STERN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA piSS-ISF PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING CLASS ALONE NUMBER 672 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1912 Subscription Price *fki AA UK yiur vl.UU WHAT SOCIALISTS MEAN BY REVOLUTION PRENATAL ROBBERY. It has become an axiom that, to accomplish results, organization is requisite. Nevertheless, there is "organization" and "organization." That this is so, appears clearly from the fact that the pure and simplcrs have been going about saying to the workers: "Organize! Organize!" and after they have been saying that, and have been "organizing" and "organizing" for the past thirty or forty years, we flnd that they are virtually where they started, if not worse oft, that their "organization" partakes ot the nature of the lizard whose tali destroys what his foreparts ouild up. Let us assume that none of us know what is "Reform" and what is "Revolution." Those who are posted will understand all the better; those who are not will follow all the easier. We hear people talk about the "Reform Forces," about "Evolution" and about "Revolution" in ways that are highly mixed. Let us clear up our terms. Reform means a change of externals; Revolution — peaceful or bloody, the peacefulness or the bloodiness of it cuts no figure whatever in the essence of the question—means a change from within. Take, for instance, a poodle. You cen reform him in a lot of ways. You can shave his whole body anU leave a tassel at the tip of his tall; you may bore a hole through each ear, and tie a blue bow on one and a red bow on the other; you may put a brass collar around his neck with your initials on and a trim little blanket on his back; yet, throughout, a poodle he was and a poodle he remains. Bach of these changes probably wrought a corresponding change in the poodle's life. When shorn of all his hair except a taBBel at the tail's tip he was owned By a wag who probably cared only for the fun'he could get out of his pet; when he appears gaily decked in bows, probably his young mistress' attachment is of tendered sort; when later we see him in the fancier's outfit, the treatment he receives and the uses he is put to may be yet again, and prob ably are, different. Each of these transformations or stages may mark a veritable epoch in the poodle's existence. And yet, essentially, a poodle he was, a poodle he is, and a poodle he will remain. That is Reform. But when we look back myriad's of years or project ourselves into far- future physical cataclysms, and trace the development of animal life from the Invertebrate to the vertebrate, and from the lizard to the bird, from the quadruped and mammal till we come to the prototype of the poodle, and finally reach the poodle'himself, and so forward—then do we find radical changes at each step, changes from within that alter the very essence of his being, and that put, or will put upon him each time a stamp that alters the very system of his existence. That is Revolution. So with society. Whenever a change leaves the internal mechanism untouched, we have Reform; whenever the internal mechanism is changed, we have Revolution. Of course, no internal change is possible without external manifestatons. The Internal changes denoted by the revolution or evolution of the lizard into the eagle go accompanied with external marks. So with society. And herein HeB one of the pitfalls Into which dilettantelsm or "Reforms" invariably tumble. They have noticed that externals change with internals; and they rest satisfied with mere external changes, without looking behind the curtain. We Socialists are not Reformers; we are Revolutionists. We Socialists do not propose to change forms. We care nothing for formB. We want a change of the inside of the mechanism of society. We see in England a crowned monarch; we see in Germany a scep- tered emperor; we see in this country an uncrowned president, and we fail to see the essential difference between forms. We are like grown children, in Germany, England or America. That being the case, we are skeptics as to the sense that we like to look at the inside of things and find out what is there.—Weekly People. LOCAL VANCOUVER Propaganda MEETING Every Sunday Evening Empress Theatre If the Chinese hash-house keeper had done you down for ten cents, or even if you only thought he had robbed you of ten cents, wouldn't there be a lovely row? Your righteous indignation would know no bounds. The crockery would fly, the house would' be wrecked, while the police would probably arrive too late to save the Celestial's life. It might cost you a fortnight's wages or a month of your time, but you would be satisfied to take it out of the "Chink" even if it cost you more. Your mates would sympathize with you, you would become a hero; for it is an awful crime, says the lawyer, the politician and the capitalist, to rob a poor workman even of ten cents. The above thoughts remind me of the story of a cruel and pittiless robbery. The victim's name must be suppressed for obvious reasons, though you are at liberty to guess it if you can. This man was robbed before birth as well as after. His mother was robbed of her share of nourishment and comfort; as a result the poor babe was born Into the world poor in physique, lacking. in good rich blood, which nature says is essential to a healthy child. The baby's childhood days need not be described In detail. Think of your own and add a few miseries to it, for remember that as the years have gone the struggle for existence has become keener, even' among children. Of course, the child was robbed of a few years of childhood, for a child should be happy, care free, developing body and mind along natural lines. Food was scarce, and when it was not bulk gave way to quality. Naturally, with its inherited poor physique, and its lack of nourishment, the child was slow in assimilating education. This fact, combined with the necessity of cutting short its schooldays owing to the need of aiding father to provide the daily menu, meant that the child was robbed' of its education. The child was sent to work among men, in an iron foundry, and became a man in all but years. For a time the lad labored on, doing a man's work, till slack times came. Then, of course, he was flred. Work was scarce, funds-were low. The lad drifted away from home. Odd jobs came his way; he became a casual laborer. Finally, when casual work became even more casual, he became a hobo, drifting around. He was jailed for vagrancy, jailed for trying to beat a freight out of a workless town, jailed again because he could not give a good account of himself or what he was doing for a living, and because he had two previous convictions against hlm. Now he is a man in years, but in nothing else. His manhood had gone, or perhaps It will be better to say that his manhood had not yet arrived. He never realizes that he has been robbed of all that makes life worth living. No suspicion of the truth has crossed his mind. They who robbed him have woven the most cunning web across his eyes. They have convinced him that it is his own folly and sin which is responsible for his misery. That his past suffering and present condition is but a reflex of his own wickedness. "As a child," they say to him, "you refused to make the most of your opportunities while at school." Later, you drifted into casual work, instead of getting regular employment. "Yon broke the laws of man and were jailed; shake yourself together, assert your manhood, or think where you will spend eternity." The poor sufferer makes spasmodic efforts to shake himself together, but from childhood onward all that was essential to the development of a healthy, strong will haB been denied him. He fails. When he sees his spiritual and moral advisers, well clad, healthy and happy, he is ashamed and slinks across the street to hide himself from their sight. Some day he will awaken, tear the web from his eyes, and see himself as he is, not as others say he is. He will realize that he and others like him are not what they are, because his moral, spiritual and legal advisers are what they are. He will realize that robbery means victims; that robbery by a class from a class means a class of victims. Then his docility will give place to anger, and when his anger is swelled by the anger of his class, the reckoning will come. W. LEWIS. LAW OF CAPITALISI ISJELL OR PERISH Applies Equally to All Who Depend Upon the Exchange Commodities in Order to Exist. No sooner does a body of working- men go on strike than we read, ln a tew days, that the boss has all the men he wants. If everybody Is employed, where do the men come from who take | the strikers' places? Everybody HveB today by selling something. Coal merchants sell coal. Steel manufacturers sell steel. Farmers sell wheat, corn, potatoes, etc. The beef trust sells beef. The railway magnates, the shipping trust, and telephone and telegraph magnates sell the use of the means of transportation and communication. Lawyers sell their ability to expound law. Doctors sell their skill as physicians. Clergymen sell the influence they hold on the working class. Labor leaders often do the same. The working class also sell their power to produce necessaries and luxuries of life, or they sell their labor power. In capitalist society everything ls turned into a commodity, that is, everything is bought and sold, from the virtue of women, and even to the Grace of God. Labor power, though being subject to the vicissitudes and fluctuations of the market the same as other commodities, differB in several ways from all others. It being the only real ** factor in production it is the only commodity, which, when, consumed, produces a value greater than itself. Failure to sell implies not only the perishing of the labor power itself, but also of its owner, the' laborer, and his dependents, and the laborer can sell his labor power, only, bo long as it increases capital. The value of labor power is determined by the same economic law as all other commodities, namely, the cost of production, and the cost to produce labor power is the amount ot the necessities requisite to produce it, or the labor time necessary to produce those necessities. But a commodity may sell above or below its real value. Its market price being determined by the law of supply and demand, and competition. The greater the supply of any commodity over the demand, the keener the competition between sellers, and the lower the price will fall, and vice versa. As labor, power is always in excess of the demand, at many times and places, it sells even below its minimum cost of production, the bare subslstance of the laborer. Of course this deficiency is made up in the way of poor relief, feeding of school children, free lunches, as provided by the starvation army, and other such like parasitical institutions and schemes. At the most, labor power, on the average, can't sell above Its value, the cost of production. If the purchasing power of the labor (and that is his real wage) was to*increase on account dt a reduction in the coBt of production- of necessaries, the competition between the workerB to sell their labor power would bring down the price to its old standard again. Suppose the workers in a given locality were receiving more than the true lvalue for their labor power, whether the cause be due to the relation between supply and demand, or to organization, workers will be attracted by t;he high wages till the supply exceeds the demand and the tendency jls that wages would sink, not only Ito what they were before the .rise itook place but even lower still. I At the present time the price of jlabor power is higher on the American continent than in Europe, due to the difference in the proportions of supply and demand. And what is the result? Workers all over Europe are packing their commodity over-here as fast as their means will allow, each with his own individual package of labor power, to compete in a market where the supply already exceeds the demand. And as has often been said, What are you going to do about it? This question is for Socialists as well as non-Socialists. We have been too fond of putting the blame on slaves, who, election after election, endorse wage slavery by supporting the representatives of the ruling class. The fact is, they don't know any better. We Socialists claim that we know just what is the matter. If so it is up to every Socialist Local, and every Socialist to make it his duty to take part in the distribution of leaflets, of which the Clarion staff can turn out enough to flood the country. Each Local should see to it, that no working, man in its constituency can say they never read anything about Socialism. There is no excuse for any one, as the distribution requires no great mental or physical power. Get out, comrades, and be doing. Make the fight interesting. Let the ruling class feel your grit and determination, by doing your' share in removing the greatest obstacle between us and our emancipation, namely, the ignorance of our fellow slaves. R. W. By the by, have you an economic class in your Local? A comrade said to me the other day: "Good job I went to the economic class this morning, or I wouldn't have known what them fellows, who were arguing the point meant by, constant capital, and variable capital." R. WALKER. OUR SPECIAL OFFER. We are going to give you a chance to keep the Clarion going, and unless you respond at once we tell you honestly that the Western Clarion cannot last more than a month. We want 5,000 new subscribers inside of four weeks and if every one of you do your best we can get that many easily. We want this paper sent to every house In your town and It's up to you to see that it gets there. We want money to put organizers ln the fileld next winter in every province of Canada,. We can do lt through the Clarion. It we can't get the Slaves to come to us we have got to go to them, and the Clarion Is one of the best mediums. Now, here is our offer, which is open till the 16th of July: We will send the Western Clarion to any address in Canada outside of the city ofgYancouver for three months for ten cents. We wll send it to the British Isles, New Zealand or South Africa for the same price. Outside of these places we have to pay extra postage, so we cannot reducj the price. We will sell you six-month sub cards for thirty cents apiece, dollar sub cards at sixty cents, till the 16th of July, after that date they will cost you the old rate. Three-month sub cards wlll cost you i5 cents apiece till the 16th of July, but three month subs without cards will cost ten cents. The cards can be used after the 16th of July, that is why they cost a little more. Don't forget we need the money, so buck up. CAPITALISM'S TOLL. The Upltca States, Australia, foreign and Vancouver is not included in this special offor. owing to extra postage. In 1907, according to the United States Geological Survey, 3125 men were killed and 5316 injured in coalmining accidents in the twenty-two states that produce 98 per cent, of the American coal; ln 1908, 2450 were killed and 6772 injured. In the decade ending with 1908, 19,469 men were killed in the coal mines of these states. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion reports that ln the seven years ending with 1908, 23,895 employees were killed and 335,964 were injured on the railroads of the country. According to the United States Census Bureau, of all deaths of adult males from 1900 to 1908 inclusive 126,567, or 9.1 per cent., were due to accidents, and the United States Bureau of Labor says: "It is safe to assume that about one-half of the deaths from accidents among males is the result of industrial employments.' ARE YOU ONE OF THE 400? A working class whose energies are mainly directed towards bucking an overstocked labor market can never become revolutionary. Good results will follow only when the working class refuse longer to allow Its enegersles to be bounded by the wage system and organizes politically to capture the club. What is hard work for a few becomes easy when many help. Don't throw your burdens on another comrade; it is not fair to him or yourself. Are you one of the 400? Write and tell us that you are going to Bend in one new yearly for the Clarion each month. Don't let yourself be dragged along. Push! Ten thousand new readers for the Clarion ln one month. Are you on? THE MASTER CLASS. WORKER A MACHINE. . By John M. Work. The capitalists grab at every cent in sight. They get men and women to work for them at the lowest possible wages, without regard to their comfort and the welfare and the comfore and welfare, of those dependent upon them. They frequently compel their employes to work in vile and unhealthy quarters, where their lives are threatened by disease. They employ children and press them through the same process of de- humanization. They build hovels and tenement houses In the most undesirable places and rent them to the workers at exorbitant rates. They take care not to have these hovels and tenements too close to their own mansions on the broad and beautiful avenues. They do not want to degrade themselves by too close proximity to people who earn an honest living. They contribute to the campaign funds of all political parties that will aceept their bridges—and that means all except the Socialist party. They influence legislators with money, flattery, intimidation, or perquisites, and get passed such laws as are in their interest, and rejected such as are not. They treat poor men as inferiors and regard themselves as the lords of creation. They bring extraneous influences to bear upon the courts, besides hiring the shrewdest lawyers ln the land. And they rarely fail to get the decisions they want. They unconcernedly indulge in extravagant luxury and vain ostentation, while men and women and children with human hearts and souls and feelings and longings actually die ot starvation, and while millions of others live on the ragged edge of poverty, destitute of all the refining and ennobling influences of life. They do all these thingB because they have the power to. They have the power to do them because they own the exploiting industries which the workers have to use in order to live. The remedy Ib the collective ownership and operation of the exploiting Industries. And that ls Socialism. However, we cannot blame the Capitalists for the present frightful conditions. They monopolize the good things because we permit them to do so. Private ownership of the exploiting industries enables them to have and and to hold possession of the capital of the country and wrest from the toilers most of the value of their labor. Whenever we see fit to abolish the private ownerahip of the exploiting industries, this exploitation will cease. We wlll get the full value of our labor. We will guarantee ourselves an opportunity to earn a living. Involuntarily poverty will be a thing of the past. We have only ourselves to blame. If we lived ln a country where the workingman had no vote, it might be otherwise. But in this country the average workingman has a vote the same as a Capitalist. The workingmen outnumber the Capitalists and their satellites many times. The workingmen can therefore bring exploitation, poverty and economic uncertainty to an end whenever they wish. They can do it by voting the Socialist ticket. If you do not vote the Socialist ticket, quit growling because you are deprived of everything worth while. You are getting what you voted for. PROGRESS IN THE STATES. The National Secretary's report to the National Socialist Convention at Indianapolis brings out the folowlng points: The total Socialist Party membership is 125,826 as against 84,- 716 in 1911; and 41,751 in 1908. The total vote In 1910 was 607,674, as against 424,483 in 1908. The total number of Socialist officials In the United States is 1,039. The total number of Socialist periodicals is 323. The national office have sold nnd distributed during the year 3,000,000 pieces of literature. It also handled during the year 1,545 lyceum lectures, in which were sold 24,735 boks and subscriptions taken for Socialist papers to the number of 50,- 494. You can get ten of the men in your Union to read the Clarion for three months and lt will only cost a dollar. The man who says that present conditions are good enough for him ought to have the dose Increased. The laboring man has no time to be anything but a machine.—Thoreau. The worker Is a machine. The function of the machine is to produce wealth. In order to be kept in working condition, the machine ls given a certain amount of care and food—cleaning, oiling, repairing. After the machine ts worn out, it is thrown on the scrap-heap as no longer of use. Ditto with the worker. The function of the worker is to produce wealth; and in so far as wealth consists of exchange-valueB, labor produces all wealth. The employer treats the worker as he treats a machine. The toiler receives a certain amount of "oiling" in the form ot wages; and these wages are only enough to buy the food, clothing, and shelter required to keep the machine- man in condition to perform his work, and reproduce his species. When the worker is worn out; when his muscles become flabby, his mind dulled—when the energy of youth has been sapped by the life-destroying industrial grind, then the worker is cast aside on to the scrap-heap of the unemployed. If a machine is invented, more efficient than the one he may own, the employer invests in the more efficient machine—more efficient ln thai: lt either produces more cheaply or in more abundance; most often both. And when the employer can secure, say, women and children, to work more .cheaply than men, he casts aside the male, and coins the sweat and blood of women and children into profits— the Moloch of the ancient Carthaginians consumed fewer children than does the Civilized Beast of Capitalism. The machine Ib inanimate. Not so the worker. The worker feels this grind. The agony and despair of Industrial toil converts the men, women, and children of the working class into Symbols of Sorrow—"old before their time." After the day's work is done, the machine rests. It "forgets" the incessant, racking toil. But that racking, incessant toil is a Banquo's ghost to the worker—it will not down. It rises to destroy his recreation, and drives him to drink. It haunts him ln the dead of night, and conjures up the tor. ture of tbe working day. "The laboring man has no time to be anything but a machine." Correct! The worker's. individuality ls suppressed. There is nothing individuality-inspiring in working at a machine, ln being a mere cog in the machinery of production, and being treated as such. And when the worker goes home, his exhaustion prompts not thought and Intellectual pleasure; his system requires soothing. The moving picture show's popularity is a brilliant flashlight on the condition, mental and physical, of the average proletarian. Too tired to do anything really pleasurable, yet craving some pleasure, the worker "enjoys" the soporific "movies." There is no soeiologlc reason for the continuance of this horrible state of things. Why should men and women overwork themselves, when It has been scientifically ascertained that all the needs of humanity can be produced with modern machinery by three or four hours' work a day. Why should man be the slave of the machine? Why not have the machine become the slave of man, doing his bidding and his work? AH that is possible. All that is needed is the Socialization of the machinery of production—that the working class, through their industrial organization, shall take possession of the planXs of production, and operate them rationally and scientifically for the benefit of all the workers. Then- Starvation wages will no longer exist. The workers shall receive the full social value of their labor. Inhumanly long hours of work shall be but a phantom of the past. Hours shall be as low as the Improvements of machinery warrant. Industrial slave-driving, the grind that knows no mercy, shall be eliminated; and work becomes a pleasure. Children shall live their lives In peace and plenty, building strong, healthy minds and bodies. And all the evils of modern society, directly traceable to economic exploit, atlon and poverty, shall be used but as goblins to frighten children and old women with. Life shall blossom forth into a "thing of beauty and a joy forever." Soelalism is the sun of the proletarian future! By responding to our special sub offer you wlll enable us to put an organizer in the field In every province this fall. PAGE TWO THE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATUF IHE ISMN clarion Published every Saturday by the Socialist Party of Canada at the office of the "Western Clarion, Labor Tsmple, Dunsmuir St.. Vancouver, B. C. POST OFFICE ADDKESS, LABOB mtPI.E, DUNSMUIR ST. SUBSCRIPTION. 11.00 Per Year, 50 cents for Sli Months, 25 cents for Three Months. Strictly ln Advance. Bundles of 6 or more copies for a period set not less than three months, at the rate tt one cent per copy per Issue. Advertising rates on application, lt you receive this paper, It Is paid for. In making remittance by cheque, exchange must be added. Address all communication and make all money orders payable to THE WE3TEBN CI.ABI0N Labor Temple, Dunsmulr St., Vancouver, B. C. C*yy—Wa-tch the label on your paper. If ti, 3 thlt number Is on lt, your eub- sarlptlon expires the next issue. SATURDAY, JUNE 15th, 1912. TENDER SOLICITUDE. The capitalist press ls always alert to safeguard the interests of the labor unions against the Insidious attacks ot the Socialist element within their ranks. While careless and unobservant persons may indulge the fancy that though this Socialist element is the only really live factor in the movement of organized labor, it is by no means a threatening danger to capitalist Interests from the trade union quarter, the astute press is not so easily befooled. Long practice at the profession of prostitution in the' service of capitalism has trained its nostrils to an acute nicety In the scenting of danger to the interests from which it fattens, no matter from what quarter that danger may threaten. The New York Times of recent date contains an editorial entitled "Social- Ism and Labor Strikes," in which a most tender solicitude Is manifested for the dear trade unions as against the vicious machinations of the wicked Socialists. Such tender solicitude is touching in the extreme and should awaken the heartfelt gratitude of every "safe and sane" trade unionist, from a capitalist standpoint. The editorial ln question has evidently been called forth by the strike of hotel waiters in that city. Says this editorial squirt: "Keen observers of existing conditions have discovered a Socialistic tendency to foment and encourage hopeless labor strikes, . . . for the reason that defeated strikers are valuable recruits to the ranks of the-discontented." No matter how great the ability of the scheming Socialists to "foment hopeless labor strikes," their wicked schemes are uncovered by "keen observers" and pub lished to the world in order that good union men may not be drawn into a omlc class and do our little business ones, who, by "encouraging hopeless between Bolche's "Evolution of Man' strikes" and "engineering" other wicked schemes, would thwart the "efforts of the unions to better the industrial and social conditions" of its members. Such tender solicitude must not go unacknowledged. A vote of thanks is due the "Times" and all others of its kind that are equally solicitous in behalf of organized labor. To be thus watched over and safeguarded against' all "evil influences" is touching In the extreme. Out with the troublous "Socialistic" element with its wicked schemes and vile purposes. May we continue to be mothered under the sheltering wing of its tender solicitude. The progress of your local can be gauged by the number of subscribers it obtains for the Clarion, and by the number of leaflets it distributes per man, as well as by getting names on the voters' list and otherwise building up and perfecting your organization. BRANTFORD NOTES. Showing the Struggle of the Few Against the Apathy of the Many. Bearing well in mind the fact that from the experience of the past can be got useful knowledge that will hell) in the future, a few stray thoughts on the progress of the Socialist movement in this place may be of benefit to others who will flnd pitfalls to be avoided. Let me say that some 12 years ago organized Socialist effort was put forth in this city. Those who took part were almost entirely of a Utopian type and wholly reform in their appeal. The few exceptions were some who supported the S. L. P. to the extent of reading its papers and in some cases joining as members at large. The reformers dwindled away into craft unionism and religion. Some of those prominent were blacklisted and had to leave town. The S. L. P. element made no attempt so far as I can see at propaganda, and have been of little account ln the subsequent awakening of the workers. In the depression of 1908 the writer helped form a local of the S. P. C. We had one or two of the comrades of Toronto local speak here. Members came in fast and easy. We Tented a small hall for alternate Thursdays, and then the fun began. Most of those who were with us were out of work. First of all, they wanted a job or lo borrow money, or to sell something The majority of the crowd expected the economic salvation of their class to come from some other source than their class—some thought from the master class—some thought from Jesus (a few of these think so still)/ You may imagine what a clean-up there was in a short time; our numbers were thinned, but we were forced to give up the hall and meet at the members' houses to conduct our econ- line of action detrimental to their highest and best interests, as Interpreted by the prostitute press of their masters. Since then we have held some scores of meetings on the market square and in halls. We have taken hundreds of subs, for the Clarion. We have put Of course, If the accusation be true QUt tnousand8 ot leaflets and man! that these wicked Socialists "foment festos> and in Bplte of all this we flnd hopeless strikes" in order to gain "re-, now that we nave not enough strength crults to the ranks of the discontent- tQ contlnue t0 oe a local of the s; P ed," their base purpose might be easily Q, c , foiled by granting some concessions j We thought about a year ago that to the strikers. This would tend to ( the worker8 were not responding to "encourage!.' only hopeful strikes and j our eftortB a8 they should do. It was thus bring to an end the recruiting of ■ ot because of want of knowledge or the "ranks of the discontented," ac-jof earne9tnes8 on our part. Every cording to the dastardly plan of the | organizer who has been here has wicked Socialists. This simple plan testifle,i t0 tnat. Well, we must have and Engels' "Origin of the Family." George Newnes, London, Eng., publishes a cheap edition. A seceding faction starts up a "Christian Socialist Fellowship.' They have distributed some literature and also held a lecture. A few words of censure by the organizer of the S. P. local results in a further bunch of quits. "It's all true," they agree, "but don't tell us about it." Well, the wage slaves here are sure in a tight fix. The pressure of competition for jobs between the Turk, Kurd and other races of Southeastern Europe, who have a low standard of living, has driven the native Canadian worker out of the shops and to the West. Next depression will see a mushroom "Socialist" organization here. Many "comrades" refuse to take part in propaganda because "the local hasn't a large membership and doesn't run men for office." Some "comrades" are members of capitalist clubs and are great on billiards and reforms. Some of our own party members who never could speak either on the soap box or in the hall are very eloquent when doing the rounds of the bar-rooms in town. Comrades, there is no virtue in buy ing a due stamp and sticking it into a book. That in itself will do nothing. There is no uBe having good books unless they are read and studied. The way to educate the working class is to educate the working class, either by speeches or literature, not by getting in a back room and talking about doing it. The way to study economics Is to study economics, not by smoking a foul pipe and talking about "work." The way to organize to capture the political machine Is to organize to capture the political machine, not put a nickel in the hat when somebody tells a lot of funny stories. So, comrades of the "Western Clarion," this is our tale of woe. For the present discontinue the bundle of Clarions, but send on the leaflets.' There are three of us here who will see to their distribution, one of these being at present in the hospital with his arm chewed up in his master's machine. Send in your bill for same to me and I will report progress from time to time. It seems too bad, when the sentiment among the workers is rapidly coming our way, that we have not a few comrades with backbone enough to organize and attempt to give this sentiment a chance to manifest itself. W. D. Attend the next and every meeting of your local, keep your dues paid up, assist in organization work or quit and make room for those who will do something. The Socialist Party of Canada refuses to carry dead weights any longer. home to recuperate my energy so as to be on time for duty in the morning. I felt sick and sorry that such things could occur ln a Christian country and undeir British government, too. I was awakened in the night by loud cries which came from the padded cell. I remembered that a fine young specimen of humanity, a Scotchman, a lumber Jack, suffering from alcoholic poisoning, had come in the day before. He had been drinking freely of wood alcohol sold as the genuine stuff, for which your city is so famous, and ln a short while became as mad as a hatter. The other orderlies, worn out with hard work and want of sleep, shouted to the night slave to make the sufferer keep quiet, or do something to him! . "Alright!" said the latter, a young Englishman just out from the old country and in his first job and glad to please everybody, "I'll give him something to quiet him." He went upstairs and soon returned with a hyp- ermedic syringe, charged with an overdose of morphine, which he injected into the arm of poor Scotty. He soon became quiet and did not disturb us afterwards. The fresh young Englishman told us ln the morning without a sigh, that he had given him 'Strychnine instead of morphine," and Scotty was dead. All this was too much for my nerves and I commenced to holler. They burled Scotty, and a week afterwards told me that they had no further need of my services, as I talked too much Socialism round the building. I took my packages round to my old diggings, and saw some of the boys. I commenced telling them all my troubles, but unfortunately, they had had coffee and doughnuts for lunch, and red herrings and tea for supper, and the three of them commenced to vomit at the rehearsal of my story. They have not spoken to me since for they could, or would not, believe my story, and in any case they had been too delicately brought up to be told such things. Now, the moral for all these calamities ls poverty. The doctors committed a crime because of it. Scotty worked too hard and went into excesses to counter balance his weariness through it. The orderlies had to work too hard and too long so that they did not care a damn who died so long as they were allowed to sleep, and so on. Don't you see that, when we are able to stretch out our hands and help ourselves with all the good things of life and ease down In the making of them, that such fearsome things as I have related will not happen? C. McM. S. BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL Executive Committee, Socialist Party of Canada, meets second and fourth Mondays In month nt Labor Temple, Dunsmulr St., Wm. Watts, (Secretary. ALBERTA VBOTINCIAL EXECUTIVE Socialist Party of Canada, meets every alternate Tuesday, at 429 Eighth Ave. East. Burt E. Anderson, Becre- tury, Box 647, Calgary SASKATCHEWAN PBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE, 8. P. of O., Invites all comrades residing ln Saskatchewan to communicate with them on organization matters Address D. McMillan, 222 Stadacona Street West, Moose Jaw, Sask. THE BUSINESS INSTINCT. Your correspondent with the slmllie of the appendix in last issue of "Clarion" reminds me of the true story I heard from the lips of a doctor friend before I left Vancouver three years ago. It was as follows: Don't forget the leaflets, two dollars a thousand. We will send you one hundred a week for ten weeks and it will only cost you two dollars. ANTI-MILITARISM A CRIME IN BAY STATE. to offset the machinations of the apostles of discontent seems to have escaped the notice of the "keen observers" altogether. Further on in the same able editorial the accusation is made that the "pressmen's strike," in Chicago, "was engineered to increase the circulation of the Socialist newspapers at the expense of the strikers." The responsibility of this accusation is placed upon the shoulders of a Mr. Harding, whom, lt is alleged, speaks for Typographical Union No. 10, of Chicago. Be that as it may, however, It would seem that the Socialists are prompted by more than one motive. They, in one In- a permanent hall with a signboard. We got one. Those who had been loudest in their demands for the hall now began to parade before the audience. ReBult: A call-down from the local and a "resignation." Then commenced the back-biting and sneers at honest comrades who were doing their best. Then threatened dismissal from employment of a few of the active ones. Then the Independent Labor League and the Rev. Wm. Madison Hicks and anti-reciprocity and anti-Socialism. Then the challenge of a newcomer to town of the S. L. P. to debate Hicks— the debates, the exposition of Social- stance, "foment hopelesB strikes", ln.ism before large crowds by this S. L. ^order to "recruit the ranks of the dls-|p comrade and. the writer and the "contented," in another to Increase the I gubsequent conversion of the reverend circulation of Socialist papers. Howjone and n|s joining the C. S. F., Local many more vile purposes they have In stock ls problematic, but will no doubt be disclosed by "keen observers" in course of time. The "Times" editorial spasm winds up with the following gem: "A clear understanding by all trades unions of the evil influences the Socialists can exert ln the efforts of the unions to better the Industrial and social conditions of their members Is most desirable." The tender solicitude for the welfare of the unions Ib thus once more made manifest. The "Times," like the rest of its tribe, Is greatly Interested In the efforts of the unions to better the "industrial and social conditions" of their membership. Tbere Is no doubt about that. Every union man, if he knows anything at all, knows how valiantly these capitalist sheets come to the assistance of his union when it ls engaged In a struggle with the bosses over the question of wages and hours. Every union man's heart should swell with gratitude towards the capitalist press that so fearlessly exposes the machinations of those wicked client entered his surgery with her a young son who was suffering from some slight ailment. On examination our good friend, the down and out doctor, pronounced the boy's case as appendicitis (?) and recommended an operation straight away. Fee $200. The horrified parent would not consent without a consultation with another physician and the good doctor straight away gave the name of a party who would advise the fond pa-rent correctly. When the Interview was over our worthy hurried to the other physician and explained the whole matter, telling him that the kid had a bad cold Berlin. Many condemned us for ot""!and BOme congestion, and hoped that attitude toward the reformists and h(g frlend would help him out as he •Recognizing the fact that military patriotism is on the decline and that enlistment's in the militia are not coming in as fast as they used to, the cap- At that time the prolitairlans were italists of Massachusetts have sue- not the only ones up against it for ceeded in forcing a bill through the the bourgeois professional class were ]aBt aession of the state legislature in it deep. Plenty of people sick but maiting the discouraging of any one no one with the price to pay for a -rom joining the militia a misdemeanor doctor. One of the latter fraternity punishable by a fine not exceeding had not had a case for months, he »500 or by imprisonment for a term had a wife and family and kept a not exceeding six months, or both, maid of all work, and lived in a house The danger that iurkg behind this In the best part of Vancouver. I ,aw for judical minded people and for At last the tide turned; the wind . Socla,-3tB tn particular can only be sprang up so to speak, and an old realized when the scope and magnl- brlnglng' ■ - Socialist Party D: DOMINION EXECUTIVB COMMITTEE Socialist Party of Canada, meets second and fourth Monday. Secretary, Wm. Watts, Labor Temple, Dunsmulr St., Vancouver, B.C. MANITOBA PBOVINCIAL 1X10UTIT1 Committee: Notice—This card Ib Inserted for the purpose of getting "YOU" Interested in the Socialist movement. SOCIALISTS are always members of the Party; so If you are desirous of becoming a member, or wish to get any information, write the Secretary, J. D Houston, 493 Furby St.. Winnipeg. MAKITIME PBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVB Committee, Socialist Party of Canada, meets every second and fourth Sundays In the Cape Breton offlce of the Party, Commercial Street, Olace Bay, N. S. Dan Cochrane, Secretary. Rot 491, Glace Bay, Jj. S. LOCAL VANCOUVEB, NO. 69, B. T. ot C. Headquarters, Room 206 Labor Temple, Dunsmuir Street. Business meeting every Friday ,ln the month at 8 pm Reading room open every day. Socialist and Labor papers of all countries on file. Secretary, S. Lefeaux. LOOAL OBXENWOOD, B. C, XO. t, S. P. of C, meets every Sunday evening at Miners' Union Hall, Oreenwood. Visiting Comrades invited to call. C. Prlmerlle, Secretary LOCAL FEBNIE, S. P. of C, HOLD holds educational meetings in the Miners Union Hall every Sunday at 7:30. Business meeting first Monday in each month, 7:30 p. m. Economic class every Sunday afternoon at 2:30. H. Wllmer, secretary, Box 380 LOOAL ROMLAjra, XO. SS, S. T. ot C., meets ln Miners' Hall every Sunday at 7:30 p.m. E. Campbell, Organizer. Will Jones, Secretary, Box 126. Finnish branch meets ln Flnlanders' Hall Sundays at 7:30 p.m. A. Sebble, Secretary, Box 64, Rossland, B.C. LOOAL MICKBL, B. 0., XO. 16, B. T. ot C, holds propaganda meetings every Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Tn Crahan's Hall. A hearty invitation ts extended to all wage slaves within reach of us to attend our meetings. Business meetings are held the first' and third Sundays of each month at 10:30 a.m. In the same hall. Party organisers take notice. A. S. Julian, Secretary. LOOAL NELSON, 8. T. ot C., MBETS every Friday evening at 8 p.m., in Miners' Hall, Nelson, B. C. I. A. Austin, Secretary. LOOAL VBBXOX, XO. 38, S. T. OF O Meets every Tuesday at 8 p. m., in L. O. L. Hall, Tronson St. W. H. Oll- mour, Secretary: LOOAL REVELSTOKE, B. C, 'NO. 7, S. P. of C. Business meetings at Socialist headquarters fourth Thursdays of each month. B. F. Guyman, Secretary LOOAL SANDON, B. C, XO. 36, B. P. OP C. Meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Sandon Miners' Unlor Hall. Communications to be addressed Drawer K, Sandon. B. C. LOCAL VICTORIA XO. 3, B. P. Of C.— Headquarters and reading room, 1319 Government St., Room 2, over Collis ter's gun store. Business meeting every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Propaganda meeting every Sunday, 8 p.m., at Crystal Theatre. LOCAL SOUTH POST CWOJMHB, B.O, No. 61, meets every Friday night at t p.m. in Public Library Room. John Mclnnls, Secretary; Andrew Allan, Organlier. LOOAL CUMBEBLAND XO. 70 8. P. of C. Business meeting overy Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Economic Class held twice eacli Thursday, 10:30 u.m. (for afternoon shift), 8 p.m. (for morning shift). Propaganda meeting every Sunday 3 p.m. Headquarters: Social] t Hull, opposite post office. Financial Secretary Thomas Carney, Corresponding Secretary, Joseph Nnylor. VANCOUVEB LET«„, S. P. of C—Business",-..- flrst Sunday of the tnonth^s. ganda meeting every thlrW™ Free word for every body, atilji dova Street East, 2 p. m. SecTe? Ad Kreekis. LOOAL VANCOUVEB, BV ~C.,~So.~48, Finnish. Meets every second and fourth Thursdays in the month at 2217 JIain Street. Secretary, Wm. Myntti LOCAL VANCOUVEB Xo 1, S. P. of O.— Business meeting every Tuesday evening at Headquarters, 213 Hastings St. East. 5. A. Maedonald, secretary 1724 Alberni St. LOCAL COLEMAN, ALTA.', ~XO "t. Miners' Hall and Opera House. Propaganda meetings at 8 p.m. on the flrat and third Sundays of the month. Business meetings on Thursday evenings following propaganda meetings at I. Organizer, T. Steele, Coleman, Alta.: Secretary, Jas. Glendennlng, Box (I, Coleman, Alta. Visitors may receive Information any day at Miners' Hall Secretary, Wm. Graham, Box 63, Coleman, Alta. LOOAL EDMONTON, ALTA., XO. 1, 8. P. of C. Headquarters 622 First St. Business and propaganda meetings every Wednesday nt 7:30 p.m. sharp. Our reading room Is open to the public free, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. dally. Secretary, J. A. S. Smith, 022 First St.; Organizer, W. Stephenson. LOOAL CALGARY, ALTA., XO. 4, 8. P. of C—Business meeting every Saturday evening at 8 o'clock at the headquarters. 429 Eighth Ave. East, between Third and Fourth streets. A. S. Julian, Secretary LOOAL BEOINA XO. 6, BABjC., MBBTB every Sunday, Trades Hall, ( p.m. Business meeting, second Friday, t p.m., Tradus Hall. B. Simmons, secretary, 1909 Garnet St., P.O. Box 1041. LOCAL BBANDON, MAX.. XO. 7, 8. T. ot C. Headquarters, No. 10 Nation Block, Itossar Ave. Propaganda meeting. Sunday at 8 p.m.; business meeting, second nnd fourth Mondays at t p.m.; economic class, Friday at 8 p.m. Secretary, T. Mellaileu, 144 Third St.. Brandon, Man. LOOAL LETBBBrDOE, ALTA., XO. 16. S. P. of C. Meets flrst and third tun- days In the month, at 4 p.m., ln Miners' Hall. Secretary, Chas. Pan- cock, Box 1983 LOCAX MOOSEJAW, BASK., X*. 1, B. T. OP C.—Propaganda meetings evsrr Sunday, 7:30 p. in., ln tne Trades Hall. Economic Class every Sunday, S p.m. D. McMillan, Sec. Treas., South Htll P. O., Sask.; A. Stewart, Organl»r, South Hill P. O., Sask. All slaves welcome. LOOAL Xo. 1, WINXIPBO, MAXITOBA, B. P. OP C—Headquarters (28 *A Main Street, Winnipeg, room 2, next Dreamland Theatre. Business meeting evary Sunday morning, at 11; economic clan* Wednesdays, at 8 p. m. Secretary's address, 270 Young Street. Propaganda meeting every Sunday evening ln Draamland Theatre, Matn Street, at 8 o'clock. Discussion Invited. LOOAL OTTAWA, XO 8, 8. P. OP O. Open ulr meetings during summer months, corner McKenzie Avenue and Rldeuu Street. Business meetings, flrst Sunday In month in the Labor Hall, 219 Bank Street, at 8:00 p.m. Secretary. Snm Sturgess Horwlth, 16 Ivy Avenue N.E., Ottawa. Phone 277. LOOAL OLACE BAT, Xo. 1 OP MABI- TIME—Headquarters ln Rukasln Block, Commercial St. Open every evening. Business and propaganda meeting at headquarters every Thursday at 8 p. in. Alfred Nash, secretary, Box 168; Harold O. Ross, organizer, Box 606. LOCAL SIDXEY MINES XO. 7, Of Nova Scotia.—Business and propa- ■ ganda meetings every second Monday at 7:30 ln the S. O. B. T. Hall back of Town Hall. Wll'lam Allen, Secretary, Box 344. UKRAINIAN SOCIALIST TION of the S. P. of a, is organized for the purpose of educating the Ukralneun workers to the revolutionary principles of this party. The Ukranian Federation publish their own weekly organ, "Nova Hromada" (New Society), at 443 Klnlstlno Ave., Edmonton, Attn. English comrades desiring information re the Federation, write to J. Senuk, Fin. Secretary. some even wanted us to endorse Hicks and his reforms! Then comes the "Clarion" leaflets and the series of leotureB this winter in our little hall. We got good crowds, but no workers In the movement. Most of them had jobs to lose! As for the leaflets, we'll, we cannot get the make-believe Socialists and false-alarm revolutionists to give a hand in their distribution. The lecture hall had'degenerated into a bummers' roost and was used chiefly as a smoke- room and spittoon. We endeavored to put through a course in industrial history and sometimes the lecturer was choked in the fumes of wage plug tobacco. Very few benefited by the teaching. Their attention was given to keeping their pipes alight. In connection with this study, let me say that we found a little book by Edward. Clodd (who Lewis speaks of In "Evolution, Social and Organic"), called "The Story of Primitive Man," to be very useful. It acts as a bridge must have that $200, as he was right up against It. The maid having struck for her wages and two months rent tude of this bill ls understood. The law reads ln part as follows: "Any person who wilfully either deprives a member of the militia or naval reserve of his employment, or denies him employment, or prevents his becoming employed by another, or obstructs him or his employer in respect of his trade, business or employment, because of such member's connection with the militia or naval reserve . . . and whoever dissuades any person from enlisting In the militia or naval reserve shall be deemed gull ty of a misdemeanor . . ." In view of the fact of the heroic part that the State militia played In Intimidating the women and children in the Lawrence strike, it is easy to understand why the capitalists of the good old abolitionist state are so eager to maintain, protect and increase the strength of these loyal hirelings of the being overdue. etploiting class. If the law should be The physician promised his friend •;,,.,. ., .... . . .. _ to do what he could, and straight .»«fhf,d * the^courts of the state^then away told the lady on her arrival that g will mean that any man who dares it was certainly true her boy had appendicitis. With many tears and lamentations she left her boy with the butchers, who, on the next day, made a superficial cut In the outer skin and stitched it up again. After a few days the wound was sufficiently healed to allow his mother to take him away after flrst paying the fee of $200. And thus was the down and out doctor with his wife and his four children and the maid with no wages and him- Belt and perhaps the cat all saved from starvation and the streets. At this time I was an orderly at the hospital, and after I had heard theBe facts related by my friend, meandered to criticize the militia or to advise young men not to Join lt may be prosecuted under this law and pay the heavy penalty.—The Call. If you wait till the revolution, you won't get subs offered any cheaper than we are offering them, ten cents for three months. PRICE LI8T OF SUPPLIE8. Due Stamps, each .." 10c Platforms, English, per 100 25c Platforms, Foreign, per 100 50c Duo Cards, per 100 $1.00 Constitutions, each 5c Receipt Books, each 10c Warrant Books, each 25c Buttons, each 40c PLATFO RM Socialist Party of Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm 'our allegience to and support of the principles and program of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producers it should belong. The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore master; the worker • slave. So long as the capitalist class remains 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, under which is cloaked the robbery of the working class at the point of production. 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 ins struggle for possession ef the reins of government—the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure it bjr political action. This is the class straggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organise under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic program of the working class, as follows: 1. Tha transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property in the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads, etc.) into the collective property of the working class. 2. The democratic organization snd management ef industry by the workers. i 3. The es**blishment, as speedily as possible, .of production for, use instead of production for profit The Socialist Party when In office shall always and everywhere until the present system is abolished, make tha answer to this question it* guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance tha interest* of the working class and aid ths workers in their elsss struggle against capitalism T If it will, the Socialist Party is for lt; if it will not, tha Socialist Part yis absolutely opposed to it. ' In accordance with this principle ths Socialist Party pledges itself to conduct all th public affairs placed ln its hands in such a manner as to promote the interests of the working class alone. SUBSCRIPTION CARDS 5 Yearlies - - - $3.75 10 1-2 Yearlies - - 4.00 20 Quarterlies - - 4,00 THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. PAGE THREE ALBERTA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Meeting of the executive held June 4, 1912, Comrades Read, Burge, Leona Anderson, and the Secretary being present. Correspondence read and dealt with from A. E. Faulkner, Dominion Executive, and Locals Innisfail, Kingman, Edmonton and Diamond. It was decided by the Executive to send Comrade Burge to Bassano, June 9, to assist the Comrades of the newly formed Ixical Bassano, in their efforts to line up the workers. ComradeB Alf. Budden and Charley O'Brien, Provincial Organizers, appeared before the Committee and submitted reports on their respective organizing work throughout the Province. O'Brien reported that he had held 37 meetings in various sections of Alberta, since the adjournment, of the House, and, wherever he went, held highly successful meetings, and found a lively Interest manifested ln Socialism. During the month he addressed meetings in a new district, Prairie Dell School House, and left the farm-slaves there "thinking it over." The combined Locals west of Calgary and Edmonton are arranging to hold a Socialistic Picnic on June 21st. Our jovial member of Parliament will lend his presence to the festivities of the occasion. Comrades ot Rocky Mountain School House have called upon O'Brien to address meetings and organize a Local in that district on the 15th and lGth of June. Budden reported for the month of May: "Number of meetings held; Calgary, 2; Lethbridge, 5; Medicine Hat, 3; Edmonton, 14; Canmore, 1; Bank- head 1. Statement of finances as follows: Receipts. 'From Alberta Provincial Executive $ 25.00 From Lethbridge 10.00 From Medicine Hat 10.00 From Edmonton 50.00 From Canmore 5.00 From Calgary 16.00 From Bankhead 5.00 SPECIAL ALBERTA EDITION. Several Alberta comrades have suggested getting out a "Special Alberta Edition of the Clarion" for the last week in July. It is suggested that the edition be composed of articles from comrades in Alberta. So if you are anxious to see this materialize, you can help by writing an article and send it to S. K. Read, Box 647, Calgary, Alta. THE CLOVEN HOOF. $121.00 Expenses. Railway fares $ 55.00 Hotel expenses, etc 46.00 Total $101.00 In hand 20.00 "Called at Taber but held no meeting. Comrades, however, taking steps to organize Local. Sale of books, small." O'Brien and Budden reported that splendid propaganda was made during the recent bye-election in Edmonton. Both Organizers are going to invade the Crows Nest Pass this week. The Secretary submitted the following financial report for the Ex- ectulve, and the Committee then adjourned : Receipts. Balance on hand last report .... $26.06 Red Raven, due stamps 2.20 Medicine Hat, due stamps 2.00 Bassano, charter and due stamps 5.80 Linda, due stamps 80 Innisfail, due stamps 1.20 Edmonton, due stamps 5.00 Calgary, due stamps 1.00 $44.06 Expenditures. Dominion Executive, for charter.$ 1.00 Dominion Executive, supplies ... 10.00 Stationery supplies for Sec'y ... 1.20 Total $12-20 In hand $31.86 BURT H. ANDERSON, Secretary, Alberta Provincial Ex. Com. ALBERTA ORGANIZING FUND. Previously acknowledged $ 2.00 H. E. Horn beck, Calgary 25 T. R. Slate, Calgary 50 H. Burge, Calgary 60 H. Adle, Calgary 25 T. Williams, Calgary 50 Burt E. Anderson, Calgary 1.00 S. Kunar, Calgary 50 Jno. D. Dower, Calgary 60 J. B. Mergler, Calgary , .60 J. N. Sosln, Calgary 60 Frank Danby, Calgary 1.00 I. Churgin, Calgary 2.00 7. E. Creer, Calgary .50 S. K. Read, Calgary .50 J, T. turner, Calgary 1.00 Thos. Hooker, Bassano, 50c per month 50 $12.80 Comrade C. H. Snell, of Red Deer, promises $1.00 per month, and W. E. Hardenburg and H. C. Besant, both of Red Deer, will give $5.00 each in August. Your Comrade, BURT B. ANDERSON, Secretary, Alberta Previnclal Ex. Com. Summer time ls a bad time to get subs, but you cannot resist the offer that we are making you, ten three month subs for a dollar. Moose Jaw, June 4, 1912. Comrade Editor: The cloven hoof has been shown at last in Muzzle Jaw, and like any other place, where slaves are exploited, the master class, does not like his subjects taught, that word "freedom" especially by Socialists, who teach the "Materialist conception of History" on Sunday nights, as we are too revolutionary. H~^ The fault ls th'at we are not revolutionary enough, as we have not got the time to be as scientific as we would like,, but we are getting there, or else the cloven hoof would never have been shown. These fellows whose occupation compels them to wear black clothes, and rattle of parrot like fashion, their spiel every Sunday night—even monkeys can do the same thing—and their pitiable attempts to solve the social questions that ar* around us. All revolutionary socialists understand their remedy and will have none of it, for when the honey is spread the bees flock around and as we are spreading no honey, and as there is nothing to be got out of us, they buzz off elsewhere, and are attempting to stop the movement by having us put out of the picture show on Sunday nights. They approached the management, and told hlm to stop renting us the hall. It being dollars and cents to him we had to go. As our teaching is directly opposed to theirs, they dub us ignorant working men. How saintly and Christ like, to stab us in the back. Ignorant slaves who built their churches, manse, sidewalks, motor cars, dig the ditches, and make their furniture and everything that makes life worth living to them. The stigma of old is still attached to us slaves who sell labor power for food, clothing and shelter, whether we have souls or not, and those who do nothing useful in production are afraid of our teaching of the "class struggle," and the "Materialist conception of History," and the law of 'surplus values." Therefore their puny attempts to stop our meetings, and as we are socially despised, we even have not got access to the streets. A lane where all the garbage lies is our al- loted spot in this burgh. Our meetings have been steadily going on for a year and our attempts at education must be bearing fruit, or we would not be interfered with, but our meeting place to all comrades Ib the Lyric Theatre from now on, and Comrade Bruce of Regina speaks this coming Sunday on "Christianity and Socialism." He spoke here two Sundays back on the "Unwritten History of Man," and he handled it to perfection to a crowded house. He was surprised at the audience we get since the time he spoke here a year ago. We are having an exchange of speakers, ours go to Regina, theirs come here. An organizer for Sask, ls our new task. The election will be on soon, and perhaps some of the older comrades will be thinking us opportunist at sticking up a candidate, but if we can by any means get an organizer at the expense of the powers that be," to teach the workers at large in Saskatchewan our propaganda, Ib our mission, and our hope will be "the world for the workers." This is our platform, and Comrade Bruce showed the fallacy of any other movement to emancipate the workers, outside of the Socialist revolutionary dope. The two armed movement came ln for some hard knocks, and Comrade Bruce could handle it well. He ls a speaker to be reckoned with either in a gab trap, or on a soap box. More power to his elbow. He who would be free must strike the blow. We are doing it. Yours, A. STEWART, Organizer. SPECIAL OFFERTO READERS Till July 16 THE Western Clarion will be sent to any address in Canada, Great Britain or New Zealand for Three Months FOR Ten Gents SUB CARDS Five Yearlies FOR Three Dollars Ten Six Month FOR Three Dollars Ten Three Month FOR One Dollar Fifty PRISCILLA'S QUESTION. Sub. Cards Good After JULY 16 HOW THEY COME We want to get the number of members in good standing in your Local. See that the secretary makes out the quarterly report card and sends it to the Dominion Executive Committee. If he hasn't a report card let him write us and we will send one. This Is urgent. See that it is attended to at your next business meeting. Why not get the names of ten homesteaders around your district and give them the chance to read the Clarion for three months. It will ■ only cost you a dollar. Say, that fellow lhat is working with you should read the Clarion. Get his name and address and ten cents and we will send it to him for three months. We have come to the conclusion that you, as members of the working class, want something cheap. We were always aware that the workers were a cheap bunch, and we have been doing our best to get you out of that cheap mode of existing; but it seems of no avail to expect you to support a good paper, you want shoddy clothes, cheap shacks, adulterated food, and now you want a cheap paper; no use trying to deny it, you have had an opportunity to get at least one of your necessities at a good price, but you could not get out of the rut. We are offering you subs, at a price that will bring us no working expenses. To enable ub to receive subs, at such a low price, we have had to cut out one more meal a day. We have had to give up our double bed to a stranger and our sleeping apartments are 6784 C. P. R. We received a pair of overalls and a jumper from the Starvation Army the other day for four bits, so we won't need any more clothes for a while. So it's up to you ta take advantage of this—sacrifice? Here's a bunch that paid a decent price for a sub.: Alex. Taylor, Toronto, Ont 5 Lewis Store, Vancouver, B, C 5 0., G. M., Vancouver, B. C „ 4 W. Green, Toronto, Ont 3 Alfred Nash, Glace Bay, N. S 2 R. McKay, Merrltt, B. C 2 Wm. McQuoid, Edmonton, Alta 2 A. Budden, Organizer 2 W. S. Cocks, Regina, Sask 2 Singles. F. W. Spencer, Kamloops, B. C; P. Atkinson, Fernle; H. Wilmer, Fernie; J. E. McGregor, Crawford Bay, B. O.i A. W. Munro, Nelson; J. Churgin, Calgary; W. Lewis, Calgary; Thos. G. Mahepeace, Lacombe, Alta.; Jas. Bre- reton, Edmonton, Alta.; C. M. O'Brien, Calgary; W. S. Cocks, Regina, Sask.; L. R. Larson, Richard, Sask.; H. Kir- win, Toronto, Ont.; T. W. Allen, London, Eng.; Geo. Warren, Victoria, B. C; G. C. Macleod, C. McDonald, S. Do- herty, Bod Wade, G .Richardson, Vancouver. Bundles. Alex. Taylor, Toronto, Ont., 5; C. W. Sprlngford, Marwayne, Alta., 5; Local Calgary, Alta., 100. Some of the ruling class are talking of celebrating the close of a century of peace. Peace, Is It? When or where has there been peace for one moment under capitalism? "The blessings of 100 years of peace!" What utter rot and hypocrisy. JOB WANTED Young English Socialist, (24), desires situation on fruit or mixed ranch in B. C. First class references. Geo. Soane, 912 19th Avenue West, Calgary. By J. O. Bentall. You remember Miles Standish, John Alden and Priscilla in one of Longfellow's poems. Priscilla was a beautiful maiden, the fairest among the pilgrims that had landed at Plymouth Rock. Standish was a soldier, a proud and haughty captain. He wanted Priscilla, but was too clumsy and cowardly and awkward to woo *J9tl John Alden waB a common ordinary man who was used to go errands for the captain and in a general way serve him. Alden was an intelligent young fellow and a good worker. Incidentally he was also a good looker, erect, broad shouldered and so on—just what girls in novels and otherwise fall ln love with. Alden and the captain were friends and the captain explained that while he could go into the mouth of the cannon and the jaws of death on the battlefield wUthout fear of trembling he could positively not muster up courage enough to face Priscilla and take no from her In case she would reject his proposal. That would kill him. So Alden was induced to go to Priscilla and plead the case of the captain. Alden put the matter squarely before the girl and with all the , fervor of a true friend held up the virtues and fame and possessions of the captain and urged her to take him. He told her how he loved the captain and how gloriously she would shine as the wife of the great Standish. But he couldn't budge the girl. She simply couldn't see it that way. Her eye had been on Alden and her heart was already inside his coat. The upshot of the whole business was that she just blurted out, "Why don't you speak for' yourself, John?" That just knocked John silly for awhile and he had an awful time absorbing the idea that he was Just as much entitled to the girl as Miles Standish. If Standish was too lazy and too awkward to go after her he could go without her. The girl held the same opinion and that suited John Alden exactly just as soon as he got next. H^~^~ Well, now, what's all this got to do with Socialism Let's see. There is tbe beautiful maiden, a grand, inexhaustible earth, with resources superabundant to-give joy and happiness to a whole race. Then there is Miles Standish, the haughty, selfish, brutal Capitalist. He wants the maiden and semis for John Alden, the worker, the Intelligent producer of all wealth, and says to him: "You go and get Priscilla, the fair maiden, for me." And John, the worker, like a big dunce, fearing that he might hurt the feelings of the Capitalist, goes out and wears his life out to get the girl for the other fellow. The earth has stood it as long as she can, but now she Is crying out with all the impetuosity of a bewildered maiden, "Why don't you speak for yourself, Mr. Worker?" The Capitalists call on you in these days for them, to elect their men, to work ln their interest. The earth in all her glory calls on you to woo her for yourself. The earth and the workers belong together. They love each other. They are suited to each other. They will be unhappy as long as they are separated. Don't go and plead for Capitalism, for the big exploiter. When you vote the old ticket, either the Liberal or the Conservative, you are pleading for the captain, the Capitalist class, the exploiters. When you vote the Socialist ticket, you are pleading for yourself. And you won't need to plead hard. The maiden loves you. "Why don't you speak for-yourself, John?" FREE to every ^-SOCIALIST Every socialist in the world should get FREE this thrilling story of the "Ball and Tyler Rebellion" —an uprising of the people against the nobles and church in mediaeval England. Not one in a million has ever seen this rare document which is merely one of thousands of wonderful' 'original documents'' in the Library of Original Sources which ALL socialists can get on an easy, co-operative plan. This marvelous library is an eye-opener—it gives the TRUTH that for ages capitalist influence haslcept from the people to keep them under subjection. Here you see the gradual rise of the people thru 7,000 years, from slavery, serfdom, feudalism on to capitalism, all of which shows you as plainly as a cross-roads guide board how the Socialist Republic is developing out of the present system. Show* How the Socialist Republic is Coming Gives—for the first time—the real facts behind the ordinary surface events which you read of in histories — the rock-bottom facts red-hot from those daring men in all ages who had the courage to tell the TRUTH even though they lost their lives for it —and you know how many of them did. This daring work is Published Expressly for Socialists and other progressive people who do their own thinking:. All socialist writers, editors and organizers use it and urge every Comrade to get it at once. Socialists In the United States and Canada are using more of thu work than of all others combined. No.other work gives more than 5* of this red-hot stuff. The Socialist Victories In Milwaukee, Schenectady, Berkeley, Pasadena and other cities were won because the comrades there have been studying all sides of economics and government —or to put it in plain words—Socialism. Then when the election fights were op they were able to show the rest of the people just what Social■Rm is and the reason for it. Men will vote right, you know, when they know what right is Theyhavenotbeen satisfied with the government of greed, privilege and plunder—they have been merely kept fn thedark, but now when the comrades open their eyes, they VOTE RIGHT. .Are You Prepared To Do Your Part? The old capitalist papers and politicians are boginnine to take notice —they are Betting scured. The hardest liaksmuBtbestruck NOW. Areyoti pre* Bared to help? Merger. 8porgo, Warren, Imons.LondoL Wayl nnd. Gay lord, Untermann, Irvine, Lewis —ALL leaden •ay the best preparation you can make f» to read tne Library of Original Souroee —"greatest work extant for socialUta." If you want to help—and wo know you do—fiend today for the wonderful "Ball and Tyler" story, and find, out how you oan get a whole library of the same kind on the easiest co-opei tive plan in the world. BUT only I— introductory edition will be distributed on this plan, no write today or yoa may !><* too late, an the large edition ts going like hot cakes. CITIZEN—WHAT? THINK IT OVER. "Hello, Mr. Farmer. What are you doing?" "Digging potatoes." "Have you any to sell?" "No." "What are you going to do with them?" "I sort them into four piles." "What do you do with them then?" "The big pile of line potatoes you see over there I give to the landlord as land rent for the privilege of living on the earth; the next biggest pile I give to the money lord as Interest; the third pile I give to the politicians as tax, and the little ones I give to the hogB, and what the hogs don't eat I eat myBelf. So, you see, between the landlord, the money lord, the politicians and thc other hogs I get my living," "But what do you do with the hogs?" "I give them to tho railroad company for hauling the big potatoes to the landlord and money lord,"— Equity Farm Joural. AM NOT AN I.W.W. or a Socialist. But just a plain American born citizen who wants a Job driving for a laundry, either motor or horse, experience, references, bond, single, sober, 34. Address 407271, The Times. M~~ This advertisement is one culled from the Seattle Times of recent date, and ls a striking example of what tbe prostitute press can make of a man. The Times has for some weeks carried on a virulent campaign of abuse, and indulged in the most vicious lying possible to conceive of, against the Socialists. We are a most wicked, murderous horde of foreign, low born jiiminals, according to the dirty rag aforementioned. Hence the ad. The advertiser Is a plain American citizen. Yes, indeed he is very plain, so much so, in fact, as to be ordinary—just a plain, ordinary, belly-crawling slave, peddling his virtues and his hide, owning that he has not the manhood to be a rebel. And he,is proud of it. How are the mighty fallen, when here ln "God's country," sonB of the "brave and free," with all the virtues of the advertised slave cannot find a master. Verily, they will 3TRENGTH AND INABILITY. The Western Clarion, Vancouver: Enclosed please find fifty cents to- extend my subscription for six months. It ls at once the strength and the disability of Socialism that its followers- are the poorer men of the country. The strength Inasmuch as we are the sufferers under the present economic system and are eager for the newer era that Socialism will bring ln, and yet to an extent deprived of power by pur Inability to render adequate financial assistance. I earnestly trust you will be able to stay In the field and will not be forced to suspend issue. I for one would miss you sorely. Yours truly, THOS. C. MAKEPEACE. Lacombe P. O., Alta. Not a single move this week. Maybe it's the calm before the storm. Let's hope so, anyway. We want to see that sub. list shoot up 5000 Inside the next few weeks. Cumberland is entitled to those books so far. Who will prevent Local Cumberland from claiming them? This is how they stand:— have to i Vancouver, B. C 1 come to the despised Socialist and be- Winnipeg, Man 2 fore long, too. The masters' sacred | Calgary, Alberta 3 trinity of defenders have also been, Toronto, Ont 4 busy showing their loyalty to their class of late. The press has worked overtime In their behalf with all the known arts of their lying trade. The judges, so beloved of Taft, have also given all and sundry, warning lhat the law must be obeyed or the penalty be paid. Hanford of stenchful memory has even gone so far as to create a precedent ln this country by disfranchising a Socialist for no other reason than that he was a Socialist. And now the church plucks up her courage and, ln the person of Father Kane, creeps out from behind his pulpit and calls on all devoted CatholIcH to be "loyal to the country and the flag," ad libitum, ad pukem. ThlB "lawless anarchist mob of fanatics," declared the worthy father, were imperilling the life of the nation; nay further, in a spasm of rage or fear he goes on: "Must our flag lay torn and trampled In tbe mud, and our churches be burned down, and God's name be banished from the land?" And the remedy? Why thlB: "Rebuke them on their platforms, talk to them when you meet them, and for God's sake tell them the truth." Yes, do so, father. We welcome the truth, and we want to get a chance to talk about it ourselves. If the truth prevails, there wlll be no church burning or other horrible things the good father squlrmB about. Oh, well; what Is the use? All the mud-slinging, etc., can avail nothing against the might of an arouBed working class. So let it be. F. S. F. See that this special offer doesn't Btop you from sending In that two bits to the Provincial secretary for organizing purposes. Try your next door neighbor with a three-month sub ten cents. Victoria, B. C 5 Edmonton, Alta 6 Cumberland, B. C 7 Moose .law, SnBk 8 Fernie, B. C 9 Brandon, Man 10 Montreal 11 New Westminster, B, C 12 North Battleford, Sask 13 Nelson, B. C 14 Sllverton, B. C 15 South Fort George, B. C 16 (ilacc Bay, Nova Scotia 17 Ottawa, Ontario 18 South Hill, Sask 19 Lethbridge, Alta 20 Everybody's doing it. Doing what? Why, getting subs at our special price. Dollar sub cards for sixty cents. The Vancouver "World" says that "the Conservatives are not afraid of the Socialists, but they are afraid of the Liberals," and also "that the Socialists are not afraid of the Conservatives, but they are afraid of the Liberals." This will be news to Socialists, who are "afraid" of nothing. Ten three-month subs, to the Clarion for one dollar. Whoever expected such a bargain? Say, are you ono of the 400? A Btrike is usually a scrap between thoBe who have quit the job and those whoBe necessity forces them into tho vacated Jobs. It is always members of the working class who get clubbed, shot and beaten during Industrial disturbances. You poor "dumb, driven cattle," why don't you organize politically? You have some friends in the Old Country. Why not let us send them the Clarion for three months. PAGE FOUR THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATUR*)/ , JUNE 15th, 1912. Wage-Earner AND Farmer | Leaflet Number Eleven. We are living under a form of society termed capitalism. All of the agencies of wealth production are owned or controlled by a small minority of the total population—termed capitalists—who take no part in the matter of producing wealth. Their sole function is that of appropriating the wealth produced by the labor, of the workers, both of city and country. In order to obtain access to the means of production—the resources of the earth and the tools of industry—the workers must make terms with the owners—the capitalists. In case of the workers in the mills shops, mines, and upon the railways, etc., the terms of access take shape in the form of what is termed wages. The workers are given employment upon condition that they accept in return for their labor a sum of money mutually agreed upon. Upon careful inquiry it has been ascertained that this wage—or money payment—bears, upon the average, a certain definite relation to the cost of the requisite necessities of life to sustain the worker and his immediate dependents—his family. The result of close search into the mysteries of capitalist production lays bare the fact that the circumstances which compel the worker to apply to the owners of property for permission to convert his energy into the things necessary to sustain his existence, "reduce him to the level of a slave and his labor-power to that of a commodity that must be sold in order that he may live. His labor-power exchanges in the market, upon the average, for enough of the necessities of life to reproduce that labor-power. In case of a plentifully stocked labor market the wage will be forced down to the actual life line. At all times subject to the inexorable laws of the market the wage-slave leads, even at the best, an uncertain, and often uncomfortable, existence. The farmer owning his farm and "implements of labor, whether free of mortgage and other incumbrance or otherwise, is more than apt to consider his case as different to that of the worker of the industrial centres. Reference is here made to the working farmer, he who by his labor operates, or assists in operating, his own farm property. He fancies himself not as a wage-earner, but as an independent property owner and oftentimes as a master, inasmuch as he frequently employs wage- workers to assist in his operations. A careful scrutiny of his case will, however, disclose the fact that in essence his status in capitalist society differs from that of the outright wage- slave in appearance only. Because of his apparent ownership of land and tools the exploitation practiced upon him by the capitalist combinations that control the industrial field as a whole remains hidden from him. Though he feels the exploitation he has extreme difficulty in locating its source. As he sees the proceeds of his year's crop disappear in his attempt to satisfy the demands of the various commercial concerns and agencies from which he is compelled to purchase his machinery and other supplies he fancies the cause of his ills lies in the extortionate prices charged for the articles furnished him and the financial accommodations rendered. With this fancied extortion staring him in the face he loses sight of the fact that -he is compelled to surrender the product of his toil into the hands of capital, at a price over which he has no control. If he examines closely the circumstances that compel him so to do he will speedily uncover the cause of his troubles and disclose the seat of that exploitation under which he suffers. Commodities exchange in the world's market according to the relative amount of labor time necessarily embodied in their production. If the labor time necessarily expended,in the production of, say, a ton of steel, is equal to that necessarily expended in the production of a dozen pair of shoes of a given quality and style, the ton of steel and the dozen pair of shoes will exchange equally in the market or their respective price would be expressed in the same money term, say $25.00. This in turn implies that the amount of human labor measured by time that is necessary to produce either the ton of steel or the dozen pair of shoes is equivalent to the amount necessary to produce thc gold embodied in $25.00. This is briefly, and perhaps none too clearly stated, the Marxian theory and analysis of exchange. The amount of labor necessary to the production of any given commodity is determined by the carrying on of such production along the most economical lines by the use of modern methods and up-to-date equipment. Now for the farmer. He carries on his little part of the wealth producing process, as a rule, in a small way and by means of rather puny and ineffective tools as compared with industry along other lines. The things he brings forth are poured into the market chiefly as raw materials to be passed through the hands of highly developed capitalist industry on their way to be eventually consumed principally in the shape of food and clothing. The process of production is not completed until thc finished commodities have been removed from the market by consumers. Even then the food, etc., consumed by the working class, both rural and urban, is consumed solely for the purpose of again generating a further supply of labor-power to be used in the continuation of the industrial process during another round of the never-ending exploitation ■of labor by capital. After having disposed of his year's products and squared himself, as far as possible, with his creditors, the farmer finds himself fortunate indeed, if he completes the season with as satisfactory results as the wage-slave of the industrial districts. If he comes out even he is fortunate indeed. Should he come out a few cents or dollars to the good he becomes an object of envy to his less lucky brethren should they be made aware of his good fortune. And what has our good farmer been doing all the year other than sweat for the aggrandizement of capital, just like the outright wage-slave? He has been compelled to coin the labor of himself and family into wheat, corn, cotton, wool, beef, mutton, pork and other farm products and pass such coinage over to the huge combines of capital that control the entire process and avenues of production and exchange. All that he has gotten out of it has been, upon the average, merely that which hrs wage-slave brother has got by selling his labor- power direct in exchange for wages. The farmer and his family have been working for wages both as uncertain and narrow as the worker and family of the factory, mine and railway. His wage-slavery has been hidden from him by his fancied position of independent property owner. His property is no more a badge of independence to him than is the carpenters box. of tools, the insignia of freedom in his case. The fact remains that the workers of both city and country are compelled to surrender their labor-power to the (masters of capital. If by virtue of circumstances any section of workers succeed in first incorporating that labor-power into other commodities it is a safe bet that those commodities must be surrendered to the rightful owners—the huge capitalist combines that dominate the field of production and exchange. Property ownership in the means of production, by members of the working class in present, or capitalist, society is a fiction. It cannot exist as a Met. The test of ownership of property lies in the enjoyment or realization of all the benefits accruing from the use of such property. If anything short of such benefit is ,all that can. be realized by the supposed owner there is a flaw in the title. The ownership is not absolute and complete. This is most strikingly the case with the farmer. Iu spite of his fancied ownership of land and tools the very fact of his inability to realize the full benefit arising from their operation proves conclusively that he does not own these things. The real owners—the capitalist combinations—take the pro-.-, ducts of his farm. They are the real owners of both his farm and himself. The farmer, as he becomes wise to himself and his position, lines up with his fellow-slave the outright wage artist, in the class struggle between thc master class and the slave class, the world-wide struggle for the mastery of industry—the former to retain it, the latter to seize it. There is but one possible outcome of this struggle and that is the victory of the working class. Its numerical strength, directed by its rapidly awakening intelligence and consciousness of itself and its mission, precludes any other result in the end. It will be a long and bitter struggle. Many will fall by the wayside, but the saying will be eventually justified that "Labor conquers all things." The "expropriators will be expropriated;" the masters be relegated to oblivion; the slaves of farm, factory, mine and transportation, shall become free men—free because masters of their means of life, masters of industry in their own behalf. Let it come. F. PERRY TAILOR Removed from 58 Hornby St. to LABOR TEMPLE. THE AGE LONG STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM OF PRESS A Good Place to Eat at Mulcahy's Cafeteria 137 Cordova Street West The best of Everything properly cooked READERS CLAMOR FOR REAL STORY OF WORLD (Continued from last issue) flesh," and for a political libel in The Republican, the Attorney-General proceeded against Jane Carlile, and she was sentened to two years' imprisonment in Dorcester gaol. This same year saw Joseph Swann lodged In gaol at Chester Castle tor issuing to the public some matter from Carllle's Republican. He suffered imprisonment for four and a half years. Robert Wedderburn, prosecuted by the Attorney-General, received two years, and Thomas Davidson, prosecuted by the "Vice Society," got two years also for a similar offence. Mr. and Mrs. Carlile both In Dorchester gaol, the work was only temporarily hindered. Mary Anne Carlile, lhe sister, took up the duties—knowing the risks attached to the same— and published an "Appendix to Paine's Works." The "Vice Society," like carrion crows, swooped down upon this noble-minded girl, and she received a sentence of one year's Imprisonment and was fined £500. She was unable to pay the fine, and so lingered in prison for two years. This was one ot the Most Atrocious Punishments over known, for the chief indictment was actually a quotation from an Archbishop's sermon. Nothing ls too meau or vulgar, nothing too contemptihlo for tyrants to stoop to when they have settled upon a course qf action, and the one end which the "Vice Society" had in view was to crush the dauntless Carlile and his helpers. In 1822 the Rev. Wiliiam Wait wrote a cowardly and insulting letter to Carlile, who was in prison, remember, which provoked a reply from Mrs. Susanna Wright, who published her re- n\y. The "Vic); Society," together with the Attorney-General, prosecuted her and she was confined in Newgate for ten weeks and then sent to prison for eighteen months. Humphrey Boyle, Joseph Rhodes, William Holmes, John Barkley, William Ranee, Charles Sanderson and two others called Turnec and Atkinson, then came forward to support Carlile and his relatives in prison. They jointly published Mr. Carliles "Letters and Correspondences," in a sixpenny tract, in 1822, and were proceeded against by the "Constitutional Association" for sedition and blasphemy. Barkley got six months on account of his youth. Boyle was sentenced to eighteen mouths, and Rhodes and Holmes to two years hard labour. In 1823, with the Carliles still in prison, William Tunbrldge stepped into the breach and published Palmer's "Principles of Nature"—two years' imprisonment and fined £100. By this time the "Vice Society" was looking pretty sick, not to say stupid, and feeling rather tired. No matter how persistently they tried, and no matter how brutal and revolting their crusade, the members of that pious organisation found that "downing" the Carlile element was too tough a job for them. Their last interference with the struggle was the prosecution of John Jones for the publication of "Observations on Dr. Gregory's Evidences of the Christian Religion," in a Letter to the Rev. William Wait of Bristol," by Richard Carlile. No one came forth, at the trial, however, to prove the case, and Jones was found "not guilty." Jones afterwards served four months imprisonment at Cold Bath Fields for publishing Shelley's "Queen Mat)." At the Middlesex Sessions, May 1823, the Solicitor to the Treasury prosecuted James Watson for the publication of "Principles of Nature," and Samuel Waddlngton was prosecuted for doing ditto, by the Attorney-General—both received one year's imprisonment. Charles Trust, a boy, then came forward and continued the publication of this same book. He was sentenced to six months and fined £20. He suffered further imprisonment instead of paying the fine. In the year 1824 Carlile was Btill in gaol (his fifth year of imprisonment), but the light was aB determined as ever. William Campion, Thos. Jeffries, John Clarke, John Christopher, William Haley, Richard Hassal, William Cochrane, Thos. Perry, and Michael J. O'Connor, all shopmen ot Carllle's were brought before the Old Daily Sessions, June, 1824, charged by the Treasury Solicitor for the publication of Paine's "Age of Reason." Palmer's "Principles of Nature," and some odd numbers of Carllle's Republican. Campion, Clarke, Haley and Persy were each sent to prison for "three years, Hassell for two years, Jeffries for eighteen months, and Cochrane, Christopher and O'Connor each for six months. Thus Carlile and Nine of His Workmen were all suffering imprisonment at once. Through sheer stubbornness and couarge did these magnificent men and women wear out their persecutors. Altogether this intrepid "soldier in the liberation war of humanity," Richard Carlile, languished in British gaols for nine years, seven months. Nothing could deter him from the self-imposed duty. Throughout his long and miserable confinement, he spent most ot his time in writing bantering and ironical leters to the King, the House ot Lords, and prominent state officials. He sat behind the bolted doors, not to rave and curse at his tormentors, but to use a more deadly weapon—he laughed at them. The quality, calibre, and courage of this heroic soul may be judged from the following, sent by him to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be placed before the House of Lords, and written during the sixth year of his imprisonment: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPIRITUAL ANI> TEMPORAL IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, The Humble Petition of Richard Carlile, a Prisoner in Dorcester Gaol, sheweth: That your petitioner is in the sixth year of a continued imprisonment for having sold two books hostile to the Christian religion, various editions of which have been on sale openly every day during his imprisonment. That the deep meditation of ypur petitioner, during this long and solitary confinement, have led him to the discovery that there is no such a God in existence as any man has preached or written about. And he therefore prayeth, that your Lordships call him to the bar of your Right Honourable House to verify this, his allegation, and, In case thereof, proceed to remodel the laws of the country accordingly. RICHARD CARLILE. The cool audacity of this Is simply astounding. Six years loss of liberty had as much effect in breaking the spirit of Carlile as water has in trying to disturb the equanimity of a duck. To such Inconquerable Spirits do we owe the few privileges we possess. Later prosecutions were not so numerous, nor were the penalties inflicted quite so severe. In many cases the culprits escaped scot free, as the saying is. The most important case was that of John Cleave (1840), sentenced to four months' imprisonment and fined £50 for publishing Hallam's "Letters to the Clergy." Abel Hey- wood was also prosecuted for issuing this work, but by influence escaped trial. Henry Hetherington next received four months for the same offence. Hetherington was editor of the Poor Man's Guardian, and was a courageous opponent of the infamous Newspaper Stamp Act. The next important trial took place at Bristol, before Sir Charles Wether- all, when Charles Southwell was fined £100 and sentenced to one year's imprisonment for an article in his paper, The Oracle of Reason, (afterwards edited by G. J. Holyoake), January, 1842. Thomas Paterson, the next editor of this periodical, was sentenced at Bow Street to three monthB, and, afterwards, at Edluburg, to fifteen months' 'mprisonment.' There is not enough space to enter into detail, nor is the question sufficiently momentous to warrant our doing so, as to later prosecutions. The (Continued Next Issue) Attempt to Throttle Magazines May Succeed in a Way, But Social ism Will Win Out. Keeping Socialism out of the maga zines was one big bone-headed In spiration. Only a ,bia*.n ossified by capitalistic "shrewdness' would be capable of Buch a dream, for magazines must have readers and readers must have something about the world In which they live. That world ls filled just now with Socialistic thought and its whole current history Is monopolized by the march of the tollers. Some of the magazines were strangled by the advertisers but still there was a hitch. Some magazine simply had to tell about Socialism. Pearson's was one of the most prominent to turn the trick and Pearson's began to be read and discussed throughout the country as never before. Whether this will succeed as a business venture is another question, but Socialism will not be throttled. Now comes the Metropolitan which has just startled Its readers with the following announcement: "The July issue of The Metropolitan will contain two features which have a special value at the present time. Also they will continue to be features of the magazine for some time to come, and therefore they are worth a word of two or introduction. The first is a series of articles on Social- Ism by Morris Hlllquit, the leader of Socialistic thought in this country; and the other Is a department called "The World's Progress," edited by Mr. William Mailly. This department will be partly of an editorial nature, but largely Informative, and will be concerned with the real progress of the world, that ls to say, with the events and the movements which are tending to improve the welfare of the large masses of humanity." At least one of the popular short- story magazines seems to have caught the fever also and George Allen England's powerful novel, "The Golden Blight," Is now interesting thousands who have heretofore fed upon pleasant yarns about dukes and duchesses, or the way some wronged child really of "noble" birth finally attained her "proper place" in society. Comrade England's novel is seemingly fancifui, but it is up to elate and smashes capitalism right between the eyes. It is running as a serial, weekly, in The Cavalier. The attempt to throttle the magazines is being told by George French in the Twentieth .Century Magazine. Regarding Pearson's Mr, French said: "Pearson's did not get off so easily when next It offended an advertiser. In its May, 1910, issue it printed an article about 'How Food Prices are Made,' one of the conclusions of which was that 'there is a Bcarcity of men in the food business who are not robbers.' Plain language, surely. Too plain, the Armour concern thought,' and Its agents canceled an order for the Insertion of eighteen pages of advertising. This ended the patronage of the Armour's, and Pearson's discovered that the amount paid the aii- thor for his excoriating article was only the first installment of its cost. 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