The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-04-04
(By Charles II. Chapman)
Continued From Last Week.
Concept of the New World

A strange world, with nobody
to jail us for expressing our hon
est minds, no politicians to deluge
us with bunk. no kept preachers
to dope us with heaven. no bosses
TO sell us jobs. The workers
themselves will own their jobs
No lawyers and capitalist-minded
Judges to tyrranize over the poor
Litigation will be settled by pub
lie officials and sickness will be
treated by public physicians, all
without charge, and the black
smiths child will get the same
care and medicine as the million
aires. A strange world with
everybody expecting TO live by
honest work and nobody expect
ing TO live by owning" and cheat
ing. There will be no thieves,
because honesty will be the cas-
lest way, and no crimes except
those of heated passion, because
there will be no economic incite-
ment TO arson, rape and murder.
Prostitution will disappear, be-
cause women will be economical
ly free and couples can afford to
marry and rear children. With
early marriages and comfortable
homes, the demand for salversan
and sanitary kits" will cease.
A strange world with nobody
straving except the rich and lazy.
with the sick and unfortunate well
taken care of, with no orphans
begging for bread and no deacons
robbing them for the glory of
God. No filthy workmen's slums
setting off the millionaires pal
aces in our cities. No sumptu-
Gus boulevards for the rich and
fostering alleys for the poor. All
will be of the best and the best
will be for all. No leveling down.
but everything and everybody lev
eled up. The reconstructed world
will lack the charm of social
variety" which delights the souls
Of esthetic travellers. There will
be plenty of variety, but it will
come from varied ability, intelli-
gence, gifts for work There
will be none from squalor, misery
and despair. A strange world.
Comrades, it is a world worth
dying for. Let US forever stop
this dying for the ambitions of
our kings and millionaires. If
we must die in any battle, let it
be the battle for a reconstructed
world. Let us see to it that
those who give their lives in the
righteous war we are now wag-
ing shall not have given them in
vain.
The Program
But how? Beautiful talk. Love
ly dreams. But how shall they
come true? answer, keep on
as we have begun. Hold fast
every collective measure that has
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Seize upon the beginnings of in
dustrial organization and push
them continually farther. Drop
politics and vote for life. Push
every measure that takes power
from money and gives it to the
workers. ] mean measures like
the short ballot, the initiative, the
referendum, the recall of Judges
and judicial DECISIONS; measures
which forbid the courts to annual
laws; measures for establishing
public markets, public banks, pub
lie storage warehouses; measures
for conscripting the national re-
sourcos such as waterpowers,
mines, timber, unused land and
railroads. Every measure which
looks toward industriaIism and
away from politics in the govern
mcnt is in the right direction.
Initiate and vote for measures
to destroy the old political ma
chinery with its senseless commits