THE WESTERN CLA Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alone. Till" I' (tOKBM 338. Vancouver, B. C, Saturday, September i6, 1905. IATTENBERG AND THE TOADIES Thorn, sob's Caustic Ceiaaient on the Boot-Licking Brigade IWell, tho agony is over! Tho Hun- Imperialistic schemes, 1 ought possi- , sand jingoes have had their car- My to have excepted Professor Ooldwln Smith h'SSi'H Llittn I"'1 I ,,( self ubusement over the pres- „( "royalty in our midst," and Irince '•""'*' "' -■atlunberK' hasde- ,.tL1| in a l)ln-*e of glory, duly im- ,,l wilh Hie loyalty of the Can- ,,|,l,.. And now in view of ln,. newspaper utterunces and Hjchea .if welcome which have been nkcil lo his visit, tho real "aim and Impose ,,f it must surely begin to L^n upon ili'' dullest observer. The LiiiinK nf lho naval squadron to Luttlit with u royal prince in com- Tainl, is simply a stop in the Imper- llisl propaganda which has been bodily ami insidiously carried on L somo years. [it is intended to pave the way for closer liund of union between Can- |la nml tho mother-in-law country, thui the capitalists for whose tni'fii ine British Empire is run can lilt |nit nl the burden of taxation Ivolved hy the keeping up of an im- msc military and naval establish- Liit ollicored by a horde of aristo- |iilif Idlers nml incompetents, upon Canadian people. The Hritish ipliiiti'ts uiul jingoes hove been aw- I'ni'd hy ihe booming of Canadian jtis|)t'iil.v to the fact that a new (id for Imperial taxation cxi«ts. nil, consequently all the forces of ||iloiiiiic.\ mid statesmanship are be- ■J; employed to induce Canadians to Ihtnii tn tho fleecing operation. oyul \isits nnd the interchange of Impliments between British mug- lifs uiul Canadian politicians whosq lisil ilecoratiotM arc a badge of ieir subserviency to Imperial inter- Its, un' nil pnrt of the same sinis- who is a class hy himself. Professor Smith is never tired of protesting in speech and writing ugainst Imperialism in the abstract. Ilut unfortunately for his own reputation ho is one of the most inconsistent of men. Ho talks one way anil votes the other, lie opposes Imperialism and lends the influence of his presence to Imperialist demonstrations. Ho felt highly honored when Eurl (Ircy, who is helping along the lui|>et'ialist propaganda for ull he is worth, planned a memorial tree in his grounds to commemorate his visit to the Sage of the (Irangi n-mmm -_. Mercenaries .lumping their Jobs. Another little straw to show how tho wind blows—tghe blue jackets went hack to their ships, but as Tennyson says, '/not, not the three hundred." Quite a number of these picked men, selected siiecially for the trip because it was thought they wenc proof against temptations to desert, showed Iheir good sense by jumping the job. About half a do /.en deserted at Niagara, and a like number turned up missing in this city. Reports from Halifax say some fifty men have liberated themselves from the hard and ill-paid scrvioe of the navy. The scheme of Imperiatlz- in~ Canada seems to have its difficulties even at this stage. But just wait until the working class fully understand the intent and meaning, of all these demonstrations, the logical end and outcome Of which is compulsory military and naval see- vice. Then tho lingoes will hear something drop. Even Billy Maclean's middle-class farmers and bourgeois won't stand for that. Phillips Thompson. 119 Indian .Hood, Toronto, Sept. 8, 1905. SStMlf Sl.00 FAITH IN THE OF LAW !L— _ Ull NEW UNIONISM'S LOGIC From False Premises False Coaclaiioai Meet Be Reaches' The Industrial Workers recently or- tion, i.e., the resources of the earth. His name appears on gani/.ed at Chicago expresses clearly and the implements of labor. The the list of those present at some of jaIKi logically thc industrial demands j capitalists will struggle to maintain tho Battenberg functions. Newspa- Qf tho working class up to date. This pern will lie, of course, but as he has Low industrial organisation declares not repudiated the statement, it is 'in faV0r of political act on in wag- to be presumed that he was there. jjn(, the t.inS8 struggle. It actually (Joldwin Smith's weakness—owing to unites all workers so that any given which he has just missed being a industry is under the sole jurisdic- great man—is a longing for social tion of'a single union and the work- rocognition. lie opposed the com- |ors in unv -jven department nre as- mercial union or veiled annexation \mred of the united support of all scheme like a hot potato, because he Uhcir* co-workers in thc event of a found he was being cut out by the strike or any other exigency that re- Toronto snobocracy — the Dcnisons -,,ires the united action of'all—Ex wouldn't come to Mrs. Smith's garden parties. The fact is that Prof. (Joldwin Smith is one of a large and increasing number of people who want the glor.v and prestige of being re tract from an article by E. V. Debs, in Chicago Socialist. • ••*»••••• And what are the "industrial demands of tho working class up to formers, but ore not willing to pay Idate?" The only demands we have the price. They wont give up their heard of have been demands tor more respectability, their social connec- |wages, shorter hours, or similar (ions, or their share of the plunder 'crumbs from the emplover's table of to carry out their convictions. Talk jfavors. These demands'from the very and writing, even in classic Knglish, nature of tho workers' position in amounts to mighty little unless there capitalist society are demands tnat is a man behind them. Ooldwin 'savor stronclv of madli-irv Tn Canadians are to bo of lnnK'"lKc savor strongly of mendicancy Smith is hardly a man-he i.s „ gift fact the objects in view cannot ■ programme. lnxi'd. wheedled und bribed by tho loinisi' nf commercial advantages ii promising men and money gland s piratical wars. Absence of Popular Enthusiasm. There is just one cheerful, encour- obtaincd either by demanding or begging lt is Perhaps true that the organi- . turn. ,n ii..-.. .nt. v— v*.»»««, v—».— — ( • . ,or aging feature about the Wallenberg /ation in question "expresses clear- grovclment which has not been much \hj!! these "demands. _ but it ls eq- i.v or Funny Man-Which? :noticed-the Indifferent ami aputhe- uaily true of'the A. F. of L. and ail „ 'tic attitude Of the people. It is only the rest of them. To garb the dil- woiild lie profitless to quote the capitaIis, nm) middle class who npidated old skeleton of unionism in )in the numerous articles which nave t,nthused The wot king people o now mantle and by vociferous lung ve appeared in thc prostitute press wcre olllI)hatii'ally not in it. ihey blasts expect to rejuvenate it with Toronto and other places, in _re t yt?t .-onto • lho imperiaUst new virtue, and clothe it with addi- ich ih,- visit of Battenberg has Rv c^.t.vt of coun*e the Social- tional power, will prove as fruitless u made to furnish a text upon jsts and tnoso under socialist in- a task as tho attempt to make a ith in expatiate in favor of a lib- miences-but thev have an instinct- "silk purse out of a sows ear." The ' ttion from Canada to jve feeUo- thnt ,\\\ ti,is patriotic and rold fact staros every (mc in tbo he British Navy. They lovaUst ,J-iurging is not in their in- face, that the "demands of thc work- terest-ond the affair has not passed ;ing class up to date, I.e., better over without a few manifestations of wages, hours, conditions, etc. can class consciousness, which the jingo no longer be enforced because of the propagandist will do well to note, overwhelming pressure brought Accompanying Battenberg were MOO Against them by a chronically over- blue jackets, who were lent by the stocked labor market. At no stage naval authorities to go through sun- of the game could those demands be Id contribution tiininin t V mtv well be "t«k«n as read |u there is one extract from half-a- liimi! or so of the most abject flun- yiMii published in the Montreal lar which is such a brilliant speci- rn of unconscious humor thnt it is pr'h reproducing. After reciting ! Prince's claims to honor on ac- dry'd"'-- '"'voluMons Tt *the"ExWbi:- 'made effective unices thc conditions int of his royal connections, the (ion These have served a double of the labor market were fav- tor goes on to say purpose-to swell the gate receipts, orable. and in that case it 'But the fact whieh will most a„d develop a spirit of loyalty and was unnecessary to make de- kc for his popularity in Canada, Imperialism (accompanied, of course, [mands. Conditions of the market •hat hc himself has chosen to cast 'with a frantic desire to pay Imperi- favoruble to the sellers of labor- his lot with thc British Empire, 'al taxes)on the part of the populace, power will inevitably express them- 'I hns devoted his life to the ser- |The first part of the program worked 'selves in better prices, etc., and vice o nf the Imperial navy, lt is all. ri/tit. The crowds came and ,versa. asonl at» this time, when danger saw—took about us much interest in | The new organization "declares in ival ill-folllng growing up between -the evolutions as they would in an favor of political action in waging gland and Germany threatens all exhibition of trained monkeys. But the class struggle," says Debs. Can ' unpleasantly, to lie reminded did they enthuse? Not much. Lot it be possible that a man who has ii this Gorman Prince is a living 'the capitalist press tell the story, been an apostle of thc Socialist k liitivecn tho two countries; and I Here is a clipping from W. F. Mac- movement us long as Debs has, does ""-■ which, though Herman by lean's World, the advocate of bour- not yet know that ownership and I. is finally British by choice." Igeoig reforms and middle-class inter- I con trol of the machinery of wealth- thal delightfully funny? Csts: | production is the storm center of the class struggle, and, in fact, that that ^'l■', in his ,ot with the British liPire" did Battenberg? Well, ra- Failed to Cheer. their control of the means of production anrl their consequent mastery over the workers. The latter struggle to break the relationship by seizing control of the means of production and then freeing themselves from exploitation. It is needless to say this warfare will lie waged without mercy. This class struggle will prove to be no child's play. There will be no quarter. The ridiculous little squabbles that occur in the "economic field" over the price of commodities—which, in the case of the worker means wages —have no more relationship to the class struggle than has the quarrel of a couple of Irishwomen over tho price of half-pint of goat's milk. The conflict of interest that arises be. tween the buyer and seller of labor- power is the same that arises between thc buyer and seller of. anything, else. Out of that conflict may arise a fight between individuals, or a number of them, but no struggle of economic classes can arise because there is no class interest at stake. Human society is not divided into economic classes by the line between buyer and seller, but by the line between exploiter and exploited. The buyer in one cast- becomes the seller in the next, thus finding himself alternately upon opposites of the line. Barely, ho*yevcr, does thc exploited succeed in lifting himself into the ranks of thc exploiters. The working class i.s both buyer and seller, the same as the capitalist class. Along these lines there is no distinction to be made between them. The working class is at all times an exploited class. The capitalist class is at nil times an exploiting class. In this case the distinction is perpetual. Out of this comes the class war. No industrial organization can. under capitalism, unite thc workers. There are more workers than jobs, and it is bryong the power of any organization to decrease the number of th)> one or increase that of the other. To any sane person this fact should be conclusive. The average wage is equivalent to the average cost of a day's labor- power. In other words, the average day's wages is equivalent to the cost of keeping the laborer ono day. When that laborer goes on strike it may readily be seen how long hc can hold himself up. No work; no wages; no grub. There you have the measure of the average worker's ability to Orta-trt aalSarlace tklawert Kaaw Nat «rom Wbaaci it Cobms Either they, (the great n.: Derations) will have to submit ut reasonable submission by .p government action of a far more lr*,uic i.pe. —Iloosovelt, in his recent Ci.anau- qua address. And Teddy's words threw lho l.os Angeles Record into reminiscent mood to the extent of the following and. some more of the same sort: "Judged by their actions, the men who control the great monopolies of thc country are proceeding on the theory of the French Bourbous— after us the deluge." They are reckless in their outlawry. They not only oppose the passing of laws legal and just, but they grossly violate the laws we have." This is indeed tough and the great corporations * ought to be ashamed of themselves. Surely they, will mend their manners after the "strenuous" one's warning, and the Bec- ord's melancholy complaint. So confident are we of this that we do not deem it necessary to "butt in.:' One of the most noticeable propensities of the average man is an abiding faith in the power of the law- It seems to be quite a shock to both Roosevelt and the paper in question, that the great corporations do not, nor wilf not obey the law, i.e., statute law. If such people would but stop to reason a little, they would soon discover that no living thing in the matter of Its growth and unfoldment obeys any other law than that which underlies nnd determines its existence. It obeys in tho last analysis, only the law of self-preservation, which has been denominated as Nature's first law. The economic law underlyine th? growth and development of every living thing reigns supreme and unless the puny enactments of man conform closely to those underlying laws they will prove null and void and might better never have been passed. Like every other living thing, capital must either grow or die; like every other living thing, onco it can no longer add to its status and its powers, decay sets in and death to within measureable distance. The growth, development, and consequently the health of capital depends solely upon the absorption of surplus-value from wage-labor and. the canversion of that surplus-value into additional bone and tissue, i.e., additional capital. In this manner, capital ad.is to its stature and powers, in much the same manner as an individual does by' absorbing food and converting it into additional flesh and blood and bone ann marrow. Whenever man made law stands in the way of the individuals obeying the very law of Its existence, that law, the law of self-preservation, furnishes ample warrant for the individual to walk rough-shod over such human enactments. And what is true of the individual person, is likewise true of every living thing. The modern corporation is the living embodiment of; capital. Thc law underlying its existence, and that will brook no restraint, demands that it add to its stature and strength or perish. In obedience to that demand the corporation is perfectly justified in ignoring the petty obstacles that may he placed in its way by meddlesome lebislators who are long on impudence but short, on =n is what the struggle is about? Such j laborer the average laborer reniem goods to nay for a bed at this time of writing. On the average, therefore, we may say the working-class owns no property and as direct taxes are levied on property they cannot be paid by the working class. • • • The advocates of the fallacy that the workers pay the taxes perceive in a dim way that the workers create all thc wealth that exists, but they do not perceive at what point of the game the worker and the wealth are parted. When once this point is clearly grasped, the worker no longer worries over what is happening among the political grafters, municipal, provincial and federal, for he understands that the wealth squandered by these individuals has never been in the possession of the worker • • • Thc worker is robbed once and for stand out in u contest against the >" at lh' tinM' bc "*■ "? !a^ employer. This is the Tase of our P°wor Hls master buvs h'8 ,ab°r i power at the market rate, which Iclleci rv "instructive to socialists to lof tho attractions nt tho fair. Though they may from time to time engago in quarrel and dispute over some matter incidental to the master and slave relationship existing between a "travelling •variety show, and one 'thorn, such as wages, hours of labor, along ... "'" Ihitnin and Germany it might The spectators seem to heartily up- |*i<>t alter tho fact that it is a poli apposed that the over-lengthen- 'predate the visit of the sailors, but Iticul struggle. Tho war in Manehu- ('nn|n of descendants of the house appear to forgot to give vent to their -m has been a political struggle, in- "c'lih gave promise of a sufn- feelings." jasmuch as it has been a struggle •v ""tuple supply. Perhaps after j |, doesn't seem to have occurred to for mastery over the field of indus- [ wasn't unconscious humor, 'the writer that possibly the crowd :try. '''HI'S tin. ...11,..»).1 Ll—tl . .. . ... 1 _> ... I riru.. hawAW .-.f inlflrftaI bCtWCCn is cxpres- is an exited; the ave. Out ...oso capable of read' 'or "natives." The workers are lid- lof this condition arises war to the "'tween the linos. I have known jting very class-conscious these days, dentil bdween them ial wage-slaves try to pre- u appears that the sailors are bit- & modicum of solf-rosi>cct in |terly dissatisfied with their reception in Toronto and complained that thoy The Slavish Middle-Class. I ware simply regarded in the light of It I I'1' l a little longer on the'some topic i„«.ving that, no middle-class social On this point the (Slolxt of September 1st, savs in reference to the remarks of an ofllcor complaining of thc treat-, ment. received: "Those who stood along the fence of the Exhibition race track on Tuesday night, and heard the chaff and jeers, whetherod good-hunioi'etl or not which were hurled nt the men as they performed their laborious drill, and displayed tho perfection of discipline which' distinguishes tho first line of defence of Great Britain and Ireland and the Orenter Britntns across tho seas, tnnv bo disposed somewhat mournfully to acquiesce in tho strictures of the gallant officer." So that even In jingo Toronto, tho most British city in Canada, the scheme of developing popular enthusiasm for Imperialism by the presence of a royal prince and a band of naval mercenaries exhibiting their precision in the work of murder, has resulted in flat, dismal failure! The masses arc growing class-conscious indeed, and the Socialist propaganda may fairly r,niln n sna,c ot th,> cr<" dit'. Out-nnd-out converts to Socialism may be few comparatively, but the people me nt -Oust getting to etc., that for which they will eventually wage "war to the knife and tho knife to the hilt," has absolutely nothing to do with the price of la- ibor power, or the circumstances surrounding its sale. This warfare will be. waged over the ownership and control of the means of wealth produc- does not alter the fact if we make I posed to the onslaught ilord, banker, and the others of '-at ^53ff.SSff- tTVtk*bOX,t *0rVoi"par^^nTgo\o make fcCtlSSl of a'strZ /te: ** ^ ^^ ™" ^ * e of anti-trust, anti-monopoly, anti-expansion, anti-discrimination, nnti.this and antl-that laws will be brushed aside by the Inexorable though unwritten laws that spring from the vitals of property. Within capitalist property itself lies the law that cannot be denied if capital is survive. That law must reign supreme until the working-class through intolerable exploitation is forced-to rise, break the rule of capital and inaugurate a system of property in the means of wealth production more in conformity with their needs and requirements. This ones can take part. But that would be socialism-—SPARTACUS, in Win- form of property will in turn ntpeg Voice. its own laws "■'li i . ' 1 : . I: rs —. -..'.' i-m __T Wm , i* I **._ £ ■.i-t ii-f* •"nwj _H !*K m \\W' _B __K ■ ■i-*: ■ *''•:., -_H __Ev"i" -9 ■Wl-V■' _»■ '!___» ■&:'.. _■_■*&:• '■"■ __P*T" : w& _^_K2??""'' s M^"; lv __aNt^ 9 _»:'*'r«\:. jjBj w-BMTCMt ouLmion, ▼■%» oouvn, t. flaturday, September i«. llu Western Una therefore, .no workhouses or poor- houses, though thore are many hospitals where the kick are healed gratuitously. Practically everyone con earn a living. Would that we could Bay the same.—Pall Mall Gazette. If the Gazette will possess itself with patience until lhe capital sys- Publtshed every Saturday ia the Interests of the Working Class nlone at the office of the Western Clarion, Flack block basement, 165 Hastings item has had time to develop in Ja- stroet, Vancouver, B. C. pan io anything like its proportion in England, or upon this Western j Continent, it will, discover the Jap- 8UBSCRIPTI0N *. SI.00 PER ANNUM Strictly in Advance. Yearly nibacrlption cards In lota of •»• or mora, 78 cents each. Advertising rates on application. II yea reeatve thla paper lt la paid far. Aedreae all commualcaUooa to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver, fi. C. DAILY STINK-POT. The ordinary daily newspaper affords a faithful reflex of this glor- jrg that is bos- 339 Watch the label on your paper If this number is on it, your subscription expires next issue. Saturday, September 16, 1905. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Ii there is ono particular propensity among persons who imagine themselves socialists that is particularly nauseating it is the disposition to be eternally bawling about some capitalist hireling, hanger-on, or scalawag, looting the "public treasury." He who understands the conflict of interest between the two economic classes in human society, knows government to be purely a class instru. ment, and the so-called "public treasury" merely aa institution ot the ruling class. True to their thieving instincts the members of that class will help themselves to the contents of the "public treasury" whenever opportunity offers. Not only does their thieving instinct and training prompt them to, in the lirst instance, rob the working class out of the product of its toil, but also prompts each individual thief to pilfer from his fellows. Whenever one of this particular fraternity gets a chance at the thieves '' treasury,'' he very naturally, and quite in conformity with ruling class ethics, seizes whatever of value is lying around loose, and surely it is no one's business outside of that economic class whose property this "public treasury" is. The exploited class, the plundered working class, can not be properly interested in thc matter either one way or the other. Tho funds that go into the "public treasury" are ostensibly to be used for tbe purpose of holding the exploited in subjection to their exploiters, i.e., lo maintain the machinery and powers of government, if grafters and crooks were to get away with the entire contents of the "public treasury," there would be nothing left for the mainienance of the army, navy, de- IKity sherilfs, judges und all of their accursed apparatus of repression. This might tend to make it easier for the oppressed worker to stand erect and assume thu attitude of u man. Doubtless the objections raised in capitalist circles against the looting of the "public treasury," arise from a consciousness that such a disposition of the "public:' funds diverts them from the highly commendable purpose of repression for which they have been originally set aside. Hind your own business, is a good rule to observe, lt is one the proletariat should learn to follow to the letter. The artistically exploited wage-slaves of capital should carefully keep their noses out of their masters' business. The cunning little financial tricks the members of the ruling class, aad their hangers- on, play upon each other should be allowed to pass unnoticed-aud .without adverse comment. If individual members of that delectable fraternity expend energy in looting the so- called "public treasury," that is in plundering each other, tho workers might as well thank their lucky stars that it is that much energy expended that might otherwise have been used to tear the few remaining patches of hide off their own backs. The proletarians have no small job on their hands if they attend strictly to their own business, und keep their noses out of the Kilkenny cat fight that goes on within the ranks , of their exploiters over the division of tho proceeds of the swindle perpetrated upon them under the rule of capitalist proix-rty. NO I-AUI-EHS IN JAPAN. With all our high wages and boasted civilization, the fact remains that you will see moro wretchedly poor in any of our great cities in a day than you will see in Japan in a lifetime. In other words you will seo no destitution in Japan. Though some are very poor, yet all seem to be well fed, clothed and housed and are invariably cheerful, and what is more surprisingly, invariably clean. There are 'no paupers in Japan and, anese working class floundering in the same slough of misery and despond as the Knglish and American workers. There will then be pau- Iiers, workhouses and poorhouses in abundance. It is safe to predict that once the present war is over aud the thousands of soldiers are returned to peaceful pursuit- tapitalist development in the island Empire will proceed apace, and the workers be rapidly reduced to the worst extremes of misery and exploitation. The fruit that capitalist development bears in one country it must inevitably bear in others, and that fruit is conscienceless and unabridged power in the hands of its beneficiaries (capitalists; on the one side, and unlimited poverty and misery for its victims tthe workers), upon the other. The activity at present displayed in the Japanese business world, is but thu bloom that presages the coming fruit. The crop will be a prolific one and it will speedily ripen. same effect as though the 150,000 made the demand together. If there be an ample surplus of labor In the market, the demand will prove fruit- Ws civilization of ou less of everything save refusal, and U u,,0n the plunder of labor ai Mitchell ought to know it if he does han(!s of Capital. The following is not The gains made in 1903 as a JT ;K,.m,lU' list of the head-lines up- result of the arbitration award have I the flr8t page of one of the Se- been of doubtful value and are al- •„,„„ paily Stink-Pots, of recent most .certain to be lost when the \ award expires. Anything Short of | --Hani-inn and his Tarty in Grave a thick-headed ass can see that no- 'Danger. • Hundreds in It- thing is or can be gained by such a | BarthquaKe ki.is line of action as bucking an over- -"J^. (-miners wjth Blazing Oil stocked labor market. "1. you don't get thc-call it SttnK The demand for recognition of the Pot-you don^g fc-g^ ^ union, i.e., the employment of union • °"- ammmi men only, is open acknowledgement of the adverse conditions of the labor market. When the demand that only union men be employed is made il is open confession tjiat the market is overstocked, that is that a surplus of labor is available. When that condition prevails ii » uiten.» impossible to maintain prices,*- l wages.) Upon finishing the above wo picked up one of our Japanese exchanges, "The Chokugen," which had just arrived and found therein chronicled that the authorities of Tokio were working out a plan to remove tho slums to some point in the suburbs of the city. Tho capilalist fruit crop is lurther advanced toward maturity in that country than we were aware of. •No Charges Made. •Statement Denied that Charges were being Prepared Against thiol Cook. "Report Given Out. "Fire Chief Criticized and Intimation Given of Drunkenness in Depait- "Tscandal EarpOBed in Department ° "American Railroad Man Who was Threatened. "Corporate Taxes Shifted on Tub- is Guarded by ___ Every Local of the Socialist Party of Canada should run a carl under this head. $1.00 per month, ecretaries please note. SOCIALIST PAHTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Dominion Executive Committee, A. tt. Stebbings, John E. Dubberley, Ernest Hums, C. Peters, AH. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; J. U. Morgan, secretary, 551 Barnard St., Vancouver, 11. C. 51H- .Hv',ry ,-nbo' ■'"'"•> ■" u.Tr,^"^- viU-il lo place I curd im.t,.,. ,,. ".'"-.''Me t,. month, beenrtarit, pteue u^!""*' luj>j And this was by fur the most decent and readable page in the online paper. Great is the Daily Stink-Pot ; Faithful mirror of a Stink-Pot civilization. lf Mitchell leads his dupes up lie. against the adverse conditions of the I "Millionaire's Party "• ,...,, , iMikados Soldiers." labor market that will as surely exist next spring as they do now there will be but a repetition of the hopeless struggles pf the past, in which the rank and file have put up the price, fought the battle and endured the miseries, while the Mitchells, et al., have never missed a meal or paid a cent. So long as the rank and file is hoodwinked by the stero- typed mouthings of these professional boosters of capitalism, so long will it be impossible to enlist them LOCAL VANCOUVER. No. 1. 8. P. > of C. Business meetings every Wednesday evening In the headquarters, Ingleside block (room 1, second floor), 318 Cambie street. Educational meeting* every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock ln tho Sullivan Hall, Cordova street. D. P. Mills, secretary, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. WHERE WILL THE LABOR COME FROM, BATTENBERG. lt would have been ungracious while Battenberg was with us to say a word that could have been deemed discourteous. But now that he has gone, we,may remark that this excessive' adulation of every sprig of LOCAL VICTORIA, No. 2, S. P. of C. II. J. B. Harper, secretary, Rock Bay Hotel, Victoria, B. 0. Phoenix Trades and L^boTr^ Meets every alternatf S°Unci- John Riordan, preside,,,- TS Brown, vice-president- p f, *'*■ cassc sergcant-at-arms'' w'h ,.*""' bury, secretary-treasurer P r\ ?"*' I 198, Phoenix. B. C. ' P' °- H I Phoenix Miners' Union~~_~"~ W. K. M. Meets „$ &1 evening at 7.30 o'clock in u-**1 Francis Knott. ,,re8iM'w secretary. hall ehl. F. _arry,"^L,_:Ki,l6"t.Ai. LOCAL REVELSTOKE, No. 7. BL Heigfriod, secretary, P.O. box 208, Revelstoke, B. C. LOCAL NANAIMO. No. 3. Daniel Livingstone, secretary, Box 452, Nanaimo, B. 0, a movement for their own deliv- .royalty is more suitable to a title- in ^^^^^ crance from slavery. the miseries of wage- AN INFERNO. Thc Springfield Republican intimates that it may be necessary in tho end to call for volunteers to perform the labor of building the Panama Canal, to which the United States has set its hand. Both Japanese and Chinese laborers, it says, arc disinclined to undertake the work, and lhe Italian Ambassador to 'the l.niled States warns Italia laborers away from the Isthmus o account of the unhealthy conditions prevailing there. We have been repeatedly told that it was our great captains of industry, who build the railways, factories, steamships, canals, otc. What is the matter with these worthies digging their own Panama ditch? Not long since we read of a fellow by tho name of Van Home whom it was alleged built the Canadian Pacific ttailway. This was in itself no small achievement. Surely the man who could accomplish that could dig a ditch of 10 miles or so in length with little or no assistance. Were all of the capitalists of the States who aro interested in putting through the Panama scheme, to go down there, roll up their sleeves, grab pick and shovel and go at it. the job would, no doubt be finished in short order. About the chief draw-back to this, however, lies in the fact that while these captains of industry were engaged on the Panama job, there would be no one left to carry on industry at home, and the women, children, workingmen, and other incompetents might starve., lf the workingmen will not go to Panama, and the "captains of industry" cannot be spared, it truly places us in a dilemma most perplexing. Upon second thought it occurs to us lhat it matters nol to tho workers whether the ditch is dug or not. They will in either event be penniless ■wage-slaves in a competitive market forced to sell their labor power from day to day starve. From such accounts as reach us it appears that, all Russia, during these days is little less than an inferno. Thousands have been slain and the killing is continually on the increase. In some places the soldiers enter cheerfully upon their bloody work, in some cases not even waiting for orders. In other cases they fraternize with the peasants and workmen, even to the extent of joining in the pillage of the estates of the big landlords. One thing seems assured, and that is that the Czar's government finds itself each day more impotent to repress the uprisings and distur- hunling fast set than to the sensible and self-respecting citizen. Battenberg bears the specially German title of Serene Highness, and is related to royalty. But in England he is a British Admiral without any extraordinary position, and Englishmen would smile at the demonstration of supreme homage which followed him here.—Weekly Sun. This is courage and manliness for you with a vengeance. To remain silent while the toadies were figuratively licking the boots of this useless Battenberg bric-a-brac, was to acquiesce in thc toadying. It wus LOCAL VANANDA, No 22. Edward Upton, secretary, Vananda, Texada Island, B. 0. LOCAL TORONTO — Meets 2nd and and 4th Tuesdays, Temperance Hall Bathurst St. F. Dale, Secretary, 41 Henry street, W. O. Gribble, organizer, 130 Hogarth Ave. Everything went along smootliiy until a non-union man wns given a ;"b. when the union men struck. i'uis showed conclusively that the lief purpose of their union was to • ir- ral the jobs for its members, an aguinst those outside of it, aid that wages nnd hours were merely nn :d- ental to the main proposition. .-"•. Old of the establishments struck njpatust had not employed non-union nun, ESTABLISH Hi) ,'894 The VOICE Tat Oldest Labor Paper 11 dm, Always a fearlesss exponeul it, tli, cause of labor. For one dollnr the paper will _ s«-nl to any «dilre«s f(,r one dm. Workingmen of all coonlrieirtil soon recognize tin- fact that that must ripport and read their lah_ papers. Issued every Priday, -%. The Voice Pablishing Co., Lnited WINNIPEG, man .1. Howard Bird. a c iifv,.,.,,-! OSO. K. Mel', „ "•■"""'--.I BIRO, BRYOOK-JAGK & Mc-ROSSM BARItlSTKKS, SOI.lt IT0R8, RC, KmIIw*)' HliH'k Tel. 829, I'll. Iloijj) S24 MastifS Strati • Vancouver, n| but upon being asked to gi\e u.-r-ur- probably a somewhat tardy feeling iances ,hnl tm'v wOUld no1 do *° of shame that prompted the Sun to bawl his Serene Battenberg out in this manner after his departure. Royalty either main stem or "sprig" would have no excuse for existence they had refused, hence the wall.out of the men. According to the Appeal to Ilea son, the Kansas City Chief of l'o- ^m^^^^^^^m^^^^^emm^^^^^^^m (lice sent plain clothes men into a were it not for toadies and slobber- ' . ,. . ,_ .«. socialist street meeting for the pur- f any socialists -THE- Miners'Magazint| Published Weekly by thi Weitcrs Federaiiun 01 Miners A Vigorous Advocate of Labori | Cause. Clear-Cut and Aggreaaive, Per Year $1.00. Six Months, *| Address: MINEBS' MAGAZINE, Denver. Colorado. No sensible and solf-res- sign as indicating that the brutal 'ing idiots. „u »,..-,._..: _.,_ -o.,-.^- ; of (,is,.ov<,rin- t bonces. This is in itself a good pecting citizen will pay any alien- ^ n>volv(>rs <)n th(>ir ftt.rson ,,r<_ tion to anything so contemptibly .mnmhly th(. Ka„1P was ,,, nrrest a nauseating under any circumstances L^ ^ ^^ ,iospctajos „-,, of wna e\er. course make a lot of noise about ; it. No guns were found, however. NOTE AND COMMENT The Appeal warns all socialists to be especially careful about going to In the press reports of the terrible inoelings car,ying revolvers about famine ln Spain it is stated that the 1m,ir IKirson lmi a ,,retext be af- wcrktng people are living on roots. Just forded the authorities to exercise what the non-working people ute living drastic measures J nst them. The on is not stated, but it is safe to as- *08te™ Clarion would emphasize the warning. Bon t carry a revolver sume that they are not rooting for a anvwh„ro. It is too small and inef- living, fective a weapon. Save your mon* ——o ley and buy a canon, and always The profession of the law should kieep it within easy reach, so you be a noble one, as its object ought may instantly lay your hand upon it every in time of need. He sure and get !one with long range, the longer the Law has been well defined as tho better, "science ol injustice. ' This is so | Th(, arand Cent nil Station in New palpably true that the Journal is , York ,, reportea about to cut ofT scarcely justified in speculating lipo- 1^, ^^ from thejr padHJa-pBd _-,.. anything so ridiculous as stated |ters, who now get so much in the a"ove' :way of tips that there are many The Japanese are beginn'ng to harvest the aftermath of the Manchur- ian war, and it is safe to assume that it will amount to a irrge repressive measures so long exercised can no longer be enforced. While the experience being undergone by the Russian people is an awful one, and promises to be long continued, it is necessary before they can arrive at tho attainment of the liberties towards which they are so valiantly striving. lf the Russian peasants and workmen but had arms in their hands how dilTcrent the talc might be. That which they are suffering at the hands of brutal rulers, because of their defenceless condition, ought to point out to the working- men of other countries the wisdom ij"-* of procuring arms as against tho day ^aa.-W^i gSS Journal,0 of need. An armed proletariat would not be subject to quite such harsh treatment as is measured out to an unarmed one. or TROUBLE AHEAD. C. PETERS Practical But ^^^^^^^^^ and Shoe lihr it.ui,|.Mu,1. rirK.ts and Mioo ii- tn on [ all filylrv Rcrpthiitfl pioinjjly aw ly door, stotk of -t..j-l. read] Slto* r r)l»:'\.. "ii hand 2436 Wtslarisaltr Ave Mourn r-c»*| neil- miV I MORE "EXCELLENCIES." A car-load of "excellencies" in the shape of a real live Lord and two Ladys by the name of Grey, toured the Crow's Nest" Pass on September 12. The toadies and boot-lickers were on way more applicants for the jobs than there are places to Ik? filled. At least Colliers Weekly thus states it. If the tips amount to sufficient to supply the toadying slaves' necessl crop before they get through with ,k.s w.ny sn()lll(| tho cOIn,wnv tH hand at the various villages It The present disturbances at To- along thc line, and the usual kowtowing, presentation of addresses and other flummery was gleefully indulged in. The he "excellency" was, of course, "profoundly impressed" with the prosperity und "richness of the district," ad infinitum, ad nauseum kio are attributed to dissatisfaction among thc people over thc terms of peace arranged at Portsmouth. Whon the hundreds of thousands of men re called tipon to make payment in tho shape of wages'? Should the tips increase to a .sum more thun sulli- jcient to supply the servile stomach with needful food and the slavish SMOKE Kurtz's Own Kurtz's Pioneers Spanish Blossoms WAGE-LABOR AND C-.HU I By KARI. MARX. Single copies ,s cents, ottm ».«; c tits. 15 copies, -ix-i'iit- t°j copies Jt.oo. too copies and otfl 2 cents per cop v. These rates include posl«g-l|j anv part of Canada or ihe imk-l Stoles. Printed In tbe Office of- The Western Clarioil not 836 turn from the front, and the reau> bock wilh clothing, etc., thc slaves tion that always of necessity fol- should be compelled to surrender the lows in the footsteps of war. sets in, !«"n>l»s to tho company, to whom in , . . A . all decency it would properly bo- Their "Excellencies" went into the .there will be further trouble, but of Iong .;usfit0 demands that ever! All were inten- |a different kind. It will be the 'one receive his due. All that a The arbitration award of 1903 in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania, expires next April. As the Western Clarion has pointed out, there arc plentiful signs of trouble when it comes to making new contracts with the men. The coal companies have been and are still making preparations to enforce their demands. In spite of all the sophistical arguments of the Mitchells and such like, to the contrary, the conditions of tho labor market are continually becoming such as to favor the position of the com|ianies in thc struggle should such occur. ln a receirt speech at Tamaqua, Pcnn., Mitchell is quoted as saying: that he "will demand an eight-hour working day nnd the recognition of tho union in the anthracite region so thnt. thereafter we can say to llaer, here is tho labor of 150,000 men and boys. We want so much for it, and you enn take it or leavo it." Tho miners can do that now as individuals, and it will have .the mine at Coleman. sely interested and Lady Orey was not content until she had taken a pick and picked down several lumps of coal, which the various members carried away as souvenirs." If the' coal had been carried away for ordinary purposes, this ''excellency" female might be complimented upon having did at least one useful thing in her life. But as it is, even this poor honor must lie denied her. After the slobbering had been finished thc car-load of "excellency" was headed eastward, which it is hop ed may be taken as an indication that Vancouver is to be spared the infliction of a similar boot-licking exhibition. PROBABLY ALL DRUNK. Burglars entered the residence of some swell people near Stamford. Connecticut, recently, and carried off a -100-pound safo containing about $20,000 worth ot jewels. As there were eighteen people sleeping in tho house at the time, and the burglars did the Job without, disturbing any of them, there would seem to bo I ut one explanation that would fit tho case. trouble that arises from stringent slave can justly lay claim to is his times, lack of employment and low j"-*P* "hether he lie themwlnipod horse or the biped ass. The logic of wa(?e8' j wage-slavery leads us up against .... . ... , isome concltislusions that would once The prohibition laws of Mnssachu- haVe shocked 11S. A„ we ^cognize sells, Connecticut, New York, Iowa, |the true significance of the wage- New Hampshire and Vermont have system these conclusions become been repealed, and though still upon i'i"'1''' common-place. the statute boo! s in Maine and Kan- sas, they are acknowledged to be ' The I,re,88 <-'"-'-P--,c-*i'f **eP«**t two ' „ , , .... hundred Japanese policemen wound- practically null and void. All of ^ fn To|do disturbances of Sept. which goeth to show that the under- J7th. Evidently the Japs are not lying economic laws of capitalism made of that material that will sub- are more powerful than the petiy ie- ,mlt *° -»°UeVl«"i??ttlr wl«h<«t re- '.. isentinent. Had it been our own gal enactments of states. r_oi. is 1-^,,, ,ho broken heads would hftVe profit to bc made in the manufuc- jbeen all on the ather side and the ture and sale of liquors and pi out |Polire would have escaped unscathed, is the supreme power in the damum of capitalist property. It is about timo our prohibition friends, and other silly folk who fancy thi". morality, rectitude of conduct an I general good behaviour can be u.for. e I by legal enactment, took a tumLlo to their folly. The reul essence of unionism us it exists to-day was beautifully pro- trayed recently in Chicago. Thc boss printers posted notices th.it hereafter their composing rooms would be operated as o|xn shops, wagw nnd hours to remain the same as before 16s Hasting" Street Vancouver) B.0| Ter year, Ji .<». Six moiit-«.{ cents. Strictly In advan:e. Bundles of 25 « r morr 1 cm* P01 copy. The Western Clarion i> «*1 compromising advocate " I revolutionary tiSiut.itK-iis 01 working class ... lhe f'"^ of capitalist properly aiiiHW*- plciiient, tlie wage systtm TAKE YOUR HAT TO J"* HAT HOSPITAL 15S Cordova Street And havo It rejuvenated J* life. Old Hats Cleaned, Vt*m Made as Good ns N'"w " workmen and at moderate CO" • Elijah Learrt. THE MODERN HAT B*-Si United Hatters of North Amen you are buytn. • FOn HAT"-1; J Ina Union Label l« SBWed In »• A >_>N_-nfgi>_^ When tlia (leniilne wmwn -.-«... ■- -or, hai loom label* In his poBS«»ion and "» one In a h_t for you. do not patroni"1 .^ | lebeli In retell etoree are counterfoil ^jjg Union Label le perforated on four adg"> ^ earns ee a postage stamp. Counter!, i- l|nl„, ilmea perforated on three edgee. satI so b„ n| on two. John B. Stetson Co . ol 1 -" non-union concern. j JOHN A. MOFFITT. President. Orsng*. MAIITIN LAWLOIt. Secretary. -' New Yerfc. rg.rarday. September 16. JOOo. T-tt WH-TPtW CLAMOR, VUTOOUVl-t, % 0. jg OF ELECTRICITY IN STEEL MAKING |Th- llSL' ' , iuiUI"''''' luch I"-61"6 , engineers set . ui ono i the electric furnace in ,„|.t. of steel is arousing st, although steel-makers in by no means to „_ regarding it. On the i claimed that electric evolutionl-B the mtvnu- siriittiuul steels as at madt. ,,v llessemer and tho tl, process and) on the oth- bancli th the '■'" lfleftrth furnace ■ho wrl-*-- __^_^_^_^ lg Si.i'l'l'-""*"' '• nt ii Ik tun • hiin'1 " telling •■l11 t'll'l.' l»'ii-li,'a!,n t(in, it can not compete nt ihle process or the o|>- F. W. Harboid, it the subject under tho . -Electric Steel" in The •Loudon, August _; Engineer- believes that the between these two cx- I that tho manufacturer hn lakes advantage, with judgment j knowledge, of the great possibi- tif thu electric furnace will be iniist exceptional position, llu ie 0n i" wy! inning (the pnst yeur) very coii- lerable nuantlUes of electric steel .,. initi made both In Sweden and I France, nn1' have been used with ,1 gaiisfactory results for all ,s,.s ol tools und cutlery, and for i,„iv ,it her purposes for which tho test i las I* emph ntlili >- o d i" ! been ; ol ' I ;. n without attempting to com* .■ ivith Ihe latter quality of steel, llni'liord concludes, there is an ni'n-i" field for the electic process the production of steel for tubes, rife forgings, uxles, tires, special ordnance nnd weapons, and i s- lially loi dynamos, "in which di- m.' In- says, "the electric, fur- promiscs great things," >,.-. ing the greal purity of ils pro lu-'l. 1-ticiilarly Ihe small ijenh'tge of bon mui manganese, He adds: Niiiii inns experiments have shown ii ili-iitic steel ls not only ex- ilv pine, but it is nlso excep- Itiiillv homogeneous, and this is a si important point in the manu- Itnrn ol large steel castings. When it is remembered that, for special purpose!*, cablings, sometimes ol oil or OU tons, have to be mudu b> mixing the contents of u number ot crucibles not i ontuining mute than one hundred weigut uacn, mu advantages ol being able to iuumi Steel equal in an respects as lo quality, in nuiiiiiiuea ol i., Ipuu ami pousiui-, mure, «iii reuiiil-i bu apparent. - . Una sieel luuiK- in nn eiectt ic furnace should possess superior proper- nes to steel ol Bimilat' composition produced either in a Swedish ttesse- msr converter or in au open-hear in iniiiuing ii greal uefti, out sui.ii acclaiming a great Ueul, but such uo- puai'8 io be undoubtedly Uie met, und this ts due probably to Its production in what may be regarded as u practically neutral atmosphere, uu- iler conditions in which the occlusion oi gases and ovurbxiciation is reduced iu a minimum, "it is i'tetiui.'iitl.s urged that tho cost of electric energy in this coun* trv makes the production of steel in uny thing like quantities a commercial Impossibility; bm ■ . . bj using the gas furnace for tho moiling, and the electric furnace only for the ituai operation, the difference in cost, as regards electric energy, will proliubl\ be more than met by lho lower price of uur raw material and our proximity to inar_ets tor the sule of the finished product .... "In Ihe electric furnace of tho He- sistunce type. . . . tho highesl- cluss steel can bc made from Eug- . . lish scrap, such us rail cods, bul worm- iagUjnsl lnc uaving effected in this ■•-**-— ■' - has to be set tho cost of ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Tho cl- ectnic furnace, oven under tho best conditions, is not a cheap inciter, but us u refining furnace toward the end of the operation, when a very high temperature is required, it is far more efficient; it therefore seems probable that the future development of the electric furnace will be in combination with some form of continuous open-hearth process, in which molten pig-Iron i.s converted into whut. we may term 'molten scrap- steel' in a gas-fired furnace, and then transferred in the molten state to the electric furnace for final purification. By this means the additional cost over ordinary open- hearth steel would be comparatively small, the me,ting and preliminary refining having been done in the gus- Ircd furnace, und the electric furnace being employed only to do the final refining at Buch high temperatures as those at whicb it alone is able to I work most efficiently and economical- !ly."—-Literary Digest. crucible steel was forced. . - . Considerable i this steel have been sup- S'lclliclil firms, who have iblo to convince themsel- xceptionally high quality. manufacture of crucible steel for ml purposes, important as it is to country, owing to the . remit at ion for quality which ... , .. acquired, is, however, only ono ,"'•*'-"-• <*on . inparalively small branch of out |the electric energy required \ii: steel Industry; and perhaps the nl important question is to what I It,nt electric smelting can lie cm- I foi the manufacture of the nt! classes of steels between i,l ordinary llessemer, or open- ,iri)i steel." TWO KINDS OF ADVICE I Nl'.i'ONOMICAL ECONOMY. i si Louis there is a Yanl-,e i set i ie,i In the Mound City after Civil War find has there built up ortune of millions. 'I"tie e 0110- is ,iii(i conservatism by which he accumulated his little pile have nnsed wilh his years. Aciiliisi- in has become n habit. I.- hns one sort over whose expen- uics he keens careful watch. Re- Itly ihis offspring took an up- 'i car. The father who saw hinn |nnl the cur. and knew his desllna- ludged he had si>ent his fare ilishly. I'hm pv.ming, after dinner, the eld- itlletl the younger man into tne irar* saving he hnd something to I him. ''But first," he Interrupt- rising from the chair, "I win |n down the light; we can tal* s well in the dark, and it II sine the ens':" He then pro- Itl.'rt in giva reasons why the ex- hdituie of the uptown car fare'was wary. As he went on explain- .• value of economy, out of the Jrkiies. tthere his son net he heard Bumbling and shulHing. Much to distaste lhe noise continued. At igth, healed to impatience, ho cried >.vliat ore you doing**" I Father," came from out of ckness, "I ran hear just as limn 'em, und, while we're sitting In the dark, I'm taking off my pttscrs to save 'em." ihe rest of thnt evening econ- were not discussed.—Success. TIIE MEN WHO DO NOT LIFT. The the well IT WAS ALL OVER, 'No moro will 1 hear his footdteps yonder walk as the clock strikes hour of B." 'tlrarlous, .leanetto!" Ann* Iho parlor light will never |in tiuw for him again." Vnii don't mean it'?" I do, and furthermore, ho will Iter ail on this sofa three nights week nnd call me pet names, as had been doing for two years." nm astonished woild is sympathetic. The .statement none can doubt: When A's in trouble don't we think lhat II should help him out? Of course we haven't time ourselves lo care for nny one, But yet wo ho|ie that other folks will see that it is done. We want the grief and penury of earth to be relieved. We'd have the battles grandly fought, the Victories achieved, We do not care to take the lead nnd stand the brush and brunt, At lift int*, we're a failure, but we're splendid on 'he grunt. And there are others, so we find, as on our way we jog. Who want to ilo tho lifting on the small end of the log: They do a lot of blowing nnd they Strive to make it known That were 'here no one else to help they'd lift it all alone. If talkint* were effective there scores nnd scores of men Who'd move a mountain off its and move it back again: But ns a class, to state it plain language true and blunt, They're never worth a cent to lift, for all they do is grunt. •—Hamilton, (Ont.) Times. I'hc workingmen of Argentina, Ur uguay and Paraguay expects big strikes and lockouts within the next six or eight months. American seamen, longshoremen, and other work- ngn.cn connected with the transport industry ought t„ prepare to help Ihem by refusing to carry 0r unload cargoes put on board at the ports 01 those countries by scab labor or under military compulsion. The capitalists of the United States arc taking a lively interest in South American affairs these days, for their own ''!• .u' ,, Ho ought the workingmen of the United Stales to do, on their Side—Tho Worker. The American seamen, longshoremen, and other workingmen ought to commit no such folly. Neither will Ihey if they possess as much Krey matter in their cranium as the ruler of the universe is supposed to bestow upon tho proverbial goose. There has been altogether too much of this bulky-horse play indulged in already by the American working- man. It. speaks volumes for his luck of intelligence if he is Hu'llciwntly stupid to be induced to make a further ass of himself in this direction. It also speaks volumes for the quality oi the mental pabulum of any individual, editorial or otherwise, who will continue to advise him to persist in the folly ut which he has been repeatedly trounced during the past hundred years. lf any South American working mules wish to balk, that's their business and their folly. lt is high time in tho light of the experience of the last century in particular, that the American working mule acquired sense enough to at least begin to act like a man. There is work for the laborer to do if ho is to break loose from the shackles of slavery. This work can not be accomplished by committing the folly of imitating a balky horse. It is work that calls for the action of men alond the line of exercising their intelligence und power for the posing of obtaining possession control of the means of production, aiul thus setting themselves lree from capitalist exploitation. Let this as- vising of the working men to commit acts of assininity cease. Let him be told the truth no matter how much it may jolt him, in order that lie may be broken of his commodity habits, and take on the spirit and action of manhood. If American workingmen ever take a lively interest in affairs for their own profit, they will be forced to broaden their view of things, so that their horizon-will b? of greater extent than that of a bilious and balky blind mule. —————o AS A WORKING TOOL for the student and the writer, as an authoritative reference book for schools, teachers, families, business and professional men, there is one book which offers superior advantages in the solid value of its information, and the ease with which it is obtained. One's admiration for Webster's International Dictionary increases daily as it comes to be better known, tt never refuses the information sought and it never overwhelms one with a mass of misinformation illogioally arranged. 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Why, you goose, gdtag to marry him!" —• Coluni- 18 Dispatch, o ■-**• writer in tho current issue of Commons, Chicago, says- "The *"■* Hag of Anarchism flaunting ptrtiction to property, and there- 1 relapses of society to barbarism rod flag of Socialism inviting a tllstrlbutlon of property, which in dor I,, secure the vaunted equality •Bt lie repeated again and again '•instantly decreasing periods" etc Pro we have our friend the "divid- up" bogey, and in a magazine hidi wc HtrppoHcd was too well in- F'-ned to put such rot in typo. The Iter of tho Commons, Graham Ta.V- the well known settlement soclo- Btot, certainly knows just what ["'ialism stands' for, and should not writer who is ignorant, use pages of his publication to |reaa false teachings. If the wri- r lind referred to tho actual dlvid- tup which is forced upon the irker by the capitalist system anil 111 li operates to give tne big share tho capitalist class and to leave lc working class poor, ho would "■■e been getting nt facts.-S. D. I'Tnld. A large, strong and symmetrical wheel, with hub ntul spoke, and tire nnd felloe complete, nil in Al order, hns mysteriously disappeared from the upper premises of "Father" llag- gerty. Whether lost, .strayed of stolen is not known, but any person returning the snme in good order will receive as u reward the enduring gratitude of the world's millions of onslaVCd (oilers whose emancipation from wage bondage cannot Ik.' effected without the wheel. All persons on- earnestly requested to be on the lookout for this property, It will be easily recognized, ns there never was alio* her one anything like it. Later'—From nil accounts, "Father" Hagerty ll ho father of the wheel) is also lost. Should the two articles be found by the snme person, the "Father" may bc kept as nn additional award, and no questions will be asked. MORE OR LESS PUNGENT. 'Well, what did Orders.—Employer he say to you?" Clerk: "That he'd break every bone in my body and pitch ine out of the window if I showed my face in his oiiice again!" Etnployer: ' "Then go back and tell him thnt he is vastly mistaken if bo thinks he can intimidate me by his violence."—Life. SEWING MACHINE. ROLLER -EARINO, HIGH GRADE, by buying thb reliable, honest, high grade sewing machine. STRONGEST GUARANTEE. National Sewing Machine Co., SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. FACTORY AT BELVIDERE. ILL. Hudson's Hay Company, Agents Printing That Is RIGHT OUR JOB PRINTING Depart. ment has been recently added to hy the purchase of a new Job Press and other material. Our Job Department is now turning out the best Job. commercial end other classes of printing. If you havo anything ln the way of Billheads, Letterheads, Envelopes, Cards, Tickets, The Western Clarion A writer in Journal, says: strike, iChicago), and inglorious end the Garment Workers the ditch, there are strong organizations with defeat the Typographical "Tho teamsters camo to a hapless Now, instead ol lying alone in two admittedly that have met magnitude of with defeat," The magnitude ui their strength is demonstrated by tho fact that they lie in the ditch together. It can readily he understood how much strength Is necessary to 165 HASTINCS STREET P.O. BOX 836 VANCOUVER, B. C. The "writer further adds drawn from the how m do that. ^^^^^ lhat the lesson to be hree months' struggle is that "lt ls inadvisable and dangerous to in the outcome of a strike on force and outlawry." Quite true! If a horse bailee, it is bad enough, but when of this, ho resorts to force kicking the other to pieces, it is for thc balky ular writer is to ^^^^^^ the keenness discernment. Would that I unwise, pin faith by relying Quite true; on top ^^^^^ and outlawry, by horse and the wagon decidedly worse, i.e., horse. This purlieu bo congratulated upon of his Programs, Dodgers, Pamphlets or Books, or any kind of Printing which you want executed promptly and correctly, send lt here. Mall orders for Job Printing from other districts will bo promptly executed to the letter and sent return mail. Prices the samo as for work done In this city. Try us with an order. there were more like htm. Western Clarion The only Labor Paper in Canada that advocates the abolition of the wage system and the ending of Labor's exploitation. It is open and fearless in its advocacy of Labor's cause. One Yea* Six Months $(.00j 50c Yearly Subrcriptions in lots of five or more at the rate of 75 cents each. Bundles of 25 Copies and over, q:c per copy. Send in your order. Get your neighbor to subscribe. Box 836 Vancouvert B. C. __._ ■________«l__)_f_)_l_lM WO WWWVwi wvvwwwv PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialist Party of Canada, | in conventi in a 1 embled, affirm ou ■ allegiance to and support of the principles and prog.arr. of the international revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should ;u«tly belong.. To the owners of the means of wealth production belongs thc product of labor. The present ecoiicmic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is master; the worker is slave. So long as the capitalists remain in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the state will be used to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever- increasing measure of misery and degradation. The interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into ollective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker is rapidly culminating in 1 struggle for possession of the powei of government—the capitalist to hold; the worker to secure it by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upoa all worker* to organize under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic, program, of the working class, as follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, ody what one wishes to be done wo aro very sorry to know tbat such to you. I know that this method a great man as Tolstoy is yet in oeems to be less expedient than so- error as to socialism and the solu- cialism and other frail theories, but tion of social problem, just in the ,it is thc sole true one. And all the efforts we make in trying to realize false—and not reaching their aims- theories only hinder us to employ true nutans to attain the degree of happiness of mankind and of every individual which is proper to our times. Excuse me for the liberty I take to discuss your creed, and for my bad English and believe me to be your true friend. " LEO TOLSTOY. I will bo always glad to have the news from you. same way as the common shallow people are. It runs as follows: • •••••• 23—5 October, 19041 Toula, Yasnaya Foliana. Dear friend Isoo 'Abe, It was a great pleasure for me to receive your letter and your paper,, with the English urticle. I thank yo.u heartily for both. Though I never doubted that there are in Japan a great many reasonable, moral and religious men, who STONES FOR BREAD. As was anticipated last week, the Unemployed Bill was carried through all its stages in the House qf Commons, and may now b? expected to become law by the end of the session. This' result is undoubtedly largely due to outside agitation, ably seconded by Kier Hardie and Will Crooks in the House of Commons. That thc women's deputation to the Prime Minister produced an effect there is no doubt whatever, but probably tho most effective work in connection with the outside agitation in support of the bill was that carried on by our comrades at Manchester. They have worked for manv months persistently and dag- godly, on behalf of the unemployed; and when it came to thc foolish police interference with their perfectly peaceful agitation, Mr. Balfour may have concluded that uu agitation in Manchester touched him too nearly to be ignored, and might even endanger his seat. How far he is likely to safe guard his seat by passing the present measure, however, is hard to say. It is bound to prove a bitter disappointment to those whom it is supposed to be intended to help. We cannot see that it will in any single particular place the unemployed in a better position than they were in last winter, and how they will regard the trick that has been played upon them remains to be seen. On the other hand, that the passing of the bill will blunt the edge of further agitation is obvious; especially after the blessings which have been bestowed upon it. It has been suggested that the measure is entitled to some welcome at our hands, seeing that we have been agitating for legislation, and we could not reasonably have expected anything better from the present Government. But we agitate for what we want; it is not a qniestion of what we expect. Thc government might have met the agitation of thc unemployed with tho proverbial "whiff of grape-shot," it would have been no more than we might have expected: yet we should scarcely have expressed gratitude for such a response to our demands. Nor do we perceive any reason why we should profess to see some virtue in the present measure simply because we could scarcely expect anything better from the government. It has been described as a half-loaf measure, and we are quite willinrr to accept the half-loaf, while still demanding the whole one. But wc do not regard this measure as any instalment of the loaf. On thc con- i Burns & Co. I HARDWARE and Second Hand Dealers. Largest and cheapest stock of Cook Stoves in the City. Boom. Chains, Augers, Log- \ gore' Jacks, Etc. We have moved into oyr new and conunodloua premises : 138 Cordova St., East i *Phm 1579 , Vmcmvw, 8. 6. II*♦w*w*wah**aawa*aawaaam* BRIOSON'S BAKERY Pawed Strait, Cedar Cove TRY OUR BREAD, CAKES, ETC. WANTED-MEN FIT FOR SLAUGHTER. THE 'GOOD NIGGER" OF THE LABOR STRUGGLE. In the old days of chattel clavery, a certain type of slave was loudly praised by the master class, as the "good nigger." The "good nigger" bore much the same relation to his fellow slaves that the widely advertised steer of the Chicago stockyards boro to the other cattle which ho led one by one to the shambles. Such slaves as could be trusted to serve their master's interests by treachery to their fellow slaves were "good niggers." In our day, the struggle for economic freedom is different in many particulars, but not in general character, from that of slavery days; and thero is a type of workingman now who answers to the characteristics of tho "good nigger" then. An example of the modern "good nigger" organized, is the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; and tho Order or Uailway Conductors appears to lie a fair second. These organisations aro prompt to denounce any movement to chock tho rapacity of railroad monopolies. They servo their masters not only in thoir regular work for wages, but as citizens in influencing legislative bodies and in intluencing elections. They reject open and honest politics on principles calculated to serve la- Cedar Cove Meat Market J. A. HAMLEY, Prop. Frith and n* *** Silt ttiatt Veiatablii nrnscRTBER- take notice. trary, while we have demanded bread we have been given stones.—Justice. Certainly, it is no "instalment of the loaf." But it is the only instalment the workmen of ' England or any other country may be sure of getting so long as they depend upon asking for what they ought to take. The condition of the unemployed cannot be appreciable altered for the better so long as the means of production continue to function as capital. The sooner this truth be recognized, the better for all concerned. The first step to be taken by the workmen is the seizure of the reins of power for the purpose of transforming tho means of wealth production from instruments of exploitation into the collective property of the working class, to be used by that class for the purpose of feeding, clothing, sheltering and making itself comfortable. Such a "consummation devoutly to be wished" will bo attained by taking and not by asking. Unemployed Bills, and all other remedial measures under capitalist rule, must of necessity, prove disappointments. They strike no effective blow at capital, and the enforcement of their petty remedial provisions still remains in the hands of thc class against whom they are supposed to be aimed. The British workmen have a difficult task before them. There is but one way to accomplish it, and the task is made none the easier by begging for what they ought to seize bv 'right. An Opportune Time for Reading Drop in and see onr splendid assortment if reading matter. Try our book exchange. Return two old books and receive one new one. E. GALLOWAY VANCOUVER. B. C. Sttttbatt Street Vmcmvw, C. C. . Mail orders promptly attended to Only eleven out of fifty-nine applicants for thc United States navy were able to pass tho physical examination in Toledo last week. _ There are, unfortunately, Jew people j^,. 'interests in general; but their who will stop to consider what this influence is at the service of their really means. When not 12 per nmsters whenever the plundering pow- cent of the young men are in con- ler of railroads is menaced. Like the dition to lie called physically fit, it j-good nigger" of slavery days, they means that tho remainder nre unfit, 'expect to benefit themselves by a And why? Mostly because of the jioyalty to their masters which in- debilitating, degrading and demoral- jvolVes treachery to their follows, izing conditions under which these j And for this despicable kind of faith- young fellows, or their "parents have fulness thoy are duly awarded by hod to work and which the present jtheir masters control. They are system encourages. How many peo- j praised and applauded, as the "good pie also have noted that the big nigger" was praised and applauded glaring advertisements for recruits 'tor like fidelity fifty years ago. La- which the government is using do bor organizations of this sort are not call for recruits on the grounds Ithe "good niggers" of the present of patriotism or love of country? stage of the irrepressible conflict.— The inducements offered are liberal —The Public. pay with chance of promotion" and o "a chance to see the world," etc. Another of those relics of feudal The government recognizes that men ism hais been added to the Domin- do not enlist in the army or navy ,ion list. The Province of Saskatch- because of patriotism, but mostly ewan has been formed. Its first because they are either out of work |ministry—which is but the polite or have disagreeable and poorly jtorm for a band of political leeches paid employment. The only time land grafters—has been set up. Hencc- the soldiers or sailors are expected forth the work of entangling the to bo patriotic is when the capital- common plug of Saskatchewan in a ist want the soldiers and sailors to [network of lnws, enactments, orders go and kill or get killed so that the in Council and other impediments, capitalists can get more profits. The wil1 go cheerfully on. At penipdic average workingman is coming to intervals, they will be worked into see that there is isn't much glory ,a *•"<* ne-*-*- >'■ thl" interest of var- in modesn warfare, where regiments l-ous gangs of political high-binders can bo mowed down like wheat and iwho valiantly struggle for the hon- a battleship full of helpless human ,or of se*"v»nK their country by get- beings can be sent to the bottom by tin8 •*--*■•* hungry bellies next to the a single shell from a hiddon sub- I Provincial pie-counter, The estab- marine.—Toledo Socialist. .lishment of provincial government. o and the upbuilding of the political The strenous "Roosevelt's recent ex- [machinery whieh this implies, signi- ploit in going down in a submarine ifies that the Pe°l>,e of Saskatchewan are to be brought more completely under the sway of triumphant capital. This political move will bind them moro securely to its chariot wheels, arid render them more submissive to its discipline. It is good. It is just as it should be. When tho people of the Dominion find them- his valuable life to whatever risk lselves completely entangled in the may have been attached to the ven- l-odera- Political Ifctwork, they will Candor, however, compels !awaken t0 a. realization of the fart This issue is No. 3K8. lf that is the number upon your address slip, your subscription expires with this number. If further copies are desired, renewal should be made at once If care is taken to renew before the expiration of the old subscriptions it Will greatly simplify matters in th s oiiice as well as avoid any break in receipt of papers. THE WESTERN CLARION. Box 886, Vancouver B. C. o ■■ An exchange says, "we need Socialists to interpret our laws." As man-made law is merely the edict of a ruling cluss, intended to hold an enslaved class in subjection, speaking from thc standpoint of tho latter class, il strikes us that a scavenger wagon is the thing needed to cart the whole mess to the garbage crematory. Every country on earth has enough of such written ruling class venom to make numerous large cart-loads. This world would be a more decent place to live lu *««t*i».tli«l whole vile mess to go up in • noke. Negligee Shirt: Not Too Early to Look Exclusive patterns are now here. some of the choice ones will bg M,t early, and some of tho dmigm, J cannot duplicate. If you apnr«_1 unusual styles lt will int«r«t yo*\ come promptly. Flatiron Hats Thi f ■artist Soft Hat ol the Season These Hats have boon enthusiaati cally received by young men froj the very first day we brought the out. Neither trouble nor M[)ca has been saved in tho production q these goods, as you will choerful] acknowledge upon examination. KILROY, MORGAN CO., LTD 111 Cirdava Strut S. T. WALLACE'S Cash Grocery StorJ We also carry a full line of Pun ture, on easy payments, at prlcj that cannot be duplicated. Kind] inspect our stock. Car WulalMtar Ave aid Harris Sin*1 VANCOUVER, It C. During the disturbance in .input* whieh broke out immediately upon conclusion of tne peace treaty, it is particularly noticeable that tho mob vented its spite upon the churches and the police. The burning of churches, it has been urged by somo of thc daily papers, was an insult lo foreigners, those churches being the property of inter-meddlers from I other lands. It were much nearer iho truth to assert that thc introduction of these factories for the out-, put of baneful soporific doctrines, was an insult to tho Japanese. Perchance they arc discovering this, which might account for thc destruction of these gospel shops. Their antipathy to the police might be accounted for upon general principles. The disposition to soak a policeman with a brick is one of the most pronounced indications of mental and moral vigor. It is pleasing to know that the Japanese along with their other good qualities possess this trait in marked degree. For tho benefit of those ■ who may have thought that the Japanese upper classes were instrumental in thc rioting going on at Tokio and other places, it were well to call attention to the dispatches which assure us that Japanese youths and the lower classes" were responsible for it. This may lie taken as an indication that the "upper classes" of Japan are as decorous, well-behaved respectable and cowardly as our own. Whatever rioting, pillaging, and blood-letting the upper class indulges in.._? donx' hy proxy. They arc too careful of their own hides take a hand themselves. boat is spoken of ns one "characteristic of the mnn." Of course it was. It was done no doubt for spectacular effect and as a spectacular ass, he leads the bunch, though it may be that Bill, of Germany, is a close second. Some of the papers think he wns not justified tn "subjecting ture." the confession that wc are unabuTto "»at thclr <^*v<*-<---<*<' from the thral- locate any particular value attached i?°m °J ?pitolu caln be effected , onJv to the lloosovclt personality, or .** and thrf0U'Ln «!*•.conquest ot the that of his ilk. At least any value .P°w6rS t,° u DfQm,mon government. measured from the standpoint of the ^V *e (orced to center their only useful part of human society, *ttack upon OUawa' *» h,ab,ta,t ° - - ' '' that coarse and unscrupulous band of political henchmen of capital who today hold the Canadian people in leash for exploitation. the working class. We understand this person to bo merely a public servant, and we never attach much value to servants anvway. They are usually a cheap lot and easily obtainable. Such being the case their owners need suffer no serious loss if an occasional one were to go to the bottom of thc sea and fail to return. o Worrjs fail to express thc contempt that we feel for union men who fawn before the minions of capitalism who wields the club that, beats them and sends police to scab theSr jobs nnd break their strikes. Thc labor leaders who were instrumental in having Mayor Dunne ns one of the lnbo-- Day speakers, must have lost I the Inst vesligu of self-res-xvt, if they ever had any.—Chicago Socialist. Thoy who parade themselves as commodities on thu doy net aside by rn|»iiulist government for that H]ieci- fic purpose, nnd go around and beg for the wherewith to mak«! the occits- n,an WHAT MACHINES DO. to ion n festive display of their commercial value, never had any self- resp'i't to lose. It is perfectly proper that Mayor Dunne and such flim- flammers and bormboo/.lcrs should take part in the ceremonies. It is well to remember the words of Gronlund, "wares cannot, act lifkto In ruling paper, thc worker, using quill and ruler, seventy years ago, took 4,800 hours to do work now done by a machine in two and three- quarters hours. The old-time workers got $1 a day, now thc two men employed earn $7 a day betwoen thorn, and yet the lahor cost of producing a given quantity is 85 cents, against WA.00, It is easy to understand from this how it ls possible to use so much more material and to keep a great army of workers going instead of an individual. Machinery is now extensively used in hoot-making, making 100 pairs of men's chenp-grade boots in 154 J hours, ugninsl 1,4'lftf by hand, while the labor cost is reduced from $400 to f!lo. In women's boots the case is easily marked, for instead of one being employed to do everything, there nre 1411 engaged, each on a different machine operation; but not only i.s the time taken to 100 boots reduced to loss than a tenth what it wos, but the cost is also reduced. Again, in the brendmnking, less than a third of the time is now tak men, for wares arc only things." It 'en. One thousand pounds of dough i„ «».i-««.t« -_«^— -•--* '- for blscnitN is rolled, cut and prepared for baking in three hours and fifty-four minutes, an against fifty- four hours by hand.—Tobacco Worker. Yes! Yes! But won't the "eight hour day," the "closed shop," tho "union label" nnd "collective bargaining," fix it. up all right for tho working plugs? If not, what good is your "gol dtirnrd" union anyway? is eminently proper that economic things should Ik? addressed by political things. o CTTTCAOO ACTIVITY. We note from our Chicago exchanges that the comrades of that city are busily engaged in complying with the legal preliminaries required in order to nominate candidates foi» the forth-coming judicial and sarti- tary district elections. Those who are familiar with thn ponderous and unwieldy election machinery in vogue in the big cities on the other side of the line will readily understand what a stupendous task it is for a new political party to obtain a legal foothold. In Chicago, tho election of delegates to a nominating convention involves thc holding of public primaries which in itself involves nearly as mucn time, labor and expense as to ho4d a rcsrulnr election. It seems that the Chicago comrades have gone bravely at the task, determined to conquer all difficulties, and establish for the proletariat ot -that ally. 4tp own political j movement, through which to realize its economic aspirations. The accounts of tho burning of Togo's battleship, tha Mikasa, state that "there wore heavy casualties among thn mon," but great relief was folt throughout Japan when It was learned that Admiral Togo was not on board the snTp at thc tlmo of the firn." Thorn is evidently a great difference Imtwocn tho value oi a head butcher and tho human tools w.ith which hn plies his trade. Wo came vory near writing it "fools." . o fn an essay on the Japanese an English schoolboy recently wrote thn following remarknbln sentence: "Until ■ sernntly ' tho Japanese used to light with bows and arrows, but miw-thcy are-TOj.iippf-d with tbe complete arms of a Christian."—-Advocate qf Peace. Cameras * Kodaks Professional and Amateur Supplies Souvenirs of all kinds; Postcards, Views, View Hooks, lite. a Amateur Developing and Printing. SPHCIAL SERVICIi FOR TOURISTS 665 Granville! 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