' 3 THE WESTERN ION Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alone. Vancouver, B. C, Saturday, September 23, 1905 subscription Price Pes YEAR Sl.00 JBCASM OF PAUL LAFARGUE The Rights of the Hone and the Rights ol Man. I „,ii,t civilisation has endowed 'W; worker with tl"' metaphysial man, but this Is only to , 'mure closely and more flrm- * T. coTomlc duty. »•"' n -ree" so speak the KVan to the laborer, "free to 1-1,1 ij-er ml iT«ur IU- «il ,.„ ,1 iivliifif und turn your a" tt millionaire; free to sell llber,y ,.,.- a mouthful of Imprison you ten or Lte hours I" I"1 jKljiiU » workshop; he win oui iill you are Wearied nla,„>,. »f >""• oonsa, till you nough strength left to gulp md sink Into a heavy nf your rights jrejtiHi '- I you have bul one Ninas n"i I"-'11' ,l"a UliU lH lhe v taxes villsatlon may be hard 111 11,11" S^orkliU! humanity, but they ' y , mothei a tenderness for the ■ • Js cull "low- Li-which muuld li I latlon lii> especially favored fjMlne race; It would be too great iu,-in through the long list of lis Kictions; 1 will name but a few, of yn\ notoriety, that 1 may awaken illIUlll,. the passionate desires of Mj,:kM now torpid in their mis- s are divided Into distinct •ri„ equine aristocracy enjoys Ujiij- ami so oppressive privileges, Bti the human-faced brutes which jj'tbemaa Jockeys, trainers, stable |U anJ grooms were not morally railed to the point of not feeling Jlhame, lliey would have rebelled (tat thi-ir l"i iis and masters, whom r-jb down, groom, brush and ii, alfii making their beds, clean- pp their excrements and receiving iand kicks by way of thanks, rlstoiratk horses, like capitalists, it wink: and when they exercise Hives in the fields they look dually, with a coupon-clipper's oon- f, upon ihe human animals which Had see dlhe lands, mow- and rake Meadows, to provide them with Ulov.-t, timothy and other SOCCUl- its. Kse four-fooled favorites of i-lvlll- commmtii such social Influence I ihey tmpos« their wills upon the KtUsui, th-ii brothers In privilege; Bftree the loftiest ol them to come their beautiful ladies and take lln the stables, inhaling the acrid (fames n( their solid and liquid Mors. And when these lords hiii to parade In public, they re- trom i-ii tu twenty thousand i ai„l women to stack themselves i mi uncomfortable seats, under the •fling sun, t" admire their ext-uisite- beled foi ma und their tents of Bins and leaping. They respect lot the social dignities before ach ilie votaries ot the Rights of i bun- in reverence. At ChantiUy l!" -, ago oni of the favorites for firand prize launched a kick at the Belgium, because it did not Hh'- looks of his head. His royal laty, who adores horses, murmur* i apology and withdrew, ^fortunate that these horses, who l count more authentic ancestors jthe nous ts ol Orleans and Hohen- po. have not been corrupted by rblghsociai station; had they tak- llnto their heads to rival the cap- &u In aesthetic pretentions, profll- laaury an I depraved tastes, such I'Mriiitf lace and diamonds, and |*ir'S champagne and Chateau- piUx, a bl ti ker misery iind more rtielmlng drudgery would bo Im- P&over He class of wage-work- rice happy it is for proletarian bu- ">' that these equina aristocrats ""'" tiken the fancy of feeling human (lesh, like the old Bengal N which rove around the villages 1 to carry off women and child- I- unhappily the horses bud been ",,l"ls Ihi capitalists, who ran re- them nothing, would have built houses tor wage-workers, ""> could carve out and dress W ■ woman hams nml girl lo mitl iy iheir tinthropophaglc " Proletarian horses, not so well "••'I. have t.t work f«u- their peck ".but the capitalist class, through -Jlll'f'"" •'" He- aristocrats of tho „ ':"" 'cedes to the working . " r«»is that are far more solid '"'I llian thos,. inscribed in the »«of Man." •JjJJ of ilKhta, the right to exist- •nicli „., civilised society will s'" for Inborers, Is possessed t»y "iit'tl' ''v"" l"'fnrp lts Dlrtn' whllc thi. 'I '""s Htllt"- begins to en- "Rht in exlsetnce; his mother. "'■ Pregnancy has scarcely bo- ancharsed from all work nnd sent Into the country to fashion the new being in peine and comfort; she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses nf the meadow, in which he gambols until lie is grown. The moralists and DOlltlclans of the ' Rights of Man" think it would be monstrous to grunt such rights to the laborers; I rased a tempest in the Chamber of Deputies when I asked that women, two months before and two months after confinement, should have the right ami the means to absent themselves fnun the factory. My [-reposition upset n thlca ot civilization and shook the capitalisl older. What an abominable abomination—to demand for babies the rights of colts. As irn- the young proletarians, they can scarcely trot on their little toes before they are condemned to hard labor In lhe prisons of capitalism, while the cults develop freely under kindly Nature; care is taken that they be completely formed before they are set to work, and their tasks are proportioned to their strength With a tender care. This care on the part of the capitalist follows them all their lives. We may siui recall the noble Indignation of the bourgeois press when 11 learned that the omnibus company was using peat and tannery waste In its stalls as a substitute for straw; to think of the unhappy horses having such poor beds! The more delicate souls of thc bourgeoisie have in every capitalist country organised societ.es for the protection of animals, in order to prove that they can not be excited by the fate of the small victims of industry. Schopenhauer, the bourgeois philosopher, ill whom was incarnated so perfectly the gross egotism of the Philistine, could not bear the cracking of a whip without h s heart being torn by it. This same omnibus company, which works Its laborers from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, requires from its dear horses only five to seven hours, lt has bought green meadows in which they may recuperate from fatigue or Indisposition. Its policy is to expend iiniii- for the entertainment of a quadruped than for paying the wages of a bip.-d. It has in vi-i curred to any legislator nor to any fanatical advocate ur Un- "Rights Of Man" to reduce the horse's dally pittance t" assure him a retreat that would be uf service lo him only after his death. Ithemselves the ultimate workling of i these every-day struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable- guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never-ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. 'I'bey ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social reforms necessary for an economic reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto, 'A fair day's wages for a fair day's | work!' they ought to inscribe on thi-ir banner the revolutionary watchword, 'Abolition of the wages system.' • # • • • "Trades unions work well "as centers of resistance against the en- croachments of capital. They full partially from nn injudicious use of their power. They fail generally froi Doubtless he saw what many others have seen, that during the earlier years of capitalist development, the union could at times, afford at least some protection to its members. Hut as he has asserted in wage-labor and capiital: "Thus tho cost of production of simple labor amounts to the cost of laborer's subsistence and propagation, and the price of its cost determines its wages. This minimum of wages holds good, just as does the determination by the cost of production of the price of commodities in general, not for the particular individual but for the species. Individual laborers, indeed millions of them do not receive enough' to enable them to subsist and | ropa- gnte; but the wages jf the ' hole working class with all their fluctuations are nicely adjusted to this minimum." If the conclusion arrived at by Marx in regard to exchange value is sound, then is the underpinning using their organized forces as a lev er for the final emancipation of tho working class, ihat is to say, the ultimate abolition of tho wages system." The above from "Value, Price and Profit," is handed around by our contemporaries as unanswerable proof that Marx wns on ardent supporter of unionism. By careful reading, however, it, will be quite evident ihat he wns nothing of the sort. Marx evidently attached some importance to thc trade union movement, nnd logically so. It was the only organization composed of worki- men and what more natural than that, he snould attach even more 1m- IKirtance to It than it deserved. Many a man has done and is doing the same thing. He who pins his faith to the trade union movement should avoid Marx, as the reading of his works can afford but cold comfort to any patchwork or reform hobby. PRESBYTERIAN CETS SOAKED Winnipeg Comrade Crilicizei One el tne Hypocriclcal Apologists ef Capitalism The rights of horses havo not been Terror, meetings ure on the tin.t and posted up; they ar.- "unwritten rights," third Sundays in each month, as Socrates called the laws implanted | » * • by Nntuie In the consciousness of all j Th<, f.u.t ,hnt 0|,jtH;tions are urged men. Tbe horse has shown his wisdom in contenting Itself with these rights, with no thought of demanding those of the citizen; he bus Judged that he would have been as stupid us man if he had sacrificed his mess of lentils for the metaphysical banquet of Rights to Revolt, to Equality, to Liberty, and other trivialities which to the proletariat are about as useful as a cautery on a wooden leg. Civilisation, though partial to the equine race, bus not shown herself In- dlffer-nt to the fate of the other animals. Sheep, like canons, pass their days In pleasant and plentiful idleness they are fed in th lucerne, rutabagas y to insist that the . tern of production and distribution the day is ideal, j0f wealth, the good that !s inherent in every man would have fill | iay, but that under capitalism it :s necessary to rob or lie robbed, /roicw Carnegie is no better and no wo-se than the rest of his class. L.lKe ttiler capitalists when his oiop9.'ty \ as threatened, he called for the aid to which he was legally *ncW*jd, and defended it. His hands ure «i.»i ed in the blood of the warking class, but not his alone. Kvery In ml or ::tock-holder is possessed, tl!•••»•*.: *• r;- indirectly, of the same ovUns m •"l"i''<»>ent ot church and Labor oi i Ithe Presbyterian Church in the Oft- our forefathers sprang into being through ' members of tho working- class and this speaks well enough for their progress!veness and intelligence., Mr. Stelzle would have found con- gi-ninl companions in the ranks of tho old French nobility where many used to declare that the serfs were of different clay from their noble selves, and while claiming for themselves a soul denied this gaseous appurtenance to their humble vassals. • • » arise, arise; since m.- ,— Ihimi-nl unfurl the nights uf Man, do are not so vou boldly demand for yourselves, your I ^^^^^^■■■^™^^^^*^__ wives and your children the nights of j v century ago in Canada the work- ^^^ (Translated Wa class was a great deal better olt than today. Wealth was fairly ov- the Horse,—Paul Lafargue, by Charles H. Kerr), fur the International Review. ■ ARL MARX ON TRADE UNIONS N Should Inscribe on Their Banner the "Abolition ol the Wage System." '»■! Mnrx „. gathered b.v reading history, even vlng capitalist history, written for purpose of proving the piesent "'"'gniznd tho necessity union wnon he suid • • I k"'""ri11 tendency of capitalist "" is noi lo raise, hut to ' avWago standard of wages 'Th lhe valtii !• Hi, to Idlg'j'"" '"" vnltle of labor more H thn I '"'"'""'m limit. Much iii-,„ ' '''"leiu-y „( things in this ,,l ' 'ns saying that the work In*" °"Rht t Pl'ltnl o renounce their re- ."■•"■wi the encroachments Nil I l'i'.-. ill. *'ii,i.|||'» ""/I abandon Jhejr at- r:-tir; fhe~hwt of tne o<- thoir temporary they did, they "lies for If would be degraded to one level triasslwo of broken wretches past salvation, ll'!**-" cowardly ^^^^^^ wretche * ^B " wny In their every-day capital, they would certainly dis iriinlify themselves of .-niy larger moVL^^^^ Marx also set forth the limitations of the I nidi " ' ' ''•' true course It lows: "At the same lime, and unite apart TrOIH llll) UU)lera volved in tho wage system, Ing class giving conflict with irtainly for tho initiating imcnt ^^^^ ie Uinitat mum and indicated tho liiiuld pursue, as fol- enly distributed, destitution was unknown, all had at least plenty, and this applies also to the United Stat" at the same period. This much can In I tin . . - social system perfection nnd the present time the iiest, ever experienced. How different the case now can be seen bv anyone reading the daily press. ' Turning to older countries, hear in England, Sir Henry Cam*- llnnnerman declare from his place In the House of Commons that, twelve million of the inhabitants of Ureal Britain nre always on the verge of starvation and no one contradicts, This number is considerably over one-quarter of the popula- Whnt ure we to think of a who will tell us conditions worse a century ago. llow •ould they bo! "pnl.V a few centuries ago half the world lived in slavery, and human life was counted so cheap that men and women wero killed for sport." Today the working class consists of over 70 per cent, of the population of the United States, and every mem bar of it is in the homing-' of wage- slavery, n slavery, that like chattel siavery gives to the slave it subsistence* while working, but unlike chattel slavery does not guarantee work to tho slave, nor make any provision for his sickness or old age. The wage slave has greater liberty of per son than the chattel slave, but on the other hand his chance of death by starvation is infinitely increased, Mr. Stelzle refers to thc cheapness of human life in the past, when men and women were killed for sport, but conveniently ignores the cheapness of human life today when railway com- lianies, mine owners, etc., find human life cheaper than the cost of using Safety appliances. The number of deaths caused by cheap methods of railroading in the United States, is n discrace to any nation, civilized or otherwise. The deaths caused b.v preventable explosions in mines, is another blot on so-called civilization. Where profit is concerned human life is as'ihenp today as it over was. Several years ago a great outcry was heard In Wsrmany because cheap American meat was taking the place of the home grown article. Those Germans whose interests were being thus undermined demanded the exclusion of American meat. The German Government compromised the matter by demanding of the Americans a most stringent inspection of all meats Intended for shipment to Germany. The American Government embodied the German demands in the "Animals industry Act." This act Is In force today, and ls one of the most, if not the most, comprehensive laws ot Its kind in tbe world. It provides for the Inspection by a competent veterinarian of every cattle beast, sheep and hog intended for food while The Animal Is Being Killed, and besides the flesh of every hog Is examined under the microscope. Every cattle beast suffering from tuberculosis (consumption) actlmonycosls (lumpy jaw) ls condemned and destroyed. Every hog suffering from hog cholera, trichina spiralis, etc., Is destroyed, in fact the subject of any disease or diseased condition is destroyed under this law. No sane person not Interested in profiting by selling diseased meat can or will object to having such thorough inspection. When our Dominion and Provincial Contagious Diseases Acts were drawn up and placed on the statute books apparently no thought was given to safeguarding the public health. Their object was plainly and solely to guard against the destruction of property. There is absolutely no provision made for inspection at the slaughterhouses, the only possible place where animals intended for food can be thoroughly inspected, and even the carrying out of the slim provisions of our present laws by the Inspectors Is for the most part a criminal farce. Two years ago hog cholera broke out in a drove of hogs belonging to one of the largest butcher Arms In this Province at one of their slaughter houses. Eating raw offal, wallowing in decayed offal and slaughter house filth, Impregnated with the cholera contagion of former years, the hogs died rapidly. Part of the drove was isolated. Hogs that died during the night and were too stiff to dress were burned. A close watch was kept during the day, and all hogs that died were dressed before the animal heat was out of them and taken to the shops to be sold directly, or put into cold storage until needed. Immediately after all the hogs had died or were killed the Dominion Inspector informed one of the Arm that he would be at their slaughter house on a certain day. The slaughter house men were told to prepare to receive the Inspector, who, when he came, walked around, looked w.se and drove away. Last year hogs died ot the same dla- east at the same place and were handled in the same way. The contagion has been there for years, is there now, and no adequate measures have been taken anywhere in the Province to destroy the germs of this deadly disease. The fixed policy of another of the largest meat firms in this country is to kill off and put into cold storage their whole drove as soon as the hogs begin to die. As the cholera germs require from three days to two weeks to incubate, the danger of allowing any hogs of a drove in which the infection exists to be used for food is plain. Even from a saving of property point of view it would pay the butchers and raisers of hogs to destroy all buildings, pens, etc., In order to get rid of the Infection, but if there is' a single voluntary instance where such action was taken I have never heard of It. One of our butchers told me that he lost $1,500 two years ago from hog cholera, enough to have constructed a much more elaborate slaughter house and hog pens than the old ones which he is still using. No slaughter man or meat cutter has any orders from his employers to destroy or does destroy any diseased car- cass or any part of a diseased carcass. Every diseased carcass of cattle, sheep and swine .killed at the slaughter 1 sorvltttdo 1«- I '?b I ton man wen Socialist has nc personal tiiiar- thuworkl nd with the Individual capitalist. Flo houses in British Columbia Is sold for food. Many diseased animals are killed on ranches, their meat hauled under cover to the butcher shops nnd there sold for food because to drive such diseased stock on the public roads might cause unfavorable comment. Practically all cattle and hogs used for food In this Province are either Imported from the Canadian Territories or raised in the Province. For those Imported from the Territories there Ih no Inspection whatever. Is there any sound reason why animals imported from Alberta should not pass as rigid an Inspection as those brought In from the United States? But then the Inspection of animals on the ranches in B. C. by Government veterinarians is of such a slipshod character the farce Is so patent that it has become a standing joke among the producers and middles- men of the meat and milk business. There are plenty of milk cows and other cattle on the ranches showing every symptom of tuberculosis, but if tuberculosis tests are made by the inspectors they are the exception and not the rule. Lumpy Jaw is a common disease ln this country but I have yet to hear of a single instance where a subpect of this disease has been destroyed or even Isolated notwithstanding the fact that actlmonycosls has almost Invariably proved fatal to any human being who contracted lt. The rancher sees to it that none of the milk or meat from such diseased animals is used for himself or his family but as a rule he sells for the use of others that same milk and meat, taking care not to publish the facts. Theie are sections of this country where Chinese stock handlers are employed mainly because they do not tell talea out of school about such evil practices; they "no sabee." The rancher may salve his conscience by denying the ex- estence of these diseases among his stock, calling lumpy jaw "bolls" and consumption "a bad cold," but In no case is the product of such animals used by himself or family. The white workers on the ranches and ln the slaughter bouses and meat markets are all familiar with the deadly conditions of the meat and milk supply, but as their living and the living of their families depends on their keeping quiet about such things, they will say very little except to one who, like themselves, is a worker and their unanimous verdict is that such inspection as there is in British Columbia is a farce, that there is no inspection at the slaughter houses whatever, that most of the slaughter houses and piggeries are kept in a most vile condition, that there ls a great deal of consumption, lumpy jaw, hog cholera and other diseases and diseased conditions among the stock of the province and in the stock imported into the province and that practically all such stock and their produ -ts and by products asa»sold for human food and that such diseased food is consumed mostly by working people, sailors, miners, the frequenters of cheap restaurants and hotels, etc., because in some cases lt is sold a trifle cheaper than the healthy article. People and especially children, do contract disease from diseased milk and meat and die from their effects and the burden of suffering, expense and untenable grief falls most heavily on the poor, who are least able to support it. The desire for profit is the cause of this wholesale breaking of the moral law. The abolition of the profit system would remedy the matter, but it won't do to wait until profits are a thing of the past. We must have a remedy now. It is intolerable to consider that innocent children and others must suffer and die because of the devilish greed of the rancher and the butcher and milkman. Surely those consumers of meat and milk who have no interest to serve in allowing this state of things to continue are ln the great majority in this province both in and out of parliament. What this province needs and needs badly and needs now is a stringent inspection of every cattle beast, sheep and hog killed for food while the animal is being killed and of every milk cow whose product is being sold for food and every animal found suffering from any disease or diseased condition known to common sense and science as being dangerous to human health, condemned and destroyed by competent men possessed of bowels and a conscience as well as brains. Provincial control of this matter ls absolutely necessary. Ottawa is too far away ln more respects than one and there are many strong arguments against municipal control. A provincial law covering the Inspection of all animals intended for foot], the stables where they are housed, the slaughterhouses where they are killed, all piggeries and all dressed and cured meat Imported Into the province and severe penalties emu-ted and executed for any departure from the strict letter and spirit of the law whether by Inspectors or others, Public abattoirs can even be run at a profit by the province and a real inspection would soon enhance the value of the stock of the province und relieve the conscience of many a greedy wrongdoer. Here is a matter of life and death add becuuse It is such In seeking to provide remedial legislation no notice should be taken of any interests which might suffer by having a proper law covering this matter strictly executed. No patchwork, no compromise, but the knife right to the root of the matter. james McGregor, Victoria, B. C. hood. With all the sophistry of Stelzle. and his like, the fact remains as Thorohl Rogers proves, in his great, work "Six Centuries of Work and Wages," thnt the 18 und 14th centuries were the golden ngi'of the skilled laborer. The laborer easily produced siiilicient for himself and family by eight, hours duily labor, the numerous holidays gave him ample time for recreation and he knew how to make use of them. To-day our holidays are cut almost to tho vanishing point and the intensity of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ lubor has become so fierce that men system^ which crushes o«it wherevur.jjjecome—-ffre-y-—and old - leiug befme] their time, und nre forced to givo More Rttltf of the same t.V|>o as that already quoted emanates from the pen of the hireling Stelzle, paid apologist for tho infamous capitalist iibssihlc, any movement on the part en in •lass ought not to exaggerate to knows that given an etpilta le sys- of tho workers to assert their man- place to younger men. Today it Is —u—i— ■■■ asaa a BBS open to tpiestion if the lot of the agricultural laborer is not worse than that of the serf of feudal times. Mr. Stelzle winds up in the usual style of tho platitudinous pulpiteer to the effect that without belief ia Jesus nothing can lye done towards improving what he admits to be fur from ideal. This is what his kibd have been telling us for 1900 years, but we are further from the golden uge than ever. The "golden ago," must bo brought in by the working class without any extraneous aid and thu sooner tjh^jvnxk!lng-i'lasa_.-t*.- cotnea conscious of this, tho |«ettor for us all. SPARTACUS, - «. i ' i : i : i 1 _ m wmthh PLA>ioy, vAaooirra, fe. erty. They are, therefore, tho slaves of capital. If Collier's could swap its telescopic vision for one ot microscopic qualities, it might be atole to discover that the conditions of American slaves are fully as deplorable as those of the Filipinos. When the American workingman has developed sufficient backbone to throw the American exploiter overboard, he will not only free himself by so-doing, but also free the Filipino in so far as the Yankee labor skinner is concerned. Probably Colliers will help, but we have our doubts. enfoi ^ barms fair treatment by refusing to work unless such demands were complied with. He has struck singly and by thousands, and in ninny cases has most stubbornly stuck to his ploint, hut it is not recorded in the annals of fact that all of his efforts along this line have succeeded in advancing the average wage ar doiog anything more serious to capital than to temporarily disturb its smooth working. Inasmuch as the average wage of necessity must hover closely around* the line of subsistence, while the labor market is fully or over-supplied with labor, for the worker to refuse to work is equivalent to refusing to eat. Upon the average, the worker can not be long idle without feeling the pinch. Other workers cannot be depended upon to sustain him because they have all they can do to kioeip themselves. Of all strikes, the so-called sympathetic one is perhaps thc mast nonsensical. For one body of slaves in their wisdom to refuse rations is, in itself, ludicrous, but for another body to follow suit out of sympathy is enough to burst one's buttons. Though misery may love company, this would scarce justify sympathy in furnishing it. We have heard of one tooth aching in sympathy with another, but just what sort of reasoning determined the matter has Still remained a mystery to us. Probably thu same line of reasoning would determine why one bunch of slaves should decide to go hungry just because another bunch decided to do so. Take it all around the strike is about the most assininc measure ev _ Every Local of the Socialist Party of Canada should run a card under this head. $1.00 per month. Secretaries please note. SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Bominion Executive Committee, A. R. Stebbings, John E. Dubberley, Ernest Burns, C. Peters, AH. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; J. O. Morgan, secretary, 551 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C. LOCAL VANCOUVER, NO. 1, S.P. of Canada. Business meetings every Monday evening at headquarters, Ingleside lllock, 818 Cambie Street, (room 1, second floor.) Educational meetings every Sunday at S o'clock p.m., in Sullivan Hall, Cordova Street. II. P. MILLS, Secretory. Box HMO, Vancouver B. C. Union Directory When They Meet; Where They Me? hwry Labor Union in u, 3 place a card uiuU-, month. Secretaries please u'otV vtttd to place a card"urnier' UiiTlSS^f? U * Phoenix Trades and Labor ~cn„„ . Meets every alternate &1 John Riordan, president- vT* Brown, vice-president • p if?! casse sergcant-at-arms'- W '1 n J bury, secretary-treasurer, P n j£f 108. Phnnnr U f ' ■ "• Hi* Phoenix Miners' LOCAL VICTORIA, No. 3, S. P. of C. H. J, B. Harper, secretary, Rock Bay Hotel, Victoria, B. C. LOCAL REVELSTOKE, No. 7. H. Sclgfrled, secretary, P.O. box 208, Revelstoke, B. C. _____^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^__, a nation of paupers. One p.irsoa in xialist fancies he is to accomplish I ten of the 33,000,000 inhabitants of the revolution he has in mind sim- England and Wales is just hovering WHAT CAPITALISM HAS DONIi. Alarm is spreading throughout England at the growing seriousness of the problem of finding work for Englishmen to do. England, with nil its 1 " " " ' ,' , wealth, is rapidly degenerating into er adopted by the slave to force eon- - - - -*- (cessions from his master. By all odds it is the most useless. Noth- LOCAL NANAIMO, No. 8. Daniel Livingstone, secretary, Box 453, Nanaimo, B. C. Union, n0i vv. r. m. ivieets every Satllr, evening at 7-30 o'clock jn M;„ »FF"*cKr.c- j LOCAL VANANDA, No 22. Edward Upton, secretary, Vananda, Texatla Island, B. C. LOCAL TORONTO — Meets 2nd and and 4th Tuesdays, Temperance Hall Hathurst St. F. Dale, Secretary, 41 Henry street, W. O. Dribble, organizer, 130 Hogarth Ave. SELLING DISEASED MEAT. ply by voting for it. And yet every sane person knows full well that the will of the proletariat can be given expression only when backed up by force. While we are not as a rtile inclined to bother to any great extent with individuals, ,we make no hesitancy in saying that of all of us freaks thut have blown into British Columbia from across the line, this Holm is the tamest and most ill-informed, Father Hagerty not except, ed. We are uwure that we are infringing upon the sacred nights of the Socialist Labor Party using the term freak, as that is a term belonging to it by virtue of discovory and long use. We make bold to use the term however, upon_the grounds that it is not difficult to show that this industrial idiosyncracy is the most freuk- isli mishap, or mislit that ever found lodgment in the heads of supposedly sane men. It lodged in the heads of this S.L.P. bunch in 18'J5. The harder they have hammered at it the wtiakor they have become, but in apite of this, they nave refused to learn tho lesson that there is a root antagonism between a movement to patch up the present system and make it more tolerable, and a movement for its overthrow, und that because of this fundamental antagonism the two can no more mix than oil and water. in the school of experience alone s it passible for the great majority to learn. Some people require oceans of experience to learn even a little. Ten years of blunder and mishap has evidently taught these ignoramuses nothing. They have now pooled their assetls, which consists of nothing, with similur assetts of a few other morifund aggregations and arc staking them all on the forlorn hope of converting the ghost of a dead cause, into a living_actuality. It will require something more than bold assertions and childish reasoning to effect the resurrection and make it permanent. It is pleasing to note that but one paper that .reaches us Is actually "boosting" this scheme of resurrection. That is the New York "People." , "Boosting" is the proper term as it is a proposition that cannot stand upon its merits. A cause that must bc boasted, is a lost cause. We patiently await thc coming of thc next conjurer to entertain us, by calling forth "spooks." above tho starvation line, aad there ing worth having has over been gain- led by resorting to it. The solution are 850,000 paupers in receipt of , public relief. Englishmen are called of the -A""'' problem depends upon upon to pay the annual bill of ».H1,- ,thc exercise of other means TELESCOPIC VISION. Ijtr.^'oln said of slavery that a black woman might, not in some ways bo his cuual but that In the right to eat the food her own hands hnd earned she was the eiq.ual of himself, Judge Douglas, or any man. Economic intle|>endeacc is the basis of every kind of liberty that has worth, it was over an unjust tax that the colonies went to war._ Un- 000,000 to surrport their pau*Mr fellow citizens and this amount is increasing at the rate of a u.iiiion a year.—Cleveland Press. It is about time that something besides alarm was spreading, not only throughout England, but throughout the world. The conditions prevailing in England are those that must inevitably prevail sooner or later in every country on earth, for the same causes are at work in each of them. A highly developed capitalism must of necessity bring such conditions in its wake. When the workers of the world, the wealth producers, are robbed of the wealth they create, and this is turned into additional capital, i.e., means of robbery, it stands to reason that it is only a matter of timo when the limit of robbery is reached and it is a mathematical impossibility for the plundering system to continue. Additional capital means additional slaves to be exploited, and when these can no longer be found, or rather a market for the additional plunder is no longer available, the condition complained of in England will be in evidence and become more emphasized each day. The main thing that capitalism has done is to concentrate into gigantic aggregations the world's machinery of wealth production. This it has done in conformity with the ever-increasing social character taken on by production os the implements with which it is carried on become more highly developed and powerful, and more completely submerge the individual wealth prqducer in the great sea of collective production. 't'he thinking man realizes that unless thc means of wealth production bu put to their proper use, i.e., converted into thc means of satisfying the material needs of those who operate them, the workers, the conditions complained of will increase in intensity and whole nations eventually sink into pauperism and perish. That England is nearlng upon the mast critical and trying period in heiv history is plain to be seen. Whether her working people will rise to the occasion, and break the chains of capitalist rule by setting free to all Englishmen access to the means of living remains to l-e seen. They ennnot rise to their mission too speedily, for signs arc plentiful that national decay has not only set it, but has reached an advanced stage. At one time, England was the home of the workman of "haughty air and independent, mien." She will never again be that until the workers have thrown their present capitalist rdlers, and their ridiculous Royal buffoonery overboard for -rood and all. Whatever capitalism may have done, this is a job that the workers must themselves attend to. RSTAULISHRI) ,s94 The VOICE Tlie Oldest Labor Paper In Canada Always a fearlesss exponent In the cause of labor. -%, For one dollar the paper w\\\ u sent to any address for one year, Workldgnien of all countries villi soon recognize the f,a-t thai foe. must support and read their lata papers. Issued every Friday. The Voice Publishing Co., Limited WINNIPEG, MAN. J. KiiWARn limn. A i-. But la, IlKO. K. DkClii.-MN. BIRD, 8RYD0N-JAGK & Mc! mm BABKIKTKRS, SOLICITORS, I Tt: R-illwiiy BliH-k. Tel. «-.".i. I'd. |toj 324 Hastings Street • Vancouver. 6. —THE- llutiian progress demands a transformation in the system of property to conform to the collective or social character of modern production, so thut they who do the work may enjoy iho product. The exhibition of working class ignorance known as strikes should be discouraged, os no good can come iroin them. They ate fruitful of bitter animosities and natred only. The time is ripe, for the class struggle; the struggle to the death between the capitalist class and the working class for the control of the means ot wealth production, tho former to maintain its control, the latter to break it. This is a struggle that will require the energy of men rather than the onstinancy of balky mules. o SAMSON'S LOCKS ARE SHORN In an article in unother column entitled "These Wage Slavery days" Comrade 10. V. Debs uses the following words: "Samson lost his strength only when his locks were shorn. The workingman shorn of his tools, implements of existence, is without his strength. He is as Sampson when his locks were cut." The simile is a good one. With no co maud over his means of subsistence, the workman is indeed without strength economically speaking. In other words he is without economic [lower. That is why he cannot wage Warfare in the economic field aguinst the capitalist with any prospect of victory. For that reasan it is positively criminal to tleludiu him into the belief that he can win in such a one-sided battle. Shorn of economic power because shorn of his means of subsistence- resources of the earth and tools of production—it logically follows that to regain his strength he must flrsj, become master of tho means of subsistence. His first move, therefore, of necessity, becomes a political one, as the title of ownership in determined by the political power of tho state. This he must seize and wield in his own behalf if ho is ever to again become possessed of his onetime strength. The political warfare against the capitalist class, for tho purpose of ousting that cluss from its control of the machinery of the state, and its consequent control of tho means of subsistence, demands tho undivid- -.•d energy of every member of the wago-slnvc class, Nothing can justify the utilization of of thVir energies for any other purpose. Energy expended for patchwork and reform purposes is that much energy wasted, and Freedom's cause has been robbed of legitimate support to that extent. B.v that much has the day of Labor's deliverance been postponed. Miners' Mag 2 :ii( Published Weekly by th» Western Federation 01 MLcrs A Vigorous Advocate of Labor's | Cause. CIcnr-Cut and Aggressive. Per Year $1.00. Six Months, Address! MINERS' MAGAZINE, Denver. Colorado. C. PETERS Practical Raot I aud 3hr,: IK iter! II.1111I M.i.l. Hi-..Is mui Rim * ti. < uk nil style*. Bepaliina promptly-! 1 ly .lone, Ktock ..I Btnpli rrai 1; Shots always 011 hauil 2456 Westminster Ave Meant : iu at | With profit as the motive of industry there is no limit to the depths of depravity to which men will sink In order to obtain it. While people live under a system of property that compels them to sell things to each other in order to live, lt may be readily under- sood that the way is open to all the despicable trickery and deceit that the fertile brain of man Is capable of Inventing. It ls a matter of common knowledge that all sorts of adulterants are used ln food stuffs, in some cases of the most poisonous character. It may be said with more than a grain of truth that In purchasing his food a person in these glorious capitalistic days takes his life In his hands. ' To what length people will go In the selling of things entirely unfit fur use is shown in an article on the first page of this issue, by James McGregor, of Victoria. We are Inclined to believe that the practice of selling diseased meat in this Province ls carried on to a much greater extent than Indicated by Mr. McGregor's article. We have in this otlice a detailed account of the slaughtering of a large number of hogs afflicted with hog cholera, and the selling of the meat over the block. Many of these hogs were, at the time of slaughtering, In such an advanced stage of the disease that It became necessary to skin the carcasses in order to escape detection at the hands of the consumers. The Bkln of hogs affected with the cholera becomes covered with red blotches. While lt is no doubt Impossible lo remove the evils arising from the present skin-game civilization, still every effort should be made to safeguard the public health against the unscrupulous assaults o* the profit-hungry seller of food stuffs. It ls time the Provincial authorities took some steps towards providing for a proper inspection of animals to be slaughtered and meats to be sold. If the next session of the House will de- vole Its entire time to this matter it will be time far better spent than In juggling with the Inconsequential mailers that usually occupies Its attention. Not only should there be thorough meat inspection, but the surest way to obtain it Is by the erection of abattoirs by the Province and the election of officials necessary to provide for the inspection and slaughter of all animals the meats from which are Intended for sale. If one-half of that hinted at by Mr. McGregor be true, prompt and drastic action ls imperatively demanded. The next session of tho Provincial 1 ,55 Q d S|ree, House should take this matter up and1; ^ ^ )t roj|.vw.,„l irlth f institute a most searching Inquiry Into ~' " the practices prevailing among slaughter-house men and meut dealers. The Western Clarion will be pleased to offer some valuable evidence to aid ln such an inquiry. SMOKE Kurtz's Own Kurtz's Pioneers Spanish Blossoms WAGE-LABOR AND CAPITAL By KAKI. MARX. 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When you are buying a FUIl HA 1 •« ^M ths (lenulne Union Label 1" »*»d In 'l t0 |i I "l,"rs loc* him- „,., Tim l"fl IV haa looae labels In Ida possession urn one in a hat for you. do not patronii label* In retail atorea ara countarfsll- (|v Union Label la perforated on four stil!*. -ot earn* aa a postage atamp. Counterfeit* tJr|lf, ji times perforated on tares edpel. ami «"'" , |llB 11 on two. John B. StetBon Co, of 1 i""1 non-union concern. . JOHN A. MOKF1TT, President. Onuig«. - 11 \v averly '^' MAIITIN I.AWLOK, HecreUry, !■ New York. Dtembcr *Z8, 1905. TH* WKSTMUI OLMttOK, VAHOQTJVnt, | 0. A Chapter From Marx „Y I.K01ST.ATION AGAINST T11F. EXPROPRIATED l! ,.„,, THE END OF THE 15TH CENTURY. FORCING WAGES BY ACTS OK PARLIAMENT. DOWN Tin-1" nl- lariat i ban of 11"' ■ tented by the break- dsi of feudal retainers ft ul' "1 forcible expropriation of the s»l!ll> ,, the SOU. this "free" prole- Soplefll>" n0t possibly be absorbed fc*' '" ..,.,„ manufacturers as fast pilllSI ' "I W Ih'' upon the world. On ae men, suddenly their modest mode of iD ■ il.ni-.Vll -.-^^^^^^^^_^^^_ "»" , hand, these men, suddenly H'l* _ lint nuiilA /•.*' She '■«'" f ^^^^^^^^ Kid 'not as suddenly adapt them" llft '""' „„. discipline of their new |flve.9i s They were turned en rf-into beggars, robbera, vagabonds, rZ from Inclination, i" most eases r Ireus of circumstances. Hence, WLendof the 15th and during the bi. i- in' the I'itli century, throughout !!,',,„ Europe, a bloody legislation *" vagftbondage. The fathers of «£ present working-class were chastls- Vfm Un-ii enforced transformation info rtgab Is and paupers. Legisla- ' treated them as voluntary erlml- ",, and assumed that it depended up- Ln their own goodwill to go on work- , NI],i,.r the old conditions that no lWo,.r existed. I," England this legislation begun unto Henry VII. H-nry VIII.. 16S0: Beggars old and muMe to work elve a beggar's 11- ,,,,'„,., im the other hand, whipping ■ml imprisonment fur sturdy vagub- (iii,l*. They are to be tied to the cart- tail and whipped until the blood ,,,.,,,11,1 from their bodies, then to •ii-rat-:ui ";iili i" go back to their birth- pjact ur to where they have lived the ,„, three years and to "put themselves ;,, labor." What grim Irony! In 27, jenry. VIII., the former statute Is re- p-ated, but strengthened with new clauses. For the second arrest for vag- sbondage the whipping Is tn be repeat- f,I an-1 half the .-ar sliced off; but for jhe third relapse the offender Is to be ixi.uli-.l as ;i hardened criminal and enemy of the common wenl. Edward VI; A statute ot the first mar of his reign, ir.17, ordains that If one refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to the person who his denounced him as nn Idler. The master shall feed his slave on bread and water, weak broth und sut.-h refuse m i as he iliinks fit. He has the1 light in force him to do any work, noj natiei how disgusting, with whip and Chains. If the slave Is absent a fort- niyiii. in is condemned to slavery for ii(- and - lo be branded on the fore- bud hi back with the letter 8; if he runt away thrice, he is to be executed i i felon. The master can sell him. bequeath him, let him out on hire us a Have, Just as any other personal chat-, li it oi nl' If the slaves attempt any-j thinj against the masters, they are til-! to to li. • \.. uted. Justices of the peace, on Information, nre to hunt the; lavals down If it happens that a vag- staod has been idling about for three . he in in lie taken to his birthplace, biandcd with a red-hot Iron with the. letti-i v mi the breast and be set to K"ik. iii . bains, in the streets ur at wir.i other labor If the vagabond Jives i false birthplace, he is then to become the alnve for life of this place, '■■• Ita Inhabitants, or Its corporation, at to be branded with an S All persons have the right to take away 'he children of the vagabonds and to keep them .is apprentices, the young "•■" Until the Mh year, the girls until the 20th year, If they run away, they ue in become up to this age the slaves ot thflr masters, who can put them In lions, whip them, etc., if they like. Every master may put un Iron ring round the neck, anus or legs of his slave, by *Wch ii. know him more easily and to be more certain of him The last part Ol this statute provides that certain poor people may be employed by a place 'f by persons, who are willing to give *'"> ' I and drink and to find them ■Wk 'I'hii kind of parish-slaves was 'epl up in England until fur into the i«h H-niury under the name of ''roundsmen" Elisabeth. 1878; Unlicensed beggars shove 11 years of age are to be severely "egged and branded on the left ear un-, 'ess some one will take them into ser- -i" for two years. In case of a repetl- """ of II ffeiu-e, if they are over 18, "">' nre to be executed, unless some """ Will take them Into service for two 'Mrs; Inn f,„. ,*,,. third offence they f"'' '" 1 xecuted without mercy as Wins. Blmllar statutes: 18 Elizabeth. c H. mil another of 1597 James I Anyone wandering about '"'i begging is declared a rogue and a 'ignbtmrl Justices of the peace In petty seaslona are authorised to have them Wbllcly whipped and for the first nf- '""'" to Imprison them for fi months. society, while al the other are grouped masses of men. who have nothing to sell hut their labor power. Neither is it enough thnt they are compelled to sell It voluntarily. The advance of capitalist production develops a working-class, which by education, tradition, habit, looks upon the conditions of that mode of production as self-evident laws nf nature. The organization of the capitalist process of production', once fully developed, breaks down all resistance. The constant generation ot a nlative surplus-population keeps the law of yupply and demand of labor, and therefore keeps wages in a rut that corresponds with the work of capital. The dull compulsion of economic relations completes the subjection of the laborer to the capitalist Direct force, outside economic conditions, is of course stil used, hut only exceptionally. In the ordinary run of things, the laborer can be left to the "natural laws <>f production," i. I-.. to his dependence on capital, a dependence springing from and guaranteed In perpetuity by the conditions of production themselves. It ls otherwise .liniiiK the historic genesis of capitalist production. The bourgeoisie, at Its rise, wauls and uses the power of the state to "regulate" wages, 1. e., to force them within the limits suitable for surplus-value making, to lengthen the Working-day and lo keep the laborer himself in a normal degree of dependence. This is an essential element of the so-calleit primitive accumulation. The class of wage-laborers, which niose in Ihe latter half of the 14th century, formed then and In the fo ■"' the sunnil for 2 years. Whilst In prison they are to be whipped as the Justices of the peace think fit. Incorrigible ami dangerous rogues are to be branded with an H on the left shoulder r'»'l sol to hard labor, and If they are «uight begging again, to be executed *llhout mercy. These statutes, legal" '•' binding until the beginning of the Uth century, mere only repealed by 12 A,|n, C, 23. Simitar laws in France, where by the "'I'l'ile of the 17th century a kingdom '" vagabonds (truands) was establish- "'' in Parts, Even at the beginning of ,'"lll>' XVI.'s reign (ordinance of July J«h. 1777) every man In good health f""« IB to 60 years of age, If without "leans of subsistence and not practising "•trade, is to he sent to the galleys. Of '"f same nature are the statutes of j*arlea' V. for the Neltherlands (Octo- ™r' 1637), the first edict of the states m towns 0f Holland (March 10, 1614), 1,0 "fliik mt" of the United Provinces 'Ji.lie '>f. i«-n\ „._ mrnmw^^^^^^^^^ \\\\\\n century only a very small part of the population, well protected In Its position by the Independent peasant proprietory, In the country and the guild- organization in tht> town. In country and town master ami workman Stood close together socially. The subordination of labor to capital was only formal, i. ft., the mode of production had as yet no specific capitalistic character. Variable capital preponderated greatly over constant. The demand for wage-labor grew, therefore, rapidly with every accumulation of capital, whilst the supply of wage-labor followed but slowly. A large part of the national product. changed later Into a fund of capitalist accumulation, then still entered Into Ihe consumption fund of the laborer. Legislation on wane-labor (from thc first, aimed at the exploitation of the laborer, and, as it advanced, always equally hostile to him), is started in England by the Statute of Laborers, of Edward III.. 1849. The ordinance of 1360 in Prance, issued In the mime of King John, corresponds with It. English and French legislation run parallel and an- identical In purport Bo far as the label Statutes aim at Compulsory extension of the working-day, I do not return in them, as this point was treated earlier 0 hapter X.. section ".). The Statute of Laborers wns passed at the urgent instance of the House of Commons. A Tory says naively: "Formerly the poor demanded Bcuh high wages as to threaten industry and wealth. Next, their wages are so low aa to threaten Industry und wealth equally and perhaps more, but in another way. A tariff of wages was fixeil by law Lu town and country, for piecework and day-work. The agricultural laborers wen- to hire themselves out by the year, the town ones "in open market." It was forbidden under pain of Imprisonment, to pay higher wages than those fixed by the statute, but tbe taking "f higher wages was more severely punished than the giving of them. So .ilsn in section IS and 111 of the Statute of Apprentices of Elizabeth, ten days Imprisonment is decreed for him that pays the higher wage but twenty- one days for him that receives them. A BtatUte of UMI increased the penalties and authorised the masters to extort labor at the legal rule of wages by corporal punishment All combinations, contracts, oaths, etc.. by which masons and carpenteri reciprocally hound themselves, w.-ie declared null and void. Coalition of the laborers is treated as a heinous crime from the 14th century to IS-.'.',, the year Of the repeal of the laws against trades unions. The spirit of the statute oi Laborers of 1349 and of Its offshoots, conies out clearly in the fact that Indeed a maximum Of wages la dictated by the state, but on no account a minimum. In the 16th century, the condition of the laborers had, as we know, become much Worse. The money wnge ruse. but nut in proportion t<> the depreciation .if money and the corresponding rlae |n the prices of commodities. Wages, therefore, In reality tell. Nevertheless, the laws for keeping them down remained In force, together with the ear-clipping and branding of those "Whom nn one was willing to take Into service. By the Statutes of Apprentices r, Elisabeth, C. X the justices of the peace were empowered t< liami-nt ordered that the wages of the1 •Scotch miners should continue to be re-' gulated by a statute of Kiij-ubeth and two Scotch ucts of 16til and 1071. How completely ui the meantime circumstances had changed, is proved by an occurrence unheard of before in the English Lower house. In that place, wheie for more than WO years laws had been! made for the maximum, beyond which' wages absolutely must not rise, Whit-' hi cad in 1798 proposed a legal minimum I wag,- for agricultural laborers. Pitt' opposed this, but confessed that the1 condition of the poor was cruel." Ki-j nally, in 1813, the laws for the regula-l lion were repealed. They were an absurd anomaly, since the capitalist regulated his factory by his privale legislation, and could by the poor-rates make up the wage of the agricultural laborer tn the indispensable minimum. The provision of the labor statutes as to contracts between master and workman, as to giving notice and the like, which only allow of a civil action agains the contract-breaking master/ but nu the contrary permit a criminal' action against the contract-breaking workman, are to this hour (1873) in full force. The barbarous laws against Trades Unions fell in 1825 before the threatening bearing of the proletariat. Despite thi-*, they fell only in part. Certain beautiful fragments of the old statute vanished only in I8f,9. Finally, the act of parliament of June 29, 1871, made a pretence of removing the last traces of this class of legislation by legul recognition of Trade Unions. But an act of parliament of the same date (an act to amend the criminal law I relating to violence, threats, and molestation), re-established, in point of fact, the former state of things in a ' new shape. Uy this Parliamentary es-j camotsge the means which the laborers; could use In a strike or lock-out were withdrawn from the laws common to all citizens, and placed under exceptional penal legislation, the Interpretation "f which fell to the masters themselves in their capacity as justices of the peace. Two years earlier, the same House of Commons and the same Mr. Gladstone In the well known straightforward fashion, brought in a bill for the abolition of all exceptional penal legislation against the working-class. Hut this was never allowed to go beyond the second reading, and the matter was thus protracted until at last the "great Liberal party," by an alliance with the Tories, found courage to turn against the very proletariat that had carried it into power. Not content with this treachery the "great Liberal party" allowed the English judges, ever complaisant In the service of the ruling classes, to dig up again the earlier laws against "conspiracy" and to apply Ihem to coalitions Of laborers. We see that only against its will and under the pressure of the masses did the English Parliament give up the laws against ft i ikes and Trades' Unions, after It had Itself, fur 500 years, held, with shameless egotism, the position of a permanent Trades' Union of the capitalists against the laborers. Inning the very first storms of the revolution, the French bourgeoisie dared ti. take .'way from the winkers the right <>f association but just i aiuired. By decree .'f June 14, 1791. they declared all coalition of the workers as "an attempt against liberty and the declare- linn of the lights of man," punishable by a fine of 5U0 llvres, together with di privation of the rights of an active citizen for one year. This law which, by means .if state compulsion, confined the struggle between capital and labor within limits comfortable for capital, has outlived revolution and changes of] dynasties. Even the Reign of Terror j left it untouched. It was but quite recently struck out of the Penal Code. ] Nothing is more characteristic than the pretext for th.s bourgeois coup d'etat, j "Granting.'' says Chupeller, the reporter of the Select Committee on this law, j "that wages ought to be a little higher | than they are * * * ♦ that they ought to be high enough for him that receives ihem, to be free from that state of absolute dependence due to the want of the necessaries of life, and which is almost that of slavery," yet the workers must not be allowed to come to any understanding about their own interests, nor act in common and thereby lessen their "absolute dependence, which is almost that of slavery"; because, forsooth, in doing this they injure "the freedom of their ci-devant masters, the present entrepreneurs," and because a coalition against the despotism of the quondam masters of the corporations is—guess what!—is a restoration of the corporations abolished by the French constitution. 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If you have anything In the way of Billheads, Letterheads, Envelo[>es, Cards, Tickets, The Western Clarion 165 HASTINGS STREET Tl til HI ;"" 2fi, ifi4ii), eto.,^^^^^_ '■»'B wore the ngrlculaural people forcibly expropriated from the ™}li 'lrlvon from their homes, turned ",n vagabonds, and then whipped. "•"Ifled, tortuied by laws grotesquely fo'kle, into the discipline necessary r tne ivage system, l, '■ "ot enough that the conditions of ' ""• nre concentrated In a muss, in L' •nape of capital, ut the one pole of the peace were r..,,.. tain wnires and to modify them according to the time of yeur und. the price of commodities, James I. extended these regulations of lubor also to weavers, spinners, and nil possible categories of the workers, George II, extended ihe luw.s uiritln.-U coalition Of Inborers to manufacturers, in the manufacturing period pur excellence, the capitalist mode of production hmi become sufficiently strong to render legal regulation of wages ns Impracticable as It I wum unnecessary; but the ruling classes were unwilling In euse of necessity to he without the weapons of the old nr- senal, sun 8 George ll. forbade a higher day's wage than 2s. 7 1-Bd, for and around Lon« nf general mourn P 0. BOX 836 VANCOUVER, B. C. n,«her aaI*taVan in" andI around Lon- journeymen tailors in don, except In cases o. c Ingj still Oeorge in. c. s». bi BUintlon of the was ,e's of silk-weavers to i- Hie neiii-e; still in l7ft,;- the^lTtwoJudSht;oftHehlgh. !!/;:; ;r,:"^:;^Whe,her the mar, wl'lVhoi. wid also for non-agrlcultu ;:i"^.s;st.....n1T9»,anaetofpa, 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 be promptly executed to the letter and sent return mall. Prices the same as for work done in this ctty. Try us with an order. DO NOT FORGET THE 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 Year Six Months - $1.00 - 50c Yearly Subrcriptions in lots of five or more at the rate of 75 cents each. Bundles of 25 Copies and over, ic per copy. Send in your order. Get your neighbor to subscribe. | Box 836 Vancouver, B. C. •m nm |aj|||||||||||||||ma PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialist Party of Canada, iu conventi n a i cmbled, affirm ou * allegiance to and rapport of the principles and prog.em of the international revolutionary working claaa. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should «u«tly belong.. To the owners of the means of wealth production belongs the product of labor. The present ecbiirmie system ia based upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist ia master; the worker ia slave. So long ae the capitalist* 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 die mesne 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. Tbe 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 collective 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 capitalisr to hold; the worker to secure it by political action. This ia the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers- to organise under the banner of the Socialiat 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, 1 • ... 1 < 1 \ p.s?.'» ■'J ■ $ «: e> ., -flSMb-; i if A I H &$• ii in i -TOT 1HB*¥BBW OHEKM, ^AMCX)!mgt. ii. o. SATURDAY, »•• Socialist Party of Canada j. o. DOMINION EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS. MORGAN. Secretary- .Vancouver, B. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. \aucouver, li.C, Sop. 19.—Uiooiu JO, Masonic Block)—Present, Comrades Peters, (chairman), Stebbings, ilmi.-.u, Organiser Kiugsle.-,, and the secretary < The minutes uf tlie previous meeting wore read and adopted. l-'ruiu Fredericton, -N.il., Local unclosing $2.80 for stamps and monthly report.. Received and filed. From Winnipeg Local, unclosing $1 lor stamps.' Received anil filed. From Toronto Local ordering supplies. Received and tiled. Receipts, Fredericton, N.B., stamps $2 8u Winnipeg, Man., stamps 1 OU Westminster From E. Prather, Penticton, enclosing 50c for dues.. Re- ceived and filed. From the Western Clarion, enclosing bill for $11 for advertising. lt was agreed that the advertisements of the various locals in the "Clarion, be dropped, and tlie secretary instructed to notify the locals that they pay for their ads. themselves if they want tin-in. A warrant was ordered drawn for $11.00 to the "Western Clarion" for advertising. Receipts. Total $U Adjournment. o 80 PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Vancouver, li.C, Sep. lW.—(Raom 10, Masonic lllock)— l'resent, Comrades Peters, (chairman ); lliutsa, Stebbings, Organizer Kingsley and tlie secretary. Tbe minutes of the previous meetings were read and adopted. The following corresjiondeuce was dealt with. From Fernie, B.C. reporting progress in formation of local. Received and filed. From Revelstoke Local, enclosing monthly report and $3.00 for stampa Received and complied with. From Vancouver Local, suggesting an "ffor,. io organize a local in New. NOT A SUPPORTER OF CAPITALIST LABOR DAY. The following is an address delivered before a Labor Day mass meeting called by the Yellowstone County, (Montana) Trades ami Labor Council, Friday, Sept. 1, by the delegate of Uie Typographical Union, C. T. Trott. Kevised and edited by the speaker. Mr. Chairman, Brother Uuwn men and fellow delegates to the Trades and labor Council: It is not tweause 1 oppose a Labor Day celebratiou that 1 appear before you this evening but because I do believe in a Labor Day Celebrate* unhampered by. any obligation |ness to the employing or capitalist class. |ftre Labor Day is recognized today as a ' legal holiday because of the efforts of organized labor to make it such tbe methods (questionable though 'employed might have been) and not i ™ni ij.„,..ioi b * „ .o *~ 'lUecause of the capitalist class. There- Local Revelstoke. stamps $3 00 forc> , 8ay> it ^ ^ heighth 0, o i folly, that it was positively absurd for this organization to sanction the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ J begging, by a committee, of the bu- The regular business meeting war 'siness men of this town for funds in held ut thc headquarters on Monday order that we might enjoy ourselves VANCOUVER LOCAL NO.l. evening, Sep. IStllj lish in fhe chair, After authorizing the payment of ij.", lor due stamps and $12.50 for Western Clarion account, the meeting proceeded lo elect a new programme ciiiiiiuitt.ee which resulted in lhe election of Comrades Stebbings und Mi-Lucliluu and the re-election of Comrade Johnson, The secretary announced that he hnd secured the services of Comrade Eug- ur that a few labor faking politicians might be advertised. 1 refuse to be either a beggar or a blackmailer. Another thing, thev arrangement committee informs us they have engaged the Billings band. Now, 1 should like to know if, in engaging this band we are patronizing organized labor or if our patronage lis intended as a donation toward tho or- Couirade gani/.ution of the State Regimental Sunday band of the Uniformed Butchers, oth- Burns as siicaker for next ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^~ vening at Sullivan Hall, Cordova erwise known as the National Guard. Street. 11 do not say tnat every member of After receiving report of Literary that band is active in his efforts to Agent and transacting various olher form the organization of a military business, the meeting adjourned. The band, but I do say that if there is receipts for dues being $-1 at the last >n that band only one, and it seems meeting, and $4.50 the previous to be concecded there are more who week. D. P. MILLS, Secretary. THESE GLORIOUS WAGE-SLAVERY OAYS In all ages it has been tbe custom to regard the working class as the lower class. The brow of labor has always been crowned by the classes with the brand of inferiority. In the early days of labor, men served one another as slaves. Gradually the serf gave way to the laboring man, with the idea still paramount lack so much in principle and manhood that he would join in a Labor I Day parade because of the $5 and then Join this scab-protecting organization for a like reason, the whole band should be condemned. I for .one, refuse to march behind it. I Now, It has been said I oppose Lawyer Thos. Hogon as orator of 'the day because of the fact that he made a greater success in the world j than I have, and, the argument con- ! tinues, that because of tbe fact that have leisure hours while your chil- he has shown such marked ability dren may go to school and grow up* working himself up from tbe ranks of labor through his own efforts, and because of the fact that he still sympathizes with those that the laborer is but God s creation for the upper class to prolit by. it was the iuou of the upper class, that the' working class shall lie meek and accept the lot which nature has given them that the earth may multiply and replenish and thc rich men or lords might live in happiness. '•'it was ior the wave to live and multiply and build, and pass away like the little silk worm that dies in building its one small kingdom. Tho rich classes of the past ages knew nothing of the law of evolution lhat was gradually working its way upward, finding a higher aud bettor purpose for tlie slave or working man. After a thousand years of darkness the system saw. that the .upheaval of the serfs was at hand and a new era dawned. "The coming of the now day was the movement ot thu manufacturing age. Today we have on every hand the unerring sign fur another change ior another climax is at hund. The beginning of the climax was inaugurated when machines began lo take the place of tools. When men worked wilh mere hand tools, labor had a more nearly equal division, for what a man made with his own tools was his own, or its oijiuivaleni. When George Washington retired iroin public life there wore no millionaires There was not even such a word iu a lexicon of thut day. Washington himself was reputed to be a man of great wealth. and he was worth about $G00,0O0. Ho was considered tne richest man of his day. The reason lay in tlie fact that the workman of that day was the master of his own lools and what ho made was his own to sell or Keep. In the same time it took a laborer of that day to make a pair of shoes, one thousand pair con be made by a machine today, and tlie workman who makes them does not even own tlie pegs in one pair of them. He takes it for granted thut some ono else is entitled to appropriate tho result of his labor. "U your great grandfather was here today and were faced with such a proposition, the blood of tbe revolution boiling in his veins would show itself and there might be a scrap. 1 ask that you who use the tools use them not to make others millionaires, but to free yourselves from slavery, that want may not as they should. I "There were- no tramps in your grandfather's day. There were no millionaires. They come together, aud are necessary to one another. The one makes the other. For every millionaire there are his thousands of tramps, both made by the same result. One hits food and no digestion, while thc oilier has digestion and no food. Neither leads a complete life. "By virtue of machinery ooe man gels the value of tho lat-or of thousands. He has the tools; they have none and must go to him for work. "John 11. HocKefeller, the capitalist, is subject to the laws uf evolution like the laborer. The capitalist is tlie development of society, ln lime he will no longer exist, ln fifty years there will be no such thing in America as a capitalist. "They may enjoin you; they may send tho military out against you; they may stop you with court after court, but they cannot take one thing from you and that is your whom he left at the scratch he should be looked uuon as tbe friend of organized labor. "It is to laugh" Tho question is not of Mr, Hogon's worldly possessions but: What relation does Mr. Hogan's profession, tnat of a lawyer, bear to organized labor! Why must wc, of thc working class, get on our knees and beg far a pretended recognition from the capitalist class or those whose livelihood depends, even more than ours .does, upon their servility to that class? | Sympathy! Who wants sympathy? , To use. tho expression in a slang sense "what the most of us want is dollars" not because they will make a soft bed or a palatable meal but because of what, under the present I system of exchange, they will accomplish. Often I have, when going down thc street, boon asked .or mou- jey with which a poor unfortdnatc might purchase a meal. Not having any money in my pockets I have parade, this year but hundreds ie tho e-.|.n'*-- sion of some principle in line with human progress. As a commodity exhibition it must inevitably sink to the commercial lovol, and become a libel upon any true lubor movement. The "News" seems to be rather fretful because the "Crisis" and tlie "Western Clarion" published "labor day" editions that were purely busi- proposibtons. Such ventures strictly in harmony with the capitalist "iul-ior day," and not "pos sibly" so, us the "News" suggests. We did not see the issue of the "Cri- j ais," referred to, but hoi>e its publishers succeeded in capturing unlimited shekels by its publication with which to carry on the work of spreading the ilames of revolution through the jungles of wnge-slavery. The Western Clarion, like Mr. Trott, of the Typographical Union, refuses to be "either a beggar or a blackmailer." If the paper needs presses, linotypes, etc., it will beg for the necessary funds neither from big capitalists, little cauitalists nor proletarians. It. will go out into the business world und obtain these things in what human society now sanctions as a legitimate wa}. There are altogether too many alleged Socialist papers already that cannot justify their existence by their merit. Hence, they are forced to "bum" the poverty-stricken proletariat for the wherewith to maintain themselves. It is contemptible enough for the bourgeois both big and little, with all of its hangers-on to graft upon a poverty-accursed working- class, but is a thousand times worse when it is done by those who are supposed to voice its revolutionary aspirations. To sell to merchnnts and dealers, advertising space in the columns of a paper is supposed to be a legitimate transaction. No Socialist exchange conies to us without more or less advertising. Such advertising does not appear to have anything to do with the editorial policies of these papers. The Western Clarion compliments the "Crisis'' tmon the method whereby it raises funds to carry on its work in a legitimate business way rather than b.v "bumming" its sustenance from the workers who are already too heavily burdened. An army that is on to its job will draw its stores ns largely as possibly from the enemy. o 3eptenibt-r -r^ klndy allow him to scratch his own. To Comrade Phillips Thompson of Toronto the Clarion extends its thank* for contributions to its columns, until he is paid In more substantial way. The -other contributors to its columns will be pal l tn cash. Any subscriber who falls to receive his paper should notify us at once, and missing numbers will be supplied. All subscribers are requested to refrain from obtaining any additional subscribers. Wc have all we want as It Is. To have any more would necessitate the printing of more copies nnd we do not care to be bothered In that way. Should we require more subscribers at any time In the future we can easily obtain them by offering a farm as a premium with each yearly subscription. o BRIOSON S BAKCRy) Powell Street, Cedar Cove TRY OUR BREAD, CAKES, ETC Mounting I,arge Game Head- „ s„„, ,. JOHN COOPER Taxidermist and Furdresser 821 Pesdtr St. Opp. People', Theatre! VANCOl'VliK, 11. -.-. W™ Burns & Co. I HARDWARE and Second Hand Dealers SOCIALISTS AND THE CHURCH. A filyth Socialist, taking an opportunity afforded In the local Congregational Church Magazine, gives the following reasons for not attending church: 1. The great reason is because the problem of poverty has far more importance In my eyes than all the problems parsons discuss. 2. Men who earn lf-ss than a pound a week, of whom there are millions, have no time to think about their souls. No man possesses his soul in this age without a minimum wage and security of employment 8. The churches as a whole sympathise with the capitalist. He has the churches under his* heel by means of his contributions to their funds. 4. Thp churches soil their hands by the unclean money of brewers, sweaters ami rack-renters. 5 The object of the church la to make a man good whatever his environment. 1 hold that ln some environments it is pure humbug to tell men and women they can be good. You must alter the social conditions under which the poor live before yon can hope to have hotter men and women.—Exchange. largest and cheapest stork of Cook Stoves In the City. Doom Chains, Augers, gore' .lacks. Etc. Log* We have moved Into our „,.w and commodious promisee : 138 Cordova St., East 'Phone 1S79 Vancouver, R. G. :>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦« »»,44 they stuck to their own class. Do compeiit.<| by city law to work for you know of a millionaire who voted for me for President last year ? (Laughter.) No, they had better sense. They were all true to their class. If thc workingmen had ijecn as loyal to mc, I would have lieen president today, and there would not have been soldiers called out to face you. "Children will not be employed in the coming social system and why by a man their board, watched over armed as a slave driver. These gentlemen are the reasons I refused to serve on your program committee or to participate in any way in a "Beggar's Picnic." • ••••••••• The Salt Lake Crisis put out a large Labor Day edition. It was a dandy from a capitalist graftfng standpoint, nnd possibly, strictly in harmony wilh the capitalist fake La- siore in your (ace and that you mai , uhl should they be sacrificed? ls cheap cotton more important -than rearing bor d,^, human beings? When we jointly own •«•••«•• • • the things we jointly use and every , The Westcrn Clarion i«ut out a Ionian has a right of inheritance to page sp^ai IjB,,or Day ^m^ bllt work at an honest income tbe time ,it lai-ecJ to (.arry ^ UxhQt of peace will dawn. We do not want lt waS purely a bourgeois advertis- tbe private property of the Indivi- fing gra/t. Tne Iaboror8 luust ^ve dual.-Eugene V. Debs, in 3. D. Her- gn,at lasU,s to road lni(Jdle c*as8 INSUFFERABLE MILITARISM. The colonel of a German regiment sent for all the sergeants, and said "There will be an ellipse of the sun tomorrow. The regiment will meet on the parade grounds in undress. 1 will come and explain thc eclipse before the drill. If the day is cloudy the men will moet in the drill- shed as usual." Then the sergeants dix'W up the order of the day, thus: "Tomorrow morening, by order of the colonel, there will be eclipse of the sun. The regiment will assemble on the parade ground, where the grafters' self-made lies. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The above is from the Montana going on about them and relied upon News. We desire to congratulate Mr the power which they fancied they Trott upon the stand he takes in re- had. The revolution came like the gard to working class mendicancy, eruption of a volcano, and we in Am and "Beggar's Picnics." ivut we do urica should take'warning. Right not feel tbat the facts will justify- now we are standing over a volcano him in the^ assertion that the Sep- which may burst forth with all thc tember Labor Day has been cstab- fury of Pelee."—Brewers' Journal lished through the efforts of org.in- • ized lnbor. Even if this were true. ° .» is little to the credit of organiz- The mail wagon drivers in New * .,abor when ?ve ^8 >nto consider ,, , ,,„ ., . * a. af'on the use it is put to holding York City, recently went on strike.JvBeggar'a Picnics," parading indus- ln order to avoid prosecution for un- trial sheep before the ordinary pall- „ , -— 'awful interference with the United Itical shepherds, and listening to hy- colonel wiil*come andsuperintend the J States mails, by striking, each man imotizing bombast from the bunco- eclipse in person. If the sky Is reported sick, and unable to work. ,aU?erers of capitalist tyranny. In the cloudy, the eclipse will take place JThe beauties, or at least one of them .light of that level to which this pur- in 'he driH-shed."—Ex. iof government ownership thus comes (ticulnr labor day has sunk it v ere to surface. The men did not dare a mercy to organized labor, could balk with the same freedom as Ithe credit of its Inauguration be plac- fhough they were working for some ed elsewhere. oiiiside concern. As the.v were getting I In reading of Uie recent "l^abor th«* ample wage of Sl.flO per diem, Day" displays, one thing fortros it- ami demanded that it l>e increased to self insistently to the ir .mt, and $2.00, it can be readily seen what that is the deeaden of an unreasonable lot of scalawags this annual fatce. Where liinusands they are. were but a few years ago wont to Italibi nirsch, the scholar and orator of Chicago, says: "The powerful of earth should realize that we nre in the midst of the same condition that existed in France which brought on the revolut ion. The rich and powerful classes in France refused to take warning from what was ATE NTS r. RIWTLY SECURED! We solicit the business of Manufacturer^ Engineers and others who realize the advisability of having their Patent business transacted by Experts. Preliminary ad vice free. Charges moderate. Our Inventor's Adviser sent upon request. Marion & Marion, New York Life Bldg, Monti ml : uud Washington, D.C, V.S.A. An Opportune rime for Reading Drop in and see our splendid assortm-ntl i( resiling matter. Try uur book! •xchange. Return two mM b ok*.-a d| rec.'ive one new one. E. GALLOWAY VANCOUVER. 11. C. 328 Abbott Strait Vancouver, B. C.| Mail orders promptly attended! BirBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE During that period marking the breaking up of the feudal system anil the establishment of capitalist production based upon wage-slavery, the working people led the strenuous life indeed, as muy be seen by reading "A Chapter From Marx," in another column, it should be particularly noticed that after the breaking up of the old Institutions hail been effected, largely through the exercise of the most cruel measures, the restrictions were removed, and the workman was told that he was "free." Free to organise Into his union, and "free" to work or not as he saw fit. When he had become so numerous that he was always within reach of the capitalist when needed, and had been so completely divorced from all means of living that he could no longer assert any independence, or get away from his capitalist master, it was no longer necessary to flog him, imprison him or silt his ears; no longer necessary to brand him with the letter "S" or any other, for his position would make him amenable to capitalist philosophy, and the fear of starvation .would keep him within ear-shot of the factory whistle. A speaker ln Vancouver recently, In expounding the virtues of "industrial unionism," referred to the old guild organisation as types of his pet theory, and showed how powerful they were because ot their, as he asserted, industrial character. He forgot to show how they went down in front of the machine and factory production, never to rise again. That they were a bar to capitalist development, and therefore detrimental to human progress, made It Imperative that they be broken up. in consequence some of the most drastic measures were used. However cruel they may appear to us now, they were Justifiable, because they were necessary to further progress, in this way does Dame Nature work out the great process. Those who are stuffed up with great respect for "our ancestors" should read the real history of the past, I. e., the history of the only useful class tbat ever existed in human society, and the treatment lt received at the hands of the "upper crust." Such a reading would strip the halo of glory from many a "hero," and show him to have been but a low, mean and unscrupulous rascal instead. Many, after the reading, would cease to blow about the nobility of their ancestors. However necessary the treatment accorded those old-time workers may have been, ouf blood still bolls when we read of lt, presumably because of the suspicion that the flesh of some of our kin quivered under tho branding Iron. o NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Word has come to us through private channels that subscribers lu some localities aver thnt the Western Clarion does not reach them regularly, und they surniisi- that the paper has suspended or Ir floundering under difficulties. To such persons we wish to say the paper Is mailed each week to every paid subscriber on the list. Upon two or three occasions recently we have been two or three days late ln publication which In each case arose from a rush of work in this office, or some mishap to the machinery. The only difficulty that confronts ths publication of the Western Clarion Is that of getting those who arc supposed to be Interested ln the movement, to contribute anything, either In the shape of news or educational matter, to Its columns. This probably arises from that long cultivated habit of depending upon some one else to scratch your back for you, while you ir$ A CLEAN AND WHOLESOME Prescription Drug Store Graduates in pharmacy nre ia chnrge of every department. They know their business nml know it well. You get a satisfaction that lingers in your memory, Ik-llailonnu Porous Plasters, 2.r>c for ..., l'ijc Face Powder, Title per box, for 2f>e Electric Belts, 15 per cent, rwhiction on price. Florida Water, .r>iic, large size.... 40c Phosphate of Soila, |*r lb tin.... :15c Talcum I'owtler, perfumed kind, 25c for 10c Electric Liniment, 50c size for 25c. Stewart's Kidney Pills, 50c a box for- 30c. Dyspepsia Tablets, 50c a box for 80c Embrocation, 75c size for 50c Embrocation, 5<',, Vanrouvci H i Whisks, 25c kind for KK-. Chamois Skins, 50c. each for 25c Fluid Magnesia, 25c bottle for 15c Our Own Kidney t?ure, $1 bottle for 75c \ntiseptic Tablets, large bottles for 25c Mrs. Grey's Complexion soap, 50c a box, for 25c Rosalia Facial ("ream, 25c for ... 15c Cream of Glycerine and Roses, 86c. for 15c Cucumber Cream, 50c for 85c, Fountain Syringes, hot water bottles from 00c to $2.50 Special pi ices in Rubber goods, hot water but t les, elc. You save from 86 to 40 per cent, on your prescriptions hero. French Female Pills, 13.00 for $1.00 REO CROSS UNION 0RU6 STORE 3G CORDOVA 8TREET Negligee Sh if ts| Not Too Early to Look Exclusive patterns are no« hcrs- some of the choice ones will In-snW early, and some of tho i>-ip» »e cannot duplicate. If you appreclAtl unusual styles It will int»it,«l -mato come promptly. Flatircn Hats The Smartest Solt Hat of the Season These Hats have been onUuisiMtl- cally received by young men lr11"1 tho very first dny we brought them out. Neither trouble nor expoMJ has been saved in the production « these goods, as you will cheerful acknowledge upon examination. KILROY, MORGAN CO., LTO-I IIS Cordova Street S. T. WALLACE'S Cash Grocery Store | Wo also carry a full line of Pu*f ture, on easy payments, ftl ■""'. that cannot ho duplicated Kiwnj | inspect our stock. Cor WeitMlnster Ave and Harris Street j VANCOUVER, It '' IN WATCH REPAIRING CHEAT CARE IS RXEROISED, AS WE ENTKUST THE KEPAIR TO EXPERIENCED WORKMEN ONLY, AND NOT TO APPRENTICES OR AMATEURS. SPROTT & Co. Cordova St, next to Hnrveys COOL KITCHENS This warm Summer weather is very trying to lion Tho heat of tho coal and wood stove Is simply unbearable. Kitchen drudgery Is reduced to a minimum by tho ii*' Oas Slovo and Oas Hot PUtes. Meals can bc prepared and well, without heating the whole house. Housekeepers with a Oas Stove have much more timo creation than those who use the coal and wood stoves In our Demonstrating and Show room wo have many and makes set up tor examination and trial. Call nnd >' iti-i'I" ol ,1"' ii.iii-jy. for re- Hlvli'S i the"1 VANCOUVER GAS Co, Ltd. *•*» ■iBS*""""