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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
rearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
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Nome. Alaska, November l», 1!>17.
HOW < Al'lTAI.ISM OPERATES.
Capitalist production, or produc
tion lor profit, can proceed only so
long as there is a market lor the
product at a price over and above
the cost of production. Capitalist
production depends, not upon the
needs oi the world, but upon the
purchasing power of the world. A
person ujav need a pair of shoes
and yet not have the money with
which to buy them, he may be
hungry and yet starve because ho
has no money with which to buy
food.
Capitalist pioducfiou being based
upon protit in the sale of the pro
duct must of necessity bo object
to periodic demoralization; the
market becomes glutted, and, al
though thousands may be in want
of the piodnct production stops,
trouble lies in the fact that the
grtat mass of the people must de
pend upon the sale of their labor
power to secure money with which
to buy the thing, they must have in
order to live. The machinery o;
production being privately owned,
the prop'ertvlcss man, the man who
must work for wages, can only
work i.ir wages, can only work
, , such nrivutc owners eninlov
liim. And these private owners can
employ him only so long as they
i an find a market lor the product.
And herein lies the, real hast of all
modem wars. The wage workers
themselves make up lor the most
part iht- market, and as they can
July batik the product of their labor
only up to the amount ot their
w« ges, the time must come when
they have produced more than they
can buy back and the capitalist ma
chine comes to a standstill.
Nothing illustrates, this better
than Bellamy's famous story cf the
water tank. A few money lords
owned the water tank. They paid
I he laboiers at two cents a pail to
fill the lank, and then sold it hack
to the laborers at three cents a pail
As the money lords were few in
number they could ui-e up but a
small portion of the water. Inevit
ably the tank soon became full and
the money lords could no longer
employ the laborers. The laborers
having no employment could buy no
water and were soon dying lor
want of water, ltt Bellamy’s story
the laborers became '.vise and con
fiscated the tank and evet after had
all the water they needed.
The world laborers have not yet
got wise; they still fill the capitalists
tank at two rents a pa.il and buy it
back t three cents a pail, and
when the tank gets full t hey .staree,
live on charity or become thieves
And this is capitalist production
as well es it can be stated in simple
wo/d,'.
MIJKKTV DKI'IXKI).
.-'reeoott of expression is guaran
teed by all our national and state
constitutions. For a hundred years
it iias stood upon our books a glor
ious lie and an empty boa t. Liberty
of expression can have but a single
meaning—the liberty to question
and criticize the old. and to discuss
and champion the new. A parrot
could not enjoy free speech on a de
sert island, for he must repeat the
old. He might recite the constitu
tutior from end to end, he might
sing Hie ton commandments and le
peat the lord’, prayer yet he would
not be exercising free speech He
might be a politician—but on free
i poecli he remains an idiot Only
innovation requires freedom.
Galileo had the liberty to say that
the sun goes round the earth, but
lie did not have the right to say the
earth goes round the sun. And to
say .t nearly co t him /he rack.
Marx had the liberty to say there
are a vast number of poor in the
world - but lie had no liberty ,lo tell
'■ i. v im j -■ ure p )or or 10 point out
tin1 lines, along which improvc.nents
could be made. 1'oday you may say
all that Galileo wanted to say, you
may stay much lhat cost Marx his
expatriation, but you cannot pass
out birth control information nor
talk industrial organization. Only
| the new few needs freedom. To lie
me means to lie big enough to
grew. To be oppo ed to freedom
means to have a hollow heart filled
the slime of cowardice, and to pos
ses the imagination of car
rot. Only two men in all the wide,
wide universe are interested in tlie
suppression of truth, the coward
and ’lie crook. Remember that.
The righteous fear not honesty—
for tlu quickest way fo get rid of a
wrong idea is external authority l'oi
all others suppress them elves.
V STORY I.AliOlt WON’T KOKOKT
I _
On Bloody Sunday, November 5,
when the deputies of Everett shot
down workingmen in cold blood, a
•call was issued for the local unit
of the naval militia to muster. A
lad, Ted Kentdv a member of the
Everett division, refused to don his
uniform and go to the armory in
response to this call. His company
assen bit d antler arms without him,
and hew as marched to the county
jail under aa r.rmed guatd of a
squad of his company.
Kennedy, who is only IS years of
ago, said that ho was not required
to take part in civil strife and that
he would have nothing to do with
the coercing or shooting of work
iiigmen. He went willingly to pri
son, although threatened with Court
Mitial and all r rrts of dire punish
ment for his ‘unpatriotic” act, rath
er than he u#ed as a tool for the
lumber bosses in the denial of Free
Speech lo Labor. The militia au
thorities thought it better to hush
the matter up—protable because i
if noised around, it would set a bad |
example to other young militiamen j
—so that the boy was not punished
after all. But the bravorj of this
lad will long be remembered 'be
workers of America. It takes qnue
a little courage to stand out against
your “superior officers” and to be
branded by the young men with
whom von went to school and have
associated all your life. All honor
to young Kennedy and may the spi
rit that moved him grow apace
among the youth of tl;e country!
The thing that makes me hate
i war so much is not the bloodshed,
but the sentimentality and the de
cay of candor and clear thinking.
In the trenches there Is filth and
physical degeneration, but a great
deal of true speech. At home there
is only falsehood, prejudice and
mumble of cant from (lie n.ost gift
ed minds. 1 always felt an intell
l cctujil kinship with William Marlon [
Heedj—he had a platonic and
serene interest in poi-ing ideas. The
fact that he believes in this war
would not in the !e*ast disturb my
feeling, if lie believed in it liberally *
with .1 is mind, and like a gentleman
or a scholar or a man or anything
else but a denominational fanatic.
Like all of the patriots, ho believes
in the v|ir as though it were a
church. He re-eclioe: the childish,
water-brained liturgy of denuncia- (
lion against all of his good friends
—who, ho perfectly well knows,
are only trying to use their brains
without prejudice of nationalism—
as “pro-German." It makes me sick
to i ce Reedy’s mind wandering
down this level. And everybody’s
mind. That is why l hate war.
War is sentimental religion—it
means universal dementia, inane
fixation, sacrosanct one /Madness
bigotry and bunk in the bight t.
We are taught that every man j
should pay his honest debts. All
right; but who is to decide what
are honest debts and what are not?
If a few men plunge my country
into war and saddle the nation with
I a billion dollar war debt and all
i against my consent, is that one of
the honest debt, I must pay?
Wouldn't I be justified in repudiat
ing such a debt if 1 could? Would
it not be more fair to make the men
who want war. not only do the
righting, but also do the paying?
There is no man but can pay and
who will not willingly pay his
honest debts If he is not asked to
pay for the dishonest ones.
The worker who kicks about the
conditions he vote, for reminds one
of the story of the old farmer who
yoked himself up with a steer and
began plowing his fields. The steer
didn’t like the arrangement and ran
| away. Instead of slipping his neck
I out of the yoke, as he might easily
I
1 have done, the farmer, tearing mad
ly through the fields began to yell:
"Somebody stop u ! Darn our fool
souls! We are running away.”
Let us disarm all nations so thtey
cannot figbt. “Safety first.’’
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„ WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
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t Milling, Lumber, Contractor
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BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIER AN^ OF LEO KENT,
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