1 lie Cause Of
European War
I n reference (o the underlying
causes of the war now raging in
Kurope, the following f.iom the
Seattle* Union llecord is to (lie
point, and is in consonance with
the general trend of opinion as
expressed in the labor press
throughout tin country.
“There is another reason and
perhaps greater than all the
lest. The working-class of Ku
lope'is rapidly awakening from
its decades of sleep, and is de
manding more and mere share
in ihe affairs of government and
production, A trades union
movement and political $arty
Working practically in conjune*
tion have broken down the mil
ter defence of the ruling class
lin'd are rapidly forming for a
last assault on the very citadel.
Before the Balkan war this
movement was comparatively
strong in the Balkan states,
though it faced great odds. After
the war it disappeared. The ml
mg class has seen this and, un
doubtedly sees in a world war
the hope of stamping out the
tires of revolt in the rising work
ing class and the perpetuation!
of the rule of capital for another
hundred years.
The workers also see I ue • —
g'T and in France, Germany,
Jtalv, Englamt, Spain, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, I’inland and
even in Austria and Russia are
rising in protest against the aw
ful amt useless waste of human
life involved in the war which
threatens. News is so strictiy
censored that it :s impossible to
judge at ill's distance pf the ex -
tent of the protest, but enough
is gleaned from the meager dis
patches that in ita’y at least the
protest has been effective and
the government has announced
ii will not mix in Hie ’ alfair,
though bound by the Strongest
ties in the Triple Alliance.
News of the ruthless suppression
of attempted meetings of pro
test in other countries prove the
workers are awaae, and may yet
prevent their governments from
mixing in.
It the war should reach t!ie
Jiroport’ons confidently predict
ed it will mean putting hack the
movement of the workers ol
1 Europe for many, many years
HENRY JOK1,
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a ;
Front Stret, Next to the Maui
moth Clothing Store
and the beeinning of an era of
industrial slavery worse than
the world has yet seen. Nothing
faces (he worker but a vista of
slaughter of loved ones hopeless
privation and years of struggle
to recuperate .after the end of a
useless struggle.
I et us hope the revolutionary
workers of Europe are strong
enough to prevent this gigantic
8icrifice. Now is the time their
! mettle will ho • put to the test.
Are Socialists
Really
Calamity Howlers
Wheh the Socialists during the
last campaign, pointed out the
things that have since happened
they were put down as calamity
howlers. Thousands upon thous
ands of workers refused to go*to
Socialist meetings to hear , the
reasons given for-existing condi
tions. They wanted to abolish the
Republican ’“bad times” and re
place them with the Democratic
‘‘good times.” Now 'they de
nounce the Democratic “good
' tifites’J as being as bad as the Re
1 publican .‘.‘bad times,”
The Socialists pointed out that,
it was not a question of. the Re
publican or Democratic party.
The Socialists pointed out that it
•was a question of the ownership
of the mills, mines, railroads, fac
tories. etc. They pointed out that
so long as individuals or groups
of individuals ownC-d the nation's
industries; these industries would
be operated and the vvorkers em
ployed only so long as those Own
ers oould make profits out of the
operation. When profits stop the
operations stop and the workers
are out of a job. This will contin
ue to be So in a more or less de
gree so long aS the nation’s in
dustries are privately owned and
operated for profits. This will
be so until the workers decide
that the nation.’s industries shall
be the nation’s property and
they shall be aperated for use in
stead of profits.
When profits and private own
er are eliminated and we operate
for use, there will be no incen
tive for closing down industrial
establishments and throwing vast
armies of workers out of work,
forcing them to tramp the high
wavs as miserable beggars*
Are the Socialists calamity
howlers or is the capitalist sys
tem f»r which Republicans and
Democrats stand, one that
breeds calamity.
Calumet Foes Of
Miners Now
Want Tbair Trade.
The business men who compos
ed the Citizens’ alliance during
the Calumet strike now find that
their prosperity depends on the
miners for trade.
The miners however, are Hot
inclined to trade withitheir .ene
mies. The former stiikers have
organized their own co-opera
tives and use these to supply
their wants:
But the treacherous storekeep
ers are rfdw demanding that the
mine owners discharge all those
who trade at the co-aperative
stores. When the mine owners be
gan to do this, the miners turned
to mail order houses, and are pa
tronizing these, where they dare
not trade at the co-operrtives.
' Gee! capitalism is gome slave
driver!.
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A Matter Of
Principle.
By Eugene V. D-bs.
When tint pious degenerate,
John D. Rockefeller Jr.,appear
ed hefor} the congressional com
mittee to give his evidence in
regard to the war in Colorado,
for which hois mainly responsi
ble, and was usked why he did
not consent to arbitrate the trou
hie there, he answered, “A mat
ier of principle i* involved that
we could not concede or arbi
trate,”
Certainly there is a principle
involved and that principle can
not be too clearly understood by
the American people. Ii is the
same principle that was involv
ed some fifty years ago when
the slave owners of the South
arrogantly and insolently reject
ed all overtures to arbitrate the
evils growing out of chattel slav
‘-■ry.
The brutal master of tho chat
tel slave stood then precisely
where the brutal master of the
wage slave stands today and yet
young Rockefeller, blinded by
greed and stupified by his twti
Sunday school dope, scornfully
rejects the tragic lassons of his
tory and' rushes madly to his
own destruction.
Living in an artificial . world
of his own, far alor,f from his
slaves andf<\r romr' ■
. ri-r
comraon'lvuman V> •..
efdlef is as artificial a
ize<l muninly and quilt;
fully uneoncious that he f?> the
blind iiistrumantality in his ov
orlliroaf; In his refusal to lis‘011
to reason he touched off LuLpw
and when he touched off Ludlow
he sealed his own (lapm.
Yes, indeed, their is a priuci
pie involved in Colorado, a bed
rock fundamental principle that
Rockefeller cannot concede and
dare not arbitrate, for that priu
eip’e involves lus right to the
private ownership of the Colora
do mines and his consequent
mastership over the thousands
of miners e jployed in th ass
mines.
Rockefeller must maintain his
absolute and despotic power ov
or these miners or surrender to
them and lienee his detoriinna
lion to spend all his millions in
defence of the “principle”
which cannot be cc iceded with
>ut menace to his mastery.
If Rockefeller were wise, which,
he is not, the troub'e in Cliora
do would litive been settled long
ago and ths nation wi la agita
ion which makes for public ow
nership of the mines and tha
overthrow of the capitalist sys
tern avoided.
The cry of Colorado is awaken
ing the whole country and the
honors enacted there is the
price of the awakening.
Ludlow leads to liberty
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, in Ware, Woodchoppers’ Supplies, Pack Saddle*.
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and Bought For The Highest Cash Price.
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Are YouOne Of The
Socialists who Says
“Ye* I am. a socialist—been one for many years—always rote
the ticket—but 1 do not belong to ths organisation.” If you ar*
in that class, you should gat out of it Tb# only Socialists that
count ate the or.oj that pay tbeir
little 25 cent dues per mouth, and
aid in the work of the party oigaui
cation. Thete are the fellows tdat
are making the Socialist Parly the
great force for the common good in
America. The capitalist clase won't
finance our party and we don’t
want them to. Its the twenty-fire
cents per month from its thousemae
of real Socialists that keep the
wheels of the organisation gofi lg.
Come on in and find out how we
run things. You will have just as
much to say as another. We have
made it easy for you to take the
first step—below is a ooupoa which
you should
Out Out, Tear Off And Mail Today
To N. R. King* Fairbanks, B. Poxxa, Garden Island or L. Weitenrik,
Cleary City,
I am convinced that I should be amember of the organisation you re« •
present. Pleat* tend tome one to take my application.
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