"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-03-31"@en . "1904-08-13"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318665/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " f\niiV^ I\n7/HE WESTERN CLARION\nPublished in the Interests of the Working Class Alone.\nThis is\nNvmBBS\n299.\nVancouver, B. C, Saturday, August 13, 1904.\nWOMAN AND SOCIAL PROBLEM\nHsr Position in the Ricoutractita of Social Isstitntloss.\nBeing the substance of a lecture\ndelivered by the Provincial Secretary\nof the S. P. of B. C, Mrs. B. Merrill\nBurns, before Locals Vancouver and\nVictoria, in which it is attempted to\nexplain as lucidly and simply as possible what Socialism is, what it may\ni>t expected to do for woman, and\nwhat woman may do for Socialism.\nin its beginnings Socialism was the\nname applied to a theory for the\nreconstruction of society\u00E2\u0080\u0094and by\nsociety I mean the organized life of\nthe whole people, not the little circle\nof four hundred or so, whose doings\nalong with the records of crime and\ncommerce, till up our daily press.\nSocialism was then but a theory for\nthe reorganization of society along'\nsuch lines as would secure to the producer of useful things a right to the\nownership of that which he produced\ninstead of allowing other individuals\nto usurp the fruit of his labor in its\nentirety, except that meagre portion\nit required to afford a bare subsistence\nto the producer and the family it was\nnecessary for him to raise in order to\nkeep his class from becoming defunct,\nand so imperilling future supplies for\nthe privileged class that lived upon\nhis labor. The worker has always\nborne upon his bent shoulders the\nidler and the shirker, whether that\nidler and shirker be a millionaire\nspendthrift or a hapless tramp\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nlet me say the millionaire costs a great\ndeal more than the tramp, he is a\nluxury the worker can scarcely afford.\nThe persons who first formulated\nthis theory for the reconstruction of\nsociety had observed that the evils of\nexcessive wealth and excessive poverty are twins, and that idleness and\n! unceasing toil are alike demoralizing\nto the human character; that too much\nand too little are but opposite ends of\n[the same crooked stick, and 1104\nupright man was ever yet measured\nby that crook. They saw that industry, or the problem of getting the\nI means of life, was the pivot around\nj which the social, moral and religious\n! life of a people worked together and\nshared according to their need in the\nj things produced, and if no one might\n1 rob another by pretending to own for\ni himself the land, or the machines, or\n< the resources of the earth that should\nj be common to all, then these evils\n> would of necessity right themselves\nand people might be expected to live\nrighteously and to make their institutions conform to the needs and desires\nof all, instead of, as now, serving the\nends of the few to the detriment of\nmany.\nAt various times in past history cer-\nftain philanthropic individuals have attempted to put this theory into prac-\n! tisc, and have been able to prove by\nI model villages where all the people\ni worked and where all shared justly\nin what they produced together, that,\n; under such a system, the vicious traits\nthat had long been supposed to be\ninherited in the human family might\n{be almost eliminated. The people\n{comprising these model villages were\n! happy, industrious and good. The\npremiums were all put upon good conduct instead of upon lying, cheating\nand stealing.\nBut the world was not yet ripe tor\nthe general adoption of such a system\nof socialized industry. The machine\nhad not yet been brought to perfection and men and corporations were\nstill able to war with each other in\ncompetitive business. There was a\nfighting chance for even the humblest\nworker to \"rise in the world,\" and, by\npossessing himself of the tools he used\nin his trade to set up in business for\nhimself, and to become in his turn an\nemployer\u00E2\u0080\u0094or an exploiter of labor.\nHe could get up and ride upon the\nbacks of those whose ranks he had\nlately left, and as he had been taught\nthat was the honorable, creditable and\nvirtuous course to pursue, he had no\nscruples in becoming a parasite in-\nI stead of a MAN.\nMen believed, and with some show\nI of reason, that they could live and\nprosper without the acknowledged aid\nof each other. They we're not yet\nready for socialism.\nTime passed, men kept on devising\n' new and marvellous machines that\n! took the place of hundreds of skilled\nhand-workers and gathered men together in large bodies in factories and\nworkshops, where each one became a\nmere tender or feeder to a machine.\nAnd because these machines wre so\nwonderfuly productive they were very\nvaluable and because the workers had\nnot learned to co-operate in ownership, they were possessed by the few\nrich men among them, who by reason\nof owning the machines became the\nveritable MASTERS of the men who\nhad to work them in order to gain\n! bread for themselves and those dependent upon them.\nNow MEN do not like to be slaves;\nthey do not like to beg as a privilege\nthat which is every man's right\u00E2\u0080\u0094to do\nuseful labor and to supply his human\nneeds with the product of that labor;\nand because of this natural distaste on\nthe part of the real men for such subserviency, we have the socialism of\nto-day\u00E2\u0080\u0094a socialism of propaganda,'of\nspreading abroad the knowledge of\nthese things and of causing to grow\nin the consciousness of the workers a\nclass solidarity that will make them\nready to \"go in and possess the land,\"\nand the machinery of production, and\nthe facilities for administration, for\neducation, for recreation and enjoyment in their own right, instead of\nleaving these things a monopoly in\nthe hands of an idler class, which only\nuses them for their own debasement\nand for the enslavement of the working class.\nWhen the workers have possessed\nthemselves of these things, we will\nhave socialism realized. Just as we\ncall the present social order capitalism\nbecause money rules and profit-making is tbe basis of industry, so we will\ncall the new order socialism because\nsociety will rule and the desires and\nneeds of the associated people will be\nthe basis of industry.\nor an extra smile from him, your lord\nand master. Socialists don't believe\nin property rights in human beings,\nbut too often I have heard Socialist\norators allude to the wives and children as that portion of private property\nSocialism would guarantee to every\nman desiring to own such\u00E2\u0080\u0094property I\nMan does not reckon woman as a\nwhole hitman being. Why, 1 know of\na secretary of a Socialist Local right\nhere in British Columbia, who in keeping his roJl-call of members numbered\nthe male members whole numbers and\ntheir wives fractions. For instance:\nJohn Jones, 1; Peter Smith, 2; Mrs.\nI'eter Smith, 2^; and if Peter Smith\nhad had a daughter old enough t\u00C2\u00AB\nbelong to the Local, she, I doubt not,\nwould have been numbered 2J4. It\nsounds beautiful to be called a \"better\nhalt,\" I admit, but the more you arc\ncut up into halves and divided around\nin sections the weaker you become,\nand the women of today need the\nstrength of perfect whole numbers.\nThere is so much to accomplish for\nthe children tomorrow that only e only Agricultural Paper\nPupllshed in B. C.\nfftittr tilt per Year.\nftnwsrlM. Victsrta, It\nAfter Sept. ij, 1904 subscription price will !\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 |>,\nA Socialist Review of Review i\nTHAT'S WHAT T|\u00C2\u00AB CIMMOC IS NOW'\nContains a monthly digest of the whole\nSocialist press, American and foreign;\nQuotes the utterances of several hundnf'.\npapers on all questions that Interest Socialists. The ideal paper for the bust\nSocialist. 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Harris, Portland, Ore.)\nI/bough the hour was but seven, the\nkoess of an Oregon December\nhi had settled down amid a drizzl-\nraijj, such as Oregon only knows.\nI Hiram Mills, senior member of\nlinn of Mills & Sons, bankers,\npped from a car at Blank street. A\nver ran through his frame, and as\nrubbed his eyes and blinked until\neffect* of the lighted ear had\nscd sufficiently for him to attain\nusual gait, he mused to himself:\nA tad night, and a reminder to nu\nI i must be arranging to get home\nlier. A typical time for me to be\nd up, and no secret that 1 walk\nse streets every night at about this\nr. 1 have my gun, however; and\nam getting old, 1 faney 1 would\nrise the fellow who might try any\npranks on me. Astonishing,\ngh, how common this hold-up\niiesi, is getting. What is the world\ning to, anyhow? Ah. well, it's but\nld-up game at best, from first to\nWe wonder, or pretend to\nder, at the amount of such work,\nthere is no wonder at all. Modern\nwithout a single moral\nThe price of place and posi-\nto keep the public ignor-\nyou get your money, and\nthe\nfor the murderer, but owing to ...^\nrain and the fact that the robber had\na good hour's start, the police had\nlittle to direct them what course to\npursue. * * * *\nThe evening papers contained the\ngratifying news that the bold bandit\nwho had murdered old Hiram Mills\nwas safely lodged behind the bars.\nThey also contained a story of an\ninterview with the desperado, which\nfurnished a topic for \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 conversation\ndesire to retaj3'?- . H one takes a i\nlife merely as aif incidental to getting !\na start so be can become a puiJantHro- I\npist, fhy-y simply hang him and go on\nwith the iiicm. They haftsj him if\nthey cafcft him. I mean. Frequently i\nhe gets away and later takes his own i\nthu\nto ,\nalon\nof these alone. I vfill refer you\nny class of business concerns in\nexistence. There- are individual exceptions; no \u00C2\u00BBVu.bf, but I speak of the\nclass, livery buBifttss consideration\nends with the getting erf dollars.\" ,\n\"Do you mean, thera, that robber*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0uess\nke.\nis but\nI of how ^\t\nsuccessful highway robber may\nucially the side partner of the\nncrat of finance, religion, politcs\nliterature. We're all in the same\nI wish 1 could live my life\n|n. I would not be a banker. No,\nN'ot that the business of a banker\n|ot as honorable as any, but the\npy man is not the one who sees\njht in life but the opportunity to\nulate a fortune. But for the\nE' ncy of the law arfd the catering\ns mouthpieces to those of social\nfinancial position, I might not\nbe nearly as well off as J am.\n' am too old now to turn about.\ntil endeavor to turn my means to\naccount, at any rate. All men\nhad their failures, just as I have,\nlam so exception. God, if I could\njrid my memory of that fellow,\nSon. A most singular coincidence\njtwo victims of my misfortunes,\ndifferent times, should each\n[the same name, as though they\n* have been the same person. 1\nsoever forget the manly little\nwho had accumulated such a\njjlittlc sum by his odd jobs, and\nirith others of his schoolmates,\nlis savings in the bank only to\nbem vanish in its failure, and he\ness to secure a cent of redress,\nothers suffered similarly, how-\nBut the strangest thing was\nfifteen years later, in a different\nI a workingman of the same name\n[d lose his savings of many\nin the failure of an enterprise I\n!ne. Could it be the same one?'\nit could; but that is very un-\nBut if it should be the same\nwho could wonder at such a\nbecoming desperate?\"\nt>id! Throw up your hands!\na word aloud and I'll blow out\nltirains< Your money and valtt-\nJare all I want, and if you value\nImiserble skin, be quiet\u00E2\u0080\u0094see!\"\nirow up my hands and be quiet,\npried the old man in a desperate\nIpt to suppress his excitement;\nSlings I am not very liable to do\nthe circumstances, I imagine.\"\npu wont? So much the worse\npit, old man.'\nire is a flash, a report; a man\nvith a low groan-; a hasiy rutn-\ng of pockets and a highwayman\nics in the gloom,\ntains are raised, doors opened,\npersons peer from a dozen\n1, but all is still, and the only\nthey now hear is the patter of\nfizzling rain.\n|he morning the papers contained\nllowing startling news:\nL'RDERED AND ROBBED.\nthat will be remembered for some\ntime, with doubtless a frequent revival on ocasions of hold-ups and\ncrimes upon the highway. The report\nof the interview was as follows:\nA reporter went to see Johnson in\nhis cell and was surprised to find a\nman of much more than ordinary intelligence and one not in the least\naverse to talking. Johnson is one of a\nmore or less numerous type of persons who seem to be making the cold,\ndeliberate decision that one method of\nsecuring money is just as honorable\nas another, that of highway robbery\nnot excepted; and while, as a matter\nof course, his logic is finally wholly at\nfault, it is, to say the least, not at all\nunreasonable, unlikely or uncommon,\nand in justice even to so base a criminal, the readers of this are assured\nthat this man's story contained a suggestion or two worthy the consideration of lawyers, journalists, ministers\nand the entire category of self-styled\nguardians of public order and moral\nturn in the- game.\" I \u00C2\u00BBM as a rule the victim** of adverse\n\"You talk with a large measure \u00E2\u0080\u009Ef j f,rfl\"nstances such as ywr*\u00E2\u0080\u0094despon-\nassurance, Mr. Johnson, and while *\"\" '\" * \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB^-who f*mi lost all\nyour logic is altogether at fault in ! Car<\" a\" '\" ,he onlcMe *'\" \u00C2\u00AB'\u00C2\u00BB'\nmy opinion, it is not altogether un'rea ' c\"nccriH themselves?\"\nsonablc. \"\n- Our Victoria Advertisers -\nPaU-onize Them and Tell Them Why\nas it\nMan is largely a creature of\nenvironment and education, and to the\nnumerous ones whose advantages are\n\"Far from that, my frienM,. If that\nwere true J would say catch am-f kill\nthem without ceremony. That would\n, , . . ., , \" be as good a solution as any. Bur. it\nmuted, such a philosophy as yours ... ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E , .. . , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * .r .\n.... ti ij,. ij >s the result of the teaching or tbe\nnay seem just name. But would you . . , . . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 u , -\n.. . ,,. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0., , ,' J business school in which everv hoy t\u00C2\u00BB\nmind telling me some lung of how ,od .. . , ;frien^\nyou became possessed of such ideas? -^ *k*. ge\u00C2\u00ABf.^ ^ N\u00C2\u00BB\nit you care to I Iiow. You\n\"Not a bit of it\nlisten. ] have\nand as I am\nyou at my mercy now,\nn no sense talking for\neffect, you may rest assured you are\ngetting unbiased statements. I realize\nthat a great many will disagree with\nme, and this is natural, for if all had\nbeen tutored in my school I presume\nthe world would h\ntively unbearable\nthe growth of social wuarcny a more\npronounced awakening of the public\nconscience and consequent remedial\naction would have taken place. 1\nknow there must be a saving minority\nsomewhere, and I only wish I could\nhave found it, for I will say, honestly.\n1 hold no especial ill-will toward any\nI am not a dangerous man. I\nmatter\nare a man if you do; yow\nare a fool if you don't. That is the\nlogic and lash of the world today.\"\n\"Do you mean that such a standard\nof life as you depict is held by all business men today?\"\n\"I would not say it is\nPATRONIZE\nf ARNE'C\nGrocery Store */\ni: ORIENTAL BAZAAR ~\nJasism Caries asd IM lasts\nl<\nCor.Yates&BroadSt.\nheld by all\none.\nethics.\nWilliam\nJohn\nson is about forty\nyears old and is a very good specimen\nof physical manhood. He is of Swedish extraction, but is thoroughly\nAmericanized, to all appearances. By\nprofession he is both a musician and\nan engineer. When seen last night\nhe appeared to be anything but a man\nwho could so recently have taken\nhuman life, and nothing but a well-\ngrounded philosophy, impressed by\ncold experience, could produce such a\ncondition of mind as this man has;\nand just here lies the impressiveness\nof the matter when we consider how\nmany others beside him are being\nsimilarly tutored. In substance the\ninterview was as follows:\n\"Vou are Mr. Johnson, I\n\"Yes, sir; that is\nliam Johnson.\" ^LijijfjijaBaTaTaTaliiiiifl\n\"You do not hesitate to confess to\nthe killing of Old Man Mills\n\"I couldn't swear what his name\nwas, but as this seems to have been\nthe only affair of the kind that happened last night, I guess there is no\nuse hunting any further for the culprit. I confess the act.\"\n\"Vou understood the gravity of the\ncrime you were undertaking, did you\nnot?\nwould not harm any one maliciously.\n* -' such a thing is\nmy\nbelieve?\"\nname\u00E2\u0080\u0094Wil-\nlast\n\"Yes.\nyou give yourself\nDown in Cold Blood Not a Block\nFrom His Own Door.\nMills, Citizen and Banker,\nMurdered and His Pockets\nPicked-by a Bold Highwayman.\nnight, shortly after the hour of\nck, according to all apparent\nstances, Hiram Mills, president\nsavings bank of Mills & Sons,\nurdered and robbed when less\nblock from his own door. The\nstances of this appalling affair\n: but conjecture. When the old\nman failed to arrive at the usual\nmembers of the family became\n' about him, and about 8 o'clock\nandson, Ellis Gray, who, with\nother, is visiting at die Mills\nwas sent down the street in the\non the old gentleman usually\nhome, to see if he could ascer-\nhe whereabouts of his grand-\nThelad had not gone a block\nie came upon the body of the\nn lying dead upon the sidewalk.\nve the alarm as quickly as he\nbut it was 9 o'clock before the\nor coroner arrived. It took but\n|t investigation to show that the\nlad been murdered and robbed.\nid been shot through the head,\ncath must have been instan-\n18. Everything of value on his\n1 was taken. People in the\ny say they remember of hearing\nfired about 7.15 last night, and\nwent to their doors and looked\nt heard no further disturbance.\n(very probable, however, that\naused the death of Mr. Mills.\nwere at once put on the search\n, sir; provided I was not sharp\nenough to evade capture, in which\nevent, had I secured enough money,\nI might have married the old man's\ndaughter, if he had one, and grown\nto be as honorable a man in the eyes\nof modern society as he.\"\n\"Why, then, did ^^^^^^\nup without making a first-class\nattempt to get away?\"\n\"Because ,my friend, there is something in a dead man's blood that\nawakens feelings in a man which are\nnot like everyday ideas of life; that is,\nprovided nothing else will do it, and\nit never did with me.\"\n\"Do you mean by that that since\nyour act of last niglit you have undergone a change of heart,\npreacher would say?\"\n\"Changes of\nwrought ^^^^\nI tried to escape and succeeded, I do\nnot know how deep an impression the\naffair would have made on me. I\npresume I am no exception, and I\nguess I should have forgotten it soon.\nBut all men have their moods, and\nmoods are strange things when you\nthink about them. They have their\nvarious aspects uncommon to one's\nnormal state or condition, and how to\naccount for them is beyond me. Well,\nit was the mood, after meditating and\ndreaming of the first murder I\ncommitted, that caused me to\nmyself up and let the law and\ncourts end the affair. After\nthis, it is not a matter of mood, you\nknow. Changes of mood don't change\nthe condition then.\"\nWhy, the thought of\nas' repugnant to me as it could possibly be to you. 1 am but a partially\ndeveloped .student of your modern\nbusiness school, to which every other\nschool is subservient, those of politics,\nlaw and religion not excepted. That\nschool says get money. Never mind\nhow, just get it. If you get it you are\na good scholar; if you don't you're a\nfailure. I believe now I could take\nOld Mills' money in any way about\nas legitimately as he got a good share\nof it, no doubt, and do more good for\nsociety than he could possibly do.\nYes, I believe, that. Others may disagree with me, and say that, anyhow,\nI have no right to do it. Right! Bosh!\nIs the question of right ever taken\ninto*consideration when a large institution wishes to force a smaller one\nto do its will? With a few millions\nwith which to do a few public-spirited\nacts, a little worthy philanthropy along\nlines not likely to be thought of by\nMills, and how many would ever say\na word against my right to his money?\nAfter all rights are determined by\nuses. But you wanted to know a little\nof the teachings which have led me\nto these convictions. I will tell you\nsome of them. I was born in New\nYork. My parents were from Sweden.\nI was never a loafer or a drinking man.\nAs a boy I was a worker, and had talents in more directions than one. I\nam both a musician and an engineer;\nhow efficient at either it does not matter now, but I will show you some credentials if you would like to see them.\nWell, one of my first lessons in busi-\n'* I men; that would be fallacious. There\nve been post- | .,,.,. t.xcep,i011S( {,t)t tnc general tend-\nexcept that with : e :\u00E2\u0080\u009E overwhelmingly as I have stat-\n)f social anarchy a more | cJ ,f yog WM}U pfove j(> ,et mc tc\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nyon how. Study human nature so you\ncan approach all classes of business.\nmen and draw them into conversation 1\nwithout arousing their suspicions or\ncuriosity and at the same time without annoying them. Then do your\nbest to find out what they know. Let\nme tell you that in the vast majority\nof cases their art, their science,\ntheir poetry, their religion, their politics, their very intellectual attainment\nis twisted into the channel of money\ngetting, and they fail to see any good\nin anything from which they can. not\nwring 3 doilar. Go down the whole\nline, consult your bankers, your big\nmerchants, yes, and your attorneys,\nand I won't except your preachers.\nThe two latter professions might.be\nexpected to have wider views in some\nways, but if they have they invariably\nlack the moral courage to voice their\nhonest convictions without permission from their masters. But as a\nrule you will find them possessed of\nno art. no religion, no poetry, no philosophy, no politics, no anything that\ndoes not directly contribute to their\nacquirement of wealth. Earther than\nthis they will tell you frankly that\nsuch things are for children and\npeople of idle and womanly minds.\nThey will give you a sickly and ignorant grin if you ask them what they\nknow of the masters of science, literature and music. They know nothing\nabout them and they do not manifest\nany desire to know. As I said, there\nare exceptions, noteworthy and shining ones, as a matter of course, but I\nam speaking of the vast majority.\nWhen you have found this to be true,\nyou will begin to ponder over what\nmust be the outcome or culmination\nof it all.\"\n\"I should think so, if what you say\ncan be proven. But since you discourse so fluently, you must have a\npanacea for all this. Most men have.\"\n\"No; I am an exception to the rule.\nI have no pet scheme of redemption.\nIn fact, there is no scheme, in my\nopinion, which will avert a great crisis\nin the not distant future. 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I\nsf '\nPbR_\nNew ami Stylish MHHiery\nUp-to-date Fancy Dry Goods\nSTEVENSA JENKINS\n84 9OU0LAS STREET\nCttMt\nf Re. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Casta St\nVICTORIA, B-Ofl\n THB I\nits ])a\u00C2\u00ABM| j;\nREGISTERED I ! !\nPAYING HIGH PRICES\nBECOMES MONOTONUS\nr\" HASHES' FAIR 2\u00C2\u00A3\n7J SsifSfssMSt street, VMsris, S. C.\n0000000000000000000000\n\" CHARLIE BO tEST\"\"\nCltlhisi Mass ts Sfisr.\nFit Cssmttei.\n17 Stare Stmt yicttna, S. C\n0000000000000000000000\nness was when I was a lad at school\nI always worked all my snare time anH\nmy spare time and\nin that way had accumulated a nice\nlittle sum of money for a boy. I\ninduced with others of\nmy\nAre You a Working Man\nAre vou reeding anjrtnlng in Clothing\nor Men's Fornlsalrg*, Hats. Cap*, Overalls, etc. If so, see\n87 Johnson St.,\nVictoria, B. C\nX SMOKE i '\nI THE PRIOE OF VICTORIA::\nSail Evtrywhere. Uttea Haft.\n18 Piston St Vletttte, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2* C. Vt\nColonial Bakery\n> 29 Johnson St., Victoria. B. C.\nUHION-MAOE SREAO AiO Cilia\nDelivered to any part of the city. A*k Driver\nto ca!l. 'PHONE M9\nMeCandless Bros. I Patronize Clarion Advertisers\nheart are\nquickly as that;\nas the\nseldom\nand had\nis\nremain for the\nsaving minority, wherever it is\u00E2\u0080\u0094those\nof all elements of the social life who\ncan sec the impending storm coming\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094to get together now, at once, and\never\ngive\nthe\ndoing\n\"Then you do not addict your decision to give yourself up to any well-\nfounded desire to make amends, at\nleast to conscience, for your crime?\"\nwas\n schoolmates to nut my saving into a local\nsavings bank. Accordingly my little\nstore was exchanged for a deposit slip.\nIn six weeks the bank failed, and my\ndeposit slip was all I had. At this\ntime I had not read so much about\nbanks and business as I now have.\nMuch sympathy was expressed for the\n.proprietor, and I, like many others,\nfelt it a sort of privilege to forgive I0rn, a nucleus for the reorganization\nthe poor man. But I saw the banker 0f society when the crash comes. In\nmany times after his alleged failure, this way what of'energy would other\nand he still drovi his elegant horses j \u00E2\u0080\u009Ejsc t,c spent in fighting and devasta\nand rode in his splendid carriage. His | tion, or at least a portion of it, may\nchildren were better dressed than I j be properly directed, and used to re-\never dreamed of being, and I noticed construct society on a broader founda-\nthat in due time he left the place and \ tion\u00E2\u0080\u0094one wherein the mortal is more\nwas never heard of again. Fifteen ; valuable than his labor and its fruits\nyears later, and two years after my | \"After all, my friend, is this not\nmarriage, 1 again got the idea that a j largely an individual matter? In\nhank account was quite fashionable i or(jer t0 rjght jt must not the indi-\nnnd accordingly deposited my little i vidua! discern that he is wasting his\nfortune, about $800. This time I got j energies, and decide to devote himself\nj to more leisure and less striving; to\n; say t<> the seeming urgent demands\nof business ,\"Gct thee behind me;' as\nfor ine, J will henceforth make life\nmore of pleasure, and do things, not\n.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0cause 1 must, but because I love to\n1 them.\"\n\"That\na little bonk with the amount of the\ndeposit entered therein. I got no gilt-\nedged lirst mortgage on real property\nto secure me in the event of failure to\nHad 1 asked for it\naughed at, and you\nbe\n\"If you ask that to put me in the\nposition of trying to create sympathy\nin my behalf, I answer emphatically,\nNo. I do not want sympathy. I committed the crime solely to carry out\nthe ends of my business ambitions. I\ndid not kill the man for the mere\npleasure of taking life. I wanted his\nmoney, and had he given it to me\nquietly and without resistance, not a\nhair of his head would have been\nharmed. The incident of taking his\nlife was secondary to the business\nconsideration of getting money, and it\nis so the world over. Why am I, as\nan individual, not as immune as the\nclass? The business world today is\nbased upon the same idea. It recognizes no moral limitations whatever.\nThe gigantic commercial institutions\ndo infinitely worse than the mere\ntaking of a life occasionally. If their\nvictims could be put out of society's\nway, not half the evil would result;\nbut instead they tutor untold thousands in their soulless ethics and teach\nthem to prey upon society in just this\nway. They rob them, shackle them,\nstarve them and their families, and\nteach them nothing but the natural\npay by the bank\nI would have been\nknow how most people dislike to\nlaughed at. This time my money remained for nearly two years and 1 had\nadded considerable more to the former sum. This time I was older and\nhad given the subject more study. 1\nfound to my satisfaction that the proprietor had failed perfectly according\nto law but with plenty of separate\npersonal funds and accounts to tide\nhim along. What could I do? Nothing. Since then I have worked,\nthought and read enough to know\nwhat the ideals of a business world\nare. 'To the victors belong the\nspoils,' sir, and without qualification\nof any kind. After my later misfortune my luck went from bad to worse.\nIn four years my wife died, and I left\nour little girl with her grandmother.\nI have regularly sent money for her\nsupport, and had hopes until lately of\ngetting a home and having her again\nbe\nwith mc. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_\n\"But you do not pretend to say your\nexperience with the banks is in any\nsense a general one, do you?\"\n\"I do not. I suppose it is rather unusual, but what of it? The illustration\nis a likely one, and I want to tell you\nthat your holdup artists are made\nfrom similar instruction. My experience began with institutions of sufficient standing to be called banks, but\nnine-tenths of the criminals receive\nthe same schooling from thousands of\nsmaller concerns, which, being less\nimportant, recognize less responsibility, and will stoop to anything to\nmake a dollar. Hut I need not\nis a pretty theory, and no\ndoubt the proper one for all who can\nafford to do it. But what of the\nmasses who are forced to strive\nevery waking moment for enough\nto keep soul and body together? They are criminals, thieves,\nanarchists, if they take without\nceremony a little more of what\nthey produce than it has been\nstipulated they shall take. But it is\nall right for the idle manipulator to\nretain, with legal impunity and without reciprocal action of any kind, all\nbut a mere pittance measured by the\nactual need of the human stomach as\nto food and the human body as to raiment. As for more than this, that\nwould be luxury and does not belong\nto a workingman.\"\nWhile the foregoing discourses of\na man now in prison for murder vaill\ndoubtless fail largely to find lodgment in the minds of many people, it\nis nevertheless impressive for more\nreasons than one. As pertains to one\nvery large field of human experience,\nhe speaks the unvarnished truth, but\nof course he makes the same mistake\nmade by almost every one in thinking\nhis experiences have brought him in\ncontact with every possible condition\nof society and every ambition of its\nunits. But the pathetic side of the\npicture is the apparent fact that this\ntype of individual, under the almost |\nA DRUGLESS CURE\nFOB WOW EYES MM THEIR REflEXO\n' ' \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0- m \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0- \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEvery person having weak eyes suffers more or less\nfrom reflex.\nThe weakness in some eyes is not manifest in the eye\nitself but by reflex symptoms in the more remote parts\nof the body. Such as dyspepsia, biliousness, gastric\ntrouble, constipation, dizziness, etc. Nearly all forms of\nheadache and neuralgia are tbe direct results ,\u00C2\u00ABf eye strain\nor muscular trouble. You have tried drugs, and as they\nfailed, you believe there is no cure for you.\nNow, you are in error, as# we can prove by the thousands of unsolicited testimonials received from all parts\nof Canada, and can prove this to you in your own case\nif you will give us a chance. *\nMost patients who come to us as a last resort have\nbeen cured by the removal of the cause, \"eye strain.\"\nYou can also be cured if you will come. All we ask\nis a fair chance to prove what glasses will do when compounded by us. It is reasonable to suppose that when no\norganic disease exists there should be no dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, dizziness or any other trouble, and\nthere would be none if the eyes were normal and able to\nperform their functions of seeing without strain.\nIf you have tried medicine without results, your symptoms cannot be the results of disease. This- proves conclusively one of two things: That your trouble is either\ncaused from your eye's, or that there is nothing in the\nscience of medicine.\nIt is a well known fact among eye specialists that\neye strain produces nervous exhaustion, and as our life\ndepends upon our nerve supply, you will see what effect\nnerve leakage will have upon our health. Take nerve tonics to built! up your nerves? But how is that possible if\nthe nerve exhaustion is in excess of your restorative? It\nis no criterion if you have consented and had glasses from\ntwenty oculists and opticians without results. Optometry\ni-i a young profession, and few men in Canada have had\nthe experience and training that our specialists have had.\nWe are teachers of the highest branch of optometry, we\ncan diagnose yntir case, describe your symptoms from an\nexamination of your eyes without asking you a question\nor obtaining a history of your case.\nEach department of our eye institution is in charge\nof a competent specialist. To obviate delay and possible\nerror, we are installing a perfectly equipped Lens Grinding plant.\nOur Dr. Ure will have charge of the prescription department, and will inspect all glasses that we turn out.\nDr. Jordan will continue in charge of the Clinical Department, where all complicated cases will receive his\npersonal attention.\nThe Great West Optical Co., Ltd.\n334 Hastings Street,\nVancouver, 8. C.\nDa. Jordan, President Dk. J. G. Urk, Secretary\nin a position to speak his honest mind\nconcerning conditions which do confront the world. It is to be earnestly\nhoped that the leaven, to which this\ncondemned man refers as the saving\nminority, will so leaven the public\nconscience as to cause an awakening\nalong these lines, which may avert\ncertain shadow of the gallows, is one) what certainly seems to be a pending\nof the very few specimens of the hell-1 storm of terrible magnitude.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ty\niy 'bound society which he depicts who isl graphical Journal.\n>'|IO-\nWhen the workers of Galicia, Austria, went on strike recently demanding the eight-hour day, the bosses\ngraciously offered to compromise by\ngranting a sanitary water supply.\n *\nA preacher in his sermon intended\nto say the devil was the father of\nliars. By a slip of the tongue he said\nlawyer^. The mistake was so small,\nhowever, that he did not correct it.\ni 1\n; 1!\n1.1\na\nI:\n!\nW.;\ni\n^\t\n>,*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nAn Opportune\nTime for Reading\nDr\u00C2\u00ABp in and see our splendid assortment\nof reading matter. Try our book\nexchange. Return two old books and\nreceive one new one.\nE. GALLOWAY\nVANCOUVER. B. C.\nII and 14 Arcade. 32S Abbott Street\nMail orders promptly attended to\nI Burns & Co. j\nSecond Hand Dealers.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2largest ami cheapest stock of\nCook Stoves in the City.\nBoom Chains, Augers, Loggers'\nJackets, etc.\nMust reduce stock in next sixty\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lays.\nRemember the place\n101 Powell Street\n1578 Vaacoavir, I. 6.\ncourse if the*SVorking class electorate\nmuch longer permit these people to\ns;-.: pend al! useful activities. When\nour lady of leisure arises at noon she\npel forms no useful labor, but spends\nthe hours in anting and dressing and\nvisiting and reading the society items\nin the daily papers, where her name\nsometimes appears. She is particularly \"nasty\" in her treatment of the\nmaid when she has just read that\n\"Mrs, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 entertained the whist\nclub at slipper last evening\" It\nmakes her feel so superior, and so\note from the time when she sold\nTHE WESTERN OL/ ^m VAN00Tjm fc, d;\nWHAT DID HE MEAN\nBest of Everything\n\"Had it not been for the . .\naction of the federal ' a\"mirab!c \u00E2\u0080\u009E w\nChicago would have s, government, JIN HOF-WEATHER FURNISHINGS\nof what occurred ? *.n a r,ePetition j\nT junng the Paris Negligee Shirts, 50c to ft.50.\n.tlinois would have' Underwear, every kind, 25c to % 1.50.\nfierce social war It i attractive Hosiery, 10c up.\nxtnnate thing that' the' SeUslall.s\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00AB8 .neather, 50c to Ji.oo.\n.ashington was so quick\nCommune, while\nbeen torn by a\nwas a most f\naction at V\n111(1 SO CI* \"*^****B*************************H(*****************************l***********la***fll\n\\u00C2\u00BB.^_\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E -iphatic. The president and\nAttorne _r . r.\ .j .1\n1 .jr-General Olney acted with\n.' ' . wisdom and courage, and the\nuger was averted.\n''Every true American, every man\nWOMAN AND SOCIAL PROBLEM.\n(Continued from page I.)\nThere are three classes of -womea-l\nwhose lives may be revolutionized\nby the application of Socialism to the\neconomic affairs of the nation, women\nof \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 the leisure class, women wage\nworkers, and women home makers.\nTo dispose of the least important\nfirst\u00E2\u0080\u0094the women of the leisure class.\nI will show you a type, a woman in\nVancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094perhaps I ought to call\nher a lady, since she lives in the west\nend, but she once earned her bread by\nhonest work, so 1 will allow her to be\ndignified by the name of woman. Her\nhusband is a slave-owner\u00E2\u0080\u0094oh, yes,\nthere are slaves in Vancouver, men\nwho have to find a master each day\nbefore they can earn bread for themselves or their wives and little ones.\nThe husband of this typical woman\nis a master with absolute power over,\nbut no responsibility towards, his\nwage-slave. He may turn him away\nto shift for himself tomorrow, and\nwhat is more pitiful than a slave without a master, and no corn-cake or\nbacon until he can find one.\nThis master has overseers to look\nafter the slaves and see that they do\nnot shirk the work he wants them\nto do so he need not rise in the morning, but lies in bed until noon, and\nshe, this typical woman of the leisure\nclass, lies also in bed until the day\nhas reached its meridian, notwithstanding the fact that two infant\nchildren owe their being to her and\nshould have her care. The maid-of-\nall-work performs as well as she can\nthe maternal duties.\nShe rises at five in the morning,\nand hangs out a wash of baby linen\nbefore the average working man with\nhis eight or nine-hour day, has risen\nfrom his bed. At seven she bathes,\ndresses and feeds the two .infants,\nafter which she is at liberty to sweep,\ndust, polish grates, etc., until it is time\nto prepare breakfast for her mistress,\nher mistress' husband and his brother,\nwho is also an inhabitant of the house.\nAt nine o'clock she carries three well-\nladen trays to the bedrooms of these\nperfectly healthy, presumably competent members of society. I have not\nyet learned that she spoon-feeds\nthem, but this will follow in due\nremote from the time wiien sue soia 1 *\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB,\u00E2\u0080\u009E fr\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E a_a.j\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E_\nbargains over the counter of a depar- , , ^f!\"Jg\u00C2\u00BB\"* Amer \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB*\"v\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BBW man\ne ,, . ... 1 a 1 w*\u00C2\u00BBv minks and who. it wie occasion\nmem store. Har..chddren-unplea\u00E2\u0080\u0094J come fa re ' may do wcl\"\nnranntt 111 hrr nari-iir that u .. j ' . '..!** u\" \"L\"\nTHE 20TH CENTURY\nSHORTHAND.\nThe No. 1 Branch Studio for Canada is\never the Imperial Bank, Victoria, B. C.\nNo quarterly fees. No attending Classes.\nKo books to buy. ~So totally different to all\nothers.\nNORTON PRINTZ, PRINCIPAL.!\n(Late Special Reporter British Houses of\nIx>rds and Commons and War Correspondent\ntn the Kast. and one of the Seven Inventors\not the 20th Century Shorthand.)\nCan your Shorthand be learned as well\nby post as at your Studio? YI'.S\nCan a person of ordinary intellect master\nit in six weeks YES\nI* it accepted by Government Offices the\nworld over? YES\nDo you give a certificate of competency\non completion ? YES\nDo you supply a lesson book lo each\npupil? YES\nShall I be competent to write a shorthand\nletter?\nincidents in her career that wouid\n^have been avoided had she f^n. as\n(wise as many of her associates\u00E2\u0080\u0094serve\nto amuse her when s'je is in a good\ntemper and when Ciey are not cross.\nWhen they are they are sent to the\nkitchen to the maid, who also takes\nthem for an. airing each pleasant\nafternoon.\nWhat would Socialism do for this\nwoman? It would put her in a position where she could not shirk\" the\nuseful work that should naturally fall\nto her to perform. It would cause her\nto cultivate a spirit of fraternity and\nequality, for, under a system where\nkindness and co-operation form the\nonly basis of exchange, the individual\nwho would be served in one capacity\nmust bC willing to serve in another\nand service that no longer can be\nbought or commanded must be obtained by mutual fellowship and goodwill. '\nTo convert this useless, ill-bred\nand supercilious creature, living in\nluxury and idleness off the toil of her\nfellows, into a real woman, joyfully\nsharing in the productive labor of the\nworld is one of the things that socialism may do\u00E2\u0080\u0094if you so desire.\nThe second type of woman who may\nbe benefitted by socialism is the wage-\nworker. We find her in the kitchen of\nmy lady of leisure, as well as in the\nstore, the factory, the office, the laundry, the tailor-shop, 'the millinery-\nroom, the restaurant, the sweat-shop\nand the mill. Driven out of what is\nher acknowledged sphere of activity\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe home, these women are rapidly\nlearning to consider themselves factors in tni world's industrial problem,\nand to question why they who do the\nworld's work should be barren of the\nthings their labor produces while the\nother woman who does nothing has\nmore than is good for her.\nhese women are not the ones\nwhom capitalism befools with its\nhypocritical cry: \"Socialism will destroy the home.\" They know, and so\ndo the men who lead an existence that\nvibrates between a cheap boarding\nhouse and a hand-out on the road\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat the home for seven-tenths\nof our people is already destroyed.\nThe male wage-worker, reduced to an\nuncertain, precarious subsistence,\nwhere even his union cannot guarantee him anything beter than a perennial hunt for a job, will not, if he is\nself-respecting, take upon himself the\nresponsibilities of a home. Therefore\nmarriage, as an institution for the support of woman, is proven a failure.\nLove may arise between the sexes\nthat should naturally lead to a union,\nbut thwarted by economic uncertainty- ends eicher in disappointment and\ndespair or in illicit intercourse that\ndebases woman and gives to society\nits \"social evil,\" over which municipal\ngovernments are so concerned\u00E2\u0080\u0094when\nthe property interests of the community demand such concern.\nThe women wage-earners are only\njust beginning to think on these\nthings. When they see women of\nfifty, sixty and even seventy years of\nage. still in the* wage market, still\nforced to sell their too-feeble labor\npower for a scanty living; the expectation with which they entered the industrial field, of eventually leaving it\nfor a home, grows very dim. and\nwhen this natural expectation is\nproven to be without hope of realization, the woman worker too becomes\na rebel with her brother man against\nthe existing order of tilings. She is,\nin the indsutrial life, finding out that\nshe has a problem too, and that its\nsolution is the same as that of the\nworking man. Socialism will give her\na free womanhood, freedom to love\nhamed\nto ponder upon the evil wrought by\nthe lawlessness of the disorderly\nclasses when once they are able to\nelect their chiefs to power. If the\ngovrnment generally got into the\nhands of such men as Altgeld, the\nrepublic would go to pieces in a year,\nand it would be right that it should\ngo to pieces, for the election of such\nmen shows that the people who\nelected them are unfit to be entrusted\nwith self-government.\"\nNew Neckwear, just in, 35c to 75c.\nYm art Expected if You Want the Best\nA purchase is not necessary when you\ncome here. This is a store where all are\nfree to come when they please, examine,\nquestion and admire, and go when they\nplease.\nKILROY, MORGAN CO., LTD.\nSuccessors to the Palace Clothing House\ntil Csrdiva Stmt\nPLEASE TAKE NOTICE.\nWhen sending in subs, state whether such are new ones or renewals.\nIn case of renewals the change of\nnumber on address slip will acknowledge the renewal. Watch for it and\nif it docs not occur, notify us.\n j\nClarion subscribers already on the\nlist will be filled at the old rate. But\nwatch the label number on your\npaper. When it tallies with the\npaper number on first page, renew\npromptly.\nC PETERS Pr,c!,c\"1 BM|\naad Shoe Maker\nIlRiid-Mude Boots and Shuts to order in\nall stylet. Repairing promptly and neatly done. Stock of staple rcndy-iiiude\nShoes always on hand.\nI4S6 WetlaiMttr Ave. Mssst Plusast.\n1. Edward limn. A. C. Bxydojuack,\ntiKO. E. McObossak.\nBIRD, BRY00NM6K I McCROSSM\nBARWKTKRS, SOLICITORS, ETC.\nRailway Block. Tel.\n431 Nattiest Stmt \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ngat.\nP. O. Box 932.\nVisctivir, I. C\nThe above from the pen of Theodore Roosevelt, written just after the\nA. R. U. strike of 1894, we clip from\nthe columns of the Iowa Socialist.\nKvery person at all familiar with the\nhistory of the Paris Commune of 1871,\nknows the most striking feature of\nthat affair to have been the brutal\nslaughter of more han 50,000 of the\nvery flower of the Parisian working\nclass, who were guilty of no other\ncrime than that of endeavoring to incorporate into the municipal life of\nParis some of those ' politico-economic Meas which promise to make\nfor the social and industrial betterment of the workers. They were\nwithin their rights in so doing, by\nvirtue of having captured the reins of\nmunicipal government at the polls.\nAfter declaring the Commune, which\nmeant virtually self-government for \t\nParis, and along the line of those , \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nprinciples upon which the freedom of L-. *..\u00E2\u0080\u009E,. i,,ct;t-t- electro\nlabor depends, it is most notoriously !**\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Magnetic MSlllMe MAGNETIC\na iarr that thi>*r workinc m\u00C2\u00BBn , ,v : \u00C2\u00ABnd Vlteopathit-Tr< atment Brinsinead Blk.,\na tact tnat tnese worKing nun \u00C2\u00ABs\"> - (Cord0va \u00C2\u00ABieet, 'Phone 10R5.\nerned the city for two months, dur- j \t\ning which the minions of the brutal i\nThiers government of France poured '\ntheir shells into the devoted city unceasingly, and resorted in their efforts\nto crush this uprising of the revolts !\ntionary workers, to acts of fiendish\nbrutality that would bring the blush\nof shame to the cheeks of a savage.\nParis was never so free from crime\neither before or since as during the\ntwo months of the Commune, barring\nsuch as committed by the Thiers soldiery after having entered the city's\ngates. Eventually overpowered, they\nwere ruthlessly slaughtered as above\nstated. Those who escaped were\ndriven out of the country or sent to\npenal colonies. There was nothing in\nthe strike of 1894 in any manner resembling the affair of the Commune.\nThe strikers of 1894 made no threat\nof seizing the reins of government,\nmuch less any attempt to do so. In\nno way did they threaten vested interests.\nRoosevelt's words must therefore be\ntaken as an intimation that had the\nstrike not been broken by Cleveland's\naction in sending federal troops to\nChicago, the alternative would have\nbeen another slaughter of working\nmen such as occurred at the downfall\nof the Commune.\nRead in the light of recent events\nin Colorado under the ar'-ninistration\nof men of the Roosevelt type, it could\nnot well be considered other than a\nthreat as to what the ...\u00E2\u0080\u009E.,\nexpect if they dare make any move\nwhich threatens the rule of capital.\nLet none be so foolish as to be led\naway with the idea that the American\nruling class is less brutal in instinct\nthan the French ruling class proved\nitself to be in 1871\nFor a Union Express\nCall on Heywood Bros.\nTelephone 1-3-54\nCAMPAIGN IN VANCOUVER.\nTo All Practical Sympathizers,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAt the Vancouver Local S. P. B. C.\nbusiness meeting a campaign committee on finance was elected to collect funds for the coming Dominion\nelection.\nThe committee have now to announce that they are in order to\nreceive monies for that purpose.\nAll sums received will be acknowledged in the columns of the Clarion.\nArrangements have been made\nwhereby monies for the above may be\npaid in at the office of the Clarion, 313\nCambie street. Less amounts than\none dollar may be sent in postage\nstamps. British, Canadian and\nUnited States stamps received.\nCommunications re above, address\nbox 836, Vancouver, B. C.\nJ. A. PETERSON,\nSecretary Campaign Committee.\nfoolish they are quite likely to be\nrudely awakened to their folly in the\nnear future.\nCom. Ernest Burns was the speaker\nin Sullivan Hall, at last Sunday even-\nworkers mayi'\"Ks educational meeting, his subject\nbeing \"Socialism and Ethics.\" There\nwas a fair crowd, the address was an\ninteresting one, and the discussion\nwhich followed instructive. E. T.\nKingsley will be the speaker to-morrow (Sunday) evening, while Com.\nIf they are so I Pettipiece will conduct the open-air\npreliminary.\nunashamed, to work honorably and .\nj to become a co-partner in the building -*,a\">' \u00C2\u00B0' the _ .\nI ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 a true },oim. I employment, for months, some Of them\nNow. I come to the third type of j ,K,t having had an engagement since\n; woman: the home-mother, the wife of the Iroquois fire. Such desperate\nthe average wage-slave. She, I con- \u00C2\u00BB,rails wcre ma\"y oi .,hem '\" that '\"\naider most important of all, most in tt,e,r eagerness to seize th. ,ov\u00C2\u00ABt..l\nThe daily press of August nth\nreports that: \"After a heated discussion, the convention of the Interna-\n| tional Typographical Union today rejected a proposition that subordinate\n- - - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"'\"- j unions shall not allow proprietors to\nrecently, more than 1.000 responded I w .)rk a, t,u. tra(icaml prohibiting union\nMany Ol the girls had been out of 1 nlcrnoers frnm ' \"'\nTOO MUCH CHORUS.\nWhen a call was made for 2$o\nchorn\na\ngirls at\nwas ^^^^^^^^^^\na big Chicago theatre\n..... ... , , ....,...,. .00 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2-, an, most in,--\" --\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 w -ewe me coveted\nneed of what socialism will do for her, 1 opportunity of employment the affair..\nrm\u00C2\u00ABt n~A-<* \u00C2\u00BB~ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0>\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00AB-_\u00C2\u00BB -\u00C2\u00AB * 'soon dveloped into a regular not, out\nmost needed to do what she can for\nsocialism, for her domestic influence\nassisting in any work\nbeing performed by proprietors.\nAnother attempt to have the\namount of money allowed for the\nburial expenses of deceased members\nincreased from $70 to $100, was voted\nof which the stage manager bareiy I \"h w\u00C2\u00BBs vo,e(l to increase the salary\nvfc \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -W-.V.I.V iiniuciitc 1 --- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2--- -.-b^ '\"\u00C2\u00B0\"\u00C2\u00AB*o irareiy j \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB \"\u00C2\u00BB= \u00C2\u00BBoicu 10 increase me saiar-\nAnrmake'nVtes^'fieVW'thiVd'ieiJonvlYES1!5 V\"\" m.ore poU'nt than that wielded , escaped with his life. \"Some of their of the president and secretary-treas\nAll good nuke, ot Typewriting Machine*, I by htT s,ster ln industry. She thwarts I Tories are pitiful,\" said the manao-er: I urer from $1,800 to S:em Th- \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0099\u00A6.\nteaching and selling- ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 --^ *-\u00E2\u0080\u0094*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n^^^^^^^^^^^ learning and buying.\nMR. NORTON PRINTZ will be in attendance to give Personal Tuition at Victoria, B. C,\njtagil end of August; at Vancouver, H. C,\nw.tj, ,,\nfurther payment, unless: [ thc> \"ad the power, but such a broad\nThe pupil find* he or \u00C2\u00BBhe, can learn the j summary is not satisfactory to the\nayitcm within six weeks, and IS SATISFIED : feminine mind Women are hv no.\nKJ EVERY WAY, then the balance of the ' ... \" .. ' V0me\", ar?. b>Lna\nfull fee, viz., $80.00, shall be paid on receiv : turc immediate demanders. They\ning the last lesson and obtaining* certificate; want something now. or at !ea\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2f the Studios. Po*tal pupil* cannot do better ' uennite plans and specifications of\n\u00C2\u00AB*i\u00C2\u00BBn *rudy_tbis system by themselves, and then ; the new social structure that is to be\nfinal instruction from Mr. Nonon prim..!. ..\nor encourages her husband's aspira- j \u00C2\u00BBome ot ,hem \u00E2\u0080\u009Eh\"ve bec\" without\ntions towards emancipation and she I t,10\"Sh. to eat a\u00C2\u00BB summcr- And yet\nmoulds the minds of the generations i \"' the ,ace of such circumstances there\nyet to come ' are ,nose w\"\u00C2\u00B0 will turn their hypo-\nIt would be comparatively easy to critical face- toward heaven, and with\nsum it all up in the sentence :-Social-11}!ous unc,,on . Prate abo.ut v,rtuc-\n. ism would do al! for these women ! L\"dLer the ter\"bIe e,conom,c Press\"\u00C2\u00BB\nthat they would do for themselves if i \"f tne ,,m\"'. the only wonder is that\na shred of virtue is still left in existence.\nurer from $1,800 to $2,500. The matter\nwas referred to the referendum for\nfinal action.\"\nThe generosity thus displayed in\ngranting permission to the proprietor\nto work in his own shop without being\ndiscriminated against lis commend-,\nable in the extreme. The further\nI action mentioned tends to confirm the\nold adage that it's better to be a live\n\"skate\" than a \"deceased member.\"\n1.1,., m. d.311111 uy luciimctvvs. ana men\nhave final instruction from Mr. Norton PrinU.\n .ruction from Mr. Norton PrinU, [ . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\"-.\u00C2\u00AB. \u00C2\u00BB\"\"<\nif necessary. Over twenty thousand postal I Dtlllt :n tne tuttire\nSo\nwe must I\npupils have fully learned the s>stem without I specify\none personal interview, among whom are Gov- | .,., J\. . . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\narnor*. Lord Justices, Judges and Pleaders,: \u00C2\u00BB \"e drudgery of housework is al-\ngg>gg;^\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00B0*L'^f.. ft\"!?' Poli\u00C2\u00AB- Cttf most totally unnecessary As Mrs\ntotaa, Reporters and Clerk*. The youngest was 1 c- . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2. , V> \u00E2\u0080\u00A2>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 'ns -\u00C2\u00ABrs.\naged 1SH, the oldest 82, and both successful. 3,\"ionB has said: Domestic service i\u00C2\u00AB\nPopil No. 24001, Victoria. B. C, \u00C2\u00BBay*:\u00E2\u0080\u0094 | still in the dark ages, and all the in-\n\"It ia really most wonrjeriul and reliable ! ventions of science have dnn\u00C2\u00BB v*rv\nand its use will always be of the gre\u00C2\u00ABte\u00C2\u00BBt ! i:..i- \u00C2\u00AB-- .. \u00E2\u0084\u00A2 \" - - - 00ne ver>\nenjoyment to me. I find it quite a pleasant\nstudy after ten days' teaching, and I can quite\neasily write over \"SO\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0very much pleased.\"\nwords a minute. I am\nAddreas \"THE SECRETARY,\"\nThe aoth Century Shorthand,\n;. . P. O. Box 176, Victoria, B.\nlittle for the work of the home.\" This\nis because woman has been asleep, and\nIt may remain so for :\ge>. even under\nSocialism, unless she awakens from\nher slumber and seizes her rightful\nShare in the progress that is being\nmade.\n(Concluded next week.)\nVancouver Co-operative Association\n532 Westminster Avenue\nPOSITIVELY The BEST 1WEADJN The CITY\nTelephone 1734 W. J. Andrews, secretary\nA Inion Step aid Eadorsed by Every I own ia Vancoaver\nW. W. MONTELIUS &\nWholesale and Retail\nPiano Dealers\nwill:have something to say op\ninterest to every worker's\nhome, in the next issue.\ndon't forget the\nPLACE.\n4(0 Hastings Street\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nM\nwho desire to promote the publicity of their\nbusiness should use the advertising columns- of\nThe Western Clarion\nTHE ONLY LABOR PAPER IN THE PROVINCE\nReadies Over 2,000 Wage-earners Weekly\nWorkingmen\nYou should subscribe for and read The Clarion.\nIts columns are open to you; it voices your\ninterests alone ; it fears nothing but the sheriff,\nand can only look to you for support\t\nSUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 A YEAR\nFIVE YEARLY SUB. CARDS FOR $3.75\nWILL YOU BE MY PARTNER ?\nMy magazine i.s now on a paying basis. That is.\nI am taking in as much money as I am paying out. a\ncondition that has not existed since I established Wil-\nshire's Magazine. It took $100,000 in cold cash to\nput it there, but it's there.\nThe comrades who know me know I have no\ndesire to make money, but that I only desire to make\nSocialist Propaganda.\nWhat is the best way to do this ?\nI have given it a great deal of thought and have\ndecided that the best way is to take into partnership\nwith me 5,000 socialists who are as earnest as I am\nWith their active assistance I can do many times more\nthan I can now.\nBut, few socialists have any money to invest'\nVery well, if I can get the men I want I'll give\nthem the stock free\u00E2\u0080\u0094but on one condition.\nIf you */ant to know what tbe condition i\u00C2\u00BB, write me now\nand I'll tell you bow to get a fio snare of hit stock, with\nvoting privilege, on which I will guarantee 5 per cent, annual\ndividend.\nDon't delay; this offer is limited.\nCAYLORD WILSHIRE\nWilshire's Magazine,'New York, N.Y.\n125 EA8T 23R0 8TRIET\n^ \" *\"MMMMMT *^'T^F#####\u00E2\u0099\u00A6## + + # + *$\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\"<\nH Do Tou Want Hie Best of ETervlliing\ni : We8e\"theVcrrBe\u00C2\u00ABiB^way of Light at Prices that Cannot be Bea'\nij The Nernst Electric Lamp\nii ^^^ttas-\u00C2\u00AB--\t\ni| B. 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