Vy ,. MAY 15 1005 Sl.00 CLOUD UPON THE HORIZON T,ME TOiMLOAD SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS What tbo Capitalist Awakealag af China May Mean to Europe. The breaking out of the war be- Lcen .lupan and Russia, opened up rich field of speculation as to the Lture, to the student and observer l.no is inclined to watch the moves ipon the groat chess-board of human (vents, for the purpose) of fathoming |li,ii- meaning nnd discovering their lurtent. The startling rapidity with Illicit the Mongolians demolished the ItvBtigo of what was supposed to be I, 1 the most powerful of Europ- l,i] countries, awakened in the breast |l more thnn one cautious observer fooling of alarm. In a dim and lult'-i (ins -ions way thoy begun to ,.1ili/c the approach of what they crmed the yellow peril, This cloud Ipon 1 no horizon, as events foi tow cli other in quick succession in the m> oust, is looming more portent ions |ml taking on the form of a verita- |lc yellow spectre that is already triking terror to tho hearts of the lime observant of Europeans, and j-hoj-e portent deserves more than sing notice b.v the people of this lestern continent. That which, as et, appears but a Spectre, bids fair the near future, to become a liv- pg fact with which the white race ill he forced to grapple in sheer I'lf-defence. Asia, containing more than one- L1I1' of the population of the globe, I is been aslee|) for centuries. Owing • her backward industrial develop- ent hor pedffle have plodded along a primitive nnd comparatively I'uci'l'ul way, manifesting little dis- sition to spread their peculiar civi- Izntiun beyond the confines of Asia- territory. Their somewhat pri- itivV method of wealth production, forded a very pronounced surplus products, therefore the factors no- Issary to force them into trade and Immerce outside their own borders practlcallj locking. So long ns resources of their own country jriis sufficient to supply their needs, 'o was no motive to drive them mil its borders. Under Mich cir- Innstances they could not develop i' spirit of aggression and become n Id-conquerors, but fell nn easy e,\ to the people of those countries i'lusc industrial development had cached the point where a surplus of liodiicts were available that, must loods seek an outside market, 'l*he Iggrcssor, the conqueror, came in the piupo of those countries which had Bached the stage of capitalist devel- Ipraerit, England first, then follow- |d Inter on b.v France, Germany anil In- United States. These capitalist fount rios, with an utter disregard of Ihe customs and traditions of the Asiatic people, and with brutal in- lill'erence to their wishes, opened up Ihiir ports and territory to trnde |nd commerce. Where it could not accomplished by civilized trickery, eceit and smooth talk, all of whii h spoken of in capitalist phrase as [diplomacy," it was brought about }' the mouths of cannon. I'ngland'8 enslavement of India, Ind opening of China to the opium Inilllr, are among the most notable Achievements of the capitalist buc- innoering nations in this respect. Is the newer countries of the earth pave been more completely conquered K the great capitalist nations, more Inevitable has it become that their jurplus products must be forced upon Iho Asiutic people, not yet brought lomplctely under the sway of tho lapltallst system of wealth produc- '"». Like a pack of hungry wolves jhev at last gather around tho Ohin- |so Empire with its vast resources, }nd hundreds of millions of people. England bites off some chunks; Rus- |'a, Germany and France follow, and 'hen tho opportunity oilers the Uni- Jod States grabs the Philippine 1s- inds. So utterly rapacious do thu 'iiecuneers becomo that the project is iponly discussed of dividing up what s left of China in as offhand a niun- >or as the guests at a table might arve a roast, the mouth of each ■uost watering in anticipation of a "ity cut. The breaking out of tho •resent war suddenly called a halt 'Pun the carving process, and a great •W* has arisen among the white buc- fcneers that the knife is not sufflei- ntly keen-edged to slice the roast. The almost unbroken chain of vic- ories to the credit of the Japanese ibico the breaking out of the war, is "either a marvijl nor an accident. Inimn has been busily becoming a apitalist country for the past forty 'puis. She has been supplied with \ he modern factory system by the Ider capitalist countries of Europe and America. The capitalist system has thus been brought to the Japanese ready made. They have been merely colled upon to adapt themselves to it, and her young men have been instructed in the schools and factories of Europe and America, juse how to do it. She has at once.commenced to create a surplus of products that must find an outlet. She has thus been forced to participate In the world's commerce, and to pour her surplus into the world's market. In other words she has been forced to expand. Hence Manchuria and tho war. From a peaceful, quiet, unassuming nation, content within her own borders, she is forced to become nn aggressive, an expanding, a conquering nation, and go forth in true capitalist fashion, with fire and sword to enlarge her domain in order to dispose of her surplus products. If she does not do this «ho will soon smother in her own capitalist fat. Every capitalist nation must perforce be a military and naval power. Surplus products must be forced into Jho world's market against all opposition, if a capitalist nation is to survive; nnd furthermore, the exploited wage slaves at home can be, in the last analysis, held in subjection by no other means thnn the military power. Tne training of the Japanese in capitalist production, includes all that i.s embodied in the modern enginery ami science of warfare. Tho cleverness with which the Japanese have adapted themselves to the capitalist machinery and method of production has only been equalled by that with which they have adapted themselves to tho capitalist machinery and method of securing additional markets for the surplus. Tho older capitalist countries furnished them with the instruments and training in either case. They have proven apt, pupils. Just as shipload after shipload of tools, machinery, etc., havo been, and are still being shipped into Japan, with which to equip that country for entry into a world's commerce and n world's market, so nre ship-loads of similar material being shipped into China, and for the same purpose, .lust ns the very pick and flower of Japan's young men have boon, nnd are being trained for capitalist production, and capitalist war, in the schools, firctories, arsenals nnd navy yards af Europe and the United States, so are the pick and flower of China's young men being trained, with the benefit of Japan's schools, factories, arsenals and navy yards added. And besides all this China has huge military schools of hor own presided over by experts in the art I of human slaughter from Germany I Prance and other countries. Just as the Japanese peop;e wore inoculated with the military spirit hy the introduction of capitalist production, so ure the Chinese being inoculated us tho Empire is invaded b.v capitalist machinery and methods. There are being added to China's military forces more thnn 2,000 trained officers each year, who immediately become actlive in organizing and drilling an army over increasing in numbers. The Chinese are of the same stock as the Japanese. They are .lust as running, secretive, brave, and hove the same indifference to death, and there nre some four or five hundred millions of them. They must be trained like the Japanese to face west, and west means Europe. The population of Asia amounts to fully one half that of the entire globe. They aro closely bound together by racial ties, nnd by u justifiable hatred of the white race, that has been engendered by the ruthless and brutal treatment thoy have received at its hands. Japan's successes have already St If red the sluggish blood of the people of India who are chronically starving because of the terrible druin upon their resources in keeping a huge Staff of British parasites and their official henchmen,who suck their blood nnd consume their substance. Just what European civilization is to do against this Asiatic horde once it is quickened into activity by capitalist development, is a conundrum. Small wonder thnt the more observant Europeans are beginning to tremble ns this spectre orises upon the eastern horizon. While we of this western continent point with pride to our increasing shipments to the orient wo should not forget that every piece of machinery, every particle of equipment for industry or war which goes there tends to head the Asiatic people west. Every railroad being built by American or European capital leads west. If Europe wore to bo invaded b.v the Asiatic horde driven forward by capitalist development, and was conquered by It, the next move west would involve tho American continent. Perchance the saying that "westward the star of Empire sets its way," is to prove a truism more than once. It is stated that Bismarck at a conclave of diplomats who were engaged in the pleasing occupation of re-arranging the world's map, putting his finger upon China remarked, "Gentlemen, keep your eye upon those people." In tho light of events now happening his words seem pro- phPtic. However optimistic wo may be, or however confident that the white nice is callable of conquering, nil things, and solving oil problems, nevertheless this troublesome cloud upon the horizon grows larger. Wage Slaves Should Throw Oft the Yoke When the miners of Hibbing walked out upon a strike, demanding bette conditions from the copper magnates, the business men immediately organ ized und equipped themselves with deudly weapons to strike fear and terror in the hearts of tne brawny men whose patronage made it possible for them lo reap profit in tho commercial realm. The following dispatch shows the fraternal spirit tnat perineal es the breach of the mercenary vultures who feast and fatten upon the bono and muscle of labor: "Duluth, Minn., April 1H.—Tho business men of Hibbing, for the purpose of quelling the strike on the Mesaba range without calling upon the governor for troops, have organized a rifle brigade of UK) members, and it stands subject to the call of the sheriff." It i.s only a question of time' when the laboring masses will realize that the wage slaves must stand together as a clnss, depending upon their own efforts to break the yoke of serfdom. Tho tailoring man is tho prey of all and when he once awakens tothe fact that he is a victim to corporate and commercial exploitation, when ho becomes convinced that upon his bock rests tho burdens of tho world, he will rise In his giunt strength and unload the weight of centuries of bondage.—Miners' Magazine. • 'I rue enough. As the workers awaken lo an understanding of the position they occupy in prusent-day society, and the problem they must solve to relieve themselves of the burden thut presses so grievously upon them, they will abandon their old line of rebellious action that converts them into mad beasts, and places them as an easy prey to the poliiceman's club, the rifle, the bayonet and tho bull-pen. They will no longer expend the energy of their lungs in hurling epithets at their fellow victims of cnpitulist exploitation, nor physical energy in invading the legal lights of others, and thus calling down upon them the powers of repression. In open, courageous and consciously revolutionary warfare against the master class for the purpose of seizing control of the powers of government in order to effect their deliverance from wage bondage, they will have assumed the attitude and character of inangood. No longer mad beasts engaged in a fierce and oitiines indiscriminate conflict among themselves over the miserable crumbs that fall to the lot of the slave in the modern labor market, they will have become men with a definate purpose in view, with a problem to solve with u mission to perform, and by virtue of the power of numbers, knit together by those bonds of solidarity that only a great cause can supply, this awakening army of labor will be invincible. No more Homestead, Coeur d'Alono, Buffalo, Colorado, Chicago end like brutal affairs, but a steady, persistent and determined advance upon the sent and citadel of capitalist authority, the powers of government; a peaceful advance if possible—a forceful one if necessary. Upon the back of labor must always rest the burdens of the world, but the time i.s near at hand for tho giant to unload the weight of the Inst expression, of the bondage of centuries. That weight is capital and its wage servitude. o C.H. Allison, a writer in the National Magazine tor April, by a careful analysis of Bulletin No. 12, issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission, discovers "indisputable proof that every one of the collis- sions and most fatal derailments, comprising more than DO per cent. of the casualties, wore directly truce- abb' to the neglect or disobedience of employees." lie exposes the source of the trouble by adding that "discipline on American railroads is weighted down b.v tho incubus of labor unionism." Verily the tribe of romancers did not become extinct with tho death of Anannias, and Baron Munchausen. Carnegie has donated some $10,- 000,000 for the purpose of providing *>r the relief and maintenance of worn-out college professors. This is very commendable, Few people realize the terrible strain upon the college professor who loyally defends the present system of property, by allowing no student to escape from college with un idem in his head. The college professor deserves the greatest of consideration at the hands of those who profit by the present swindle. As far as workers are concerned it would be better still were the entire professorial fraternity pensioned off at birth. Tho employing printers of San Francisco have notified the Typographical Union nnd the Pressmen's Union that beginning with July 1, tho working day will be nine hours Instead of eight as heretofore. Children ol the Working Clan Ground to Death for Capitalist Prolit. It is beyond the power of language to describe the horrors that are in Dieted upon human kind under the baneful rule of capital. Coldly indifferent to all,.consideration for human comfort und well-being, without conscience, scruple or. remorse, it pursues the even tenor of its way, mercilessly grinding the bodies of men, women and children into its hideous grist. The history of capital is told in tho one word, murder— and it is written in tho blood of tho working class. In its infancy the blood was drawn from the veins of the adult male workers, later on as its machinery became developed to a point making it possible to profitably utilize the labor of adult females, these were drawn into its profit-making vortex, to be followed still later on by the children, even down to tne years of helpless babyhood. And while the beneficiaries of, this capitalist blood and bones grinding civilization riot in luxury and affluence upon the proceeds of this wholesale murder; while its truckling apologists in the pulpit turn their pious eyes heavenward and call down divine blessing upon it; while a ivile press with fulsome unction pours its flattery out upon the industrial nnd financial giants of the age, and gleefully and approvingly chronicles the vulgar orgies of their spawn and hangers-on; while a gaping multitude with belly-crawling adulation follow with servile' interest the moves of murder-loving Czars, Emperors, Kings, and bear-baiting Presidents, the mills of capital, with ever increasing morcilessness and abandon are grinding Iho bone and flesh a'nd marrow of the very pick and flower of the race, men, women nnd children alike, into that red stream of profit in which capitalists and their vulgar henchmen, hirelings, apologists gnd hangers-on so delight to wallow. The following from an article b.v Elbert Hubbard in the American Federationist for April throws some light on conditions as they exist in the cotton mills of the South. The owners of those mills are undoubtedly good Christian gentlemen, amply qualified to point out how they hold their capital by divine right, as well as bow Socialism would destroy ambition, individuality and the home. The infant factory slaves of South Carolina can never develop into men and women. There are no mortality statistics^ the mill owners bailie all attempts of tho outside public to get at tho facts, but my opinion is that in many mills death sets the little prisoner free inside of four years. Beyond that he cannot hope to live, and this opinion is derived from careful observation and interviews with skilled and experienced physici- ans, who practice iu the vicinity of the mills. These toddlers, I saw, for the most pai t rtid but one thing—they watched the flying spindles on the frame twenty feet long, and tied tho broken threads. Thoy could not sit at their tasks; back and forward they paced, watching, witn Inanimate dull look, the flying spindles. The roar of the machinery drowned every other sound. Back and forth pared the baby toilers in their bare feet, and mended the broken threads. Two, three or four threads would break before they could patrol the twent.s feet—the threads were always breaking- The noise and the constant looking at tne flying wheels reduce nervous sensation in a few months to the minimum. Tho child does not think: he ceases to suffer—memory is as dead as hope. No more does he long for tho green fields, tho running streams, the freedom of the woods, and the companionship of the wild, free things that, run, climb, fly, swim, or burrow. He does his work like nn automaton; ho is n part of the roaring machinery; memory is seared, physical vitality is nt such a low ebb that ho ceases to suffer, Nature puts a short limit on torture b.v sending insensibility. lf you suffer, thunk God!—it is a sure sign you are alive. I thought to lift one of tin; little toilers to ascertain his weight. Straightway through his thirty-five pounds of skin nnd hones there ran u tremor of tear, and he struggled forward to tie a broken thread. 1 attracted his attention by a touch. nnd offered him a silver dime. He looked at me dumbly, from a face that might have belonged to a man of sixty, so furrowed, tightly-drawn and full of pain it was. He did not roach for the money—he hid not know what it was. 1 tried to stroke his head and caress his cheek. My smile of friendship meant nothing to him— ho shrank from my touch ns though he exported punishment. A caVess was unknown to this child, sympathy had never boon his portion, and the love of a mother, who only a short time before held him in her arms, had all been forgotten in the whirr of the wheels and tho awful silence ol a din that knows no respite. There wore dozens of just such children in this particular mill. A physician who was with mo said that they would all be dead in two years, and their places filled with others— I here were plenty more. Pneumonia curries off most of them. Their systems are ri|io for disease, and when it comes there is no rebound—no response. Medicine simply does not act—nature is whipped, beaten, discouraged, nnd the child sinks into a stupor nnd dies. 1 know the sweat shops of Hester street. New York; 1 am familiar with the vice, depravity and degradation of the Whitochapel district; I have visited the Ghetto of Venice; I know tho lot of the coal miners of Pennsylvania, ana I know somewhat of Siberian atrocities; but for misery, woe, and hopeless suffering, I have never seen anything equal to the cotton mill slavery of South Carolina— this in my own America, the land of the free and the home of the'brave! For the adult who accepts the life of the mills I have not a word to suy—it i.s his own business. My plea is in defence of tho innocent; I voice tho cry of a child whose sob is drowned in tho thunder of whirring wheels. NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT. J. N. Hurty, of the Indiana State Board of Health, is responsible for the .statement that "85 per cent, ot the total death of infants in America lust year was due to poisons administered in impure foods, and the deadly concoctions placed on the market by fraudulent food manufacturers." As this 65 por cent, amounts to something like 450,000 infants, a number of writers seem inclined to think it quite a horror. This is a very unreasonable way of looking nt things in this eminently practical ago. As to whether, the year's events are satisfactory or otherwise, should be determined from I'unn A Briidstroets. the reports of Boards of Trnde and Commerce, Statistics bearing upon the growth of our export trade, bank clearances, etc., nnd not from the mortality among infants. The death of a trifling number like a half-million or so amounts to nothing, so long*as there are enough left to answer the requirements of the factories,, shops, mines, charity joints, and other paraphernalia of our glorious Christian civilization. Such trifling money loss as has boon sustained through the death of those infants, has no doubt been more thnn offset by the profit made through their poisoning, so what is there to muke a fuss about anyway? Events ns they occur must be accepted from the standpoint of things as thoy are, rather than from that of which we might wish them to be. Tho sooner tho workers awake to a full realization of the coarse and vulgar brutality of capitalist rule, and ^s sordid and callous indifference to the health nnd lives of its victlrms, the sooner will they be ready to rise like men and b.v conquering the public powers break its strangle-hold upon the life of the race. Until that is dona capitalist murder of both infants and adults will continue as a mutter of course, and might as well be considered philosophically. The John S. Spreckles & Bros. Co., of San Francisco, have sought tho aid, of the Federal courts to assist them In fighting the riggers and stevedore's unions, whom, it is alleged, have iH'en guilty of a violation of the interstate commerce law by Interfering with the loading and unloading of vessels plying between Sun Francisco and Honolulu. The court hus granted a temporary restraining order und set tne hearing for May 15. The company is suing for damages to the amount of over $100,000. o An exchange vociferously declares "the class war is raging in Chicago." Tho only casualty as yet oc- curing on the capitalist side was the case of nn owner who while driving one of his own teams, was pounced upon by a gang of strikers and put out of business before he had time to explain that he was a non-combatant. The injuries he received should, therefore, be attributed to accident rather than warfare. The Colorado legislature has passed an eight-hour law that is really a peach in its way. Under it the employer can violate the law as muchi ns ho chooses uriloss some one brings action against. ■ him to stop it. As the only porson interested in having him obey the law is the employee liiinsoli.nncl ho would, of course, lose his job if he brought action, it. may readily bo seen what a clever and reliable eight-hour law it is anyway. o The Wisconsin assembly has passed a bill prohibiting graft in private corporations and in businenss affairs. It Is a wicked invasion of tho principle of "freedom of contract," and individual liberty, ami should be promptly knocked out by the supreme monkeys-riio, no; we moan judges. INTERESTING CONTEST Hans Set Fired ud Bets Ms his Tt* The Chicago Sunday Tribune publishes on eight-page supplement called the "Workers Magazine," devoted to fairy tales of how the poor, but honest, industrious and faithful office boy worked his way up to the proud position of bank president, or manager of a great railway system. In a late issue has been inaugurated a contest among the readers of the magazine's pleasing fiction, thnt is quite unique in its way. The readers are invited to send in a statement of the reason why they have, fn the course of their experience, lost their good jobs. The one giving the best reason wins a prize of $5 at the end of each week's content. The following are the reasons given by 72 persons who entered the contest during the past week. Drink, 11. Carelessness, 8. Swelled headedness, 7. Office troubles, 5. Gambling, 5. Laziness, 4. Went to sleep, 2. Misplaced confidence, 1. Objected to boss spitting, 1. Discovered Company's .crookedness, r. Licked a knocker, 1. Woman worked cheaper, 2. Accused of swelled head, 1 (pleads not guilty). Sassed the boss, 1. Asked for more salary, 2. Fellow clerk stole, 1. Business closed down, 2. Didn't belong to union—discharged after striko, 8. Not needed—force being reduced,2. Given too important position after short term of employment, angering head of company, 1. Just fired, 2. Salary of $75 a month too high, 1. Beer brought, into his department, 1. Loafed and "lost his pashents," 1. Mental laziness, 1. Bull season, 8. Stopped on boss' toe, 1. The prize wos awarded to one of the 8 who confessed to carelessness, which seems rather unfair to the chap who stopped on the boss' toe. o A WISE JUDGE. "I look upon the profession of the law as one of the noblest professions on earth—if those of other high professions would pardon me, 1 should say the highest upon earth. It has to deal with the dearest possessions of man. It is the profession charged 'with the earthly administration of the justice of God'." Tho above gem fell from the lips of Judge James G. Jenkins at a banquet given in his honor in Chicago, the occasion of his retirement from the United States circuit bench, .lust what tho learned judge had been drinking is not known, but whatever it was it came near making him see things. If any person wishes to become familiar with the way the legul fraternity attend to the "earthly administration of the justice of God," it would be advisable to start in with the small debts court, and go right through the gar mut up to the Supreme court. By the time he gets through with the trip no will be able to recognize tlie "justice of God'-' wherever he meets it, at least in its earthly form. Tha knocking out of the bakers' ten-hour law in New York by the legal lights of the Federal Supreme court was a splendid illustration of it. It was this same Judge Jenkins who in 181)3 issued an injunction against tho Northern Pacific. Railway employees restraining them from quitting the service of the company, under penulty of being found guilty of contempt of court, and sent to jail. What Jenkins does not know about tbe "eurth- ly administration of the justice of God," is scarcely worth knowing. Anti-Semetic disorders in the Crimea culminated in a fierce battle between Christians and Jews on May 4, in which stones and revolvers were freely used. When the Jews at last fled defeated, tho Christians demonstrated the superiority of their brand of religion by engaging in a carnival of pillage and plunder lasting from noon until midnight. At a meeting of the master plumbers of Vancouver, on May 1, the principle of the "open shop" in tho local plumbing trade was adopted. This applies only to the Journeymen Plumbers' Union, however. The muster Plumbers Association still remains a "closed shop," which, af course, is quite proper. o A new und flourishing line of business is being opened up by the capitalists. Whenever profits in the ordinary linos aro not altogether satisfactory, the shortage is being made up by suing some union for damages. This promises to become a more profitable lino of business than manufacturing, mining or transportation, in the near future. #''" I ■M ■i ;I /'a I ■IT I J1.,: I t *;§;, ■ A: K ' ■'4 •■ *'-iSPi TfflB WESTERN OUQtlON. VASOOUtBfe, S. C,_, Hie Mrs Clarion Published every Saturday in the interests of the Working Class alone at the office of the Western Clarion, Flack block basement, 165 Hastings street, Vancouver, B. C. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 PER ANNUM Strictly in Advance. Yearly subscription cards to lots of Ave or more, 75 cants-each. Advertising rates on application. If you receive this paper lt is paid lor. Address all communlcatioos to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. 321 Watch the label on your paper If this number is on it, your subscription expires next issue. SATURDAY Mny 18, 1906 rrr BELCHING. As this job was given him to do something like 1900 years ago, and it has not yet been accomplished, there would appear to be grounds for drawing an indictment. This the Rev. lu-ituii Smith proceeds tu do as follows, which is clipped from the daily press reports of his sermon: "In his opening remarks, Mr. Smith compared twentieth century civilization with civilizations which have passed away. It was maintained, ho said, that we were more clever and more enlightened than oar ancestors, but nobody had dared to suy that we were happier. The age was one of many marvels, but tho reign of peace and happiness had not yet been inaugurated. On the contrary the tide of lawlessness mounted day by day, tl ■•■'ening to engdil society. Thrones ^nu religious were rock- "In one respect true Socialism is an indictment of the living God, since it claims ability to accomplish the regeneration of the human race, that which God gave his son to do, but has not yet been accomplished. For this reason if for no other, the true Christian must be radically opposed to Socialism." With this sample of pulpit wisdom, the Rev. Morton Smith launched forth from the pulpit of the Knox Congregational Church the solar plexus blow that will no doubt put the quietus on the Socialist movement in this neck o' the woods, henceforth and forever. Just where the Rev. gent learned that Socialism laid claim to the ability to regenerate the human race we do not know. No such claim is mude in any standard work of the Sociulist movement nor do we remember ever having heard any Socialist speaker advance such claim from tho platform. In his study of Socialism tho Rev. must have confined himself to the reading of Mother Goose's Melodies, or Jack and the bean stalk. The Socialist asserts that, much of the misery existing in thi; world at the present time arises nfl a natural consequence of the present system of property ownership in tho means of wealth production. That under it the wealth producers, thoy who do the necessary work of the world, are denied the enjoyment of what they create, because it is absorbed by tho owners of capitalist property in the form of surplus value or profit. The workers are forced to work together in operating the modern means of wealth production. The very nature and character of those means enforces collective labor, or working together. The power of labor to produce wealth was never so great as at present, and it is each day becoming more powerful. As the workers are deprived of the opportunity to feed, clothe and shelter themselves, up to extent of their requirements, because capital absorbs their product and forces them to be content with wages which competition inevitably forces to an ever lower point, even a pulpit pounder ought to have sense enough to see that relief could only come through such an alteration or change in the control of factories, shops, land, railways, mines, etc., as would put an end to the absorption of the products of labor, by other than the workers themselves. Tho Socialist asserts that with the moans of wealth productiou, lands, factories, rail ways, etc., owned us thoy are operated, that Is, by tho workers collectively, it would enable them to put an end to their exploitation at tho hand of capital, the result of which exploitation is expressed in the great volume of misery, suffering, dogreda- tion and vice that is but too plainly in evidence wherever the workers are found in numbers. Socialism deals solely with the analysis of the present and proceeding systems of property, with tho end In view af arriving lat some adjustment of the property relations that will bring about more satisfactory material results to those who labor. As the working class is the only useful portion of humun society, this purpose of Socialism is surely a commendable one, and would without doubt meet with the hearty approval and support of every Christian, were it not unhappily true that the tribe hus long.been extinct. Socialism, dealing as it does with material things alone, makes 110 pretentious claims to knowledge of "the living God." Therefore tho Rev. person is in error when he accuses it. of drawing an indictment against that Being. According to this preacher, God gave his son a certain job to do. which has not yet been "accomplished." This job was tho "regeneration of the human race." ing. Tho laws in every land were scoffed at, and openly or secretly transgressed by tho most respectable classes. Wastrels and malefactors multiplied, deiymg ootn Gou unu man. "Tho speaker here paused to tell how he had heard a grey-headed man indulge in filthy conversation in a smoking car, regardless of who heard him, and how he had rebuked him. The possibility of such talk, said Mr. Smith, iu a place where it could be heard by young and old alike, made his blood boil. "Continuing, tho speaker pointed out that suicide was growing more prevalent und voiced the opinion tnati ihe records of 1,000 or 6,000 years ago showed that the people of those clays were as happy, as wise, as sw- gacic**. and as dexterous as ourselves. Without augmentation of happiness: there could be no genuine progress. Yet happiness was declared to be on the decline. The struggle for life was so oppressive that the vast majority had no time to be- 'ts stomach happy." It seems from this that the job is no nearer finished than when it was undertaken, and nineteen centuries of pulpit thumping und prayer, to say nothing of the sacrafice of yellow-legged chickens and other good things, has been in vain. The principles of Socialism were enumerated by the parson as follows: "All men are brothers. "All men are equals. "Only those who labor havo the right to live. "The present system of the private ownership of all things is the root of all evil. "The state snould own and control everything. "The state should divide a portion of the products of labor eqdally between all. "Socialism is the only salvation of tho world. • "The only thing wrong with the world is the exploitation of human labor." As to the first one it seams to us that we have heard even professed Christians talk of the brotherhood of man. Socialism makes no assertion that all men are equal. Some are more cunning, unscrupulous, avaricious, contemptible, vile, simple or servile than others. The third principle stated by the gentleman is taken from the bible nnd does not belong to Socialism at nil. It is but another way of saying: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." The present system of property in the means of wealth product 10.1 is not a system of private property. It is a system of capitalist property which is quite a different thing. The Socialist has no quarrel with private property in those things required for personal use, such as house, food, clothing, furniture, etc., necessary to the comfort and happiness of the individual and those dependent upon him, but has a most serious quarrel with the class (capitalist) ownership of the instruments of production—land, factories, railways, mines, etc.—by means of which the workers produce tha things necessary to tho welfare of the individual. Private ownership is therefore not the root of all evil. Class ownerbhip is the cause of serious evil, inasmuch as it makes it impossible* for the workers to acquire private ownership of the things that are requisite to their comfort and well- being. Socialism does not propose that the state shoulh own and control anything. The state is a class instrument whereby a ruling class holds a ruled class in subjection. Its insignia is the cannon, the bayonet, tho sword and the policeman's club. For tho state to own is for the working class to be exploited by it directly, and the proceeds turned over to the class whoso instrument it is. With the advent of Socialist property in tho means af wealth production, owned by all of tho people collectively, the state dies out and what* was formerly government with its fangs and daws, Its powers of repression, resolves itself into an administration of mutual affairs for the purpose uf producing the material things necessary to the comfort and well-being of tho individual members of the community or nation, and providing the necessary ways and means whereby the individual could acquire the right of private property in the things he requires, to the extent of the labor he has contributed towards the total production. That Socialism proposes that the state shall divide a portion of the products of labor equally among all, is ignorant bosh. Just why any Christian (?) should object, however, is not clear, oven if it were true. Wo know a lot of church dignitaries that are regularly fed from the public trough, and it has not yet been recorded in history that any church ever refused public pap, or willingly let go of the teat once it had secured a hold. As to Socialism being the only salvation of the world, suffice it to say that if it were to make such claim, and at the end of 1900 years have as little to show towards the accomplishment of it, as by tho gentleman's own showing Christianity hus, it should be thrown into durance vile for violation of contract. The only thing the matter with the workers of today arises from capi- tglist exploitation, a fact that is be. ing rapidly grasped by them in spite af the herculean efforts being put forth by the more servile clergy to keep them under the influence of heavenly soporifics. The Rev. gentleman's flatulence was excited by remarks made by Comrades Hawthornthwaite aod Williams while addressing the audience in yie City Hall on April ."10, and which also threw the "World" and other Liberal counterfeits into a belching humor. We trust these editorial and ministerial worthies will feel better now they have unloaded. The remarks of Hawthornthwaite and Williams seem to have much the same effect upon them as that arrived at when a mother thumps the baby on tho back in order to get the wind off THE POWER OF THE LAW. A good deal af unnecessary cant is indulged in by well-meaning persons because the capitalists in times of emergency pay little or no attention to the law as it may at the moment be written upon the statute books. As capital is itself the law-making power it is the heighth of folly to suppose it will go out of its way to observe tho requirements of the law, once its interests would be jepordiz- ed by so doing. A king,' emperor or czar with the supreme power in his own hands, is not amenable to the law of his own creation, if he were it would be a case of the created being greater tnan the creator, which is qttite an unthinkable proposition, 'ihe law will not enforce itself. It therefore depends upon its creator for enforcement, nnd it would seem as pluin us a pike staff that it would not be enforced when the interests of the creator would suffer thereby. Judging from what may be written upon the statute books, some of tho actions of the mine owners and their Citizens' Alliance pals in Colorado during the recent troubles may have been unlawful. Judged, however, from the true standpoint that a question of law is merely a question of power, the acts so loudly complained of are undoubtedly lawful. If federal troops aro brought into the City of Chicago to,quell tho disturbance there, whether such troops arebrought in response to tho request of the state of Illinois or not, tho act will be a lawful one because the United States government has sufficient power at its command to establish the lawfulness of it, beyond all reasonable doubt. The test of the pudding does not lie in chewing the string of tne bag in which it has been cooked, neither does the test of legality lie in chewing the rag about written laws or constitutions. Written laws furnish a very convenient memoranda for the guidance of tnose against whom they are aimed, if they wish to avoid trouble, but when it comes down to a matter of protecting and defending those material interests upon which life depends, power is of greater valuo than all the laws that were ever written. They who in the day of their of their extremity look to tno law for protection will be poorly protected indeed. lf the so-called unlawful and highhanded acts of the present ruling class shall be instrumental in breaking down the superstitious reverence for the law, and the implicit faith in its potency, which is so firmly lodged in the heads of tho workers at present, it will be a worthy work well done, and that delectable class shall not have lived in vain. as to cake-baking was evidently recognized by' the boss as a legitimate one. and he kindly granted him permission to quench it b.v working extra hours. As a result of his kindness, however, he fell into the awful clutches of the law, and at the instigation of the. trade unions he was haled before the tribunal of justice, nnd fined .r>0 simoleons for his infamous kindness. ■ But tho guilty wretch, though caught red-handed in his unlawful proceedure as to the cake-baking, was not fully coovinced as to nis awn guilt. He was not thoroughly satisfied that the legal acumen of the Now York court was sufficiently keen to properly cope with such nn intricate problem as cake-baking, and steer it. safely through the technical swamps of jurisprudence into the haven of justice. He hied himself into the presence of that august body of big wigs known as the United States Supreme court, and invoked its aid to rescue the ancient and honorable occupation of "free contract in cake-baking," from tho baneful clutches of those misguided union men whose first consideration was the baker, rather than the cuke. The Judicial wisdom of tho big wigs of the supreme justice shop, was equal to the occasion. The ban upon "freedom of contract" and the pursuit of knowledge, at leust in cuke-baking, was removed. The humble bukor in pursuit of a knowledge of the art of preparing fruit cake, pound cake, sponge cake, marble rake, molasses cake, Johnny cake, hoe cake and presumably even doughnuts and stomache ache, may now freely contract for any number of hours per day he chooses, up to the twenty-four, with the boss who presides over tbe fountain of knowledge, the bake shop; and both parties to the contract feel certain that they are acting within the rights secured by the constitution of the U. S. -*ri thus having this knotty question settled, let us hope for all time to come, our Utica baker whoso thirst far knowledge set the wheels of justice going, has conferred upon mankind an incalculable benefit, for which his memory should be kept green by a grateful posterity. Hurrah! for the Utica baker, the Supreme Court, the "freedom of contract" and constitutional cake-baking. Every Local of the Socialist Party of Canada should run a cari under this head. $1.00 per month. Secretaries please note. SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Dominion Executive Committee, A. R. Stebbings, John E. Dubberley, Ernest Burns, C. Peters, Alf. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; J. G. Morgan, secretary, 551 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. C. LOCAL VANCOUVER, No. 1, 8. P. of B. C. Business meetings every Wednesday evening in the headquarters, Ingleside block (room 1, second floor), 818 Cambie street. Educational meetings every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the Sullivan Hall, Cordova street. D. P. Mills, secretary, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. ■taF'Bverjr tabor Union in the nt<»,i** vTtea to pl.ee s card under this hesi "." * » Secretaries please uote. ,lc*"-» VI month Phoenix Trades and Labor r0„. I Meets every alternate Un^i John Riordan, president- pi Brown, vice-president; p u*** casse sergeant-at-arms; \v u n bury, secrYtary-treasurer, P A i, 198, Phoenix, B. C. ' "i Phoenix Miners' W. F. M. Meets every'SuL I even.ng st 7 to o'clock in lilff h?."' «W^' Barnett' P^idem chie P. Berry, secretary. J. Euwabd Bum. A. 0. BSYCON-JlCK Uko. K McChossjn. BIRO, BRYOON-JAGK I McCROSMN HAi'ltlHTKK.H, SOLICITOUS, fcTC Rnllwsy Block Tel. 8». P.O. Bin 932. 314 Hutisgi Street - Vitcmer, I. C. »"i Or. W.J. Curry DENTIST Cor Burrard and Robs on Sts Nanaimo Miners' Union, No. F. M meets every third Via* from July 2. Alfred Andrews 2 ident; Jonathan Isherwood p n Box 359, Nanaimo, B. C, 'record ing secretary. The International Brotherhood Electrical Workers—Local No $ Meets second and fourth Thi,,' days at I. B. E. W. Hall. |<„om" Iniilesido Block. Presidenl Bleckstock; recording secretary tl McDOUgall; financial secretary Elsden. , Address all commimU tions to the hall. All so] brethren cordially invited. "jHiimiJ LABOR AND LAW. SHY ON* SELF-RESTRAINT. CONSTITUTIONAL CAKE-BAKING It was a modest, industrious and no doubt frugal bakfcr, in Utica, Now York, who precipitated the decision of the Federal Supreme Court that knocked out. the state law limiting labor in "-bakeries to ton hours per day. In addition to his other admirable qualities this baker seems to have been nn earnest seeker after knowledge, who, to add to his lore, desired to work extra hours in order to learn to bake cake. This in itself is, indeed, ' praiseworthy, but is made evon more so by the fact that nothing Is shown to indicate thut he harbored any surropticious design as to the cake after ho had learned to bake it. His thirst for knowledge Sam Gompers, president of the American Federation of "Teeth Gritters," referring to tho supreme court decision which declared tho bakers ten-hour law unconstitutional, in a recent speech is reported to have unbosomed himself as follows: "I cannot restrain myself from saying that if tho majority of the members of that cqjrt who signed the opinion had visited modern bakeries in this state and.had seen the conditions that prevail even under the ten-hour law, they would have believed that it was within the police power of the state to regulate the hours, and would have declared for the ten-hour law. What are tho bakers going to do? I'll toll you what I would do. T'd strike and strike hard until I got the ten-hour day." Wo can appreciate Sam's lack of self-restraint. We are shy on that quality ourself, after reading the above. Oh, Lord! There goes the last button. DOWNFALL OF THE ARISTOCRAT The task of sawing stone by means of wire has been perfected in France, says Scientific American. The plant utilized for the operation consists of an endless wire, which passes round a series of pulleys, one of which is a driving pulley. A straining trolley working on an inclined plane insures requisite tension. The saw frame is placed between the driving shaft and tho trolley, and on it tne guide pulleys for the wire saw are fixed. Tho wire as it travels presses lightly on tho stone, and the cutting is done by sand mixed with water. In the workshop tho wire can bo driven at a speed of 23 feet a second, but in quarries it is not advisable to increase the speed above l'l feet a second. In order to produce the cut, a uniform force has to be exerted, while at the same time the force must also bo capable of being easily varied, and must be proportionate to the length of the cut.—Exchange. Thus one b.v one are the trades converted from hand to mechanical ones, and the aristocrat of labor reduced to tno level of a machine tender. Tho saving resulting from tho substitution of tho machine for the hand process goes where it must always, go, to the owner of tho machine. Of course the workers will growl and complain because they got no benefit out of the transformation, but just why they should do so is not clear. If they wish to benefit by machinery they must own it. As long as they allow others to own tho machinery of wealth production which they (tho workers) both make' and operate, thoy must grant to them the right to all the benefits arising from its operation. So tho House of Lords has decided against the Miners' Federation in the South Wales appeal case, and the minors are to be mulcted in the sum of £57,000 as compensation to the colliery owners, for endeavoring to regulate their labor. The miners sought to restrict the supply of coal to tho demand by a system of stop- days. They were not asking to be puyed for the days that they "played"; they simply wanted, by stopping work occasionally, to prevent being thrown aut of work for a lengthy period, as well as having their wages reduced in consequence of an over-supply of coal. But this was an infringement of tbe right of the masters, who arrogate to themselves the sole power of deciding when the men shall work and when they shall be idle, and so the man have to pay them £57,000 as damages. Of course whenever the employers choose to shut the men out thoy can do so; the men can get no compensation for tho loss they may thus bo culled upon to endure; it is only tne employers who can claim damages for stop- days.—London Justice. o Two good stories relating to the German Emperor are told by Sir M. Grant Dull in the concluding portion of his diary which has just been published. A man was waiting to see the Emperor pass in procession and remarked to a friend, "The donkey has not come." He was arrested but explained that the donkey was his brother, asking tho police whom they thought he meant. Another time two men were discussing politics in a brasserie and one said to the other "The Emperor is a d d fool." He was arrested, but explained that he was talking about the Emperor of Russia. "No," said the official, "when people talk of an Emperor being a d d fool they must mean the German Emperor." o- It is bud enough, no doubt, to be deceived by a false marriage, but no worse than to meet wjth similar ex- |t» rionco at the hands of a real one, ESTABLISH ED 1894 Tie VOICE I Tlie Oldest liber Paper is tmit Always a fcarlesss exponent In tlie | cause of lubor. For one dollar the paper will ht | sent to any address for one year. Workingmen ofall countries will | soon recognize the fact that ilin muat cipuort and read their laljor | papers. Issued every Friday, Ik Voice Prtlishiof Co., Limits I WINNIPEG, MAN. -THE- Miners'Magazirit Published Weekly by the Western federation Of Miners A Vigorous Advocate of Labor! | Cause. Clear-Cut and Aggressive. Per Year $1.00. Six Months, Address: MINERS' MAGAZINE, Denver, Colorado. SMOKE Kurtz's OrVfl ... Kurtz's Pioneers (jjf\ Spanish Blossoms C. PETERS I486 Vettsjintsr Avt Practical Boil and Shoe Maker Hand-Made Boots and Shoe* to order in all styles. Kepaiting promptly ami m-at- ly done. Stock of staple ready-made Shoes always on baud. Maist Pitas* TAKE YOUR HAT TO THE NAT HOSPITAL 155 Cordova Street And hove it rejuvenated with w'l life. Old Hats Cleaned, Pressed aril Made as Qood as New by cX|>crt| workmen and at moderate' cost. Elijah Leard. THE MODERN HAT RESTOl'KK| United Hatters of North America When you ara buying a FUR HAT see to it tWl the Genuine Union Label I- sewed in It. if a retaiW I has loose labels In his possession and otters lo Pgl| one in a hat for you, do not patronize him. I'00"! labels In retail stores are counterfeits. The «»»!»* j Union Label Is perforated on four edges, exactly ""I some ae a postage stamp. Counterfeits are ><"»' times perforated on three edges, end some time* onl'l on two. John B. Stetson Co., of Philadelphia '»'| non-union concern. pGfST'r«'6> JOHN A. MOPF1TT. MARTIN LAV/LOR, New York. President, Orange, N. J. Secretary, 11 W averly PUS A ten-year-old boy in Warsaw, Poland, jeered at a Cossack, who pursued him and cut him from shoulder to waist with one blow of his sabre, an act pf chivalry quite in keeping with military ethics. OCIALISM Is inevitable. That means our economic nnd social development will some day make it clear even to the dullest ml*"' that a solution of our industrial problems is possible only' W «**, SBRrt*.' eo-operntlon. But nre we to look on passively and w«» until the mind more dull and dense than our own, has at m«> reasoned it out all by Itself ? Certainly not. We want to get there sooner. And we will get there in the near future if we set to wo" and educate the man who is atill groping in the dark. Wc k«°* things will make him see the light some day, but we want tin to see It now. Therefore our incessant propaganda and b«i-» tion. To do good work you need good tools, Select your prop* ■**•?<>» material carefully and you will see results. Two Ijcioh .......__ .. _^ well tried aa means of Socialist propaganda are ... . -,„ MODERN SOCIALISM.GthEdition; ISOPkgis;Paper25c,Cloth 75c. PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM, ^.f^ i£i!£?/ie,S.p,e,>"nd co1nT'n<''nK presentation of the principles of Socialism. To Bhtf*" holders of the Comrade Co-oneratlve Co tta-v „r» .**,m ..> _ ,11., ,,«■ «>f*0 per cent. Comrade Co-operative Co. they are sold at a discount of 40 per cci "" " '" ... ',,00 share n - , "The Conna* pM»».i Sui",.? acquire by monthly payments of 80 cents a »6.( Co-operative Publishing House and thereby enjoy special rates for " and other.Socialist Literature. Don't stand aloofi Bitch your wagon to the COMRADE COOPERATIVE COMPANY, illCooper Souero. New YorkL ATITRPAY ... .- ... May 13, 1905 THE WtSTE&K OLAMOft frAKMTOVilt, B. 0. The Economic Evolution Iline of the most, solemn things to |(> thinker is the way in which the mi.)tui<" evolution pursues it course, iiliniit. appearing to be influenced the slightest by moral, ethical or Higious considerations. Ubuut two thousand years ago, (11\ jn C-alilee, a man came regard- liv some as more than man—Ood Jpiself—-and preached peace on earth d goodwill towards men: that men juld use and enjoy the earth in liiitiioii: that there it one Uod in Uven, nnd should be one brother- i0d of men on earth. IsiiH-c his day, for two thousand- nis, u thousand crops of saints ve preached the same doctrines. A illion preachers in a million church- und chapels are preaching . .same doctrines today. Yet ii ,• on earth and goodwill to- ,il men have not cornel Church igressos and peace conferences meet ,| prate about the horrors of war; Ii, while they are prating, the na- iiis Beize each other by the throat, ,1 before the prating has ceased v huve once more let forth the of thousands and have piled their cpses in heaps, food for beasts und | Cures. Inisi has come; but whence comes [rlstlanlty? And how shall it ne? And what will bring it? >rta'inly not the preaching of mor- L-thics, or religion. This has BO tried, under the Christian dis- lisiition alone, for nearly two thou- (I years. And the peace and good- II are not evident. Their oppo- wur und bloodshed, nre as vile us ever, and the means for feed- thein have been increused by Icnce a thousandfold. Not the man o preaches tit j best sermon gets most money, but the man who duces the best gun. And while Ill's and potentates listen to the tmoii ut. their peace conferences, i'S are eager to compete with each •r to buy the lieM gun. Showing lurly that they believ* in the pow- «tf' the (run before the gospel. And .■re the old gun could kill its ten, new gun can kill its thousand; (tl the bloodshed that was done in tiuinth, when Christ walked the th, is now done in a day—nny, in hour—so potent, perfect, nnd ef- i I mil has man become in the busies of destruction. 'eace uml good will, then, have not iwn with the preaching of thetlos- |1; but war nnd thi? science of war, vc grown in spite of the preaching the Gospel, , then, the cause of war due to es which defy ethics nnd religion. which, until they piny themselves or are recognized and removed, usl continue to render pence ini- issilile, nnd nil preaching of pence vain? We Socialists say that tins nre due to such economic forces hich so long as thoy exist must con- nne to make men fly at each liter's throats even while they have gospel of peace upon their pngueS: What, then, is this war- free that laughs in the face of wire? And the answer is: the capi- tlist struggle for the world mnrket. he capitalists will listen to appeals ir peace, and applaud the some to pe echo. But let the clouds appear, bigger than a man's hand, Jnught with fear that their ■onion of the world-market 'ill bo contracted , or fraught ii'ii hope that their portion of the I nine market may be expanded, and lstantly the peace speeches are iwn to the four winds and the icaee orators are thrust aside, and he particular ganb of capitalists, iliich fears dunger to its market, Mr ees hope of increasing it, is in arms, par is declared, blood must flow. And ■ven while they listen to the peace beeches they are careful not to ne- [iect the securing of the best guns, ho best ships, and the best men, tnd to keep themselves in readiness or instant war. While they say we are brothers and •eace i.s blessed, they continue to '•'ar their armaments sky high one 'gainst another, which shows they (now they must light, and will fight. the fust instant that tneir portion of he world-market is threatened, or ihe first instant they can see a hope >F extending it. Nor can the national gangs of capitalists help this, noils inhividunls doing that which the hipitalist system compels them to do, I'un wo blame them. It is no use purling pulpit anathemas against the f'ictinis so long as capitalism holds; the forces of the same must operate, nnd both capitalist and wage-slave must reap the fruits, floods are produced; goods must be sold; goods must realize their profit. R there is no market the goods •annot bo sold; and if the goods nre Pot sold there is no profit to be realised: If the goods are not sold they re main a surplus in the warehouse. Then no further goods cun be made. Then work is stopped. The unemployed army i.s increased. On the one hand a pyramid of unsold goods, on the other hand an army of unemployed. If no further markets be opened the pile of dnsold goods must grow greater and greater, until the day comes when there is no more work for the wage-slave, and no more prolit for the capitalist. This is the day of capitalist bankruptcy, when every cupitulist. finds himself a Socialist in spite of himself. He i.s in favor of pea.e now, us lie has always been. Hut he is willing to keep the peuco now, because there is no longer any prolit in going to war. No more markets! He has produced goods sky high at one end of the economic scale und bus completely emptied the pot-Mots of the people ut tho other. How shull a class owning the means of production, and producing weulth by machinery, which machinery has displaced the hand labor of tho people, continue to sell their products to the people, who have all been thrown out of work by the aforesaid machinery, and havo no no longer any money to buy them? This is the fearful Frankenstein that looms before the capitalists, and which 1 fancy the best minds among them see equally with ourselves. A gigantic army of unemployed on the one hand; a gigantic surplus of commodities on the other; a vast volume of capital in the banks, with no avenue of investment left for it, Tho crash of banking; thi' bankruptcy of capitalism. This the event that awaits capitalist production, and to stave oil this event its statesmen, generals and OaptSllns of industry must move earth and heaven for fresh markets. Never tiling about pence. Peace is all very well as a sentiment. Certainly, blessed are the peacemakers, but don't you let those blackguardly Frenchmen, Germans, Rdssians, or whoever they, may be, encroncn upon our markets: and keep your eye on the horizon for nny fresh territory that may come, which may promise fresh markets, and mind we are in first To seize it. Peace! Oh, yes, very fine! And verily it shall prevail. Hut not yet. When there nre no more markets to be captured; when there are no more profits to be inude by our cupital nnd business ; then we will hand them over to the commonwealth, nnd wealth shall be produced for use and not for prolit, und you shull find us os good Socialists ns any. This is the day that Marx foretells in that majestic paragraph of "Capital": "Centralisation of the means nf production, and socialization af labor at last reach a point where they become, incompatible with capitalist integument. The intebument is burst asunder. The knell of private capitalist property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated."—"Capital," vol I., page -187. And the best watchmen on the watch tower of capitalist society nre now declaring thnt the point which Marx foretold is not far off. Few- men can claim to have studied society with greater zeal and ability than the late Kmile Zolu. A few years before his sad death in lttUl he delivered in New York his great speech, "The wonderful doctrine of sulvation." In this speech we have something like a prophecy from the groat novelist in these words:— i'r*i believe In less than ten years we will see great events occur in the social fabric, almost simultaneously on all points. I believe io twenty years, though it were idle to expect the realisation of all we want, profound political, economical, and purely social modifications will havo bettered the world considerably, brought u greater sum of happiness, made the g'ood things of life more evenly, therefore more equitably, divided." And let. the tretnenduous economics in production, and the tremenduous growth nf the unemployed arising therefrom, and the tremenduous glut of commodities that cannot be dumped, and capital which cannot be invested, tell tho rest.—John Tumlyn, in London Justice. A MONKEY UOOIBLATURE. It remained for the Nebraska state legislature to enact unique eight-hour legislation. Now, do not think that this applies to wuge earners—not at all. The Nebraska salons hud the eight-hourj Idea, but they wanted to try it on a representative of the Dur- winiuu theorj before applying it to the completed species represented by thut theory, A correspondent in Lincoln writes as follows: "In, regard to the International Typographical Union working eight hours, what do you think of this? A bill was passed prohibiting monkeys from being worked more than eight hours a day. A case in point: During the late fair —which is held ,n Lincoln—a couple of organ grinders worked these little animals twelve or fourteen hours a day. The uutcome wus a little legislation. It has come to a pretty pass when hiimun beings are put lower thun the monkej I" And the Lincoln Wageworker says: The legislature of I90fj has made a record for the enactment of laboi' legislation, and that, record will go thundering down the ages and be preserved In the archives of lubor as long as time shnll lasl. And when the heavens shall be rolled together as u parchment scroll; when Gabriel leaving his post of duty by the side of the great while throne, sljall stand forth with one foot upon the mighty land and the other upon the bottomless sea, proclaiming in thunder tones through his golden trumpet that time shall be no more, tho record of the Nebraska legislature upon the labor question will rise up like a resurrected soul and be tho wonder and the admiration of the heavenly hosts throughout all eternity. The Nebraska legislature of 1908 enacted into law nn eight-hour day for monkeys. Hereafter it will be unlawful for a monkey to work more than eight hours a clay in Nebraska. Men. women and children may be forced to toil from sun to sun, but the monkey is given the eight-hour day from now, on. Glorious news, Carry it around the world and emblazon it upon the banners that are flung upon the outer wnll—Nebraska's legislature thinks more of monkeys than it does of human beings. Tint perhaps that is natural, ft is said that "a little fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." We no longer 'doubt it, for the lawmakers Of Nebraska have given ocular proof of the truth of the saying. What else but a "fellow feeling" could have induced n legislature that haughtily turned down every request of human workingmen to give the monkeys nn eight-hour day? The monkeys have no reason to complain. They were effectively and thoroughly represented in the Nebraska legislature. Blood is thicker thnn water,—Typo Journal, We venture the assertion that not u member ol that legislature is a wage worker, or has any conception or idea of the needs nnd requirements of the working class, beyond the fact thnt they want jobs. This legislature wns elected by workers' votes, and Inasmuch as the men elected b.v those votes were not of Ihe working class, nor represented the interests of that class. It proves that the workers who elected them were veritable monkeys themselves, and its chief function being to monkey with lubor it is appropriately dubbed a "mon key legislature." Its monkey business is shown (to be of a high standard of excellence, and the feeling of mon- keyanity strongly predominant, by the fact of its affording relief by an eight-hour law to the most helpless, ' 1 . and not the least deserving part of the monkey tribe. The poor, dowu- trodden, orgnn-brinding monkey had no franchise or other rights of citizenship with which to protect himself. We are glad the legislature came to his relief.. o THE CONDITIONS OF WOMEN, In pbokiUgen, the organ of the Japanese Socialists, published in Tokjo Japan, under the above caption we find the following in tho issue of April 2H, 11)0."). In what essential particular does tho condition af the Japanese women are here portrayed, differ from that of the women of other capitalist countries? "Japanese women, in a word, are utterly subjected to men. Girls ure possessed by their fathers as if they were privute property, and are com- pulsorily married to men who are wilfully chosen b.v the fathers with out almost, any regard to the girl's own consent. After the marriage the wives are possessed by their husbands us the objects of pleasure, as the instruments uf breeding children und us the convenient servants for the household. "In lower classes tne wives are liter-} ally the slaves of men. Some are beaten and kicked by the drunkard husbands. Some are forsaken with their numerous children. Some are drudged all the time ns if bound with chains. And the girls who are fortunately or unfortunately pretty are all compelled to become prostitutes, of which Japan is so famous throughout the world. There are also many hundreds of thousands of factory girls, a great many of whom are sinking to early graves. It is true that woman education in this country made great pregress. Rut it is only from the necessity for the women to get a living in competition with men. So there, arose recently a great many professional women, most of theme" unmarried. They are nurses, teachers, telephone girls, petty clerks, etc. And they arij the only women in this country who are beginning to awake to consciousness of their commercial situations." Out of the six million school children in the United Staft's in Cities of over 8,(>t)0 population, only about four million are enrolled in the public or private schools, and of these one million nre most of the time absent on account of poverty. And some one has figured out thnt the labor of one hundred men in one hundred days, under proper scientific conditions, is equivalent to the production of enough food to supply ten thousand men for one year. Hut we are assured b.v most of the professors and ' proacnors that this system is nil right, and Socialism would destroy religion and the home, and plunge the world once more into barbarism. Surely, being wise men, they ought to know. Down witn the PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialist Party of Canada, ir. conventi in a ;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 °uctly belong.. To tne owners of the means of wealth production belongs the product of labor. The present ecvint mic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is master; the worker is slave. So long as the capitalists remain in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the state will be used to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever- increasing measure of misery and degradation. The interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker is rapidly culminating in s struggle for possession of the powei of government—the capitalist to hold the worker to secure it by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic, program, of the working class, as follows: i. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, rate—to Canada, bids tair to exceed even thut of last yeur. Already several vessels uf the Allan Line have loft the Clyde with lull complements of passengers, oi whom nearly ull were emigrants, mostly from the various districts of Scotland, und an official ol that shipping company tells me that nearly every mailable berth m the ships on their Canadian service from the Clyhe is "booked up" for months ahead. Those workers ure being lured to the Cuiiudian backwoods, tnc-re to be plundered and exploited by iankee larmers and Yankee capitalists with even greater intensity than they are here ut home, by misleading and ly- ing advertisements'. One cannot hit u newspaper without seeing three or four oi these pernicious aus. conspicuously placed. And, in addition lo this, Jubor-truuspoi tulion agents huve been stumping the country throughout Ihe winter, one at least going the length uf illustrating his harangues mm verj flattering limelight views of thut land of promise —uud disappointment. That gentleman's pictures are, no doubt, very pretty und attractive lo look at; rural scenes always arc, whether they be of Canada or anywhere else, as a picture or the original. Hut—well there is also that terrible picture of "The Man with the Hoc,'' and the general conditions of his Canadian prototype are every whit as bad, ia some ways even worse, than they are in Western Europe. Of coarse, emigration agents tuke precious good care not to throw the picture of "The Man with the Hoe' on the screen, not as being applicable to Canada, anyway; but lie is there all tbe some. As to what the wages and general conditions of life ure for those who allow themselves to be transported to the uaci> woods of Canada, u few cases in point will demonstrate more effectively man if 1 were to write several co;u...„.. „,- generalizations. I have a few friends out. tntn-o .cb« keep rue well informed, so here goes for their experiences us briefly as possible. One is employed at lumbering and sawmill work iu Ontario; wages $X,7fi per day, cost pf living considerably higher than at home. The work is very hard and heavy, and is curried on iviih the utmost intensity, or, in his own words, "hustle is the ofder of the day." When the winter .sets in ami the frost prevents sawmill working, then flic men have to go into camp in the heart ol the forest, a. distance of anything from 80 to 50 miles from the mills, and are there engaged at. lumbering until the frosts breaks up in the spring. And if at any time during tne long, winter months, my friend informs me, be wishes to see his wife und little ones he has got to tramp all the distance, exposed to all the dangers of a Canadian winter. Another, a joiner by trade, is making his fortune—no, the fortune of his masters—in the Northwest Territories of Canada. He informs me that the wages for his trade in that district is $2 per dny; but there is very little demand for joiners, gnd none at all during the winter, as Uie wood will not work owing to the frost, The greater part of this cluss of wai'k is done by handy.men, who work :or a lowKr wage than skilled joiners. There, also, the cost of living is much higher than at homo, and many of the things are of u very wretched quality; the shanties in which they live being little better than pig-styes Then as to the length of the working day, it appears to be pretty nearly from dawn to dusk' at any rate my friend says, "it is a case of work, eat and sleeu, all the time." "In fact, " he says, "I can scarcely get time to write a letter." Last winter, when he could no longer work at. his trade he got a job "clearing bush" by the "piece," and he says it took him ull his time lo make as much as would keep him in faod. Still another. An ambitious and sanguine youth this. When he set out for Western Canada he had beautiful visions and great expectations of rapidly becoming a prosperous farmer. In fact, so cock-sure wns he that his dreams would be almost immediately realized that he married Just before he sailed, in order to have a blushing bride to preside over his lovely homestead, lie put it in much more prosaic language than that, though. To cut a long story short, however, he bought one af those "sections" of land which are so much boomed' by the labor transporters in this country, and immediately made trucks for his "farm^" to nee about getting the plough started. Hut, alas for sasgufoc youth! When he arrived ot that "section" he discovered thnt it would require several hundreds of pounds expended on "clearing" It before n plough could' be so much ns thought, of; and as his money was nil gone by this time, he fled from his "farm" tyi disgust, subsequently finding employment ns a navvy nf fl.fiO per day on a new railway that was being built in that vicinity. His wife presides over— not u lovely homestead standing amidst fields of waving golden grain and peaceful browsing kme, but a ticket ry wooden shanty in the heart iii a dreary wilderness. As to the "set ion,' it is no doubt waiting until such time as a capitalist farmer jeomes aluiig and employs my friend and others of his class to clear it and conjure a fortune out of its stubborn soil for the capitalist to enjoy. Those three friends of mine are just the sort of men that the Canadian government says they want; men who arc willing to do anything and not afraid of hard work—al lirst. This sort of men, they say, will rapidly make their way, if not to fortune, to at least comfort and security for the fin ure. An ouilce of fact is said to be worlh a ton of theory, and so ii then- is any truth in the maxim, it clearly shows how little truth there is in the statements of the Canadian government and the labor transporters, for there are a good muni ounces of fact contained in the experiences of my above-mentioned friends. Moreover, theirs are no exceptional cases; they are the general rule. The exceptions are those.'cases which the fraudulent labor transporters use ns illustrations in then mischievous pamphlets and harangues; and, us I have already said, this method of labor transportation is going on very actively just now, our speakers should give some consideration io the matter now that the open-air propaganda is commencing for the season, in order that something muy be done to check this ban- ishiuent of the very best of our fellow workers to the buck woods of the fee-bound Northwest Territories, where they are more at the mercy of capitalist aggression than they arci here at home, from the mere fact that they are completely isolated from all association with their fellow workfera elsewhere.—J. B. McNab in Justice. SOCIALIST PARTY OF VANCOUVER LOCAL CANAOA MEETINGS are held every Sunday Evening at 8 o'clock In SULLIVAN HALL, CORDOVA ST. ALL ARE INVITED! WHAT OF TOMORROW ? ——o Headquarters: 313 Cambie Street, Room 1 tbjrf v.-i c .1 be instantly dismissed, and as the thieving scoundrels who run these slave dens work in concert there would be no possible chance of obtaining work elsewhere. Pettifogging, Paltering Government. The Condition of the worker Is daily getting worse, and as winter ap proaches it will be worse still. Ther do the work more cheaply than human labor. Whether they will organize under the banners of "pure and simple" or "industrial unionism," hus not yet been determined. WHITE SLAVES OF ADELAIDE. For the benefit, of those who are under the impression that conditions for the workers are better in Australia than elsewhere, we clip the following from the Sydney Worker of March 18. o»..ttci,.H in ihe Holy City. The persistent reiteration ol the A German physician has devised a simple apparatus for the cure of snoring, which holds up the lower jaw is no apparent break in the clouds. I and prevents it from dropping dur- A palleting, pettifogging, place-hunt-ling sleep The anorer stops snoring ing government hus run the country j us soon as the mouth is closed, lt into such u condition thnt anything . is oqually adapted to be worn in like adequate provision for lubor Is] bed or In church, impossible, while the lack of industrial legislation has placed the workers si; completely at the mercy of the worst class of employers that their condition can only be regarded as thut of slaves, with the difference that chattel slaves are curc^l for by their owners from selfish motives, while the industrial slaves of today havo to scratch for themselves as best they can. The- result is unemployed in every direction, half.fed children and hungry men in a country whose possibilities for wealth production are almost unlimited if only the shackles of capitalism und coin] etitive commerce were removed, and #a practical system of socialism substituted. One of'the sights to be j seen in the city today is tnat of poor | old women searching around schools .and offices for the crusts und scraps of lunch thrown out by the children or clerks. Is it surprising that there is a general feeling in favor of the Labor Party in connection with the coining elections? it is estimated that the 724 chari- - .... ,,... ........ .... ...... ,*. ..,,, v,, HM -~ — -— boodlers' assertion that there is no table institution!-, in und around Con 4n Opportune rime for Reading ■M Orop in aud see our splendid assortment if reading nutter. Trv our book exchange. Return two old books and . r-Mve one new one. E. GALLOWAY VANCOUVKR. B. C. 18 aid 14 Arcade. 326 Abbott Street Mail, orders promptly attended to sweating in Adelaide has led to the making of some private inquiries by members of the Labor Party and others interested in the welfare of i hn worker and the moral as well as physical health, of the community. Of ihe result, of these inquiries two samples will, perhaps, be sufficient, us they are fairly representative of the condition of things among the women "home-workers," or sweaters' slaves in the clothing trade. One woman was visited ut her home. She was employed in making moleskin trousers for Asiatic middlemen. It was found thut she wus not ostensibly paid by the dozen, but by the week, so that, her aggregate week's earnings Tight come within the stipulated minimum of Is. under the factories act. As a matter of fact she was getting lis. per week. What she wns earning may be gathered from the fact that she hud for this <>s. to make' 140 pairs of trousers. This pans'out at just a fraction over Sixpence per dozen for moleskin trousers. The woman stated that she- was only required lo work 48 hours per week, so that her drivers could keep clear of thi? law, but during the eight hours' work she was never able to leave her machine. Other women worked in the same room, and an attendant was present all the time to see that the inacllines never stopped, and that as ojnc pair of trousers wus finished another followed without a moment's break. These goods were partly to supply the Syrian hawkers who travel in the country districts, but they are largely supplied to some of the big clothing (inns, who, while" maintaining an appearance of fair treatment to lubor, are in this damnable way cutting trade and sweating the unfortunate women workers. Another Song of the Shirt. The other typical case is that of another woman who works for Asiatic hawkers (or their city boss). This woman is a widow, her husband having died seven months ugo, Shu pays. 4s. 'id. a week for the use of two small rooms in a slum street, and she makes pinafores and aprons for the sweaters at one penny per dozen. She hus lo maintain a family of four or five children, only one of whom is earning wages. This child gets (Is. a week, while another little creature curries a smnll basket of pins and bootlaces and other trifles, by the sale of which she tries to add 'o the small store. This child or being questioned as to bow they lived suid her mother had to work from early morning to late at night every day, and then they could hardly get money enough to buy food und pay the rent. Ve' Adelaide is a holy city and there is no sweating, and an Arbitration Court and wages boards would be a shameful interference with trade, nnd the Socialists are dangerous firebrands! Factory Inspection Farce. In many of the factories, especially the outside ones, things are no better. We have factory inspectors, but the employer always seems to know when they nre to pay a visit to his establishment, and the sweated workers nre cautioned that they must, tell ihe inspector that they are getting more than the mimimum wage, and they are quite satisfied. Workplaces ure cleared up, the workers are separated, and the underpaid girls and boys who might give the show away nre either sent home or I hey are planted in somo other part of the premises when the inspector i.s com- 1 Ing, so that everything may appear lovely, Thfl sweated women declare •hut they dare not tell the truth, or don last, year received £7,000,000 from the benevolent' public. The charity business seems to be in quite a prosperons condition. It is but reasonable to suppose thnt m6re than one person connected with the business got tolerably fair "pickjns" out of those millions of pounds. We suggest thnt Lawson look into the matter after he gets through with the ''Standard" and the insurance companies. s O A movement is on foot to import monkeys into California to pick prunes, as it is figured thut if well- muzzled and looked after they can The comparative usefulness of the clergy in the world's work was nicely Illustrated in the opening of the Simplon tunnel. After the engineers had planned, and the workmen hud executed, the great project, it fat Swiss bishop blessed the hole, thus making it safe and fit for human use. _———_o-i Another time-honored custom has received its death blow, A Tacoma man has invented an umbrella** so constructed that upon removing a member from the umbrella stick, the umbrella will be rendered useless to anyone except the rightful owner, who hus u means for restoring the irticle to its useful condition. It is related of a somewhat absent- minded professor that while walking along the street and at the same time engaged in solving some abstract problem, he walked for quite a distance with one foot on the sidewalk and the other in the gutter. He was mot by a pupil who saluted him with "Good morning, professor. How are you?" "I was very well, 1 thought," answered the professor, "but. now I don't know what is the matter with me. For the last ten minutes I've been limping." o THE FIRST REAL SHOCK. One morning Adam walked abroad Ills soul was filled with joy and laud. Ry chance he wandered near the tree Whence Eve had clothed her nudity. And as he passed there fell a leaf Right at his feet—his first real grief! He picked it up—do thought of ill— And found It was the tailor bill! lt is a rash person who is willing to paint the details of the civilisation of tomorrow. The shallow person who has no better idea of a sane world than the present industrial and social anarchy is always expecting a blue-print diagram of the co-operative commonwealth with every man's specific part marked in it in red ink, lie would like to have us tell him what the world will eat for breakfast under collectivism, and which foot the governing board will make him put out of lied in the morning. Until he knows this he would rather copy way-bills in a railroad office for fifteen dollars a week thun take any chances. This type of individual may be called the idiot brother of tyranny. You might us well talk to a monkey about differential calculus. Vou must want something better before you can be interested in striving for something better. When at the age of thirty-five or forty, this way-bill ; copying individual is kicked out and goes whining around for a job, he listens to ideals of a better system with some interest. Perhaps he may even come to help a little then; but most of his fighting force is gone. A man content with a mess of pottage for ten years or more is seldom really resurrected. It is Jie young we must reach out for, and influence. It is the young who have energy, and enthusiasm, and imagination. Unless you have imagination you are hopeless. Unless one's mind's eye can picture a nobler civilization than the present, with what enthusiasm can he work? .\119ther question always on the lips of the intellectually dead is why our platforms should voice things apparently so remote, when there are numerous things close uc hand we might lie aiming at. "What are you going to do when you get in?" he likes to ask. "You cannot introduce a bill initiating the co-operative common wealth.'' Oh, yes, we could; but we would not be so absurd. Socialists are elected one at a time; the wedge goes in slowly. Loch one in his locality has to meet different problems. Well, he meets them, as best he can. He hns no volumnous instructions, and his constituents do not expect him to achieve the impost hie. He is simply directed by one all-directing principle. It is that every measure, whether introduced by him or anybody else, having for its object the relief or upbuilding of the producing classes, will have his continuous and hearty support; while every measure intended to further enslave or exploit the working class will meet with his strenuous and unceasing opposition. This is brief; it is comprehensive; it is a .sufficient answer to those whose interest is of that vague and idle sort which has no blood nor bowels in it. If you would know what we are to do tomorrow—nnd you are willing to be a mere passive spectator of life —then wait until tomorrow, and see. -Franklin H. Wentworth in The Comrade. "♦♦♦♦♦♦♦J Burns & Co.! HARDWARE and Second Hand Dealers, Largest and cheapest stock J Cook Stoves in the City. * Boom Chains, Augers, gcrs' Jacks, Etc. Log.; We have moved into our ,„.„. I and commodious premises - 138 Cordova St., East 'Pkaae 1579 Vaicouvtr, b. {, DISILLUSIONED. Of hard-earned coin a fellow no»» pletes his little hoard To get the seed to raise some "n| to grace his humble board; O'er many a glowing catalogue m care he pores and looks, Rejoicing In the things that bltu in ell the seedmen's books. He sees a wood-cut of a b(-ot \\ dwarfs a full-grown pig, While on the next page loom, squash some twenty times as 1 At least they such proportions y in his astonished eyes. But when they're grown, alas: y finds they're but the usual sia. He sees some cuts of peas and ben some pages on displayed That throw the beanstalk raised h Jack completely in the shade But when he harvests later on thsj monstrous beans and jx?as He finds that quite a little lad a lift a pod with ease. And so it goes with everything; fl while his crops are good, They do not make the neighbors itj as he supposed tbey would; And he at length this lesson leug and learns it well, gadzooks'- One must not hope to raise <« stuff as grows fn seedmen's bol EASTER f f GREETINGS STILEMFIT" J. OANAHER & CO. Corner Granville and '• Pender Streets SOLE AGENTS FOR "STILENFIT" CLOTHES Samples and blank measurements sent on application. And now Montana has opened I fire of its batteries upon the "Reef Trust." It hns been charge with "willful, unlawful and feloM combination and fixing of ; | The packers seem to have no Inn left, but even this does not api« to unfavorably affeci the prite meat. It is still low enough opI hoof and high enough on tic bty to enable them to continue |., .:.•■! ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYJID. Just at present the working people of Chicago are very much worked up over the fact that the State militia and the United States troops are likely to be used by the employers to assist in breaking the teamsters' strike and incidently deal a knock-out blow to unionism in Chicago. If union men will look a little deeper into the conditions and causes which work most effectively against them they will find that the standing army which they have most to fear is the ever increasing army of the unemployed, it is this great army of unemployed which is the result of the competitive system, that makes it almost impossible to win a strike. It is estimated by the ablest statisticians that there are in these United States at all times more than 1,500,- 000 able-bodied men walking the streets of the various cities and towns looking, for work. The city police force, the State militia, the United Slates regulars ull combined are not. one-tenth so useful to the exploiters of labor in breaking a strike as are tho hunger-driven job seekers, who are always ready irt all indus- liinl centres to take the jobs left by the strikers, lf the Employers' Aa- sociation were to succeed in establishing this country on a military basis with this 1,500,000 mem, dressed in the United States uniform, every one armed with a rifle and well drilled, and officered by men willing to obey the dictates of mayors, governors and president, controlled by the capitalists, they would not constitute so menacing a force to organized labor ns they do as the standing army of unemployed at the present moment. The policeman the militiaman or the United States regular seldom perform nny labor that would break tt strike. Thoy nre well fed, well clothed and in every way provided for, and have no individual motive or interest in the employers defeating the workers. I Now, Mr. Workingman. do you ever consider the effect of the existence of this army of hungry, despeiat" men, driven almost insane from enforced idleness, always ready, ever anxious for an opportunity to earn a living and being unable to do so? Can you not see that so long as this standing army of half-starved men are impelled by want und fear to rush in and take your places whenever you make an organized attempt to better your living conditions, that this is by all means the most effective weapon in the hands ofyour opponents in defeating you? Do you not see that it is out of this standing army of unemployed that the employers secure the assistance not only to break strikes but to keep wages nt the b»vest living point at all times? [Alder Socialism both of these great capitalist institutions, the United States standing army and the standing army of the unemployed will naturally pass out of existence. Production for use instead of for prolit, alone can abolish the army of the unemployed, which the competitive system always keeps on a war footing. We hope that the labor leaders and union officials, while giving so much attention to the "boys in blue," will not forget the 1,500,000 army known as the army of the unemployed, stationed in every industrial centre in the country, nnd kept under the strictest discipline by the despotic power of want. It is this army that springs to the assistance of the capitalists at a moment's notice, without waitingJor orders from any city, state or federal authority whenever and wherever the workers are engaged in a conflict to v improve their conditions or to struggle against sinking lower in the social scale. Socialism is the only remedy.—Chicago Socialist. Andrew Carnegie's favorite niece has been secretly married to a poor riding master named Heaver. That is, he is a poor man, and not necessarily a poor riding master. Carnegie expresses himself as greatly pleased over the affair, and dec lures, "we want no rich men in the family." Andy evidently knows too much about that particular species of biped. ■o ■ J. A. M(-Bride, a striking machinist, of Chicago, was recently sentenced to twenty days in Jail for contempt of court. We dare not express the contempt we have for all courts, lest we get a sentence of a million and a half af years, and not only we dare not, but we could not. It is reported that tape worms are being used in Vera Cruz as a successful cure for consumption. Owners of tape worms should hold on to them for a time, as a sharp advance in prices may be looked for if the report prove true. The Illinois Senate has passed a House bill on divorce, which forbids remarriage by either party within a year. Who says there are no statesmen left? o Three is company and two a crowd when one of the three Is your hungry creditor awaiting the other fellow's departure so that he can press his bill. Negligee Shii Net Tee Cirly to Leek Exclusive patterns are now some of the choice ones will be early, and some of the designs I cannot duplicate. If you apprerii unusual styles it will lntwwi run it come promptly. Flatiron Hats The Saartett Soil Hat ot tbe Sciim | These Hats have been enthusiei cally received by young men fros the very first day we brought out. Neither trouble nor ex|« has been saved in the production j these goods, as you will cheer*' acknowledge upon examination. KILROY, MORGAN CO, LT 111 Cereeva Street 8. T. WALLACES Cash Grocery Storf-j We also carry a full line of Fu ture, on easy payments, at pt* that cannot be duplicated. Kind! inspect our stock. Cor WettMiaiter Ave and Harris StitfJ VANCOUVER, B. C. Workingmen Are Always Welcome 4| New Fountain Hotel C. SCHWA UN. Proprietor Meals 25 cents and up. Beds, 25 cents per night. Rooms fl.60 per week and up 29-31 Cordova St. Vancouver, IU'I Consult our Department Managers for Clectricty for Power and Light Purposes # B. C. Electric Railway fo^JS^iT** The secretary of the San Francisco Citizen's Alliance says: "The closed shop and the principle it represents not only destroys civil liberty, but the fabric of human society and the brotherhood of man." We had no idea it was really so serious a matter as that. IN WATCH REPAIRING OKEAT CARE IS EXERCISED, AS WE ENTRUST THE REPAIR TO EXPERIENCED WORKMEN ONI/V, AND NOT TO APPRENTICES OR AMATEURS. SPROTT & Co. THE ARCADE JEWELRY STORE.