"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-03-31"@en . "1907-03-02"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318606/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " 0-$3^ ^-d_r*\"TB>\n6* ,*.-*!\nV victoS^'\nj SASKATCHEWAN 1\niblisbed \u00E2\u0080\u00A2ii>'tbe-tnterc$ts-oMbc \u00E2\u0080\u00A2MVbrKiJS\n.\u00C2\u00BB\n_.**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BU I*\n_v musus\nVancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, March 2, 1907\n\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2. Si.00\nFACTIONS IN THE\nSOCIALIST PARTY\nEvidences of the Clash Between the\nRevolutionary Proletariat and Its\nOpportunist Saviours.\nSome people take fright at factions.\nThey arc alway* crying for harmony,\nihey think the Socialist party is no\nplace for division*. Is not every Sor\ndelist a comrade, a brother, with whom\nwe ahould have no controversy? Let\nus unite against the common enemy and\nnot be wrangling among ourselves!\nThat sounds good ami is good, unless it means that Socialists are never\nto have any discussions with one another, but must sit around like angels\nwith harps all pbtying one tune.\nSocialists are human beings not\nangrl*. They arc on thc earth yet, and\nnot in heaven. 1 n\u00C2\u00ABy reach conclusions\nlike other men, hy means ot free debate. Socialism claims to deveiop individuality and demands freedom of\nspeech. Yet some Socialists would\ntiiujire.* discussion among Socialist*\nand reduce us all to thc dead level of\nthe stii(>ul on thc impossible plane of\nthe sanctiticd.\nInstead of bewailing factions in thc\nSocialist I'arty, wc sltould greet them\nas a smn of life and progress, *I\"hcrc\nare no {actions among the dead. Ihey\nall lie on one level in a cemetery, llttt\npeople wlio arc alive always -truggie\nrtith one another. It is the law of cx-\ni-teiicc. So let us have done with impracticable, Utopian talk about Socialist perfect iomsiii.\nIlut there are two kinds of factions;\n(-Cliyns based \"ii i\u00C2\u00BBrincij*U- and factum* based on persons. Personal fac-\nii'im, though they arc bound to exist\nmore or less, cannot last long unless the t\n;\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 is.ms represent vmic pt incudes ilut\nuthcr persons arc interested in.\nFactions based on principle arc inevitable in any free society Thc Socialist\nl'afty comes the nearest oi all political parties to being a free social organisation.\nFree discussion, differences of opinion welcomed, not suppressed; factions\ni distantly forming because of such\ndiffering opinions, a grcal, open, free\nforum where individuals ami factions\ndash, argue and vote conccrmng c|tics-\ntkma of vital interrst to than all. such\nare the ciuractcnstics ot thc Socialt-t\nI'arty.\nWho would have it otherwise? Would\nanyone turn thc Socialist I'arty into a\ndogmatic ecclesiasticism, where even\none is required to say, \"Credo,** and\nalways say it tn a dead language? Dot*\nany true Socialist want to make the Socialist I'arty into a Socialist Labor\nI'arty where everybody must BglM with\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2ne man or get out oi thc orgs nl nation t\nOr, on the other han~, who would have\nour organization, instead of petrifying\nunder one man's tyrannical orthodoxy,\ns|)re\u00C2\u00BBd out into a jelly fish conditio\" of\nfaclionles* and tpetthtMt harmony?\"\nEvery Socialist who is also a practical, reasonable man. will rxjic-l and\nwelcome factions based on principles.\nI here will lie leaders in inch factions,\nas there arc always leaders in any debate, men who \u00C2\u00BBce clearest and state\nl*c.sl lhe principles involved\nHut only weak and unthinking people\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2wil follow such leaders as individuals\nThe only leadership which can last in a\n(rte society such as the Socialist Party\nmust be if it il to continue, is that had\n\"ship which represents best those principles which arc essential to the interests ofrthe organization, lf any individual aspire* to be a leader in the Socialist Party, he must \"make v>ooil\" by\nproving to the majority thai Ins principle* arc those which underlie the\nevolutionary movement and arc therefore essential to party ptognt.\nTherefore no one should fear factions\nnor leader* of factions. Both are inevitable.\nWhat we should fear am* i>\u00C2\u00ABht is the\nunthinking snd submissive mind, lhe\nman to bc feared is thc man who takes\n'my other man's word for anything We\n*h*ll have no leaders who can mislead.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'hen every Socialist demands to be\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2liown.\" Leader* are dsngeroui only\nwhen free discussion is trowiul upon\nNo faction which is based upon fan*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lamental principles can hc downed by\ndowning any leader of thai faction. I he\nprinciple will finu another spokesman\niind the faction another leader. Because\nno principle which represents the interests of a class can possibly Ih- sup\nPressed. Factions and their leaders\nare thc mere instruments of class in\n'crests. Men may come ami men may\n8o, but class interests go on forever\nThese considerations find direct ap\nplication iu the present conditwits of the\nSocialist Party in thc United States\nI wo great factors are contending \"'\nthat pany for supremacy. The same\n factions exist in the Socialist Par\nty of all countries, for the simple reason\nthat thc same economic conditions exist in all civilize) nations.\nThese contending factions are thc\nRevolutionary Socialists and the Reform s Socialists, sometimes known as\nthe \"Revolutionists'' and the \u00E2\u0080\u00A2Opportunists.\"\nIt is folly to conceal this internal contest in thc Socialist Parties, as it is\nalways folly to conceal or ignore any\nessential fact. Thc fact of factions in\nthe Socialist Party is thc chief fact in\nthat party as a party. We must face it\nand deal with it. If wc do not, the\nparty is doomed because of its own incapacity to handle its own affairs. One\nfaction or the other must prevail. Wc\ncannot have a two-headed party, much\nless a two-bodied party.\nFor these two factions really stand\nfor two different bodies in modern society, two classes in society with conflicting intrcests. That at any rate, is\nwhat the Revolutionary Socialists believe, namely, that thc wage-workers, or\nproletarian class, have interests of their\nown, distinct from and opposed to all\nother classes in society, and that the Socialist Party must be primari'y a pro-\nIctarun organization. This does not\nmean that members of the other classes\nmay not be Socialists, but that the Socialist Parly is asd must be a parly af\nthc proletarian class because the proletarian class is the main source of capilalist exploitation and accumulation.\nThc reform faction of Socialists, on\nthc other hand, contend for the interests of the miijuic class in society, that\nis, thc small business man and the small\nfarmer. This class is exploited by ihe\ntrust class aud i.s fighting -fiercely to\nprevent such exploitation. The Reform\nSocialists stand lor this class in society,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2mpnasize the appeal to this class and\nwould conform Socialist Party tactics\nto the needs of this class of small capitalists.\nThese arc thc two contending factions in thc Socialist Party the world\nover. Ihey have various spokesmen\nand leaders. In Germany Rebel Revolutionist and Bernstein Opportunist. In\nFrance, Gucsdc and Jaures. In Italy\nicm and Turati In England Hynd\nman and Blatchford. In America\nMailly, Hanford and Wbs, Revolution,\nists, and Berger, Hoehn and Mills, Opportunists.\nThis great conflict between two factions based on principle must go on.\nIt ought to go on. For us to suppress\nit or ignore it -mites disaster later. It\nis just as foolish as ever it was to cry,\nrcacc, Peace.\" when there is no peace.\nLet OS have open and fair discussion*, as\nfree as possible from personalities. Men\narc nothing except as they stand for\nprinciples Whether a man is good or\nlod personalis-, matters not. I he only\nquestion is. \"What dot** hc stand for?\nOn the great question. 'Wage class\nor Middle Class? lhe Socialist\nlands unequivocally where it has s'ood\nthese seven years past, namely, for a\nProletarian Party, destined to cmanci- j\npate all slaves of capital\u00E2\u0080\u0094a party into\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2hose rait* every person ol whatever\nclass will lie welcome who comes to assist the wage class achieve its destiny \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSeattle Socialist. *\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094, e \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA CHANCE TO RISE.\n\"Here of all places in thc world,\nyoung 'men have a chance to rise,\nvv am earners have a chance to rise. --\nDr Jacob Gould Schurman in debate\nwith Morris Hillquit.\n\"There's a chance to rise for every\nhonest worker\"\nSaid the Doctor with a condescending\nsmirk; . .\nAn.l it's true, for every morning ,\nAt the loud alarm clock's warning,\nThere's \"a chance to rise' and hustle\noff to worki\nBut the Doctor spake more truly than\nhe reckoned, ,\nAnd that truth the Socialist can read\nThere's1'\"a chance to rise,\" ye\nworkers:\u00E2\u0080\u0094 . .\nRise and overthrow the shirkers\nWith your ballot and your economic\nmight I\n-Tom Selby. in The Worker.\nSIGNS OF THE TIMES.\nThat the repressive functions of the\ncapitalist state will pretty soon be exercised in Canada, in a manner never\nbefore witnessed, there is every reason\nto believe. In spite of the continued\nteaching of the sophistry, that the interests of capital and labor are identical,\nstrikes against oppressive conditions of\nemployment continue in the same old\nway. ,\nThe Compulsory Investigation Act\nnow before the oar! lament of Canada is\nthe entering of the thin end of the\nwedge. This act carries with it penalties. No matter what act of tyrannical\noppression may be practised by a corporation, the men dare not strike without incurring the danger of contemplating for a while the ins uie of a jail. The\ncomposition of the investigating tribunal means in the final analysis two\nbourgeois against one workingman.\nAs well might a sheep look for justice\nfrom a bench of wolves as for thc\nworkers to hope to gain anything from\nthese arbitrators, lt is undoubtedly a\nmove to check a strike by legal penal*\ntics and give the corporation an op-\nportunitv while the investigation is be-\nin? held to recruit strike-breakers in\nsufficient quantities to beat the men out\nbefore they start.\nWe understand that a strike is mors\nthan probable in the Crow's Nest district next month, and thc progress of\nthis act ttirough parliament is to be\nhastened in oroer to get its repressive\nmachinery to cope with the threatened\ntrouble.\nAnyone who has been through the\nslave-pens of the Crow's Nest Coal Ca\nand witnesseu thc almost intolerable\nconditions of employment in that region will say there is cause for a strike\nin plenty. However, we have not ol\nlate lieen much in favor of strikes;\nThere is only one that, in our opinion,\ncan be thoroughly effective, and this\nthe majority of the miners of the\nCrow's Nest have not as yet seen fit\nto adopt it. However, we have littler\nsympathy with the dear public in the\ntime of a strike and thc miners of the\nCrow's Nest arc entitled to have less*\n\"When the capitalist press speaks of the\npublic suffcrip- it is not the working\nclass section they have in mind. The'/'\nknow the workers suffer all the time\nin employment and out of it. They\nwould never raise a finger of protest\nwere thc condition of those miners ten\ntimes worse than it is now, provided\nthey were quiet and kept working. The\npublic to them is their own class\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nbourgeois\u00E2\u0080\u0094and of them we say, in the\nwords of the late i_ommodore Vanderbilt: \"Thc public be damned.*' There\nis one good thing that is sure to result\nfrom the operation of this act when it is\napplied to a strike, ami that is it will\nopen the eyes of thc working class as\nto the real nature of tlie present class\nstate.\nThe state as tbe impartial protector\nof canital and labor alike is a superstition that dies hard. Maybe before the\nminers of the Crow's Nest get through\nthis threatened trouble they will have\nlearned sufficient on this point to induce ihem to be a little more united in\nan ellort to capture this state in their\nown interest than they were at the beginning of thi; month.\nJ. T. M.\nAt Sydney, N. S. vv., 58 members of\nthe crew of the Oceanic Steamship\nCompany's steamer Conoma were arrested and given one month's imprisonment at hard labor for refusing to work\nwith 4 non-union men who were\nshipped at Honolulu on the voyage out.\nThev Pot *hn'-- mmiiirinr for refuting to\nobey \"lawful comands.\" An exchange\nthinks the rights of these sailors have\nbeen infringed upon. It is not of record\nthat slaves ever had any rights that\nmasters were bound to respect, no\nmatter whether those slaves were on\nland or sea. The jailing of them when\nthey become unruly is merely an exercise of the right of their masters. Workers rights ? They are but a dream.\nSomething like that enjoyed by the fellow that \"hits the pipe.\"\nFree speech, the British working-\nman's boasted prerogative, is about to\nbe criopleu if reports from the \"tight\nlittle islanu\" of England be true. At\nNelson, Stonehouse and other points\nSocialist speakers have been arrested,\nfined and imprisoned. So long as working-class orators enunciated sentiments\nthat were not dangerous to the continued rule of Liberal and Tory capitalists, free speech was encouraged, but\nnow \"a change has come over the spirit\nof their dream.\"\n\"BYSTANDER\" AND THE\nLAWS OF THE MARKET\nIn Spite of Himself Capitalist Apologist Occasionally Blunders\nUpon a Truth.\nTo excuse the non-production of\nW\u00C2\u00A3S -i\u00C2\u00AB.\" which &\u00C2\u00AB*.<*\u00C2\u00BB;\n\"It is a very plain economk_l truth\nthat labor, whether of the hand or of\nthe brain, is a commodity, the value of\nwhich, like that of other commodities,\nmust be ruled by the market, and cannot by legislative interference or any\nother agency be made higher or lower\nthan it reallv is. Not the immediate\norganizer and employer of labor, but\nthc purchaser of the product, is the real\nmaster, nd in fixing the price which he\nwill give for thc article practically determines lne wages of thc producer. As\noften as we prefer the cheaper article,\nthc wage of the workman is reduced.\nPhis, however, while it shows that interference with the rate of wages as a\nrule is unavailing, by no means shows\nthat it is not both the duty and interest\nof thc employer to bc as liberal as possible in his dealings with those he employs, and allow them, as far as he\nreassonably and prudently can, to feel\nthat they are his partners in the trade.\nIt is by creating as far as possible such\na sense of partnership that this most\nthorny and perilous problem of the relations between wage-earner and capitalist is to be solved, and a way of deliverance found from a state of war by\nwhich the value of all labor is bciqg reduced, while the most unsocial passions\nhave been called into play, and the\nunity of the commonwealth, political\nas well as economical, is becoming seriously imperilled.\"\nThe atiovc quotation from Bystander's\ncolumn in Toronto Weekly Sun will be\ndeemed a remarkable admission for an\napologist for capitalism to make.\nIle admits thc commodity nature of\nlabor power, that intangible force which\ncannot bc disassociated from the laborer, and virtually makes him a commodity. Tis true, Bystander uses the\nterm lalior when he evidently means\nlabor pwer, and though the distinction\nis a vital one in the discussion of economic subjects, we will not cavil at it,\nhut treat it in thc sense that we understand it is meant. Once grant that the\nenergy the laborer sells to his employer is a commodity it is then an easv\nmatter to uncover the process by which\nhe is robbed'of the wealth he creates.\nThe exchange value of a day's labor\npower is necessarily less than the exchange value of the product of a day's\nlabor. Were it otherwise no capitalist\nwould have any incentive to employ a\nlaborer. In other words, the laborer\nwhile getting in wages just what it costs\nto keep him working cannot by the\noperation of the laws of thc capitalist\nmarket get even approximately the\nvalue of the wealth he created.\nBystander of course finds it convenient to ignore this fact, which ought to\nbc as obvious as the one that the laborer is virtually a commodity, but in\ninsisting that you cannot upset those\nlaws ,by \"legislative interference or any\nother agency\" he is on common ground\nwith the Socialist, who does not occupy\nthe inconsistent position of a reformer\nof the capitalist system.\nThe reform element in the ranks of\nlabor have always by their action demonstrated their belief in their ability to\nupset the laws of the market. Labor\norganizations have time and again gone\ninto a strike with the market set against\nthem, with an over-supply of their particular commodity offered for sale, and\nthey have been taught by much hitter\nsuffering that no matter how just\ntheir cause may appear, and how much\nmisery they can show they have to endure, the merciless grind of those laws\nmust go on while the economic system\nwhich conditions them continues.\nThe legislative reformer has the same\nbee in his bonnet. By passing minimum wage laws he hopes to successfully arrest the downward trend. One\nmight as well seek to prevent by legislative enactment merchants from selling\nbutter below 40 cents a pound when\nthey are willing; to do so, as to prevent wages from falling in an overstocked labor market by similar means.\nThe man out of a job able to subsist on\nless than the legal wage will cut it secretly if need be, and he will be helped\nin this by the capitalist to whose interest it is to buy his labor power as cheap\nas he can.\nCAPITALIST RULE\nIN PHILADELPHIA\nBrings Forth the Same Uxorious Crop\nof Misery and Degradation\nAs Dsewhero.\n(Continued on Page Four)\nComrade Charles Sehl of Philadelphia has been nominated for mayor of\nthat city by the Socialist Party comrades. From the following extracts\nfrom his letter of acceptance of the\nnomination it would appear that the nature and habits of the capitalist beast\narc the same in the city of Brotherly\nLove as in any otner place on the footstool where this foul and disgusting\ncreature has made its nest and spawned\nits infamies:\n' It also seems that the Socialist meth-\nof of throttling the foul beast is everywhere the same.\n\"Certainly Philadelphia is ripe for\nthis awakening. The metropolis of the\nforemost industrial state of the union,\nwith its textile, locomotive and ship\nbuildine interests, with its enormous\nfactory system, with its railway connections and its river front, there\nseems to be nothing lacking to make\nits million and a quarter of people the\nharmiest on the face of the earth.\n'Tet we find it despoiled by a handful of capitalists and their political retainers, who, by means of contracts and\nfranchises and legislation in general, loot the city's treasury of millions\nof dollars at a time.\n\"We find the toil and the sweat of\nthe armies of wage workers coined into profits for tne few capitalists, who\nown the land and machinery necessary\nto the life of the whole people.\n\"iv e find that in the locomotive\nworks, popularly known as the 'little\nhell on earth,' and upon the railroads\nand throughout other industrial establishments, thousands of wage workers\nare annually killed, and tens of thousands maimed and crippled or fall a\nprey to consumption and other dread\ndiseases.\n'\"We find that Philadelphia is not a\n'city of homes,' but a city of homeless;\nthat only about one dwelling in nine is\nowned free by the user, that for the rest\nthe people\u00E2\u0080\u0094largely the wage-working\nclass\u00E2\u0080\u0094pay rent and are subject to the\nwill of the landlord.\n\" \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BBe find that, because of poverty, in\na great part of the city known as the\n'slums,' workingmen and their families are* compelled to live even worse\nthan the beasts of the field, reeking in\nfilth, immorality and disease.\n\"We find that there are insufficient\nhospitals and other institutions to take\ncare of those either born or made helpless through the terrible pace at which\nthe worker has to toil.\n\"We find that the introduction of machinery, and its private ownership by\nthe capitalist, enable him to supplant\nmale labor by that of women and children. That as a result, the worker's\nfamily w broken up, and all are driven\nto compete for the subsistence wage.\nThat the poor pay received by women,\nand the conditions under which they labor, especially in factory and department store, has made of prostitution a\nsocial evil, so that several grand juries\nhave admitted their inability to remove\nit by threatening the unfortunate women\nwith imprisonment.\n\"We find that insufficient school\nfacilities are provided by the legislators, in order to direct the child to the\nfactory door; that as a result, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ate among the\ndarkest spots in child-slave America.\n\"We find that the employment of women and children has a terrible influence on the offspring of the worker;\nthat there is race-degeneracy and race-\nmurder, no less than race suicide.\n\"And while these evils are threatening the city's very life, we find the\nlegislators ignoring them, and devoting\ntheir time to squandering the city's\nmoney on boulevards calculated merely\nto gratify the desire for pleasure of the\nidle rich class.\n\"We find the police force used to\nsafeguard the property rights of thc\nmaster class, and treating as criminals\nwage-workers who dare strike and do\npicket duty to improve their miserable\ncondition.\n\"We find the magistrates a bulwark\nto the same property interests, willing\nto exercise their power to throttle free\nspeech, if necessary, to hinder the people in having their economic slavery\ndiscussed. That, when speakers of the\nSocialist Party, men and women, were\ntorn from the public ..atform and\nthrust into foul, vermin-ridden cells,\nthe magistrates, in the discharge of\ntheir duty as lackeys of the upper class,\nwere conveniently away from home,\nand that these citizens, whose liberties\nhad been outraged and for whom bail\nwas ready, were forced to pass the night\nin the lockup.\ni \"To redress these wrongs, the Socialist - artv calls upon the people\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nwage-working class, the only class that\nperforms useful work and is necessary,\nto society's existence\u00E2\u0080\u0094to unite into\ntheir party, the Socialist Party, to take\nthe powers of government into their\nown hands and use the government to\nsecure their common welfare.\n\"The old parties, financed and controlled by the capitalist class, are interested in 'sanding- pat' There is\nnothing in the promises of their candidates, even if lived up to, that will\nat all improve the material condition\nof the wage-worker.\n\"The Socialist Party alone is opposed\nto standing still. It declares that the\nwheels of time have not ceased turning, that the present conditions cannot\nremain forever, that Progress is tbe\nwatchword of the human race.\n\"The Socialist Party declares that the\npresent system of master and man must\ngo and give way to a higher system\nwherein all will be workers and free\nmen. This is the Social Revolution\nthat it is the mission of the working\nclass to accomplish. -\n\"The production of the things we eat\nand wear and need for our existence is\ncarried on by the workers together.\nProduction is social. But the land and\nmachinery used in production is owned\nas private property by another class,\nthe capitalist class. While production\nis social, ownership is private. It is\nthis great social wrong that is at the\nroot of all our social ills. And this\nwrong must be righted if society is to\nendure.\n'The Socialist Party therefore proposes that the land and machinery used\nby society shall be owned and operated\nby society; that opportunities shall be\nequal, and that labor shall receive the\nfull fruits of toil. As capitalism serves\nthe capitalist class, so Socialism is for\nthe direct benefit of the working class.\n\"As quickly as the working class secures political power through the Socialist Party, steps will be taken to remove *\"*\u00C2\u00BB* ,*t\u00C2\u00AB |s4\u00C2\u00BB:** n'o'rr e-r'-***. QO***e\nof which are indicated above, the end\nalways kept in view being the complete\nemancipation of the working class irom\nwage-slavery.\"\ne'\nUNDER \"OUR FLAG.\"\nWayland workhouse, Norfolk, England, is so crowded that some of the\npaupers have had to sleep in the board\nroom, and some of them are to be\nboarded out to another union at 9s. per\nhead per week.\n* \u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00BB\nA respectable woman at Lambeth\nwas recently charged with begging in\ncompany with her twelve-year-old\ndaughter! She told the magistrate she\nwas left with three children, and did\nnot know what to do to get her rent I\nGod save the landlord.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00C2\u00BB *\nAn old woman nameu Healy died at\nNotting Hill on Christmas Eve, according to the medical evidence, \"from\nheart disease an_ pneumonia, accelerated by thc cold and want of sufficient\nfood,' and was found a month later,\nwith a charity ticket lying by the side\nof her decomposed body. The \"charity\nticket\" was saved.\nThe rector of Corwen having refused\nto permit other parishes' paupers to be\nburied in his churchyard without extracting an exorbitant fee from the\nguardians, the council consequently are\nasking permission to borrow \u00C2\u00A3 1,000\nfor the institution of a public burial\nground. Paupers are a nuisance even\nwhen dead.\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 * # *\nFifty or 60 unemployed of Edmonton and Tottenham on Saturday last\nmarched to White hall to see the president of the local government board.\nMr. Burns is said to have \"received\nthem very kindly and sympathetically,\"\nand \"promised to look into thc matter,\"\nbut gave no further pledge. He is still\n\"looking.\"\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe capitalist press some time ago\ncomplaineu that the unemployed in one\nYorkshire town did not turn out to\nclear snow away. On Sunday last, at\nSheffielu, it was the other way about,\nand there is still complaint. Many\nunemployed turned up at the corporation depot, and because* they were not\ntaken on for snow-clearing, smashed\nwindows and assaulted the officials (and\neven one another in the confusion)\nwith fists and sticks. As the snow did\nnot belong to them it seems a piece of\nimpudence on thc past of the unemployed to even express a desire to shovel it,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Justice.\ni\n*'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nI tm\n_ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0J,^-\u00C2\u00ABir->-i--h-j_\u00C2\u00ABj_M\n\u00C2\u00AB_- wat-ax o__uo\u00C2\u00BB, vAwstrm, s-rmt ootwaa\ntAfM-AV, iO-c-,, lw,\na\n:&9 nfi-tal HI\nPubllthed witty Uhatfia* ia tha\nintereat* of the working ehtat tlona\n\ a* the OBce ol the Western Clarion,\n: Flack Block basement, 165 Haatfaga\n1 Street, Vancouver B. C \t\nSUBSCRIPTION:\n$u\u00C2\u00BB PER ANNUM\nStrictly ia Adva-co.\nYearly sobscriptlon card* fat lots\noi fl or ms, 1$ cents each.\nBundles of S or more copies, for a\nperiod of not less than three months,\nat the rate of one cent per copy per\nissue.\nAdvert-dof ratas <\u00C2\u00BB appHcatton.\nIf you tweaiw* this paper, te fat paid\nfor.\nIn making remittance hy cheque,\nj exchange most he sdded. Address\nall communications and make all\nj money orders payable to\nTHB WBSTBRN CLARION\n*________ _ n\nVancouver, B. C-\nWatch this label on your pa-\nper. If this number fat on b\\nypm wsbeeriptlon expires the\nnest'\n415\nSATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1907.\nANOTHER FAMILY ROW.\nNot many months since amicable relations between brothers Capital and Labor were for a considerable time broken off in the Crow's Nest Pass coal\ndistrict. Brother Labor took on a\nstubborn and sulky fit and refused to\ncomport himself in a manner conducive\nto the decorum and harmony that\nmarks a well ordered household. In\nrecalcitrant mood he refused to do\nchores on the ranch, and in many ways\nindulged in conduct tending to bring\ndiscredit upon the family. Brother\nCapital, however, as the acting head of\nthe family, displayed a most commendable degree of patience and forbearance\nin dealing with his rebellious relative,\nwith tbe happy result of eventually dissipating his sulkiness and inducing him\nto once more assume the role of an honored and dutiful member of a most\nhappy family. The erstwhile estranged\nbrethren once more dwelt together in\npeace and harmony. The chores were\nagain properly attended to by Brother\nLabor. Brother Capital, with commendable wisdom and good judgment,\nlooked carefully after the contents of\nthe pantry lest his oft-times erring\nbrother should in a moment of weakness become addicted to gluttony and\nbring scandal an- .-grace upon the, as\nyet, untarnished family name.\nUnder the influence of that \"identity\nof interest\" which every well informed'\nperson knows exists between Brothers\nCapital and Labor, the dove of peace\ndid a hovering stunt over the scene\nthat, for a time, bade fair to become\nchronic But it is now reported that\nanother family row is brewing. Rumor asserts that the oove of peace will\nsoon be hiking adown the horizon as\nthough chased by a hen hawk.\nIt seems that Brother Labor is again\nbecoming mentally bilious. He is afflicted once more with strange halucina-\ntions. He entertains a notion that the\nhours for doing chores should be shortened, which is of course ridiculous. He\nwants a little more meal in his porridge, which is equally ridiculous, if\nnot more so. After the 4th of March\nhe proposes to think twice before doing\nchores unless his ridiculous demands\nare complied with. As their \"interests\nare identical\" it may be readily seen\nthat Brother Capital cannot consent to\nsuch reckless folly. To do so would be\nto deplete the family larder and to that\nextent detrimentally affect their common interests.\nOf course these frequently occurring\nfamily rows are to be deplored. They\nshould not, however, be considered as\nevidence of any conflict of interest between Capital and Labor. Everybody\nknows their interests are identical. It\nhas been affirmed and reaffirmed by men\nhoth wise snd truthful. Let none dare\ndispute it, do matter how it appears to\nwork out to the contrary notwithstanding.\nA COMMERCIAL LESSON.\nThe idea is prevalent among a goodly\nnumber of people that the Salvation\nArmy is an institution which exists for\nthe cure of souls only. Far be it from\nour intention to cast any doubt upon its\npurpose. But it may jar the sensibilities of many well intentioned people to\nreceive from the lips of Salvation Army\nofficers themselves indisputable evidence\nthet this organisation is engaged in\ntrade and commerce evidently in obedience to the same cold and calculating\nmaterial instinct that prompts the activity of any ordinary commercial enterprise.\nIt is well known that the Army has\n.of .oriie time been engaged in bridging\nto Canada emigrants from the old country. It has not come to notice that any\nclaim has been made that this has been\nin the interest of the souls of those\nbrought over. So far as we know it\nis just as easy lo cure an afflicted soul\nin England as in Canada. If we are\nin error in regard to this, we hope to\nbe corrected by those who make the\ncuring of souls a profession and are,\ntherefore, qualified to speak authoritatively on the matter.\nIf, then, the bringing of these emigrants from the old country is not\nprompted by a desire to save them from\ntheir sins and attune their souls to the\nheavenly harmonies of the life to come,\nit would at least be some satisfaction\nto know what does prompt it. Thei *\nare persons who are prone to cast reflections upon the character or condu.**\nof others. Out of their diseased itr\naginations they conjure forth ins'inu-\ntions that are oft-times base, mean ind\nvile. In order to fathom the purpose\nof bringing over emigrants from the\nold country, and of arriving at a complete understanding of the nature of\nthe transaction, it is unnecessary to\ncast reflections or indulge in insinuations. The Army officials are themselves furnishing all the information necessary to arrive at a complete unuer-\nstanding of the whole business.\nAdjutant Wakefield, of the Salvation\nArmy, spoke at the \"barracks\" in Victoria on Sunday last on the Army's immigration policy. He pointed out that\ntbe \"peculiar organization and methods\nof the Army\" enabled it to make a\ncareful selection of emigrants. By so\ndome- it avoided the \"slum-dwellers\"\nand picked out \"capable artisans who.\nwere both sober and industrious. During the past two years 20,000 had been\nbrought over. Out of this number but\n19 had been rejected as unfit to meet\nthe requirements of whatever interest\nprompted their importation. If they\nwere brought over for the purpose of\nsaving their souls, just why the 19 were\nrejected and \"deported\" is not clear.\nThe Adjutant declared \"there was no\nintention on the part of the Army to\nglut the labor market here or elsewhere.\" Now a \"market\" and all that\nis connected with it is most grossly\nmaterial. It is bad enough to discuss\nsuch a thing even upon a week day, but\nupon Sunday it is far worse. Being\nintensely religious, having come from\nthat good puritan stock that very properly and effectively burned witches at\nthe stake at Salem, Mass., we cannot\nbut feel shocked that the Adjutant dealt\nwith such a subject on the Sabbath.\nA market implies the purchase and\nsale of things. A market cannot be\nglutted except with goods. The \"labor market\" implies that labor is bought\nand sold therein. The power to labor,\nor labor power, is the energy stored up\nin the body of the laborer. To buy and\nsell it is to buy and sell the laborer\nhimself as he cannot be separated from\nthis energy except through its expenditure in tbe processes of producing\nwealth. It is only proaucers of and\ndealers in goods that can glut a market.\nLabor power is produced by the worker. It results from his partaking of\nfood, etc. This labcr power must be\nsold in order that the laborer may obtain the price of food, etc., to maintain\nhis existence. He is forced to sell it\nbecause he is cut off from all access to\nthe means of production through which\nhis labor power may be transformed into such food, etc The present system\nof property (capital) denies him access\nto the means of production upon any\nother terms than the sale of his labor\npower to the owners. This amounts\npractically to the sale of himself. Out\nof this purchase 01 labor power and the\nappropriation of the wealth produced\nthrougn its expenditure arises the riches\nand power of the capitalist class and\nthe poverty, misery and degradation of\nthe working class.\nIn stating that the Army had no intention of \"glutting the labor market,\"\nthe Adjutant, whether he knew it or\nnot, admitted that the Army was engaged in a purely commercial enerprise,\ni. e., dealing in labor. Such being the\ncase, it must be the respective condition\nof the labor market in B. C. and England that is prompting the importation\nof these human wares. If there exists\nanything approaching to a scare ty of\nany particular commodity in a given\nlocality the tendency in the commercial\nworld is to bring in from other parts\nwhere the supply is more plentiful,\nenough to bring the conditions there\nto the normal level of the world's market.\nThe interests of capital demand a\nplentiful supply of labor at all times and\nplaces. Conditions in the oloer and\nmore densely populated countries are\nideal from the capitalist standpoint. Labor is so plentiful as to assure its cheapness. In this Dominion labor has not\nyet been reduced to a level altogether\nsatisfactorv to capital. Hence the bring-\nine* in of a supply from other Countries,\nThe Salvation Army becomes an effective piece of machinery to facilitate\nthe process. However loud its professions of philanthropy and solicitude for\nsouls, the fact stands out in bold re-\ninterest of capitalist property. There\nis nothing to warrant the assumption\nthat such an undertaking can in any\nmanner improve the condition of the\nworking class either here or hereafter.\nLike all other institutions that grows\nup along with capitalist property, the\nSalvation Army is purely a business enterprise. It has its root in material\nthings. It is prompted by material interests, if not of its officers direct, then\nthe interests of some section or class of\nthe community whose purpose can be\nfurthered bv its services. All pre\ntense of spirituality and\nsouls is mere bluff.\nUk cure of\nTHE VALUE OF BRAINS.\nThe Standard Oil Company has de-\nchred a dividend of approximately $15,-\n000,000 payable on March 15. Two\nmore similar dividends are e-cpected\nROCKEFELLER'S BENEFACTIONS.\nThe Relation of Educational Endowments to thc Price of Oil.\nNoting the coincidence of a raise in\nthe price of oil and the announcement\nthat John D. Rockefeller has contributed the sum of $35,000,000 towards the\ncause of education, a press writer on\nthe Toronto News delivers himself ot\nmany wise reflections on the subject.\nHe evidently shares the popular delusion\nthat when Rockefeller donates a large\nsum of money to endow a university he\nimmediately proceeds to charge it up to\nthe public by tackm- it on the price ol\nthe oil that his company distributes.\nThis erroneous conception is based on\nlack of knowledge of commodities. The\ntrusts of which Standard Oil is a good\ntype may be said to be in the business\nfor the indentical reason that prompts\nthe activities of thc smallest concern,\nvix, to get the maximum of profit with\nthe minimum of expense. Standard\nOil snrtually controls thc enure oil busi-\niness on -lis continent. It can limit\nwithin the year. This is equal to the 15*7^-3 0jj to kecp even pace with\nwont- !__,_ . , 1. _,\u00E2\u0080\u009E _\u00E2\u0080\u009E.| .i.-.i -Wil\nentire earnings of over 100.OOO\ningmen.\nEvery dollar of this vast sum has\nbeen produced by the wage slaves of\nthe Standard Oil Company. It represents the volume of surplus value\nsqueezed from their bone and flesh under the wage process. In other words,\nit is the tribute these slaves are compelled to pay to their masters for the\nprivilege of being slaves.\nAmong surface skimmers of the\nsirl-ft-property holding type the idea is\nprevalent that the Standard and similar combinations of thieves obtain their\nplunder at the expense of the consumers of their products. They become\nloud in denunciation of the exorbitant\nprices they are compenc- to pay for oil\nand other products. That the wage\nslaves who produce these things suffer\ninjury never occurs to them. In fact\nthey seldom bother their heads about\nmatters that so clearly do not concern\nthem. If they coum only buy the\nthings they require cheaper they would\nfind no difficulty in ignoring the very\nexistence of the wage slave entirely.\nWhatever values have fallen into\nthe hands of the Standard and similar\nconcerns have been produced by the\nworkers. Ihey received for their services merely the exchange value of their\nlabor power as a commodity. Whatever\nthe value produced by their labor in excess of the amount paid them in thc\nform of wages was taken out of their\nhides by their employers without money\nand without price. They produced this\nvalue by coining their very lives into\nthe products. They alone were robbed\nof it. The sum total of capitalist exploitation and outrage is embodied in\nthe robbery of the workers.\nIt may be true that after having\nrobbed their workmen of the wealth\nthey have produced, individual capitalists, or bands of them, may fall upon\nand plunder each other. This does not\nalter the fact that the wealth they arc\nin this case stealing from each other\nwas originally stolen from the working\npeople who produced it.\nLabor produces all wealth that is\nmeasured in terms of exchange. As\nlabor has neither this wealth, nor anything to show for it, it is ample proof\nthat it has been stolen. As all of this\nwealth is found in the possession of\nthe capitalists it should not be difficult to locate the thieves. John D. and\nhis bunch \"dividing up\" thc $15,000,000\nswag above referred to is circumstantial\nevidence amply strong enough to convict.\nIt is claimed by many that the revenue of the capitalist is merely a proper reward for the use of his brains, but\nas it comes to him solely because of his\nownership of the means of proouction,\nan ownership that cannot be maintained\nwithout the consent of the working\nclass, it is plain that it comes to him\nnot because of his brains but because\nof a lack of brains upon the part of the\nworkers themselves.\nHe who may chance to fall\ninto possession of the means\nof production in sufficient hulk\nto ward off the encroachments\nof other capitalists need wear no corns\non his brains trying to increase his\nwealth. The very absence of brains in\nthe workers will give him a lead-pipe\ncinch without effort on his part.\nAn aggregation of cacklers, the individuals composing which are afflicted\nin various degree with more or less\nchronic reform imbecility, exists in\nNew York, known as the Consumers'\nLeague. It has been devoting iu energy to an investigation of the conditions under which the sweat-shop\nslaves of that citv eke out their miserable existence. Reporting upon the\nsweat-shops one of the cacklers says\nthat the following prices are paid to the\nworkers for making garments under the\nsweat-shop system in New York City:\n\"Childrens flannel dresses, with three\nstrips of insertion, aft cents a dozen;\ninfants' dresses retailing for $S.W\napiece brought in to the workers only\n42 cents a day for fourteen hour's work.\nFor making French knots and feather\nstitching on infants' fine dresses, the\nworkers received 10 to IS cents a dav\nfor fourteen to sixteen hours work.\"\nAs these prices merely indicate the\ncondition of the isbor market it would\nbe interesting to know Just how much\ncackling by consumers' leagues\nlief that its immigration policy is a'other reform hens will be required to\npurely commercial undertaking to the I alter K.\nthe demand. It can, and docs when\nthe necessity arises to crush out a rival,\ncut the price of oil below the cost of\nproduction in that particular locality.\nBut there are boundaries beyond which\nit cannot go in fixing the price of the\ncommodity it sells. ,\nWe find that the price of oil rises and\nfalls. Our Toronto News writer would\nascribe the variations to John D.'s\ngiving or withholding of donations. It\nought, to be apparent to even the limited faculties of a middle-class press\nwriter that an individual of John D. s\nfinancial genius would hardly play such\na clumsy game. If he has thc power to\narbitrarily fix price would he wait until he has made a donation before raising it? Would not this latter action be\ntoo much of a give away? Would he\nnot rather maintain it all the time at the\nhighest possible price? As a matter of\nfact, this is just what is done. Standard Oil like the smallest merchant\ncharges all its traffic will bear. If the\nprice of oil is, say, 20 cents per gallon,\nthe experiment of raising or lowering\nthe price one cent would determine\nwhich price would produce the largest\namount of profit If the price went too\nhigh it might curtail the demand so\nmuch that it would produce less profit\nthan it would if it were lower, ln the\nevent of a prohibitive price the public\nwould economize on consumption; they\nwould also adopt other illuminants, ao\nthat the managers of Standard Oil base\ntheir policy of price, like everyone else,\nwith tliese considerations in tlieir mind,\nand thus in reality the giving or withholding 01 beneiaction. has absolutely\nnothing to do with the price of the commodity.\nThe Toronto News press writer virtually acknowledges this contention\nwhen he asks the question, \"Wilt the\nprice drop when Rockefeller has gotten\nback his $32,000,000 donation?\" He\nsays: \"Well, hardly;\" indicating thereby some other cause than the benefaction as warrant for the increased price.\nIn primitive society one can see thc\nprinciple that the exchange of commodities is based on. Our ancestors when\nseeking to barter one with the other the\nproducts of their respective labors instinctively adopted a method ol determining what constituted a fair swap. A\nsavage who lay on his belly beside a\nstream a whole day to catch a fish with\na spear would calculate to get the day's\nlabor of another member of the tribe\nspent in producing a bow and arrow. He\nwould not give more than that if he\nknew it. Should he discover a process\nsuch as etching fish with a net\u00E2\u0080\u0094as, indeed, he did later\u00E2\u0080\u0094and this resulted in\na larger catch in one day than formerly,\nwhy then he was obliged to give more\nfish in exchange for the other things hc\nneeded if no better process was discovered for producing them. Should there\nbe a scarcity of fish even with the improved process, why immediately the\nratio of exchange was altered to meet\nit This basing of exchange on the\namount of labor time embodied in the\ncommodity produced has continued\ndown through the aces until now. The\namount of social labor time embodied\nin a gallon of Standard oil, exchanges\nwith a similar amount of labor time embodied in a certain measure of electricity and equally so with the same amount\nof labor time crystallized in a piece of\nmoney. When better proceses of producing commodities are adopted the ratio of\nexchange alters inevitably to meet them.\nIt has been stated by many investigators, and there is little reason to\ndoubt the accuracy of their conclusions,\nthat trust products sell now for less\nmoney than they did when the industry\nwas in the hands of competing firms.\nDistrict Attorney ;erome of rsew York\nsaid recently: \"There is no use going\noff half-cocked on thc subject of the\ntrusts. The trusts have handled nothing but what they have cheapened.\" The\nreasons for this are not far to seek. The\ntrust is essentially a labor-saving device. It can produce the same commodity with a less expenditure of labor-\npower than the competing firms. It\nhas eliminated a whole horde of bookkeepers, salesmen, commercial travellers,\nadvertising agents, etc., etc. From\nwhat source then some one asks does\nthe Rockefeller millions spring? From\nthe same source that the smallest manufacturer gets his profits. From the\nexploitation of the working class 1\nThe working class owning none of\nthe machinery of wealth production is\ncompelled to sell itself for a bare subsistence on the average. The working\nclass sells a commodity\u00E2\u0080\u0094labor power-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich differs from all others inasmuch\nas its expenditure produces more exchange value than it costs to buy it\nru- working class is robbed as the\nThe\nseller of this commodity, and in fact\nthis is the only robbery that occurs in\nthe production and distribution of\nwealth. The difference between what\nis paid in wages and what the product\nof the workers sell for in the market, is\nthe source of the. Rockefeller and in\nfact all other fortunes. The reason it\nis so large in Rockefeller's case lies in\nthis fact, that the profits which were\ndistributed formerly among a large\nnumber of labor i-inners. now flows\ninto the coffers of one of them.\nSpeaking genera'ty the pu\"ic is not\nrobbed at consumers. It gets .-n tho\naverage the same amount of social labor\ntime in its gallon of oil whether the\nprice is twenty or thirty cento, as it\ngives id int piece of money it ptjn for\nIt The regulating force of demand and\nsupply keeps Standard oil to the cost\nof its production, as it does other commodities. When the demand increases\nthe price may rise temporarily above\nthis point, but copious supply following,\nthe demand invariably swings tne pendulum just as far in the opposite direction. _ ,\nBut let it not be thought that Rockefeller's action in endowing universities\nand churches is not dictated by material\ninterest. Two of the strongest pillars\nof capitalism are found there. One\ncannot read the utterances of university\nprofessors and pious pulpiteers without\nnoticing that they give voice to sentiments that must be pleasing to the generous {() donors who found chairs of\nlearning, erect handsome buildings, and\nsupply the lubricant that oils the\ntongues of the spiritual guides who promise thc weary workers that haven of\nheavenly rest when the capitalist class\nhave squeezed the last ounce of profit\nout of them. .\nThere is another consideration. The\nmoment capital so accumulates in thc\nhands of its owners that there are no\nfurther openings for its investment a\nfinancial crisis is sure to follow. A\ncrisis is heralded by widespread unemployment, and it, in turn, means the\nworking class rising in dangerous revolt. The large capitalists scenting\nthis danger are spending those huge\nsums in university buildings, etc- to\nkeep the wheels of industry moving so\nas to permit of their continued rule.\nBut in spite of all their acknowledged\ncapacity in expedients to postpone the\ninevitable the signs are not wanting that\nthe proletariat arc getting on to the\ngame and will eventually take such action that will forever prevent their masters from squandering the wealth created by their labor for the maintenance\nof hireling professors and hypocritical\npulpiteers.\nJ. T. M.\n _o_\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094_\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nNOTE AND COMMENT.\n(By J. T. M.)\nThe Clarion has been so used to hostile notices from contemporaries that\nwe may lie excused if for no other\nreason than its rarity we publish the\nfolio wins* friendly comment on our\nwork taken from tbe columns of the\nSeattle Socialist:\n\"The Socialist\" years ago declare.\"\nBritish Columbia the best soil in America for Socialist propaganda. It is a\nland of wage workers, miners, fishermen, lumber jacks and railroad workers, a land under control of big corporations.\nAs a \"Province\" of Canada, it has\nmore \"State Rights\" than any American \"State.\" There are fewer restrictions as to citizenship, and fewer \"residence qualifications\" for the franchise\nThe Socialists at thc recent elections\nheld their own and gained one, electing\nthree straight Socialist members of tbe\nProvincial \"Parliament\" Comrade*\nHawthormhwaite and Parker William*\nwere re-elected and a fine \"straight\"\nvote cast in most places.\nIn Victoria, one ot thc \"Middle Class\nSocialists\" accepted a nomination on\nthe \"Labor Party\" ticket anu got badly\nleft, as wage workers in B. C are not\nfooled into being catspaws for thc small\nbusiness man's chestnuts.\nIn the good work done by tbe Socialist I-artv in B. C, the \"Western\nCUrioiij\" of Vancouver, edited by Comrade Kingsley, has been a powerful factor, alwavs teaching the class struggle\nbased on wage exploitation, in the most\nstraightforward manner.\"\nComrade Titus is, however, we think\na little in error when he says this province has \"fewer restrictions as to\ncitizenship\" than they have on the other\nside. We have an election deposit of\n$100 for each candidate to put up, which\nis forfeited unless the candidate noils\nat least one half as many votes as the\nsuccessful nominee. In Vancouver\nalone it cost our Local $500 in forfeited\ndeposits to record over MM votes for\nthe abolition of wage-slavery.\nWe are in sympathy with his remarks re \"middle class Socialists\" Tbe\nrevolutionary nroleUriat ha* trouble\nwith them everywhere and B. C. is no\nexception to the rule\nIt is apparently fatcu that in B. C.\nwe are to swallow the full dose of medicine our spiritual phvsicians have pre*\nscribed for us in the Sunday Observance\nlaw. Quebec, however, is not to have\nit shoved down its neck, as the following despatch will show:\nMontreal, Feb. 26.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Legislation is to\nbe adopted which will exempt the province of Quebec from thc Sunday tow\npassed at the last session of parliament.\nPremier Gnutin has introduced a bill\nin the Quebec legislature which, in\neffect, will leave things as they are. \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nPress Dispatch.\nIt has been the practice of the Catho-\nIk church to allow their aonerents to\nindulge in all sorts of amusements on\nSundays after they have attended mass,\nihev find, no doubt, that they have\ngreater control over their flock by this\nmethod. In spite of the strenuous dentals by our black-coated gentry that\nthis is not a religious measure, it is\nevident, by the two set of rules which\nare to apply in different parts of the\nl>ominion, that at least they are susceptible of this interpretation.\nThe working class are apparently to\nnave no amusement on that day but\ngo to church and listen to a lot of\nhypocritical platitudes that would make\nw .t--,uIn \"U!\" **** if. he could hut\nnear them. These mouthing pulpiteers\ntell u, that this is .11 for the fcnefo\nof the working class. We think we\ncan remember this Lord's Day Alliance being aske. to co-operate with the\nlabor union, to secure the -nactmenl\nwhirt, A.'**y T.e_ wUnout \u00C2\u00BBr**ify.ng\n_nd ^^y..y0_Ld *.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"_ t0 ot obwrve?\nand they turned it down. If they\nr\u00C2\u00AB. aS* ,\"_<:ere ,n \u00E2\u0080\u00A2***iov only the\nSS^-uSte r\u00E2\u0082\u00AC,iBi0U' ^-'-rt-ow\nnt?\" w d h'\e ,uM>\u00C2\u00B0rt\u00C2\u00ABd this meas-\n3n oftV\*lt\u00C2\u00B0 m m,nd -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 9*Ote-\ncittion of the street railway m^, 0f\nrunning\nCharlottetown, p. E. I., for\ncorrtfrdiJdrl whidi flrH0owd them Mt\nuntouched. The reason for the _\u00C2\u00AB;1\nof this outfit is not (tt to seek &\nthe forking people the opportunity ,0\nindulge in legttu*te pleasure-seek ini _n\nSundiy and mighty few of them would\ngo to hear a preacher. This tendenc.\nis, by the way. a credit to their mtelli\ngence. But it is hoped by this sp,*,,.!\nal fraternity that by the aid of coercive\nlecislation tbey will assist their omiii\npotettt god to recall his wayward creation and at the same time get ihem to\ncough up their nickels to support his in\nstitution. Tlie working elas. _re\npatient lot. lt remains to be seen how\nthey will take this latest infringement\non the little libert** they have left\nWarsaw, Feb. 18.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-aupplicatorv services for the success of the National\nParty against the Jews and Socialist,\nwere held . today in the Catholic\nchurches throughout Poland. - i>r\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\nDispatch.\nThat God is not always powerful\nenough to fix things up ...\nsuit his children has been evidenced in the electoral |.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E|\nslide which buried all the reactionary\nparties and left the Radicals and Social-\nMa on top of the heap, lint pert-apt\nGod intended to rebuke the ruling rl_,8\nof Poland for their lack o( f.mh \u00E2\u0080\u009E,\nHis omnipotence, because they proceed.\ned to supplement their prayers by such\noutrageous brutality on Hie working\nclass as none but good Christian Cossacks could devise.\nWhile chortling over the loss of \u00C2\u00AB.c.ti\nto the Socialist Pany in the German\nReichstag, the capitalist press are \u00C2\u00BBui\npicinusly silent about the net v ,m by\nthat party of 3SO.0OO votes over the vote\nof iwa.\nAs Hyndman in London Justice observes: \"The German Kai^r is sti-\ncome to all the consolation he can grout of the thought that there _r- m hit\nempire close on three and one hall millions of men over the age of twenty-\nfive years, ell trained in tht uu of\nmess; who are determined to break\nclass rule in that country whenevei the\ntime looks propituous It is salt to\nsay that there are at least another million and a half disfranchised workmen\nbelow thst age with similar intention*\nVerily, the \"Red Socialists'* received a\nsevere check.\nSammy Gompers refused to make \u00C2\u00BB\n\"useless splurge\" to save the liven ol\nMoyer, Haywood and Pritilnine Wc\nhope to emulate the same \"master!] m\nactivity\" when his dune* in the A I of\nL get on to Sammy's game.\nThe right of the capitalist to hn\nplunder it often justified by hi* henchmen in pulpit and press on the ground\nof his \"ability.\" A capitalist \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB -\nportion to ht* uscfulnc*.*. Measured hy\nthis standard, how would our modern\ncapitalist fare?\nWinnipeg held a bumper Moyer May\nwood protest meeting m one of thr bige\ntheatres of that city on February 1.\nthe anniversary of the \"It-dnapins\" ol\nthe officer* of the Western Feder_i*on\nof Miners. The meeting was held under the auspice* of the loo! branch ol\nthe Socialist Party, the Trades an,| l_\nbor Council and amliated orgam-ai\t\nComrade L. T. English itote of Van-\ncouver) wm the principal _peakcr atid\n-according to the daily pre**-, iiunk \u00C2\u00BB\nlengthy and impressive a-drc**-. review\ning the everts and causes lhal led up ti\nthe arrests. In conclusion he moved the\n(ollowin- resolution, which v...- sw-nd-\ned by A. W. Puttee, ex-Labor M I'\nfor Winnipeg, and was supported by\nseveral other speakers in English 11*1\nforeign languages:\n\"We, the working people ol Winm-\npeg, in meeting assembled, being \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\nni-ant of the position in whi< l' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"'\nbrothers, Messrs. Moyer. Ilayw- \u00C2\u00ABd and\nPettibone are placed, and the long ar\nray of persecution* and iooignities i-cr\npetrated bv a brutal ruling class nn the\nworking people in the Western States,\nparticularly in Colorado, and which nil\nminated in the illegal arrest and knl-\nnaping to another state of the chic\nol-ccrs of the Western Federation ol\nMiners by the connivance and sanction\nof the state official* of Colorado, and\nthe denial of all legal guaranty - \u00C2\u00BB><\"\"\nare supposed to protect every cituen in\nhis legal rights, denounce these outrages\nas a travesty on justice, and brunt >*\"\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nvinced of their high charctcr snd ol\nthe unbounded esteem in which they arc\nheld by the workers of the Western\nStates and that they are innocent ol tw\nfoul crime charged to them, \"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'**\nassure them of our confidence m ii\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\nand extend to them aid in refilling\nthose chanres of murder, which war\nevery sign of having been trnmi\u00C2\u00AB< \"P\nby hireling detectives of the Mine Own\ners' Association for the purpose ol ne-\npciving them of their liberty; and flir\"\nther, that we regard it as ati \u00E2\u0096\u00A0J)),,,!\u00C2\u00AB*\nfor these men to be kept in jail \u00C2\u00AB\"n*\nout bail and without trial for over.*\nyear'although \"they have sought to obtain a hearting in the courts at every\n0PWdnb_'.t further resolved ihat\ncopies of this resolution be \u00C2\u00BBenl ,\u00C2\u00AB<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\u00C2\u00AB\npress, to the Wctern Federation 0\nMiner* and to the American Federation\nof Labor,\"\nThe resolution wa* carried nnani\nmously.\ninequality ''*\nmlation,\u00C2\u00BB\nEvidencing the gross\napportionment of seats to popuu\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'V,\ncorrespondent to the New * r* , '\nune states lhat in Primia V1''0'\u00E2\u0084\u00A2',,\nstreet ear. \u00C2\u00AB- c * _T \"\u00C2\u00BB '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0/\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 running 1 cialist votes cannot elect a single nrp \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nsuK in the m?UIk!'y' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2?,d rhk\"h r' *hHa only 1.000,000 Conservative voles\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2uiteo tn the me\u00E2\u0080\u009E being fined and the I elect \u00C2\u00AB0|.\nmmmm :'\" r: ;1\niA\u00C2\u00ABmM,Mmi,M.r\nl0\u00C2\u00BBHIIHI\u00C2\u00ABmMrl\u00C2\u00ABMIMNMUIO\u00C2\u00AB\n$ PARTY MATTERS\n9\nAND ANNOUNCEMENTS\nTHE STATE AND SOCIALISM.\n_g-_uu(m, tA-teotngnt, BtmiB oolcto-u.\nThese columna have been placed at\ntne disposal ot the Party, gecreurtee\n,,( Locals arc requested to take advantage of them In. at Intervale, reporting conditions in their respective\nlocalities. Communications under this\nhe\u00C2\u00ABd should be addre-sed to the Dominion or Provincial Secretaries. Local secretaries are further requested to\nlook to these column* for announcements from the Executive Committees.\nny thla meana the business of the\nI'arty will be facilitated and the Dominion and Provincial secretaries\nrelieved of a Utile Of th* Increasing\nburden of correspondence.\nTO BECR*_TABI_\u00C2\u00BB OF LOCALS\nLIST OF SUPPLIES.\nIfemberahip eaxda, each .......... .01\nApplication blank* (with platform) psr loo ..-.. ae\nThe committee being a stockholder in the co-operative publishing\nhouse of Chas. Kerr k Co.. can procure literature for tbe locals st cost\nJ. G. MORGAN, Secy\nProm a Lecture Delivered by Gabriel\nT)*vllle, In Paris, April 26. 1895,\nTranslated by Robert Rives La\nMont.\nWe know what the State is. The\nState, for us Socialists, is not any social organization whatsoever, lt is, I\nhave said, and I believe I afterward\njustified the terms of this definition,\nthc public power of coercion created\nand maintained in human societies by\ntheir division into classes, and wliich,\nhaving force at its disposal, makes laws\naud levies taxes. What should be the\nattitude of the Socialists toward the\nState? ..us is the question that I am\nnow going to examine and that is easy\nto answer if wc bear in mind that the\nState, having been created by the division of society into classes, is inevitably\nmaintained by that division.\nAs soon as it is understood that the\nState is not an independent organism,\nhaving its own existence without regard\nto tlie interlaced economic relations of\nmen, but is necessarily subordinate to\nthe division of society into\nclasses, and, in consequence, to a particular economic situation, no party\nRegular business meeting held- Feb. j whatever can reasonably set up. as the\nmilt Comrade Mills in the chair, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.mediate goal for its efforts, the abo-\nM mutes of previous meeting read and I'tion *>' the State, nor the suppression\nimproved 'ihe folio*ing -acre admit- ?\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2,hc pOUtfcal power that constitutes\nted to membership: \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 J.!\"* State, being a consequence, can-\nlolm Tibb. E Tinuriiris, John Nesbit, j ***<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 disappear before the disappearance\nI K Fisher, Sparks Joyce and John of the social conditions of which it is\nMitchell I the necessary result.\njjjjjjj Since the disappearance of thc State\n, ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0_ i implies the previous modification of the\nRent of Oddfellows Hall \u00E2\u0080\u00A2P50 j social conditions, of the economic rc-\n: !>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 rat ure *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' lations, ought tlie attack to be made\n\"Transfer and coal \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 l-W j uirectly upon these relations? Let us\nAuditing Committee reported the rcvm ,0 ,he conclusions already estab-\naudit of the Local's book, the same be |jsnC(*. a \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB;\u00E2\u0080\u009E economic situation being correct. 'got classes; as soon as there were in\nComrades Stebbings and McKeiuic ,hr population privileged orders, the\n*rrc appointed commissioners of am- |atter n^dtd means to preserve tlieir\n'ijvits. . j position oi vantage, to impose upon all\nAlso agreed that all applications lor j ^jpeet for their privileges, and hence\n-irmbership in future must bc accoro- < ,h<, $ute was born Hence, tbe ccon-\n;,_nied by name of proposer. : on,jc situation to be transformed, the\nAgreed by 20 to 6 that Local public* j situation which begets classes, has its\nIj repudiate Walter Thomas Mills ami j.\u00E2\u0080\u009Eara*itce of perpetuity in the State.\n'n*. meetings in Vancouver. j That is, in other words, it cannot be\nNotice oi motion by Com Mortimer j racjjca!ly affected, in a general and per\n'hat the name \u00C2\u00BBf Ernest Bums be | \u00E2\u0080\u009E,_-_.\u00E2\u0080\u009E! \u00C2\u00AB_\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB_ lono- \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB itn\u00C2\u00BB *-Jt_*\u00C2\u00AB> \u00C2\u00ABhal\n-iruck off thc roll of membership.\nVANCOUVER LOCAL, NO. 1\nmancnt way, so long as the State shall\ndefend it against the direct attacks that\nmay tie made upon it\nIn short, one can abolish thc State\n] only alter having suppressed classes,\nand one cannot modify the economic\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ relations of which classes are merely\nT i_initne personilication, without acting first\n. i.0**' w I upon the Sute. lhe question formu-\nAdjournmenl. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^mmmmmm^mmm*tmmm\nReceipt*.\nrpv>n the State because this is the only\nVancouver Ix*--! No. 1. Regular *f*rj* in which it is possible to so adjust\n-ushltts mertiiw held Moeidai I el. _:. *\u00C2\u00AB conditions and relations of persons\ni -in Ixhcncy in the chair Minutes'\" to bring them into harmony with\nf previous mc-ting read ami with cor- \u00C2\u00BBhe economic evolution in progress and\nr-Ction of witinmg number of drawing\n;n.m 1-9 to lo?, adopt*-.\n1 he following were admitted to inctn-\nix-r-ihip: . i\nIsaac Gowlcr. I. Low* T. McCall. V\nWillfamson. L S. Weeks, J G I rank -\nrn. E. Uurbanks, J Hudson.\nHill*.\nIk-ctric light fr-5*3\noddfellows' Hall \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*-**> |\nI .tcrature U***.. ...... _V JJJ ,hem of the public powers, that all their\nNotice of motion of last wee*t that havf g vjcw u..\nUie name of Ernest Hums lie strucK **-*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ---------\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 >ii role of membership. *~>*t; IS for,\nthus to nuke possible the suppression\nof classes; not to aim at present at its\nabolition, because it cannot be abolished\nbefore the disappearance of classes, a\ndisappearance that it must itself help\nto bring to pass. The only practical\nline of conduct for socialists, for workingmen, is to u*-c tlie customary expression, the conquest of political\npower, the conquest of the State. It is\nthc more and more complete control by\n\u00C2\u00BBS .ii-ainsl.\nAdjournment.\nF. PERRY,\nSecretary.\nTO STUDENTS OF SOCIALISM\nm*n^^^^m****mm**MMMM^^^^^^ 'S ,0 ,n'5\n) object that all their tactics must be de-\ni voted.\nj The struggle of classes with each\n| other has an economic object, but the\ni form of this struggle must necessarily\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Ik* political; for, between the material\nposition to bc ameliorated and the ac-\ni OompUahed amelioration, there rises up\nlike a harrier the power of thc State\nI which alone, wliatever class controls it,\nDl illcraiMi v. \u00C2\u00BB.,\u00C2\u00BB .\nhand and will be i \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\"*e *\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 succeed in participating\nany address at in the making of law. History and rea-\n<*r- _. .,.\u00C2\u00AB,_\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 son agree in proving the truth of this\nthesis: the struggle of the \"lower\"\nclasses is really eiiective only when it\nassumes a political character.\nNot to speak of the past, what do we\nsec, in fact, in the different countries\nmm : round about ns where they have, not*\n', withstanding, long had, less restricted\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2q j than among us. the possibility of conducting the struggle on the economic\nj ground? In the countries still without\nthe struggle has\n.60\n*_\u00C2\u00BB_ _ \u00E2\u0080\u009E_. \u00C2\u00AB_ can give a general and mandatory char-\nla order to ^.tf<*l_\_ \u00C2\u00A3 ac.crV. the\"res\u00C2\u00ABlts of the struggle lhe\ne\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00ABy sccesa to standard _\u00C2\u00BBorM on ^^ ^ ,.w _n(| lt ,, onl>. *,\u00C2\u00A5\nSocialism, tha committee hss *.\u00C2\u00AB*nn\u00C2\u00BBist define\nthe terms used Apologi-ls for thc\npresent system -apparently purposely-\nrefuse to speak oi tke terms used by\nSocialists in the _anir sense as they do,\nand thus ciiuse much eonfusion of\nthought. One o( the least understood\nterms is thc word Capital.\nToole of productloa may or may not\n1* capital according us to how they\nare used. A man owning a plot of\nland or a number nf tools which he\nuses himself for the purpose of producing wealth is not a capitalist, nor\nare his tools or land capital. His ownership is private ownership and thc\nproduct is the result of his own labor.\nWhen, however, his land and tools arc\noperated b*- other labor than his own\nthey immediately function as capital.\nHe would not allow his land and tools\nto be so used unless he received ont of\nit more than he paid the laborer in\nwages plus a sufficient amount to meet\nthe depreciation of his plant. In short,\nhc must make a profit out of the labor\nhe employs. Practically all of the\nmeans of production which now function as canital have been created out\nof this margin of profit extracted from\nthe labor of thc working class. Private\nownership of land and tools was one\ntime prevalent, and was the form out of\nwhich the present capitalist or class\nownership of land and tools grew. Private ownershin has been gradually replaced by capitalist ownership which is\na middle stage in evolution between\nprivate and social ownership. Private\nownership disappeared because it was,\ncompared with capitalist ownership, in\nefficient. The gigantic factory operated\nby specialized labor, sub-divided in\n(Continued irom Page ' .ie.)\nWhen the Black Plague d. ii'taK-l\nthe ranks of the English- lab- Kttf\nso much that the supply was not ... .1\nto the demand, the drastic laws pf\"*.\nizing the workers by such hon uie\nmeans as the cutting off of the. ear\nfor accepting more than the maximum\nwage, were lound to be UJOpei -tree,\nshowing -.early that then, as now. 11.'\nunwritten laws of the market car bur I\nup all the statutes set ag.mst ihem\nBut the bourgeois economist is Both*\ning if not incoasi*' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 .. He \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB*>**S\nonly so much of thc t **!* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' -\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-? nut\nas will suit his \ rrposl - :mcr sno*\"_l\nthe inability of tl,, gait \"*\u00C2\u00AB io buck\nthe \"iron law of wnjeS,\" ihe luuthnv\ner\" and \"the sense >f purtnsr-hip \" W\naccomplish this imi*o libit ask* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*>\nforgets that the \"puuhasc-* ihihty io\nbuy is limited I his wage*. It \u00C2\u00BB \">\nmockery to suggest to the W< i ei* to\nbuy porter house steak when I -j inpPt\nw ill only permit of liver and - ukym\nMoreover, if we are to -Ho*. Hi'1\nchimerical notion of raisi is i ** \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\nof labor hy purchasing ingh-pi\nKoods to lie enunciated, wl\ncome of this \"thrift\" so < Oi\nIxiurgeois economists as\nworking-class ills? N a\n\"sense of partnership v- h\nployer is to inciilcan tl\nreasonably and prude\"! ci Son\nwords butter no pa\"\"*\" l' Rvn* 4 *c\nw-re convii.'-ed *h. t Um .run. \u00C2\u00BB ol tke\ncrop* vir ' cl. ,i wite _.*icvolent and\nluimain,. m. winch we haw )\"*t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 little reas.vi u> ^oubt. vu kop\i \"hat the\nemployer ;*. lis* -ovcrned i'i \"\"-is S-tton\nmarket. Ue must\nr*utiw* his recent trip through the\nrVdwUry and Kooienay districts Cuin-\nraoe Besi 9. Wilson obtakied iome sub-\nbribers for the Western Clarion. Vn-\nf rtinatcly he lost his valise containing\nlist i-f nimcs id was therefore unable\n|i> forward to this office the infonna-\nlion necessary to enable us to fill the\nsubscriptions. Two or three have Wen\n.t'rear-y located through kindness of\nCla,ion readers. II anv reader knowing\no anyone W_ i gave io Comrade Wilson\na snh and haa not yet rrrc-ivr-! the\npaper wiH 'tifortn us ol llu (ad \u00C2\u00ABc \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2''\"\nsir thai thc name of such person is\nput upon the list al once.\nUnion Directory\nWtsea Tt-ey Had | Whet. Th*y m\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\najf* .-*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\"\"*\" UUw UnlOB In It* pro*,,- ,,\niWO lo |\u00C2\u00BBlat\u00C2\u00AB a card uoi.cr mM i,r\u00E2\u0080\u009E| i, \" _*\nmoat-. Secretaries please autc. '\"* w.\nInternational Association of Bri<___\nand Structural Ironworkers Loo-\nNo. 97, meets in Labor Hall fir.t\nand third Friday of the month !\nt p. m. B. Jnrdliif, Ke.*i,i_|.,-], \"\nrotary, Ho\u00C2\u00AB UM. Vancouver it a\nWill '\u00C2\u00AB*-\nnmended bj\nnied) for\nas to the\n,-h \u00C2\u00ABhe null r as he\nWANTED\nAt Ymir General Hospital a trained\nnurse, wages fiO.OO per month.\nFo'- further information write to\nW. B. McISAAC.\nSecretary Ymir General Hospital\nP. O. Drawer 506, Ymir, B. C\nby the laws - f i\nstrain every n.rvr\nities as cheaply ;,\ncompetition uf Ml\nhe falls down in i\nmaelstroir \">t v.. ,<\npresses hi. ' eii. t\nin faithful j'*'n..\nof the Mfi'.c.t'. .tei\ncheapest .aarket \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nest.\"\nIr \"mention, \"thei*: un*-cia> pas-\nsio-, whi<*> onr proiessor ilcp.ecates\nare by evidence of the iiics it.-ble an-\ntagon .hich n-.n^i c ntinne so long\nas the economic syst \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 n ca \u00C2\u00ABitali<*. exploitation endim.* lb.- di-eciion of\nthis antagorurai genet-ted bj the conflict of interests I eween <*in-.'oyer and\ni buy 'is iQuimorl*\n. can to meet '.ie\not-_ unplojrcr. If\nhe goc*> into the\n, _v -y. So hc sup-\nuc and heeps on\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2e i \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the principle\njchv \"I, ' Duy in the\nd sell in tlie dear-\nENJOY Lire BY SMOKING\nThe\nTERMINUS\nCkght\nMAD. IN VANCOUV-R\nemployee to th. \u00C2\u00AB*._\u00C2\u00AB*ai t ol thc public\npowers ii tlii inti re ' *\" the vorkcrs\nefficiency of its various units, inevitably ;s ,(,\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 mission i . t!.\u00C2\u00AB- .o.*itif-n-;.v Pro-\nsuch manlier as to produce the highest I powers ii th- hit, r<\nput out of business the small concern,\nwhich, operated by the individual owner and his puny tools, could not market its product at a price low enough to\nmeet the competition of its capitalist\nopponent. Private ownership is practically gone. ., uere it exists, as in the\ncase of the .armer, it is at the mercy\nof the capitalist owners of elevators,\nrailroads, etc.. and contributes as large\na share of its product to the owners of\ncapital as does the proletarian wage-\nworker who has only his labor-power to\nsell. When Socialists speak of abolishing capital they mean merely to strip\nthe means of production of its present\nfunction, i. e., making a profit out of\nlabor, and put in its place the garb of\nsocial property, producing wealth for\nuse. To satisfy human needs is not\nthe primary reason tor wealth-production at the preitnt time. It is merely an\nincident. Commodities are produced\nfor sale at a profit. If there be no\nprofit in producing certain articles\nwhich may be necessary for the well\nbeing of society, society has to get along\nwithout them. Allegations are frequently made by capitalist owners of industries, when disputing with their\nworkmen, as to rates of wages, etc.,\nthat if they grant the demands of the\nmen they will not make enough profit.\nHence they shut down without consid\nering the fact that thousands of people\nmay die of starvation and cold because\nff the lack of the commodities they\ndeal in. Illustration of this fact was\nseen in the recent Lethbridge strike\nWe may therefore define the various\nforms of property ownership thus:\nMeans of production operated by their\nindividual owners, producing wealth for\ntheir own use, or for exchange, may be\ntermed private ownership.\nCapital, to us, Is means of production\nused for the purpose of making a profit\nout of labor.\nSocial ownership is means of production, operated for the production of\nwealth for the use of society.\n*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 J. T. M.\nIn Warsaw the fortress and prisons\nare more overcrowded than a New\nYork slum tenement. The Governor-\nGeneral has appointed a commission to\nrelease a bunch of them as the \"zeal of\nthe authorities\" in .nakiiig arrests has\noutrun their accommodation.\nTHE FOOLISH HUNTER.\nA sportsman once, in eager quest of\ngame,\nBeheld a hare, and, taking careful aim,\nDelayed his shot to ponder how this rare\nAnd unexpected dish he would prepare.\n\"Now, rabbit pie's all right,\" quoth he,\nand yet\nThere's nothing beats a savory croquette\nExcept, perhaps, jugged hare; and yet I\nlike\t\nBut lo, the hare had beat it down the\npikel\n\"Alas,\" he cried with melancholy look,\n\"I should have shot and trusted in the\ncook.\"\nA morel here for those who long to see\nThe dawning of real democracy,\nYet timidly hold back and hesitate\nO'er minor details of the coming state\nThe pressing need, O comrades, is to\nACT;\nFirst make the workers' commonwealth\na fact.\nAnd lo, the petty obstacles ye fear,\nIn Reason's light will quickly disappear.\nUnite, and when your servitude shall\npass,\nTrust in the free, triumphant working\nclass.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Tom Selby in the Worker.\n. It is said that in Philadelphia men\nand women in all walks in life, many of\nthem wealthy, have become possessed\nof the idea that suicide is all that the\nworld holds for them. The capitalist\nsystem tmist be getting pretty rotten\nwhen even its beneficiaries are driven\nto self-destruction in order to escape its\nstench.\nletariat When this c'a^-s t\"-?glc shall\nhave leen foueln vil to a finish and\nvictory rests with h,: AorWing class.\nfor the fir.t time since the dawn of\ncivilt.\" ion *ve sliaii ha\" e peace within\nthe omfiiic* of b - in s-ciety.\nJ. T. M.\niK-t there is m_c.h prf-pcrity no one\ncan ,'-.' . The enot-n-ms expenditures\nof th, I Kuril-US rich testif;1 to it in un-\nmista's 1\u00C2\u00AB terms. But whose is the\nprospei'io \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Are they prosperous whose\nlabor furnis .es ihe >vt*erewiihai for\nthese lavish expenditures \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Wealth do\u00C2\u00ABs\nnot fall fr.m the star- . or is it Jeft\nover fron '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB* -Kist. T' i\u00C2\u00AB re-created day\nby day. _, ,-.. ... . when one man\nspends a thousand tnat . c doesn't create, others must create a tin ffifttwl that\nthey cannot spend. The greater the expenditures of the idle, then lore, thc\ngreater must be the impoven.! ment of\nproducers. This is arithmetic and\nthere is no gainsaying it. Prosperity\nfor idle parasites spells a<. - *iiy for\nindustrious workers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The P ic.\n\"Evr- man is ihe architect of his\nown fortune,\" so runs thc Cavorit* proverb. This proverb is an hcirloorr* .'mm\nthc days of small production, when the\nfate of every single brer i--,. inner, at\nworst that of his fat! 'ly _iso, depended\nupon his own per*' 1 qualities. Today the tate of ever, .iieinbcr ui <; \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ipi-\ntalist community d.j 's leas ,>nd leas\nupon his own indi, .i \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 My. .uv. nnre\nand more upon a . ul lii.um-\nstances that are wholly liey'-\" ni* <-on-\ntrol.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Karl Kautsky.\nCORRF' .ON\nJ ui. 19\nInirrta-\nIn the Westerq -non ol\nit was stated that .. nen\ntional Congress wouIl ite hud \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB 'Stuttgart, Germany, on Au^ i.'t -~'.!i '.o Btst\n18-7. The date sho-\nust 18th to 24th, 19\nive read Aug-\nTBLKPHONB $49\nCAPITAL CITY BAKERY\nG A- OKBLL, -..safer\nBread and Cakes delivered to any\npart of the City. You am always\ndepend upon our bread. Try it.\n37 Pandora St Victoria, & C\nPhoenix Miners' Union, No a\nW. F. M. Meets every Saturday\nevening at moo clock in Miners\nhall John Mclnnis, President\nWalter Morrison, Secretary.\nTltltttlt-rttlMIIMMMU.\nTt-UtPIIUKK B77S j j\nHEUHY BCNN8CN ft Co\n. mm. _____\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 _ ' * '\nfMVMM\nCIIMS\nI Wl 9 wfiaaPaeft W.\nvitrroaiA. bc.\n>\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0099\u00A6<\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 h ,\nC. PETCR8 *\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIU-<1 -Urmi*llr .\u00E2\u0080\u009E<) i\u00E2\u0080\u009E>i\nly .to**. Muck of \u00C2\u00BBU|>lr traiy _\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB_.\neaam \u00E2\u0080\u00A2i*\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 oa tuu.i\nMM Vert-to*** aam FtaHtf.\nM YEARS'\ntXPtRIENCt\nJ. Edward Bird. A. 0. Brydon-J.ia\nBIRO * 6RY0M-JACK\naSKRIHTERt). SOLIClTOKa. tTC.\nTW. 899. P.O. Box. 9*2.\n834 Hart-** ht. . . Vsatoww. B.O.\nWUKN IN VANCOIVKU, STOP AT\nTHE DOUGALL HOUSE\nABBOTT STREET.\nlint Ctas- Iter. \u00C2\u00BB_toet-ent Raosne.\nCAFE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.\nPrtr-s Moderate.\nWANTED\u00E2\u0080\u0094At the Ymir General\nHospital, a duly qualified Practitioner and oue witb a number of\nyears experience. For particulars\nwrite to\nW. B. McISAAC,\nSecretary Ymir G. tra! Ho-vpital.\nP.O. 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Loose labela In retail etoree st* counterr\u00C2\u00ABi\u00C2\u00BB\nThe genuine Union Label la perforated <\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*-';\"\nedges, exaotly the eame as a pottage stamp. \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\">*'\nterfetta are eome Umee perforated on three tot -\nand eome tlmee only on two. John B. Stetson (.o.,\nof Philadelphia, la a non-union concern.\nJOHN A. MOIPT-T, Pre-Utont, Orange, N. 3\nMARTIN LAWLOR, amty*x**ry, U Waverly PiaeA\nNew York.\nCHEAP FUEL\nCOKE\nCOKE Is an excellent fuel for grates, hall atoves, furnaces snd\ncookLig atoves, making \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 clean, bright firo without amoke or dirt.\nPRICE S5oo PER TON.\nVancouver Oat Company, Ltd.\nm\u00C2\u00BBi hum **\*i"@en . "Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "The_Western_Clarion_1907_03_02"@en . "10.14288/1.0318606"@en . "English"@en . "49.261111"@en . 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