
ten by a young and very talented
banking employee in Berlin, Fl. Levy,
who did not reveal his identity and
later on disappeared from the party.
It's title was: Concerning the Oriental
Question, or, Should the Socialist La
Dor Party Become Turkish? A Warn
ing to the German Socialdemocracy.
These differences were renewed,
when in 1896 and 1897 Turkey was
involved in conflicts with the Arme-
mans and with Greece respectively.
The Turkish side was again taken by
Liebknecht, the opposite view by
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-01-13

Lord Derby, the boss recruiter in
Britain, has nearly 200 slum dwell
ings in Liverpool, England, which the
insurance companies positively re.
fuse to have anything to do with.
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A recent cable announced that
Krupp's profits for the last financial
year amounted to G4,32O,00O The
previous year they were G1,695,0OO
The shareholders VIII probably be in
favor of another year of war.
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,nstein, Rosa Luxembourg and my

Bernstein, Rosa Luxembourg and my
self
Thus we have had hardly one war
that did not challenge Socialists to
take sides, sometimes passionately
for one or the other belligerent party
and that did not reveal sharp differ,
ences of opinion among us. Nobody
would have claimed that such parti
sanship was violation of the rules
of international solidarity, or sane.
ton of war in general"
Kautsky then goes on to explain
that our tactical problems in times of
peace differ from our international
problems in war. While the war will
be fought in the interest of ruling
classes on both sides, the working
class is nevertheless interested in the
nations ruling class may considerably
improve or deteriorate the conditions
of the working class in the other ma
ton. For this reason we must take
sides in such wars, even though we
condemn war in general. AS to what
side we should support, that is prob
lew which war presents to Socialists.
This question of craftsmanship is our
real problem, not the question of the
military tactics employed by the bel
ligerent leaders"
KautslIy then explains that such ma
tional partisanship of Socialists in a
war differs from the nationalism of
the ruling class, who believe in nation
alist view under all circumstances,
whereas the national partisanship of
the Socialists is dictated by the prob
able international advantages or in
juries which victoryof defeat of this
or that nation may bring to the work
ing classes
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There is no future for men, how.
ever trimming with crude vitality
who are neither intelligent nor pc.
litically educated enough to be So.
cialists. BERNARD Shaw
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The Belgians have a cutting reply
to the German motto God with us"
1t is in the form of a button with the
inscription, Neither God nor Mas,
ter" 1t looks as if Belgium is turn.
ing Atheistic.
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! A few days later in the columns of
the same paper we find half-a-column
devoted to the case of woman in
Germany, whose husband had been
at the front since the beginning of the
war, and who had received a letter
from her landlord asking for the pay
ment of the balance of her rent with
in "a hours, otherwise steps would
be taken. she had pau .Ier rent regu.
larly until two months ago, when bad
health had overpowered her.
Yoerwaerts then points out to its
readers that the woman's husband
has been fighting for more than a
year to defend this landlords house,
man who is sitting at his ease in
Berlin raking in his rents which have
not been reduced by one pfennig. The
shopkeepers also are charging the
woman exorbitant prices for every
necessary of life. Thanks to their skill
in exploiting the poor and wretched,
the woman got behind with her rent.
She found it impossible to make both
ends meet e.. and thereupon down
comes this blood-sucker and threat
ems to throw her out of house and
home. And all the time her husband,
who was torn away from his work. is
keeping the Watch on the Rhine and
endangering his life for the Father
Iland-'Daily Chronicle" 11-10-15.
We would once again reiterate the
MARKHAM slogan: "Wage Workers of
the World, Unite! You have nothing
to lose but your chains, you have a
world to win!"-London Socialist
Standard.
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KAUTSkYS OPINION

After 1870, the next wars that oc
cupied the attention of the German
Socialists were the Balkan rebellions
against Turkey in 1876 and the Rus.
so-Turkish war in 1S77-7S The diff
ferences of opinion aroused by these
events among Socialists are describ'
ed by Kautsky in an article on In
ternationalism and War" in Neue
zeit, XXXIII, Vol. /, No. s.
THE situation resembled that of
the Crimean war, yet had also be
come different. The Balkan nations
had made considerable progress dur.
ing the two decades since the peace
of Paris. They demanded their in.
dependence, their separation from
Turkey. Back of them stood the
Tsar.
Whose side should the Social-De.
mocracy take? Should they become
partisans of the oppressed, as BELTS
a Socialdemocrat? But would not that
signify bestowing supreme power and
dangerousness upon the Tsar, the
most menacing enemy of all European
liberty? By no means, replied the
partisans of the Balkan nations.
These nations are friendly to Russia
only so long as no other European
power takes care of them. Strong
Democratic states of nations In south
eastern Europe would form a better
bulwark against Russian despotism
than the impotent despotism of a
corrupt state of many nationalities
undermined by it's own internal trou-
bles. What the Balkan nations want,
their national independence, is an
idea that would grow with the eco
nomic development and that would
possess the future. By leaving the
protection of the Balkan nations to
Russia alone, we endow that country
with such powers as are inherent in
those who work in the direction of
necessary evolution. Precisely for
the purpose of weakening Russia's in
fluence in the Balkans, should Europe
defend the Balkan nations against
Turkey.
The day book., 1916-06-02

OdlHsYs
"REMINISCENCES. - Ouch! Bad
luck for the whole of us! Trouble is
coming again! That old, stand-pat,
stone-age tFoglodyte, the Republican
party, is about to perpetrate another
outrage upon the helpless genera
tons Of the future by holding anoth-
er convention here in Chicago. re-
member quite well way back in the
eighties when they held that notori-
GUS shindy here that put blight on
Lincoln Republicanism and caused
Old Abe to turn in his grave. And it
breaks my heart to think that now,
when this beautiful little hamlet is
beginning to recover from that ter
Tible shock, we are to be soUsed back
into the slough Of despair by another
exhibition Of political malpractice
and intellectual prostitution.
l remember the trouble began in
the morning, a spontaneous blow
up! It came without warning; the
whole works was built on the Demo-
crat plan, rot-gut by the gallon for
every man! It sure was a great in
surrection; pint bottles and whiskey
jugs flew! Twas a hub-a-boo, bug
a-boo. The police came in. And
then, ye gods, the irony of it! they
unanimously passed a resolution de-
claring: I'VE eOrdially-hic-sympa-
thize with-hic-aI well directed eff
forts-hic-for the promotion of item
perance, v-Yirtue and m-morafty."
For 80 years they have been pass
ing laws to favor the rich expIoiters
and passing resolutions to fool the
people, and they are all in favor Of
every virtue in the category of all
the saints from John the Baptist
down to Teddy and the two John
baby-killers. But I suppose well
have to stand the gaff.-C. M. Max
son,
The day book., 1916-06-02

so per cent efficient because their old
maids and bachelors are junk as far
as extending the species is concern
ed. Rev. DaTneH is worth more to
the white race than the whole COM
bined lot of us 'idlers," because he
did at least extend the species. 1t
would be of more benefit to the white
species to let him out to breed and
lock up us towards who refuse.
John the Baptist should have been
beheaded; he refused to extend his
specie. Paul should have been kept
in prison because he said: "I would
that ye were single men as / am
single. ALLEN Steven. -
THE FLAG-Decoration day
stopped at news stand to see if I
could get a Day Book. When was
told it was not issued l was glad, not
that would not have enjoyed it as
much as ever, but glad there was-one
paper that did not howl so blamed
much about patriotism and then
make its force work on one of the
nations holidays. So 1 bought no
other.
I noticed Hearst had his yellow
sheet hid behind the stars and stripes
as usual He has been pulling that
stuff for a good many years. The
fellow who said, Geo. Cohan may
have discovered the American flag,
but Hearst showed him how to COM
mercialize ii" spoke an abundance.
Hearst knew the value of playing
to the country's patriotic feelings
and used it for all it was worth. But
since every vaudeville artist cOnsid-
ers the flag as a necessary part of
his props, the thing is being over
worked. He should have gotten out
an injunction to stop them from cop
L, 1.
The day book., 1916-06-02

other doubtful patriots. AS they
march they will all throw out their
chests and try to look like wel-fed
citizens and Monday morning many
of them viii again tackle the task Of
trying to support wife and four or
five kids on $12 peE-Chris. ].
GaineY