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IS\nxiHBn\n545.\nVancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, September 18, 1909.\nsubscription Price mi ma\nmnu sbl.UU\nSOCIALISM AS IT\nIS WRITTEN UP\n\"Junius Brutus\" complained recently\nIn the Voice of the attitude which\nmagazine writers adopt toward Social\nism. Hdw their capitalist characters\neasily dispose of the argumeuts ad\nvanced by fictitious Socialists. An\naggravated case of this kind may be\nfound in the Cosmopolitan.\nGeorge Randolph Chester is writing\na series of six short stories for this\nmagazine dealing with high finance,\nfour of which have already appeared,\nChester is a powerful writer, and as\na character drawer has, ln my humble\nJudgment, few living equals. The\ntitle of these stories is \"The Cash Intrigue.\" The principal character is\nan old multi-millionaire by the name\nof Breed; very evidently a gilded John\nD. Rockefeller; very old, and very religious, he supposes himself to be the\nchosen Instrument of God, by whom\nthe wrongdoer shall be chastened, and\nfrom whom the worthy shall receive\ntheir reward. Wllh the aid of a most\nbright young man named Kelvin, he\nis enabled to destroy the Stock Ex-\nchange and gain absolute control of\nthe railroads; this enables him to dominate the entire industrial field. Besides properly of all kinds' he has almost two billions of hard cash stored\naway on his private estate at Forrest\nLake. In this retreat Breed lives and\ndirects all his campaign by wireless\ntelegraphy.\nNow enters the Socialist. Blagg, the\nwireless operator, Is a tall, gaunt,\ncurious cuss, who ls typical of all Socialists in the early stages of the disease. He is at it eternally, and ls\nno respecter of persons, even trying\nhis hand on Kelvin, who, of course, silences him with the usual silly, \"If\nwe did not own the machinery who\nwould employ you.\" Blagg says no\nmore. Perfectly natural he should not.\nAside from the hypothetical projecture\ninto the unknown, Blogg knows If\nKelvin fires him, or has him fired, that\nhe would hunt long and wearily for\nanother master. Economic pressure\nis a forceful factor in driving home\nfaulty logic. And furthermore, Bligg\nrealizes thai, being right in the centre\nof capitalism's citadel, he occupies a\nstrategical position of no mean value.\nI am doubtful if Chester saw the\nrei| strength of this situation. Now,\nafter reading his last Instalment,\nthough when 1 read It first I thought,\n\"Well, here is a fellow who knows\nsomething about us.\"\nBlogg bites, his lip and goes on agitating among the others, even trying old Breed's daughter, with whom,\nby the way, he Is desperately In love.\nHis efforts are purely sentimental,\nmawkishly so, but lean Chester see It)\ncharacteristic of his environment. He\nis entirely ignorant of economics nor\nhas he the remotest Idea of Marxian\nscience.\nAs an ordinary rank and file agitator\nhe is a success and a credit to his\ncreator; in the role where Chester\nfinally places him he ls a joke, a\ngratuitous insult to the proletarian\nmovement and decidedly discreditable\nto the author of his being.\nIn order that Breed should Inaugurate his reforms it is necesary that he\nhave control of the legislature. He\nsets about In a fearful and wonderful\nway to capture the Republican convention and has Kelvin and Rollins,\nwho is a railroad genius, a sort of magnified, whitewashed Harrlman, nominated for president and vice-president.\nThen the election comes off.\nWhen awaiting the returns a wholly unexpected situation comes up.\nTbe Socialist candidate forges ahead\nso far, that Breed & Co. for a-time are\nagitated with fears of failure. Blagg\nls credited with this. He is made to\nboast of it before the others, rfow-\never, the tide turns and capitalism\nwins for the present. Evidently from\nthe trend of events Chester intends\nbringing out Blagg winner.\nThere the story ends to .late, and\nhere Chester and I part company. He\nmay be excellent in portraying those\nphases of life with which he Is familiar, but he Ib a miserable failure when\nhe attempts to handle the working\nclass revolutionary movement. He\nmakes this Blagg, a shallow, sentimentalist, imprudent and morbid, the\nbe all and end all of the Socialist\nParty. To him all Information comes,\nfrom him all orders go. Why, I know\nof a Socialist Local with two men, a\nwoman and two dead men to complete\nthe five necesary to jbtaln a charter.\nand this Blagg could not be elected\nrecording secretary of it. All that he\npossesses to recommend him is a patient endeavor to obtain the combination of the safety lock of the vault in\nwhich Breed's billions are stored.\nHe tells Breed's daughter that he\nwill do this and he will do that, but\nby the gods I should be sorry for\nsuch a creature did he poke his nose\ninto some of the Canadian Socialist\nParty local and say what he says by\nway of propaganda in the \"Cash Intrigue. A wireless ttfegrapher out of\ntouch with the great propertyless\nmasses, running their fight.\nThe gods forbid!\nThe mighty labor movement Is not\napparent to Chester. The deliberations of its greatest bodies have never\nbeen brought to his notice; almost all\nits national conventions have a third\nof there delegates Socialist, any one of\nwhom would tolerate Blagg as a decent enough Individual so long as he\nkept his place, but who would mighty\nsoon show where his place was did\nlie attempt to run his way.\nChester had better study the labor\nmovement a little more carefully, or\nperhaps I would be better to merely\nadvise him to study it some (for obviously he knows little of it) before\nwriting about it. He had better look\naround and see the giants who are\nspringing up everywhere. He had better visit some of the conventions\nwhore sit members of the federal congress, and see the big guns out-classed\nin logic and eloquence, and overthrown\nin debate by men who still have their\nnoses at the industrial grindstone.\nThe social revolution does not depend upon any one man, nor is it, nor\ncan it be in any one man's hands,\nparticularly those of a lovesick swain\nwho does not know the A. B. C. of the\nworking class mission, and who has\nnever read his primer.\nThe social revolution is in the hands\nof a class whose name is legion,\nwhose power is ever growing, and\nwhose success Is assured by the very\nfact that a force now holds them In\nsubjection. That force will one day\nbe wrenched from the bands of its\npresent owners and utilized by the\nawakened proletariat.\nBlaggs cannot lead these proletarians, nor can Breeds stay them\nwhen they have become fully class-\nconscious, and aware of there historic\nmission. The slaves of Egypt, Greece\nand Rome, the serfs of Germany, England and France conquered but did not\nretain their freedom becauee they\nknew not what they wanted.\nWe, the wage-slaves of capitalism,\nknow what we want, we know how to\nget lt, and in the getting of lt such\nmen as Blagg will be supernumaries.\nJ. H.\nhe leaves he has absolutely no say as\nto what becomes of the product of his\ntoll.\nNow the Socialist movement is the\nstruggle of the workers to have the\nright to dictate as to what shall be.\ncome of the product of their combined\nefforts. Not necessarily to sit down\nand squabble over lt, but simply to do\nin industry what they already do\nin politics, and if in one why not the\nother.\nThough it may be true that conditions will be such that the change will\nnot be notlcable, at the same time\nthere will come a definite time when\nfor the flrst time the workers will\nhave that right. That is the reason\nthat the worker on becoming conscious\nof his position in society, responds so\nreadily to the propaganda of the revolutionist. From the minute he becomes convinced of the methods by\nwhich the Capitalist class obtain possession of the product of his own and\nhis fellow workers' labor, his whole\nefforts are directed to wresting that\ncontrol from them. His whole attention is confined to bringing about that\nmoment, when, for the flrst time he\ncan look his fellow workers In the face\nand say \"Now I'm a man.\" When for\nthe first time he can look \"That girl\"\nIn the face and say \"Now I am free,\nand no man can deny me the right to\nmake my living, I am able and willing\nto make a living for two, are you\nwilling to be my partner and chum\nfor the rest of my life.\"\nThat ls the Goal of the Revolutionist.\nA goal, the sight of which inspires\nevery worker who has an ounce of\nthe Love of Liberty in Ills carcase, and\na Goal which the rapid decay of Capitalism is proving more and more every\nday, we must reach or perish.\nONE WHO IS AWAKE. '\nBARCELONA.\nHAYWOOD'S TOUR.\nLocal Vancouver has secured the\nr -omlse of a date in October from Com.\nHaywood. Locals along the line from\nRevelstoke, and those on the Coast\nwishing dates should correspond with\nF. Perry, Box 836, Vancouver, B, C.\nThe workers of Catalonia asd of the\nindustrial city of Barcelona have risen\nin revolt against their oppressors\u2014and\nhave been crushed. A shady mining\nconcern with international capitalist\ninterests Involved had been establish-\nin the territory of the Riff tribes of\nMorrocco, close by the town of Melilla,\nwhich Is occupied by the Spaniards.\nThe natives, suspecting that this foreboded them no good, took steps to turn\nouc the invaders, the representatives\nof the modern enslavers, the International capitalists. As a consequence\nthe Spanish workers were called upon\nto turn out and, at the risk of life and\nlimb, protect their masters' property\u2014\nwere ordered to go to Africa and massacre a foreign people with whom they\nhad no quarrel. Now Barcelona, at\nleast, has, like Paris, the revolutionary\ntradition, and there has been plenty of\nanti-militarist, direct-action, aye, Anarchist propaganda, there. Doubtless\nalso many of its toilers argued that,\nsince lives must be risked, 'twere better to risk them fighting the real\nenemy at home, the monopolisers of\nthe means of life, rather than in fighting the brown-faced Moors against\nwhom they had no enmity. And so\nafter speeches and strikes came barricades. However, modern artillery and\nmagazine rifles, handled as these were\nby often unwilling soldiers, made short\nwork of all these and there is now a\nfurther collapse of 'direct action\" to\nrecord. Hitherto the Spanish workers,\nvery generally, disdained Parliamentary action. Perhaps events will show\nthem the need for using the means to\nhand, namely, the political machinery,\nhowever backward that machinery and\nhowever difficult the obstacles may be.\nIt Is good to note the spirit of revolt\nIn the Spanish workers. When they\nhave got over their present Anarchist.\n1c tendency they will make rapid strides, like the quick-witted people they\nare, to their freedom in Socialism.\u2014H.\nJ. H. In the Socialist Standard.\nTHE GROWTH OF\nLABOR FAKING\nThe Work of the S. P. G. B.\nIf the birth of the Socialist Party\nof Great Britain five years ago did\nnot exactly sound the death-knell of\nLabor-fakerdom, it at least laid the\nfoundation of the revolutionary Socialist movement in this country\u2014a movement that, owing to its sound, invincible principles, must in spite of many\nvicissitudes eventually succeed in\nsweeping completely out of existence\nthe present reactionary labor movement, which is so magnificently serving the capitalist class as a powerful\nbrake upon the wheel of the Social\nRevolution.\nWhen ln June, 1904, a number of\ndetermined, uncompromising Socialists left the (then) Social Democratic\nFederation (now S.D.P.) and established the S.P.G.B., it was not, as interested labor misleaders even now\nassert, \"to spite the S.D.F. or to attain position and admiration In a\nand ran as Parliamentary candidate\nfor South West Ham under the auspices of the non-Socialist Labor Party,\ngood S.D.F.'ers shut their eyes to the\nfact. Mr. Thorne has since remained\na faithful member of the Labor Party,\nand to-day can boast of having as one\nof his colleagues Mr. Hancock, M.P.,\nthe hero ot Mid-Derby, who was \u00abr\nheartily supported and congratulated\nby the Liberal Party through the\nFeatherstone butcher Asquith and the\nRadical trlckBter Lloyd-George,\nWriting in the Socialist Standard in\n1904 (October issue) on \"The Futility\nof Reform,\" we concluded by saying:\n\"We have, therefore, to recognize all\nthe time that it is only posible to secure any real benefit for the people\nwhen the people themselves become\nclass conscious, when behind the Socialists in Parliament and on other\nbodies there stands a solid phalanx of\nmen clear in their knowledge of So-\nsphere where there were better op- clallsm and clear ln their knowledge\nHORNY HEADED SONS OF TOIL\nTHE GOAL.\nThere seems a disposition on the\npart of some of our \"Leaders of\nThought\" in the Socialist movement,\nto try to prove that there can be no\nsuch thing as a radical change from\nCapitalism to Socialism. That between the gradual decay of Capitalism,\nthe growing popularity of public ownership, the awakening of the workers\netc., the present system of production\nwill eventually drift into Socialism.\nSuch a line of reasoning can only\narise from Ignorance of the workers'\nposition under Capitalism. As every\nSocialist (and for that matter everyone else who stops to think a minute)\nknows, tho workers to-day have absolutely nothing whatever to do with\nthe control of Industry. Be they men\nof brains or Ignoramuses, their condition ln that respect ls the same. . As\nevery worker knows, from the time he\nenters the factory gate, till the time\nIf ever there was any dignity attached to labor or the laborer, Its manifestation was certainly conspicuous by\nits absence, on that celebrated occas-\nslon, know In Winnipeg as Labor-Day.\nThis parade of Labor packages, fulfilled Its alloted task, of taking tho\nday set aBide by the masters, in order that they, who rule the roost\nwould be able to know exactly just\nhow far the labor unions had advanced\nbackwards.\nI am sure that the most avaricious\nlabor-sklnner lhat ever peeled a hide\nwas transported to the seventh heaven of delight, when viewing that aw-\nful mob of docile humanity. 'That\nshuffling gait and humble meln,\" so\ncharacteristic of men with slave blood\nln their veins, Beemed to be more pronounced than ever, and the very air\nwas pungent with servile execretlons.\nEven the dogs Blunk along the street\nas though contaminated with the\nshame of the thing.\nI have no animosity towards the\nman who by his organization can acquire a few more oats; that, of neces\nsity under the present system of Capitalist production ls incidental to the\nsale of his hide on the instalment plan,\nbut when he advertises that sale under the hypocritical guise of \"Rights\nof Labor\" 'Dignity of Labor\" Brotherhood of Labor\" its about time be got\na jolt in the neck, or in another part\nof his anatomy adaptable for such a\npurpose.\nThe spirit of the parade can truthfully be said to harmonize with the\nenthusiasm displayed by the crowd\nwho journeyed to St. John's Park for\nthe purpose of listening to the oratorical stunts usually Indulged ln by the\nleaders of labor. I have no doubt but\nwhat the usual hot-air of an overloaded stomach would have been forthcoming on this occasslon, but for one\nfact; man proposes, but the police disposes. Two stalwart cops and a sarg-\nent by their very presence squashed\nany desire that might have sprung up\nIn the stomachs of would-be aspirants for gastronomlcnl honors, consequently those buttinskis, commonly\ncalled hair-brained Socialists, stepped\nInto the breach.\nThe crowd adjourned to Dom. Govt,\nproperty on the banks of the river, and\nafter Comrade Armstrong had opened\nthe meeting, that irrepressible Scot\nby the cognomen of Cumming harangued the mob, until gently persuaded\nby the police to desist. If that crowd\nhad been worth while it would have\ntaken more beef than the quantity possessed by two constables and a sarg-\nant to move the same Cummlngs.\nWhen all glory had seemlnly faded\naway Into oblivion, that ever resourceful Cassidy who Is Irish from choice,\nand a fighter by nationality appeared\non the river In a boat, and while admitting thai the platform he stood upon was rather shaky, ils deflclences\nwere compensated for by the Platform\nof the S. P. of C, which he proceeded\nto throw out, somewhat after the style\nof a mule kicking at a stone wall, but\nlet me assure Comrade Cassidy, that\nthe four legged mule would have met\nwith greater success In his endeavor\nto create an Impression, not because of\nthe Intelligent way he would do the\njob, but the material Is softer. Comrade Rigg followed with his usual\ngrasp of the situation and Inimitable\nBtyle of Illustration. Comrade Cameron cloBed the day by Informing the\ncrowd that property rights were always paramount to personal needB,\nand the sooner they woke up the bet.\nter.\nWill they ever wake up? Degrees\nof latltlude and longitude or climate\nmust have something to do with the\nattitude of trade unionists to class-\nconsclouB politiacl action, because I\nam certain that British Columbia and\nAlberta are !>0 years ahead of Manitoba In matters that affect the working\nclass. They (Manitoba) have had the\neducation as to I heir positions ln society. Strikes have failed miserably,\npicketing has been declared Illegal.\nInjunctions have been issued against\nUnion funds and supported by the\nDominion judiciary. The police have\nused their clubs, Ihe mllltlA their gat-\nling guns and still the union man\nsleeps on encumbered by nothing except the cobwebs on his brain. Will\nhe ever wake up? \"God knows,\" and\nhe won't tell.\nW. H. S.\nportunities.\nNo, they took up this struggle\nagainst tremendous odds because they\nhad come 'to the conclusion that all\nworking-class organizations then existing in this country, including the\nwould-be-Socialist S.D.F., clearly served the purpose of aiding the capitalist\nclass in their efforts to gull and chloroform the workers, thus preventing It\nfrom understanding the need for and\nmeans of its entire emancipation.\nThe S.D.F., during the early years of\nits existence, although even then victimized by eager office-seekers and\ncharlatans, at least carried on a revolutionary propaganda, and Its branches\nand members refrained from compromising with the possessing class.\nBut with the advent of the Independent Labor Party in the early nineties, the ambition and greed of S.D.F.\n\"leaders\" burst forth ln a keen com-\nthat the only way to secure- the Socialist Commonwealth of the future ls to-\ndepend only upon the efforts of themselves and those who have have the\nsame class-conBcious opinions. Therefore we have no palliative programme.\nThe only palliative we shall ever secure is the Socialist Society of the future gained by fighting uncompromisingly at all times and in every season.\"\nAnd in an article in the March, 1900\nissue of our organ, entitled: \"Labor\nat the Polls\" we wound up with tho\nfollowing statement:\n\"Sufficient has been said to show tho\nhollowness of the claim that there\nhas been a victory for Labor or a triumph for Socialism. If further evidence ls required one has only to take\nthe declarations of the successful candidates as to the why they won and\nwhat they think should be done. Free\nTrade, Trades Disputes Bill, Chinese\nLabor and the like. There is only one\nbat for the sweets of offlce in Trade phrase lhat will express the result\u2014it\nUnions, and for supremacy In the po- L,as a victory for confusion.\"\nIltlcal field. The \"new Trade Union- A vi(jtory for Caplta|ism.\nIsm,\" which was to be used by the S.\nD.F. \"stalwarts\" for \"Socialist\" per-1\nmeating purposes, proved an easy and j\nmost effective means of adding to the j\nthen already large number of labor\nfakers, a motley crowd of would-be-\nrevolullonlst permeators, who, In the\nlong run, turned out to be far greater j\nmisleaders of the working class than\nany of the pure and simple labor men. ihas |irovf\"' ,'1 \"\u2022'\u2122\u00ab\"\"\u00b0\u00bbs boon to the\niCapiialiKl class.\nAnd today, looking at the results\nof Ihe reform and palliative propaganda of the Labor Party, Independeut\nLabor Party, and S.D.P. Inside and outside Parliament, we may emphatically\nadd to the above our present pronouncement, namely: The parliamentary career of Ihe Labor Party\nThe Pot and the Kettle.\nAnd when some years later the labor-misleading was extended to the political field and the Labor Representation Committee sprang into existence,\nsubsequently succeeded by Ihe official\nParliamentary Labor Parly, the S.D.F.\nTo the manner In which the \"Labor\"\nM.P.'s sought and received the suffrage of the unhappy class-unconscious\nworkers we need hardly refer In this\nplace. Those of our readers who desire to know all about It or wish to\nfresh their memories are earnestly\nchampions of reform and compromise recommended to .read the March, 1906,\nmoved heaven and earth in the effort\nlo succeed in their competition for political \"prestige\" against ihe \"labor\"\ncrowd, who, then, according to S.D.F.\nopinion, were merely the tail-end of the\nLiberal Party.\"\nBut this was only a pious opinion\non the part of the S.D.F., who for some\ntime joined the Labor Representation\nCommittee, to leave it because this\navowedly non-Socialist body would not\npermit the affiliated S.D.F. to run Its\ncandidates as Social Democrats.\nThis formally leaving Ihe L.R.C. did\nnot, however, mean that the crafty\nstrlng-pullerB of the S.D.F. had given\nup all Idea of co-operating (as Mr. H.\nQuelch calls It) with the class unconscious labor movement. On the contrary, the knowing K.C. of the S.D.F.\nencouraged and even ordered their\nbranches to join the local Labor Representation Committees, which by now\nhave everywhere swallowed tip the S.\nD.F. branches.\nThus while at annual conferences\nand In the pages of Justice the organization repudiates the Idea of affiliating\nto the Labor Party, S.D.P. branches\nand members are financially and actively supporting that party through\nthe local Labor Representation Committees.\nOur Forecast is Vindicated.\nWhen In 1900 Mr. Will Thorne broke\nwith Impunity the ruleB of the S.D.F.\nIssue of this paper.\nBeing prepared to criticize the Labor\nflirty and their would-bc-Soeliillst allies on the basis of their own pretences\nwe shall here take It for granted that\nall the Social Reforms since 1CO0 were\nInspired and forced through Parliament by the Labor Party. \u2022\nLet us see. First came the Trades\nDisputes Bill.\u2014Sequence, capitalists\ndon't bother very much whether Trade\nUnions use their funds for lockouts or\nstrikes, as they (the capitalists) are\npretty sure to come out right side up,\nwhile police Interference with pickets\ngoes on jtiHt the same.\nThen followed the glorious Compensation Bill.\u2014Result, one worker tn ten\nthousand ls compensated and hundreds, nay thousands, of thani. especially those getting a little feeble and\nover thirty-five yearB of age, are discharged from or refused employment\nbecntise the Insurance Companies will\nnot take the risk.\nAfter lhat the great measure of\n\"fording the children\" an optional law.\nResu,' v.herever adopted wages tend\nmore rapidly downwards, as the workers are able to offer themselves mots\ncheaply lo the employer, their requirements being partly attended to \"out ot\nthe rates.\"\nNext came the mighty Old Ago Pon-\nsion scheme of 5s per week at 70\n(Continued on Page 4) TWO\nTHE WESTERN CLARION. VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n8ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1909.\nIlis Western Cian\nPublished every Saturday by the\n\u2022ocUllst Party of Canada, at the Offlce\ntt the Western Clarion, Flack Blook\nBasement, 166 SUetlng-e Street, Taneon-\ntn, a 0.\nSUBSCRIPTION:\nMIM Tn Tear, 50 oenta for Six Months,\nPS cente for Three Months.\nc\nStrictly ln Advance\nBundles of 6 or more copies, for a\n1od of not lees than three months, at\nrate of one cent per copy per issue.\nAdvertising- rates on application.\nIf you receive title paper, It is paid\nIs making remittance by cheque, ex-\nsfcange must h* added. Address all\neommunlcatlons and make all money\n\u2022rders payable to\nTMB WSBTMVJf CLiSIOS,\nIn 836. Vancouver, B. O.\n<\u00a3matts\u00bb*\u00a3>\n646\nWatch the label on your paper. If this number Is on it,\nyour sobscriptioa expires ths\nnest '\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1909.\nGREAT EXPECTATIONS.\nLocal Option circulars, like circulars\nIn general, are full of promise, while,\nunlike them, they are a more or less\nreliable source of entertainment in\n' their ingenuous hopefulness and cheerful ignorance.\nThe latest to hand emphasizes the\nproposition that \"the economic value\nef this movement must appeal to you.\ntt is good business!\" Therefore come\nthrough with the dough, you business\n\\ men. The idea is that if the uncouth\nproletarian can be cured of his booze-\nflghtlng proclivities, he will invest his\nbeer money In more socks, sow-belly,\nunreal-estate and other non-intoxicants. What now goes over the bar\nwID Tn No-option-but-drink-Peruna\n\u2022Jays, pass over the counter to the honor and glory .of \"legitimate and respectable business.\nIt Is a particularly happy dispensation of Providence on behalf of consumer-robbing buccanneers of low-fln-\nance that they have heard little of\nKarl Marx and read very much less,\notherwise it would be farewell to the\ngolden dreams which anaesthetize\nthem to their lot much as squirrel\npoison does the overdriven wage mule.\nWages Is the price of the commodity\nlabor-power and, like the prices of\n\u2022wmmodltles generally, it approximates more or less closely labor power's exchange value, which is determined by Ihe amount of socially necessary labor incorporated in the commodity, that, is to say, by the cost of\nliving of the laborer. Normally this\ncost of living includes a certain quantity of liquified excitement, as the\nwage-plug Insists on having it to\ndrown his sorrows or express his joys.\nWith these festal founts dried up at\nthe source, a liberal education in\nkooze-fighting would no longer be included in the worker's curriculum, consequently his cost of living would be\nhappily reduced, and therefore the\ncost of production of that superfluity,\nlabor-power, would be by that much\nlessened. Its value reduced, Its price\nwould fall and the productive capitalist, who lives but to give us work,\nwould be made happy by an increased\nlow of surplus value, even when the\nsurplus already produced has reached such unmanageable proportions\nthat we are compelled to build Dreadnoughts lhat have nothing to dread\nand indulge in war talk even if we\n(tore never go to war. ,\nAll roads lead to the overthrow of\ncapitalism, so the proletarian need not\ncare much even If his masters, In the\nhrief remaining period of their sway,\nmid \"optional\" compulsory temperance to the tale of vktueH with which\nthey have afllllcated htm. A personal\nInconvenience more or less is of little\nmoment. As for the \"business mam\"\nto whom Local Option appeals on account of Its 'economic value,\" he will\ndiscover to his sorrow that he has\nheen permitted to add another lemon\nto his large and carefully assorted collection. His proletarian \"customers\"\nwill be as Impecunious as ever.\nthan usual harvesting it. Next spring\nhe will have to get his accustomed\nhump on himself at seed-time, if he\nwants to keep a farm under his feet\nand a mortgage over his head.\nThe wage-slave ls no slouch when\nit conies to peculiar ideas, but the\nfarmer does seem to have highly original hallucinations nil his own. Not\nonly Is he firmly convinced of his ownership of the land he ploughs, but, In\nspite ef a lifelong experience on the\nfarm and among farmers, which should\nhave taught him that crops or no crops\nall he and his neighbors ever got is a\nbare living at the best, he yet firmly\nclings to the totally unwarranted belief that the bigger the crop the better for him. He has had bumper\ncrops occasionally before this. Have\nthey done him any good? If they\nhave, why his present doleful estate?\nIf they have not, what ground has he\nfor building hopes on this occasion?\nHayseeds are proverbially easy\nmarks, and in this case it would ap\npear that truth and proverbialism for\nonce are at one, else by this time the\nfarmer would at least have cast about\nhim for a reason or two. Had he\nstudied the matter with some care and\na pointer or two from Marx he would\nhave discovered that once his seeding is rightly over just so much labor\nhas been embodied in the crop whether the yield be large or little. Of\ncourse, if it is large, more labor than\nwould be the case with a light yield\nis necessary in harvesting, milling,\netc., but this extra labor, spread over\nmany millions ot bushels would make\nno considerable fraction per bushel.\nSo that the exchange value tn bulk ot\na large crop is little more than that\nof a small one, and the exchange value\nper bushel Is, of course, less, the\nprice likewise.\nFurthermore, and much more to the\npoint, it is doubtful if the price of\nwheat has any more relation to the\nfarmer's income ttufn the price of coal\nhas to the miner's wages, though on\nthe surface It apears the very essence\nof his income. The coal-digger sells\nhis labor-power direct to the capitalists, while the farmer laboriously coins\nit into wheat, oats, corn, cabbage and\nwhat not, and then sells it in those\nforms. All that either receives ls a\nliving. The miner has absolutely no\nvestige of ownership in the coal he has\nproduced, and actually the farmer's\nownership in his products ls more of a\nconvenient and satisfactory fiction\nthan anything else.\nThe farmer ls rather given to pluming himself on feeding the world, whatever satisfaction there may be in that.\nHe may be a very useful factor in production, but economically he can but\nbe regarded as one of a large number\nof cogs, wheels and ratchets ln the\ncomplex machinery for producing foodstuffs, not for food, but for profit.\nWithout the active co-operation of an\nentire working class his 'bumper\ncrops\" would be an impossibility, and,\nquite likely, by the way, he would be\nmuch better off, as, lacking \"transportation facilities\" he would be under the\nnot too painful necessity of himself\neating more of his own produce than\nto-day falls to his portion.\n\"national honor,\" (fancy a modern nation having \"honor\") but of profit and\nloss.\nThe Rothschild's manifestation of\ndetep concern in Britain's wellfare is\ntouching. Touching is in fact the\nvery adjective. From the \"Courier's\"\nremarks we might be led to Infer that\nour noble lord of the money bags was\nInspired by patriotism, were lt not\nthat tbe celebrated family belongs to\na race without a country and has\nbranches which are equally \"great national assets\" to the continental nations.\nRunning as they do, a great international pawnshop, it is only natural\nthat they should display considerable\nInterest in the welfare of their clients,\notherwise their pledges might deteriorate in value and the Interest not be\nforthcoming. As we. have said, their\ntender solicitude is touching. Through\nthe medium of interest on Government\nconsols the touch runs well into the\nmillions annually. Hence their praiseworthy desire that governments should\nbe sufficiently stable to be solvent;\nwhich means they should be In a\nposition to hold Labor's nose to the\ngrindstone of Capital, that there may\nbe ground out in plenty the surplus\nvalue from which taxes are paid.\nHence also their patriotic advocacy\nof preparations for war on as large a\nscale as is compatible with solvency,\nas these preparations involve wholesale borowing from them, and also\ntheir objection to wars between nations in which they are avuncularly interested, as such a war must of necessity impair the interest paying\nability of one or the other.\nHence also the official visits, parad-\nings and embracing.! of their puppets\nthe Kings, Emperors, and Presidents,\nin order to rehabilitate the credit of\none or another of \"their\" countries.\nTo refer to the Roths'childs as a\n\"national asset\" seems rather like another case of the tail presuming upon\nits relationship to the dog.\nAS TO CALIBRE.\nOUR CROPS.\nft may seem somewhat absurd to\nsear some portly individual, whose\nmost strenuous endeavor In an agricultural way has been to occasionally\nsrdcr the Chinee \"help\" to water the\nfawn, talking glibly of \"our crops,\" but\nSt is' by no means as absurd as it\nmoms. The really absurd side of the\naffair is that the farmer is firmly convinced that the enps are his, despite\nHht fact that the contrary has been\nslemotisrated annually, if not hourly.\nActually the farmer has merely the\nproud privilege of raising the crops,\nand with that he should be well enough\ncontent, which, by the same token he\napparently is.\nThis year he has raised one of the\ngreatest crops on record, but there is\nmo danger lhat he will thereupon rest\non his laurels. About all tho difference\nSt will make to him will be that he\nwill have to work jusl a little harder\nA GREAT NATIONAL ASSET.\n\"Lord Rothschild was prevented by\nllness to-day from attending a charity\nmeeting at the Mansion House, and\nLord Brassey Improved the occasion\nby describing the house of Rothschild\nas 'a great national asset, and in time\nof trouble a strong rock In a rough\nsea.' This tribute is in striking contrast to Mr. Lloyd George's recent\ntirade against Lord Rothschild. Ample\nendorsement of Lord Brassey's happily\nphrased testimonial is to be found\nin the pages of history. At Fashoda\ntime, a French messenger was already\non his way with papers which\nbroke off diplomatic negotiations\nwith this country, when he was\nrecalled by a declaration of the Rothschilds that, on the day war was declared between England and France,\nthe equivalent of \u00a3350,000.000 would\nbe withdrawn from France. The great\nfirm's Influence was also effectively\nwielded to stop the persecutions of the\nJews In Russia, and to bring about the\nFranco-Russian alliance. Harking further back, the British Government obtained through the London Rothschilds\nIn 1819 the enormous sum of \u00a312,000,\n000 to repay foreign war loans. Altogether, it is computed that the Rothschilds have Issued British Government loans alone to the tune of\n\u00a3200,000,000!\nThe International Influence of the\nRothschilds ln the early part of the\nnineteenth century was such that It\nbecame a saying hat po war could\nbe undertaken without their assistance. This was due to the fact that\nthey controlled the world's money\nmarkets so thoroughly that they\ncould effectively wlthold or supply the\nncessary funds. Mr. Lloyd George,\nof course, was well aware of these\ntilings when he made his remarkable attack on Lord Rothschild the\nother day.\"\u2014Liverpool Courier.\nEvery once in a while some of Capitalism's henchmen bave to give the\ngame away. We have always insisted\nthat war was only a branch of business and was purely a question, not of\nWhile up to the present I have not\nfound occasion to register any protest\nat the editorial conduct of the Clarion, I now feel it necessary to make a\nkick. A couple of issues ago some ad-\n\"A Revised Revisionist,\" which I con-\n\"A Revised Revisionist,\" which I consider unsound in one particular.\nThe advice was given to go ahead\nand get a 30.30. Now 30.30, is a good\ncalibre, alright, I have used it as well\nas a few others and can testify to Its\nbeing powerful and accurate, but, notwithstanding, it is not the most powerful, and in case of serious business, I\nam afraid we should find ourselves severely handicapped at long distances.\nBut, I have yet to point out the most\nserious objection to the adoption of\nthis calibre, which is, that it does'nt\ntake government ammunition. I rise\nto move an amendment, that .303 be\nsubstituted for 30.30. In addition, I\nwould suggest to those taking the\nadvice that they make sure the little\ntoy ls chambered to take the stuff\nwhich is served out in the little packets with the broad arrow on them.\nSome 303.'s are not, so be careful and\n\"accept no substitute.\"\nA short time ago I was travelling\nfrom Glace Bay to Sydney by trolley,\nwhen a number of men who had evidently been to the ranges got on the\ncar. One of them, a young fellow,\nseating himself next to me, we soon\nentered Into conversation. He was\ncarrying a rifle that was new to me,\nand suspecting it to be the Ross, I\nasked him the question and he replied\nthat it was and handed it over for my\ninspection. As far as one can judge\nby merely handling it, my opinion of\nthe Ross is favorable. It is, I should\njudge,' considerably lighter than the.|\nprevious service arm, is well balanced\nand the sights with which it is provided are a great advance on the earlier ones. I mean to take an early op.\nportunity to test It at the butts and\nwill let comrades know of the results.\nWell, having got well into conversation with our young shootlst, and finding he was a novice, giving him some\ntips in marksmanship, so warming his\nheart up, I at last introduced myself\nas a Socialist agitator. \"Ah! you're\nspreading revolutionary principles\"\nhe responded. Now, I thought, this\nwas hopeful to And he understood already that Socialism was revolutionary\nand was oft to a fine start, giving him\na good lesson on the class struggle,\nlaying particular stress on the fact that\nall armed bodies were kept up by the\ngovernments for the primary purpose i\nof keeping the working class down.\n\"And you think lt will-end ln Revolution\" he said. I replied \"The Revolution ls on right now, how it will end\nI don't know, but I am ready for it\nanyway, Including that,\" giving the\nplaything he held a bang, (though lor,\nall I know I may crawl under the bed, j\nthe proof of the pudding is in the eating,) \"and I want you to remember\nwhat I have told you and if ever that\ntime comes, use that thing on the side\nof the class of which you are evidently\na member and not against it.\" He\nnodded his head, and I think he saw\nthe point.\nComrades, I am perfectly serious. I\nknow there are a large number of Socialists who have the idea that all we\nhave, to do it to go ahead and get a\nmajority of pencil markers and then\nthe capitalists will hand over the powers of government on a silver salver.\nBut. don't think those votes will count\nfor anything unless there is the force\nbehind to back them up, and that force\nIs not, will not, and cannot be supplied\nby a number of more or less empty\nstomachs, combined in a so-called\n\"economic organization of the working class.\" What would be the use of\neven a general strike, what would be\nthe use of what our I. W. W. friends\ncall a \"general lockout of tha capitalist class,\" carried out by a mass of unarmed men, when the government\nwould have at their disposal a large\narmy of well armed, well-fed men to\nkeep the workerB in subjection?\nDon't take my word when I say the\ncapitalists will take no notice of your\nvoles as such. Many of them, among\nwhom I may mention Goldwin Smith,\nhave already stated plainly, that If necessary they will keep the workers\ndown by force of arms, no matter how\nthey vote. Go ahead and get one of\nthose things, even If you have to go\nwithout that new suit; take every opportunity of spreading'the propaganda\namong those members of the working\nclass who are temporarily getting their\nliving by bearing arms for their masters. They are not all hopeless\u2014I saw\na glimmering of the light myself when\nI was one of them. Some of our hardest fighters were once ln the army or\nnavy, or, perhaps have been in both,\nas Leheney was. English has served,\nso has Hyatt and I know a number\nwho have who are not as well known\nas they.\nComrades, make no mistake, unless\nyou are ready to force acceptance of\nyour verdict at the polls, that verdict\nwill be thrown out of court.\n\"Keep one eye on the Parliament\nbuildings, but keep tbe other on the\narmouries.\"\nWILFRED GRIBBLE.\n\"FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE.\"\nA pious wave ls evidently passing\nover America, judging by the wail arising from the clergy of the fashionable\nchurches with reference to \"race\ngambling,\" as if that particular game\nresulted any more disastrously for the\nparticipants than numerous other\nforms met with in a day's travels.\nThe preachers, however, seem to see\na vast difference, although not taking\nus into their confidence very fully. Not\nclaiming any special knowledge of\ngambling games or swindling methods,\nbut having a working knowledge of\nthe ruses adopted by the church bazaars to separate the suckers who attend church bazaars from their money,\nwe are clearly of the opinion that if\nthe church schemes were stripped of\ntheir religious cloaks and placed side\nby side with those of the \"worldly\"\ngrafters, there would be but a small\nchance for criticism on the part of the\npeddlers of theological dope.\"\n- People who play the ponies, know,\nor should after a few plays, that the\nodds ln favor of the \"bookies\" are al-\n| ways large and that the operation of\nthe game itself entails a large expenditure, disregarding the question\nof profit entirely. From what we\nhave seen of the proceedings of the\nalleged race track, gambling is carried on openly and no attempt is made\nto present the attraction other than in\nits true light. It is not a game for\nmembers of he working class, but\nshould any member of that class hold\nhigh opinions of his ability to win,\na practical demonstration can be secured by a minimum payment of J 1.00.\nOn the other hand, examine minutely the money making attractions offered by the church organizations under\nthe cloak of religion. Rank swindles\nare often seen and if operated in a\nless sanctified atmosphere would result in the operatives losing their liberty. Even the roulette wheel has\nbeen brought into use to furnish at:\ntraction for an ever critical public,\nand at times some energetic church\ncommittee arranges for dances ln\nwhich the comely members of the congregation show portions of their\nnether limbs at so much a look.\nNo the clergy has no ground to\nstand on when they criticize others\nfor the class of amusement offered.\nAnd in the present instance a devotion\nto their Master's (?) interests is responsible for the effusions of recent\ndate. A few wage slaves have been\ntempted to use their employers funds\nand the sacredness of the master's\nfunds calls for maledictions on the\nhead of anyone who attempts to interfere and separate them from it, consequently the roast handed out by\nthe preachers.\nIt has been alleged that Ihe amusement offered at the race track is illegal, but we suggest to the Ministerial\nAsociation a conference with Police\nMagistrate Williams, who should be\nan authority on gambling games, ln\nview of the large number of men fined\nln his court for merely \"looking on.\"\nOn August 24th His Worship was\nseen to draw money from one of the\nbookies at the race track and he\nshould therefore be competent to ad-,\nvise on any problems In connection\nwith gambling.\nA. TRADE UNIONIST\nSocialist Directory\nEvery Local of the Socialist Perty ol\nCanada should run a card under this head.\n$1.00 per month. Secretaries please note.\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE COMIOTTM,\nSocialist Party of Canada. Meets\nevery alternate Monday. D. O. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 836, Vancouver,\nB. C.\nBBITXSK COLOMBIA PBOVXWOIAX.\nexecutive Committee, Socialist Party\nof Canada. Meets every alternate\nMonday. D. Q. McKenzie, Secretary,\nBox 836. Vancouver, B. C.\nLOCAL BOSSI.AHD, Wo. 85, 8. T. OF O..\nmeets tn Miners' Hall every Sunday at\n7:3.0 p. in. A. McL-eod, Secy., P. O.\nBox 674. Rossland Finnish Branch\nmeets In Flnlanders' Hall, Sundays at\n7:30 p. m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Box\n766 Rossland, B. C.\nLOOAL POBT MOODY, B. O., BO. 41,\n\u25a0\u25a0 T. ot O.\u2014Business meetings flrst\nSunday ln each month. J. V. Hull,\nSecretary, Port Moody, B. C.\nALBBBTA PBOTIBCIAL XXSCUTXTB\nCommittee, Socialist Party ot Canada. Meets every alternate Monday in\nLabor Hall, Eighth Ave. East, opposite postofflce. Secretary will be\npleased to answer any communications\nregarding the movement In the province.\nA. J. Browning, Sec, Box 647 Calgary, Alta.\nIOCAiTpRINCK KUPKKT, B C -Meets every\nSunday at 8 p. m., on tbe street corners and\nvarious halls. J B. King, Sec.\nMANITOBA PBOTIBCIAL BXBCU-\ntlve Committee. Meets flrst and third\nMondays of every month, Jubilee Hall,\ncorner of King and Alexander. The\nSecretary will be pleased to furnish\nany Information and answer any correspondence relative to the movement.\nSecretary, H. W. James, 326 Hargrave st\nWinnipeg, Man.\nLOCAL LADTBIOTK BO. 10, \u25a0\u25a0 T. OT\nC. Business meetings every Saturday\n7 p.m. ln headquarters on First Ave.\nParker, Williams, Sec, Ladysmith, Ii. C\nLOCAL BERLIN, ONT., NO 4, S. P. OF C\u2014\nmeeta every second and fourth Wednesday\nevening, at 8 p.m., 55 Kiug St, east opposite\nMarket Hotel. H. Martin, Secy, 0; Weber St.\neaat.\nOVTABIO PBOVINCIAL BXBOUTIVB\nCommittee. Meets In Finnish Hall, 214\nAdelaide St., Toronto, on 2nd and 4th\nWednesday. Organizer,, W. Gribble\n134 Hogarth Ave., Toronto;\nP. C. Young, Secretary, wo Pape Ave.;\nG. Colombo, Italian Org., 224 Chestnut St.\nLOCAL VANCOTJVEB, HO. 1, \u25a0. T. OP\nCanada. Business meetings every\nTuesday evening at headquarters, over\nKdgett's Store, 151 Hastings SL West.\nF. Perry, Secretary, Box 836.\nLOCAL VANCOUVER, B. C. NO. 45. FINNISH\n\u2014Meets every second and fourth Thursday in\nthe month at 151 Hastings St. W. Secretary,\nMatt Manilla.\nLOCAL TICTOBXA, BO. t, B. P. OP O.\nHeadquarters and Reading Room,\nRoom 1, Eagle Building, 1319 Government St. Business meeting every\nTuesday evening, 8 p.m. Propoganda\nmeetings every Sunday at Grand\nTheatre.\nlas Mcludoe, Secy. Room I, 1,119 Government St.\nLOCAL BILIOB, I. P. OP O., KBBTB\nevery Friday evening at 8 p.m., In\nMiners' Hall, Nelson, B. C. Frank\nPhillips, Organizer; I. A. Austin, Secy.\nLOOAL PHOENIX, BO. 8, I. P. OP Oh\nmeets every Sunday at 8:30 p.m., la\nMiners' Hall. Matt Halliday, Organizer\nH. K. Maciuuia, Secy.\nLOOAL CALOABT, ALTA., HO. 4, 8. T.\not C. Meetings every Sunday at t\np.m. In the Labor Hall, Barber Block.\nEighth Ave. E. (near postofflce). Club\nand Reading Room, McTavlsh Block.\nS17 Second St. E. opposite Imperial Ho.el\nFred S. Faulkner, Org., Box 647; j. Gibbs\nSecy., Bex 647.\nLOOAL BSLLBVUB, ALTA., HO. II, B.\nP of C, meets every flrst and third\nSunday evenings, Bellevue Town Halt\nC. Stubbs, Secy.\nLOCAL HAHAIBtO, HO. 3, 8. P. of a,\nmeets every alternate Sunday evening\ntn Foresters Hall. Business meeting\nat 7:00 o'clock sharp. Propaganda\nmeeting commences at 8:00 o'clock!\nJack Place, Rec. Secy., Box 826.\nLOOAL PHBHXS, 8. P. of O, HOLDS\neducational meetings ln the Miners'\nUnion Hall, Victoria Ave., Fernle,\nevery Sunday evening at 7:46. Business meeting flrst Sunday fn each\nmonth, same place at 2:30 p m. J.\nLancaster, Sec. Box 164.\nLOCAL OBSBHWOOO HO. 9, 8. P. OP\nC, meets every Sunday In Miners'\nUnion Hall at 7:30 p.m. Business\nmeetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each\nmonth. T. T. McKay, Secreturp Pro\nTem.\nLOCAL VEBHOH, B. 0., HO. 38, 8. P. OP\nC, meets every Friday night at 7:30\nln Tlmmlns' Hall, cor. of Seventh and\nTronson Sts. Business and propaganda combined. Geo. W. Peterson, Secretary, Vernon, B. C.\nLOCAL BEVBL8TOXB, B. C, HO. 7, 8.\nP. of C. Propaganda and business\nmeetings at 8 p. m.. the fourth Thursday of each month ln lodge room over\nold post office, near opera house. Everybody welcome. B. F. Gayman,\nSecretary; W. W. Lefeaux, Organizer.\nLOCAL COLBKAH, ALTA., HO. t.\nMeeta every Sunday night ln tbe\nMiners' Hall and Opera House at g\np.m. Everybody welcome. Socialist\nspeakers are Invited to call. H. J.\nSmith, Secy.\nLOOAL BBMOHTOH, ALTA., HO. 1, B.\nP._of