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By CLrFFOBD S. LEEThe International Socialist Re-vlow, edited by Charles H. Kerr, of Charles H. Kerr Co., co-operativepublishers of Socialist books, 341-349 East Ohio Btreet, Chicago, 111., Is one of the foremost International journals circulated by the Socialists In this country. It Is published monthly and sellB for one dollar a year. Special bundle rates are made along the sample plan as those of the Appeal to Reason, the American Socialist and Social Revolution. The associate editors of the International Socialist Review are: Mary E. Marcy, WilliamE. Bohn, Leslie H. Marcy. Flank Bohn, Phillips Russell and William D. Haywood, the latter being secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World. The January, 1917, number of this publication contains articles by the late Jaek London, who signed himself Yours for the Revolution; Walker C. Smith (Remember the Fifth of November, the date of the I. W. W. battle at Everett, Wash., in 191G); Nina Lane McBride, S. J. Rutgers; (“MasB Action in Russia”) George Hardy, W. E. Reynolds, Leo Laukl, C. R. Grlffln, Robert Minor, William E. Bohn and Harrison George. The article by Reynolds is entitled Capturing Political Power in Oklahoma.” The publication contains a full account of the recent I. W. W. convention.Compliment for Germany.The Importance of the printed page from the standpoint of Socialist propaganda is emphasized editorially In this publication as follows;Almost a century ago Wendell Phillips was telling America it was governed by newspapers. Before Phillips, Tom Jefferson was saying the same thing. Now Herbert Bayard Swope, in a book reporting what he saw during a year stay in war-circled Germany, quotes a high official of the German government as saying: That the war Is going to settle among other things the point whether It is better to be a Journalistically ruled nation like America or a non-Journalistic nation like Germany.Another issue of this same publication (July, 1917), picked at random like the others, gives a review of the Socialist activities In different American cities. It plainly indicates unusual activity by the Socialists in Cleveland, O.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Rock Island, 111.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Kansas City, Mo.; Seattle, Wash.; Detroit, Mich.; Rockford, 111.; Cincinnati, O.; Chicago, 111., and New York city. There are articles by H. Roland Holst (on “Mass Action In Holland”); Mar-to be the old wolf In a new sheepskin, and everything else the Social-Demo-In Minneapolis there is published crats In power can get their hands on.the weekly organ of tho Northwest So. clallsts—The New Times,” whose slogan is: “Workers of world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains.” In the Issue of Saturday, May 19, 1917, I find the following under the heading; Wage Earners Aasked to Turn Savings Over to Munition Makers;”The American working people are getting stung all around In this great “war for democracy.”It was declared without the can-sent of the United States citizens and in opposition to the desires of at least 90 per cent of the people. But that is a small matter to what is following. The people did not want this war, they do not approve of It, and yot tho “democratic” government, deriving Its Just powers from the consent of the governed,” has passed a conscription law that attempts to-compel the working people to fight a war to which they are opposed.This Is bad enough, but it is not all. It is not enough that the government should attempt to force the people to fight against their will, but it, apparently, expects the great masses of the people, the average person of small means, to furnish the money to prosecute tho war.Opposes Liberty Bonds.The government has issued $2,000,000,000 of bonds which must be sold for war purposes. With fine irony it is called the Liberty Loan.” Now, naturally enough, we might expect that the government would turn to the rich banks, J. P. Morgan’s for example, and other wealthy corporations to take up this loan. But it is not so. This is a war declared at the demand of the capitalist class to protect their interests, but they are willing to supply neither the men nor the cash with which to prosecute it.Writing In this publication we And practically the same set of radicals led by Prof. (?) Scott Nearing, who has been kicked out of two universities In this country for questionable utterances. The New Times sells for one dollar a year. It is edited by Alexis E. and Stella Campbell Georgian, and is put out by the New Times Socialist Publishing company, 612 Second avenue, South Minneapolis, Minn.Boasting of Growth.Socialists have for years boasted or their growing strength and Influence in the colleges and universities of theMinor. Rene Arcss, Mary Marcy, Jack rar “““at socialists or near-Phillips. J. A. A. Watson. S. J. Rut-gero, S. Katayana, Scott Nearing and M. C. Rolland. Nearing has been writing largely for Hearst's Magazine, hich, like the other Hearst publications, Is an avowed champion of public ownership and other socialistic doctrines. A significant paragraph picked from the article by Phillips Is as follows:“See the world,” said the recruiting sign.And tfie hungry young workman eager for adventure, walked in, passed the exam, and became an enlisted man In the United States army.Now he Is with Pershing’s cbrps on the western battle front.A Ripping Number.“The Internationalist,” edited by George Sylvester Vierick, assisted by Joseph Bernard Rcthy and Aleister Crowley and published at 1123 Broadway, New York city, is another Journal more or less of the bolsheviki type with a wide circulation. The January, 1918, number contains matter furnished by Edward Kelly, Clytie Hazel Kearney. Mark Wells, George Itaf-falorlch, Lola Ridge and Heinrich Heine. The journal very appropriately says:The next number of the International Is so good that even, our office boy admires It In fact, he devoted an entire day to reading the proofs, and he had been ordered to deliver them forthwith to the printer.“Gee whiz,” exclaimed that youth, the stuff in this number is certainly ripping; better thanoccupied the chairs of political economy, or kindred portfolios in forty-seven colleges and universities. The New Times” says:The University of Minnesota Daily” Is getting under the skin of reactionaries that control the institution. Under the cover of the war excitement a radical became editor of the Dally {by election) and now occasionally a-breath of life fs noticed BOth Infthe edltor-rlal and news columns. The following, 'written by an Instructor in rhetoric, Is suggestive:Editor the Dally—Some time ago you rather distressed me by reprinting some foolish verses of mine from the Journal. I have found that the ‘glorious fourth estate’ presents a wide and open market for that sort of thing; but verso such as I here Inclose I always receive back with ‘regrets.’I wonder If it la really poorer. Do you mind trying It on your public?”Business “Skunk.”Hall to Russia and the Americanv* vnv uiueocs ll uneu CVl WUliPaling now tho check of privilege As It never paled before!Not a throne's aim now the rising, Wilhelm's fall were but slight gain, If men crouch where lords of business’’Rivet still the legal chain.Czar at Moscow—beau in London: Master of our Northland’s wheat: Does it matter what you call him. As you slaver at his feet?tho masses hurled at war! Puling Ait J11 the cheok ot privilege *■ it never paled beforel—ARTHUR J. TIEJH.is Cviliiiiniy npyiHbi ucllci uittu i. . .,anything of Nick Carter or Buffalo Lo(i,tVho8,,”fgsfaTiV}fd,naUtr,r/e Bill. I never read the International before,’’ he continued, but from now on I certainly am going to read every number.Curiously enough, our office boy's opinion of tho International co-lncldes with the opinion entertained by a certain profeggor In Harvard university. This professor said the International was all things to all men.”Understands Germany.The Masses.” published at 84 Union Square, New York city, long edited by Max Eastman, whom President Wilson has been pleased to callAnother Socialist publication in the Northwest which Is used extensively by the party organization is former Congressman Victor L. Berger’s Milwaukee Leader.” This Journal, likeWe And the Now York “Call1 clarlng It “is devoted to the Interests of the working people,” and publishing “news not found In other papers.” In its isuue of August 29, 1917, it says; “A ‘good citizen’ in the eyes of the employers is one who works for small wages and never strikes for either better wages or conditions. In the eyes of the political agents of the employers, a ‘good citizen’ Is one who never questions the justice of laws made and executed to enable the few to rob the many most efficiently and with the feast friction.Socialistic Circulation.The Call” is published by the Working Mens’ Co-operative Publishing association, 444 Pearl street, New York city. John Block is president, W. W. Passage is treasurer, and Julius Gerber Is secrotary of the as-soclaiton. The subscription price by mall la $3.50 a year. It uses the same circulation plan that all Socialist publications use—that of furnishing special editions at special rates for propaganda purposes. Tho success of the campaign,” says tho Call, to es-tablisha radical center in this city (New York) Is of more far-reaching importance than appears at first sight. It is not merely a question of seeur-inga suitable building to house, the great workers’ university that the Rand school 13 destined to become. The outcome of tho undertaking will react for good or ill on the entire la-for situation.For the Rand school campaign to fail, particularly now that it is within striking distance of its goal, would bring Joy and renewed confidence to the reactionary forces of capitalism and discouragoment to the workers, On the other hand, for the working class, unaided, and at this time of multiple demands for help from many quarters, to put over in quick succession the Call bond issue and the People’s house building fund will he a convincing demonstration strength that wll hearten its friends and impress its enemies.”Bull After the “Combine.”Bull,” a monthly magazine published at 210 Fifth avenue, New York city, is another publication with strong socialistic leanings, working with might and main to increase its already big ciculation. John J. Ruth Is president, Adolph Stern Is business manager, and E. Francis Fane is editor of this jour nal. Its motto is: “The most effective way to promote truth 'Is to ridicule falsehood.” Editorially, this publication says In Us Issue of July, 1917: The trouble with the American people Is that they don’t take any Interest in their own affairs. They say, “What’s the use when your voice is not heard?” Where one hundred millions of people feel thus a horrible state of affairs is created. Public officials go ahead and do as they please. Newspapers say what they please, and the people by their silence permit the newspapers to speak for them. There are 35,000 newspapers in the United States, controlled by less than ten great news agencies with the Associated Press as the hake of operations. The mind that controls the Associated Press controls the 35,000. If that mind and the President are agreed, the people are cast out from their own affairs. This is a hard game to buck up against. It Is palpably wrong. It can not continue Indefinitely. It must end some time. Bull js after this combination. It Is to your Interest to break it up. You can help much in doing so by helping Bull. If the means of smashing the mind trust” Is presented and you fail to help, you have no complaint to make. If you fall your state of slavery, you can help your master, the mind trust,” aye, the “English mind trust” by doing nothing. You are paying for your lethargy with war, now. What this war will cost you in taxes, In advanced prices, and perhaps, In blood, could have been avoided by the expenditure of a small sum during the past ten years. You may not get prompt returns, hut the seed must be planted in (he spring to produce the harvest In the fall.Jeremiah A. O’Leary, of New York, has been one of the Important contributors to “Bull.A mutant Affair.The Melting Pot,” one of tho most militant and radical Socialist journals In the Middle West, has been using the same plan. This journal is published in St. Louis by Phil Wagner, who likewise Is Interested In social revolution.” The editor Is Henry M.Speaking at a dinner, Senator Jofrff Sharpe Williams, of Mississippi, referred to domestic misunderstandings and recalled a little incident along that line:Brown was going down town one morning, and meeting a friend, he Incidentally mentioned a new family that had Just moved Into his neighborhood.“You don’t know how sorry Is am they came here,” said Brown, with an appropriate sigh. They are simply driving my poor wife crazy.”That’s hard luck,” sympathetically returned the friend. What do they do, have a scrap every night?”“Yes,” answered Brown, “but that isn’t exactly what Is driving mother daffy. You see they fight In some foreign languge and she can’t understand a word they say.—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.SENATE I fill CASUALTY ORDER FACTSAdopts New’s Resolution Calling on War Department to Explain Censoring.GREAT CONFUSION OF NAMESRelatives at Home Constantly In Doubt When Men of Same Name Are Priutotd in Lists.J... frinnd has for several rl,a acuviues nave drivenm “ol SMS llUthe New York Call, the most infiuca- i TIchenor and the circulation mana tlal Socialist paper in the East, Is a! gor Is Edwin P. Wagner. The sub-daily. Tho “Leader’s” subscription! soriptlon price Is seventy-five cents a price Is $4 a year by mall. It Is the year. And what Is tho world war organ of tho Wisconsin Socialists, Ber- {for?” says this journal editorially In ger being the recognized leader. A ono of Its Issues, but the financial moro arrogant political boss never Interests of certain classes? Is it not lived. His activities have driven a bloody quarrel as to whether thepropagandists in tho Socialist party. It numbers among Its contributing editors Arthur Young, K. R. Chamberlain, Cornelia Barns, George Bellows, H. J. Gllntenknmp, John Barber, Robert Minor, Boardman Robinson, John Reed, Louis Untermoycr, Howard Brubaker, Mary Heaton Vorse, Arthur Bullard, Floyd Dell, Frank Bohn, Helen Marot and Arturs Giovannittl,Helen Ainroi anu aruiia uiuvtuuuu. o 1917 Tho publication ban been selling for ’ ‘$1.50 a year. Eastman, the editor, 1b .numerous others out of the party In Wisconsin. Berger 1b now a candidate for tho United States Sonato. The Leader” is published by tho Milwaukee Social-Democratic Publishing company, Chestnut and Sixth streets, Milwaukee.Some Idea of Its editorial sputter-Ings may be gathered from the following, clipped from the Issue of Julythe author of numerous Socialist books, chief among which Is his Understanding Germany.” Tho government, as in the case of many other Socialist publications, barred Tho Masses” from the malls. Eastman has however, just launched a new monthly ’ j called “Tho Liberator, published''ormor United States Senator Clark, reports aver, told tho would-bo government mediators that he would flood evory mine ho owns and never tako out another pound of ore, rather than recognize the recently organized Metal Mine Workers’ union, tho member!-, of which are on strike.We really do not believe he would flood them to hurt. He Isn’t keen to throw a lot of money away In that manner.But, whethor ho would or not, tho government should call his bluff instantly.Urges Seizure of Mines.It should take over the mines and make them public property. Then hire the union men to run them, under union conditions.Why should we let useless social parasites dictate what wo shall and shall not do?Why should they be allowed to say that useful workers shall or shell not work?Lot the mines be owned and operated by tho public. Then the benefit of them will go to thedoes now.We find Bergor approving tho va. rloua government ownership schemes such as the plan to keep the railroads, If posible, take over the District of Columbia telephone lines, the munitions plants, ship yards, oil supply, lnterurban lines, express companies, telegraph lines, street railway linesAnglo -French -American capitalist classes shall control, for the purpose of exploitation, the markets of tho Far East, or whether this profitable exploitation shall bo carried on by tho capitalist classes of Germany and Austro-Hungary? * * * A socialsystctm based upon exploitation is the maker of wars, and until that social system Is outlawed and tho world becomes an Industrial democracy thcro Is no peace, no humanity on earth.” In another editorial The Melting Pot” says:Hypocrisy, thou are the cloak . with which tho exploiters of labor, tho creators of poverty, tho makers of war, cover their crimes against humanity! A system of society that allows parasites to pocket tho wealth produced by workers, a system of society that is over hunting for now markets wherein to sell the products Btolcn from those who produce them, ever hunting for new slaves to grind into profits, always has and always will have wars. Only the overturning of such a society, and tho establishment of an International Industrial democracy by the workers, tho production of wealth for use, and not for profit, will bring peace and happiness to a torn and tortured race.Only socaillsm will make the world safo for humanity.Among the contributors to ‘The Melting Pot are J. E. Snyder, O. H. Sands, Ellis O. Jones and C. V. Cook, the latter being secrotary of the Rationalist Association of North Amer-loa, 143 North Dearborn street, Chicago, 111., an organization engaged In promoting co-operative cities.(To Be Concluded Next Week,)Womon rre coming Into tlbelr own by leaps and bounds,” says a suffragist in a resent newspaper article. Yeah, but did you ever see a leaping jThe resolution of Senator New (Ind.), calling on the war depart-men to explain its reasons for elimination of addresses and names of the next of kin from the lists of dead, wounded and missing transmitted by cable from headquarters of the United States forces in France was adopted by the Senate. The resolution was slightly amended from the form In which It was originally introduced, and as adopted reads:Whereas, It has been stated In the public press of March 9,1918, that the war department In publishing the casualty lists of the American expeditionary forces now abroad will hereafter give names of soldiers only, withholding announcement of their residences and next of kin; therefore be itResolved, That the secretary of war be requested, if not inconsistent with the Interest of the service, to Inform If such an order has been issued, and if so the reasons for such order.In support of his resolution Senator New said:No other-purpose is in the resolution except to determine In the minds of the Senate whether there is sufficient reasons for withholding the names and home addresses of American soldiers who are killed or Injured abroad. I should like to add that the lists are printed In full by the British newspapers, and I have here before me a UBt taken from a Washington newspaper of day before yesterday,the names of American soldiers or Injured, with their poatoffloe ad-Great Contusion of Names.I can not see why if that list is published In newspapers printed in the English language and sent by them to us there can be any Impropriety or any harm done by permitting American newspapers to do the same thing.There Is a great confusion of names. For Instance, here is one list that I have here I find a certain name. I know three men of that name in different parts of the country, one In Virginia, one In Michigan, and tho Senator from Nebraska (Hitchcock) called my attention to a third, who UveB in Oklahoma.“Here Is the result of an investigation started by one American newspaper: John Collins Is reported asamong the Americans killed. The newspapers have gone to the trouble of making inquiries in various cities —Detroit, Cloveland, New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Chicago— and find that in Chicago there are 103 men ot that name, In New York 142, In Detroit 32. m Cleveland 19, In Cincinnati 18 and In Philadelphia 68. That shows there are probably 3,450 John Collins In the United States.I can see no objection to furnishing tho public the information that John Collins who was killed was John Collins, of Detroit, or John Collins, of New York, as the case may be and thereby quieting the tears of the parents or next of kin or friends of the numerous John Collinses who aro In the army and unhurt. In Now York thcro was published tho names and addresses of four Frank Kellys, one Frank Kelly having been reported in the list of killed or injured. There were four in the city of New York, all of them In the army.”There are four Frank Kellys In a single company, Interposed Senator Calder (N. Y.)Also Urged by Weeks.Senator Weeks (Mass.) told tho Sen-ato that It was still tho practice in Great Britain and Canada to publish with the name of tho soldier either the organization with which ho was connected or hi s residence or next of kin, so that It can bo readily determined who ho is and from what section ho comes.“I think thcro is every reason from a military standpoint why this information Should be furnished the public said Senator Weeks.Senator Now continued: “I cansee no reason why it will furnish the kaiser any, particular information to know that Frank Kelly, of Omaha, or Frank Kelly, of Now York, was the Frank Kelly roported killed; while such information would furnish relief to tho mtndB of tho parents of Frank Kelly in New York If It is Frank Kelly of some other piaco who 1s the victim. If there are good military reasons why this information should bo withheld no man In the Senate will more willingly defer to them than I.”ObCCWHAT AILS ROSERose PaBtor Stokes haB recanted her return to patriotism and announces that as a true Socialist sho la “agin the government. Tho truth Is that the itch for notosloty which afflicts plutocratic Socialists of the Rose Pastor Stokes variety couldn't be gratifiedopportunity to break lines ana gratify that ngomanla which Is the chief characteristic of the millionaire Socialist. So Rose PaBtor Stokes JuBt had to say something seditious In order to get back on the first page again.and hounding woman?I ourlty?You may think you have lots of friends, hut did you ever start out to borrow money without giving any so-
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