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E. Peirce","@language":"en"}],"DateAvailable":[{"@value":"2017-03-21","@language":"en"}],"DateIssued":[{"@value":"1918-03-16","@language":"en"}],"DigitalResourceOriginalRecord":[{"@value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/pwv\/items\/1.0374085\/source.json","@language":"en"}],"FileFormat":[{"@value":"application\/pdf","@language":"en"}],"FullText":[{"@value":" Published by W. B. Peirce, In the Interest of Good Government\nTemperance, Single Tax and Sane Soclallim\nJ\nVol. XV, No. 3fi-15th Year\nVictoria, B.C., Canada, March 16th, 1918\n5c. a copy $2.00 a year\nLabor's Peaee Ultimatum to\nThe British Government\nWHAT ARE OUR RULERS PLAYING AT?   Day by day,\nhour by hour, even minute by minute, the chances of salvation are slipping away.   The sand runs low in the hourglass.   And what is Downing Street doing?\nThe Bolsheviks tried to save Europe by forcing a general discussion of peace at Brest Litovsk. Our blind statesmen ignored the\nopportunity of salvation, and proffered instead the wind and air of\nspeeches. We have said before, and shall say again, that Mr. Lloyd\nGeorge's speech was not satisfactory, not reasonable, not democratic.\nIt did not repudiate the secret treaties; it did not renounce all idea of economic war after thc war; it did\nnot agree with tho terms officially put forward by\nthe Labor Party. It loft us facing the probability of\nanother two years of war, and no decision except starvation, chaos, anarchy, plague and ruin at the end.\nTf ignored tlio only fact to wliich a true statesman\nwould pay attention\u2014tlio fact that tho whole world\nneeds peace, and needs it now. Nor, even if tho\nspeech had agreed with Labor's terms, would that in\nitself havo been sufficient, for Labor's terms were not\nterms for which Labor is prepared to force our soldiers to go on indefinitely fighting: Labor's terms are\nspecifically nnd openly a basis for discussion with tho\nBooklists mid Labor men of Allied and enemy conn-\ntrios. And they nre a compromise, agreed to for the\nsake of unity in the Labor nioveiiieiil. The states-\nnian who concentrates his attention on the moderate\ntone of the Nottingham peace resolution, and ignores\ntho lighting' tone of the rank and file all over tho\ncountry, is i.ot a statesman at nil, but an imbecile.\nFrom Woolwich, from thc Mersey, from Coventry,\nfrom the Clyde, one cry rings out\u2014courageous, explicit, uncompromising, challenging. It is the cry\nfor peace by negotiation now. Onr rulers will ignore\nit at their peril\u2014and at the peril of the world.\nTHE 1.NTK1INATIONAL UK-AWAKES\nGerman slrikers are met by their Government\nwith the plea that, if the British-French-Italian Alliance is allowed to become victorious, it will revive\nall ils old imperialist and annexationist demands.\nRemember Ihat by agreeing lo the secret treaties and\nrefusing to repudiate them, Mr. Lloyd Qeorge is\nguilty of haring lent substance to that plea. It is\na hardship on our diplomats, doubtless, that the workers of all countries can read. They have read the secret treaties. They know the shameful sort of terms\nwhicli the Governments of either side would impose\nif they could but secure a smashing military victory.\nThey know for what base aims the blood of the common people on both sides has been shed. Until we\nhave forced our Government to state explicitly its\nwillingness to negotiate on the basis of disarmament\nand \"no annexations or indemnities\"\u2014until we have\ndone that, or got rid of our Government, we are guilty\nof strengthening the Pan-German militarists in their\nefforts to stifle the democratic unheaval in their own\ncountry. For the sake of tho men at tbe front, if for\nnothing else, let us purge our soul of thnt blood-\nguiltiness! And let us note with gratitude and admiration that, in spite of the German Government's        \t\npleading and in spite of its repressive measures, our\ncomrades of ibe Labor und Socialist movement in Germany are putting up a grent fight for the principles for which we profess to stand.\nAustria, we know, lias been swept wilh strikes and demonstrations\nagainst tlie policy of annexation and in favor of a people's pence. How\nfar Germany has followed suit we are not allowed to know. But some\nsignificant truths bavo leaked out. We know how the \"Minority\"\nSocial Democrats\u2014the Bolsheviks of Germany\u2014carried Ibe Leipsic\nelections; we know how llie \"Majority\" Socialists have triumphed\nover the Conservatives nt the by-election nt Bautzen ; wo know of riots\nin Berlin and nt Munich; we know how Herr Ilotfnuiiiii, the Independent Socialist; hns warned the Prussian war-lords that they are\n\"(lancing on a volcano\"; we know that even the moderate \"Majority\"\nspokesman, Ilerr Scheidcmann, has likened the state of Germany\nto thnt of Austria before the strikes, and has warned his Government not lo play wilh fire; we know that lie has chosen this moment\nIn urge \"llie honorablo and complete reinstatement of Belgium\"\u2014\nthe very thing for which, and not for colonies in Africa or oil wells in\nMesopotamia, our brothers enlisted and died. We know that even the\nKaiser himself has been bitterly attacked by the Pan-German annexationists\u2014presumably for favoring a moderate settlement. And, if ho\ndoes favor a moderate settlement, we may be sure it is because he feels\nhis throne quaking; and if he feels his throne quaking, we may be\nsure it is because of the uprising of the German working class. Workers of Great Britain, these workers of Germany are fighting your\nbattle!\u2014against exploitation, against annexation, against militarism,\nLORD NORTHCLIFFE, HEAD OF THE HARMSWORTH PRESS\n\"Let me control the people's thought s and they can make their own laws\"\ncies and mad-hatter make-believes. When Lord Northcliffe and\nColonel Repington fall out, better men might come to their own. But\nit is idle to pretend the pot is less black than the kettle. We have got\nto sweep away the power and influence of Lord Northcliffe and Col.\nRepington and Jlr. Lloyd George and Sir Auckland Geddes\u2014the\nwholo breed must go. We bear them no personal ill-will. We do not\ndesire to punish them for what they have made others suffer. All we\nask for them is the poppy of oblivion, and for ourselves a sweeter\nworld in which their very names shall have ceased from significance.\nWo can fashion that world if we will. There is not the\nsmallest reason, outside our own acquiescence, why\nSir Auckland Geddes should have power to herd\ncripples and invalids into the army. There is not the\nsmallest reason, outside onr own acquiescence, why\nour comrades at the front should suffer the degradation of the death-penalty and field-punishment. There\nis not the smallest reason, outside our own acquiescence, why our comrades should fight for any objects they do not themselves approve. It is up to us.\nIt is not the business of incompetent generals or discredited politicians to order the lives of Britons. It\nis the business of the British people.\nWe trust the powers that be aro not going to play\ninto the hands of the German war-lords by attempting\nmilitarist coercion of the new vigilant spirit of Lnbor\nor by attempting a \"Prussian'' refusal of Labor's just\nnml reasonable demands. We demand from our rulers\nthe elementary patriotism which forbids the encouragement of the enemy. And let them make no mistake. Labor's cry for negotiation on fair terms is not\nthe cry of a minority. It is not a little thing, to be\nlightly brushed aside. 27ie Times tells us, with unconscious satire, that, the \"rank-and-file movement\"\nis confined to a minority' The Times is doing a poor\nservice even to that played-out pnrt of society for\nwhich it caters when it declares that the \"active\nunrest\" i.s \"largely confined to sections of the workers\nin a particular trade.\" As many resolutions demanding pence by negotiation have been passed by Unions\nof \"unskilled\" workers who are not directly con-\nneeled with the \"particular trade\" referred to as have\nbeen passed by the Engineers. In this mntter skilled\nand unskilled stnnd shoulder lo shoulder. It is not a\nquestion of \"dilutees.\" It is not a sectional question.\nIt is a question of saving the nation. Only Labor can\ndo it. And Labor nt long Inst has put ils hand to the\ntask. Il, does not shirk the responsibility. It is prepared, it intends, to take control. It means lo have a\nLabor Governmenl in this country, and to hnve it\nsoon. And meanwhile to the present Government it\nhas issued ils ultimatum. The terms are plain: only\nby iheir acceptance can Pnissianism bo defeated, n\npeople's peace be secured, and the world be mnde safe\nfor democracy.\u2014From The Herald. London, Eng.\nUncrowned King of Two Hemispheres\u2014Who British Labor lias No Use For\nagainst capitalism, against the continuance of a hideous and imnoces-\nsry slaughter.\nOur workers are not for poiicc-at-any-prioo. They do not contemplate a German pence. They do not contemplate the betrayal nf\nBelgium. Give them the assurance thai their sacrifices will nol be\nturned to evil ends, give them the assurance ihal ihey will be treated\nas free men lighl ing for freedom and not ns slaves or dogs, anil ihey\nwill fight on. They have snid il, und Ihey menu il. lint thoy will not\nlight mi for Mr. Lloyd George's dreams of rearranging the world, and\nthey will not fight on at the dictation of Sir Auckland Geddes. They\nhave said it, and Ihey mean il. They are nol impressed or intimidated\nby all the Government talk about man-power. Thev know how the\nGovernment bus wasted men. They know thul whnl is wanted now is\nnot more men, but more sense\nTHE I'l.TIMATI'.M\nFor heaven's sake let us have done with these tin-pot irrolevun-\n0\nXLY u short time ago Tin; Week stated that\nLloyd-George had gol pa.sl liis period of usefulness am! would have to slop down mid out.\nWe nlso stnted tbnt his declartion of war aims did\nnol coincide witli those of Labor\u2014tlie announcements\n  of ibe war press t,, ilie contrary notwithstanding.\nAnd we huve over and over again denounced the\nNorthcliffe Press\u2014und those men who echo for thorn\u2014as being absolutely opposed in (lie real sentiments of tho Labor Party in Britain.\nHow far we ure correel in our statements mav be judged bv what we\nreprinl today. We nsk our renders to rend every word of it\u2014and\nthen decide whether the men who ure responsible lor nrtiele\ning in our columns ench week ure u bunch of crazy ideulisl\nworth listening lo.\nThe lenders ul OttHWH wil! do well lo sil up und lake notice of\nwlm! is being said and done by llie Lnbor Party iu England.    Whnt\nui tliere is going on nil over the world\u2014in Cuiiuda\n\u25a0.   There ure troublous limes ahead nm'\nappear-\nor men\nis going\nel-ewliere.     i Mere nre tl'OUDlous limes nlieuil nml Ihese may He pre\npared for if warnings are heeded or they may lie aggravated bv bull\nheaded recklessness\u2014bul thev cannol be avoided.\nPeace and flu- world will have il.\nThe World minis\n Page Two\nTHE   WEEK\nSaturday, March 16\nLABOR AND CAPITAL\nJUDGE FREEMA'N writes in Monday's Times that, \"Thero is no\nsuch thing as war between Capital and Labor.\" Many things that\nthe worthy Judge has written have appealed to us as worthy of\nconsideration but this lust statement in an \"eye-opener.\" If he believes what ho says (and we certainly do not want to infer that he\ndocs not believe it), we wonder how he explains the fact that over\nand over again, in every country on the face of the globe, where\nCapital and Labor have met, lives bave teen lost in the continual\nstruggle which hns gone on. And not only that, but in all highly\norganized countries tho military power has been used in times of\npeace in crushing Labor in its struggles against Capital. Probably\nMr. Freeman bus some other name for it, but to us it looks so suspiciously like war that we are quite satisfied with that word as a\nname. As a matter of fact, the learned gentleman is very nenr the\ntruth in what he says, but not in the way he means it. There should\nbe no war between Capital and Labor. All thc fights and all the\nwars are in reality wars between Capital and Capital. Labor, unfortunately, has to do all the. fighting and receive all the punishment.\nIt is only because Capital is able to use Labor as an unwilling tool\nthat any wars can be carried on. When Capital Iwhich is, after all,\nonly accumulated labor) is controlled by Labor, instead of Labor\nbeing controlled by Capital, then wars will all cease.\nBISVIOP MACDONALD AND PATRIOTISM\nTIIE Bishop writes us \"one word more,\" in which he is not\nquite \"logical.\" He contends that his intention in keeping a\ncopy of The Finished Mystery is to uphold the law while that\nof the I. B. S. A. students is to \"defy it,\" and that therefore \"magistrates and judges will make a distinction between them.\" Unfortunately for his argument the magistrate has nothing whatever to do\nwith \"intention.\" The crime is having the book in possession. Doubtless anyone could prove (to his own satisfaction, at any rate) that his\n\"Intention\" was good, but that is not tho question. The law puts\nthe book in the same class as \"concealed weapons\" and good intentions do not count.\nThe Bishop also strains a point when he infers that Christ\ncommended the \"soldier.\" He commended the faith of the soldier.\nThe commendation had nothing whatever to do with the man's occupation. The Bishop knows that Christ had kind words for the harlot.\nHe will surely not want us to infer that it was because she was a\nharlot.\nWe also fail to see the truth of the Bishop's statement when ho\nsays, \"If the wnr is wrong and its prosecution a crime then arc our\nsoldiers not heroes but murderers most foul.\" This does not necessarily follofr. We believe that there are heroes unnumbered on both\nsides of the conflict. They are real heroes because they believe in the\ncause they are fighting for. The fact that they may bo mistaken does\nnot detract from their heroism. Heroes they are in spite of mistaken\njudgment, sometimes their own, more often that of those in authority\nover them.\nThe world has gone mad with tho idea that the winning of tho\nwar will \"make the world safe for democracy.\" Democracy was not\nsafe before the war and it will not be safe afterwards. No decisive\nvictory on either side will make the world any safer than it was before. Democracy will have to be made safe independent of any\nmilitary decision. It will be made safe by destroying the power of\nmoney, which is at the bottom of this conflict. Greed and fear will\nhavo to be replaced by unselfishness nnd love nnd thnt enn never be\nnccomplished while Mamon rules.\nPIGEONS AND SEED\nA CORRESPONDENT writes us that his endeavor to \"raise more\n*A    food\" is counteracted by the depredations of his neighbor's\npigeons, who ent up his seed as fast as he puts it in.   His\ncomplaint is worth the attention of thc city fathers, as it is certainly\npretty expensixe work feeding \"strays\" on garden seed.\nTHE BOLSHEVIKI AND WORLD PEACE\nWE have just received a copy of the book by Trotski.. It is a\nbook written by a man who six months ago lived in a\nBronx (New York City) tenement and had to borrow\nmoney to buy furniture. Today, no matter what the press says about\nhim, he occupies the position of foremost statesman in Europe. Next\nweek we will publish the substance of his message to the world. We\nwill also give a summary of Mrs. Henry Hobhouse's defence of the\nConscientious Objector, \"I Appeal Unto Caiser\"\nELIHU ROOT ON .WAR AIMS\nTIIE man who went over to Russia to tell the Revolutionists how\nto run things, and whose paternal advice was so little appreciated, has teen giving his ideas of why America is in the war.\nHo says: \"This is not a war about boundaries or provinces, or\nthe distribution of territory; it is not a war which we are entering be-\ncuuso ships were sunk, because plots have been laid and carried on\nwithin our boundaries, or because attempts have been made to foment\nattacks and partition our territory; it is not a war for Serbia or\nAlsace-Lorraine, or even for Belgium. It is a war to determine\nwhether this world shall go baek under the domination of the Prince\nof Darkness, out of tho light, baek to the days of despair and ignorance and slavery, or whether the God who is just and, compassionate\nshall still smile on this universe.\"\nThis is putting things in a new light. The things he says Uncle\nSam hns not entered tho war for are the very things wo have heen\ntold over and over again thnt he did enter the war for. It sounds\nvery nice and noble to say that wc are fighting only to destroy the\nPrince of Darkness, but it becomes necessary to make it clear how\nto do so\u2014and how and when we are to know that he is destroyed.\nWith thnt end in view, certain definite aims are stated and these are\nthe very aims .Mr. Root says he is not in the war for. Up-to-date, instead of destroying tlie Prince of Darkness, tho belligerent nations\nhave destroyed somewhere near 14,000,000 of God's children, and\ncrippled about 70,000,000 more. The Prince of Darkness, in plnce\nof being killed, seems to hnve extended his \"territory so fnr beyond\ntho Central Powers where he is supposed to hnve originated that he\nnow controls the mind of most of the people of the globe. Tho power\nof hate is dominating tho whole world and love is fast being\ncrowded out.\nWhen Mr. Root says that this is a war \"that God may still smile\non the universe,\" one is tempted lo suggest thnt it is more likely to\ncause the Almighty to weep. Mr. Root seems to hold the idea that\nGod is pretty well cornered np over this wnr, and thnt unless Uncle\nSam gets busy He may stand a chance of being beaten altogether.\nIf we thought Mr. Root's idea was correct we should be sorry\nfor God, but we do not believe it is, so we are sorry for Mr. Root.\nGod will smile again on the world, of thnt there is no doubt\nwhntever, but not becnuse Uncle Sam licks the Kaiser and crushes\nthe Prince of Darkness but because each nation purges itself of the\nevils in its own borders and so nbolishes the cause of all war.\nMORE FRIGHTFULNESS\nHOWARD HEINZ, federal food administrator for Pennsylvania, speaking at a luncheon of food officials on March 4th\nsnid: \"We will not be a strictly free people until 10,000 German propagandists in this state have been hanged to telegraph poles\nand shot full of holes.\" If Mr. Heinz means what he says the only\nplace for him is in a lunatic asylum. Similar quotations, if made by\na resident of Berlin, would be bailed as another example of the awfulness of the \"Hun,\" but apparently the statement went down all right\nacross the line. It's fanny how differently things look from different\nangles.\nTHE EMANCIPATING REVOLUTION\nLIKE many others who have refused to te carried away by the\nwave of national and imperial self-righteousness, which has\nborne all the belligerent nations along in self praise, Mr. Edw.\nCarpenter sees clearly, and in his recent book, Towards Industrial\nFreedom, sets forth convincingly tho fact that what made the great\nwar inevitable was mainly the hopeless falsity of tho social and industrial conditions prevailing iji the countries concerned\u2014the falsity of\nundemocratic societies divided into classes whose chief object in life\nwas to prey upon each other; the falsity of a so-called social order\nwhich ignored tho rights of women; and thc falsity of an industrial\nsystem whose real object was not public welfare but private gain, not\nthe production of goods for use but the exploitation of labor for profit.\nRobbery and strife, more or less covered over and concealed by canting phrases, have eaten deep into the heart of these nations, and that\novi# a long period; and now at last we see that it was inevitable that\nsome timo this spirit of enmity and inhumanity, this internal disease,\nwhich has for so long afflicted us, should break forth and come to the\nsurface, if even in the thunder of guns and the drenching of Europe\nwith blood.\" The emancipating revolution that Mr, Carpenter hopes\nfor, works for, and expects, is not primarily a change of institutions,\nthough, of course, it will bring this along: it is largely and primarily\na change in people's mental and moral attitude towards life, a change\nin their estimate of values.\nPARROT TALK\nSOME animals have the power to imitate other animals, and some\nbirds\u2014parrots, for instance\u2014can give a remarkable imitation\nof the human voice. But it is only an imitation. A parrot will\nsay, \"Polly wants a cracker,\" \"God bless our home,\" and \"G. d.\nthe Kaiser,\" all in one breath without having the faintest idea of\nwhat he is talking about. And some editors seem to have the same\nremarkable ability to repeat sounds and sentences they have heard\nor read, with just about as much intelligence as the parrot.\nThe editor of the Colonist in one of his remarkable efforts to\nprove the futility of attempting to conscript wealth says: \"Certain\nfundamental operations, suicide, for instance, can only te performed\nonce.\"\nOh! You Colonist I Don't you know that there is nothing \"fundamental\" about suicide\u2014even if you did copy the phrase from United\nEmpire.\" A thing to be \"fundamental\" must be \"fundamental to\nsomething. If you think that suicide is fundamental to anything\nplease give us a practical illustration and The Week will furnish all\nthe flowers. We pay for our copy of the Colonist and feel that we are\nentitled to something for our money. When you cut out all this\n\"parrot work\" and give the public something original wo will feel sure\nthey will be getting tetter value.\n\"NEXT OF KIN\"\nTHE WEEK would like to know why a motion was brought up at\nthis Association barring any officer from holding office in a\npolitical organization. No man or woman who has any grit\nin him or her can keep out of politics just now and we fail to see why\ntheir active participation in any political organization makes them\nless able to do useful work in the \"Next of Kin\" Association.\nThe great danger of all such organizations is the tendency to\ndrift into the hands of one class of people and so become only a part\nof a political machine, and we fear that the resolution referred to\u2014\u25a0\nwhich may have been introduced with the host intentions\u2014will have\ntlio effect of making the \"Next of Kin\" only an offshoot of the Union\nGovernment.\nTHINKING TO ORDER\nIT is sometimes rather puzzling just to guess whore the grandmotherly effusions of our dear old grandmotherly contemporary\non Broad Street come from. Hitherto charity has demanded\nthat its editorials should te regarded as wholly and entirely original:\nin which case, wc confess, there sometimes arises a suspicion of\u2014well,\nhardly of insanity\u2014but at least of senile decay. Readers of The\nWeek can therefore imagine with what a sign of relief wc made thc\ndiscovery just the other day that our grandmotherly friend is neither\noriginal nor jret insane.\nBut to explain. There is a magazine, by name The United Empire, published in London by the Royal Colonial Institute. This magazine stands for capitalism in its most blatant, vulgar and most self-\nrighteous form. It is the ultimatlmle of self-righteous imperialism,\nand nil the worst reactionaries of democracy.\nWe have found that the Colonist is a student of the said United\nEmpire.\nTn the February number of this grand imperialistic mngnzine,\nthere is an nrtiele in which thc writer flnys thnt arch-enemy of\nplutocracy and imperialistic puffiness, Mr. Sidney Webb, and with\nhim the whole Fabian Society. Mr. Webb and his friends of Fabian\nSociety fame have had tho audacity to demand of the Government u\nfurther move in the conscription of wealth by putting a tax upon\ncnpitnl. And this is whnt the imperialistic editor of the United\nEmpire, says:\u2014\n\"Like all fundamental operations, such as committing suicide, it\ncan only be done once wilh any real effect; if you take away a man's\ncapital, you cannot do it a second lime until he has accumulated il\nagain, and he may not feel the same inducement to do so when a precedent has bene created.   That was precisely the difficulty with which\nmediaeval kings found themselves faced when they got money from\nthe Jews by the expedient of knocking out their teeth; nature, by an\ninexcusable lapse, hnving forgotten to provide the Semites with a third\nset of molars, there came a time when they had no more teeth to be\npersuaded with.\"\nNow let the reader compare the above with this which appeared\nin the Colonist as an editorial on Saturday, 9th March:\u2014\n\"It has teen pointed out that like all fundamental operations,\nsuch as committing suicide, a policy embracing the conscription of\nwealth could only be carried out once with any real effect. In taking\naway a man's capital'you cannot do.it a second time, or certainly\nnot until it has been accumulated a second time. No ono whoso wealth\nis once conscripted will feel the samo inducement to accumulate\nmoney again. That is one of the main objections to a capital tax on\ncnpitnl. M. Lenine hns tried this conscription of wealth idea in Russia and has brought ruin upon the country. Certain of the English\nSocialists, including Mi-. Sydney Webb and the Fabian Society, aro\nurging a capital tax on capital.\"\nWo have nlwnys contended that one of thc prime qualifications\nof a capitalistic editor is that he shall not think with his own brain\nbut to the order of the superior brains above him. This, no doubt,\naccounts for a good deal of what might otherwise be explained on the\nground of pure ignorance or mental aberration.\nBLUE-BEARD'S CUPBOARD\nTHE Militia Department has decided to hold an inquiry into\nthe treatment of returned soldiers aboard the transports, but\nthe inquiry is to be held in secrete What is the matter ? Why\nsecrecy ? The reason is that the Militia Department has already had\na peep into thiB Blue-Beard's cupboard and is determined to keep the\noutside public from finding out more than would be good for them\nnbout military methods of heaping honor upon fhe heroes who have\nbeen risking their all for the sake of a grateful country. If the Militia\nDepartment cares to go into this matter thoroughly thoy will have a\njob that will last them for a long time after the war. Some of the\nboys at the Front will have their stories to tell if they aro only allowed\nto tell them, but why waste time\u2014tho thing is never likely to happen.\nPATRIOTISM OF UNCLE SAM\nACCORDING to the New York Call, the United States is fast\nbecoming Socialistic. It is seizing the property of nonresident German and Austrian enemies; and also the property\nof American girls who married German and Austrian counts. Gladys\nVandcrbilt, who married a Hungarian count, left behind $9,000,000\nworth of property. Tlie total seizures will run up to $1,000,000,000,\nand all this will te exploited by the American Government in the\ninterests of the war. When Uncle Sam does this, it is right, of course.\nIt is a most noble, most virtuous act of patriotism. But if tho Bol- \u25a0\nsheviks of Russia had done such a thing it would have heen looked\non as the crime of a set of ruffians and revolutionary cut-throats.\nO, Consistency! thy name is \"mud\"!\nBRITISH MILITARISM\nA recent letter from one of the Cnnadian boys who has been at\ntho front and is now resting in England says that \"British militarism\nand British pride are far worse than anything he has ever known of\nthe Germans.\"   Hush, or you will be banged as a pro-German!\nEIGHT-HOUR DAY\nMine-owners oppose the eight-hour day for miners now before\nthe local house. The one way to meet their arguments is to compel\n\u25a0 them all\u2014shareholders included\u2014to go into the mines themselves,\nand do the ten-hours' work which they argue is necessary to save the\nempire. Otherwise let the Government take over the mines and send\nthese dollar bill patriots to] work for an honest living.\nPREMIER OLIVER TO EX-PREMIER BOWSER\n\"I say tho Attorney-General (Bowser), who was sworn in to\nadminister the law, wns himself the grentest law-breaker in the Province. I will go further and say that not only is ho dishonest, but he\nhad no regard for his oath.\"\n\"When he (Bowser) impugnes the record of this Government\nin this time of stress, nnd attempts to compare it with tho record he\nhas behind him, he perhaps can hardly bo held accountable for his action.   It is time, I think, we had a commission in lunacy for his case.\"\nAll this makes fine reading.\nTHE  DAWN\nThere's a movement in the tree-tops, nnd n stirring in the grass;\nAnd the corn bends its head.\nThere's a whisper in the wind, as of things about to pass,\nWith a hint of dread.\nAnd the little moon is dropping down the arches of the sky,\nWhore the clouds lie curled.\nFor the great Red Dawn's a-glimmer in the firmament on high,\nThe groat Dawn of tho world.\nThere's a sound of portals bursting nnd the smashing through of bars,\nAnd old vnlues full nwny.\nIn the East the age-bound giant breaks his chains, ami sees the stars\nAnd salutes tho day.\nThere's a sound of voices singing and tlie tramp of many feet,\nAnd a cry of mirth,\nFor tho great Red Dawn's a-glimmer that the nations come to meet,\nTho great Dawn of the Earth.\nAnd Poland in her agony, and Belgium in her tears,\nHear tho trumpet call.\nFor tho peoples will shake from them the tyrannies of years,\nAnd the idols fall;\nFor the mighty quake and shiver and the evildoers pale\nAt tho march of fnte.\nFor tho grent Red Dnwn's n-glimmer over the hill nnd over vnle,\n\u2022The grent Dawn's at the gate.\nAnd Ireland lifts her forehead up, in spite of mortal pain,\nAs her sons arise.\nLo! the blood of that red Easter wns not shed for ber in vnin,\nAnd hope fills her eyes.\nThey nre coming\u2014they are coming, from the ends of all the earth,\nWhere the clouds lie curled,\nAnd the great Red Dawn's a-glimmer over freedom come to birth\u2014\nThe great Dawn of the world.\n\u2014r-The ^Herald, London\n!\n {Saturday, March 16\nTHE   WEEK\nPage Three\n! LABOR'S PEACE ULTIMATUM TO THE\nBRITISH GOVERNMENT\nThe week of February 2nd was big\nwith events in the people's push for\npeace.\nTwice Sir Auckland Geddes bas addressed\u2014and, what is more important,\nhas had to listen to\u2014great audiences'\nof the working men whom he has been\nmaligning; and the London District\nVigilance Committee of the A. S. E.\nhas held a monster meeting inside\ntlio Albert Hall and\u2014because tliere\nwasn't enough room\u2014outside it. We\nprint below the resolutions passed at\nthese meetings and at many others.\nThey give the lie to Parliamentarians\nand pressmen who pretend that this\nis a \"send the other man\" movement.\nIt is the beginning of the PRACTICE\n\u2014we have long had the theory\u2014of international Socialism. It is the reflex\nin this country of the great industrial\nmovements for peace in Germany,\nAustria and Italy. \"We will fight,\"\nsay the workers, \"agninst imperialism, but NOT for secret treaties, NOT\nfor Alsace-Lorraine, NOT for the\n'sacred egotism' of Italy, NOT for\nGerman eolonics.\" IT IS AN ULTIMATUM TO THE GOVERNMENT.\n\"Fourteen   Thousand   Londoners\nKnow the Reason Why\"\nThe mass meeting held at the Albert Hall, London, on January 27, was\na triumph for the London District\nVigilance Committee of the A. S. E.\u2014\na triumph alike for their power of\nquick organization and for their accurate diagnosis of the exact feeling\nof their membership. Ten thousand\nmen were packed inside the hall, and\nanother four thousand had to be content with an overflow meeting outside.\nThese magnificent numbers were\nmatched by the splendid enthusiasm\nand high purpose of the meetings. The\nnote of the speeches and of the cheering audience was that of internationalism. True, the A. S. E. sectional grievance was there, bnt the\n| meeting did what the A. S. E. Executive has seemingly failed to do\u2014it\nsaw it in proper perspective as a very\nlittle thing, nnd an nlmost selfish\nthing, by comparison with the new\nvision of peace through internationalism which has been revealed to the\npeoples of the world, and to our own\npeople not least, if last. It cannot\nbe too strongly emphasized that the\nmeeting made no demand for the continuance of its own protection at the\ncost of others. Its whole-hearted demand was for thc extension of that\nprotection to EVERYONE\u2014in other\nwords, for peace. From that same\nplatform four years ago, at a Herald\nmeeting, as one speaker reminded the\naudience, Jim Larkin had given new\nemphasis to the gospel \"An injury\nto one is an injury to all.\" This wus\nthe implicit message of the Herald's\ndemonstration to hail the Russian\nRevolution last March; this was the\ninspiration of last Sunday's great\nmeeting.\nNo report ofthe speeches was made,\nos the meeting was a private one; but\nwc cannot refrain from referring to\nthat of Lance-Corporal Hayward, who\nturned the tables on those who beg\nLabor to be quiescent at home \"for\nthe sake of the men at the front.\"\nIn the name of those very men he adjured his hearers to concentrate on\nthe means of getting peace as our only\nway of serving them. It was a moving speech, and one whicli contributed\nlargely to the fine feeling of the meeting. Our friend Robert Williams, who\nwas given a great reception, took the\nprecaution of reading a statement, instead of resting upon the reporting\ncapacities of the Government agents\nwho were doubtless present. Denouncing the official control of news, Robt.'\nWilliams showed how the Government, by suppressing lho true and suggesting the false, had nude a great\ngulf between the democracies of the\nbelligerent oountries. We, on our side,\nhad taken no action likely to hamper\nmilitary operations because we felt no\nassurance that similar action would\nbe taken by organized Labor in the\nadversary countries, while the German\ndemocrncy was bound hy the same uncertainty. \"I am credibly informed,\"\nhe said, \"that a well-known Social-\nDemocrat in Germany conveyed to\nsome of our Russian friends the statement that there aro a million and a\nhalf munition workers in Germany\nwho would take action to stop the\nwar if they were assured that action\nof a similar character would take\nplace in Great Britain.\" An International meeting would mnke all clear\n\u2014and that was why the capitalists\nand junkers opposed Stockholm, and\nthat was why Stockholm must be. In\na spirited passage, which was cheered\nagain nnd again. Williams argued that\nus long as we willed the wnr we must\nwill the means to war, but now that\nwc will the peace we must will the\nmenns to peace. That peace was within lhe reach of Labor, by whom all\nproductive lnbor and useful services\nare carried on. He suggested that in\nthe Shop Steward movement there was\nthe nucleus of a strong, revolutionary\nsystem of Soviets, which would express the will of Labor and leave.on\none side the present effete and unrepresentative House of Commons. \"The\nproletarians have nothing to.lose but\ntlieir chains; they have a world to\nwin. Working men, of all countries,\nUNITE!\"\nOther speakers were: Messrs. Bradley (distirct secretary, A. S. E., (London), Gregory (Arsenal Shop Stewards), Porter (Toolmakers), Howard\n(S. I, M.), Joy (Woodworkers' Council), Tanner (A. S. E.), and Swales\n(Executive Council, A. S. E.) The\nresolution was carried with a unanimous and one-voiced roar of approval.\nIts cold and capable phrasing, hiding\na passion of conviction which the\nGovernment will do ill to ignore, is as\nfollows:\nThat this mass meeting of London\nworkers in the Engineering and Allied\nTrades demands that the British Government enter into immediate negotiations with the other belligerent\nPowers for an armistice on all fronts,\nwith a view to arranging a general\npeace on a basis of self-determination\nof all nations, no annexations, and no\nindemnities. Should such action demonstrate that German imperialism is\nthe only obstacle to peace, we express\nonr determination to co-operate in the\nprosecution of the war until those objects are achieved. Tailing such action\non the part of the Government, we\npledge ourselves to act with the organized workers of Britain in resisting\nthe man-power proposals of the Government. We further demand acceptable Labor representation of all countries at the proposed International\nConference in order to ensure a people's peace.\nMerci, Mersey I\nBetween five and six thousand men,\nAND Sir Auckland Geddes, attended\na meeting on Sunday, January 27th,\nconvened officially by the Mersey District Engineering and Shipbuilding\nTrades Federation. The proceedings\nlasted for four hours. Sir A. Geddes'\n\"explanations\" of the Man-Power\nproposals were riddled by the audience, but he was allowed all the time\nhe needed\u2014probably much more than\nhe WANTED\u2014to state his case. The\naudience concerned themselves less\nwith the details of the proposals than\nwith the great general issues. The\nGovernment spokesman was called upon to answer a large number of the\nquestions proposed by the Herald last\nweek. The measure of his failure is\nthe fact that the following resolution\nwas carried 'at the end of the meeting,\nbut before Sir A. G. had left thc hull,\nwith only two dissentients:\nThat this mass meeting of workers,\nofficially convened by the Federation\nof Engineering and Shipbuilding\nTrades, pledges itself to resist hy all\npossible means any further call upon\nthe remaining man-power of the nation, unless the Government immediately intimate their willingness to\nadopt the war aims as laid down by\nthe Labor Party, permit and facilitate\nthe holding of an International Workers' Conference, and agree without\ndelay to conscript wealth.\nGlasgow and Geddes\n'' There had been a good deal of loose\ntalk as to the number of \u25a0 men to be\nsecured and the trades from which\nthe men were to be drawn . , . Tliere\nwas a feeling that some men did not\nunderstand the proposals.\"\nSo said the Director of Man-Power\non his arrival in Glasgow on Monday;\nand he proceeded to try to make the\nidiots understand. The effort took\n'three hours, and the results were perhaps not satisfactory. To a gentleman who is convinced that this is no\nmore thnn a \"Save-Onr-Skins\" movement, the Clyde workers must have\nseemed strangely unconcerned about\nthe details of his precious scheme. As\nat the Albert Hall, us at Liverpool, as\nin every industrial centre, the topic\nof interest was the use lo which the\nmillions of other men have already\nbeen put and lhe use to which the new\narmies (if any) were to be put. To\nthe-singing of \"The Red Flag,\" the\nfollowing resolution, which was proposed and seconded by our comrades\nMcManus and Gallagher, was put to\nthe meeting and carried amid enthusiasm. There were less than a score\nof dissentients in a meeting of many\nthousands:\nHaving heard the case of the Government ,as stated by Sir Auckland\nGededs, this meeting pledges itself to\noppose to the very uttermost the Government in its call for more men. We\ninsist on and pledge ourselves to take\naction to enforce the declaration of an\nimmediate armistice on aU fronts, and\nthat the expressed opinion of the\nworkers of Glasgow is that from now\non, and so far as this business is concerned, our attitude all the time and\nevery time is to do nothing in support\nof carrying on the war, but to bring\nthe war to a conclusion.\nNatural history note from Glasgow:\n\"The Great Auck. is now extinct.\"\nOther Resolutions\nWe give extracts below from a few\ntypical resolutions out of the very\nmany that are reaching us from all\nover the country. They have all been\npassed with enthusiasm during the\npast week. Well done, Comrades! It's\nthe kick that does it!\n\"That this meeting determines to\nresist, by every means in its power,\nany proposal of the Government for\nfurther conscription of men, and demands that the Government accept the\ninvitation of the Rnssion Revolution*\nary Government to participate in\nnegotiations for a general peace.\"\u2014\nAircraft Industry, London District\nCommittee.\n\"That this meeting pledges itself to\nresist any comb-out, on the grounds\nthat dilution will result in the breakup of the Trade Unions, and will\nagitate that the Government shall at\nonce facilitate the holding of an International Labor Congress to arrange\nan immediate peace, and that simultaneously a Referendum of all thc\nsoldiers and sailors now serving be\ntaken .... and that surplus wealth be\nconscripted.\" \u2014 Allied Engineering\nWorkers, South London.\n\"That the m\/embers of the Bristol\n6th A. S. E. are resolved to resist the\nman-power proposals of the Government and demand that the Government shall at once accept the Russian\nGovernment's invitation to consider\npeace terms. They also demand the\nimmediate conscription of wealth, and\nthat adequate provision shall be made,\nas a right, for all victims of the war.\"\n\u2014Bristol 6th A. S. E.\n\"We call upon our E. C. to convene\na meeting of the Triple Alliance at\nthe earliest opportunity to compel\nthe Government to withdraw the Man-\nPower Bill, as we think thnt men have\nbeen wantonly wasted in the war, and\nsee in it only a means to unduly prolong the same. We demand that the\nGovernment shall call an International Peace Conference at once.\"\u2014\nN. U. R., Clapham Common.\n\"That we, believing thc ultimate\nobject of the Man-Power Bill is to\nsmash organized Labor, call upon the\nGovernment for the complete withdrawal of the Bill. Further, we urge\nthe necessity of immediately calling\nan International Peace Conference.\"\n\u2014Strood A. S. E.\nThe resolution passed by the Shop\nStewards National Conference (which\npledged resistance to the Man-Power\nBill unless thc Government (1) entered into immediate peace negotiations\nalongside of . Russia, and (2) conscripted wealth) was unanimously endorsed.\u2014Acton A. S. E.\nThe Reading Branch of the National Union of General Workers (a\nbranch with 5,000 memb\u00bb;'s) has carried, without opposition, a resolution\nthat the decision about the Man-Power\nBill should not be taken by the' E. C,\nbut by the men whose lives and limbs\nare at stake\u2014the rank and file. The\nworkers at the Ogerton Motor Company. Acton, \"unanimously regret the\nMan-Power proposals, and ore prepared to take immediate action with\nthe workers up and down the country.\" The Haslington Branch N. U.\nR. support Labor Party terms. Strong\nresolutions of the National Warehouse\nand General Workers' Union are reported from Derby and West Brom-\nwich.\nAt a packed meeting at the Birmingham Town Hall, Tom Mann presiding, a resolution was unanimously\ncarried (1) congratulating our comrade Litvinoff on his appointment us\nAmbassador', (2) recognizing the\nsplendid service of the Bolsheviks in\npublishing the secret treaties, which\nproved that the real struggle was not\nbetween this group of countries, bul\nbetween democracy everywhere on the\none hand and capitalism, militarism,\nand hypocrisy on the other; (3) calling on the workers everywhere to depose their imperialists.\nAs we go to press we hear thai u\nresolution identical in terms with Hie\nAlbert Hall resolution has been passed\nby a mass meeting of the Wolwicli,\nErith. Crayford and Dart ford\nbranches of thc Society of Amalgamated Toolmakers. \u2014 The Herald,\nLondon, England.\nIN MEMORIAM\n(TO PREMIER BREWSTER)\nFarewell, departed friend,\nThe Premier place was thine\nWithin the hearts of men\nA friendship near divine.\nYea, faithful unto death\nThy life to service given.\nAnd now, the blissful peace,\nThe sure reward of heaven.\n\u2014A. E. M.\nMaintaining Discipline\nVictoria, B. C, March 15.\nTo the Editor.\nSir.\u2014I ami\t\nimportance of maintaining discipline\nin homes where there are children,\nespecially boys. I feel that it is the\nbounden duty of every father to impress upon the minds of his family\ntttttttttttttti\nt LETTERS TO THE\nt EDITOR\n*\nttttttttttttttt \u25a0\n(Letters to Ihe Edilor on any subject\nof general interest mil be published in\nIhese columns. They must be accompanied by Ihe name and address of the\nwriter, which will be treated in strict\nconfidence if so desired. Short letters\nare preferred.\u2014Editor.)\nWho was Pastor Russell that he\nshould think he knew  the spirit of\nChristianity better than its adherents\n,.      .'.. ,.    for nigh on two thousand years, nay,\nfirm believer in the betterBevm than .\u201e Foun\/er> cl]ristt\nThe presumption, or to use the more\nexpressive slang term, the \"gall\" of\nthe man who coiled take it upon himself to pass judgment of condemna-\n,\u201e\u201e.,,, _\u25a0 -,      tion on the whole Christian Church, as\nthe duty of strict obedience.   Such a pastol. Russel has done ^ \u201eThe ^\nsystem as I have observed in my own ished My8tery.*_well it wU1 \u00a3orever\nhome has been productive of the most          th(j ^ of m(m Jo deyise a form\nexcellent results, and when the time q\u00a3 words ^ ^ mti    ,    charac.\ncomes that my boys will be ready to fer;le u\ntake their places in the ranks of His\nMajesty's forces they will have indeed  little  to learn,  thanks  to  the \t\nicare I have exercised in this regard.\nI never allow an opportunity to pass A METHODIST BROTHER\nALEX. MacDONALD,\nBishop of Victoria.\nthat might provide the basis of an\nobject lesson which the following incident will Berve to illustrate.\nFor some days, doubtless because\nof the inclement weather, an incisor\ntooth had been giving my wife a lot\nof trouble, so much indeed, that she\nDEFENDS PASTOR RUSSELL\nDRAFT A FAILURE\nToronto's militarists are damning\nThomas Church, whom they recently\nre-elected mayor of the city, because\nlie declared conscription a failure in\nCanada.\nMayor Church, who is not opposed\nto the war itself, came out the other\nday with this declartion;\n\"The mililary service law will cosf\nlhe country millions of dollars, and\nwill yield only meagre results. If lho\ngovernment had expended one-quarter\nof this money for voluntary recruiting it would have obtained many more\nsoldiers.\"\nFire-eating militarists are now out\nafter Mayor Church's scalp.\nRushing Into Self-Destruction\nThe following letter was refused by\nThe Times as being \"absolute rot\":\nVictoria, March 7, 1918.\nTo the Editor.\nSir.\u2014Will you kindly allow me a\nlittle space in which to reply to Mr.\nW. A. Robertson's letter in your issue\nof March 4th, re peace?\nIt would require many columns to\ngo thoroughly into the matter, but it\nwill be sufficient just to point out to\nhim and some others that the OTHER\nfellow is doing the fighting and the\nsuffering, while they are doing the\nboosting.\nThat treaties and solemn pleadges\nhave been broken over and over iy;ain\nbefore and since the war started under the plea that \" necessity knows no\nlaw\" and \"lhe end we have in view\njustifies the means we tnke to secure\nit.\"\nThat a curious thing about war>is\nthat a large number of people arc willing to admit that it is wrong, but they\ntfill still argue that this particular\nwar is right. Many contradictory\nstatements are constantly being made.\nFor instance, we have in Tuesday's\nColonist a statement made by Stephen\nLausanne, editor of Le Hatin of Paris,\nthat the French are not fighting for\nmoney and territory, but yet we have\nheard over and over again that France\nmust and WILL have Alsace-Lorraine.\nThat in the words of George Bernard Shaw it is of no use for us to\n\"present ourselves in the character of\ninjured innocence as we shall not be\naccepted in that character at the peace\ncongress.''\nThat it was publicly stated some\ntwo years ago hy no less a person\nthai Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, that the\nBritish public has been \"lnrgely fed\non lies.\" (See British Weekly, December 23rd, 1915.)\nThat when viewed in tho light of\nsuch statements as these it would be\nwell for us to remove \"the beam that\nis in our own eye\" and then we shall\nsee more clearly Ihat the whole thing\nis a disgraceful atrocity from beginning to end, and is wholly at variance\nwith the teaching and spirit of Jesus\nChrist.\nThat the prolongation of this war is\nmade possible by the press, backed by\nlhe pulpit (with a few notable exceptions). That in tho opinion of many\npeople \"the real issues at stake are\nnot worth the life of even one man.\"\nThat in Great Britain alone there\nare already on lhe pension list hundreds of thousands of men, women and\nchildren, also many thousands of limbless, blind and insane men, and yet\nlhe cry is for more.\nThat lhe war was neither made nor\nstarted by those who are doing the\nfighting and the suffering, and llml\nthose wlm are responsible are not likely to do, and never have been doing,\nany fighting or suffering, neither are\nIhey likely to get tho punishment they\ndeserve.\nThat no mailer how long this war\nlasts it will have to be settled by\nnegotiation in the end, and thai it\nwould be bettor to start to negotiate\nnow before many more precious lives\narc lost.\nThat according to the teaching of\nhistory, no war yet ever mnde an end\nof war. \"Our foe of today may be\niiur ally of tomorrow and vice versa,\"\nThul lhe only way lo end war and\ndo away wilh lhe causes of war is by\nmutual agi'eenieiil based upon truly\nChristian principles,\nThut Ihe nations are rushing headlong inlo self-destruction rind the\nlonger lhe war lusts lhe worse il will\nbe for all concerned and so it is to\nbe hoped llml soon common-sense und\nsune judgment will prevail and then\n\"We shall see what we shall see.\"\nT. FANCETT.\nEditor of Age-Herald,\nBirmingham, Ala.\nI note there is strenuous opposition\nlo the \"Scripture Studies'  'as pro-\ndeeldedlo payT visiMo'Y'-Jentlst ,lnllgat<!<l by Pusto1' K,'ssell, of Brook-\nanil have it extracted. I.vn, N. Y., and that this oppositon\nSeeing in this an opportunity to has become so pronounced that the\ngive the boys, a demonstration of army Pastor's Union on various occasions\nmedical work, and also a lesson in has given verbal expression to their\nthe exercise of patience during suf- views on the subject, and that re-\nfering, I decided to perform the oper- cently a movement was started\nation myself. I informed my wife of throughout the country to muzzle the\nmy intention, and at first she inclined press, and stop the publication of his\nto demur, but recognizing that I was sermons in the newspapers,\nobdurate in my resolve, she acquiesced.     \"ft ;s evident from this that we\nHaving arranged one of the rooms j,aye reached a crisis in the religious\nas an emergency ward in a military world hitherto unknown since the\nhospital, I summoned the boys nnd in- Dark Ages, and which I thought im-\nformed them that they were to act possible in this enlightened Age. To\nas orderlies. hinder free thought, free speech, free\nIn the middle of the room was an investigation and the publication of\narm chair on which I requested my religious truth, is the most daring ven-\nwife to be seated. The two elder ture I have ever known ministers of\nlifcys I ordered to stand one on either the Gospel to make,\nside of the chair, while the younger \"Rather than to take the step of\nheld himself in readiness for whatever stopping the mouth of one of God's\nI might require of him. Then, having humble servants who is earnestly Bet-\nprocured two pairs of pincers from a ting forth his views on the Bible, I\ntool chest whicli I possess, I ordered would suffer my arm severed from my\nthe boys to tie a bandage over their body\u2014yea, my head. Remember what\nmother's eyes (not being able to em- Jesus said about offending one of His\nploy an anesthetic), and to hold her little ones who believes in Him; \"And\narms firmly behind her back in such whosoever shall offend one of these\na manner that it hurt her slightly, so little ones that believe in Me, it is\nas to take her mind off the coming better for him that a millstone were\noperation. hanged about his neck and he were\nEverything being ready, I proceed- cast into the sea.\" (Mark 9.42.) Why\ned to full the offending tooth. At the do they, not meet Mr. ifussell in the\nfirst attempt the pincers slipped. The forum and from tlieir pulpits combat\nsecond was more successful, but the his teaching by the Scripture? Are\ntooth unfortunately broke. Using the they not able to meet him? Does he\nsmaller pincers, and with a tremend- not support every argument and every\nous wrench, I succeeded in completely thought presented, by Scripture?\nremoving the remaining part. Apart Again, why do they not rest their\nfrom a slight exclamation, my wife case in the hands of God like the wise\nbravely bore tho ordeal, which must Gamaliel did, in the days of the\nhave entailed considerable pain, uot- Apostles, when Peter and others were\nwithstanding that I used every possi- on trial? Gamaliel rose up in the\nble means to reduce it to the mini- council and said: \"Refrain from these\nmum. men, and let them alone, for if this\nHaving applied antiseptics, and work be of men, it will come to\notherwise treated the wound, I ordered naught, but if it be of God, yc can-\nall to stand at attention, while I ad- not overthrow it, for you fight against\ndressed them on' thc importance of God.\"\nbravely submitting lo suffering, and     In some places Mr. Russell's books\nlho military virtue of patience. have been collected and burned in the\nThen, nil having sung lhe Nutionol streets, with Ihe result that his books\nanthem, I dismissed them, thus con- multiplied many fold in those places,\neluding a most profitable lesson. Ood will lake a hand in this fight as\nI cannot too strongly emphasize lhe sure as we live. Beware! I warn\nduly of nil loyal and patriotic fathers them that thc more thoughtful among\nto do everything which will make them may not bring condemnation up-\ntheir children feel from the earliest on themselves,\ninfancy that they are potential sol- There is already widespread discon-\ndiers.   God Save the King. tent.   Somehow our people are feeling\nRULE BRITANNIA.\nafter God and looking around for\nspiritual food more substantial than\nthey have been feeding upon. Let them\nlook. Let them search for Truth\nwherever il may be found.   Our peo-\nOne Word More\nTo the Editor of The Week.   ]\nSir.\u2014I thank yon for your Courtesy pie arc intelligent and able to think\niu publishing these letters. But why for themselves and will do it. All can\nsuggest that I rely on the \"might\" read, and have Bibles and other books\nof the Catholic Church lo save my- explaining the Bible, or can get them\nself from the consequences of having if desired. When leaders of churches\nin my possession u copy of \"The unite to force people to accept or re-\nFinishcd Mystery\"? I do nothing of ject creeds according to their views\nthe kind. I stand on right, and on by restraining the liberty of speech\nright only. 1 rely on Ihe good sense and the liberty of the press, to proof our magistrates and judges lo dis- vent the publication of doctrines of\ntinguish between one who, like Ihe Ihe Bible according lo other men's\nL B. S. A. student, defies the law, and, views, they huve departed from Ihe\none who, like myself, upholds the law rational iden of dealing with the suh-\nnnd seeks only to make il  effective, joe!, and we cannot  hold with them.\nIt is one thing to violate Ihe Idler\nof the law, and quite another thing\nto violate the spirit ami iulenl of it.\n1 plead guilty to having done the\nformer, but claim to he acting wholly\nin accordance with Ihe Intter.\nAnd this nlso will serve in answering Mr. Wilson, whose courtesy 1 acknowledge. I did hul draw liis ntlen-\ntion lo the fnct Ihat, in making the\ncommandment \"Thou shall not kill\"\nabsolute, without qualification suggested or implied, lie was laving too much\nstress on \"the letter Ihat killelh.\" I\nI do not pretend to know why the\nauthorities put \"The Finished Mystery\" under lhe ban. I mean. I hnve\nno \"inside\" knowledge.\nBut the obvious renson, surely, is\nils dyed-in-the-wool pacifism und ils\nshameful denunciation\nIf patriotism is \"in reality murder\nuud lhe spirit of the very devil\"; if\nnil \"wiir is an open and utter viola-\nlion of Christianity\"! if the \"war\nitself is wrong, und ils prosecution u\ncrime.\"   I hen  are  our  soldiers   nol\nhci s, but murderers most foul.  And\nyet it was of a soldier by profession,\nths centurion, Ihal Christ said, \"Verily. 1 say iinln you. 1 have not found\nsn greiil faith in Israel.\"\nS. A. ELLIS.\nIF YOU VALUE RELIGIOUS\nLIBERTY (THE FOUNDATION OF ALL TRUE FREEDOM) COME IN AND SIGN\nTHE I. B. S. A. PETITION.\nYATES STREET\nMUST TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS\nA recent cable from London stated\nHint the present meat ration in Groat\nBritain is not more than one-half of\npatriotism, the amount to which lhe people have\nbeen accustomed. Accompanied as this\ni-; by ihe restrictions on the consumption uf bread, il eannol but entail\nphysical loss nnd privation. Cnnndians,\ntoo, must tighten their belts and help\nlhe Allies to win. Use shnuld be made\nmi lhis continonl ot every available\nsiilislilule for wheal, beef and pork.\nUpon our fond service depends tho\nvery lives of thousands of women and\nchildren in the Allied eountries.\n mmm**m^^mm^^^^m\n^^^^^^\"\nPage Four\nTHE   WEEK\nSaturday, March 16\nWSffi^-^JiH\u00ae DAVID SPENCER, LTD.\nDove Undermuslins\nDainty, Beautiful, Well-Made, Good Materials\nAt Tke Street Corner\n|a|E-*>   -frJHS\"\nBY THE LOUNGER\n\u25a0\u25a04J|t4.    ^JIH,    -MEgg\"\n^^\nI think 1 have discovered lhe supreme failing of the average citizen\nof this fair eity\u2014in oilier words, his\nbeselting sin. He is sadly lacking in\na sense of thankfulness for the many\ngifts and advantages a bounteous\nProvidence has bestowed upon him.\nTake the matter of patriotism, for\ninstance. Where will you liud a city\nwhich can boast of so many real, live,\nfull-blooded and persistently aggressive patriots? Witness, for example,\nthat glorious specimen of \"the last\nrefuge,\" our ubiquitous and vigorously assertive friend, Brother B. J. P.\nYou know who I mean, don't you. I\nwould give him name in full, including the hyphen, if he uses that hall\nmark of the quality, were it not that I\nappreciate his sense of modesty which,\nI believe, blocks the way to a dictatorship. Did you read the thrilling\noration he delivered at the Win-the-\nWar League meeting the other week?\nDid you not inwardly applaud the\nvigorous maledictions he thundered\nat the heads of those avaricious shipyard employees whose unreasonable\nand unpatriotic demands have aroused the righteous wrath of that other\ngreat local public mentor, Walter\nFoster. (I give his name in full, not\nbecause I think he lacks modesty, but\nbecause he is not so much in the SPOT\nlight as is B. J.)\nB. J. stigmatised the shipyard men\nas unpatriotic and as having the impertinence lo presume to be masters\nof the Empire. But Ihat did not represent the climax of his courageous\ndenunciation. B. J. is no coward.\nEven his most bitter critic will not\ncharge him wilh poltroonery. Amid\nthe hushed anticipation of an enthusiastic nnd appreciative audience he\ncharged the shipyarders wilh Bolshevikism!\nI art informed thai next day lhe\nemployees referred lo were so filled\nwilh remorse at the thought of Iheir\npresumption Ihal Ihey seriously considered whether Ihey should not immediately submit lo an nil-round decrease iu wages in order lo partly ex-\npialo (heir crime.\nB. J. P. deserves the thanks of the\ncommunity. To think that, but for\nhim, the Victoria shipyard workers\nmight have become masters of lhe Empire, when everyone knows that that\nprerogative belongs to B. J. P. and his\nilk, which, of course, does not include\nthe \"Lounger.\"\nJoking aside, things have come, to\na serious pass indeed when the working men have sunk to such a degree of\navarice and selfishness as to demand\nincreases in wages when the millionaires are threatened with starvation.\nOf course, I presume you are aware\nthat the meeting culminated in the appointment of a committee of three\nworthy citizens, including, as was to\nbe expected, the one and only B. J. P.\nBravo, Victoria! You may yet learn\nto appreciate the lions in your midst.\n\"Two well-known citizens associating with\"\u2014what did you say? Nonsense! Nothing of the kind. Don't\nyou believe it\u2014merely idle gossip. I\nknow he doesn't\u2014never did. He's an\nImperialist and a true-blue patriot. I\ndon't believe he knows an \"ace\"\nwhen he sees it.\nProbably you and I wonder wheu\nlhe extra profit goes when we are called upon to pay double what we did\nfor our groceries and other commodities. '\nI heard a little conversation at a\ncertain corner the other day which\nmay serve to throw light upon the\nsubject.\n\"Potntoes are rather uncertain just\nnow,\" snid one. \"I don't think it's\nsafe to pul money on them.\"\n\"Why not have a shot at rice?\" replied Ihe other, \"there's a lot of talk\nof women using rice in lieu of flour.\"\n\"By gud, that's right. T'll put all\nlhe money on riee I can scare up. It's\nbound lo go up.\"\nAnd they went on to discuss how\nIhey could besl earn, n litlle easy\nmoney al the expense of the genernl\npublic. But then, \"Business ns usual\nduring (he war,\"\u2014that's the motto.\nLet the good work prosper.\nLOUNGER.\nttttttttttttttt\nS0TT0_V0CE    *\n\u2022f        BY THE HORNET        ft\nttttttttttttttt\n*tw That Canada goes \"bone dry\"\non April 1st.\nThat this is no \"April fool\" gag.\n\u00bb' That the debating society over\nthe Bay are trying hard lo get busy\nto make up for lost time.\nThat Bowser talked for two hours\nand a half.\nThat some people can talk a long\ntimo without saying much.\nThat he accused Hon. J. Hart of\nwearing a red label in Vancouver.\nThat Hon. J. snid he wore nothing.\nThat the Hornet is glad he wasn't\nthere at the time.\nThat a Finance Minister would\nlook line in the \"altogether\" and no\none could pick his pockets.\nThat the speaker sat down heavy, on\nHawtliornwnite's 8-hour bill.\nThat it will take more than that\nto extinguish him.\nThat the whole bunch over the Bay\nseem at loggerheads.\nIWThat Canada's Notional debt is\nnow over a billion dollars.\nThat this figures out at $150 for\nevery mail, woman and child.\nThat, it's not much\u2014if you say it\nquickly.\nThai it would bT^oiio for a family ^ffi^ffi^Hi^BSfi^ DAVID SPENCER, LTD. ISMtfflgMlffiHm\nof six\u2014and with interest at a1\/;! per        \t\ncent this would cosl nbout $1 a week.\nExample oi the beauty and economy of\nour \"Dove\" Undermuslins are shown by\nthe illustrations here. 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This prevents wearing out at that\npoint, lt is an exclusive feature which you can only get in DOVE\nUNDERMUSLINS.\nPRICES.\u2014You'll find it true economy to buy DOVE UNDERMUSLINS,\nbecause of their true wearing qualities; and we sell them at surprisingly\nreasonable prices.\nA FEW DESCRIPTIONS.\u2014\n\u2014Camisole of flesh colored crepe de chine, top of fillet lace, finished with\nribbon straps; hand-embroidered front, in French designs. Each, $2.00.\n\u2014Nightgowns of fine silk mulle, fancy yoke of Val. lace and embroidered\norgandie; trimmed with satin ribbons, $3.50.\n\u2014Envelop! Chemise to match nightgown, each, $3.50,\n\u2014Underskirts of line muslins, deep flounce, band-cmbroidcrcd and trimmed with wide Val. lace.   Each, $3.50.\n\u2014Dainty Nightgowns and Envelope Chemise trimmed with fancy stitch-\nings in white and flesh color.   A garment, $2.00.\n\u2014Wbitevvear, First Floor.\nttttttttttttttt\n\u2666 t\nt SUB ROSA |\n***************\nJohn Bunyon somewhere wrote lhis:\n\"A more unequal match can hardly he\nChristian must light an angel; but you\nsee,\nThe valiant mnn by handling sword\nnud shield,\nDoth make him, though a Dragon, quit\nthe field.\"\nA year or two ngo I too had a\ndream. It wns not saintly, like Bunyon's. It wns, well it was . . . well,\nlike eh ... .\nAll right. I will toll it to you, then\nyou enn have your own opinion as to\nwhnl it was like Of course you must\nuse your imagination a little bit, or\nfailing Hint, enl at least seven slices\nof toasted brend and cheese before going to bed. By lhe latter very gross\nmaterial course you may possibly obtain Hie proper spiritual elevation\nnecessary to enable you lo appreciate\nmy extremely peculiar spaceless vision.   Do you get mc?\nMy dream is entitled \"The Dragon\nWho' Quit,\" a British Columbia Record, oh, no, it's not a record, it's a\ndream in The Week or a weak dream;\nthonirll nol a pipe drenm by nny\nmenns:\nThe Dragon who quit wns on his way\nbaek to Hades.\nThe so-ealled christian Kniscr William hnd forced him off Hie earth,\nKultur wns about lo outdrngon tho\nDragon.\nThe Valiant Mnn had handed Ihe son\nof Sulan his  triple   asbestos non-\nsubmersible clearance papers.\nHe. the Oragon hated to go.\nIt would he hard lo make Hie Council of Dragons believe his slory of\n\"Frighlfulness\" about to be.\nHe wns therefore dropping very slowly away from earth.\nThnl accounts  for  my  catching up\nwilh him.\nFor il wns about four million wnler-\nbury licks nfler his forced abdication that a fellow baptised believer\nput a beautifully finished sleel\nprong fifteen inches too fnr through\nmy individual pylorus.\nWe, that is lhe Dragon and I, exited\nby different exits.\nI had lo go quickly.   The Dragon wns\nslowly and diplomatically bowed off\nthis Mud Ball.   I was pitchforked.\nMy speed  was slackening as I got\nalongside him; that  was owing, I\nsuspect to the measure of sorrow the\nboys were feeling al the time they\nstowed nway my holey carcass.\nThe genuine regret of your friends\nnets like a drag-on the soul's descent.\nI snlunled  lhis Quitcr whose prong\nwas in his tail, behind him so to\nspeak.   I solicited permission to fall\nthe rest of the way in his company.\nHe seemed plum, so I tried to arouse\nhis sympathy by Idling of my mistake; how I had earnestly studied\nthe rond mnp of Belgium hut had\nno knowledge whatever of the route\nT wns now taking.\nAl lhis he unbent, \"Never fear, you\npoor snerilleial victim, you will be\nwelcomed, my country accepts nil\nimmigrants and never slays its citizens; it enlarges itself and is never\nfull.   Hell handles sorrow, bill docs\nnot make il.   The pains of Hades\nare produced in places like Potsdam.\nMan's inhumanity to man makes\nDragons feel like Red Cross Heros.\nMy home is a place of self-torment\nto men who want to dress up nnd\ntalk down.   You Ihink 1 quit; but\nI did not.   I went on strike against\nthe proposed nrmagedden, but the\nGerman  people's  heaven  ordained\nEmperor   scabbed   on  me.   Come;\nlet's boston, the exodus from earlh\nis beginning, regiments of your fellows are following us.    My High\nBoss nwails \u00abie and he hns no nc-\nI'liinmcidnlion ready for lhe successors of Herod.      Special quarters\nmust be designed before the Prussian teachers begin to arrive.  Bnby\nkilling is a recrudescence even the\nDevil is nol prepared for.\"\nHere the nlnrm broke lose nnd if\nyou work in the shipyard you eannnf\npossibly slny in bed lo finish n drenm.\nBad timekeeping is now n punishable\noffence in the old country and may\nhe here, soon, for men who are nol\nnsked lo go abroad and risk their lives\nin the trenches should surely mnnngc\nlo be on time in  the mornings like\nThul this is very little in compari;\nson with the debt in Grent Britain.\nIWThnl a friend of The Week has\nsen! in .fo to pay for sending a copy\nof the February 23rd issue to each\nminister in town.\nThat he wauled them to read lhe\naddress of'Rev. John Haynes Holmes.\nThat most of them have probably\nread il by this time, but Unit Ihey will\ngel another copy now.\nThat there is a big demand for this\nissue.\nThat 2,000 have been sold and inquiries still come in for more.\nThat several other back numbers are\nin demand.\nThai the Hornet will give 50 cents\nfor a copy of January 5th.\nSWThal il is reported that Austrians\nare afraid tlieir prisoners returning\nfrom Russia will spread the Bolsheviki doctrines in Austria.\nThai Ihey have a good reason to bt\nafraid.\nThai Germany also will be seared\nof lhe same thing when her prisoners\nbegin to return.\nThat in this way, even if Germany\ntries to impress her will on Russia,\nRussia will impress her will ou Germany, and\u2014\nThat it will be more effective.\nSWThat the \"keep a hog\" idea is\ncatching on.\nThat Bishop Scholield and Dean\nQiiuinlon are reported to hnve one\nench.\nThat lhe Ilornel would like to suggest lo some good Indies who carry\npuppies Ihat they follow the reverend\ngentlemen's example..\nIWThnl President Wilson and Mr.\n'lumpers have been sending messages\nlo Russia.\nThai Ihey both offer lo \"slnnd\nby\" und help.\nThnl Ooiiipcrs snys \"we uwnil your\ninstructions.\"\nThat Sammy bus not been in the\nhabit of asking for advice lately, bid\nhas been very free in giving it.\nThat Hie instructions will probably\nbe \"Attend to your own troubles at\nhome\u2014we can look after ours.\"\nSWThat press reports say thnl\nFrance and Britain have \"given\nJapan a free hand in Siberia.\"\nThai llie Hornet would like lo know\nwho gave them authority lo du su.\nThat Japan's interference in thai\nquarter may gel things all tangled up\nworse than Ihey are.\nThat Japan may find herself at war\nwith Revolutionary Russia while President Wilson is offering her Uncle\nSam's support.\nThat tllis would mnke things very\ninteresting for Canada\u2014Victoria in\nparticular.\nSWTlint lhe Hornet hears lhe Col-\nonisl hns changed hands.\nThai Hie Old Lady now belongs to\nlhe some \"group\" ns the Times.\nThnl Ihere is lillle reason lo doubt\nlhe accuracy of (he report.\nThat it is only another illustration\nof the way the Northcliffe Press is\nreaching out nfter power.\n{WThnt the William Dnvies Com-\npnny in Winnipeg have thrown out\n8,500 pounds of chicken which went.\nbad.\nThat this is another illustration of\nFlavelle Patriotism.\nThai il will take a good many four-\nlegged hogs lo make up for whnt one\ntwo-legged hog has done.\nIWThat Mrs. F. Lnmborn of Marigold P. O. is organizing a branch of\nlhe \"Over Seas Club\" in Victoria.\nThat she invilcs all who are interested lo communicate wilh her.\nVictoria's Watch and Clock Repair House\n1124 GOVERNMENT STREET\nALL WORK GUARANTEED. JEWELLERY REPAIRS AND\nENGRAVING PROMPTLY EXECUTED. THE CHEAPEST\nHOUSE FOR WALTHAM AND ALL THE HIGH GRADE\nAMERICAN AND SWISS WATCHES.\nF. L HAYNES\nSuperior Fruit Service\nDan W. Poupard\nFruit\nSpecialist\nBalmoral Block        Douglas Street, Victoria\nPhone 3321\nPrincess Theatre\nYATES STREET\n7:30 P.M., SUNDAY\nFREE LECTURE\nSubject: \"A NEW DISPENSATION ASSURED: WHAT IS HOLDING IT BACK?\n(Fourteen proofs from Our Lord's words that the World)\nhas ended\nSpeaker. PASTOR E. J. BAKER\nSEATS FREE ALL WELCOME NO COLLECTION\nlhe whole of Canada, including land\nimproved and unimproved, together\nwith dwelling houses, barns, stables\nnnd other farm buildings, is approximately $44 per acre as compared with\n$41 in IfllO. The average values by\nProvinces nre as follows: Prince Edward Island $43.7; Nova Scotia $33.6;\nNew Brunswick $28.8; Quebec $53;\nOntario $55.3; Manitoba $31; Saskatchewan $2(1; Alberta $2(1.7; Brilish\nColumbia $141). In Hie lasi named\nProvince lhe higher average is due lo\norcharding and.fruit growing.\n'MR. DOOLEY\" ON POVERTY\nAVERAGE VALUES OF FARM\nLAND\nAccording to the returns received,\nlhe average value of farm land for\nWan iv 111' slhraiigest things about\nlife is llml Hi' poor, who need Hi'\nmoney Hi' most, ar-rc th' very wans\nIhal niver have it.\nC. H. SMITH\n&CO.\nPhotographic\nSupplies\nPictures\nPicture Framing\nOther Things Too I\n611 Fort Street\n","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Newspapers","@language":"en"}],"GeographicLocation":[{"@value":"Victoria (B.C.)","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"Week_1918_03_16","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0374085","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Latitude":[{"@value":"48.428333","@language":"en"}],"Longitude":[{"@value":"-123.364722","@language":"en"}],"Notes":[{"@value":"Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. 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