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362 The Western Comrade

STRIPES THE POAVER OF THE STRIKE NOW that we are presented with the problem of STRIKES have become one of the most powerful the interlocking directorate, many would-be means of industrial warfare. Their frequent reformers are suggesting the lockstep as an alleged occurrence keeps some part of the world con- remedy. Placing the ten-percenters in prison will stantly at a fever pitch. They are universally not do away with the system that produces them. dreaded by the capitalists, universally heralded by AVe must get after the rock-bottom cause; the right the workers. In spite of this the greatest signifi- of one class to own the means whereby another cance of the strike to the workers is as a rule passed

must live ; the right of a small crew of capitalists over in silence. to own the means of wealth production, distribu- The world measures the loss or the gain of a tion and exchange. Instead of unlocking the strike in dollars and cents. It says that the employ- directorate, or lockstepping the directors, let's do ers lost so many dollars worth of trade in a certain away with them altogether. Let the people own strike and the strikers gained so much in wages. It the trusts.—E. J. says that the strike in the copper mines of Michigan costs millions of dollars and the Trinidad strike mil- CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT NEEDED lions more ; that in Seattle the workers gained a raise in wages while in Chicago their wages were many years we have been talking about FOR lowered. fighting with both arms of our movement But is this the greatest value of the strike—its both hands, we say sometimes. Has the time not power to act as a lever in the raising of wages and come when we must add a member to our anatomy, the improvement of working conditions ? Decidedly so that we may fight with three hands? Or shall not! we say that from now on we will fight with both Its greatest value lies in its power to dispel the hands and our head? slavishness. the meekness—yes, even the cowardice Why not henceforth state our position this way of the depressed workers. Its greatest power is not AVe will fight through our economic organizations economic, but psychic. It binds the workers to- to gain higher wages, shorter hours and better gether; it creates in them a desire for solidarity and working conditions now in those industries not opens their eyes to the strength of organization. It publicly owned and democratically managed; we is a medium through which a hundred souls, five Avill fight through our political organization to hundred souls, or a thousand souls, previously pur- protect our economic organizations and to make suing a hundred or a thousand different thoughts, their struggles easier and to finally overthrow the perhaps even distrusting or antagonizing each other,

capitalist system ; and we will fight through co-oper- become animated by a single thought, a single ambi- ative organization to conserve our strength and tion. It is a medium through which trust and love our resources, so that the capitalist class may be are born—more than that, through which courage is unable to exploit us in those things that we can born. control within our own class, and so that we may Increasing courage and increasing solidarity, be better able to carry on our fight for liberty in these are the results of the strike most valuable to the other two organizations. the workers, for when their courage is high enough The AVestern Comrade stands unqualifiedly for and the sweep of their solidarity wide enough- they co-operation as a necessary part of the working can accomplish anything.—E. W. (lass fight for emancipation. The AVestern Comrade l)e]ieves that Socialists have given all too little TAKING LESS LOOT attention to this very important field of effort. BUT few developments of the past month have In the very near future a of articles number evoked more comment in the press than the dealing with co-operaiton are to be published in decision of the Ford Motor Companj^ to double this magazine. AA'hy must the working class forever wages, making the minimum wage $5 a day. Some liini over its substance and its surplus to its enemies? interesting figures have been brought forth in con- And that is quite a sizable "Why."—C. M. AV. nection with this matter. —

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If Ford has doubled wages then the former min- And )iow well does he express it ! It is, in fact, a imum was $2.50 per day. Ford declares that where justification for being extreme in one's views. We he formerly had a surplus of $10,000-000 per year Avho call ourselves Socialists are often told to calm his recent burst of generosity will leave him half of down a bit, be more considerate and learn to ask that amount, or $5,000,000. Therefore, if doubling for less. Be an opportunist. Ask for a little ; never the wages does no more than reduce by one-half the too much. A. whole loaf, to my way of thinking, is surplus profit, it is a matter of simple figuring to lietter than half a loaf. The best way to be sure of conclude that if Ford's surplus were wiped out alto- half a loaf is to demand an entire loaf. If you ask gether it would mean a wage of $7.50 for the for half a loaf, you may rest assured you will get workers. little more than a crumb. Thus do we Socialists

And $7.50 a day is $2250 for a working year of demand the world. We want all of it; and if we get 300 days, which is just a trifle below Carroll D. a bit of it as a concession, it will serve, in the main, Wright's estimate of $2400 as the value of the aver- to whet our appetites for the big swallow. Yes, we age worker's yearly product. shall shoot our arrows at the moon.—E. J. Nor is that all that is to be said. That which remains to be said is that up to now, taking Ford's own figures as the authority, the workers in his fac- REACHING FOR THE SCHOOLS tory have been exploited to the tune of two-thirds of EVERY official utterance of the Socialist their product. AVhere they produced a value of $3 AS party proclaims, this political organization of Ford got $2 and they got $1. the working class has no dispute with any religious We have a pleasant name for that sort of thing. organization—as to religion. Religion is a thing in call it robbery. Legal? Of course, but robbery We which the Socialist party demands that each indi- just the same. And now when the robber decides vidual be given the utmost freedom of choice. that he can get along by picking only half as much Where the Socialist party does find itself con- out of the other fellow 's pockets are we to rush forth cerned with—not religion but religious organizations with laurel wreaths, hailing him as benefactor and —is when those organizations enter the political philanthropist? Not on your life! He's still pick- arena in opposition to the interests of the working ing one dollar out of the three and we're after that, class. It matters not what the name of a religious too !—C. M. W. organization may be, when it enters the political AAA struggle to oppose the interests of labor it will find THE NEW UNIONISM itself opposed by the Socialist party. Of late the Catholic church has insisted upon a funny world please pardon the bromide. IT'S — entering the political field in a number of instances. Think of this: London's Trafalgar Square, the Of most recent date is the ease of the Belgium school soap boxer's paradise, recently served as the meet- bill. ing place for policemen who appeared determined The Belgian government feels a need of more to demand an increase in wages. They argued that thorough education. It has been proposed that gov- $6.50 was a disgracefully meager pay for men whose ernment aid be given all schools, secular and reli- duty is was to club suffragists who dared gather in gious. The Socialist and Liberal parties oppose aid Trafalgar Square. At least, the police should have to Catholic schools because the Catholic schools gone to another meeting place—not Trafalgar teach that it is wrong to vote the Socialist or Liberal Square. I am not anxious to see the London police tickets and their position is that if the aid must be get better pay so that they will be better fed and extended to include religious schools that the teach- fattened and strengthened, thus being able to end a ers in those schools be prohibited from teaching that militant's existence with one swoop instead of half it is wrong to vote for Socialists and Liberals, a a dozen.—E. J. position thoroughly logical.

As if to prove that the charge made by the So- REACHING FOR THE MOON cialists and Liberals is correct, the Catholic church CLAYTON HAIMTLTON closes his book, "Mate- strongly opposed the amendment. The issue is not rials and IMethods of Fiction," with the yet settled, but there is scant probability that the following striking sentence : It is well to shoot Socialists will recede from their position. They our arrows at the moon ; for though they may miss know the difference between politics and religion their mark, they will yet fly higher than if we had though some religionists may find more profit in flung them into a bush. What a splendid thought! polities than in theology.—C. M. W. — —

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YOU ANSWER THIS socks. Deprived of liis valet, the domestic king will have to vacate his throne and lie his own valet. NO ONE is likely to dispute the statement that it is possible to generate from water power on Furthermore, what chance of marriage will there be the Pacific Coast enough electric current to perform for the man who abhors children? And what if he is fat. all the work that it is necessary to perform, includ- or stupid, or has a nose that pleases not a lady 's ing the housework of every house. No one is likely eye IMoney will not serve him then, for she will to dispute the statement that if that power were to not need it. be owned and developed by the people, who, of These false Romeos, singing their triumphal song course, would not care to make a profit out of them- ])efore the maiden's duped—they are the ones to be selves, the cost of living would be materially reduced pitied most.—E. W. and the pleasure of living materially increased. "Why then do we allow capitalists to throttle a great MERELY REFORMS part of it and charge what they please for the rest Socialists object to expending good So- of it ?—C. M. W. SOME cialist energy for the purpose of securing re-

forms. The single tax is one reform so opposed. THE MEN TO BE PITIED The single tax is nothing more than a reform, though is being written now-a-days about the MUCH it may be contended with a degree of success that manner in which men view feminist propa- it is a broad one, BUT ganda and the effect it is producing on them. In AVe Socialists shall have to operate the machin- The International (New York) Hutchins Hapgood ery of government soon. The more efficient that writes: "There are, today, many men who are government is when we gain control the less purely greatly to be pitied. Men are more conventional and mechanical work we shall have to do in fixing up traditional than women. To these virtuous, ... things before we can begin to get at our real work. conventional males, the feminist movement is caus- It must be admitted that single tax, or a tax sys- ing the great pain of the century. Perhaps no men tem closely resembling it, is much simpler, much in history have ever suffered so much because of more just and much more efficient than our present women as the men of today. To the ... woman bungling system. Unlike trust regulation, single belongs the splendid Renaissance hope of our day, tax is a reform that we Socialists can profit by to the man the new, deep disturbance." studying.—C. M. W. He goes on and makes a plea that these are but growing pains and, therefore, call for sympathy rather than reprobation, a plea that is entirely just. "DEAR PA" But the men who are opposed to the feminist Outlook warns business pessimists to mend movement because they do not as yet see its trend THE their ways, because Postmaster Edward M. and honestly think it harmful are not the ones to be ]\rorgan, of New York City, reported that $178,069 pitied most. There are other men, far more to be worth of stamps were sold in Manhattan and Bronx pitied, who joyfully hail the feminist movement in one day. Dear Outlook editor: I read- note and some of them like wolves in sheep's clothing are even inwardly digest this item and conclude that Mr. in its ranks—because they think it will lessen their IMorgan's report does not indicate prosperity, but social responsibility. To them the prospect of women intimates that most New Yorkers are writing home earning a livelihood in the industrial world inde- for money.—E. J. pendent of men creates a visioning of hitherto un- known ease. They imagine they foresee a time when TRAVELED" they may be inactive physically, mentally and "WE HAVE morally. IN THESE busy days we have little time to spend These are the men who are most to be pitied, for on books of history. True, we should read them, their hopes are destined to be rudely shattered. l)ut, to be frank, we haven't the time. Sydney Hill- True, when the woman earns her living otherwise yard's article in this issue, which can be read in than by domestic service, the man will not have to fifteen minutes, gives the reader a better picture of support her. But neither will the woman have to the conditions of the people in past centuries than continue the petty personal service heretofore con- any book we know of. It is brief; it tells a great tributed to the support of the domestic throne of the deal ; it is convincing. Read it. There isn't another male. She Avill no longer need to eater to his palate magazine in America that prints contributions like and to his vanity or fetch his slippers and darn his Comrade Hillyard's "We Have Traveled."—E. J. : ;

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BERNARD SHAW AGAIN of solidarity. Labor's salvation does not lie in pur- suing a campaign of weeping and moaning. The WAS a brilliant jury that attended the murder IT "weeps" can bring labor nothing more than the con- trial of one of Charles Dickens' characters in tempt of the masters. Labor's weapon is the Get- London the other week. George Bernard Shaw, who together Spirit' and there never was a more majestic, acted as foreman of the jury, asked the prosecutor more dignified and grander weapon. I am sure the if it was his intention to introduce evidence. As- following fable hits the idea in the right place sured that the prosecutor planned such action, Shaw An ass cried unto Jupiter, saying, "Behold, they declared "then all I have to say is that if the learned load me with burdens till my back is like to break gentleman thinks the convictions of a British jury

from dawn to set of sun my toil continueth ; and the are going to be influenced by evidence he little reward thereof is blows and scantiness!" knows its functions."—E. J. "Very sad," quoth Jupiter. "But canst thou do nothing for me?" inquired AS TO "VAG" the ass. be it from me to meddle with "Vag" Tracy's FAR "My dear Long-ears," Jupiter answered, "have I art. Our genial associate hits us in the right not already given thee a voice—and HEELS?"—E.J. place, particularly when he draws a picture like "The Thinker," which adorned The Western Com- A TALK WITH YOU rade's honorable cover last month. Alas, "Vag" is a direct talk with the readers of The on our cover is one "Vag," but in his studio—ah, THIS Western Comrade, who desire to see their that's another "Vag" altogether. Mark you, this magazine serve the cause in an efficient, result- is not an art criticism, for I do not presume to be producing manner. This magazine sells at a price able to pass upon impressionistic studies in cubistic that makes it impossible for us to enlarge it, except futurism. I'm as a monkey—I know what I like. by obtaining a number of advertisers. For that Sometimes T like an impressionistic study, even reason, we expect our people to appreciate the men though my best friends, in their most sober moments, who are using our advertising pages. Patronage look upon me as having mislaid a screw that should is the thing. Go to the advertiser and buy his be operating in my mental machinery. I agree that goods—and don't forget to mention The Western lots of it is good—if the viewpoint is right; and now Comrade. are glad to welcome a number of we come to the point: It all depends on the angle We new advertisers, is the California of thought when one judge's "Vag's" rigamajigs. among whom Savings Bank, to the columns of The Western I am reminded of the dauber who was being held in Comrade. This bank has always been friendly to cell No. 23 in the state booby hatch. "Ah," says

the labor movement ; in fact, it was this bank that the nut, "what think you of this masterpiece?" enabled the Los Angeles trade union movement to The visitor looks, but he sees only a huge, bare build its magnificent temple. In scores of ways the canvas. Asked what it represents, the impressionist California Savings Bank has shown a friendly spirit. ansAvers : "Why, that represents the passage of the And now, the officers of this bank tender an invita- -lews through the Red Sea." "Beg pardon, but tion to the readers of The Western Comrade to where is the sea?" "It has been driven back." place their money with them. "And where are the Jews?" "They have crossed Here is what the California Savings Bank offers over." "And the Egyptians?" "Will be here to Western Comrade readers: A hundred-dollar directly. That 's the sort of painting I like—simple, savings certificate, which may be paid for at the suggestive, and unpretentious."—E. J. rate of two dollars a week. Out-of-town' readers may take advantage of this offer. NO NEED TO WHINE This is an easy way to save a hundred dollars THE Socialist movement is not composed of and to make it worth while for the bank to patronize maudlin sentimentalists or whining sobsters. the columns of YOUR magazine. The bank makes Its voice is sturdy and firm. Its demands are posi- the first payment for you in order to interest tive. It does not beg nor does it look for pity from AVestern Comrade readers. its enemies. The Socialist movement, which seeks Here is a chance for you to save money for your- to conserve the interests of the toilers, makes uncom- self and to keep a long-established, reliable bank's promising demands and backs up the demands with advertisement in The Western Comrade, the maga- solidarity. AVhile the weapon of capital is the might zine that fights YOLTR battles. And remember this of dollars, the fighting weapon of labor is the spirit in connection with ALL of our advertisers.—E. J. ! r?66HORACEThe WesternTRAUBELComrade By David Fulton Karsner

ORACE TRAUBEL recently sent nie a slave; prison walls tumble about our ears; the cringing note in which lie said: "I'd rather have criminal and the hunted man walk arm in arm, Avith a

you love me a little than admire me smile on their lips, in the blessed light of justice ; the

much. I don't care a damn about being palsied hand of the beggar is firm once more, and his rtattered. But I care everything about pitiful wail for alms becomes a defiant challenge for

l)eing accepted as a comrade. I'd rather opportunity. "Optimos" is an immortal book. It is be in hell with anyone who loved me more complete than AA^hitman's "Leaves of Grass," for

than in heaven with anyone who cared Traubel 's work is founded on an economic (the So- nothing for me." cialist) philosophy as well as a spiritual philosophy. We cannot measure a man's life by the number of For twenty-four years Traubel has published a years he has lived. Some men can count their years monthly paper called The Conservator. His wonderful past seventy, but they can count very little for life. Collects in this publication contain the fabric of which

Others count their years only up to about thirty, but is woven his entire economic and spiritual philosophy. they may have lived to attain their their full spiritual They are the fountain of his dreams. Out of his Traubel counts his years to fifty-five. I manhood. Collects flow all of his theories of life. Each of his count his life from the crucifixion to eternity. ]\Irs. book reviews is an article containing the immortal Bain's little book is a beautiful personal tribute to an words of life and loA^e. eternity man. ("Horace Traubel," by Mildred Bain. In each issue of The Conservator there is a poem, A brief life and study. AVith frontispiece portrait. the force of which silences the material conception Price, 50 cents, postage 5 cents additional. Published of life and imbues the reader with a spiritual reality by Albert and Charles Boni, 96 Fifth avenue. New of love. From its very birth The Conservator has York.) It must be considered in the light of a preface stood for freedom political, industrial and spiritual. to a greater, more complete book. It is the foreword — of a more heroic effort. And yet, in spite of the merits of this publication and To me Traubel is not only a personality. He is "Chants Communal," Traubel has but few subscribers a movement. In him are welded all the forces of nature. who are Socialist party members. The other day a

He is a complete living testimony to the social revolu- comrade remarked to me that The Conservator "goes tion in which we are now engaged. We find him on all over the heads of the workers." battlegrounds. Wherever there is conflict there, too, Traubel 's message is for the heart. The most of is Horace Traubel. Where there is exploitation, there our progress has been made through the intellect. is Traubel for justice. Where there is hate, there is Brains have played an important part in the alleged

Traubel for love. Where there is war, there is Traubel development of the human race. Look at our blight for peace. Where there is the church, there is Traubel Hearts haven't had a fair chance. It was principally for religion. AVhere there is a dispute about God, brains that got us into the present economic chaos. there is Traubel pleading for the Cause. AVhere Give hearts a chance to get us out. Traubel believes there is disappointment, there is Traubel for cheer. hearts Avill get us out. Warm, sympathetic hearts.

AVhere there is prostitution, there is Traubel for virtue. Hearts tender enough to redeem even our exploiters

AVhere there is capitalism, there is Traubel for Social- after they are baptized in the holy blood of labor.

ism, lie is always ahead of the crowd urging it to Personally, Traubel is a good comrade. He is kind

go with him toward the perfect day. He is not a and sympathetic. In private conversation he is aggres- general, for we never find him in the rear of the army. sive. In public meetings he "prefers the shadows." AVe find him somewhere in the regiment of valiant He sleeps in Camden, has his office in Philadelphia, and

soldiers, shouldering his own musket. And so I say lives in the universe. About twice a year he goes to he is a movement. Montreal, where he visits Mr. and Mrs. Bain. AVhile Three years ago Huebsch published the greatest on these ]\Iontreal trips Traubel does practically all of book in American literature. The name of the book the writing of his biography of AValt Whitman. He is

is "Optimos. " Horace Traul)el wrote it. Ten years the active literary executor of the Good Grey Poet, ago Small, Maynard & Co. published the greatest })ook and was AVhitman's closest friend and companion in

in revolutionary literature. The name of the book is Camden for many j'cars. Tlie third volume of "AVith

"Chants Communal." Horace Traubel wrote it. In AValt AVhitman in Camden" will appear this year. The both of these books w<' hear the fetters fall from the fourth volume is already written. In the writing of the :

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Whitman biography Traubel is compared to Boswell, tiiat Traubel's significance does not lie in his technique, who materially helped to immortalize Doctor Johnson. but in his message. By any other style his message Mrs. Bain's book, while it is a worthy introduction would be as sweet and as reassuring. to Horace Traubel, is at the same time inclined to be As a figure in American literature Horace Traubel more sympathetic to TraubeTs art than to his message. will occupy a prominent place. But I am not prone Traubel as a movement is the result of chaos. I am not to make much over that. Literary men come and go so much interested in the technique of his poems and with every generation. But Traubel men remain. I Collects as I am in the warm message they convey. place Traubel, not on a literary pedestal to be wor- And I admit Traubel's original technique. He is a shiped as a technician. But I place him in the human master stylist. But I am impelled to say emphatically heart with Lincoln. Altgeld and Debs.

President Wilson's Trust Bluffing By CHESTER M. WRIGHT

MERICA is hearing much of trust busting what has been made public concerning the Wilson /flsa^SSS these days. And though the Noisiest program. So it is fair to state that, no matter whether A ! American is far from the scene of action, there is never another interlocking directorate in the l^w there is another man in the White House world, so long as there is an interlocking, interlacing, [ who seems to have a program mapped death-defying, air-tight OAA^NBRSHIP the directing

out that will be put through by the will be done somehow. If they can't do it with an Congress that he dominates. interlocking device they will find some other kind of ^ Were it not for the likelihood that a lock, probably a hammer-lock. this program of President Wilson's will be carried There is so far no reason for the Socialists to into law the trust busting question would be no more abandon their oft-stated assertion that the real gov- worth discussion than it has been for the last eight ernment today is a government by capitalists. So or ten years. long as government by capitalists continues there need But there seems to be an inclination to call trust be no fear as to the success capitalists will achieve in busting by another name—a more accurate one, per- gathering unto themselves the product of the wage- haps. They say that what they are going to do is enslaved toiling population of the nation. to unlock the interlocking directorate. An interlock- As if to prove the Socialist contention while the ing directorate is a thing peculiar to highly developed issue was hottest, while the President's recent message capitalism, but not at all necessary to it. Interlocking on the subject was being discussed on every hand, directorates are separate directorates, composed for capitalism's chief spokesmen at once joined in paeans the most part of the same men representing the same of praise for the "sensible conservatism" of the Presi- interests. dent regarding his proposed trust legislation. It is President Wilson purposes to make interlocking important to note this, because we may be sure that if directorates illegal. Furthermore, he purposes to make capitalists were not satisfied with what the White guilt of law violation personal. He purposes to have House was doing they and their newspapers would railroad financing supervised by a federal commission. have said so. But they were satisfied. What is more, lie SAYS he is going to restore competition. they were highly pleased, and they hastened to com- It has long been an open secret that Socialists are mend the President for his fine judgment, his entire itnpertinent. At this juncture they give fresh evidence lack of visionary radicalism and his wonderful appre- of their impertinence by making the plain and pointed ciation of the BUSINESS needs of the country. Per- statement that the AVilson program will not restore haps no man in America speaks with greater authority competition, and that it will not smash any trust. for capitalism and its great financial interests than

Moreover, so far as profits are concerned, it is not Henry Clews, the New York banker. Here is what likely that any trust will be so much as appreciably Henry CleAVs said: dented. "The temperate and conciliatory tone of the mes- One of the notable points about the Wilson com- sage was most commendable." He is joined in his petition restoring plan is that private OWNERSHIP, felicitations by George Gould, who heaves a sigh of the bedrock of trust-building, is not to be disturbed. relief, saying, "I feel encouraged." There will be nothing to prevent any individual or any No newspaper speaks with greater concern for the group of individuals from OAVNING all he or they vested interests of the nation than does the conserva- can accumulate, so far as can be determined from tive New York Times, and here is what it said !

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"It is a fair, wise and just program." Being inter- 1h;it have evolved as capitalism has progressed are here preted, that means that the President's program suits to stay! And they ought to stay. There are just two Big Business. things wrong with combinations now. One of those

So it appears that we may go back to our daily things is that the combinations are not quite mechan- toil, safe in the knowledge that no railroad will be ically perfect, and the other—and the chief thing— is reduced to smithereens; that the great packers will that the OWNERSHIP is wrong. Admittedly, these not be forced into an old age of poverty and sorrow; great industrial eombinaitions make for efficiency. that the great bankers of the East will not be evicted They conserve human energy ; they give humanity a from their gilded cages, and that we will not be forced better product; they produce it more quickly; they are back into the ridiculous competition of two or three superior in a hundred ways to the productive decades ago. The sort of history that is made when machinery of our fathers. To destroy them, if that great trusts are built up is not the sort of history that were possible, would be a crime. The abuse is not repeats itself. an abuse of combination. It is an abuse of the economic that is In order to make perfectly clear the declaration power begotten by OWNERSHIP. that there will be no trust demolishing and no return Though it would be folly to urge upon a Democracy its well in the to that competition which the old economists were that has just gotten feet placed trough, wont in their childish way to describe as "the life of after many lean and hungry years, the cure that to Socialists, characteristic imperti- trade," there is another and more important phase appeals with that of trustified industry that should be borne in mind. nence which is ours, we put forth our claim, nay, oar only scientific That, after all, is the phase which would operate to demand, that the cure known be applied make a restoration of competition impossible. to the trust question and to every question where If we think a bit we shall see that the thing that those things socially, or collectively, USED and vitally concerns the common people is the industrial OPERATED and REQUIRED are concerned. That operation of these great industrial organizations. In cure is SOCIAL, or COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP and their intimate relations with the consuming popula- democratic management. That is the only cure that tion trusts are great producing and distributing agen- eliminates the only abuse known in connection with cies through which many mechanical processes are perfected trust organizations—EXPLOITATION, in all combined for two purposes: First, to produce larger of its manifold forms. profits for the private owners and, second, to make And as a final bit of impertinence, let it be said the mechanical work of production and distribution that the American people so thoroughly understand that fact, though it may be that the understanding is more efficient, and, ergo ! more profitable. The inherent urge and drive of capitalism in its very nature forces yet largely sub-conscious, that no program, legislative those combinations—call them combinations of capital or otherwise, that has for its object an ACTUAL or combinations of machinery, as you will—into breaking up of the trusts will eyer be tolerated OR existence. ATTEMPTED I need not stop here, in the limited space available, Will President Wilson smash the trusts? He will to prove tliat no administration at Washington can not, though he may secure some laws that will legislate this nation BACKWAKDS into the competi- serve as an eyewash for the great American elec- tive conditions of early capitalism, AGAINST all of torate in 1916! the forces of evolution that have operated to bring us to our present position! The fact is proven by the THE CRIPPLED BOXER prima facie evidence that lies as an open book before SO]\IE weeks ago, a young fighter sprained every thoughtful man and woman. Nature may have )iis wrist while in training a day or recovered from her abhorrence of a vacuum, but the two before his bout was advertised to take laws of evolution as applied to economics not only place. Like a foolish young man, he persisted abhor, but defy and forbid any such ridiculous pro- that he could "lick the other fellow" even gram as that. though he would only be able to use one hand There will be no trust busting. There will be no witli any degree of efficiency. He was sent to return to competition. Interlocking directorates may dreamland in the second round. And he re- be abolished. The various Standard Oil companies mained there for almost twenty minutes. may be compelled to keep a few more sets of books, Fighting with one hand is a mistake. This the steel trust may have to wriggle a bit to get into applies to the struggles of labor as well as the the new legal dress, and the beef trust may have to bouts of pugilists. Labor cannot afford to crip- hire a fresh corps of lawyers, while the railroads may ple its political hand, nor can it hope to win have to estrange themselves somewhat from the wild •'mancipation by fighting only with the eco- waves that have said so many peculiar things to their nomic hand. stock books, l)ut those great industrial combinations — ! ; ! ! — —

The Western Comrade 369 CRAZYISMS Sputtered and Spattered By "VAG" TRACY

It's great to be an artist. You yes, they did—NOT ! He peddled ride around in pink automobiles (in cabbage out of his back yard to pay your dreams). Money panics don't for paint and canvas. A friend of worry us. And I don't care if tbe mine is being talked about by every- banks do break. I go right along body. They say he is a wonderful painting pictures just the same. Of artist. He has his picture in the course, I don't get anything for it, papers. All the same I heard him but think how much I will get after argue for an hour trying to get a I die. When Millet—the fellow who chap to pay him for ten bits' worth painted the Angelus—was figuring of portraiture he had done for him. out all these wonderful things for The chap finally tossed him the you and me to feast our eyes on ninth and tenth bit and stalled him the people of Paris showered pres- along for the first eight. And so ents on him and he couldn't supply the great artist had breakfast next the demand, they rushed him so morning.

What cares he for the Japanese? What cares he for the Mex? He's rolling around the chautauqua wave Gathering in kopecs

A dollar a throw the wild waves say Never no change to keep And the yodlers sing la-oo-le-ay. Out on the Bryany Deep

ADVICE FROM SUPERIOR BRAINS

Now listen, you working jays—you're all right in your way. Just keep on working, for you never can tell, some day, if you stick around long enough, your boss may come along and see you breaking a leg or something for him and he'll raise your wages maybe. But, don't worry if he doesn't show up the first year or two—he may have the gout or something. You see, boys, it's like this. If you would all work overtime to make profits for your boss and you don't die before he gets around to your bench, every working mutt in the world would be promoted to boss and then there Avouldn't be anybody to do the work, but I figure that you won't all do it, so I should ELBERT BLUBBERD quibble ;

370 The Western Comrade MEXICO'S FIGHT FOR BREAD By WILLIAM C.OWEN

OW to get bread. How to supply, as eas- receive a knock-out blow it will be the better for all ily as possible, life's primal needs and of us. raise ourselves above the fear of waut, Some twenty-five years ago I had the pleasure of

is the one great practical question that assisting in the prejjaration of certain articles on con- today absorbs the energies of almost ditions in famine-stricken Russia. I knew then, fifteen every one of us. That seems to me self- years before the event, that a revolution was inevitable, evident, and I consider that our para- although the Russian peasant is fully as ignorant as mount duty is to lift the whole revolu- and even more submissive than is the Mexican peon. tiouary propaganda from the bog hole of non-essentials Similarly, when Porfirio Diaz began his reign by giv- to the firm ground of dealing with that elemental fact. ing away to twenty-eight favorites a territory as large Holding this view I have become most deeply in- as France, what has now followed was merely a ques- terested in the Mexican Revolution. To me it is mon- tion of time. The "Cientificos, " who introduced the strous that any child of man should be forced to pay methods of up-to-date finance, inviting the Rothschilds, tribute to some parasite for the privilege, as it has now Rockefellers, Guggenheims and a swarm of lesser been made, of work. If we have any one right that sharks, only hastened up the smash.

is absolutely fundamental, it is surely the right to It is not my purpose to load this article with detail, exercise our faculties, applying the labor of our hands for thereby I should distract attention from the essen- and brain to that raw material, the land, on which we tial argument. The important fact is that the Mexican

have been born without our asking. AVhatever else Revobition is here; that it has lasted three years, and

may be in doubt that certainly is beyond all argument that it is today stronger than when it started. The

is basic ; is the foundation on which all life must rest processes that drove the Mexicans to this revolutionary

and is the only one on which the edifice of human state of mind are comparatively unimportant, but I will progress can be reared. To bottom principles the in- suggest one or two by quotations from hostile sources, dividual and the collectivity must be ti'ue, if they are since such admissions necessarily carry the greatest to make a success of life. To bottom principles we all weight.

nowadays are false, in our tolerance of monopoly. For First, there is "Observer," whose articles in the the overthrow of monopoly, therefore, I would join Chicago Daily Tribune are attracting general attention liands gladly with the greatest scoundrel who ever and are being reproduced regularly in the Los Angeles scuttled a ship or cut a throat. That overthrow is the Times. Under date of Nov. 29, 1913, he described the special social duty of this special hour, and in the per- land tenure that prevailed until recent years, and the formance of that duty all are called on to bear a hand. methods by which a large number of the peasants have As an example. In the State of Yucatan, ]\Iexico, been evicted, as follows: "The land belonging to the the entire population toils at the production of hemp, peons were held, as a rule, in common by villages. for the benefit of a small ring of capitalists who make These villages elected a new president every year. huge fortunes by exporting it to the United States. Sometimes the neighboring proprietor would buy some The producers have had to toil beneath the whip and of the village land from the president, and the next year have been subjected to a thousand brutalities, described the new president would claim the sale was illegal. If with great force in Turner's "Barbarous Mexico." the president would sell, influence with the jefe politico But those brutalities are only details, which doubtless of the district would be used to get a president who could be matched, more or less closely, among the other would. One Avay or another the proprietors gradually sets of toilers, in the United States, into whose hands got the land. Not infrequently force, in the shape of the product of the Mexican's toil then passes. Tlie real soldiers or rurales, would have to be used to gain thing is the system, which prevails alike in Mexico, possession." the United States, England and wherever capitalism The process thus set out doubtless went on rapidly, plants its wolfish paw. The real thing is the indis- and I pause to note that we are presented here with putable fact that the existence of that system depends a picture very similar to that exhibited by English his- on continued monopoly of the means of production and tory, where we see the great landed proprietors gradu- distribution. The real thing is that the system, having ally absorbing, by hook or crook, the village commons. sunk its claws into Mexico, is seeking to fasten its col- Nevertheless the amount so torn from the former own- lar for all time on the IMexican worker's neck. Against ers must have been insignificant as compared with the that he i.s now in rebellion; in violent rebellion. If his enormous grants to foreign syndicates; for Diaz, as rebellion should succeed and our mutual enemy should William Archer remarked in "McClure's" of August, ;

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1911, deliberately invited an alien plutocracy to "rifle great landed proprietors as formerly lived there have the national treasure house." The result can be seen fled the country. That in itself implies that in innu- in the memorial presented to President AVilson recently merable cases their lands must have been seized by that interested in Mexico, by a clique of wealthy Americans peasantry which hungers for them, but was previously who, with infinite naivete, protested against all schemes kept at arm's length by the law's strong hand. One to clothe the peons with political power, since millions may be certain that where Zapata rules, viz., throughout had only their blanket for their home. Conversely, we Morelos, and through much of Puebla, Guerrero and have had the Los Angeles Times congratulating this the State of Mexico, there have been no landlords city on "the sudden influx of members of the oldest standing between the people and their possession of the and proudest families of Mexico," and have seen them soil. One reads of Carranza being badly handicapped hawking round enormous land grants, as, for example, in military operations by the fact that expected forces in the case of a former governor of Guerrero, who has were busily engaged in dividing up the land. One been trying to dispose here of Mexican real estate val- knows that while Mr. O'Brien, sales agent in Los An- ued at $50,000,000. De we understand how many of our fellow-beings geles for Yaqui Valley lands, has been petitioning are rendered homeless by one such grant? De we un- AVashington for protection, three thousand Yaquis have derstand what happens when some fourteen million settled down on the land, confiscated a large crop and men, women and children, whose lives were formerly served Maytorema with notice that they now ac- secure —since they owned their lands in common, had knowledge allegiance to no one, having taken back the free access to wood and water, and could thereby sup- properties promised them and being once more free ply with ease their simple wants—suddenly find them- men. For further details I have no space. selves outcasts, with their lives depending on their To make a too long story short, here we have a ability to get and fill jobs for which they have no train- distinctly economic struggle, in which the House of ing ? What has come of it is the present revolution Want has been ousting the House of Have. Inci- an upheaval that, without exaggeration, threatens most dentally in doing so they have overthrown two gov- seriously the peace of half the world. Mexico, which ernments, those of Diaz and Madero, while the third,

is considerably larger than the German and Austrian that of Huerta, is obviously tottering to its final fall. empires combined, is richer probably than any other This has been and is the M^ork of peasants ; of men gen- country in the of world equal area; and from Mexico erally ignorant of letters but wedded to the soil ; of there are coming today neither rents nor dividends in men, therefore, who know and care nothing about poli- return for the thousands of millions invested by the tics, but who do care enormously about the one thing capitalists. No wonder that United States troops line they know—the land ; of men of pure Indian or mixed her northern frontier. No wonder that her coasts are Indian blood, and with all the Indian's proverbial being patrolled by the warships of half a dozen nations. tenacity of purpose; of men with all the Indian's Meanwhile even the least sympathetic critics have hatred of authority and dislike of working for others; been compelled to admit that there can be no peace in of men, finally, with that great element of strength Mexico until the land shall have been restored, some- which constitutes the simple man's great force—sim- how or other, to those who must live on and by it. Of plicity of purpose. His goal is clearly in sight and to

all the ambitious spirits who have been fishing for it he drives straight. preferment in the revolution's muddy waters, it is safe Naturally he, the poorest of tlie poor and without to say that none has dared to come before the people either weapons or the skill to use them, has found him- without some scheme for the repartition of the land. self faced by the authorities armed with all the latest

Madero was profuse in promises ; the Huerta govern- instruments of death. This position he has had to

ment has been feverishly anxious to adopt some feasible meet. He has had to get arms as best he could ; by

plan ; Mexico City papers have stuffed their columns brigandage, by alliance with rich men who sought with a hundred and one propositions by aspiring poli- power and place, even by joining the regular army ticians and would-be reformers. The insurmountable and deserting from it at the earliest opportunity. This obstacle, however, lies in the fact that the holders of has been his necessity, which knows no law. It alters the paper titles stand pat, and call alike on the Mexican not one whit the basic factor, which is his determina- and on their own home governments to protect them. tion to get back his land; that he may lead once more On the other hand, schemes for dividing up the public his former independent life and escape from that wage lands among the peons are not worth the paper on which slavery which is to him a hell and worse than death.

they are written, for the remnant left is worthless. On As such he has my profoundest sympathy ; and if, that head I could furnish the best proof, supplied by under the whip of the Money Power, our Government, the testimony of experts whose reputation cannot be or any other, shall try to force him back into wage

questioned seriously. slavery, I tinist it may be ray own happy lot to offer No rents are coming from Mexico, and such of the him something more useful than mere sympathy. ;

Ui The Western Comrade WE HAVE TRAVELED By SIDNEY HILLYARD

N THE midst of the thousand anathemas depict. He was, in medieval times, the servant of so that are being hurled at the living con- many ugly masters by all and each of whom he was ditions of the present day it is well worth severally and individually harrassed, robbed, beaten, while to pause to point out that these and outraged, that for long periods he was worse off conditions of life are vastly improved than the beasts of burden. What with the Austrian, over what they were in any previous Sa.Kon, Burgundian, French, Spanish and Sicilian wliich have any knowledge. period of we Emperors and Kings continually claiming him as theirs, It equally well to show just what is and persistently endeavoring to prove their claim by forces have brought this change over the scene. We grabbing him and his land; what with the Pope siezing cannot help but suppose that if we are entering upon temporal power, and him, the laborer, along with it; an age of complete social regeneration, such an age what with the Italian cities fighting all outsiders, and would assuredly throw its shadow before it, and the also in the interim, when there was any interim, fight- institutions of today and the human life of today, ing among themselves and burning each other down would catch the glimmer of the rising sun. what with the petty dukes and counts always the True enough, the denizens of the slum districts of — most accursed pest of the peasant of them all; and the cities of England and America are fully as ill- situated as have been the wretchedest of any creatures finally add to all the foregoing variety show of tor- of which there is record, but we must also realize from mentors, robbers, wasters, rapers, and murderers, the what has been done in the German cities that, even in Saracen host—and one lays down his book to plain- the present age, the slum can be done away with. And tively ask what there was left to fight over. V with the slum abolished human life is, as it now stands, And, indeed, it was a sorry bone. The wrethced a more valuable commodity than it has ever been. peasant crouched dumb at the feet of every lord, priest,

It is, of course, through history that the comparison and invader. All rulers were alike to him. He served must be made between the past and the present, and in any army for clothes and bread until they shot his it must be admitted that the reading of European limbs off, nor did he know any such thing as nation- history before bedtime is more calculated to induce a ality. He was an international hired-beast, a thing to perspiring nightmare than a supper of flapjacks and shoot arrows into when on the battlefield, a thing of hot Imscuits. infinite contempt with a bent back when on his lord's Not the school and college primers of history—these field. He lived like a ground squirrel—trying to hide are not nightmares. The school history is a calculated from everything that passed. If he had a few coppers travesty on truth written to glorify the actions of a he hid them and lived in rags as before. The tax col- few selfish and cruel men, written by intelectual cheap- lectors never found anything that could possibly be jacks as a rule, but always written by men who are hidden, so they eiezed everything that could not. drunk on the noise, and who wallow in the mud left Again and again in the history of every agricultural by other men's personal success. The school history region the best of the men were driven into the armies, always fails to reflect the real condition of the people the women were left to live or starve, always the prey at any time. Research into old records that are par- of every passing band of soldiers or robbers, and the ticularly not intended for working class perusal is children were sold into slavery. the only thing that can reveal that. The English histories make great glory over the If we would know the real condition of the France, "Black Prince," Avhom English boys are taught to the Germany, the Italy, of almost any time from the adore, also over the battles of Crecy and Agincourt.

Gothic Invasions to the French Revolution, we could Youth is not told that during and after the "Hundred get it l)y a visit to the Balkan Teninsula at the present Years' War" the French and English soldiery lived time. P'ailing this, it would be well to read the report on the peasantry, extorting from them everything they of the international commission now sitting on the possessed by floggings and tortures, and so destroying condition of the Balkans, when that report is published. many of the country districts that the peasants them- It Avill he a pretty true picture of tlie Europe of the selves aljandoned their farms and took to robbery as Dark Ages. the only possible means of subsistence. During and Some of the pictures of Medieval Europe bear an after this same war, which lasted through four genera- unpleasant comparison with what we know of tlie tions, and at the time when our gentlemen-historians f'alifoniia farmer and laborer. prate of chivalry, knights errant, and the Holy Grail, Tlic condition of the Italian ]al)orer is hard to outcast children whose parents had been murdered in The Western Comrade 373

the wars were eaten right in the streets of Paris by- world a certain measure of co-operation. There has wolves, dogs, and semi-wild pigs. appeared a modicum of the concept of Socialism on Our school books fairly resound with the lustres of the international political and religious field. Men

"Louis Quatorze," "Louis le Grand," "Le Grand want to know; they refuse to believe. Belief is no Monarch," and other names they find to give this longer a virtue; it has become a vice. Virtue lies in booby enthroned. Under this creature the peasants, knowledge. Men draw empires together by power of just freed from a century of religious wars, had to pay exchange, commerce, invention and travel, and not by taxes to the government out of which were defrayed the sword of aggrandizement. Herr, Messieur, Signore, the pensions to the innumerable court nobles and prosti- and Mister, are exchanging commodities, drawing men tutes; then they paid rents to the own liege lord for together and keeping them so by constant inter-

his expenditure at court ; then they paid all the tithes co-operation, while H. R. H. this, Lieutenant-Colonel and fees of the clergy. In addition, they had to keep that, and Lord Admiral the other were forever sep- up all roads without pay, their horses were always arating men, and destroying any vestiges of co-opera- at the king's service without pay, and the liege lord's tion that might inadvertently spring up.

crops had to be harvested free of charge if the peasant's There has been wrought a great change. It is an crop rotted on the stalk. Again, we lay down the book economic change. The American farmer holds up his

to ask, "What was there left to steal?" head; the medieval farmer hung it down. The peasant

And, inded, it was a sorry bone. The laborer wa^ of the past was the servant of all. The farmer of today

never sure of himself nor to whom he belonged ; his is the equal of any and the laborer of tomorrow will

wife was never sure to whom she belonged; if he had be the master of all.

a prety daughter she was taken as lady's maid to the A change that is not economic is not a change ; it

liege mistress and concubine to her mistress' sons; his is only a variety of the same thing. But where so own sons might go into an army or bend to the hoe. great a change as this has been made in so short a As to Germany, the tale is either just the same or time its economic foundation is not hard to trace. The

worse. Our histories make great play of the thirty Socialist historians are tracing it. A. M. Simons, in years' war, of King Christian, Charles V., Gustavus his "Social Forces in American History," has done a Adolphus, and AVallenstein. But where do we read fine and notable work on the history of this country, that the "glory" of these "great" so ruined the and the story of Europe is being treated by many workers that the starving peasants dug up corpses in others in the same way. Progress toward a co-operative

the graveyards and ate them ; and that soldiers had ideal has been made. About this there can be no manner to be stationed at the burial places of the nobility of doubt. The thing now and for us is not to rest to prevent the dead aristocracy becoming food for satisfied with anything, but to use our present standing- the wretched laborers they had ruined. ground as a toe-hold from which to raise the race up Poland and Hungary lived in the light of burning onto the plateau above. fields and in the sound of wailing mothers, and as in other countries, Avhether in war or peace, always the A FEAST OF PIFFLE laborer was at the mercy of soldier, robber, and priest that the Mona Lisa is discovered, we there were his miseries the NOW —and was no mercy. Nor patient sufferers must endure rehearing an sacrifice patriotism, liberty, or progress. Selfish to awful amount of senseless piffle about Leonardo da ambition on the part of others accounted for them all. Vinci's picture. Really, Mona Lisa just bores me The laborer was crucified through the centuries for to distraction. Her face, to me, is plainly stupid. the lust and cruelties of this and that chieftain, in whom To think of all the years the painter spent in "get- he could have no possible interest whatever. ting" that smile ! And when he got it. lo and behold, Compared with all this, the situation of the Cali- what a smirk ! And yet, this woman has caused art fornia fruit grower, dairyman, market gardener, or critics to rid themselves of heaps of piffle. I sinc- even field laborer is almost a paradise. He common cerely believe the following by Kane S. Smith, of life; night does not go by day in mortal fear of his by the L^niversity of London, takes the bacon: The he does not listen tremblingly for the knock on his door painting is "one of the most actively evil pictures that bids turn into his stable that soldier or him out ever painted, the embodiment of all evil the painter pigsty robber may take his bed. He needs not live in a could imagine put into the most attractive form he in order to make the taxgatherer pass him by, nor does could devise. It is an exquisite piece of painting- he need to dress his children in filthy rags lest someone but if you look at it long enough to get into its steal their clothes. should atmosphere I think you will be glad to escape from has changed? So far as we know human What its influence. It has an atmosphere of undefinable

nature has not. Priest and preacher have been trying ' evil. ' —Please pardon me whilst I take unto myself to change it since the beginning of time, but we know a vawn.—E. J. of no ease of success. There has come over the western —

374 The Western Comrade Feminism and the Trend Towards Democracy By ELEANOR WENTWORTH

battle the individualism of the past II. The Achievement of Social Consciousness This between and the new social impulses just awakening, as a result HE existence of Democracy necessi- of our modern collective working and collective living, tates a hiii'inonious society. Democratic is perliaps the most intense battle of the day, whether thoughts and institutions cannot survive it is waged silently and unseen in the mind of an indi- where there is no strong consciousness of social unity. A society divided into vidual or openly and noisily in the factional fights of classes or sections whose interests clash organizations. must always be subject to inequalities In the winning of this battle the Feminist Movement and injustices. There is no such thing has an important part to play. a.s Democracy for a part of society. It must exist Every effort which it makes is a telling stroke

universally or it cannot exist at al. Athens attempted against the enemy ; not a one of its demands that does to build a Democracy for her free men, but she built not make for a greater measure of Democracy, a widen-

in on slave labor, and so it died. Rome, too, aspired ing of the social circle. at one tiuu^ to have a Democracy for a part of her The first move which women made away from the j)eople, but like Athens, she laid her foundations on luidemocratic past was the move toward organization. insecure sands and they were swept away like tiny Tyranny thrives ever on the isolation and unorganized

pebbles before a devastating sea of tyranny. The condition of its victims. That is why the tyranny bourgeoisie of Prance cried to the skies for Democracy wliich has ridden brazenly on the backs of women l)el'ore the Revolution of 1789, but only for the bour- through all the centuries of civilization was never once geoisie, and when the workers demanded a share in it, shaken in its seat as was more than once the case with Democracy was drowned in rivers of blood, so that the tyrannies which crushed down the workers. For today not even a semblance exists. Democracy is like the isolation of women was an isolaiton par excellence. the air. Shut off from the open world, it becomes Each woman was ensconced behind four walls, from polluted. which seclusion she scarcely dared to peer without Te l)ecome democratic, therefore, a society must becoming "unwomanly." The episode related about first of all rid itself of antagonisms between its various P'rederick the Great to the effect that he beat a woman groups. An important step in tliis direction is a with his cane for being on the street, and said to her recognition of the essential unity of society—a thorough that all good Avomen remained in the house, aptly understanding of the fact that what injures one indi- illustrates the absolute lack of organization among

vidual, can and will injure all others; what crushes one women. .Still more forcibly is this illustrated by the

class will in the end crush the rest ; what enslaves clamps and ducking stools of Old England, applied to woman will inevitably enslave man—a knowledge of houscAvives who were not as meek as they were required the fact that we human beings, like the cells of our to be. bodies, are so closely linked together that the infection Previous to the middle of the nineteenth century of one person or one group with any social disease organization was practically impossible for women, and,

threatens every other person or every other group. as is always the case when the oppressed are disinte- Ill other words. Democracy necessitates the awaken- gi'ated, they distrusted each other a great deal; all of social ing a consciousness. We need to feel, as Avomankind Avas divided against itself. But as soon as WordsAvorth has expressed it, that we are "free because organization became possible, this was changed. imbound." need to We combat the narrow, individual- Oppression lost its sure foothold, women ceased to istic views, bulwarked hy thousands of years of class distru.st each other, and learned to love each other Avith distinction and privileges and countless cruelties of man a mighty lov(> such as they had never dreamed of. to and man to woman, man which dominate us today. AVith that love aAvakened the first glow of social con- The motto, which has for so long typified the average sciousness, Avhich had lain dormant in them since tlie mind, and wife, "Me my our son John and his wife; time they Avere taken from the open fields and campfires us four and no more," must be discarded and in its of the communistic tribe to labor in the lonely abode .stead we mu.st sing: of the despotic patriarch. "And everything that's mine Although, in the beginning efforts to organize is yours, and yours, and yours Avomen Avere extremely sloAV in hinnging results, The shimmer and the shine!— largely Ix'cause of prejudice, today no other organi- Let's lock our wealtli outdoors!" zations groAV Avith the same rapidity as do organiza- ; : : : ;

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tions ot" women. In tlie last twenty-five years there lal)or physically degrades little children, it morally

has been a radical change in the attitude of women degrades their parents and their employers ; if exploita- toward women's organizations, and a still more radical tion weakens the workers, parasitism weakens the

change in the attitude of these organizations toward capitalists ; if poverty breeds disease and makes wrecks

society. At first they were meek voices asking fear- of human beings, excessive wealth does likewise; if the

somely that women be accorded human rights. They slavishness of the oppressed is the enemy of progress,

asked for colleges for girls ; for property rights for so is the brutal intolerance of the oppressors ; if women married women: the privilege of speaking on a public are enervated physically and stunted mentally by a platform ; a few daring ones even mentioned the ballot. narrow environment, their children will be enervated But they never asked more than that the chains be and stunted also. They know that social deficiencies stricken off and women be allowed to walk in the travel in a circle, and must be eliminated from every world. section of society or they will not down. These women Today they are no longer timid. They have ceased know, as they know two and two make four, that to be content with asking that women be allowed society is a unit. to walk in the world. They now demand the right But the class-divided, strife-ridden world at large to make the world, to mould it. It is in attempting does not yet know it—scorns the idea, fights it. It to remake the world that they revive the social spirit divides itself artificially in politics and in industry; which shone so resplendently in the long ago time of it even establishes a moral code by which it seeks to which Morgan and Bachofen and other anthropologists delude itself into believing that it is justified in its have given us such vivid pictures. folly and declares, in the words of Blake Since their isolation from the industrial and polit- Mercy would be no more ical world of men has in a large measure prevented If there Avere nobody poor, women from being imbued with class motives, they And pity no more would be obstacles to the of their social have no development If all were as happy as we spirit. Their organizations have no class lines ; their And mutual fear brings peace aims are not based on class interests, btit human Misery's increase interests. Are mercy, pity, peace. It is this fact that causes the militant women of In answer to that organized womankind puts forth England to fight for the ballot with a vehemence that a greater effort to inculcate into school and state and seems so startling to frightened onlookers. No abstract workshop the idea of social interdependence. Through idea of their right to vote causes them to disturb the the medium of magazines and newspapers, from the peace and destroy the property of a nation, but an public platform and through such legislation as they intense longing to combat the terrible degenerating can secure, women attempt to impress upon caste- evils of a man-made class system, of which the bondage blinded mankind the fact of its common bonds. of women is only one manifestation. It is the picture Even as the workers are doing, they are striving of the ragged, decrepit citizens of London's East Side, to imbue the world with the fire of Democracy, the whose lives never gleam to the full, but glimmer spirit of Democracy, which must precede any economic faintly like street lamps in a fog, that drives them on read.justment. pictures of the little children growing gnarled from Like the workers, they are singing the song of labor in their youth, and those who are born deformed Robert Burns because their mothers labored too heavily while they bore them. They hear not only the bitter cry of the It's coming yet for a' that children, but the bitter cry of the world, and they go That man to man the warld o'er that, to answer it. Shall brithers be for a' The same motives that direct these English women and are urging the mass to take up the refrain. direct the Avomen of every other nation who are active in their organizations. Once they knew only that they needed the world. Now they know also that the world needs them—not merely their own sex, their own class or their own group—but the whole world. They have learned that every problem, whether it be a man problem, a woman problem or a child problem is universal in its reach. They know that if prostitution ruins the lives of the women driven to

it, it also brutalizes the men who associate with these women, as Avell as making morol cowards of the so-called "good" women who marry the men; if child : — 376 The Western Comrade

By EMANUEL JULIUS

REVIEWING THE REVIEWER wherein the seven-year-old boy is in the company of a of drinking Italians. It follows: The first impression "Reviewing the Reviewer" number young Italian, Peter, an impish soul, seeing gives the reader is that I am going to review myself, "One sitting solitary, stirred of the moment, but even though I am capable of so impertinent a me by a whim half-filled tumbler with wine passed it to me. I procedure, 1 am to do nothing more than speak of a and declined. His face grew stern, and he insistently prof- Charles Vale's review of Jack London's "John Barley- — corn," which appears in the January Forum. I review fered the wine. And then terror descended upon me Charles Vale's critique and praise it with all my a terror which I must explain. powers, because it's the kind of reviews I would write "My mother had theories. First, she steadfastly

if I only had the time. maintained that brunettes and all the tribe of dark-eyed Nothing so frank and sincere, and therefore clean humans were deceitful. Needless to say, my mother and beautiful, has been written for a long time, says was a blonde. Next, she was convinced that the dark- Mr. Vale. "For Jack London is not merely the author eyed Latin races were profoundly sensitive, profoundly of many ridiculously successful books," the writer treacherous, and profoundly murderous. Again and adds. "He is a man, and a poet." again, drinking in the strangeness and the fearsomeness Mr. Vale asks: "Could any other have given such of the world from her lips, I had heard her state that a picture as this of the delirium of a child of seven?" if one offended an Italian, no matter how slightly and He then quotes unintentionally, he was certain to retaliate by stabbing "All the content of the terrible and horrible in my one in the back. That was her particular phrase child's mind spilled out. The most frightful visions 'stab you in the back' * * * were realities to me. I saw murders committed, and "Here was a treacherous, sensitive, murderous I was pursued by murderers. I screamed and raved Italian offering me hospitality. * * * He had those and fought. My sufferings were prodigious. Emerg- terrible black eyes I had heard my mother talk about. ing from such delirium, I v/ould hear my mother's * * * Perhaps he had a few drinks. At any rate his voice: 'But the child's brain. He will lose his reason.' eyes were brilliantly black and sparkling with deviltry. And siniking back into delirium, I would take the idea They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was with me and be immured in madhouses, and be I, a seven-year-old, to analyze them and know their beaten by keepers, and surrounded by screeching prankishness In them I visioned sudden death, and lunatics. * * * I declined the wine half-heartedly. The expression in

"One thing that had strongly impressed my young his eyes changed. • They grew stern and imperious as mind was the talk of my elders about the dens of he shoved the tumbler of wine closer. iniquity in San Francisco's Chinatown. Li my delirium "What could I do? I have faced real death since I wandered deep beneath the ground through a thou- in my life, but never have I known the fear of deatli sand of these dens, and behind locked doors of iron as I knew it then. * * * I threw back my head and I suffered and died a thousand deaths. And when I gulped the wine down. * * * would come upon my father, seated at table in these "Looking back now, I can realize that Peter was subterranean crypts, gambling with Chinese for great astounded. He half-filled a second tumbler and shoved

stakes of gold, all my outrage gave vent in the vilest it across the table. Frozen with fear, in despair at the fate which had befallen me, I gulped the second glass

down like the first. * * * "Tliis was too imich for Peter. He inust share the infant prodigy he had discovered. He called Dominick, a young moustached Italian, to see the sight. This time

it was a full tumbler that was given me. One will do anythinig to live. I gripped myself, mastered the qualms that rose in my throat, and downed the stuff. * * * "Dominick had never seen an infant of such heroic caliber. Twice again he refilled the tumbler, each time : ;

The Western Comrade 377 to the brim, and watched the contents disappear down "My brain was seared forever by that experience. my throat. By this time my exploits were attracting Now, thirty years afterward, every vision is as distinct, attention. Middle-aged Italian laborers, old-country as sharp-cut, every pain as vital and terrible, as on peasants who did not talk English, surrounded me. that night. They were swarthy and wild-looking; thej^ wore belts "I was sick for days afterward. * * * lyiy and red shirts ; and they ringed me around like a pirate mother had been dreadfully shocked. She held that chorus. * * * I had done very, very wrong, and that I had gone "How much I drank I do not know. My memory contrary to all her teaching. And how was I, who of it is of an age-long suffering of fear in the midst was never allowed to talk back, who lacked the very of a murderous crew, and of an infinite number of words with which to express my psychology—hoAv Avas glasses of red wine passing across the bare boards of I to tell my mother that it was her teaching that was a wine-drenched table and going down my burning directly responsible? Had it not been her teaching throat. * * * that was directly responsible? Had it not been for "I was fronzen, I was paralyzed with fear. The her theories about dark eyes and Italian character, I only movement I made was to convey that never-ending should never have wet my lips with the sour, bitter procession of glasses to my lips. I was a poised and wine. And not until man-grown did I tell her the true- motionless receptacle for all that quantity of wine. It inwardness of that disgraceful affair." lay inert in my fear-inert stomach. * * * So all that Read "John Barleycorn," says Mr. Vale, "whether Italian crew looked on and marvelled at the infant you live—voluntarily or regretfully—in a dry state or phenomenon that down wine with the sang-froid of an a wet one. For, though you are reading an autobiog- automaton. * * *" raphy of Jack London, genius, you are also reading a And so the child passed on to the dreadful after- biography of mankind, in the making, and in the math. marring."

PRAGMATISM AGAIN ARE WE A DEMOCRACY. "The Larger Aspects of Socialism" William IN WEITING in a recent issue of Reedy 's Mirror,

English Walling has revived the question, Orrick Johns repeats the questions : Are "What is the philosophy of Socialism?" and inas- we a democracy? Is the constitution a charter of much as he has prodded out of their state of philo- popular liberty or a private contract in favor of

sophic introspection a few of our worthy Dietzgen- the owners ? Old questions ; and many editorial ians, thereby bringing to the foreground the works of writers always ask them when subjects become some- scarce. is Mr. in Joseph Dietzgen, which of late have lain unmen- what Here what John Macy says his book, "The Spirit of American Literature": tioned in the libraries of a few, to the great harm "America is not a democracy; it is a vast bour- of the Socialist movement, he has done a praise- geoise." Of course, we radical Socialists have been worthy thing. But when it comes to passing off a saying this for years ; it is often consoling to have a composite of Stirner-Nietzsche-Ellen Key-John conservative say you are right, though you wouldn't Dewey philosophy as "The Larger Aspects of So- want that to happen too often. While Mr. Johns cialism," he has essayed a thankless task. reaffirms his faith in American democracy he, for a To quote Marcus Hitch- one of the aroused Dietz- moment, appears concerned over the absence of

genians patriotism; but, he waves it all aside with this: If "It almost seems as if the book were an attempt -America were threatened with invasion, radical and

to claim for Socialism the brilliant writers of the privileged fop would stand together to defend it. Individualist-Anarchist school, to whom proletarian True, but Mr. Johns should remember that the real

literature is an abomination. . . . enemies are not invaders ; they are our best citizens "We were not aware that the pragmatists had they are in the household. It is our mission to search distinguished themselves in the Socialist movement out our enemies from within. They are more danger- in any way, not even by showing the usefulness of ous than threatening outsiders—granting there are

their philosophy to the working class. . . . such. Nothing is more stupid than the patriotism

' ' No doubt some of the sayings of the pragmatists that says this is the best country because, as Shaw could be interpreted favorably to Socialism; no puts it, you happened to be born in it. The true doubt such was not the intention of the pragmatists patriot is one who is frank enough to admit his

themselves. Pragmatism is a philosophy of method country has faults ; that it has no democracy, and only, without a goal."—E. W. who adds, bj^ God, these conditions must change! ! ! ! ! ;! ! ! —!

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The Lost Strike By EDGCUMB PINCHON

A Great Poet of the Revolution

EDGCUMB PINCHON is destined to take liis place with the great poets of the revolution. Were he never to write another line, the collection of eight of his songs now in the hands of The Western Comrade for exclusive publication, would entitle him to rank with the very truest interpreters in song of the spirit of

revolution and the ascendant brotherhood of man. To have brought Pinchon's songs before the public is

an achievement of which The Western Comrade is more than proud. Years ago Pinchon wrote songs of a dif-

ferent kind —capitalist poems. Then came the awakening ten years ago. He vowed never to write another line.

For ten years he repressed the music in his soul. And then, like flood waters these new songs burst from his lips. As he himself puts it, "These songs are the result of ten years of repression." "The Lost Strike" has been selected as the one to be given publication first. The others will follow, a collection of gems of the purest ray, for the Socialists of the great, inspiring West.—The Editors.

TIIR strike is lost? We laugh at you, you con- some heads, blasted some woman's ears with foul querors of a day abuse

Our unfed bellies shake with laughter at you But in the hands of that which guides the universe So seriously you puff and strut and prate of victory your little ill has wrought a mighty good. Your little policemen with their tiny clubs, We struck—a thousand mutinous slaves; Your pretty jingling Cossacks, neat trim, like and ^^'e lose—a thousand warriors, pledged to the social nurserj^ toys. war—rapt in a social faith—brothers and sisters spitting Your Maxims on their polished motor-cars, compact in holy solidarity. Your puny panderers, hired in a brothel, decked with sheriffs star—licensed to l)rue their hands in workers' blood. 'T^HE strike is lost? We laugh at you, you con-

-*- querors of a day !

Our unfed bellies shake with laughter at you! "VT" OUR comical injunctions, writs and ordinances, So seriously you puflP and strut and prate of victory ^ Your mimic courts, yoiir doll's-house jail, Look forward five—ten years! Your hour has come! Your clockwork press ticking oflf clockwork lies. Call out your gods and bid them roll the tide of Your tricky sticks of dynamite, your planted bombs! — evo- lution back —These are your gods! To whom you turn in time of Call out your gods—and bid them bind the stars! need : to whom you pray, whom you adore Call out your gods Fit gods are they for YOU! —and bid them with their tiny bludgeons batter the heart from Labor's mighty breast 'npHE strike is lost.' A lie! No strike is lost, nor Your hour has come -'- ever siiall l)e ! Great Labor laughs—and with one careless, jovial We don onr chains again—uncowed, and wait—and sweep of his broad hands hurls you and your dear laugh. gods—your little gods—into the noisome vat of yoiu' You and little gods have done some ill—broken Nature's excrement. : : ;: " ' —;;

The Western Comrade 379 WANTED: A SHORT STORY By EMANUEL JULIUS

'D LIKE to write a story," said Albert "Oh, I anticipate; yoii are going to make it very V. Seott, glancing up from a letter commonplace. She, a foolish woman, writes again which had just been delivered. they meet, and, there is a mushy scene ; they talk about "A nice story?" his wife asked, going through life together—he working for fame and smiling at him. glory, she helping him by doing his typewriting and "No; any kind of a story," Albert rolling his cigarettes; they marry, are soon divorced, answered, gravely. "He tells me I may and live happily ever after." say anything I care to say. That's "Nothing of the sort," she snapped; "how could tempting, I must confess. It's not every mail that you think me guilty of such a crime," brings me an offer like this." "Then he is married; he meets her, hoping to get In mock seriousness, she said a story; she falls in love with— him. Then comes the "While the editorial sun shines on you, it is wise startling climax—ye Gods! 'I am discovered! She to make hay and keep the pot a-boiling." knows I have a wife, and am father of a chee-ild!' "Yes, my dear, I would like to let this dear editor She screams: 'In spite of all your writings and fame have something, but the trouble with me is that I'm you are a scoundrel and a deceiver, Mr. Fountleroy, as dry as the desert. I really write Sahara can't a and I hate you, I hate you ! Go back to your wife and story; I haven't an idea in my mind." writings and write of the heart you have broken.' " "Oh, come," she laughed; "it's not so serious as "Oh, Albert, how you slander me," said his wife, that, for this story writing is a simple matter. Let us "lie wasn't married at all—quite single; but she—she see if we can't get something that will make a story. was married—so she couldn't have been deceived; she A letter like this isn't to be sneezed at." was the one who began the thing in the first place." "Good!" exclaimed Albert, seating himself at the "Well, what happened?" Albert asked, quickly. table and placing paper before him; "help me get a "Of course, they met— story; and if it goes, I'll divide the spoils." "To be sure, they met—there couldn't be a story if "Very well; now then, what shall it be?" they didn't meet. But what happened? That's what "What shall it be?" Albert repeated. I want to know." "Oh, I see; I'm to do it all," with a bow; "very "They met, and the foolish little story writer well, I'm willing to try." smoked a cigarette in a perfectly insipid manner. She For a full miniute she remained in deep thought stared at him—well, she was a foolish woman. It was then, her face lighting up suddenly, she said, quickly inevitable that those two fools should fall in love "Once upon a time there was a foolish little man, the wonder would be if they didn't. Well, he told her

who had a foolish vocation. This foolish, little man he loved her, and she let him kiss her ; and as they wrote foolish, little stories to help support his foolish, sipped wine in a cafe, they looked into each other's eyes little self and his foolish whims." and seemed to say: 'Ah, we belong to each other; let "I don't know what you are driving at," Albert us rid ourselves of this pest of a husband. drawled, "but, I must confess, that's a pretty good "Things moved rapidly—they always do when two lead. I may use it." fools get together. They met a few times, and talked "And," she continued, "this foolish, little story a few hours, and soon convinced themselves that God writer had a fairly good memory, a quick eye and a had made them for each other. As for her husband well-oiled typcM'riter, and managed, in quite a passable bah ! They would leave—go to Paris—yes, yes, gay manner, to express other people's originalities—not a Paris—Ah, this foolish, little story writer would write bad word—originalities—you might use it. So, this love stories of Parisian studio life ; he would surely sell foolish, little story Avriter succeeded in selling lots of much to the foolish editors—yes, it was all very simple. his foolish stories to editors whose business it was to "So, the day was set for the following Saturday; print foolishness in magazines that were read by thou- (1 is foolish writer of silly stories and this simple- sands of foolish women. minded woman were to go off—to Paris. "One folish woman wrote a letter to this uninter- "But news—that is, gossip—travels fast—it got to esting story writer, and, to her surprise, she reeeivied her husband—gossip always does. The world is full an answer. It was a short, sweet note, offering thanks of anonymous letter writers, who believe it their for her praise of a story that really didn't deserve it. sacred duty to keep husbands informed. He got a And, as she was a silly woman, she wrote again." letter. But, he wasn't a foolish husband; there are With an impatient wave. Albert said some sensible men in this world. If he had been a ' — : ;

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foolish liushand, he would have run for his revolver, going to be specific : I simply wish to tell you that aud then, another newspaper story. But, he wasn't I have not tried to deceive you into running off witli of the shooting kind. I said he was a sensible husband. my wife; I want you to know that I have warned you.' "So, he found tlie foolish young writer of foolish "And, in addition, this husband remarked that he stories in his apartment—the foolish writer even had all wished the pair would have a pleasant journey; he it his trunks packed ; he was ready to go. That was quite hoped they wouldn't get sea sick, and that if wasn't a predieanient for the husband of the foolish, little asking too much, would they kindly send him a few woman; but he smiled—he had a sense of humor picture postal cards when they got on the other side? like all sensible husbands. So, he shook hands with " 'I've been saving European postals for years,' he the foolish literary fellow and wished him a pleasant remarked; 'they are so much better than ours.' trip. " 'And,' this luisband said, 'you will understand *'He told the writer of silly stories that he had long that from this day I look upon you as my best friend been hoping to get rid of his wife. 'I've been wanting you are going to do me a great service. It shows that .an excuse for a divorce action, but I've never had luck some persons are willing to do their fellow-man a favor enough to have her do something—I always was once in a while.' unlucky. "That husband shook hands with that silly writer

"This was strange, and it upset the foolish young of foolish stories, and left him. The foolish story writer writer. But, the husband of the foolish, little woman smoked another cigarette, bit his lips until they bled wasn't finished. lie had more to say. 'I only want you and then wrote a note to the foolish, little woman, tell- to grant me a favor,' the husband said; 'will you be ing her that he regretted he couldn't make the trip." kind enough to allow me the use of your name as Her story at an end, she asked eorre.spondent I wouldn't care to do it unless I got "Don't you think that ought to make good fic- your permission.' tion?" "And to this, he added: Albert shook his head and said: " 'I wish you all the luck in the world, my dear "No, you are too late; that story has already been

sir ; but no man can say I ever played him a mean trick, written." so, to clear my conscience, I have decided to come to "By whom?" you and honestly warn you of your danger. I am not "By that foolish writer of foolish stories." r Names That Don't Apply

'TplIK skilled workers, who call the unskilled "an- But I am inclined to be optimistic and so believe

-*- archistic" and the unskilled workers, who call as surely as I believe that the cat Avill come home

the skilled "capitalistic," unite in calling the organi- again that before tjie crack of doom, the workers will zations of women "bourgeois." They judge them as come to see that women are no more "bourgeois" they judge each other—from their own point of view, because in their conventions they do not wear out a having in mind their own conditions and problems couple of sets of Roberts' Rules of Order or violently and not those of the women. The skilled workei-s. throw out a few delegates than the skilled workers who know that their method of fighting must be are "capitalistic" because they keep agreements with different from that of the unskilled, and vice versa, employers or the unskilled are "anarchistic" because the unskilled, who know they must fight in a way they don't. different from the way of the skilled, cannot con- In climbing the Alps one needs an Alpine staff,

ceive of the same thing applying to women; that in traversing the Sahara, a good supply of w^ater, their economic position, social position and political and in wading through the everglades, a preventive position being different from that of the mass of for malaria. He who went into the desert or up into workers, the psychology with which they have to deal the mountains loaded with quinine or into the ever- l)eing different, they must, therefore, organize differ- glades witli heavy water bottles strapped to his back ently and fight differently, being none the less genu- would justly be scoffed at as a foolish one. "Sabe?" inely radical I'oi' ;ill lliat. — E. W. : ! ! -

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THE MERRY GO 'ROUND By C. M. W. 1914 NURSERY JINGLES Little Bo Peep Has lost her sheep, And don't knbw where to find them. Poor little Bo, She doesn't know That Armour's gone and canned ZOOLOGICAL ECONOMICS them Capitalist to Proletarian pick Worm ing to the leaves now to pay Little Jack Horner Worm: "Here's a nice comfortable the rent on the hole that I dug'?" Grabbed off a corner hole I'll rent you for ten leaves a Capitalist Worm: "You are." In oats and wheat and rye. day, payable in advance." Proletarian Worm: "I don't see He stuck 'round awhile Proletarian it!" Worm: "Say, who how you worked And cleaned up a pile dusr that hole?" Capitalist Worm: "Superior Off of sheep such as you and L

Capitalist Worm You did." < brains, old chap, superior brains! Old Mother Hubbard Proletarian Worm: "Who's go- 1 That's all." Went to the cupboard THE TIK TOK ARMY THREE CHEERS To get for herself an egg— But when she got there An advertisement tells us that All in one day a woman, thirty- The cupboard was bare. there are Ingersoll Avatches in the five years of age killed herself Poetic license here allows the pockets of 32,000 Americans. because she could find no work, plain statement that the egg was at And yet some say there are no California broke into the Social that moment in the Historical classes. Register, a bunch of gamblers were ^Iiaseum. liberated on $10 bail bonds each, a GOTHAMISTIC CULTURE poor bum of a vag was given ninety days, a rich auto speeder was apolo- ELASTICITY! Mayor Mitchell announced that getically given a fine of $10, and A railroad train hit a rotten rail New York City had been "cleaned the president of a Chamber of Com- and went into the ditch. Half a up," but within twenty-four hours merce predicted that prosperity was hundred persons were killed. rival gangs of gunmen had clashed back among us. Who DARES criti- The trust that sold the rail knew in a saloon with two fatalities. cise capitalism? it was rotten. —News Item. The railroad that bought the rail If a body meet a body PICKING ON ASTOR knew it was rotten. Loadin' up wi' rye On Sunday the trust magnate and Astor, our richest If a body bean a body Vincent young the railroad magnate sat side by side man, has declined the invitation of Need it worry or I? you in their beautiful church. Upton Sinclair to espouse the cause "Praise God from whom all bless- of Socialism and dig up his coin to ings flow," they sang in unison. RELIGION A LA CARTE aid in pushing the propaganda of "Unto him that hath shall be revolution. About the only comment given."—Sermon text for Highbrow needed is the obvious remark that MARY JANE pulpiteer. for a lad of his years Vince shows A Wisconsin legislative commis- "It shall be easier for a camel to a whole lot more sense than Uppy, sion has discovered, so it is reported, pass through the eye of a needle who, as John Spargo says, seems to that girls in what is called "domestic than for a rich man to enter the have his Socialism considerably service" form a major percentage of kingdom of heaven."—Sermon text mixed with his fiction. Considerably those who fall into ways that are for Lowbrow pulpiteer. is putting it mildly, at that. evil. Irregular hours of work and "Suffer little children to come the lack of normal opportunities for unto me."—Sermon text for Ala- Says a newspaper headline: pleasure are given as the causes. bama pulpiteer. "JAIL TRUST LAW VIOLA- Regular hours for those engaged in "Solomon in all his glory was not TORS," SAYS WILSON." housework are recommended. De- arrayed like one of these."—Sermon And yet we are told that news- partment store owners will receive text for Fifth avenue (New York) papers are printed for the purpose this bit of news with great glee, it i.

382 The Western Comrade WHEN REVOLUTIONISTS MEET

An interview that should forever ly, turning to ^Irs. ]\Iaey, "you .'of the home, of the parents, of the have a place in some special niche should have said that of her." [Workers, are so intolerable." in the revolutionists' hall of memo- "Of both, for you are one. She "Certainly, certainly, that is true. ries took place just a sliort time ago is the creator of a soul, but you had But we must educate children so in New York. Helen Keller there the soul to be created." Then she that they will know how to free met Dr. Maria Montessori, the murmured to Miss George and Miss themselves and others from bondage.

' famous Italian educator. Neither George translated : ' She is using an And the first thing is to bring our could speak the language of the Italian word which cannot be ren- children under the care of worthy other, but there were friendly souls dered in English. It is a combina- teachers. You and Mrs. Macy sym- " to translate. I\Iiss Annie E. George, tion of 'precious' and 'tender.' bolize such education, the education head of the Montessori schools in "I have followed your career for of the future, the development of a Washington, translated from Italian years. Professor Ferreri told me soul by the union of an inspiring into English the words repeated into much obout you. Do you remember teacher and the child whose soul has Miss Keller's hands by Mrs. John him " Professor Ferreri is an grown freely with such stimuli as it Maey, her teacher. Italian teacher of the deaf who some needs and without the stimuli that

The story of the interview is told years ago read a few stanzas of debase and hinder growth." by the New York correspondent of Dante with Miss Keller. "When you think of the appall- the Boston Herald: Miss Keller's face lighted. "Oh, ing conditions," said Miss Keller, Dr. ^lontessori embraced Mrs. yes, I remember hiim. "under which people live, it some- Macy and j\liss Keller and there was "Dottoressa," asked Miss George, times seems a miracle that the chil- a confused greeting in Italian and "don't you want to tell her some- dren grow up at all to intelligence English. thing about the children in the house and decency." "Say to her," said the Dottoressa, of childhood?" There was a moment's pause, dur- to Miss George, "that I am too much "Tell her this," answered Dr. ing which everyone seemed to be moved to express what I feel." Montessori, "that my children under- thinking of the enormous mountains

Miss Keller stood with her hands stand her; they know the triumph of to be moved. Then Montessori said :

on Dr. Montessori 's shoulders. Then the soul over difficulties. But the "The Queen Margherita is much in- she said distinctly: "Blessed are the children of the future, the men of the terested in you."

feet of her who comes across the sea future, will understand her even bet- "I have heard that she is a sweet with a message of liberty to the ter than men do now, for they will and noble woman." children of America." be liberated and will know how the "Indeed she is." "How clearly she speaks, and her spirit can prevail over the senses." "And they tell me the King, too, face is liglited with her soul." "You," said Miss Keller, "are is a good man. All the same we

"I am glad," said Miss Keller, fighting for the freedom of children. • must get rid of all kings." "that your lecture last night was so We are fighting for the freedom of Mrs. Macy laughingly explained successful; they say the hall was the parents, for the industrial revo- that Miss Keller was an uncompro- crowded." lution." mising revolutionist and naturally

"Not all the thousands," replied "But it is all one," said the Dot- opposed t ohaving such officials as

Dr. ^lontessori, "mean one-tenth as toressa. "The complete revolution is kings. The interview proceeds, with much to me as this meeting." external and internal, too." Dr. Montessori speaking "I myself am a product of the "How wide and far-reaching and "Because of you the world has a ^lontessori method," and her hand many-sided," exclaimed Miss Keller, greater sense than ever of the possi-

' ' sought tlie lips ]\rrs. ! of IMacy, who ' is the Montessori system bilities of the soul." smiled and nodded emphatically. "I began," explained Dr. Montes- Miss Keller pressed the Italian

"Does she know," asked Dr. Mon- sori, "as a sympathizer with politcial woman 's hand, and said simply tessori, "that T have written a dedi- revolutionists of all kinds. Then I "Blindness and deafness have their cation to lu'r for my new book?" came to feel that it is the liberation compensations if there is someone to "She knows that you have dedi- of this, what we have in our hearts, help. I cannot begin to tell you what cated the l)ook to her, l)ut she do(!s that is the beginningi and end of my teacher's coming meant to me. not know what you have written." !( volution." She was almost blind herself. She "I have said that I have learned "Hut, surely," said ^Vliss Keller, came to teach me amid strange sur- from you as pupil learns from mas- "we never can have the ^fontessori roundings. Her eyes did not permit ter." system or any other good system of her to read. She knew almost noth- "But," replied I\Iiss Keller quick- education so long as the conditions ing of educational theory and psy- r I ' — !

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chology, but taught me, as we say, sorry that you had to come to this The Los Angeles Citizen out of her own head." hotel to see me. When I first came A Labor paper that never backs Dr. Montessori was studying Miss to America I felt that I must rush down, a Labor paper that always ' Keller's face. "In spite of all you to you to render homage. goes ahead ON THE STRAIGHT say, Mrs. Macy, all your explanations "I hope," said Miiss Keller, "that ROAD! of how she was taught, I do not see the next time I see you I shall be able The Citizen is known from Coast to Coast as the best trade union pa- how her spirit has such vision. She to speak with you in Italian—at per the nation has. The Citizen seems like a special revelation of Rome." brings to you each week an average God." of more than 12 pages of news and WHAT THEY ARE SAYING "Every child," said Miss Keller, ABOUT US inspiration and education concern- "Keep up the good work. Enclosed "can be a special revelation of God, ing organized labor. find check for one year's subscription to if he is is tought properly and The Western Comrade."—E. Scates, Edited by STANLEY B. WILSON allowed to live under right condi- Oceanside, Calif. The Citizen is edited by Stanley B. tions." Wilson, one of the nation's Big Men "Eleanor Wentworth's articles on Fem- "Helen," said Mrs. Macy, "was a of Labor! His editorials are as inism are amazing. They should be read widely copied all over the country as revolutionist before I was. or Two by every man and woman. I believe the are the editorials of any other Labor three years before I cared for them, articles would make a splendid book." fighter today. That is the sure test Lillian Pelee, San Gabriel, Cal. she had all these ideas. You see, I of quality. Others know that what could have molded her in my own Wilson writes is THE REAL "I sincerely wish you a bright and likeness, I could ha;Ve made her a THING! There's an inspiration and prosperous new year. Enclosed find a breadth of view in the writings of of myself. I left her free copy But check to cover renewal. I enjoyed your this man seldom found in the work to think." remarks on the Metropolitan Magazine." of editorial writers. In no other pa- So writes Wm. H. Barker, Berkeley, Cal. "That is it. Liberty to think." per can you get the WILSON EDL

"Did it ever occur to you, Dr. Mon- TORIALS ! Subscribe to The Citizen Here's what Alfred Huetner, of the tessori," asked Mrs. Macy, "that the today University of South Dakota, says about The Citizen will come to you for a same ideas spring up in many parts The Western Comrade: "Let me say whole year—52 big issues—for one of the world at about the same time ? that The Western Comrade is the best of dollar. Wrap a bill in a sheet of I did its kind the Socialist movement has ever not know of your work nor you paper and mail it. Get a money or- had. To say it is good, is not sufficient; of mine. What is it 1 Is it the spirit der if you prefer, or send a check. It it is classic. I wish you success and as of the age manifest here and there in all goes. BUT DO IT NOW! The long as you keep your magazine in such Citizen, P. 0. Box 135, Los Angeles, one and another individual?" shape, will have my ardent support." you Cal. "It is all in what we want," said Miss Keller. "We ought to want J. Holler, Gilroy, Cal., writes as fol- lows: "Allow me to congratulate you on ME AND WOODROW more, for what we want we get, if your manly declaration in The Western we want it hard enough. For ev- President Wilson seems to have Comrade 'About the Destructionists.' ample, the idea that the government is wise women want the vote, men Yours is the only logical and, from an or- want better conditions of labor, and ganiaztion point of view, the only correct enough to provide paternal guidance children want more freedom. And stand to take." for the railroads in their financial remember, what we really want we meanderings, but that it lacks that In part, an editorial in "The Laborer," get." indefinable something necessary to published at Dallas, Texas, says: "You will come to see provide the same wise management our schools "Out at Los Angeles there is a pair of in the event of in Rome some time?" clever young fellows. They prepare copy government owner- "Oui je feraii cela avec grand for three good publications. The Citizen, ship of the roads. In other words, plaisir," replied Miss Keller. the official organ of the Los Angeles la- Uncle Sam is a fine stepfather, but it bor unions; The Social-Democrat, the of- wouldn't "Oh, she is speaking French." do to remove the step. I ficial organ of the Socialist Party of Cali- have tried nobly to suppress my own "Yes, I speak it a little, not very fornia, and the Western Comrade, a feelings in the matter, but I well." cracking good Socialist monthly maga- can't "But you are tired," said Mrs. zine. These boys are Chester M. Wright do it any longer. The end of my Macy. and Emanuel Julius. They have a wide suppressing ability is at hand. I and enviable reputation in Socialist jour- herewith "No, no, only too much moved to announce in this brazen and nalism." say all I public manner that I disagree with would. I have known of Listen to Wm. McDeVitt, 1350 Fillmore the President. I don 't like that sort you for years. This summer, when I street, San Francisco, Cal.: "I enclose of relationship. came closer to you through Mr. you check for a bundle of ten copies of The Western Comrade for four months. Macy, I felt it a great privilege, and I hope you will be able to keep the maga- That favorite friend of yours would when you sent me your picture it zine up to its best standard and to make like to read The Western Comrade. was one of the happiest moments of it a permanent factor in its field in this Send him this copy and tell him to sub- my life. I And now meet you. I am section." scribe. —

38i The Western Comrade WHY MARY LEFT HOME PARAGRAPHS THE WESTERN COMRADE The brightest, most pungent, penetrat- A Constructive Socialist Magazine By Allan L. Benson ing and illuminating ])aragraphs pub- Monthly Published be made lished in any Socialist journal are Entered as second-class matter at the Washing by hand should "Things That Make You Think," by J. L. post office at Los Angeles, Cal. a misdemeanor. The hand-ironing of Hicks, published in The Laborer. Nat L. Hardy, editor, and Winnie Fouraker- Chester M. Wright and Emanuel Julius, flat work should be made a misde- Owners and Editors Hardy, editor of the woman's page, are meanor. In each case the husband also among the best writers in the So- 203 New High Street, P. O. Box 135 cialist movement. The subscription price Los Angeles, Cal. of the offender herself should be of The Laborer is only fifty cents a year punished. He should be punished it is big four-page Subscription Price One Dollar a Year and a weekly. You not as a criminal, but as a danger- should take it. Associate Editors THE LABORER stupidity dangerous to ous heap of — 1704 Street, Dallas Eleanor Wentworth Stanley B. Wilson Commerce Texas to Fred C. Wheeler Rob Wagner his wife in particular, dangerous Subscribe for a real Socialist paper Charles Tracy society in general; because power THE COLORADO WORKER Vol. 1 March, 1914 No. 11 laundry machinery is not so expen- Owned and controlled by the membership circum- sive that people in ordinary of the Socialist Party of Colorado; 60c The California stances cannot afford to buy it, a year, 35c 6 months. 850 Kalamath St., - Denver, Colo. Social Democrat wliereas washing by hand is so hard

Now 75 cents it. It a year to Socialist that no Avonaau should do A WORLD REVIEW OF SOCIALISM party members! One dollar a year makes no difference who the woman By the best writers in Europe and to non-members. The best Socialist will is, whether she is a housewife or a America be found in the NEW paper we have. REVIEW, which deals in an authorita- servant, washing is too hard for her. The Social-Democrat is a paper tive way with all phases of Socialism not for agitation, but education. $1 per witli a wallop — a paper that In the winter, it invites pneumonia. year. 50c six months. Sample copy, 10c. BUILDS! It's just the it is drudg- sort of con- At all times of the year The NEW REVIEW, 150 Nassau Street, structive, fighting Socialist paper ery. And if bending over a wash- New York. that the constructive movement of board were not a crime against a the great West needs. woman's body, the fact that it is a THE INTERMOUNTAIN WORKER Special articles on timely subjects Published weekly. Murray E. King, each week make the crime against her right to be happy Social-Democrat editor. One dollar per year in adavnce. a paper looked for with eagerness would be enough to condemn it. Address communications to room 234 by every subscriber. Editorials that Hand-washing can never be any- Moose Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. drive to the point give the paper a thing but a drudgery. A drudge can fighting tone that is a joy to the THE PARTY BUILDER never be happy. Necessary drudg- heart of the veterans and an inspira- Is the official National bulletin of the tion to the new-comers. ery must be endured, but the Socialist Party. Published weekly. 50c per year, 25c for 40 weeks. Address A special department by drudgery of washboard is unnec- Chester the Socialist Party, 111 North Market street, M. Wright, the editor, is one of the essary. No man worth his salt Chicago, 111. snappy features of the Social-Demo- would spend a seventh of his time at "It's in the Mountains" crat. In this department the big do- a tub. If washing were suddenly ings of the Avorld pass in review each THE B. C. FEDERATIONIST week. to there would be a There's a spicy slam-bang to put up men Finest labor paper in Canada. R. Farm this department that you'll appre- greater demand for laundry machin- f'ettipiece, managing editor. Address ciate. ery than there is for automobiles. Labor Temple, Vancouver, B. C. "Great," Is What They All Say! In fact, a great many gentlemen wlio Comrades who know newspapers, are now thinking of buying automo- Read comrades who know the Socialist biles would buy their washing ma- THE COMING NATION movement and its needs, all join in cliines first. Cost would not matter. 50 Cents a Year ])raising the Social-Democrat. Among Published at 5445 S. Drexel Ave. those who testify to the Two facts would fill the eye. One high quality Chicago, 111. and character of the Social-Democrat fact would be the horrible wash- are National Executive Secretary board would go. The gentlemen HOW DID BUTTE WIN IN Laufersiek, former Congressman Vic- would look on while electricity or 1911? tor L. Berger, our own J. Stitt Wil- some other form of power did the son, the indefatigal)le Job Ilarriman HOW DID BUTTE REPEAT and many others. work. And a year or two later, they IN 1913? would discover that the machinery Six Bits Gets It for You! HERE'S THE ANSWER! be- ^lail had actually cost them nothing, Where? Why, in every issue of the your suljscription for tliis pa- Montana Socialist, which is an exact du- per today. It is owned cause it had paid for itself. and con- plicate of THE BUTTE SOCIALIST, the trolled by the Sociali.st party of Cali- This is not mere flapdoodle. I propaganda sheet that has gone into fornia. A letter addressed to The know what 1 am talking about. I every home and every room in every lodging house in the Butte district at Social-Democrat, P. O. Box 135, Lcfs one day, walked through my laundry least twice monthly for three years. Angeles, Cal., will reacli it promptly. three years ago, and exploded. I One year, weekly, in advance, $1. :\IAIL YOUR SlIBSCinPTlON TO- saw a washerwoman breaking her THE MONTANA SOCIALIST DAY—and say you saw the ad in The Western Comrade! poor back. In the exasperation at- Butte, Montana —

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Telephone Home A-4533 tendant upon the birth of an idea ICvery evening till 6. Sundays 11 to 12 that had long been generating in ray HARRIMAN, RYCKMAN & TUTTLE Oscar—WIN BURN—Charles mind, I told my wife that women Attorneys at Law THE WORKINGMAN'S LAWYERS were idiots. I told her that they 921 Hlgglns Building 700 San Fernando Bldg., Los Angeles were doing their housework almost Los Angeles, Cal. Phone A-3638 as they had done it for a thousand NOTARY PUBLIC years. I told her that every house Broadway 1592 F-1592 should be a factory. I said that elec- 100 Per Cent Settlement A. R. HOLSTON tric motors should wash, wring, and E. Attorney at Law JOSHUA YOUTZ iron clothes, wash and dry dishes, Insurance Underwriter 331-2 Douglas Building clean floors, run sewing machines, 360 I. Hellman Building Los Angeles, Cal. W. and turn ice-cream freezers. I made Los Angeles, Cal. as fine a bluff as I knew how, and CHARLES O. MORGAN after it was all over I crept over to Phones: Sunset Main 8400, Home 10711 Attorney and Counselor at Law and Notary Public New Jersey and asked Edison what ED. WINFIELD 1010 California Building, Corner Second he thought about it. He said T was and Broadway Halftone Photo Engraver and Zinc Etcher right ; that he could never under- Color Engravings Home Phone A 3913 Los Angeles, Cal. stand why women had been content Record Building, 612 Wall St. Main 7618 F-2164 to drudge along in the same old way, CHAIM SHAPIRO while machinery was tapping on A COMRADE DENTIST Attorney at Law their shoulders begging for an oppor- Dr. Henry M. Silverberg, who con- 232-3 Douglas Bldg., tunity to do their work. Since that ducts the Central Park Dentists, Los 3rd and Spring Angeles, shows his kindly feelings to- time electricity has done our laundry Notary Los Angeles, Cal. wards The Western Comrade by con- work, washed and dried our dishes, tinuing his half- page advertisement on the front cover of this issue. Show your Phone Douglas 3565 cleaned the floors, turned the sewing appreciation by having your dental work machine, and performed a few other done at this comrade's place. He gives H. SLIKERMAN a five per cent discount on all dental odd jobs. Attorney at Law work to those who mention The West- BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING ern Comrade, said five per cent going to Pacific Building, Room 631 the campaign fund of the Socialist Party. San Francisco, Cal. We are in the beginning of the Don't fail to go to Comrade Silverberg's office want teeth fixed. greatest change that humanity has when you those Compliments of ever undergone. There is no shock, NOTICE TO READERS JAMES R. TOWNSEND no epoch-making incident—but then W. Hunter and Company, who sell there is no shock at a cloudy day- Suite 712, San Fernando Building men's clothing, have moved to 540 South Fourth and Main Streets break. At no point can Ave say, Spring street, Los Angeles. Readers of P Los Angeles, Cal. The Western Comrade know that Hun- "Here it commences, now; last min- ter is a staunch friend of Labor and that ute was night and this is morning." he always shows, in a practical manner, Home A 2003 Main 619 where he stands on matters pertaining But insensibly we are in the day. If to the working class. Everything in A. J. STEVENS we care to look, we can foresee grow- Hunter's store bears the union label Dentist ing knowledge, growing order and remember that. And, above all, the goods are sold by members of the Re- 307 South Broadway presently a deliberate improvement tail Clerks' Union. Comrades, patronize Room 26 Los Angeles, Cal. of the blood and character of the your friends—always. Don't get your clothing at some Labor hater's place. Go race. And what we can see and im- to a business man who respects the rights of Labor, demonstrates his agine gives us faith. who CENTRAL PARK DENTISTS friendly feeling for Organized Labor and It is possible to believe that all who never fails to give material support Henry M. Silverberg, D. D. S. to the Labor and Socialist press of the past is but the beginning of a Cor. Fifth and Hill Sts. Southern California. beginning, and that all that is and Los Angeles, Cal. has been is but the twilight of the It possible to believe that Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted dawn. is KIRK & KIRK all that the human mind has ever Attorneys at Law DR. J. A. KIEFERLE accomplished is but the dream before 501 Spreckels Theater Building Optometrist the awakening. We cannot see, there San Diego, Calif. Room 29, 452% So. Broadway Los Angeles, Cal. is no need for us to see, what this world will be like Avhen the day has Renew your subscription promptly. If Get readers for The Western Com- fully come. We are creatures of the you let the matter delay then you will rade. The magazine is fighting your be taken from the mailing list. The twilight. But it is out of our race battles in a manly manner. Do the right Western Comrade deserves your con- lineage that minds will spring thing. Boost the magazine. Subscribe and tinued friendship, so come across with for The Western Comrade. that will reach back to us in our that renewal. —

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