HIS I -ffUlll 688. Vancouver, British Columbia, Sahrday, July 16, 1$,0. l-miaaa tl.ll HUMAN SOCIETY ■***■———*-*— '. ■ ■ ■***■*■ ■ ■ ■ it's Growth and Development Through the Capitalist Stage, Toward Socialism That human society is an organism . which has during the centuries of the past evolved out of the most primitive conditions and that such evolution is still ln process has been recognized as a fact only during quite recent times. It will not be necessary at the pres- lent time to follow out In detail the Pgrowth of human society through any lot Its preceding forms. That which (more vitally concerns us Is the present I or capitalist era. Suffice it to say that ^the present system of property and wealth production sprung from the 1 loins of feudal society, its parent or i predecessor. At the proper moment. and due to economic development, it was brought forth and its roots firmly ' planted In the soil of private property in the means of production, land and ' tools. To study the development of the capitalist system no better field can be found than this Western continent, .more especially the United States. "With next to no feudal bonds to break, and with a virgin continent possessed of unlimited resources at Its disposal, this system has grown up through all the stages from tottering infancy to doddering senility, almost "within the memory of men now living. Briefly the various steps may be sketched ns follows: First. Individual and usually small ownership of land; tools of production of a primitive character, chiefly hand%tools and the process of production a somewhat slow and laborious one in consequence; land and tools used chiefly by the owner in person; exchange of surplus commodities usually confined within narrow limits. Under such circumstances it can be readily seen there was little or no exploitation of labor. The man who owned the land and tools used them himBelf and thus stood master of his products—the nearest approach to human freedom since the beginning or the historical period. Second, the tools having grown from, hand tools Into machines, the factory supplants the former domestic industry. The ownership bf tools passes by easy stages from the individuals I who formerly held them into the pos- i session of an owning class, the main.-. / bers of which are thus step by step 1 freed from the necessity of operating I them, and depend upon the non-own ers for that purpose, whom they hire tor wages. Once the factory had made Its appearance the real competitive era was inaugurated. Driven on by competition the masters of factories turned heaven and earth to morn highly perfect their Instruments of production and extend their markets. The weaker succumbed in the struggle; the strong grew stronger. Individuals combined their capital into Arms. Firms grew into corporations. As this concentration went on it became more and more hopeless for the individual wealth producer to attempt ta stand up In competition against the masters of ma. chinery. They were driven by scores to abandon their out-of-date tools and enter the factories, etc., for wages. As the weaker capitalists were forced into bankruptcy by their more powerful competitors they were forced to add their numbers to the wage-earning throng. Thus the wage-earners Increased enormously in numbers, while the number of owners decreased in like ratio. During this, the "hey day" of competition, the capitalists truly led the "strenuous" life. Third, the consolidation into one corporation of the plants of hitherto com peting concerns, thus mobilizing sufficient economic power under one management to control the market. The Standard Oil is an instance of this form ot consolidation. The Inauguration of this so-called trust era marked the beginning of the end of the competitive stage among capitalists. When on aggregation of capital had been attained In a given industry, of sufficient magnitude to control the entire mar-]c ket of the United States ln that line,|i the death knell of competition had been Bounded in that particular indus- tttr, so far as the capitalists interested were concerned. As competition among capitalists diminished, competition among workers became more Intense. As the instruments of production became more highly perfected, and the method of their operation more economical through the concentration of capital in fewer hands, the number of workers required to keep the markets supplied was correspondingly diminished. The competition became ever more fierce among the workers for that employment upon which their very lives depend, until conditions have developed throughout this Western continent bordering upon those of civil war, and these conditions are becoming more accentuated each day. Today a mere handful of capitalists actually own the great dominant industries of all lands. By virtue of the enormous power placed in their hands by such ownership they dominate and control, thus practically owning, those industries that are as yet in a scattered or unorganized condition. This handful of big capitalists are masters, all else are slaves. This position they occupy and maintain because ihey hold the reins of government in their bands. By no other means could they maintain their mastery. They are granted the right to govern by the workers themselves, the enslaved victims ot" capitalist rapacity, out of whose servile carcasses is wrung the rich profit that alone affords a pleasing incense unto the nostrils of the modern god, Capital. We are nuaiing the end of the capitalist regime. Its system of property and control of wealth production can no longer satisfy the needs of mankind, nor meet the requirements ot human progress. In other words, the social organism cannot attain to further and higher development until the capitalist fetters upon the production and distribution of wealth be broken. This means the freeing of Labor from the yoke of wage-servitude. To attain this implies the conquest of the public powers hy the working class and the use of such powers to free that class from economic bondage to capital. Let the workers press forward every.' where to. the capture of the reins of government to the end that its powers may be used to assert working class mastery over the resources of the earth and the tools of industry. K. TELL HIM, YOU IMMIGRANT. Dear Comrade,—Having seen your name as Secretary, it occurred to me to write you as a Socialist propagan dist in this country. Of course, 1 know Socialists are busy folk as well ln Canada as elsewhere; but a fraternal quest for authoritative information will, I think, be met ln a kindly Bpirit by you; and, of course anything ln the line of Information I could Bupply from my experience as a hard-working propagandist In England as to the condition of the movement here, would be done by way of reciprocation. In lecturing I frequently deal with the question of emigration to the colonies, as put forward by those who urge overpopulation as "the" or "a" cause of poverty. I believe it would be helpful if, in addition to my view as an English Socialist, T could gather some colonist Impressions of immigration to their countries as regards- benefit to the immigrants, to (he colonies, and the general conditions of the'worklng class when they get overseas. Capitalism being international, the line I take is, that emigration as a remedy for British poverty conditions is, generally speaking, a failure, and that in the individual's case of changing well-developed capitalist conditions, to merely developing capitalist conditions in a new country there is no escape from the unnecessary menaces coming Into workers' lives. Of course in dealing with this matter, am frequently told by those who* affect to have travelled that the col-1 onles prove if a chap wlll only work,1 be Bober, etc., and hla fellows do likewise, there ia no need for him or the other workers for Socialist "nostrums." As for the British workers (from their point of view), what they need ls a good draining off of surplus to other sparsely populated countries. So opponents argue. Perhaps a word or two on the general condition and prospects Of the movement would be valuable not only to myself, but to comrades whom I mix with, who like to understand the general international phases of Social- Ism's progress. It would be a good thing to have a specimen of literature put forward by Canadian Socialists. Sometimes one or other of comrades here will be discovered ln possession of a copy of "The Appeal to Reason," or the "Western Clarion," but be hanged If the demand is not so great one can hardly get a look in. Since that most high, illustrious, etc., Prince George V. came by lawful right, etc., into possession of the British Crown, Anti-Socialists are predicting a counter spirit to the development of Socialistic tendencies. He is understood to be a terrible fellow In the way of bonds-of-brothei- hood and expansion-oi'-Imperial-spirit, and opponents refer to him as the "colonists" King. The idea is, ot course, that the workers' attention will now be turned to the colonial idea, self-help and so or. Antl-Soclallsts assert that the colonial worker is not the material for Socialism—too full of Samuel Smiles' ideas of getting on by self-help and so on. The movement here is just rallying again after an extraordinary slump. We seem to have been properly "scotched" as Grayson puts it, but not killed, and much depression has resulted from the confusion of the movement with mere Liberal proposals, because of the peculiar situation at the last General Eiection. The last few months have seen little but internal strife, and the propagation of Socialism by splits and counter-splits in many towns. Bnt the Anti-Socialist Union is active just in RIGHT time to stiffen the backs of the faithful, and rally us together. Ana I think there ls a future before the new movement started by the Colne Valley Socialists for a STRAIGHT SOCIALIST PARTY, without confusion of the name or dilution of the demand. A lot of our candidates were withdrawn last election through the almost inextricable tangle that the popular mind waa in, as to the Government battle cries and tbe Socialist demand. There should have been no tangle. But many candidates were withdrawn, and the rest went under fighting. I was the youngest candidate In the country, a candidature locally, and not nationally, promoted in the Barkston Ash Division of Yorkshire, but I unfortunately became one of the withdrawn. Excuse me for approaching you on thefpolnts asked; but tney will be very helpful; and you will understand the fellowship of the Socialist movement encourages me to think you will comply with a comrade's request. I will oblige mutually on any point on which I can give the ordinary, hard-worked British propagandists view. ■ Fraternal greetings. Yours for Socialism, JOHN LINDSLEY. P.S.—The I. L. P. here are great on Stitt and Ben Wilson. Are these accepted in America to the extent the public are led to believe? ANOTHER BRAIN-TWISTER. ,lnst because the court cannot take judicial notice of the fact that a storekeeper giving evidence at the city police court must necessarily mean Cordova street, Vancouver, when he says his place of business is on Cordova street, Alf. Johnson, sentenced to three months In jail for theft, has a very big chance oi obtaining his liberty. Application to court was made on his | which they THE BASIS OF JUSTICE How Property Relations Have Always Determined the Judicial System The axiom that "all men are equal before the law," and also that the judicial system makes no difference to any persons, or sections, has its refutation in history and in fact. All Ideas of justice have had their basis in property ownership in the past and in the present and no doubt in the future. It can be proved historically for instance that the appeal in criminal courts was not actuated by any sense of justice and righteousness, as the mealy-mouthed Christian would have us believe; it was not a desire to redjpss a wrong; it was a perpetuation of a class interest which originated and was founded over 2,500 years ago during the reign of Tullus Hostllius, who reigned as King in Rome from 672—640 B. C. To digress, however, for one-moment let it be observed that in the previous reign of Numa Pompilius, Trade Guilds were started and also, the division of lands among the citizens of Rome who had been with the conquering armies. The right of criminal appeal In great Britain has been called the "Convict's Charter," the "embodiment of right and justice," "an ethical upliiting" and other twaddle. As far as ethics go, they have not had anything to do with it, any more than the C. P. R. or the Canadian Government are ethical when they bet you a couple of years of slavery to nothing that you cannot cutivate land to the tune of 160 acres give" you. Ethics play a behalf this morning by Mr. J. W. deB. Farris, who urged that there was no jurisdiction shown in the evidence before the magistrate.—The World. How majestic and wonderful, omniscient and omnipotent is the LAW. AMUSED The Sunday Chronicle of June 5th gives an idea of what the English nation thinks of Teddy, the Blunderbuss. "Hubert" says: "I have often wondered lately what they said to one another when they talked his speeches over amongst themselves Particularly should I have liked to hear the criticism of the acute, sinuous, penetrating, mocking French Intellectuals after that wonderful oration of his at the Sorbonne. I think it was that oration which was made up entirely of the reiteration of copybook headings, which told us that to be happy we must be good; that procrastination was the thief ot time, and so on. "At the same time though, I confess that when I read that oration I began to modify my views of Mr. Roosevelt. I began dimly to discern that there was something in the man that I had not hitherto divined. There must, I recognized, be something out of the common in a man who could stand up and talk copybook to an audience of Parisian intellectuals. . . 'On Tuesday last, Mr. Roosevelt stood .up in the metropolis of the British Empire, on a highly ceremonial occasion, and in plain, blunt language told an audience ot British Imperial statesmen and politicians how and how not to govern an empire, if to do that be not to be distinguished, then I should uncommonly like to know what distinction is. Remember, too, the thing was not done on the spur of the moment, as lt were; it was not done in what we tolerantly call an after-dinner speech, thrown off irresponsibly In a moment of exaltation; it was done deliberately. Mr. Roosevelt did not speak extempore; he read from a typewritten document. There was the magnlncence of it. Forgive me if for once in a way I employ a journalistic eliche and say the amazing magnificence of it. 'Just think, just try to realize the situation at the Guildhall—I think there is a statue of William Pitt ln the Guildhaii—on Tuesday last. Mr. Balfour was there and Sir Edward Grey waa there Each of them has had to face problems of foreign administration compared to which any of the external problems tackled by American statesmen are as nursery quarrels among children of five years old. And there they sat land listened while Mr. Roosevelt, laden with all the experience garnered during an agreeable holiday in Africa, wagged an admonitory finger at them, and told them how to govern Egypt." "Hubert" goes on to say that he does not believe the popular report that Balfour was angry and indignant, because he knows that Balfour has a keen sense ot humour and he cannot believe that his sense of humour failed him on that occasion. It couldn't. Further on he says: "And we, his fellow countrymen, are not a bit angry with Mr. Roosevelt; we are not even resentful; no, we are not even tempted to scoff; we are contented just to laugh, to laugh quietly with that inward quality of merriment with which men do laugh when something happens that ls genuinely, honestly, and at the same time Inexpressibly funny." "Hubert" doesn't accuse Teddy of being rude. A child can't be accused who doesn't know any He was just blunt, with that sort of lmperceptlve bluntness and imperceptive with that sort of blunt Imperceptiveness which enables a man of great force of character but of middling Intellectuality to go so far ln American political life, and which I am not sure will not enable men of Mr. Roosevelt's calibre and makeup to go far in English life." That distinguished speech of Mr. Roosevelt's was not, as I see some of my colleagues in the press are saying it was, due to swelled head; It was due rather to Impenetrable head, to—how shall 1 put It?—to an absence, not of sense but of sensibility, to a temperamental Incapacity to appreciate the incongruous and the correct. The oration in Paris, though less, let us Bay, Important, from an international point of view, was quite as maladroit in i s way, quite as un- (Continued on Pag* 3) ot -udenesB, bettlr. small, in fact, almost no part, ln the control'of justice or its administration, as can be seen by the following incident. During tho reign of Hostllius he had a clever warrior whose name was Horatio. The latter had vanquished the Curatll and during the time of spoliation had taken a line woven garment from one of the chief men of that tribe, who happened to have teen espoused to the sister of Horatio. When the warrior returned to Rome with the pomp associated with victors of that time, his sister observing the gown of her fiancee began to cry at bis misfortune. Thereupon Horatius drew his spear and killed his own sister. He was arrested, tried on the spot, and sentenced to be whipped and then to be hanged. He, with the permission of the King was allowed to ap. peal to the people. He was released upon his word after a small penalty of penance. But what is the important factor is that he was a great land owner and but for that fact he would not have been allowed to appeal. Justice In this direction had its foundation upon the property basis of Horatius. England, ln 1909 A.D., has' thought fit to adopt the same principle. To another historical example where property was the actuating Influence for the development of faith, let us take the greatest of Venetian Doges, Henri Dandola, who took so great, a part In the beginning of the Crusade. Was It for the preservation o. the Cross that those marauding gangs of rogues, vagabonds and thieves were sent out? It was not for the raising of the standard ot the presumed ethical precepts ot Christianity but for the robbery and lunder tbat the CrusadeB were started. When Dandola and his allies had conquered Constantinople a manifesto now known as the "Venetian Manifesto" was sent to tho Pope. In lt they stated they had reinstated Alexius the Fourth as Emperor of Constantinople because lie, promised us 200,000 marks of silver and provisions for one year." ln the case of landing In the city lt is recorded that "the ships Paradise and Pilgrim were commanded by the Bishops of Troyes and Soissons." It_ goes on to say, "we put the people to the sword In the streets until night came on." It continues "Most Holy Father, the quantity of gold, silver, precious stones nnd other costly things which we have found, far exceeds all that could be collected In the city of Rome and In all our ChriBtendon." After celebrating prayers and High Mass, they elected Baldwin Court of Flanders as Emperor of Constantinople and gave him one fourth of the Empire. "The rest we divided among ourselves," says the manifesto. It concludes with this noble Christian sentiment, "We will en. deavor to maintain possession of this fine land, full of corn, wine, oil, wood and pasturage and share it out in fields to the noble Knights who shall join their arms with ours." The division of property and Its direct ownership was the basis of justice during the majority of the time of the famous Venetian empire. Another Illustration is the "Magna Carta of 1215 signed by King John of England. In it is a clause that is exercised to this day. It is the right of a peer or baron to be tried by his own class. That is, that for certain offences a member of the House of Lords has the right to be tried by that House. It was only just a few years since Earl Russell was tried, not by a judge and jury, but by the members of the House of Lords for bigamy. So you see that - a man who has to be tried by his peers will look back to 1215 when the Barons for the preservation of their property desired this amended form of "justice." Today in England, property, is still the dominant factor which determines a jury. Commonlaw juries are but the people who nominally have a house to their names. Special juries are men who are householders of higher priced property and aro in a good business. Grand juries are in the main retired manufacturers and large landlords within the judicial boundaries. No poor man can ever get on the grand jury for an Assize Court. So, then, if property has been the basis of justice, it Is quite likely that the laws being based upon the private ownership of the means of life, are against those who do not possess properly; they ere the working class. In order that justice may be regularly accorded to al I* it means lhat all must first have an equal! access to all property, or that social ownership of the means of life will put an end to laws baBed upon private ownership. Generally speaking at least 98 per cent, of crimer ln Great Britain are against property. Life is always secure In a well organized country. That is apart from the risks attendant to industry. Attacks upon the person decrease year by year, but Inroads on property are increasing. '' ' So it behooves the working class to strive for the judicial, administrative and legislative' sections of the government in order to institute the system whereby robbar'y and slavery will give way to happiness and freedom. Now, having thought this out what will you workers do? * '."MOSES BARITZ. AfTfcNTION. A Socialist Mass Meeting and Picnic will be held on July 29th, two miles south of Ixiugheed, Alta. S.E. >4. 20-43- 11. The programme consisting ot speeches, recitations and eongs will commence directly after dinner. The topic "The way out of our present labor difficulties" will be handled without gloves. Addresses not over half an hour long. Everybody. cpme and bring your neighbor. If we- don't make the eagle squall and twist the lion's tail it will be because the. 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If this number is on it, your subscription expires the next issue. SATURDAY, JULY, 16, 1910. ECONOMIC AND POLITIC. Now and for some time past the above words have been bandied around pretty freely by (hose whose function seems to be to chew the rag without ceasing and to think not at all. Were it a physical possibility for them to •stop long enough to give their think- tanks a show it might occur to them to ascertain the meaning of the words they use. We are confident the result •would be a revision In their terminology. So far as we have been able to dls- couver, unless we, like Humpty Dump- ty, are to make words mean what we please, "economic" relates to the production of wealth, "politic" to the gov. ernment of people, primarily, though now somewhat corrupted through association with politicians. The economic power of a "nation" ■would therefore signify its power to produce wealth. Which, to an extent, "would be dependent upon the natural 'resources of the land of Its habitation, modified latterly by the facilities of transportation. So that, at bottom, the determining factor would be the productivity of its workers, in other words their laboring power. Of "economic power," then, it can- *not be denied that the working class has a complete monopoly and their •reign, in this field at any rate, there Ib none to dispute, (or the capitalists ahow no sign of even attempting to produce any wealth. Political power is the power to write the law, which predicates the power to enforce It, the power of coercion. 'This, on the other hand, is the undisputed monopoly of the capitalist class, for the workers write little law and enforce less. They have no power of coercion. The law declares that property In the means of production la owned by 'Smith, Jones and Robinson. The court so orders, and that goes. This leaves the capitalists ln possession of the .means of wealth production and the •workers in possession of the power to produce wealth. The former buy the economic power of the latter and set It to work producing wealth. That -wealth belongs to the capitalists. It may not be right and it may be unjust; we don't know, or care. We do know that It ls legal. The law so ordains and the power of coercion is tbere to make It good law. Let ub then cease worrying tbout the economic power which we already have and cannot use, and set ourselves to acquiring the political power which we "have not, bo that wc may then write the law. Oood, Bound law that Bays -that "Smith, Jones and Robinson are "hereby relieved of the burden of the meanB of production, which belong henceforth to us, the workers. In wit. ness to the validity whereof behold the size of our club." That club is nothing else than a Sufficiency of workers educated to snow just what they want and resolved to take nothing "just as good." Until -we have that we are nothing; when we have that we have political power, power to coerce the capitalists into letting go on pain of the usual penalties of gaol or gallows meted out to Jaw-breakers who are not law-makers. To this end In propaganda alone "Hob our salvation. To that all things else are secondary consideration, elections and the elect Included. Elections ;are useful only as occasions for propaganda. Elections used for election purposes are opportunities not only wasted but abused. The elect alBO are Invaluable as megaphones for proclaiming the revolt, and an Incum- ■brance otherwise. To propaganda, therefore, we must devote our energies, leaving to Utopians the pleasing task of constructing the future society or of reconstructing the present one. 'TWAS WELL DONE. We have it on almost Indisputable Liberal authority that the Socialiat campaign funds In Winnipeg Centre were furnished by the Conservative Party ln order to defeat the Labor candidate. We dont know, you know, but we are glad to hear It. Of course this wlll come us a terrible shock to Liberals, celebrated us they are tor the purity of their Ideals and the probity of their political methods, nevertheless we are to shamelessly deaf to the appeal »f the high inortil code which they preach so sedulously and practice so seldom lhat uny Mine a t'oiiKer-'iitlvc or any other party tool* like putting up the money for us to do our own work, we wlll he Johnny on tha spot with the bit. However, while we have mmpli'lonH of our own us to llui real lourot "f those funds, of one thing there Ik mil the least doubt; wherever they riitne from, If they were Instrumental In defeating a "Labor" enndldiile they could not have been Used to better advantage. In the Held of politics the working class has foes of many shades nnd gradations, and Ihe order lu which they rank Is roughly as follows: — the Liberals are worse than the Conservatives; Liberal-Labor worse than Liberal; "Independent" Labor worse tnan Liberal-Labor; and near-Socialist worse than any. The more closely they resemble the real thing nnd the more cleverly they simulate friendship the more they are to be dreaded. That they happen to be perfectly sincere and eminently well-intentioned merely aggravates the danger. The ills that have been Inflicted upon the workers by their enemies are outweighed by the consequences of the earnest efforts of our "friends" on our behalf. Consequently we may be excused, though we dont need It, for preferring the most reactionary of the reactionaries to the most altruistic of reformers. They who are not with us without reserve are against us, be they of high or low degree. Anyway we are against them unalterably and Inflexibly whether they wear the aspect of wolves, wolves In sheep's clothing, sheep in wolves', or just simple, silly sheep. We know that ln nothing short of emancipation from wage servitude lies any hope of easement for US. And we are bound neck and horns to our yoke-fellows; for us there ls no emancipation without emancipation for all. And that cannot be until those stubborn, tolling yoke-fellows of ours KNOW as we know, why the yoke galls them and how lt may be broken. Hence, foes we are to all who would teach them aught else, be their motives never so pure or their teachings never so divine. THE LAST REFUGE. A feature which has been lending a pleasing touch of humor to even the most owlish of Vancouver's dallies recently Is a full page hired by the B. C. Sugar Refining Company to advertise the demerits of Chinese sugar. The company appeals to all the best Instincts of our present civilization generally, and particularly to Its patriotism and race hatred. We doubt if its appeal will bear any fruit for Chinese sugar appeals to the pocket. This Chinese sugar seems to have been worrying the Company for some time, for not long ago It circularized the local grocers, threatening many dire things If they did not be good and handle only the company's sugar. One of these recalcitrant grocers had the bad taste to publish this confidential circular In the "World," to whose columns it had the easy access always accorded heavy advertisers, which compelled the worthy Mr. Rogers, of the B. C. S. R. C. to explain the unexplalnable. That Chinese sugar Is hurting Mr. Rogers yet and more Is evidenced by the present appeal to patriotism, for, as It said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Mr. Rogers emphasises the fact that the money paid for Chink sugar goes to China and Is lost to the community, while If we buy his sugar we cast our bread upon the waters and lt returns again through the wages of his employees. Furthermore, he points with pride to the fact that he employs white labor only, which Is true, or ought to be, for the Company has exemption from taxation and free water on condition it employs white labor only. So, with characteristic patriotism, lt employs only white labor, at Oriental wages. Moreover, carefully conserves Its employees from the dictation of any labor union and unflinchingly upholds their liberty „ work all the hours they can stand and then some. Hence, lt ls evidently rorthy of the patronage of all good patriots. For our part, we .firmly adhere to the great principles laid down, during Its _.lef but brilliant career, by the famed Asiatic Exclusion League, though the League seems to have disbanded after having excluded all the Asiatics who were not already here, except those who have since arrived. We believe the Asiatic should be excluded, this being a white man's country, ever since we stole lt from the Indiana, and to that end we consistently buy Oriental products whenever' we need them and they happen to be the cheapest in the market. By this means we expect to make so much work for the Orientals In the Orient that they will not feel like migrating in our direction. We feel sure this remedy wlll be quite aa successful as any other, and besides It will be patriotic, practical and inexpensive. However, we reserve the right to amend our opinions If Mr. Rogers ■hould happen to see fit to take out a full page advertisement In the Clar- loll for a sufficiently extended period. CAPITALIST EXPANSION. The growth and development of capitalism Is a Btudy well worth noting hy the Social "Reformer" and revolutionist alike. To the former It would give an enllghtnient he could not possibly obtain through any other source. To the revolutionist It Ib ever a "guiding star" hy which he navigates his course on the boh of capitalist soclu." When Ihe social reformer understands that society, Its Ideas, religious tenets, Its modes und habits, Ub general culture, are not the work of Individuals apart from the rest of mankind, but essentially the result of certain given conditions; that would then drive awuy much of the misunderstanding prevalent In their curious minds. When economic conditions change so do thoughts that were the remits of the previous condition. There are Innumerable striking Illustrations to convince et en the 'unlettered and unwashed" of the soundness of that proposition and in this case I Intend to refer to just one country only, because it appears to hf developing on even faster lines than any other country today. Generally speaking, capital is simply a condition and form which functions Itself In one way alone; that is, it Is the exploiting function of wealth. Where capital exists there, too, m iBt exist wage slavery. And lt is ob-ij'- that to accomplish such a cor 1 tion must mean the abolition of indi 'rial private ownership in production. Tli natural function in so<-1 tj and is inimical to the Interests of nut ki . I generally, lt can only be by a ii owledge of the lame and a lenalble application thereto that oncli ' HI liu emancipated. The sensible i p,'Mention Is the control of the polltic.ii it ' llieiy, And it Is huii where the social reformer and the t< . ulutionlst come to grips. 'I lie former timks that thu capitalist class can ' i induced to better the condition of the working class. He ls wiring lo vor'' or this, that, and he other nicnsui jecause he believes ii s good for thi i orker. No, you reformer' Yliere 4 no measure advocated b> any ci itallst government today tba. can be of any material advantage > the working class. Its an utter aba. ty. \ ear by year the capitalist c ass . n .king more and more profit ouf of the slavery of the workers. Unless Ihe function they have can be stopped altogether, no action is worth undertaking tor "alleviation." The same energy utilized with advocacy of ref.irm could be generated In favor of the stand of the revolutionist who ssei.b Alone the abolition of capi- 'i" t property. He can not (and will not) be stopped doing other than that. The capitalist class in their effort to "cure to themselves a greater return Ui . building up a load, they will be i.uable to car.j. It will collapse. And t' revolutionist will be there to see L^in'"" those who wo.ked and slaved, stat ved nmidst all the luxuries they had protuu -d, take the sals head and guid" th r selves to control the forces that had nde for the downfall of the capitalist class. They will then organize the S cialist conditions of society. And t:uless the people In a majority are Socialists, capitalism will continue, or perhaps something • irse may take its pi' •<*. The former stands for su. .talist class. The revolutionist Is not one who speaks about bloodshed and "locking out the capitalist . 'ass," and other absurd nostrums; he ls one who Is convinced that Socialism wlll be the most effective system ushered into the universe, and strives tor its incoming, by organizing himself under the banner of a P . alist Party who stand for the abolition of wage slavery immediately. It is up to «iu members of the working class to get this fully In your minds. Unless you believe in the complete overthrowal of enpltalism by political methods, keep outside. If you believe ln the absurd "step by step" Idea, your place Is In the Liberal, Tory (and thoir lickspittles) the Labor ranks. Socin'is". -tand for the Immediate break-up •' .Me slavery. Social reformers, for i continuance. So a social reformer ls anUKonistic to the function that the working olass have. That Toronto lot hav to learn yet, you see. P. of C. ls to be a rev ty, it must expel ail wh prehend and act upon principles. The sooner thai element is done with the better. Make them quit, you Reds, where\'""." you find them. Better have ten men who stand united iu a solid principle than a lot of chumi . who sa they are Socialists, but do all the; --an to assiBt the master class, who a re and «. ill remain the inveterate enemies of the workers. M >SWS BARITZ. Socialist Directory Every local of the Socialist Party of Cunudu should run a cunl under this head, f 1.00 per month. Hecrotnrlei please note. DOKXBXOK BSBOUTIYB OOMWnil Surlullst l'urty "f Canada, Meets every alliirnutc Monday. 1). O. Me- I'minle, Serrutur)', llox I Hun, Vancouver, H. 0, •BITISB COLUMBIA PBOTIBOIAL Ejxiciitlve committee, looTulil Party of cwiuda. Meets nveiy alternate Moiidiiv, I). 11. McKenale, Secretory, Hon II1SH Vancouver, II. 0, ALBBBTA PBOTIBOIAL BBBOVTIVB Committee, Soolallil Party of ca*i« lulu. Meets every alternate Monday m i.uiioi- Hull, I'liaiiih Ave. Bait,,, opposite postofllce. Secretary win lie picused to miHWi'i' uny I'oiiiinuiili'iitloiis regarding the iiiuvuiiiunt In Hie prov- Inco. I'. Iiuiihy, Hue., llox 017 l.'ulgury. Aim. MANITOBA PBOVIBCXAI- IT-IB- live I'olllllllllee. .Meets tlrst und third Tuesdays In the month at 12 l-ll Adelaide St. Anv reader of the clurlon desiriiiK Information about the movement In Manitoba, or who wishes tu Join Ihe Party please cnnillllllllcult' wllh the undersigned, w. ll. Stebblngs, Soc, :mi Hood hi.. Winnipeg, HABITUCE PBOVIWCIAL. EIECP live I'olllllllllee, Snelullst Party ot Cilliuda. Meets every second and fourth Sunday ut Comrade MoKlnnon'e, t'ottugc l.uue. Hun Cochrane, Secre tury, llox 491, Olace Buy, N. S. LOOAL VAXOOVVEB, B. C, XO. 45, Cuniidu. Business meetings every Tuesduy evening at headquarters, over Ndgctt's Store, Ul Hustings St. W !••. Perry, secretary, Box n'.ss. LOCAL ▼ABOOVTBB, B. O., Wo. 45, Finnish. Meets every second nm fourth Thursdays In the month at 16 LOCAL XABA, B. O, BO. 34, S. V. of C, Meets first Sunday In every month In Socialist Hall, Mara 2:30 p.m. Cyril Itosoinan. Recording Secretary. LOOAL LABTtMITB BO. 10, I. T. of C. Business meetings every Saturday 7 p.m. In headquarters on Flrat Ave. J. H. Ilurroiigh, Box 31, Ladysmlth, LOOAL MOTH, B. O, BO. 30.—M*»TS second Sunday 7:30 p.m. in McGregor Hull (Miner's Hall), Mrs. Thornley, Secrelury. LOOAL B088LAMD, BO. M, S. V. of 0., meets In Miners' Hall every Sunday ut 7:.'I0 p.m. ED, Campbell, Secy., P. O. llox 071. Ilosslund Finnish Branch meets In (''Inlanders' Hall, Sundays ut 7:30 p.m. A. gobble, Seoy., P. O. Boa 70C> Itiisslund. LOOAL BBLIOB, I. P. of 0., MEETS ' every Frlduy evening nt .1 p. m„ In Miners' Hull, Nelson, H. c. 1. A. Austin. Secy. LOOAL PHOENIX, Bo. 3, B. T. ot C, J meets every Bunday at S:.1i> p.m., Inf .Miners' Hull. Matt llnllldiiy, Organ-1 leer, 11. K. Maolnnis, Secretary, LOCAL CALOABY, ALTA., Wo. 4, 8. P. I of C. Meetings every .Sunday nt ttl p.m. In tho Luhnr Hull, Burlier BlockJ Eighth Ave. 10. (near pnstoince). Clulil and Heading Room. Luhnr Hull, f Machln, Secretary, Box (>47, A. Mucii doniihi. Organiser, Box 04". LOCAL BELLBVUB, ALTA., Bo. 12, IJ P. of c, meets every llrst nnd thlnl Sunday evenings, Bellevue Town Hull! J. v Ihiiinnt, Secretary. LOCAL COLEMAB, ALTA., BO. 9. Mirers' Hull und Opera House at sf p.m. Everybody welcome to call. H. la Smith. Secy. 45. und] 161' Hustings St. W. Secretary, Wm. Mynttl. » LOOAL VICTORIA, BO. 8, S. F. OP O. Helidiiuurtcrs und Bending Boom, 628 .Johnston St. Opposite Queens Hotel. Business meeting every Tuesduy • evening, s p.m. l'ropugundii meetings every Sunduy nt Qrund Theatre. R. Tliomus, Secretary. LOOAL NANAIMO, NO. S, 8. P. of O. ■ meets every alternate Sunday evening In Foresters Hull. Business meeting ut 7:00 o'clock shurp. l'ropiigundu meeting commences ut sum o'clock, .luck Bluce, Bee. Secy., Box SL'6. LOOAL PERNIE. B. T. ot O. X0LD8 educatlonul meetings In the Miners' Union Hall. Victorlu Ave.. Fernle, every Sunduy evening ut 7:16. Business meeting first Sunduy In euch month, same piece ut L':::n p. in. David Puton, Secy., Box 101. nine ing d If t e S. lonary par- -11 to com- volutionary ICHAB D! By Wilfred Grflbble. "What is it darkens o'er the sun, And dims mild Luna's silver glow? What Ib it we Instinctive shun, That makes our blood so stagnant flow? Upon our spirits settled gloom Has fallen, and we fain would know The reason for our heavy doom, We'd know the cause of all our woe." Klngsley, thy reign ls o'er at last, Old tyrant, long ye've done whn pleased ye; McKenzie, you're bowled out at last, And Nemesis has surely sei/,i-d thi c. To Shetland's island, storn.j, bleak, Oh, Peterson, you'd best be lleiug; Por safety's sake, within a week. You Karme, must be to Fi iland flying; , Oh, Morgan, back to Edinburgh, 'Tis there alone that you'll find shelter; And Mengel, while you've power to stir, Depart for London, helter-skelter; And Stebblngs, you must share tbe fault Of the Dom Ex's crime appalling, LOCAL OBBBBWOOD NO. 9, B. T. ot O. meets every Sunday ln Miners' Union Hull at 7:30 p. in. Business meetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. George Heatherton, Organizer; ft. J. Campbell, Secretary. Box 124. LOOAL VEBNON, B. O, 38, 8. P. of C, meets every second and lust Frlduy In each month. Chas. Chaney, Sec, Box 127 Vernon, B. C. LOOAL PBXXOB BVPEBT, B. C, No. S3, S. P. of C.—Meets -'very Sunduy In hall in Empress Tlieuter Block ut 2:00 p. m. L. H. Gorhnm. Secretary. LOCAL BEVELSTOKE, E.C.B P.O.— Propaganda and busl - ss meetings at 8 p. m. every Sunday evenlns In the Edison Parlor Theater. Speakers passing through revelstoke are Invited to attend. 14. F. Gayman, Secretary, LOOAL MICHEL, B. C, XO. 16, B. T. OP C, meets every Sunday In Graham's Hall at 10:30 a. rn. Socialist speakers are Invited to coll. V. Frodsham, Sec retary. LOCAL EDMONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, ■] P. of C. Hearquarters 622 First St 1 Business and propaganda meetlng.-J every Thursday at ,:30 p.m. sharp! Our Reading Room ls open to the pub-f lie free, from 10 nm. to 11 p.m. dallyl F. Blake, 6-19 Athabasca Ave., Secre-L tary. Treasurer, T. Blssett, 322 Fourth! St., Organizer. LOCAL WINNIPEG, 8. P. of C, XEAD-L quarters, Kerr's Halt. 120 1-2 Adelaides Street, opposite Koblln Hotel. Biisl-I ness meeting every Sunduy morning! 1! a.m. Propugunda meeting Sunday] evening S p.m. Everybody welcome.! Secretary, J vv. mnfng. 270 Youngl Street. " LOOAL TOSOWTO, ONT., No. 34, 8. P.I of C,—Business meetings 2nd und 4th | Wednesdays In the month, at the Labor Temple, Church St. Propaganda I meetings every Sunday nt 3:00 o'clock at the Labor Temple. Speakers' class every Thursday et 8:00 o'clock at La bor Temple. J. Stewart, Secretary, 62 Seaton St. LOOAL COBALT, Bo. S, 8. P. Of C. Propagundu und business meetings t every Wednesday at 8 p.m. In Miners' , Hall. Everybody Invited to Intend. , Kthlebert Jones, Financial Secy. LOOAL OTTAWA, BO. 8, S. T. ot O. Business meeting 1st Sunday In ' month, and propaganda meetings following Sundays at 8 p.m. la Robert- Allan Hull, 78 Rldeau St. The usual weekly Inside propugunda meetings discontinued during summer months. H. 8. Oldham, Secretary, 123 Drum- mond St. LOOAL lllin, OWT., XO. 4, 8. T. of C.i mets every second end fourth Wednesduy evenings, at 8 p.m., 66 King St. 10., opposite Market Hotel. V. A. Hints, Sec, 98 West Lancaster Street. LOOAL OLACE BAT BO. 1, OP B. 8.— Business und Propaganda meeting * every Thursday st 8 p.m. In Macdon- ald's hull. Union Street. All are welcome. Alfred Nash, Corresponding Secretary. Glace Buy; Wm. Sutherland, Organizer, New Aberdeen: H. G. Boss,. Flnanclul Secretury, office In D. N.' Brodie Printing Co. building, Union Street. F -r-TS OWN ^uitRS or V*^'\u*US«HISH BLOSSOM fifST IN B.C CK»A-«S: So you are doomed to go to Oalt, A dreadful fate on you ls falling. Oh, Hawthornthwaite, past ts thy day, Thy last address Is surely spoken; Oh, Williams, sad lt ls to Bay, Thy cord Is loosed, thy bowl Is broken; And Harrington to working men Shall never more bo truthB revealing; Palsied his arm, his able pen Is rusting and his Ink congealing, O'Brien's head Is bowed In woe, His hopeful spirit now despairing; Welch's laat Joke Ib cracked we know, For he O'Brien's woe is sharing. Alf Budden wlll no longer write On working poor and wealthy loafers, But spend Mb time, both day and night, In raising wheat and catching gophers. Says Fulcher, "Here's a pretty fix, All propaganda I'm declining, To mixing mortar, laying bricks, In future In my mind confining; And all the boys of Winnipeg Have surely felt the Influence blighting, And said, "No longer we've a 1 ;g To stand on, what's the use ot fight, lng?" So utter ls poor Wrlgley's woe, Paralysis is on him creeping; Woodhouse, Green, Taylor, Farmilo, All down each other's backs are weeping. Palsied are Stewart's vocal chorda. And Oribbles' bald head strewn with ashes; While Roscoe Flilmores' saying words Which must be writ in dots and dashes. McKinnon mourns and Brodie sighs, McLeod In grief his form Is bending, While Hoar to Heaven lifts his eyes— But I this sad rhyme must be ending. What ls the cause of all this woe, Despair, rage, grief and lamentation?— The last line of this rhyme will show, Will give the needed information. Oh! Mc, tear up the mailing list, (The very thought my soul distress, es, I pause to wipe the tears which mist My eyes) destroy the type and presses. 'Tis useless now to longer seek To swell the Clarion's circulation, For twnety-flve whole cents a week Are cut off (tears and lamentation) It Is the Clarion's burial day, The time has come the hearse to trundle,— The doughty Glaspell writes to say THAT OALT HAS STOPPED ITS WEEKLY BUNDLE!! Propaganda Meeting Sunday Evening, 8 o'Clock ORANGE HALL Vancouver B. C. SATURDAY, JULY, 1«, 1910. THE WESTERN OARION, VANCOUV ER. BRITtSH COLUMBIA. Threa THE SOCUUST PARTY OF CANADA Tb1* Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive ConuBittees, Locals -tnd General Party Matters—Address All Coaamunications to D. G. McKenzie, Sec., Box 1688, Vancouver, B. C. BRANTFORD RESOLUTION. Dear Comrade:— The following resolution was passed by Local Brantford, Ont., No. 16, S. P. C. THAT WHEREAS the province of Ontario is in an unsettled state, which is seriously retarding the propagation of revolutionary Socialism, the sole reason (or our organization, and whereas said conditions are caused by certain members of the S. P. of C. taking objection to the Dominion Executive's alleged autocratic action, and whereas this Local ls desirous of seeing the mess cleared up, by taking lt to the last resort: namely the Party; WE therefore report ourselves as being In favor ot a referendum of the whole Party, and in view of the fact that some of the prejudiced members might be under the impression that there has not been a careful counting of the votes, we would ask that the voting of each and every local be published in the Clarion, thereby giving every local the opportunity of correcting any errors that have crept in during the counting. Yours for the line-up, A. "W. BAKER, , Secretary. S. BATSON. Chairman. WINDSOR OPINION. Dear Comrade McKenzie,—Recently I received a letter from Com. Llss of Berlin, who Informed me that a new Ont. Ex. Com. had been elected and that com. Lome Cunningham of Guelph was the Prov. organizer, also asking for contributions to assist in keeping a permanent organizer In the field. The following is a letter I have just mailed to Com. Liss, explaining my, or rather our, position, that is to say, those here who have In mind an organization known as the S. P. of C. Dear Com. Lies:—In regards to ac. tlon taken by Prov. Ex. Com., I must say I was somewhat Ill-informed of proceedings. When you wrote to me at first I was under the Impression that the Convention was recognized as a convention of the Soc. of Ont., or rather of duly authorized delegates and sane, tloned by the Dom. Ex. Com., but as I now know, the Dom. Ex. does not recognize the convention as a convention of the S. P. of C. on account of the parliamentary laws governing that body which makes lt Impossible for them so to do. Insofar as Windsor is concerned you can send an organizer here If you so desire but we who retain our interest In the Party cannot conscientiously give any support to him until this affair has been settled ln a manner that at least has the resemblance of party discipline. Windsor sorely needs organizing, but not so bad but what we can wait until new members will not be troubled with reading a lot of literature published inside the Party that is a disgrace to any man who has a desire to read something readable, not any "Nick Carter" blood and thunder episodes. You spoke of the organizer being armed with literature of all descriptions and sub. cards to papers and magazines published ln the II. S. and Canada. Don't you think that we have enough on our hands to accquaint new members with the activity confined to "our own" country; and Insofar as papers are concerned I do not know of a single Soc. paper published In the U. S. that can any where near be compared to the official organ of the S. P. of C, the "Western Clarion." Aa near as I am able to judge everything has gone along exceptionally fine insofar as Canada and Socialism ls concerned and we have no room for petty quarrels or personal feelings for when yon come to consider the territory we have to cover and every avenue of Information that the wage-slave treads along placarded with "Leave Socialism alone" staring him in the face it will require all of our energy and funds to eliminate these straw- men and brintj the plutos to a realization of Where they belong. Personally I would suggest that before any procedure, to Instruct all Locals not only ln Ont., but In Can. to assist Ont. ln settling for the good of the Party the differences that have arisen ln Ont. through what I believe to be a little hasty action. Yours in revolt, LORNE WILKIE, Windsor. F. Perry Tailor 884 PENDER W. ALL KINDS OF 'EM. Comrade Mc:— I have been to a slaves convention, and the wasted energy put forth trying ways and means to keep the union alive and trying to force up the price of labor power ln a falling market was criminal. The majority can't see this point by reasoning, but the masters will teach it to them soon. I listened to an Attorney-General speaking, and in fifteen minutes he told the slaves more in this town of St. Louis than their Republican Socialists would tell them In a year. Did you ever see a Republican Socialist, Mc? Well, there are all kinds of them in that city and lawyer ones too, and a platform as long as the tail of Halley's comet. But let us get back to the Attorney- General's speech. He told the workers that right now the foreign bankers and big sticks were investigating the Inflated curency, something like two billions and a half, and what did that mean, that we, the slaves would be ln the grip of another panic, worse than 1907. What was the worker going to do about lt? The trade unions where are they going to stand or Industrial unions? Nuff sed. And fellow slaves, according to Cotton's of June 23rd, Roosevelt ls going to form a new party and radical at that, and that-the Roosevelt club of St. Louis has launched it already. Well, it can't fool the workers any more than the So. clallst party of St. Louis, lt was so bad that the state officials have revoked their charter, and not before time. Five different factions. Something like the Ontario faction trying to pull themselves up by their boot laces, figuring that the lmposslblists who want the whole bakery are too slow, but that if we had a few sops on the platform we would catch a few stray votes, and making resolutions about affiliating with the International, when we have comrades in the small towns that are spending their few dimes they have left after paying for their stall and fodder, trying to spread the gospel of here and now, while the per capita tax would put an orgonlzer tn the Held, and give the slaves that stand at a lonely post some help to break down this wall of Indifference of the workers. There Is only one way that the Intellectuals or reformers lead and that Is to disruption. You can't fight the world behind Its back teaching the workers reforms and think after you have got them In to make reds out of them, It don't work right. Neither will the Manitoba Labor Party live long, any old Politician can use any plank in their platform and promise more except article 13. Fellow slaves nothing but the complete ownership of the machine will do us. Some of the machinery that is surely putting us to the streets and garbage cans. One man and two boys do the work of 1,500 men. One horseshoe machine does the work of 500 men. A nail machine does the work of 1,200 men. A modern saw mill takes the place of 800 men. One man by machinery does the work of 1,100 In making pottery In loading and unloading ships by machinery In Toledo or any dock, 2,000 men are displaced. Mr. Owens has invented a machine which is claimed will do the work of 50 men making bottles. Sheets of tin are fed Into one end of a machine, and at the other end complete tin cans are dropped out, at the rate of 38,000 per day; one child can operate the machine. These are bnt a few of the many Inventions, and about the same increase exists ln all branches of production, these figures are taken from the census reports and can be verified. How long, oh slave, how long are we going to be in competition for that hideous nightmare a Job. Well Mc. I have advised some Socialists In that country, the home of the free and the brave, to send for a bundle of Charlie's dope, and a bunch of Clarions, so look out for this order. It ls too plain to ault some, but It iB the beBt little sheet I see printed for the cause. A STEWART. STILL GOING. Apart from 3 meetings in British Co. lumbia, for over 6 months I have been doing propaganda work in various parts of Alberta at the expense of the master class, thanks not to me but to the slaves of the Rocky Mountain Riding. I took collections at most of the meetings, most of which I gave to local comrades. Some to the Bellevue comrades to help pay for their new hall, some to the Manitoba Campaign fund, and some to the Provincial Executive to help the other organizers. Ou the whole the meetings were encouraging. We need lots of organizers I am now helping the Manitoba Comrades. C. M. O'BRIEN. THE PROLETARIAN. "Far more demoralizing than even poverty lu its Influences upon tne workingman, is the insecurity of his position, the necessity of living upon wages from hand to moutn, mat in short which makes a proletarian oi him. I ."The smaller peasants are usually poor and often suffer want, but tfley are less at the mercy of acciuent; they nave at least something secure. Tne proletarian, who has nothing but his two hands, who consumes touay What ue earned yesterday, who ia subject to every possible chance, and hag not the slightest guarantee for being able to earn the barest necessities of life, whom every crisis, every whim of his employer may deprive of bread, this proletarian is placed in the most revolting inhuman position conceivable for a human being. "The slave Is assured of a bare livelihood by the self-interest of his master, the serf has at least a scrap of land on which to live; each has, at worst, a guarantee for life itself. But the proletarian must depend upon himself alone, and is yet prevented from so applying his abilities as to be able to rely upon them. "Everything that the proletarian can do to improve his position is but a drop in the ocean compared with the floods of varying chances to which he is exposed, over which he has not the slightest control. He Is the passive subject of all possible combinations of circumstances, and must count himself fortunate when he has saved his life even for a short time; and his character and way of living are naturally shaped by these conditions. 'Either he seeks to keep his head above water in this whirlpool, to rescue his manhood, and this he can do solely in rebellion against the class which plunders him and then abandons him to his fate, which strives to hold him in this position so demoralizing to human being; or he gives up the struggle against his fate as hopeless, and strives to profit, so far as he can, by the most favorable moment. To save is unavailing, for at the utmost he cannot save more than suffices to sustain life for a short time, while if he falls out of work, It is for no brief period. To accumulate lasting property for himself is impossible; and if it were not, he would only ceaBe to be a workingman, and another would taae his place. What better thing can he do, then, when he gets high wages, than live well upon them? "The bourgeoisie is violently scandalized at the extravagant living of the workers when the wages are high; yet it is not only very natural but very sensible of them to enjoy life when they can, instead of laying up treasures which are of no lasting use to them, and which in the end moth and rust (that is, the bourgeoisie) get possession of."—From "Condition of the Working Class In England in 1844," three years before Engels and Mar* together wrote the "Communist Manifesto." BRANTFORD, ONT. (tlon with which they operate. And you claim that all should be well-fed and The local here held a pic-nic on July | clothed and housed. Very good. Now, AMUSED. (Continued from Page 1) adaptive. An audience of Parisian intellectuals loves paradox and abhors platitude. Mr. Roosevelt, to a picked audience of Parisian intellectuals, ex- chewed paradox and delivered platitude after platitude and platitude after platitude. Now in the willingness to do that sort of thing and ln the ability to do it serenely, we have the secret for which some of us have been for some time searching, the secret ot Mr. Roosevelt's—no, not of his greatness, but of his unmistakable success. 'Whatever doubts there may have been as to the possibility of a second presidential term for Mr. Roosevelt, those doubts must have been dissipated by the oratorical performance of Tuesday last. Nothing can be more certain than that Mr. Roosevelt can once more be President of the United States it he bo desires." Most of the European papers have written In the Bame strain about Teddy. Herron's article, published last week, in the Clarion, contains much food for thought. There ls, however, one thing that his prophecy does not contain, and that ls the programme of the party that Teddy will lead to success. It may be that the election programme of Teddy's party will contain most of the immediate demands now advocated by our Comrades on the other side. LESTOR. OVER SS YEARS' EXPERIENCE Thadi Mams Desionb Copyrights Ac. Anyona sanding a sketch and description may ulcklr ascertain our opinion free whether aa ""ommunlce- onPstente (lulck'IT ascertain our opinion liiTenflon jsprohahlypat tlona strictly confidential. tlons strictly confidential. HANUBUUH on reunite sent free. Oldest agency for aocurlng patents. 1'atenta taken through Munn a Co. raealva tpecial *-*■*-, without charge, la tha SckMMic Hmcrkan. A tiuto-Mly UMtnfatf WMklr. Ugg* «ir- -nUIIm Oifttty teUaUQe Journal. Tern* for Ca-a-sBvd* fill m y«*r. »•«■- pwt»-»*d. Sold bf til iMwiiMdan. 1st In one of the parks. The Ontario locals -were well represented, and weather conditions were all that could be desired. A batch of sporting events were run off. Then came the feeding, after which short speeches were delivered by representatives of the various locals present. In addition to Locals Toronto, Berlin, Guelph, Gait, Woodstock, Hamilton and Brantford, there were also present quite a sprinkling of comrades of the S. L P. of Hamilton and Brantford and also a number of ex-members of the party from Toronto. As each of these sections spoke to the comrades present, it will be readily seen that a vast amount of educational work was done among the younger element and those who were from centers not in touch with the revolutionary movement. Comrades Farmilo and Taylor of Local 24 Toronto, stayed over in Brantford, and spoke the following night at the usual weekly propaganda meeting of Brantford Local. Both were new to this city, but delivered the goods in good shape from the box. A more deliberate dtlivery, which would enable them fo have a reserve fund, so to speak, would be a most valuable asset to both these men. This, of course, will come with a little more experience on the box. SOCIALISM: WHAT 18 IT? the Someone has said that of all books In the world, the Bible is most widely read and the least derstood. In a sense the same is true of Socialism. Men use the word glibly who scarcely comprehend Its real meaning. Others condemn all It stands for and yet could not tender a definition if asked to do so; while among the clergy, who are ever a drag on the wheel of progress, the word Socialism has of recent date become quite popular. Yet, ln pslte of the fact that the Socialist is abroad, and that Socialist literature Is to be found In every village and city of importance, there are hundreds who still ask, What is Socialism? The workev asks the question because he has been told that it means comfort for him and his class; tbe business man asks the question because he has been told that it means confiscation; and the girl in the mod' ern factory (or sweatshop) because she has been told that It means the breaking up of the home. What, then, is Socialism? To be quite plain, it is both an interpretation of history, and of how Society can be scientifically organized to conduct all industry in its own interest. It means that the producers of all wealth, the mental and manual workers, shall collectively own and control the land, mines, factories, and machines of production, and that ail comfort and well-being, socially created, shall be socially distributed. It ls the direct antithesis of the existing order of Society. Capitalism stands for private ownership of the means of life; Socialism for the collective ownership of the means of life. Capitalism for Production for Profit, Socialism for Production for Use. Capitalism for Wealth and Luxury for the Few, and Grinding Poverty for the Many; Socialism for Wellbeing for All, and the ending forever of Human Slavery. Well-being for all and the ending forever of human slavery! Contrast that with the present system, with Its armies of unemployed, Its Ill-fed children, its women walking beneath the lamps, compelled by forces over wbich they have no control, to sell their bodies to tbe wolves ot lust. "Ah," but some will remark, "those men are drunkards that won't work; and those Ill-clad children, their father spends his money In beer when he should buy them clothes; and that girl with the angel face that sells her body on the street, she prefers a life of sin and idleness to a fireside of content." But stay, friends, not so fast, and I will endeavor to explain the phenomenon of unemployment—the reason why children are Ill-clad; and the cause of that girl's downfall. And ln order to do this we must reason together; we must also understand a little about the present system of Wealth Production. I have said that Socialism is the direct antithesis of the present system; that Socialism means collective ownership of those things which today are privately owned by a few. You admit that a few own the land, mines, factories and means of transport; and that the great, bulk of the people own nothing, not even the tools of produc ts it not evident the great majority who own nothing must live somehow? And ln order to live they are compelled to ask the owners of the land and machines of production for work. The owners of those things, the capitalist class, are interested ln Profit, and only employ men and women when they can make a profit out of them—that ie, jWhen those employed can produce more than their wages. You will also readily admit that every new machine means a greater power to create commodities, with an ever-decreasing expenditure of human labor. And so, when fewer men and women are riqulred to produce food and clothing and do the necessary and useful work, and when we understand that this is going on ln all the spheres of Industrial activity, we have the reason why men are idle, children ill-clad, and women forced upon the Btreet. Men are idle, it is true, but it ls not their wish. Capitalism cannot employ them. Children cry for food,' but it is not because food ls scarce! There ls more than enough. And the girl on the street, she is there because under Capitalism she cannot live on the Wage offered her, or because she cannot get work; not because she deliberately chooses a life of degradation and shame. Socialism means In place of this disorder, harmony; in place of this want and woe, well-being for all, and (the opportunity for all to enjoy the ihe fruits of their labor—The International Socialist. Jffere and 9fi By Spee. A COMIC ORGANIZATION. What ls the matter with some of the boys out west, I.W.W. ism? Down this way It doe's hot seem so virulent. Anyway there are a few of them alight, ly touched and the disease expresses it. self in this form here, "I am not an industrial Worker of the World, but I am strongly In sympathy with them. There ls something lacking, don't you know about the Socialist Party's platform. Now if we had a plan of how we would run the machine of production when we have captured the political power!" Or else lt ls like this. "We must have an economic organization of the workers, thoroughly drilled and organized to work In conjunction with the political aim of the working class movement." At the Brantford picnic there was a case or two ln evidence, "I.W.W. Ism." I mean, I don't know the Latin terms that are used for lt. Cameron, of Hamilton seems to have lt bad though, and is taking it seriously too. A crisis ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ls evidently impending with him. At |™ent in full for energy expended by What a joy it is to be civilized. Civilization la the result of a slow course of development that throughout unnumbered ages haa been moulding the human Ego that' it might burst the shackles of savage darkness and emerge Into the glorious light of mind's supremacy over matter. It still survives though. When one contemplates the benighted life of the savage one Is, or ought to be, appalled. He, poor creature, never knew the delights of brandishing a modern municipal pick ln a civilized sewer. Nor of bending, with a fixed and glassy eye, over a typewriter for many hours in each fleeting day. He worried along for many years without being told that he had dizziness, sick headache, sinking spells, neuralga, rheumatism, lumbago, erysipelas, warts or corns and therefore needed Peruna. Nor was he ever able to purchase vast areas of reputation from the Muskeg Realty Co. Think of the energy he wasted, doing what suited himself, that might have bought champagne for the Southern Grabitt Investment Coy. To be civilized is a constant source of satisfaction to me. Were I not so situated it Is not likely that I should ever have had the privilege of going to work tomorrow nor of taking my place in the firing line at a lunch counter. As lt ls, I shall do both. The work may be greater or less, but the grub le not so uncertain, it will not be greater. And there will be a fly in my soup, but as there will also be one ln my tea, things will be even. Every day, I can read the paper and find out what a great country this ls, and every once ln a while I can go and hear a tall hat with some politician under lt, tell me what a great man I am. The savage knew none of these. Vicious creature, he actually beat the missionary who came with them Sad the glory of God, over the head with a club. • a a Twelve thousand, five hundred think. starters went to Manitoba to pry the workingman away from the old parties. • • a Local New Westminster reduces Its bundle to fifty as the secretary says lt is hot enough up there already. a a a John V. Hull, Port Moody, says "enclosed find" which hath charms and soothes the savage breast. He wants a bundle and some cards. • • • . "Bughouse" sends three dollars pay. that "Ontario Convention" he moved a resolution to endorse lt and at the picnic alarming sysptoms showed themselves at times. The good cheer, icecream, cake, sandwiches, etc, etc., however, seemed to act as an antidote and everything passed off O. K. That "Gourock case," should be pre. served ln a pickle jar In the political museum of an economic organization, it having already used up about ten columns of space ln the Western Clarion, besides provoking another fifteen columns of replies. Poor, sick, slave, he la not drilled and disciplined enough but ne wants more and he wants an organization with it too. You will get It and very soon, you will be drilled and disciplined so much by capitalism that you will howl and howl long and loud for political action. The discipline of producing wealth will surely bring you around. I have to suffer from capitalist discipline and I used to suffer from craft union discipline but the discipline of an I. W. W., or Industrial organization I would most certainly reject with contempt. Cut lt out Gourock, you are making some of our people tired, some of the women memberB here are commenting about you. Get a job, or If you can't, take something you have helped to produce and get arrested. The jail or a job should stop you from dreaming. You have too much time on your hands, otherwise you would not write so much and In writing so much you have weakened your case, if your arguments were sound, two columns would be all-sufn- clent Instead of ten. You are too practical, telling the working class what to do. Shut up, or tell them what Is the matter. Who told you that there would be a high state of Individualism under Socialism? Was It God, or Del- con or perhaps you have been there. I told you before that you had too much time on your hands. You are able to see these superior people or else peep Into the future. Get a job or get arrested. I am part of an economic organization producing wealth under a Capital 1st government and my number is 18. Local Vancouver S. P. of C. ANNUAL PICNIC BOWEN ISLAND Sunday, July 17th, 1910 Leaving Evans, Coleman & Evaus whatf at 10 a.m. Tickets, $1 each, can be obtained from Fred Perry, 834 Pender St. W., W. Alexander, Labor Hall, Cordova St.; or any member of tbe Party at Headquarters. ChiM'tR SOe S.S. "Britannia" Clarion staff fn solving his chirograpby. a a a Local Victoria by R. Thomas, secretary, sends nineteen fifty for bundles, card and button. Refused with thanks, a a a D. Forrest gets two In Vancouver. mat Ontario Is still In the ring. Com. Davenport Brantford renews and names another for freedom. a a a M. W. Smith, Beaverdell, forestalls the expiration of his sub, and has designs on another fellow's satisfaction with things ln general. a a a A notch ln the Socialist gun handle for each of these: J. Johnson, Vancouver, Harry Peters, Klnistino, Saak, Chas. Brooks Lethbridge Alta., and two dollars for the maintenance fund from H. Norman, Vancouver. BOURGEOIS BU8INES8 ABILITY. Vancouver has an eight-hour law for city work and the aldermen who hope to be re-elected are trying to enforce . it, but:—- "Owing to city contractors doing work for the B. C. Electric simultaneously with that for the city, It Is most difficult for Inspectors to distinguish between the men employed on city work and otherwise. It is alleged that contractor on Westminster avenue has been working his men ten hours per day in this manner. He alleges that from 8 o'clock In the morning until 5 p. m. hlB men are on city work, but from 7 until 8 In the morning, and from 5 until 5:30 in the evening they are employed on the B. C. Electric, grading and trackage work. However this works out, the same time sheets are apparently being used, and no difference la being made in regard to keeping track of tbe hours of work on each contract." The position Is yet more difficult and complicated than that. "Speaking of city Inspectors, his worship stated that he found that one of the Inspectors on Harris street had been ordered to work only from eight o'clock ln the morning until 5 p. ni., and after leaving work at night was not In a position to say whether overtime work had been going on or not." Pamphlets Now Ready Hazell's Summary of Marx' Capital C. M. O'Brien's Address in the Alberta Legislature Price Sc P«r 0m. lie Four THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION. How,many times in the course of discussion, are we confronted with the grave misconception attached to the word revolution. Webster defines it as a great or entire change in the reigns of government, yet the average mind tenaciously hangs on to the theory of blodshed, which often necessitates a considerable amount of argument to dispel. While many of the past revolutions have witnessed untold loss of life, this has more or less emanated from those affected rather than from the revolution proper. All can be brought under the heading of cause and effect. Take any of the most important re- volutons n the past, and cause and effect appear as a golden vlen running through our social system ln one unbroken chain, sometimes plainly visible upon the surface, at other times below, but always there. That vein is progress. We are never Btatic. That seems to me self-evident, yet the theologians ape-like ever continue to say that "as it was In the beginning is now and ever shall be," etc. etc. Such rot. Revolutions are the outcome of changes which are easily attributed to varying methods of production obtaining at whatever period we are investigating. Bread and all that It Implies appears at the root of all change. It is Inseparable from any of our social revolutions. Some may say that bread or the the methods of production have nothing to do with changes in the biological world, but such is not the case. The perfecting processes of production create changed or new environments which sooner or later affect in one way or another, the organisms in that environment. Then, again, it may be argued that it cannot have anything to do with the changes in our solar system, but again I say yes. Though .not directly, yet when we recognize the Marxian materialistic conception of history we also recognize that we would not, or couuld not, understand the constellations were it not for the methods of production necessitating a perfection In the realm of astronomy. Our critic might tighten up his forehead for his last attack, that of plant life. What has production got to do with plant life and the revolutions that take place there? Some can be easily explained, for Instance, the perfected cultivation of the soil can bring forth new species, which is done now from time to time artificially. But in wild plant life, temporarily, I will surrender many of these points that science has taken up in one form or another, have adequately demonstrated what a field of knowledge nature has yet In store for us. But to my mind the one thing that looms out prominently in the revolutions of the past is the greed and oppression brought to bear by the ruling class upon the working class, be they slave, serf, or "freemen." Heretofore the benefits of the revolutions have always gone to the next class In as cendency who were more or less the most Intelligent of the oppressed, who swayed public sentiment against the military or feudal malefactors, only to plunge them back again into a fiercer conflict of struggle than before. The cause is evident, the perpetuation of classes. Yet It has one redeeming feature about it, that is the tightening of the class line, the elimination of innumerable classes and castes ln society, causing, as it is doing now, for the first time in nlstory, two distinct classes, the exploiters and the exploited the propertied and the property- less, the workers and the shirkers. Well may we look with encouragement upon the Inevitable social revolution when we can dispose of class and caste antagonism for alh time. It is then we can say with absolute certainty, the era of civilization has arrived and not until then. There still remains another word in our vocabulary that causes misconception and which Is Inseparable from revolution, that is evolution. It seems to be one that calls forth quibble from our reformers, justifying the position they take, but to my mind It is the process of development leading up to the revolution or the intricate labyrinth of change that goes to make up and complete prior to the complete change which Is the revolution. Beyond that for the present, I do not mean to dwell upon evolution. Now, just a word upon the social revolution, Its causes and effects. The direct cause of the impending social revolution ls that the capitalist mode of production is obsolete and cannot minister to the adequate requirements of society. It has outlived Its usefulness, it has been useful in its day, but that day has long since passed. We hind, individual production, being now have gone beyond, or at least left be- In every sphere of industry occupied in social production. No article of any sort or kind Is produced today other than by collective labor. This ls also self evident, so I do not mean to dwell upon lt. But In the face of such collective efforts we still retain individual appropriators. What an anomaly. After actually co-operating In the production of wealth we allow a set of non-producers, aye, paraslteB, to take all above.what ls necessary to reproduce barely the labor power expend- THE WESTERN. CLARTQR VANCOUVER- BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, JULY, 16, ,1918. ed. Not only that but we alBO find that the surplus value extracted from the workers In the process of production is absolutely used to displace the workers from time to time, which affect them, being only human merchandise by cheapening the cost of production. The struggle Intensifies as capitalist production is perfected. The purchasing power of the workers is reduced until the master realizes that he cannot dispose of his surplus product. The mammoth machines stop and the consequences you all know, not only do the workers feel this inhuman contest, but the capitalists themselves suffer from the uncertainty obtaining from such a system. Emanating from this unhealthy system of competition the concentration of capital goes madly on, eliminating unnecessary factors in production, reducing the number of exploiters, yet Intensifying the exploitation. The system calls forth intelligent wage workers, who at last begin examining the fetters that are woven and Interwoven around them. They investigate the sypmtoms and arrive at the cause. The citadel where the power lies contains that magic wand that has so long been the means of blinding the eyes of the workers. They recognize also that nothing short of its capture will bring about the final consummation of capitalist exploitation, which also means the control of the might that goes to make the plutes so Invincible. That new force is already in the field; its aim and object is to collectively own what we collectively use. If lt takes co-operated labor power to run a flour mill, we logically conclude it should be co-operatively owned and all the forces ln production are making towards that end. Quite a number already realize lt; it remains for them, aided by the forces of nature for illustration, to in form their fellow slaves of these changes, so apparent to the Socialist. Only by their enlightenment can we avert a repitition of bloodshed in the coming revolution. Awaken to your class interest and humanity's future. The end is certain, the abolition of class antagonism, the Introduction of a collective order of society, the elimination of nine-thenths of our social evils. These are the effects of a social revolution. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, but you have a world to gain. F. WATKINSON, ANOMALIES OF CAPITALISM. The present organization of society has many anomalous and portentous features. Who has not been struck by the peculiar problem of a permanent class of the unemployed? In this coun try they are numbered by hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. Those in power have never dared to collect accurate statistics On this point (though the census laws have called it), except perhaps once in Massachusetts, and then the result was so startling* that it was never tried again. For most workers there is constant uncertainty of employment; periods of enforced idleness being frequent, and steady work exceptional. There is a sense of insecurity, of ever present fear for the future, that makes a dog's life of it at the best. Is there not something amazipg about such a state of affairs? It is admitted that every able-bodied man is capable of producing; by his work, value equivalent to subsistence, at least. No one pretends that the resources of this country are exhausted, or have been outrun by population. Nor does any one claim that there is such an abundance for all that it is unnecessary for these men to work. For we know well enough that, under present conditions, no matter how much he has produced, stoppage of work to the worker means starvation. It is also perfectly clear that every waste of labor power Involves a corresponding decrease ln the sum total of our national production and wealth. And finally, right in this body of the unemployed, are men of every occupation, fully capable of supplying each others needs, and willing, If only given the chance. Why, then, must any be idle? Why is this labor power wasted? Why can not these men get an opportunity to work? Is not the system which results ln such Involuntary Idleness, and can find no remedy other than a debasing charity, condemned by such fact alone? Alongside this fact of the enforced idleness of the men, consider the growing employment in our industries of women and even children in their places. It ls not for us to point the linger of scorn at the savage because he makes the squaws do the work! The census reports show that this evil is growing steadily. And as a direct result of lt, a danger is arising that threatens the very life of. our institutions, dependent as they are for their success upon the Intelligence of the people. The children are being kept out of the schools. It is estimated that in New York City alone nearly 100,000 children of school age are not in the schools. Ib not that system twice condemned, which not only forces idleness upon the men, but takes women from their homea and children from the schools to displace them, throwing the bur den bf the world's work upon those least able to bear it? Consider, for a moment, one other anomaly—perhaps the most striking of them all. With the concentration and organization of industries in the form of the pool or trust, it is frequently found that If the means of production at hand are fully utilized, the supply will be in excess, not, mark you, of the real needs of the people, but of the commercial demand. Then comes the first step in a vicious circle. Either a general curtailment of production is resorted to, or some of the factories are closed; which but increases the mass of the unemployed, of those suffering from the lack of the very things, possibly, which these factories might produce, and willing to work to get them ln plenty—and both Idle! How is it possible to defend the system which forces us into such an absurd deadlock—one so terrible in Its consequences; which restricts production, and even creates artificial famines for speculative purposes, while millions are getting barely enough to keep them alive, and millions more are so lottle removed from destitution that a few weeks' idleness would reduce them to pauperism? And take it tn the unregulated fields of producton, where competition is still a force. Here things drift helplessly round, periods of activity and periods of depression and panic following oue another with a certainty that can almost be predicted. All for a time seems going well, when suddenly we are confronted by the preposterous bugaboo of overproduction, that riddle which capitalism has never solved. For the shutdown to which lt resorts ls neither more nor less than a confession of absolute incompetency, and but Intensifies the evil by destroying what little purchasing power the workers may have. And with what result! Enforced idleness and consequent privation and suffering on the one hand, and storehouses filled to overflowing on the other. The workers reduced to beggary, not because they have exhausted (he resources of nature, but because they have produced too much! Were it not so trag- is in its results, such an exhibition of topsy-turvy-dom might seem a fit subject for the farcical pen of the author of Negative Gravity. It is the reduc- tio ad absurdum of capitalist production. And yet we are told It is the exhausting brain-work and the far-seeing sagacity of the capitalist which entitle him to filch from the workers such a disproportionate share of the product! Verily, "The rich man Is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out." These anomalies might be multiplied indefinitely. They are patent on every side to anyone who looks beneath the surface of events. Not merely normal features, they can be shown to result inevitably from the present constitution of society. When, therefore, the upholders of such a travesty of common sense throw stones at the Socallsts, calling them discontented cranks and visionaries incapable of logical thought, It ls at times difficult to decide whether to be more indignant or amused.—The People. WHY WE ARE HERE Dear Comrade,—Many and conflicting are the ideas expressed as to the policy of the S. P. of C. A good many of those who vote the ticket seem to have a hazy idea that the S. P. of C. nominate and run candidates for Parliament for the express purpose of dishing out such scraps of legislation as will tend to better the condition ot the working, class. In some mysterious way they expect that a handful! of men n Victoria and Ottawa will have the power to stick loaves In their mouths, demolish their two-by-four shacks and raise palaces wherein they might dwell. Having been led as they fondly think, as far back as history wlll take us (at least as far back ln the dim past as I have been) lt would seem that it Is beyond their mental ability to grasp the Idea that might is right. The Roman Empire was mortally wounded in the heart o. the empire by virtue of the fact that the Pleblans and slaves became so numerous as to be a menace and finally crush the power of the Patricians. It is safe to assume that the renegades of the Roman Empire thought they were being led, no doubt the mass of rebels thought they had ln their "leaders," a Moses or two. The workers of today (those who take the trouble to read literature that shows their position in society) find to their cost that after all their struggles they have only created a new set of political bosses, and since the workers are In a position to say who would write the law and see that they obeyed their dictates, the workers are the leaders, the skates whom they send to the halls of legislation are their tools (If the workers had savey enough). The S. P. of C. Is not in business to create a new set of political bosses. The membership of the S. P. of C. are determined fo once and for all do away wltb political bossism or any other bossism. Of course the S. P. don't want to do away with Capital. Bossism for the members of that worthy party like to hear the squeal of those who are starving, besides, It causes a pleasing grin on the face of the great God Capital. The position is this today, or rather the position through which we are passing. We find that those who keep our noses to the grindstone can only do so so long as they have control over those "beneficent" institutions—the police force, the army, the navy. Again we find that might is right. The ranks of these thug institutions are filled for the most part by proletarians, the very class to which we belong. Get control over these Institutions and the battle Is won. In order to awake tbe workers, to get them to claim their own, the S. P. of C. carries on a ceaseless educational movement; the battle cry Is, Labor produces all wealth, therefore to Labor all wealth should belong. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to win. There IS no denying the fact that Labor produces all wealth. Take the farming Industry. Begin at the land— the prairie of say Manitoba. It is there all right, but under what circumstances can you say it is wealth? Only when you can get sustenance for your flesh and bones from that land. Wheat, spuds, etc., don't grow on their own accord, so the land must go through some process before lt can yield the sustenance required. In this process there is a varied set of mechanical appliances used—plows, harrows and a whole lot of other things (which I, being a miner, am unfamiliar with). These tools did not drop from heaven like the manna. The metal had to be dug from the bowels of the earth, had to be fashioned in workshops, had to be transported to the farm and the formhand had to go through the same rigmarole as the other fellow before he could partake of that which Is essential for life, namely, the miner dug the metal, for his food, clothing and shelter, and got skinned In doing so, all others who take off their coats or work with them on, for that matter, likewise. 'Tis a funny world, those who toil mentally and physically, producing the wealth of the world (necessaries of life) expending their energy that they shall have the pleasure of being kicK- ed around by a few parasites. Barnum & Bailey never yet had a freak that could compare with this great human monstrosity. To show the workers the absurdity of their position is the mission of the S. P. of C. Once they grasp the situation they will cleave a way for liberty. It is impossible to conceive of coal being wealth ln its native state. When it is lying fathoms below the surface, what use is it? How much heat will It generate so that iron may be fashioned into useful mechanical appliances? One might mention an almost endless string of such questions. For instance, what would be the use of men burrowing in the earth for mineral when they cannot get sustenance directly? The greater the subdivision of labor for their bodies from the coal or metal the greater the productiveness of labor. By having a section of tbe human family trained to dig coal, another to fashion machinery, bake, plough, and so on, the workers can produce more economically. Hence we find today that the world Is a huge bakery wherein the workers, no matter what their calling may be, are but mere cogs in the wheels of machinery. So much so that, as has happened when a wheel, and on rare occasions a cog, refuses to act there is a great deal of friction which is liable to throw other machinery out of gear. All that is necessary for the production of weath is the expenditure of labor- power. The earth is here with all the family craves for, and to keep the wheels and cogs from refusing to act (strikes, etc.), to teach them that as tbey, the workers, are the salt of the earth, that there Is no need for them to punish themselves with starvation in struggling to keep their money wage as lt Is or raise it as the case may be, is why men are banded together in tbat organization known as the S. P. of C. J. RUTHERFORD. BY THEIR GODS YE 8HALL KNOW THEM. King George, ex-President Roosevelt, President Taft and President Diaz were recently made life members of the World's Sunday School Association Convention. The first is a small, weak, and otherwise unknown quantity. The second a large, strong, fussy man. The third Ib a rather substantial echo of the second. The fourth is the biggest tyrant in the New World as the Czar is in the old. He has also several savage specialties in the way of properly securing Mexican slave submission. And these be your Gods. Oh, Convention. George Bernard Shaw says somewhere, "The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone; the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. A limited monarchy is a device for combining the Inertia of a wooden idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one." Lestor. PLATFO Socialist Party of Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm onr allegiance to and support of the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producere tt should belong. The present economic system ie based upon capitalist ownership of the aaeaaa of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist la therefore master; the worker s alavs. So long aa the capitalist class remains ln possession of the reine ot government all the powers of the State will be used to protect and defend their property rights In tbe means of wealth production and their control of tbe product of labor. The capitalist system gives to tbe capitalist an ever-swelling stream ef profits, and to the.worker an ever-increasing measure of misery and degredation. 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 ls cloaked the robbery of the working class at the peint ef production. To accomplish this necessitates the transforma- tien 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 ln a struggle for possession ot the reins of government—the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure lt by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of the Socialist, Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic programme of the working class, as follows: 1. The 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 and management of industry by the workers. 3. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for use Instead of production for profit. The Socialist Party when in offlce shall always and everywhere until the present system Ib abolished, make the answer to this question Hb guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the interests of the working class and aid the workers In their class struggle against capitalism? If it will, the Socialist Party ls for it; if it will not, the Socialist Party ls absolutely opposed to It. In accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges itselt to conduct all tbe public affairs placed ln its hands in such a manner as to promote the interests of the working class alone. 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