The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-05-10
WHEN Is GUNMAN
NOT A GUNMAN?
Spirit of 10" Is Sadly Lack
ing in Many of Those in
Uniform


Everett are about to attempt to UNI
scramble scrambled eggs. And the
powers that be is the Commercial
Club
1t so happened that ex-Sheriff Nc
Rae and several other deputies join
ed the 18th company of Coast Ar
tillery, unit of the National Guard
and We editor of this paper has been
charged with the awful offenSe of
calling this outfit "gunmen and le-
galized murders"
Can Leopard change its Spots q?
Not that we know of, but a gunman
and murderer can become an angel
if they clothe themselves in an army
uniform.
In our eyes gunman is a gun
man no matter whether he be a white
SLAYER from the Barbary Coast, an all
round crook from the tenderloin dis
trict or bulldozing Vigilante from
the Everett Commercial Club. They
are all gunner who will pull their
guns on the least provocation.
In the eyes of the law a murderer
is a murderer-unless-he happens
to wear tin star or a suit of kharki
And that is why there are so many
sweet little "angels" running around
with human blood on their hands.
When the powers that be in the
state of Colorado wanted to "clean
up" around the mining camps they
looked around for somebody who
could kill without flinching and they
found him in the person of Under
felt, scab herder, strikebreaker, gun
man and all round crook But be-
fore he could be used successfully
he had to be clothed in authority, so
he signed up for the National Guard,
was made a Lieutenant and told to
make a cleanup.
Every rebel in the country knows
what kind of a cleanup he and the
rest of his strike breakers made.
Miners We're murdered and 10 wo-
men and children were burned alive
as the result of a dastardly night
attack by Linderfelt and his gang
OF gunner. And this massacre was
perpetrated in the name of claw and
ORDER. The men who did it wore
the Uniform of Uncle Sam.
Ordinary gunner and murderers
are eminently respectable human be-
ings compared with such a rotten re-
tinue of civil and military parasites
and their corrupting lackeys of place
hunting, dollhouse politicians, ward
healers and gin-slingers as are under
the thumb of the mill owners and
bankers.
Did these Everett deputies join
the National Guard with the esprit
of Seventy-Six" in them or did they
join it at the request of the Everett's
400" in order that a greater legal
power might be placed in their
hands? King George the Third hir-
ed Hessians from King Frederick to
murder the forefathers of Americans
and now the American master class
can hire Americans to murder Amer
leans and wave the flag while they
are doing it. Long ago the flag was
depicted as ats red stripes denotes
the blood of Brotherhood; its White
ones, Liberty, its Blue ones true fl
deity; its field of blue and stars, the
enlightment of the world" but the
ruling class of today are sham pa
triots who have been wiping their
bloody hands on the flag and at the
same time calling those who admire
the declaration Of independence and
the flag under which the boys of
Bunker Hill fought so nobly, traitors.
If we are to have "govenment by
gunner" it will not be long before
the working class Of this country will
rise in their might, as the Russians
did recently, and sweep the auto
cratic rulerism Of America off of
the face Of the earth for all time.
Some of the boys of the 18th
joined with good intentions and it
seems pity that they should have
to mix with such "angels" as wore
tin stars on the dock November 5th
and at Beverly Park on October Goth.
The army is alright if it is used for
the benefit Of the country but when
it is used to further the ends of a
lot of despotic, parasitic idlers who
live off the sweat and blood Of child.
rem, then it is time 70 cali halt
III its upbuilding.
ONE MILLION PARADE