HE WESTERN CLARION Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alo^^ e %^ IH""1 345. Vancouver, B. C, Saturd ay, Novembfr 4 1905. 3*—ffl)V fi„lg05= JPLOYMENT IN THE BIC CITY r, irlence ol Girls Who are C nl Pennileit and Friendless Upon the Tide al ' T ,d Labor Market. ■ just ..-hat he (i. y's work moans •m irking girls "'/he lower * of employment Ih a great 5 told with startling dea] .-. Ibe 1-u-11' tViitury Day," j";l issued by , ,-inpany. 'I'he wilier, k anonymous, is a girl who at I Eir, ol ago became m o! the ■"■'Wge, with a. money and friends, aw making world U* IhjhI ll. ■>' i, und 1 any- leciK art v us in th. id ogle room with tha girl of the factor} it wus worse in the imbllc "home." Tha first net of welcome hen- wus uu attempt on the part ol the iieiiit matron bo cheat the wandaror mil ol US oenta change, A lit)gla nil 111 ,. 1.mm |u|| ,,f m,1,. liar cotei with no dividing partition 1 mid no privacy, ut in cents per night wai 'in' brand ol hospitality aurvod at Ihe ' giils' homo" The re* •rlma under which lho plan was eon- ousted was on.' of Iron in Ms rigid lit; nml mi. of uppre iltin with its multiplicity ot rules, Thai smh a place hin.niit I... allowed to iiuuui tin.. name of "working glrla' home" and .1 l<>n/ lot of in - • ii 11 tit-ii t woman us pairotii *m * in order thai tha homo- I.N-. I'M I' Willi 11 lllllll' llll^llt III' im ad to it Moma incredible In a clt) like New York. It wns while staving nt this homo tiuit th" author an* jo.isl the only clown aw* 'heorfulom" ploymetit that foil to her Inl while a wags-earner In the big city, she >*d end lu hero-11, ft o,,. paper box factory and gut f tne world of work in a How •!• maker's establishment . That nil factories and workrooms are not bail is revealed in her dea- Befiptions of ihe dower shop. "The room wus long and witle, und golden wi'h April sunshine, and in tl April breezes thai blew through (or sho Influential rn ta) '" '■" |h rorklng In taci the iintai< ll end tn.slul- unployeo 1 ' alcoBMi The uuderg* '" while earning bj u 1 ot NOW York's Ih ' old in a simple 1 hut I (final'' dncM living rtmil tf"' rtl sui with n. -it' upts lug, otako a lioole thut riii.iiing reu ling—reud- tha.t t*ran|iH the read- the outs* i and will I poo 'Jnt if ' II itttnti Itluse lb" hi Id '''1 ltus un'1 ,,f l'"» Kik hiw barn "ea*. ■afolj »ul r-infortunate and sufe and anug j the haven > •' >t employ m nt I*- s WO in. ' »T'T> TO GET. |[!er firs ofTorts jt securing etn- Iviuen' reveal il fact that eve* Tjn„ »-i nork o- barely rnough 1 keep body <"; i soul together, It various writers, of working class misery and degradation under the present system of property and exploitation, none of thern outside ot U10 Socialist proas will ofter anything in the nature of a remedy. Every such talc written will but add vigor and persistence to the agitation for the overthrow of the wage, system, and the establishing of a workers commonwealth which will at least contain within itself the elements of decency, That them are entirely lacking in the pr'"»ent sys- tuin goes without saying. Wero It not BO, the present misery and do- gratiation of the only useful part of human society, tho working class, could not be. An Associated Press dispatch from Budapest says. "In spite of all Emperor Francis Joseph's efforts to dodge it, the suffrage question in Hungary has become one of the main issues ln that ever unruly country." Thc Socialists, whose power is rising with giant strides, have taken hold of it.—Appeal to Reason. Japan, according to the New York Tribune is just on the eve of another awakening. The first occurred about forty years ago when Feudalism was abolished. The second when the military power was created which crush- isl China, and later humbled Russia. The third, which is now about to hu|>|-en. is industrial and as an exporter of manufactured wswes, tho Island Empire is soon to be felt in the markets of the world. All of which is quite proper and in lino with human progress. Subscription Price PamYSAB Sl.00 OF MIKADO'S CAPITAL Frlaatlal Coaditioa al Poverty la Which tha Lower Strata at Japaaeie Warklai Peeale Ara Fleaidering. It is strange to picture Tokio, the capital of the Mikado, in the clutches of a mob. From the day tbe war began the world has been fed with stories of the patient endurance of a simple law-respecting people, who loved their Emperor and who submitted to his every word. The cable despatches now reveal hands crowding together on the mats Charcoal is not always to be afforded, and heat is a great luxury, these cold days. A whole block will sometimes take turns in warming hands at hrbachi, wherein a few chunks of charcoal smoulder in a bed of ashes. "Suppose a pipe cleaner has Tokio in a new light. They lift tha i good day, and returns to his home curtain on a new and strange Tokio ; with, say 12 cents, ilu will expend —a Tokio that the world has not i this in farthing purchases ot miso, MORAL DUTY OF THE WORKERS To Wage tbe Class-War ta a Finish aad Wla tor Theauelm and Thair Call- drea tha Moms at Uvlai- One of the most pernicious ideas with which the Socialist movement has been infectod, or, rather worse still, with which certain sections of the English proletariat would seem the I to have been infected, is that there mous boon to them personally. He would probably find that his audience had gone to sleep or would do nothing, unless, indeed, they got angry and turned him out. As a vegetarian, I might as well preach to the tribe of cannt-als who were prepar- faot fix II. lie*; »V' ways possible to get work j city. S.tfc first sought h .cm factories. She was first three of these Ik*- if her lack ul experience, ln oihi'rs she v..is o;I< n d pay so 1 thai t would have been im- ilile for h'n to exiM upon it went from the tobacco factories :,nok Im'i'eriis, stores nnd oth r .tons, ii ine store thc propria r o.ti'nil lo -agog" her at the ply sal.try of $3 S6 per week, ho'irs to I." in.io 7 in the morn un 9 nt night, except on Set's when ihe closing hour was Ighl, II.-r iirst 'losition wns secured unti] lifter long tluys of chasing en I iiv;iiirios. A impef box factory was th" place I l. V. In r in and her pay was $.1 i"' to begin with. Her first ue, full of wonderful ex- "SVe worked steadily, and thc i,., ■■ drugged «.n I begun to dead i (I. The awful noise onfushni, the terrific heat, the ■il smell "I the glue, and the ag- lireakinsr, ankles at il blistered Hull siviiird '-T.ist • n'< "rablc. At St the ho ,. xi .it 12, and (jtknly out ol the turmoil a strung*- irt fell (,vcr the mill. Thv iibra- W thut hnd shaken the structure its foundations now subsided; the Ms stayed their endless rcvolu- tas. KILLING A HUSH OlCliEH. Plo» the factory girl works when "•uhh order" comes in U I a filled | Wd graphically. "The h pie mill I mm charged ,>;'h an unaccust- W ex i'cnieni — an exeitement kh had In it. something of solem- )• There was no sign of the mirth 1 hilmity w-hi ti constiitttes the pi'BwlB attraction; no exchange ol l0'i^, no sallies. Ef »» girl bout her task with a fio • enerny al- )st maddening ., tti. InUu'aty. '"I and di/./.y wit', t -Igue, I i»*cr- (lown the long i irAy aislua of x vas * "trained utmost to th • Pre i ing "•'•' How long i n this agony How long co,. ie rush and «• and the ihrossb |«in , ontin- "■•"1 the muiiek. und unknown "'i"thinK M1H,W ljke un oV4....;tll(;nL.d m string ,„„■ brinKli rjU„, -lhe " foreman rushed thr m >rh the ata- ""'I bawled to tl* to hustlo for »o wore wo th, " a custcmers '' "ii doroandihg their goods." « »ich times are weekly occur- ,vl in factories of 'nis nature. homo" of ibe factory girl makes her own ic im s riescrib- wiiiR. ...rh(, hcavi|v (jta VOf, wood. r; Wntod of tho twit that it had .„'.„'n '• 'o an uncurtained el- » large substantial looking Id i„', on ?°und and brnas rlvoted, led .u "0t UaSt' » ru"t5' "toV41 ,tch«irx, r cellln8 «i •* rent 1' fr0m w-*er« the fire im; * t""hod- Th« door to the 1 trouJl!! rno; in u* r«««* « Pa''' lla'g 2* .,mn« Hmply, while Hcnrl- Vonif th„n, i wardrohe was ranged I'1* Ait inck Pnintcd wall out- ..iit, i ,"* dotai,» I c»ul...• -«i»«« «« <»«* .i»...~~ ,.f ..--4-* Th, of sprinR. Flowers, flowers everywhere. Here wire mi hatsh sounds, no nispiny voices, no shrill laughter, no pounding engines. Everything was just as one would expert to find it in a (lower garden—soft voices humming like bees, nnd gentle tnorri- nt thai flowed musically as q brook oVOr stones " Bill TAI.IZIV: CONDITIONS IN LAUNDRY. The next place wns ii laundry, a return to conditions oven lower and more brutalizing than the first, factory. Here Is a picture that serves to illustrate one phase ,,f this life 'She replied with a laugh, ami. flinging bll'k thO sleeve of her kil.l- ono. thrust out the slump of a wrist. At my >\ lamation ol horror she grinned. iWhj Mint's nothing In this bete business,' the suid. 'It happen! every witnal In a while, *fcra you was running the mangles nn.l was lire.I Mill's ihe way it was with mc i was 'lean don., oul one Saturday night, and I Jual couldn't see no more; and thi first thing I know—wo-oow' And thai hand went right straight clean Into tho rollers. And I was jist tlcod; that's all. I didn't have nothing to drink all that day excepting pop. but the hoss he swore I was liiun1*., and he made the foreman swear the same thing, and so I didn't try to get no damages. They sent me to the hospital and the)' offered me my old job back again: but 1 jist got up my spunk and says if they can't |wiy mi ile are said to be identical. England, where free speech reigns— where .lohn Hums will very probably adorn the position of an Under- Secretary in the next L-ilieral Government, llow can we talk of a class.war iu such a land? The people are the Government, if only they chosi: to exercise their power. For the Rake of my article I will accept the above statements ns proved. I have no wish in the slightest degree to dispute their strength, and yet I ho|ie to prove that not only despite them does this ehists-wur exist, but that they derive their only Importance from the fact of such a class-war. Further, that not only- do they nof relieve the workers of the duty of carrying on the class- war, but tbat Ibe unrelenting, compromising wuging of such wars, forms the only possible basis of a proletarian morality. First, what la the class-war, and in what does it consist? It consists in the existence of two classes—one of whom owns the means of production, so lhat the other can only obtain the moans of life on such terms as the other is able to impose. It makes no essential difference to this result that there are competing sections in the possessing class itself, each of which feels that the other wants to cut its throat, and may, to enable thorn to curry out this or to prevent .this lieing carried wit, bo prepared , i . i ito make some concessions—generally no damages and goes and ajvoars Cnough-to the proletariat, any was drunk, when dMnthaveinoUl| ^ than\hat th^'arc sections of ng but rot.-,, pop. Bays J can up lctnrint ,vho ,mve managed to and go some place els,, where 1 can ^J^, £.* dlfflcuUy .„,„ a8inore ge my 54 a week. I privileged, though precarious '" V "Sobook. in": Kn potion! where it pays the possess- the other hardships! ln« t!ftSS to leave the preaching of the class-war, that'diet, dilate on tho dangers of uric there is something unworthy of a' acid, Rnd show the advantages of great movement in a free land like fruit and nuts, Unless the possess- Kngland, where government and peo- ing thines in ways it shows of a working girl's life nlone in a large city—the temptations to which she is subjected on OVorj hand, nnd to which she falls in appalling and heart-breaking numbers, It is a good hook. It would be a noteworthy and intelligent piece of char-, ity for some philanthropically inclined millionaire to purchase it byt the thousands'and send it Into tho country to girl-' who have listened to the. song of "ihe fine lime you can | hn\e working in tho city." — Sa Francisco Chronicle. It is said that 'one-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives." if it Ihi not n mystery to tlie "other half" Hsvlf it cer-j bainly musl he such to anyone at all thc litem, ns long as they can. for thc sake of dividing Uie" proletariat and confusing the issue. These small exceptions do not make any difference to the main ro- Bult, which is that there exists a wealthy class on the one hand, living without the need to work, in great comfort; on the other,, thc enormous mass of the people, working bard for little more than a bare sutfelstonco and without any certainty of lieing able to get that much on the morrow. Peoplo may water down the statistics as the.v please, the facts of the case prove the contrary. London.s streets literally tling the class-war in tho face of its donlors. Hut England is a democracy. Just so! hut a democracy that allows the class war to go on. A demo- familiar with the conditions againstI (.nu.v ,hn* attOVTU itself to bo ruled whiih it is struggling. The horrible'|,y class. A Proletariat that is conditions confronting young girlsj proud to aUo^r one or two^f thoir and women hink. t oil lamp.' A Wf-UKINO GIRL8' HOME ll,,v"rinl!n.K thl" "homo" through '"'"Is uh x true character of the uthor i " Urou8ht her there, the »«l„g2 •> ««e Inmate of a 'B girls' home." Bad as life vortex of a great city to earn their livelihood is something beyond the power of words to describe. As bad as the.v nre these conditions must go from bad to worse until such an upheaval shall occur in human society as will result in HMrn on adjustment nnd roarragoment of property relations as will admit of those who toil, reaping tho lull benefits of their labors. The resources of the earth are ample, and the incchaiw icnl und technical knowledge mifll- clenl, if applied to their proper use, to enable every person to feed, clothe nnd sholtor themselves by their own labor, and do away forever With 'he circumstances thnt make possible lho writing of such hnrrowing tales as tho one from which the Chronicle drew Its Inspiration for lho above article. In tho meantime mnny such t will lie written nnd the truth not even then bo half told. Hut iHltJili' Of the nfiseryhnd borros will bo depicted. While many pa|¥'i'8 acknowledge ' number to serve ns watchdogs for a government one of whoso principal the correctness of 'les will will tho ob-teets is to hold them in w*b.oction. The proletariat only rivet their own chains by means of this man, say, John Hums, the moro tightly on their own neck; since, so long as ho remains a member of the Ministry, they dare not attack it, and he sub. sequentiy serves as a rover to tho ministry without obtaining any corresponding influence. Tho proletariat thus sells Itself, only to bo defrauded of the .10 pieces of silver. Judas Iscariot might as well be held to disprove thc truth of Christianity as the Judas Tscariots of the Eng. lish proletariat .tho fact of tho class- war. Tho cur that licks tho hands of ifs master, after ho has thrashed it, might with equal justice be hold to prove the otpiality of dog and man No! Till the workers themselves abolish the classes that exploit them, the class.war remains In all its grim reality, disgulso it as wo may with all kinds of beautiful phrase. Let Mr. Hamsay McDonald, If ho doubts this, go with his "'Socialism Unbound," as the "Lnbor Tender" calls it, or any species of tho milk- and-water Socialism, to tho Stock Exchange, or any other body of cap. itnlisls—who nro assuredly not all Idiots—and try to persuade thorn that Socialism would be an enor- ing classes fear the workers, they will hardly sacrifice a single cigarette for them. It is sometimes suggested that con-, siderations of hygiene, of the dangers of infection from the bad conditions of the poor, of the difficulty of finding soldiers, may move the rkh to make sacrifices—but do we really think that men who will hardly sacrifice a glass of port, knowing full well that it will bring them the exquisite anguish of gout, are likely to bc moved by such considerations? So much for the facts of the class- war. Now, is the recognition of these facts immoral? Or is it immoral to say that it is the duly of the proletariat to fight the class-war against the oppressors and exploiters of their class, to demand and se- uii..,-ure the abolition of a Mass whose existence as a class depends on exploitation? They obviously cannot get rid of the exploitation without abolishing the exploiting class as a class. Is this, then, immoral? Naturally, the fight is not against individual members of the capitalist class, except and in so far as these stand up for and fight for their system—then they must take the rough and tumble of war. Omelettes will not be made without brea'-.ing eggs, but even then the class-war must never be allowred to degenerate into a war of individuals against individuals, Wit of an organized class, fighting in nn open maimer against an organized wrong. The former is demoralizing, the latter alone can inspire. Can there, indeed, be anything wrong or demoralizing about such a war? No. a thousand times no! It would only be immoral to refuse to fight, it. It is the only possible bnsis of a proletarian morality. A proletarian or member of the proletariat can only have one duty to himself and humanity that is to win for himself and his children the' means of a full and free life. Humanity can only advance by tho emancipation of the oppressed, and the oppressed can only emancipate themselves b.v learning the lesson of solidarity, by being true to themselves and their own class. "To thine own self lie true"; this sentence sums up Individual morality very completely. "To thine own class lye true," sums up the duty of the proletariat. Nothing is worth anything which does not cost us a struggle to get, and a proletarian emancipation which came without a struggle were worse Uion worthless. Hesidi's, does not this struggle demand a high degree of self-control, self-sacrifice, antl other virtues? Could anything bo on the one hand more absurd than to talk of brotherly love, or human solidarity where one class lives on the other? What iwrt can morals play? Or, on the other hand, enn thoro hc any thought more inspiring, for the proletariat, than that of emancipating himself and his children from an appalling bondage—the bondage to hunger ? And can we wonder that a proletariat which wilfully refuses to so emancipate itself and keeps itself and Its children In this bondage—at the price of a few pints of ale—that such a proletariat is the des|«air of all moral reformers? Our ethical reformers must answer that; what can they substitute for the class-war? Phrases' mere phrases! and those move nobody. There nro, in fact, two alternatives open to tho llritish proletarian—cither he can accept the position of a cur cringing for favors at tfhe hand of the governing class, with the certainty of sooner or later earning the cur's reward and getting kicked for his pains; or he can, with his brothers in other lands, consciously take up tho class-war for tho emancipation of his class, knowing that this moans tho emancipation of humanity from tho thraldom of capitalism. Can wo doubt which will Inspire tho higher morality?—J. H. Askew, in Justice suspected. lt is well that ths truth be known, la no capital of the world does the plummet sound deeper in the ocean of poverty, wretchedness and human woo than in Tokio. London, with its "submerged tenth"—Paris with its sewers peopled with vicious half- tod humanity—thc groveling Russian ot Gorky's night refuges—fail to equal the absolute wretchedness of slums ot Tokio, where live halt a million or more of tho starved subjects of the son of heaven—too poor to own even the rags thoy wear. ln Totkio no fewer than 200,000 people seldom, if ever, know of a certainty, where the necessities of the next day will come from, and throughout the island the great majority are too poor to eat rice. The high grade rice grown in the islands is exported almost to the last sack, and inferior rice is Imported for those who can afford it. Rice is not in every bowl, as the tourist fondly imagine. A recent visitor in Tokio writes: "I have spent days and nights in the midst of this inexpressible residue of Japan in company with a brilliant native sociologist who, like scores of his fellow students of men and things, believes that Japan has left its good days of general happiness and general comfort forever bo- hind and is entering upon a sordid and merciless age of industrialism, in which its people are not fitted by temperament to compete, and whose proletariat is. moreover, far too intelligent and too proud to be exploited by capital. He is crying out a warning to Japan that her seat at the council table of the powers is being paid for in the blood of her citizens, not expended as t'hey would pour it forth cheerfully io war, but in factory and on farm, in shop and iu office. " 'Think for a moment,' he cries last week as we looked at a battleship in the offiing, 'what a multitude of our tiny rice fields it takes to support such a monster, and then remember that, om- people can't afford to ent rice!' vllut whether tho last'state of Japan be worse thnn her first, let us proceed to Darkest Tokio. Wc will visit thu Hhitaya quarter, which is close by the beautiful Oycno park. "Tokio is so vast, it is such on immense sea of sheds, that from the highest point on the clearest day- one can spa but a fraction of its area—but here are fifteen districts of mean streets. Tlie crazy structures called houses, which are, in reality, sheds, are strung along in a series of dilapidated nnd filthy compartments. To folk as poor as those who live here, cleanliness, so dear to the average Japanese that it is above godliness, is out of the question. "lhe walls aro decayed and full of crevices and cracks, tho roof leaks, and there is moss and broken tiles, the shoji is full of holes or patched with iiewspui>eis, the mats are ragged, dirty and mouldy. The. e is foul water in the streets and a still fouler stench in the air, whose source ia often visible to the eye. Frequently one sees dead rats in the roadway, but for fear ot the plague they are quickly made away with. After coming from the daintiness and delightful artistry of well-to-do Tokio, Shitaya is tho abomination of desolation. "Tho most tumble down of those abodes may be rented for from 40 cents to 60 cents per month, but there aro houses so fine that they cost as high as 2 cents, or even 4 cents a day. To afford ono of those expensive residences several families club together, not nlono for economy but also for warmth, in Winter all a kind of soup stock; oil, fuel, tobacco, and, perhaps, a little fish, which. If he feels reckless, he will eat raw with horse radish. He buys in driblets, and, like the poor Jn all the tities of the world, pays enormous prices. This has been a good day, and, perhaps, he will peep in at one of the tempting cake shops, which smell so fragrant to the weary and hopeless. However, he will be, in all likelihood, 'broke' by this time and will content himself with -listening to a story teller relating the ancient glories of Dai Nippon. "Had our pipe-cleaner returned empty handed he would have hurried to the pawnbroker, always near at hand, and raised a few farthings on hus precious brass pipe, his hibachi, or his few poor garments not iu actual use. With the money ho would have purchased fish entrails or tho oflal from horses used for food, and perhaps a handful of scraps from a garbage barrel. With these he would have feasted with his family and with them prayed that thc gods would give him a better day tomorrow, so that he might reclaim his goods. "The pawnbrokers fatten on these wretches as in no other land. It is impossible to escape them, and they never relent. Anything that costs above 10 cents can be pawned. "Until midwinter one con exist in Shitaya without bed clothing, but when the nights get cold, with thc fearful piercing frost of a Japanese winter, some covering must be had. Now appears another plunder of the poor in the guise of the capitalist who rents quilts by the night. He charges and invariably collects from I farthing for a shred of dirty, l»atched old rag to a penny or even lour cents for a foul but heavy covering. Then, too, there are frayed silk quilts for bridal couples, but these are too costly to be rented by many bridegrooms. "Kent must he paid in advance and before the family go to sleep the collector conies and gets either the mon-. ey or the quilt. With a refinement, of cruelty, he does not appear until tho lesee has turned iu, and the loss of his covering will be doubly felt. There are heartrending scenes when she penniless mothers strive to hold the quilt to protect thoir babes from the chill and damp. Like the pawnbroker and' the moneylender, tha quilt lender is flinty hearted. "/Few of the inhabitants of Shitaya ever get. money enough ahead to buy bed clothing, and the ghastly tragedy of renting is re-enacted again and again for Winter after Winter. Where there are so many children having but a few cotton rags, the Winter means acute misery. "Nothing that was ever edible can become too bad for the poor to use. From this and similar quarters the scavengers go forth daily searching for food, and they rake the city aa with a comb. Hack they come at night laden with bad rice, decayed fish and meat, scraps from slop barrels, broken food from restaurants, and> all manner of queer odds and ends. "This second-hand food business has an extensive language of its own with special terms for every kind and condition of edible junk that is brought to the quarters. Tho jargon is wholly unintelligible to tha uninitiated and few there are who caro to learn the language of the freezing and starving who rent rags and dine on offal. Few there aro who care to learn thc unintelligible to the uninitiated, and language of the freezing and starving who rent rags and dine ou offal. "Foverty hns its ultimate expression here—its last word."—Mail and Empire. WASHERWOMAN'S EPITAPH. Catharine Alsopp, a Sheffield washerwoman, hanged herself with a clothes-lino In her bod-room, and in the Inquest the following composition, loft by hor, on a piece ot sugar paper, was rend to the Jury; Hero lies a poor woman, who always was tired; She lived in a house where help was not hired. Her last words on earth were: "Dear friends, I am going Where washing ain't done, nor sweeping, nor sewing; But everything thero is exact to niy wishes; For where they don't oat, Uiore's no washing of dishes. I'll lie where loud anthems will always be ringing, But having no voice, I'll bo clear of the singing. Don't mourn for mo now; don't mourn for me never— I'm going to do nothing tor ever -nnd ever." The jury unanimously returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity." According to the Chicago Tribune, there is a now "Labor Cloud" in the stockyards of that enterprising village. Swarschild & Sulzberger, one of tho big packing firms, is about to discharge all union employees in ita plant. President Donnelly, of the Butcher Workmen, is going to appeal to the A. F. of L. for assistance, and if that bo not sufficient, he will resort to still more drastic and dreadful things, as for instance, a boycott of the firm's products. The Tribune is in error in terming this prospective unpleasantness a "new labor cloud." It is not a cloud at all, much less a new one. It is the same old nightmare that has made hideous the wage-slaves' dream ever since that particular typo of slave existed. Nothing very alarming about it either. Tho only effect of this nightmare is to cause the slave to indulge in tho strike, boycott and similar somnambulistic acts. The only element of danger In such performances Is that tho sleep-walkers are liable to get thoir shins barked. -. 1 : ■ I ; ' aalMMii-aVnMMMMfir:' JM WMWJt BtaaMlDir. VJflW^J**.. (SATURDAY, nTOV. t 1*06. Ita Western Clarion Published every Saturday ln the interests of the Working Claaa alone at the office of the Western Clarion, Flack block basement, 165 Haatinga street, Vancouver, B. 0. fV^*-^V^^-rf^^^i^--^^>*'^*^*'^*^^*^^^^^'^^^^^''^^»'^'^*^^^^-ff-^"^*l^L'^r^ SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 PER ANNUM Strictly la Advance.' Yaarlj- anbaerlption carda hi lota of •va or mora. 75 oenta each. Advarttalng rataa on application. IJ yon racaiva thia paper it la paid lor. Address all communlcatlooa to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver. B. C. 346 Watch the label en your paper If this number is on it, your •ubscription expires next issue. SATURDAY. NOV. 4, 1005. NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE. The problem confronting the civilized world today, and in no uncertain manner demanding solution, is what is commonly termed the labor problem. Perhaps it would be more proper to term it the problem of what shall be done with the enor-> mous power of wealth production that has been conjured forth by the countless generations of men that have lived before us, and which power the present generation is busily engaged in still further increasing. This power of wealth production is even now so great aa to almost stag" ger belief, so great, in fact, as to keep the world's market at all times full to overflowing with all the thing* required by man for his sustenance, and comfort, and this, too, with less than the total amount of available labor being utilized in the process of production. To the beneficiaries ot the present order of human society, i.e., to those* who come into possession of tho wealth produced, because of the favorable position they occupy in tho social and industrial arrangements of this age, there is no problem to bo solved, hence no solution to be either offered or entertained. .But to than portion of human society, which, because of the position it occupies, is denied participation in the benefits arising from this marvelous power of production, there is a problem to be solved; a most serious one, and ono that demands of this particular part of society that it find* a solution or perish. To the capitalists, matters as they are, arc quite satisfactory, and no alteration or readjustment of social and industrial institutions is necessary. To the workers, matters are far from satisfactory, end a change is peremptorily demanded. It remains for the class in human society that recognizes tho existence of a problem, and whose material needs are forcing it to seek a solution, to depend solely upon its own resources to solve the problem. In other words tho working class must find and apply its own remedy for the economic ills under which it is now suffering. It is the only class in society at all interested in effecting a cure. • That the workers may know just how to move in tho matter and in what direction, it becomes absolutely necessary that thoy understand the nature of the swindle practiced upon thorn under the present or wage system. Although they may feel that they are robbed, if they do not understand where, or by what process, the robbery is effected they will be unable to deal intelligently with the matter, and will be more than liable to purwue lines of action that must inevitably lead to disaster. However, dry economic discussion may, at first glance, appear to be, and however prone the workers may be to avoid it in favor of the more ridiculous reform small talk and sour stomach clatter that is so plentifully dished up'on every hand, the fact still remains that without a clear knowledge of capitalist production and thc process by which the workers aro fleeced;, the labor movement is without compass or rudder, and consequently tho sport of every adverse wind or tide. Socialist speakers and writers cannot be too persistent in sticking to the lino of economic discussion. Time spent in painting'beautiful pictures of a glorious future that no one knows how to attain, is worse than wasted. Sound knowledge of the present system of property and pro- duction is absolutely necessary to the working class, If it is to strike from its limbs tho shackles of wage servitude. It alone can determine where, when and how the blow for Freedom may be aecceaafully struck. OF CRIMINAL ORIGIN. A great deal of rldlculoua spluttering is being indulged in over what is termed tho Criminal origin of the Rockefeller and other great fortunes. The Miss Tarbells, Miss Lawson and other misses and misfits whose songs are especially attuned to the ear of 'the small-fry swashbuckler In the crusade for wealth and power, commonly termed business, have cleverly pictured the methods whereby the great masters of industry havo attained to their position of affluence and mastery in so far as' those methods brought them into relation with other swashbucklers and pirates in the great gamble for profits. To listen to these harrowing tales of the cold, calculating trickery, and unscrupulous cunning practiced upon their competitors by the present lords of oil, and copper and beef, etc. is quite sufficient to bring tears to tho eyes of a wooden Indian. Though tho Tarbells, Lawsons and the like may perchance have overdrawn the tale of iniquity, there seems to he ample evidence to show that tho successful big ones have not at all times, in the conduct of their business affairs been over-particular in following thc rules of moral and ethical conduct that are laid down in the golden rule and other Christian preempts, or taught in Sunday school books. But granting all this, however, it should not be taken perfect avalanche of fraud, trickery, deceit, swindle, misrepresentation chi-« canery and grafting. It could not be otherwise. Based upon tho wholesale plunder of the workers, lt logically follows that capitalist property should conform to a like moral and ethical code in its retail operations. Capital being criminal in its origin it can breed nothing but a civilization reeking with vice, crime and moral degradation. If anyone doubts that present civilization is of such a type they need but read the daily press to have thoir doubts removed. . 0 FOR CHRIST'S GLORY ALONE. WANTED—For tho Industrial Evangelical Mission of Northern India, men and women of the industrial mission type, men who understand trades of all kinds, women photographers, stenographers, kindergarteners, confectioners, box makers, dress makers, knitters, etc., must havo the gift of child development, and be consecrated Christians, ready to go out for Christ's glory alone, and not for personal gain, to teach ithe widows and orphans of India how to work, and in time to become self-supporting missionaries. Apply to Secretary of I. E. M., 76 HaytJer street, Toronto.—Toronto Daily Star. The widow and the orphan are entitled to the tender consideration, and heartfelt sympathy of every person. To be left in the world without husband and father to protect aB I them, is sad enough of itself, but justification for the assertion that . • • .*.- m. j * when on top of this they do not WOU LD DESTROY THE HOME their fortunes are of "criminal origin." Tho cautious person will first make sure of his ground before launching -so serious a charge. Suppose A has B brought into court under the charge of having robbed him. In tbe course of the trial the fact is brought out that, in the first place, A and B, acting together, robbed X, a third party; and the offense charged against B, was committed in the division of the plunder taken from X , B having tricked A out of what the latter considered his rightful share of the spoil. No court in Christendom would hold B guilty of having committed a crime against A, but both would be clapped in jail for the robbery of X. The business world of today is busily engaged in desperate warfare over the division ot the plunder taken from the workers in the industrial field under the wage-system. Out of this warfare has grown the big capitalists who have been able to best 'their competitors in the struggle because of their koener business sagacity, and perhaps more unscrupulous cunning. As the big fellows arise out of this fierce warfare of business, their unseccessful and beaten competitors indulge in mournful howl because of their defeat, and charge the successful ones with all manner of crime in carrying out their' purpose. Rut tho fact still remains that these business worthies, both big and little, have been engaged in a fight over the division of the plunder which they have taken from the working people. In this struggle over the proceeds of rotybery, some are bound to get the worst of the deal, while others get away with the loot. The latter are our successful business men of the Rockefeller, Mor. gan, Gould, Hill and Vanderbilt type and are entitled to congratulations over the happy outcome of their business ventures. The former, the unsuccessful ones in the business scramble, are entitled to no one's sympathy, though a kind providence has created Tarbells, Lawsons, etc., galore, to paint their heart-burnings in colors most livid. Thc criminal origin of fortunes either groat or small does not lie in the tact that one business man tricks another out of what the latter considera his share of thc plunder taken from labor, but reaches down into the robbery of labor itself at the hands of the business world. In this robbery the entire business fraternity da implicated either as direct plunderers or in making way with the loot. No man acquires a fortune as the result of hie own labor, but by acquiring the results of the labor of others. It is out of the product of the labor of the wealth producers, tho working people, that all fortunes are builded. These products are not purchased from the wage-slaves who by toil and sweat bring them forth. They arc Just merely taken, that's all, the trick of wagea affording an excellent mask beneath which the robbery ia effected without the victim realizing how it ia done. Tho criminal origin of the Rockefeller and aU other fortunes rests in the robbery of labor. Tho pitfalls the robber* arrange for each other in the division of the plunder, neither adds to nor detracts from the original crime. They merely show that there is not always "honor among thieves." As a result of the original crime upon which capitaliat property la based, i.e., the exploitation, of robbery of labor, there cornea forth a know how to work, the feeling of sadness that must inevitably come to every one who appreciates tho dignity and honor of labor should be as overwhelming and chilling ns a veritable wet blanket. If these widows and orphans of India do not know how to work, they are thereby evidently debarred from adding to "Christ's glory," because the qualification especially necessary to equip 'the missionary for service in that line is the ability to work, as set forth in the advertisement. If the natives of India, widow, orphan or otherwise, do not know how to work, they are not in a position to add anything to the glory of British Capitalism in its brutal rule over that unhappy land. The glory of Britain's rule is measured by the amount of plunder taken from India by Bri'tish capitalists. This plunder represents the product of the labor of the propls of India. Therefore, Britain's glory depends solely upon the people of India knowing bow to work. Those who do not know how to work cannot worship at the shrine ot her glory, because they are unable to contribute tho wherewith to keep the fires upon her altar burning. Strange, though, it may seem, it rather looks as though there was some sort of a relationship, or at least a bond of fellowship, between "Christ's glory," and that of British, capital in this particular instance, in! asmuch as tho ability to work seems the sole qualification necessary to add to the "glory" stock of cither. Many a tearful wail is heard because the common people arc falling away from the Church and its co-related institutions. And yet the reason for this falling-away is as plain as a f'pike-staff." Every move that is made upon tbe chess-board of events by these institutions that were at one time reverenced by tho1 common herd, is proving the truth of the Socialist contentions that they are but parts and parcel of the prevailing system of property and their every act is shaped in conformity to its requirements. As they strip thc mask of,humbug from themselves, as in the advertisement above, and stand forth in all their nakedness as mere adjuncts to the present worldwide systom of trade.and commerce, small wonder that the one-time reverence turns to disgust, and former loyalty becomes open repudiation. Every ono possessed of understand- one knows full well that the "Christ's glory", referred to is merely the glory of Undo, and that trade is inspired by the wholesale robbery practiced upon British workingmen at the) hands of Capital. The proceeds of this robbery must be disposed of by being converted into additional means of exploitation, or Capital. That the natives of India and other not yet Capitalized lands may be rendered subservient to the advancements of trade and commerce, unsuf- fcrable hypocrites and humbugs wearing the pretended mask of Christ's glory are sent among them to hypnotize them with mysterious Incantations and frighten them with blood-curdling ghost atories Into such a stage of soporific docility and meekness aa will properly conserve tho ends of the trade pirates and commercial brigands who profit by the swindle. Let the I. E. M. no longer emblazon "Christ's glory" upon its escutcheon. A bale of Manchester cotton goods will be far more appropriate, and less deceitful. Perhaps the most nonsensical "bug-hear" used by the upholders of capitalist society for the purpose of frightening ignorant people and arousing their prejudice against socialism is that it. would "destroy the home." The inference to be drawn is that capitalism on the contrary conserves, protects and defends the home. lt requires no very keen observer to discover tho fact that capitalism is the force that is disrupting fondly life and destroying tho home, in so far as the working class is concerned. With nn ever increasing uncertainty of employment, and a continually decreasing wage when employed, it becomes more and more impossible for a working man to se. cure and maintain anything worthy of the name of homo. Another powerful factor in making a permanent homo impossible to a very large number of the workers is tho continually shifting ' nature of their employ, ment. This renders it impossible for thorn to permanently locate, which is ono of tho first requisites towards establishing a home. The pressure brought to bear upon the wage-earnera by the exactions of capitalist production renders it imperative thnt wife and children be driven into the wage market to be sacrificed to thu god of profit, in order that their earnings may be added to the miserable pittance earned by husband and father, which has already fallen below tho amount necessary to maintain the family. The tendency is continually in the direction of converting all members oi the working class family into wage- earners at the earliest possible age. That this is absolutely destructive of home and family life is beyond question. To learn how completely, effectively and rapidly tho home life of the agricultural population is being destroyed one need but read tho United States census reports dealing with the reduction of the farmer from the proprietor to tho tenant and wage- slave class. The stability of tho home and its efficiency as an uplifting moral and ethical force depends upon security in possession of its material factors, if the ownership of these factors be not absolutely secured to the members of the family, the stability of home and family life will be destroyed and their uplifting tendencies be marked by their absence. To thc destruction of tho home and consequently of family life, due to the capitalist system of property and wealth production, may easily be traced much of the degradation and vice prevalent in the great cities typified in their slum and restricted districts. Denied the security nnd protection of home and family life, thousands of the women of the working class aro swallowed up in that sink-hole of capitalist iniquity known as the "red-light" district, there to become the victims, along with countless thousands of the men of thc working class, of a system of property that erects countless barriersi in tho way of tho realization of that home and family life towards which the noblest and best of human effort is always reaching. Ths average working-class "home" is but a poor apology for, and a base libel upon the genuine institution. Tho very poverty that is expressed in the wages upon which its occupants must live, precludes the existence of but few more attractive and home-like qualities than those possessed by a dog-kennel. Want, arising from a scanty wage, or tho fear of want because of the uncertainly and insecurity of emidoy. ment are ewer present within Its precincts. Such uncongenial members of tho family circle can add nothing to tho "comforts" of "home," nor to the uplifting and ennobling joys of family life. The less said about the homes of tho "upper classes," perhaps the better. They are, as a rule, known to be the vulgar barracks wherein is made equally vulgar display of the proceeds of that coarse, brutal and unscrupulous robbery that is perpetrated upon the workers in tho arena of industry end commerce. With their protcntiou* dimensions, brazen surroundings, garish furnishings "be-gew-gawed" female equipment and servile attendants, they become about as gross a libel upon the ideal home and family life as do the "warrens of the poor." All of which leads us to remark that the charger that Socialism "would destroy the homo" carries no weight for the reason that capitalism has well nigh finished tho job already, and capitalism still roigns. Furthermore, whatever foul thing the exponents of the existing order of society may accuse Socialism of, will in all cases be found to be ono ot the many foul things of which capital|sm is already guilty. iSmT" Every Local of the Socialiat Party of Canada should run a card under this head. 91.00 per month. Secretaries please note. SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Dominion Executive Committee, A. R. Stebbings. John E. Dubberleyi Ernest Burns, C. Peters, Alt. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; .1. G. Morgan, secretary, 651 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C. Union Directory When They Meet ;whtreTlwyMe; -Bvery Labor Union i Sited to pl^e a cam'-MrieV tb*lSSla? ' month. Secretaries plea-* uo!c e*d' U* LOCAL VANCOUVER, NO. 1, S.P. of Canada. Business meetings every Monday evening at headquarters, Ingleside Block, 813 Cambie Street, (room I. second floor.) Educational meetings every Sunday at 8 o'clock p.m., in Sullivan Hall, Cordova Street. D. P. MILLS, Secretary. Box 836, Vancouver B. C. LOCAL TORONTO — Meets 2nd and and 4th Tuesdays, Temperance Hall Bathurst St. P. Dale, Secretary, 41 Henry street, W. O. Gribble, organizer, 130 Hogarth Ave. Phoenia Tradea and Labor Meets every alternate nT John Riordan, president- p°, Brown, vice-president- P Ti casse sergeant-at-arms'; w'hV b"ory'DS*fcreV'y-treasurer, P n " 198, Phoenix. B. C. U Phoenix Miners' Union m " W. F.M. Meets eve?; st J evening at 7.30 o'clock in m-1 1 l"i^Zi^ Society leaders are to dance with labor chiefs nt "Hull House Ball," in Chicago. P. 11. Dolan, of the Urooni-makers Union is to lead the grand march with Mrs. Henrotin. In this manner will society and tratles unionism mix things. At least this is the way of it as told by Chicago papers, and just think of it, the ball ie to be given by the Woman's Trade Union League. Society men are to whirl through the giddy mazes of tho dance with working girls. The labor chiefs are to wear spiko-tailed coats, and the working girls are to be so decked out with finery as to render it next to impossible to distinguish them from real aristocrats. This condescension on the part of the high lnuck-a-niucks of "sassiety" in thus setting their polish and tweed*1 ing alongside the dignity of labor, should go far towards removing any prejudice Brother I Abor might have against Brother Capital and forge once and for all the. bonds of amity and good-will between these sometimes warring brethren. This striking affirmation of the brotherhood and sisterhood of master ami slave, as exemplified in the joyous dance through the mazes of which the bejewelled lady of society is piloted by the strong and protecting arm of tho sturdy "labor chief," of the Hroom-makers' squad, is an inspiration that should have a far-reaching and lasting effect upon that great labor movement that is based upon an "identity of interest" between capital and labor. The memory of Dolan in a "spike-tailed" coat leading the grand march with a society leader, should go a long way towards allaying the pangs of hunger that might, perchance, and upon occasion, seize at tho vitals of the rank and file of his union in consequence of a too abbreviated wage. Great arc the achievements of organized labor. This latest Chicago achievement is ono of the greatest ever. ESTABLISHED 1894 The VOlCEl Alwvys a fearlcsss e^nenTuTiSl cause of labor. | Por one dollar the paper will i. I sent to any addre«s (or one year Workingmtn of all countries »fli I soon recognize the fact that the, must ripport and read their l.W pap', rs. ■ Issued every Friday. The Voice Pubthing Co., LImIm| WINNIPEG, MAN. J. El>Wl«D BiajL A 1' BMMWjj OEO. K. McCrossaX BIRO. BRYOON-JAGK & McCRO BARRISTERS. BOMCITOBB, Tel. ua. P.O. Boi'-a| 314 Haitians Stmt . yiKwm —THE- Miners'Rdagazinl Published Weekly by ths Weitera Federation 01 Miners A Vigorous Advocate ol Labors] Cause. Clear-Cut and Aggressive, Per Year $1.00. Six Montlia, 1 Address: MINERS' MAGAZINE, Denver. Colorado. C. PETERS Practical I aud Shot I Ilaml-Mnil" Bont» and Shoes to urJ-ri- •11 atylcit. kt'ijaimu j.r-.mj.i'.y uti.lunl. ly done. Mock of staple read} mi* Sho-m always on hand. 24M Wntauatier Ave Moist Booth's Pilliga Scrub scheme to (lump large quantities of the human garbage resulting from Knglish capitalism, upon the desert wastes of Australia, has been abandoned. It was such a recklessly inhuman and brutal proposition that it over'tax- ed even the stomach of the capitalist press and brought on quite a nt of gagging, in consequence of which the "General" threw it up. It muat not bo inferred that the "General" gagged, however. lt would take more than thnt to turn tho old hypocrite's stomach. The Provincial Government has decided to enforce the eight-hour law in conl mines. Several informations hnve lieen filed at Cumberland against the superintendent of the) colliery, nnd a number of the mon, for violation of the act. It would be really awful wore this superintendent sent to jail as according to tradition, that is a privilege reserved for "working plugs." We sincerely hope the danger may be averted. o _ According to eastern papers there are good prospects for a huge strike of teamsters in New York City in the near future. The employers are engaged, in gathering a force of "strike-breakers" to meet the emergency. This is especially refreshing news as it has now been some weeks since the Class Struggle has boon fought in the economic field upon any scale worth mentioning. W* hall with joy thc coming of tho day when the festive brickbat may bo heard to boom again, " SMOKE Kurtz's Own Kurtz's Pioneers Spanish Blossoms' WAGE-LABOR'"CAPITAL By KARL MARX- Single copies 5 cents. 6 copies ajctnts. 15 copies, 511 rents. IP copiesfi.no. 100 copies and off 2 cents per copy. These rates include postage to anv part ot Canada or the UWi? Stales. mmmmaanm~m*~— Printed in tlie Office of-— THE WESTEN CLAION 16s Hantingn Slw-t Box 836 Vancouver, Per year, |ioo. Si* owntlnl cents. Strictly in advance. Bundles of a.s or in"" leemp copy. B.C. The Western Clarion ii*"1""; advocate of * compromising « - ,|,e revolutionary aspiration* w|"J working class iu the aWJJ of capitaliat property atnl >U«0Br piement, the wage system. TAKE YOUR HAT TO TH" HAT HOSPITAL 155 Cordova Strait And have It rejuvenate *"* Ufa. Old Hats Cleaned. Pr***- Made aa Oood as Ne* W « workmen and at moderat* cw • Elijah Leard. THE MODERN HAT BE9T0W| United Hatters of North Amem Whan you ara buying • rva BAT '• •» * UaiinlM Itnlo. I ..Hal la MWed in "■■ . may tha O.nulne Union Label la eawed haa looaa labels in hla poaaeaalon •"id/J-m, Tb» Mftil one in a hat lor you, do not patron".* latwls tn retail stores are counterfeit"^ Union Label to parforatad on lour edK**' ^ *#■ same as a poatag*- stamp. Oountariran* Uol- #- Unas parforatad on thras adgaa. «"d '° d,|Pt>l« »' on two. John B. Stetson 0a., of •->"» non-union concern. JOHH A. MOrriTT, President, Orang*. ^ 11 (V av,r" MAftTIN LAWLOR. Secretary. U Maw York. ^ggPAt. KOV> < *** ■ JOURNALISTIC WISDOM prlviice Show* How Umltti Is l.i Knowledge ol the Socialist Movement ths wisTMty oLaUtioif. viireoimat, i. a Tlie ben, of the German Soc- ratic Congress, which late- like members of KTn Berlin. f«ala«S elsewhere, have.tiaei. P",, occupied in quarreling among ■*V lvw There ib ft r*Ul*r Wttur . , ,«« iuifinu between the old ¥ftH -™ *■ BUW' Th« 'o1' Njciali-i1" Is*"' ".. .till, so lo «P»aJt. waving und the new. o( Herr Bebd, tho veteran |ia*r,an-' ;-y ,,,8 -j-j^.y jjeijove in Karl Marx and La- I .. .InBtrlBl'S Of * Italic, an-1 '" jftctly' content with a tew trifles Ilheso moderate reformers would be r h as thL. nationalitation of the KS the abolition of all private ti* lloctr* continue to repeat them dot coi the l"lr!ve the confiscation of stocks l1^ shares, the extinction of private KaarablP. andjhe conversion of the Em into the supreme capitalist and ETemployer of labor. On the oth- ihind. there is a large party, ln- lldioK must ot the younger leaders Km ability, who point out that |ls remarkably temperate and rea- Kuble programme, whatever iu IKti'.'»i "»-"-it8' u*utUe *m- lllt of realization. Pending the Koiplcte reconstruction of society Ituiu top to bottom, they submit ■that it inigl" I*-' more politic to con- LniraU' attention on a certain num- Ihpr ol reforms which are somewhat Ls dlfflcull of attainment. rnvesc Called political Socialists are1 Isaiightily scoHed at by the old stall-arts, who ilcuounce them as little Ihitter than allies of the capitalists. flocked, some of 'beta are capitalists lisd employers themselves. Never- ltheless, the political Socialists are Ifainini* ground with the workinr*- l-nen, antl the old rigid group seems llikely to be reduced to a compara- Itrvcly unimportant faction. The fact is the modern Social-Dem- ncratic party scarcely deserves more libati half ita name. It ia becoming ■much more democratic than soclalis- |uc. It is true that Socialism Is jcberisherl as a pious opinion by many ■German artisans, as for that matter lit is the ra.sH all over the world. So- IciaJism is so vague and visionary a lewd thnt anybody may tootd it ■without much thought of printing its lary tenets into o|-era tion. Such is ■lhe situation of many of the Gor- Iman Social-Democrats. In practice, Ithpy have Iktoiiio largely transform- |«d into mere politiial radicals. It 111 not so much revolution they are IteeUng as the redress of grievances land the concession ot certain rights lihiih have been granted to their ■fellows in other countries. lliey lvould like, for one thing, to make Koostitinionnl government a reality.' |ln Germany the.v have a parliament " a very wide franchise, but there scarcely any responsible govcrn- Jmnt. The executive is not under ■the romrol of parliament, and the lparliaiiiint is not under thc control fit the majority of thc electorate. OwtnK to plum! voting, property Jifialifn ui inns, and the manner in Whiih ih" Mmstiituencics aro ar-i (ringed, onn vote has by no moans Vie value, if it hail, the SocloJ- isnocrati would constitute moro |tr.an half the Reichstag, for more Kotos were east for their candidates V the last genera] election than for ill the other parties put together. German Liberalism seems. indeed to on the down grade, aad has been prgely superseded by the Soclal- TOMKrary, which represents in a ■nor* Mivorous form the old Liberal frrotnst against privilege, class hsgis- P«'"on and monopoly.—Editorial in faily Province of Oct. 33. 'a the first place, the congress |»hiih "lately met" did so in Jenn, >d whether the party members ln rh'' Reichstag should form coalitions ■j*"'1 capitaliat anti-government par- P'"1 'or the purpose of pushing Prough reform measures. All of ■ tan 'fiestions were settled without TjWTWlug, the minority bowing in h^'ission to tho will of the major- 'y So miirh for the Province'a im! n "' ,n,, nuarreling, the wish Pn« evidently father to the jthou-rht." The revolution 0f '48 was purely I* bour8pois affair and all reference I ° the red flag in connecUon with it i,7Urely out °*p,ace- Tb* red £J ' ,0 « certain extent a hourly*0' on'hlem, but It is only used »te "■"so not infrequent occasions ■th/ lh° blg bourn»ol" swine crowd Iswitt,M!Uy pi«,otB **ny ust like the Canadian, or any other brand is Indeed, on thc "down grade," and for tho very good reason that that for whiih it stands is a decaying institution. Just as capitalism becomes more fully ripe and ready for overthrow at thc hand of.tho revolutionary proletariat that itself has brought forth, so will the political expression of that uprising class increase in vigor and that of decrepit capitalism sink into decay. That- is unless the Province affords a few more editorials on "German Socialism" Such grotesque productions are liable to throw the entire evolutionary process out of joint. The Socialist movement is essentially a revolutionary movement in all countries alike. U o*i''s at tripping the means of wealth product ion of their present capitalist chur.irtor by converting them into collective or public property, to bo operated solely for the purpose of producing things for the use- of the producers, i.e.', the.v wlio do the work. This transformation o* Property murU-s the end ol cupilalist cluss rule, and consequently tha end of thnt class instrument, lho State. to i»e followed by an administration of the affairs ol production and distribution in conformity with the purpose for which they ft" cft,rietl on, and that is the comfort and welfare of all citizens alike. To assort that the Socialist contemplates making the "State the solo capitalist and employer of labor," is but to display a woeful ignorance of the Socialist programme, an ignorance that could be no moro pronounced had tho ppraon so asserting obtained h.s knowledge solely from reading Jack and tho Beanstalk." There arc many of those grotesque Oggs laid in the editorial sanctums of capitalist newspapers. Tho «£ ,,r should be careful in regard to ok Za much stock in them. As « .uto 2y a.- unfertilized by fact. Wh.to hy will .10 to sit upon during the* ■ZeVW' Perloii thoy Will not hatch lent vvriti ^ by a corrcspond- Bal'Pennv to ono of our esteemed I'ur tho y i ,morning contemporaries, later c" !lv'fttion of a Cabinet Min- lArchplgh onlaI Oovernor, or on Itender «?u- Catch * yaun« ond l^neath .utocr"t- Incarcerate him |»or Ah0 *""is of historic Wind- Itiirch t„ P1>,y flagellation, with a 1 ' lWo or three Unas a day tor x Itod iM-itloni provided ny h.s xaitou ■'" .. (hc sustenance t^A-,™ Leicester Plon- PBOSPERITY CONTINUES IN THE UNITED STATES. Dostul receipts for tho fifty largest cities in the United States during September show an increase of 10 l»er cent, over the same month last year, says the Springfield Republican. In railroad earnings there hns been an increase of G per cent Finally. Fall Hi'ver, Mass., cotton manufacturers have conceded an advance Ot Ave i*:r cont. in employes' wages, an advance which seems to be justified by the statement that the American cotton manufacturing industry is in a decidedly improved condition as compared with a year or two years ago.—Exchange. The increase in the postal receipts is doubtless due to tho larger number of dunning letters the merchants find it necessary to send out in order to collect their bills. The six per rent, increase in railway earnings may or may not lie taken as a sign of increased prosperity, as it might l-c offset hy an increase in operating expenses. That five per cent. increase in tho wages of the textile workers, however, may be taken as a genuine sign of prosperity, so overwhelming in its magnitude as to convince the most skeptical. The textile worker who previously squeez- i-d painfully along on the miserable stipend of $7 r»er week, now finds himself rnisitl to the very pinnacle of affluence by the addition of this generous .'15' cents conceded by the employers out of the very goodness Of their hearts. With this splendid addition to his fortune, which, if divided among wife, children and self, would amount to something like seven cents each per week, what a glorious vista of wealth and independence oi»ens out before him in place of the slough of poverty and despond in which he had been floundering previous to the arrival of this tidal wave of prosperity. Prosperity? Why, certainly. Who can dispute it. THE EVICTIONS AT IIEMSWOKTH. If anything were needed to prove the Tom-fool character of the existing social system and fits resultant brutality it is richly supplied by such events as that now proceeding At Hemsworth in South Yorkshire, where hundreds of miners are being ejected from their poor kennels of houses into the streets and lanes. Women (some in the extremity of maternity) and children with mon huddled together in tents, shi-ds, Workshops, i Impels and wherever pity can bestow them. AH this, not because their lords need thc houses ifor the minis at Hemsworth are not being workexl anyway, owing to some financial reconstruction), but because of some difference between the miners and the company still unadjusted. How arrogance on the one hand, and servility on the other, with ignorance over all have made possible the stupendous apathy that reigns almost supreme around such a condition of things is enough to make one despair, not only of social progress but of the persistence of any- feeling deserving to bo termed human, did we not remember that this, like the incident noted before, is the legitimate outcome of the social system rather than a conscious conspiracy agninst human welfare on tho part of any. The class consciousness of the owning class (far more perfect thon that of the workers) may be termed both positive and negative, positive in demanding the ut- Patronize Clarion Advertisers. 5 yearly sub. cards for $3.76. Bundlos of 35 or more copies to one address at the rate of one cent most farthing and the absolute rights of property, real and personal with which the law, of their own making, has fortified them; negative as manifested in their utter irresponsibility and consequent indifference to the result in society.—Stonehenge, in Winnipeg Voice. , o The newspapers in glaring headlines announce that "Russia celebrates gift of freedom." It appears that Freedom is something like a chew of tobacco or a drink of booze. Something to be handed out as an expression of good-will. Something to be given or withheld according to the whim or caprice of the owner or custodian. This removes much fog from our mental lookout. We were tailoring under the delusion that Freedom was something to be taken, and could lie acquired in no other way. The conviction still lingers with us that, the Freedom which has l»oen given to the Russian people will prove but a sorry substitute for the real thing. Something like our own for instance. Thc new main railroad station nt Ijeipzig, Germany, now being con. structed, will be tho largest ln the world—that, is in covered area—920,- 518 square feet. It will have 20 tracks. ; The cost of the construction will be $.M),940,000, of which the city of feipzig contributes $3,- 808,000. Several millions are to bo borne by the German Federal Post Office department for a separated Post Office station, which will not be completed before 1914. At the present time the main railroad station at St. Louis, with an area of 39,- 4.r)0 square meters and 32 tracks, occupies the first place. o Father Hagerty has not been heard from for lo, these many moons. Can it be possible that he has met with disaster by becoming entangled in the spokes ot that famous wheel of his own creation? m^. ' Out 7/ictoria Jidvertisers - Patronize Them and Tell Them Why. SMITH & CHAMPION MANUFACTURERS OF Mat tresses, Upholstery, Awnings, and Window Blinds. 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Albion Stove Works, LIMITED MANUFACTURERS OF STOVES, RANGES, GRATES AND FRENCH RANGES FACTORY, 38, 42 Pembroke Street, - - VICTORIA SHOW ROOMS, 81 Douglas Street, - - - VICTORIA 121 Hastings Street, - VANCOUVER PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialiat Party of Canada, iu conventi n a f embled, affirm ou * allegiance to and support of the principles and prog.an*, of the international revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should ?u*tly belong.. To the ownera of the meana of wealth production belongs the product of labor. The present ecuurtnic system is based upon capitaliat ownership of the meana of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist claaa. The capitaliat ia master; the worker is slave. So long aa the capitalists remain in possession of the reins of government all the powers of tha .state will bc used to protect and defend their property rights in the meana of wealth production and their control of thc 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. Tbe interest of the working clasa 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 weslth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitaliat and ths worker is rapidly culminating in I struggle for possession of the powei of government—th* capitaliat to hold; the worker to sec are it by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of thc Socialist Party of Canada with tha object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic, program, of the working class, ss follows: i. The transformation, aa rapidly aa possible, eople are encouraged and applauded for appropriating trust moneys to "patriotic" purposes, it is hardly surprising that after a while they do some stealing on their own account. Had as the Yankees mny be they have never fallen to the low level of Ontario in sanctioning betrayal of trusts by legal ennctment, PHILLIPS THOMPSON'. The wage-worker at no time has any control over the products of bis labor. These aro the property of the capitalist, or concern, that purchases his labor.power, and become swallowed up in the sum total of wealth taken from the working-class. Out of this wealth the worker may purchase to the extent of his wage, thc price ho receives for the sale of his commodity, labor-power. It ia needless to remark that this pure-basing power falls far short of the full value of his products. BRIDSON'S BAKERY! Powell Strut, Cedar Cove TRY OUR BREAD, CAKES, ETc I Mounting Large Game Heada a Specialty JOHN COOPEK Taxidermist and Furdressw* 826 fudsr It. Opp. Peopla's TkeuJ VANCOUVER, 11. c. ATENTS PROMPTlY_SECyREDI We solicit the business of Manutacturera, Rnpineers and others who realize tbe^vkaUb ill'of having their Patent busioeas transacted v Experts. Preliminary advice free. Charges noderate. Our Inv.ntof.^AdvUei■ seal J»*■ request Marion & Marion. New York Life Illdg. Montreal: oud Waah!t*3toU, B.C, U.S.A. LABOR REMAINS LIABLE. Total $24 15 •One dollar being on account of ratlle on town lot. After adoption of financial report the meeting adjourned. • D. P. MILLS, Secretary. - —o VICTORIA LOCAL, NO. 2. Our winter propaganda started with a lecture by Comrade Mrs. Arthur Morrow Lewis,, on Monday evening, Oct. 3lst., taking for her subject "Social Parisitism." There was a fair audience considering it being Monday evening, and a few counter attractions. Mrs. Lewis is a pleasing speaker, and will certainly leave an impression wherever sho goes. We expect a visit from her husband on Nov. 12th, who will lecture for us on that date. The business meeting night of this Fernie Local, stamps 4 00 11'00"1 h .s botcn !*£*** iTom -Tues~ Victoria Local, stamps 2 00l',tt-v cwn,n* to Wednesday evening The British parliament at its last session defeated what was called the trades disj-utes bill, which was intended to invalidate those principles of law maintained in what is known as the Tall- Vale decision of the House of Lords, the court of highest resort in England. The defeated measure provided that it should be lawful for a person in his individual capacity or as representative of a trades union to "attend at or near a house or place where a. person resides or works, or carries on his business, or happens to be," for the purpose of "obtaining or communicating information," and ".peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working." It further provided that no act which it was unlawful for one person to do should be held to be unlawful if clone with or without agreement by a greater number of persons, and that for the acts of its members or others no action for damages should lie against a trades union. The defeat of this bill means that as far as England in concerned, labor, organized and unorganized, will remain precisely where it has been placed by recent court decision in this country and England—exactly as liable, financially and othcr- BRYAN OUTDONE. Total Warrants were ordered drawn ft* n Plac«?° 4Coln' McGregor, resigned; the following amounts' ( ora' Stott bcln* vice-organiser in M. Lewis, expenses, balance due Chas. H. Kerr & Co., balance on share stock Comrade Marcon has been elected •11 00 I or£anizcr for tnc balance of the term I wise, for its actions and their con ' -« "— »*-" —'-*-* 'sequences, as capital is and has teen, or any other man or woman who is not technically a "laboring man" is and has been liable. o From a lot. of typical bourgeois $7 00 3 80 Total 810 80 Adjournment. VANCOUVER IX)CAL NO. 1. Tho regular business meeting was held on Monday evening, Oct. 30th. Comrade Morgan in the chair. The minutes of thi; previous meet- ng vice-organize place of Com. Stow, who is now in Vancouver, and Com. A. J. Arnason also being now located at Vancouver, who was treasurer, is succeeded by Com. O. Lee Charlton, who, with Com. Marcon, are two members of the nucleus of three years ago, which evolved into the Local, an integral 'part, of what is now the Socialist Party of Canada in line with the great international movement of the revolutionary working class. HAROLD BURNETT. Victoria, B.C., Oct. 31, 1905. A LETTER FROM THE GENT BELT SOME CAUSTIC CRITICISM ON CURRENT EVENTS. 119 Indiana Road, Toronto, Oct. 24, 1905. Wo have just got over another jingo carnival—the celebration by the official parasites and intellectual hirelings of Capitalism, and the mob of middle-class mobs and hero-worshippers of centenary of the battle of Trafalgar. There have been pages of newspapers devoted to adulation of Horatio Nelson as a model of everything noble and heroic—with ail reference to his amour with Lady Hamilton discreetly omitted. There have been concerts and parades and addresses to school children with the usual flummery and (lag-flapping, and on Sunday thc black militia had field-day, and Ood Almighty was accorded due credit for his supposed share in the business. Of course we were treated to the usual nauseating cant of the s|>ccial favor accorded by Ihe ruler of the universe to the British people and the glorious mission of thc race to introduce civilization and Christianity everywhere, etc. Well, why not? It is merely a matter of demand and supply and .as the church-going public appear to like this kind of twaddle, and certainly continue to pay handsomely for it—of course the trade will furnish it. Thc occasion is mainly noteworthy as showing the determination of the capitalist class and their following to take every opportunity of fostering the military spirit, of course with the solo object of strengthening their positions and keeping down thc, workers. As to the whole sordid, servile crew of intellectuals—tho editors, pulpiteers, college professors, etc., who come to the front on such occasions they are simply doing what they have to do to hold their jobs or get better ones. Not one in ten of the scurvy crew of mental prostitutes cares a continental about Nelson or the Empire, or any other of the little tin gods . to whose worship they attune their I»ns and voices. They are simply out for the stuff. It is only the ignorant and stupid who take their splurgy eloquence at its face vulue. NOTHING TO FEAR FROM THEM. 'thoughtful trades-unionists can hardly be blind to the significance of the donation of 11,000 by Lord Strathcona to the funds of tho Labor Temple. Apart nnd aside from Socialism, Strathcona is a prominent member of the class who have grown rich by despoiling the people—the class which trade unionism professes to antagonize. He has made his millions by means of a - franchise corruptly granted by a vil lainous crew of politicians in return for political support and campaign fund subscriptions^ and now poses abroad as a philanthropic and public spirited magnate. Never, how- ovcr, does he for a moment lose sight of his class interests. When such a man subscribes to labor funds it indicates pretty clearly that Capital ism feels that it has nothing to fear from the lubor movement and furthermore it regards an occasional sop of this kind as good policy. No doubt it is shrewdly calculated that such favors strengthen the hands of the re-actionary element and tend to prevent the spread of Socialism. Strathcona, Carnegie and those of their kidney, surely rate the intelligence and class fldelty of the workers very cheaply when they think that by tho bestowal of a fraction of their ill-gotten gains they can induce them to forget the mode in which their fortunes were acquired, and perhaps acquiesce in imperializ- ing schemes for the perpetuation of their own enslavement. But, unfortunately, the actions of the workers in the past, has generally justified such an assumption. BIG AND LITTLE BOBBERS. Thero is a long, loud universal howl of execration, astonishment and horror from tho capitalist press over the revelation in connection with the American life insurance frauds. The Globe, Mail & Empire and the rest are printing articles exposing thc rot, tenness and demoralization prevalent in American circles of high finance, such as a few months ago would have been characterized by the same editors who are now tearing their hair and getting black in the face over the wrongs of the widow and tho orphan, as the rankest Socialism. It is very tunny how innocent and unsophiscatcd these fellows are trying to make themselves appear. Socialists, of course, have no particular reason to get excited. They have known all along that high finance and low finance and every form of profit-mongering was nothing but robbery and extortion clear through, and have been roundly abused and vilified for saying so by these same hypocritical journalists. In view of the continuous robbery of the workers by the appropriation of tho surplus value created by their labor, all the thievery of the life insurance Officials becomes merely an insignificant episode. It is of no practical interest to the workers, who, as a rule, are too poor to indulge ln the luxury of life insurance, to what extent the Mg financiers and trust slobber dished up by Senator Kirch- hofTer, in London Outlook, the following choice tid-bit was found: "Mr. Ralph Smith, M.P., of British Columbia, represents, cherishes, and is cherished by the extremely radical nnd aggressive labor interest of his province, three thousand miles from Ottawa, on the Pacific Coast." It will be news to British Columbians that Smith "cherishes and is cherished" by any "radical and ag. gressivc labor interest" in the Province or anywhere else. It is a well known fnct that he is practically repudiated by every decent person who Is at all familiar with his career and record. Tt is more than hinted that the property interests, that at one time used him as a decoy to lead the workers into the shambics of exploitation, have no further use for him as he can no longer deliver the goods. o — , G. E. CunlifTe, a clerk In the employ of the Adams Express Co., and who handled probably $1,000,000 yearly, recently made away with $100,000, and has so far escaped arrest. In view of the fact that Ounliffe drew down the magnificent salary of $55 per month, it is difficult to imagine what possible use he could have had for the $100,000. Tho enormous quantity of 80,000,- 000 foet uf gus is escaping daily from what is said to bo the largest gas well ever struck. The well wus drilled by thc Philadelphia Gas company, and is located near Weston in Lewis county in West Virginia- When the tools struck the opening, thero was a rush of gas which hurled great boulders from the well and drove everyone away from the derrick. It is estimated that the well has a pres-4 sure of 1,400 pounds to tho square inch, and every effort to get it under control has failed. The roar of the escaping gas can be heard for miles around, and the gas, which at night has a phosphorescent appearance, stands like- a great column of Ure above the derrick. o Redemption by irrigation, is the cry of 100,000,000 acres of arid America, whose lowest worth is estimated at $10,000,000, and, saved, will oiler living room to over 20,000,000 additional inhabitants, ln the government project at Yuma, Cal., it will cost $3,000,000 to bring this project to the self-supporting point. To fully develop tho system until it ■shall reclaim the 1,200,000 acres proposed will cost $22,000,000. There will be an extensive canal system over the entire reclaimed country of nearly 2,000 square miles. These canals will furnish waterways for traffic und pleasure boats The waterfall will furnish all necessary water power, for mills, factories, and electric lighting, all ns a by-product without diminishing the thc value of the water to the crops. At the lowest probable price, this lund will bring $120,000,000, tho electric energy * 100,000,000, the navigation $12,000,000, making a total of $232,000,000 of value for an investment of $22,000,000. o Tho Baptists of Western Washington, having declared for "pure democracy," and proclaimed "soul-liber. ty," assert that any violations of these principles by coercion, cither of organized capital or labor is a menace to our peace and security as a people and a nation." All of which is very fine and also quite startling. "Soul-liberty" is an especially valuable asset to he who is held in economic bondage to capital through the present wage system As capital does not lose anything by it, it should be satisfactory all around. LEARN TELEGRAPHY and R. R. ACCOUNTING. $50 to $100 par month Salary assured our graduates under bond. You don't pay us until you have a position. Largest system of telegraph schools in America. Endorsed by nil railway officials. OPERATORS ALWAYS IN DEMAND. 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It does tho utmost possible good without possibility of harm. Pleasant to. take, prompt in results, ujially good for children or adults. Two Sizes 25 and 50c. WANTED: by Chicago \vholestlJ house, Sfiecial represent alive ;ur| each province in Canada. Sali $20,00 and expenses paid weekly] Expense money advanced. Itusi-T ness successful; position 1-crmanem.l No investment required, Previous experience not essential to cngaH ing. Address General Manager, 182 I^lce St. Chicago, 111., v.s.a.1 SUBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE. WORKERS MASS MEETING SUBJECT Russian Events and Their Bearing Upon the Labor Problem . . . XT. KINGSLEY SPEAKER =r=rS CITY HALL Sunday, Nov., 5th. AT 8 P.*. COLLECTION This issue is No. 846. If this ill tho number upon your address sllpj your subs'ription expires with thill number. If further copies are dcsir-l ed, renewal should be made at onal If care is taken to renew before tbel expiration of the old subscription it| will greatly simplify matter! in thi Office as well as avoid any break U| receipt of papers. THE WESTERN CLARION. Box 8116, Van< ouver B. 0, Negligee Shirts Not Too Early to Look Exclusive patterns are now some of the choice ones will be t early, and somo of tho d»l|M cannot duplicate. If you sppnrli unusual styles It will ints-eat »os U| como promptly. Flatiron Hats The Smartest Soft Hat ol the Stitti 1 These Hats have been enthusiaitH cally received by young men lr»| the very first day wo brought UjSJ out. Neither trouble nor M|M»I has been saved in the productioi «l those goods, as you will oheemwf, acknowledge upon examination. KILROY, MORGAN CO., LT0.J 110 Cordova Street REO CROSS 0RU6 STORE -HERMAN- + Prescription Mljtt Orsiglsts 58 Cordova St., opp, I'. Hums & Co. ' IN WATCH REPAIRING GREAT CARE IS EXERCISED. AS WE ENTRUST THE REPAIR TO EXPERIENCED WORKMEN ONLY. AND NOT TO APPRENTICES OR AMATEURS. SPROTT & Co. 75? Cordova St., next to Hartr.-y'o. S. T. WALLACES Cash Grocery Storel Wo also carry a full Has ot Ml ture, on easy payments, ai v . I that cannot be duplicated, inspect our stock. Cor Weslselester Ave and llarrio $trt*| VANCOUVER, B.C. ELECTRIC LIGHT There are still a number of houses within the radl»« °* ® Electric Lighting system that are using- coal oil lamps. ^ should not be. va The Electric Light I. the modern light, the safe light USED, nJ convenient light, the cheap light. ONCE USED; that is why we ask; you to try it. Call and soo tho Chief of our Lighting Pepurtmea the matter over. .WAVS I ami U* B.C. ELECTWC RAILWAYCO. ■ ■■•■■■ mam